There is still more work to be done

As I was packing my belongings for a new, quieter life in the Eastern Atlantic, I came across this curiosity.  A Blade-Runner themed guitar.  But.  Not even the ‘famous’ (relatively speaking, of course) Guild-Brand Blade Runner Guitar.  Close analysis of this obscure piece of content revealed a deep truth: there is still so, so much to be learned from digging thru endless piles of ancient audio-themed papers.  I cannot stop.  Yet.  There is still more work to be done.   Let us now examine the facts.

The Guild ‘Blade Runner’ (at left; source) utilizes the actual Blade-Runner-Film font on its body, suggesting that the Guild guitar was actually licensed by the film’s producers?

Initially, it seemed incredible to me that a second guitar-maker would enter the market with a guitar named after the film Blade Runner; which, as great a film as it is, features neither a guitar nor any guitar-music for its duration.  What could explain this seemingly totally unnecessary redundancy in the guitar marketplace?  Perhaps the answer is more complex than we have yet realized.  Perhaps the ‘licensed’ GUILD-brand Blade Runner Guitar was all too content to align itself with the orthodoxy imposed by the film’s producers (the same producers, naturally, that insisted on the inclusion of the humanizing ‘voice-over’ in the film’s theatrical release).  Perhaps the ARIA-brand Blade Runner guitar was part of an alternate explanation of events, one that perhaps comes closer to the truth?

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Above: at left, Daryl Hannah as the character Pris in the film Blade Runner.  At right: Some Model as Some Future Lady in the Aria Pro advert.  The similarities beg the question:  Is the man holding the guitar a surrogate for Roy Batty, the character with whom Pris was aligned in the film?  Or is the man-with-guitar intended to represent Deckard, the protagonist of the film? He definitely seems to have a stronger resemblance to Harrison Ford’s Deckard than to Rutger Hauer’s Roy Batty; yet the sunglasses are a confusing and highly suggestive twist.  In the grand tradition of Blade Runner Conspiracy Theories, I would like to put forth the following thesis:

In the so-named ‘Aria Thesis,’ Deckard is the 6th Nexus replicant; here he is shown, before the crash landing, with Pris; Batty was in fact an interloper who usurped Pris’ affections after attempting to kill Deckard prior to the crash, in fact causing the crash.  Batty attempted this murder by his indicated choice of killing technique: crushing the eyeballs into the brain. The Aria corporation signals this violation by covering Deckard’s violated eyes with their branded eyewear, eyewear that appears nowhere in the filmed narrative.  In the Aria Thesis, the police force discover Deckard’s near-dead body; re-suit him with replacement eyes and unicorn dreams, and then set him to the task of capturing his former associates.

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