You liked the movie then?

Edward James Olmos played Gaff, one of the higher level police officers in the original Blade Runner.
" It's too bad she won't live, but then again who does?"

Sorry Dave Bautista (of Greek and Filipino ancestry) isn’t ethnic enough for you Charles. Keep up the trolling.

Based off a Phillip K Dick novel written in the 1960s. Does the book and movie match?

Brilliant analysis, as always.

Nicely done, Charles...and now that BR2049 is "crashing" at the box office (Hollywood Reporter), everybody is scrambling to come up with a why,,,maybe you have,,,

They're always trying to remake the wizard of oz too.

#3: Funny how these kinds of pieces always render minorities invisible. Olmos might as well not even be in the movie as far as Mudede is concerned. And will this be redressed? Nope.

Haven't seen the movie but isn't the woman on the right in the accompanying photograph black?

The fact that white skin is the only one deigned worthy of being made into Skin Jobs is just a testament to the enduring concept of White Supremacy. This movie is just another racist remake of a racist original. What a waste of resources.

One gathers that most [blacks] have gone to one of the Off-Worlds.
On a Black StarLiner? :>)

But what Blade Runner 2049 presents is the idea that racism was never about race, but about the exploitation of labor.
That perspective lines up with Ibram X. Kendi's findings in Stamped from the Beginning that economic exploitation gives rise to racist ideas (to justify the exploitation), which then inculcates ignorance, perpetuating racism (well beyond ostensible liberation too). Not the other way around (e.g. ignorance first).

@5 - No. The movie Blade Runner takes several themes from PKD's book, and basically forks the story in a different --but equally valid-- direction. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep also has an entirely different plotline involving two figures' on-going competition for people's spiritual affiliation. Also, Deckard is married, and has an electric sheep on the roof of his apartment building. They are notably different.

One key details that remains, at least in the BR Director's Cut, is that Deckard is almost certainly a replicant himself.

Exactly. That is because BladeRunner is not about robots but a tale of the last whites on earth, the de-volition of the world as a result of their demise and, in this movie, their political re-awakening.
Just look at the famous monologue at the end of the first movie, the “Tanhauser gate” is a very aryan reference to Wagner. Also, the bad replicant dies by nailing his hand, accepting death and releasing a dove, a ver clear to Christ (the religious white interpretation of Judaism).
In summary, you’re half way there. Yes, replicants are aryan and that is purpose. On last note, 2050 is the year Europe and America will become minority white, that’s also on purpose.