Re:‘Blade Runner’ at 40
by bryanrasmussen on Sunday June 26, 2022 @05:37PM
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Tyrell is of Scandinavian origin, Eldon Tyrell was played by Joe Turkel, the name in Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep was the Rosen corporation. I figure it was more fear of Germanic people than Japanese.
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The Philip K. Dick book dates from the 60s so it doesn't really fit into the 80s Japanese xenophobia zeitgeist.
Re:‘Blade Runner’ at 40
by bryanrasmussen on Sunday June 26, 2022 @06:01PM
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yes, nor does the movie. Eldon Tyrell is not Japanese, Tyrell is not a Japanese or even an Asiatic sounding name, Rachel is not Japanese.
Yutani is a Japanese name, Weyland-Yutani sounds like the merger of an Occidental and Oriental firm.
I was not supporting the Japanese xenophobia zeitgeist idea vis-a-vis the names, I was indicating that the name itself (in Blade Runner) did not support it and indicating that from the source material of the book it was not supported.
Re:‘Blade Runner’ at 40
by freeflight on Sunday June 26, 2022 @06:02PM
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> I figure it was more fear of Germanic people than Japanese.
Probably a combination of both to represent the Axis, in the book even the Soviets are also still around and the Cold War actually went hot, which is what lead to thermonuclear WWIII that left Earth increasingly inhabitable.