Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, is the film adaptation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, written by Phillip Dick. The film follows the novel rather well, but there are some differences that have an immense impact on the story. Some things that can be looked at are characters, deaths, and the reason Rick Deckard decides to retire androids. Characters have a massive impact on the plot. Most of the characters are the same or very similar in the novel and film, but there are some that just do not exist in the film that are in the novel. The lack of these characters shapes the plot in a different way. Irmgard Batty and Iran Deckard are two characters in the novel that do not exist in the film. In the novel, Irmgard is Roy’s wife (Dick, page 154). She is also an android, but only married to Roy to make her feel and appear more human-like. Irmgard shapes Roy’s character because she gives him somebody to love. When Rick retires Irmgard, Roy “let out a cry of anguish” (Dick, page 223). Iran is another wife that appears in the novel, but not in the film (Dick, page 223). Iran is Rick’s wife. It is assumed she is the ex-wife mentioned once in the film (Scott, 9:35). The novel gives a great deal of more attention to Rick’s home …show more content…
In both the novel and the film, he does not enjoy his job, but does it because he feels he has to. Rick continues to retire androids in the novel because he needs money to buy electric animals for his roof to make his wife happy (Dick, page 34). Because Iran does not exist in the film, there is a different reasoning for continuing to retire the androids. Rick had once quit his job, but was blackmailed into returning because of the few surviving androids gaining too much control (Scott, 9:48). Either way, Rick is not happy with “having” to kill the androids. In fact, killing them upsets him so much, that he is moved to tears in the film (Scott,