Blade Runner's Rachael Was An Homage To A Golden Age Hollywood Star

"Blade Runner" turns 40 this week, and quadragenarian life looks good on Ridley Scott's noir-drenched sci-fi film.

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The movie is still beloved years later for its intense atmosphere,

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moody design, and surprising, existential take on the future of mankind.

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Scott's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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also has some fantastic iconography attached to it,

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from the neon landscape of future Los Angeles to the origami unicorn.

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Few images from the movie are more memorable, though,

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than that of femme fatale Rachael (Sean Young),

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her replicant eyes glistening as she takes drags from a cigarette during her first meeting with Deckard (Harrison Ford).

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