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Symbolic Change In The Movie 'The Blade Runner'

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In the movie, The Blade Runner, Roy Batty leads a team of replicants that arrives in Los Angeles from the Off-World colonies in an attempt to comfort the head of the Tyrell Corporation, which created them. The company that created these replicants only have a life span of four years. The team wants to find a way to extend their purposely-limited life span. Throughout the movie, one of the main characters known has Roy Batty, which is the main leader of the replicants, shows a dramatic transition from a Satan character to a Christ-like character. Three examples of this symbolic change is when he kills his father Eldon Tyrell, the three nails into his hand and the dove symbolism at the end of the movie. The first example is when Roy Batty kills

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