Triay - Bladerunner

In the final scene of Bladerunner, Deckard has reached his final "retirement" target, Roy Batty. After a showdown on the roof of the skyscraper, Deckard is seemingly at the end of the road. He is dangling off the edge, and Batty has the upper hand. However, Batty, overcome by finally attaining what he believes to be is human emotion, saves Deckard from falling to his death. At this moment, the replicant gains the power of human compassion. Batty fulfills the Tyrell promise of their replicants being "more human than human" and allows this new emotion to overcome the inherent evil that was plaguing him.

A dove is then released. This dove is highly symbolic of Batty's position in the film. As the dove is the traditional symbol of peace, this dove is too. Batty has become a new man, a man of compassion and emotion. As the dove flies away, we are left with the question "what makes us human?" Emotion, compassion? Perhaps it is the recognition of life as a beautiful thing to be cherished. Batty seems to have achieved this idea.

Bauer: Blade Runner

There is a lot of symbolism present in the final scene of Blade Runner with Roy Batty. The first thing that Roy does that is interesting is that he saves Deckard from falling after chasing him all over the building trying to kill him. I think that Roy does this because in his final moments, he sees that he and Deckard are not too different from each other. I think that he realizes how precious life is and that if he truly does cherish. When he first grabs Deckard he says “Ah, kinship.” We can see here that he recognizes the two of them share some sort of bond. Although it is constantly unclear what is replicant and what is not, Roy realizes that these things do not really matter. He goes on to say that he has seen incredible things and with his last breath, that these things “will be lost in time like tears in rain.” Roy seems to show here that being a part of humanity is experiencing things that will never be known when you die. He saves Deckard because he realizes being a part of humaity means protecting the memories and ideas of other humans.

The dove that flys into the sky from Roys hands is a symbol of his pure soul leaving him. By the end of the movie Roy understands what it means to be human and that he is human because he chose to save Deckard. He has memories, emotions and can choose what his actions are. He is fully human and the dove shows that he had a human soul. The white dove shows that he was purely human despite the fact that he was created by man.

Cutler: Blade Runner

There is a lot of symbolism in the last scene with Roy Batty in Blade Runner. Throughout the movie, Rick Deckard is trying to "retire" Batty, but he is smart and good at fighting, so it's difficult. At the end of the film, Batty saves Deckard from falling to his life and releases a white dove. Finally, Batty has grasped some sense of compassion and emotion, which is what differentiated humans and replicants. He talks about memories and how his will be lost like "tears in the rain." This scene really exemplified the definition of human in the film. Tyrell says that the replicants are "more human than human" so is Batty really more human than human now that he is empathetic towards Deckard? The white dove symbolizes peace: he makes peace with Deckard as he saves his life and he is at peace with losing all his memories. When Batty dies (and says "time to die") he has gained empathy and compassion towards other humans, a trait most replicants do not have. The dove symbolizes his transcendence into humanity. When the dove flys away, Batty has really become more human than human because he has gained emotions. It is an interesting turn of events when Batty saves Deckard's life, but it was crucial for the audience to realize the thin line between humans and replicants. We are left with the question, "what makes us human?" and it is unclear, but I think the scene with the dove is a way for the audience to get closure about Roy Batty's human characteristics and the mission of the "more human than human" replicants.

Morris- Blade Runner

In the last scene with Roy Batty, a lot is explained about Roy's character. Throughout the movie Roy is seen as the leader of the replicants on Earth and he is perceived to be the worst of them. It's his mission that they are on. The Roy that we see in this scene contradicts everything the audience is shown throughout the movie.

Roy's mission is to find a way to live longer than his four years. When he confronts Dr. Tyrell and finds out that he cannot extend his life, he kills him. Then, he heads to see Pris because she is all he has left. When he arrives at the apartment, Roy finds her dead and gets into a fight with Deckard. At the end of this fight, Deckard is about to fall to his death, and Roy saves him.

While they were fighting, Roy knew his time was coming. He started to short circuit and lose the use of his hands. The reason I think Roy saved Deckard was so there was a human that could pass on the knowledge that Deckard had gained about replicants. Roy was not bad. He had thoughts and emotions like humans and put in his position, any human would fight for their life like he had. Roy had nothing to gain from letting Deckard fall to his death, but by saving him, Roy knew that someone would understand his kind better.

The dove in this scene represents peace and innocence. Roy has saved Deckard and shown that there is peace between him and Deckard. Roy is also at peace with dying. When the audience sees this side of Roy, it shows his innocence as a being. He did not ask to be created or given the knowledge that he was, and all he wanted was to have more time.

Ramon-Blade Runner Lovey Dovey

I immediately view this final scene through a religious symbolic lens. The dove’s symbolic meaning is threefold. One, it is a symbol of peace in the story of Noah’s Ark. Throughout the movie, Deckard and Roy are battling with each other replicant vs. human. Roy saves Deckard; thus, he makes his peace with Deckard. I see that Roy’s termination is incomplete without a sense of making peace. When he does make peace, he is able to release that peace (dove) to the world/humanity (Deckard). This also answers the question of why Roy saves Deckard.

            At the same time, it should be asked why the “animalistic” nature of Roy is turned to more a more humanistic nature. The best solution to this also can be answered through another symbolic meaning of the dove, which is purity. Though replicants are “animalistic”, they also have a sense of purity that humans do not in this film. The humans here are seen as the “bad guys” due to their thought of owning replicants for colonization. Thus, the replicants have a sense of purity that the humans do not have.

            The third symbolic element of the dove is a combination of purity and peace. These two elements of ideal human nature lead to the definition of a soul. Biblically, we see on many occasions the giving up of the soul to the heavens. From Mary’s Assumption of body and soul, and from Jesus’ final words on the cross, we see figures who give their soul up to God for the greater purpose of the world. I will agree with the producers of the film in their addition of Rachael and Deckard’s escape to the new colony. Roy gave up his soul so that the face of humanity (Deckard) is able to begin anew with Rachael. 

HENRY,Blade Runner

This movie was a little hard for me to follow, but I believe that I have grasp the concepts. In the last scene, Roy Batty saves Deckards life because he gained his own emotions. In turn, this allows him to save Deckard's life. Roy Batty was a Replicant, and they were created for a purpose. They recieved four years of life until they "retired."

Origanally, they were not created with human emotions but they could eventually establish their own. Well, Roy Batty was on almost on his fourth year and seemed to already have had his emotions surface. When he saved Deckard's life, his ability to show compassion surfaced. His compassion also surfaced when his friend was killed by Deckard. I thought it was very interesting that he showed compassion for Deckard instead of resentment for killing his friend.

Generically, the white dove is a symbol for peace but they are also symbols for a passing soul. When this white dove appears in the movie I believed this to be a sign that Batty's time was up. In other words, it was his time to die because he only had four years to live. Very intersting movie I most say.