The Science Behind “Blade Runner”’s Voight-Kampff Test
Rutger Hauer, the Dutch actor who portrayed Roy Batty in the film Blade Runner, passed away recently. To celebrate his iconic role, we are revisiting this piece on the Voight-Kampff test, a device to detect if a person is really human.
s Rick Deckard a replicant, an advanced bioengineered being? The jury concerning the character in 1982’s is still out. Harrison Ford, who plays Deckard in the film, thinks he’s human. Ridley Scott, the film’s director, is adamant that he’s not.* Hampton Fancher, the screenwriter for the original film and the sequel, , out today, prefers the
