#voight kampff

[krisfreedain]

(via Blade Runner: Voight-Kampff Test, Fertig-Modell, Unbekannt » SPACEart)

[aaronkraten]

Syd Mead’s Voight Kampff Sketch

[midnightimaging]

Deco Darkness

[victusinveritas]

In the great Cyberwar against the robots, only the humans will know to Live Mas. It will be a shibboleth more accurate than the old Voight Kampff tests.

[trolley-problem-memes]

lol why would you even ask that, i’m not a replicant………

[dilong-paradoxus]

The blahaj lays on its back, its belly freezing in the cold air, flapping its fins trying to turn itself over, but it can't, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?

[weekendviking]

So on the one hand, this is a pretty naff dystopia.

But on the other hand, there are real world versions of a Voight Kampff test is starting to be a useful tool:

[ai-robot]

Detecting replicants through the eyes with the Voight Kampff test in 1982's Blade Runner

The Voight Kampff test measures emotions through the fluctuations of the pupil and iris and is used by the LAPD to determine a person's humanity. Because Rachel is an experimental replicant whose memories were implanted, she does not know she is a replicant, and it takes Deckard over one hundred questions to determine that she is, in fact, a replicant. The Voight Kampff test's attention to minuscule detail to detect differences in empathic reaction intends to "other" the replicants but instead demonstrates the replicants' humanity opposed to the callous, unempathetic proctors of the test.

Rachel's eyes in this scene glow as part of a cinematographic decision to have the replicants' eyes glow at times, which Ridley Scott (director of Blade Runner) attributes to the eye serving as a "two-way mirror." According to Scott, the "eye doesn't only see a lot, the eye gives away a lot," and the decision to make the replicants' eyes glow stemmed from that interpretation. (Source) At various points during the movie, Deckard's eyes also glow, forcing the reader to question the hero's own humanity.

-Claire