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Why did Wallace cut new replicant?

posted 7 years ago by mzb (7)
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I’m not sure why Wallace cuts the new butter covered replicant woman with an exacto knife right in, presumably, the womb.
Anyone know? What did I miss?

[–] HAL 9010 (906) 7 years ago

he was aiming to produce a reproducible replikant. Like Tyrell had with Rachel. And this new born apparently was not and so he retried it right there and then...

[–] mzb (7) 7 years ago

Ok. How did he know that the new replicant couldn’t reproduce? I didn’t hear him or see him confirming anything...

[–] HAL 9010 (906) 7 years ago

His speech as he enters and approaches this specimen is essentially this. How he knows I am not sure. He seem to do some inspection of sorts before he retires her and we must deduct this was enough for him to know.... or perhaps he knew even before he entered... let’s say from some diagnostics programs he read from the production output.. either way, he knew it was a fail.

[–] DracTarashV2 (4496) 7 years ago

One thing that is for sure, is the guy had an enormous god complex. He was obsessed with finding Deckard and Rachael’s child because he wanted to create a new species of replicants by the millions. Bearing this in mind, one can assume Wallace was jealous of Tyrell’s achievement of having created a replicant that could reproduced, therefore when he realized his new “angel” was infertile, he felt frustrated, saw her as useless, and reinforced his delusions of being god by creating and eventually taking a life.

Wallace is a deeply mysterious character. How he even knew that this replicant was unable to reproduce is left up to interpretation (he probably got his answer when he first inspected her). At any event, this scene is harrowing.

[–] LetThemEatCake (2717) 7 years ago

Agreed, a completely and utterly pointless scene.

[–] Speeed (193) 7 years ago

This was another scene that ended up making the film longer than necessary.

[–] FilmBuff (7354) 7 years ago

Pointless? Powerful is a better choice of word.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

Wallace needed to be exposed as evil. So just lazy writing like in the rest of the movie.

[–] TandyMan (11187) 7 years ago

This scene was a mess. I'm sure there was a cut scene where he reaches into the wound, into the womb, to root for a baby or baby making equipment. It was oddly out of place without anything like that.

[–] FilmBuff (7354) 7 years ago

I suppose for a viewer who needs to be held by the hand and have every last detail spelled out and spoonfed to him, it felt out of place. For those of us able to follow the story without assistance it was rather powerful.