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Tortoises
Cobwebs
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8/27/2012
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I just wanted to comment--In the "Root Out the Unfinished Men" challenge, the title is, "Do you make up these questions? Or do they write them down for you?" and the text is, "With the grudging agreement of the Constables, you interview a series of Clay Men, asking them ever more intimate and revealing questions about their 'lives', their work, their intentions, their emotions. Tortoises. That sort of thing."
Both the title and the "Tortoises" bit refers to the Voight-Kampff questions in "Blade Runner." Intended to root out Replicants, the questions measure emotional responses to various scenarios; one of them involves a tortoise turned on its back:
Leon: Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden? Or do they write 'em down for you?
Holden: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
The small in-joke amused me. 
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Twoflower
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8/27/2012
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You should never hurt tortoises; you never know when they might turn out to be gods.
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atheistcanuck
Posts: 51
8/27/2012
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somebody on TVTropes noticed this> I've never seen that movie myself so....
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Diptych
Administrator
Posts: 3493
8/27/2012
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Great movie! For another film with marvellous aesthetics and morally ambiguous characters - anyone a fan of The Prestige?
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Sir Frederick, the Libertarian Esotericist. Lord Hubris, the Bloody Baron.
Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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