David = Roy Batty?

Batty, never really sympathized for him

I think its a 50/50 on this one. The David section of Weyland site shows the different emotions programmed in to him anger being one of them. It also says he is capable of anger towards humans if necessary to complete a preprogrammed goal. That might mean hes capable of violence towards humans.

I think David has a 50-50 chance of remaining neutral. My guess...

I find this a very interesting question. I think David has been quite carefully positioned at a place where it's just not clear whether we are supposed to empathise with him or not. He is being presented as harmless - but, we know all about tricksy Synthetics, right? So, we're half-expecting some little Dark Side/Bad Guy action. But then, we know that Ridley/Lindelof/Spaihts will have known that we know, that they know, that we [i]think[/i] we know [i]all[/i] about Synthetics and their tricksy ways - so maybe they'll double-bluff us and make him the Good Guy. In the end, do we trust ourselves to think him the Hero, or not? Right now, if you gave me a suitcase full of money, I couldn't make a decision - so, if I were writing David, I would ride that train all the way to the end of the line.

Fassbender did say he used Roy Batty as a template for David's character. so you never know.

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@jeje May I ask: why are you posting this thing? I must be off-trend, but I am just finding it a little hard to believe there is really much demand for Jordan Dunk high heels for women and $14 Oakley's...

Fassbender gave away a serious hint while doing a fleeting interview with Empire and said he (David) is a "good guy" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBtyUyyZ9Y4&feature=related

David is getting more and more interesting, at first I thought he was more of an infant type of being... curious, joyful and puzzled by events that will happen. But now it seems he has a bigger role then I once imagined, I think he going to be the soul of the movie and not Shaw. Talking about Batty I'm glad they changed the line in the movie where he meets Tyrell and says "I want more time [u]farther[/u]" the original line bothered me mostly because I wanted to see Roy as desperate not evil. I still dislike the line after he says "I'm sorry Sebastian" then excitedly says "come here" I kinda stick my fingers in ears for that part. I never really liked Bladerunner as a kid, it wasn't until I was in my twenties and knew a little bit about film making, I ended up watching it with a friend shared a smoke and was blown-away by some scenes, like in Tyrell's office where we meet Sean Young's character for the first time and the shot of the blimp up through the Bradbury Building really stand out as a OMGFG (pardon my lingo) moments in film making special effects. I still find Fords ham acting a shame.... (you can tell his hearts not in it) in-particular the daft voice he uses, then not uses... then uses again in scene with Zhora. It just seems silly, even Zhora says "are you for real?" haha Other scenes I dislike are- the part where Leon is throwing him about, its surprised-head-shake he keeps doing..... looks amateur acting to me. The other scene I find hard to watch is the 'love scene' I don't know about you but if I ran after a girl I'd just tried it on with, punched the door shut then forced her against the wall I'd be looking at stretch in jail. I think this scene is badly thought out, I don't find it sexy in anyway..... but then again maybe I need a girls interpretation of that scene (hint) I have to admit I still refer to the 'tears in the rain' scene as "that line that's made nerds cry for over twenty years" haha

David is getting more and more interesting, at first I thought he was more of an infant type of being... curious, joyful and puzzled by events that will happen. But now it seems he has a bigger role then I once imagined, I think he going to be the soul of the movie and not Shaw. Talking about Batty I'm glad they changed the line in the movie where he meets Tyrell and says "I want more time [u]father[/u]" the original line bothered me mostly because I wanted to see Roy as desperate not evil. I still dislike the line after he says "I'm sorry Sebastian" then excitedly says "come here" I kinda stick my fingers in ears for that part. I never really liked Bladerunner as a kid, it wasn't until I was in my twenties and knew a little bit about film making, I ended up watching it with a friend shared a smoke and was blown-away by some scenes, like in Tyrell's office where we meet Sean Young's character for the first time and the shot of the blimp up through the Bradbury Building really stand out as a OMGFG (pardon my lingo) moments in film making special effects. I still find Fords ham acting a shame.... (you can tell his hearts not in it) in-particular the daft voice he uses, then not uses... then uses again in scene with Zhora. It just seems silly, even Zhora says "are you for real?" haha Other scenes I dislike are- the part where Leon is throwing him about, its the surprised-head-shake he keeps doing..... looks amateur acting to me. Another scene I find hard to watch is the 'love scene' I don't know about you but if I ran after a girl I'd just tried it on with, punched the door shut then forced her against the wall I'd be looking at stretch in jail. I think this scene is badly thought out, I don't find it sexy in anyway..... but then again maybe I need a girls interpretation of that scene (hint) to understand it fully. I have to admit I still refer to the 'tears in the rain' scene as "that line that's made nerds cry for over twenty years" haha Bottom line Bladrunner influenced a whole generation and not many movies can boast that!