In the final episode of 'WandaVision' there is not only a clear reference to 'Blade Runner', but two of its twists point towards this cult film.
The miniseries WandaVision (Jac Schaeffer, 2021), which is already available in full on Disney Plus, has left us in its nine chapters a good deal of references to the Marvel Cinematic Universe itself. But also the comics on which he based, famous television comedies from the 1950s to the present decade, two adaptations of The Wizard of Oz (Lyman Frank Baum, 1900), a member of his creative team, or the late screenwriter Stan Lee on a couple of occasions. And, to top it all off, in the episode "The Series Finale" (1 × 09)they make a very evident nod to a famous cult film; and there are several more ingredients that complete his conceptual picture.
The Tannhäuser Gate
As Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) removes her spell on Westview and the hexagonal bubble shrinks, Tannhäuser's Door appears on the Coronet cinema marquee. Of course, no film exists with that title, so it is a direct reference to Blade Runner ( Ridley Scott, 1982) and one of the most memorable monologues in the history of the big screen: that of Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer ). “I've seen things you wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire beyond Orion's shoulder. I've seen C-rays glow in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in the rain. It's time to die, ”he says.
However, the first thing that screenwriter David Webb Peoples ( 12 monkeys ) wrote after replacing Hampton Fancher ( Blade Runner 2049 ) lacked the mention of the popular door. “I have known adventures, I have seen places that people will never see, I have been out of the world and I have returned… Frontiers!”, Roy Blatty recounted. “I have planted myself on the back deck of a flashing beacon bound for the Plutition Fields with sweat in my eyes, watching the stars fight on Orion's shoulder… I have felt the wind in my hair, riding test boats on the black galaxies, and I have seen an attack fleet burn like a match and disappear. I have seen it, I have felt it! ”. No sign of Tannhäuser.
The round monologue of Blade Runner
Its name, on the other hand, comes from a German legend about a poet and gentleman named after discovering the Venusberg, the cavern of the mountain where the goddess Aphrodite lived, after passing through a few giant doors. And, in some versions, the specter of an ancient gentleman who tries to help Tannhäuser intervenes because he knows the dangers of his discovery: Eckart or Eckhard, which sounds like the main character Rick Deckard ( Harrison Ford ) to us. Another replicant of Blade Runner like Roy Batty, Pris (Daryl Hannah) or Rachael (Sean Young) but unaware of his own condition, a nature that connects with the winks in the last episode of WandaVision.
The fact is that the definitive rewrite of David Webb Peoples contained these words: “I have seen things… I have seen things that your little ones would not believe. Attack ships ablaze from Orion's shoulder, bright as magnesium. I rode the rear deck of a flashing beacon and saw C-rays glow in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments… will be gone. "Philip K. Dick, the author of the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), on which Blade Runner is based, died before its release. But he was able to tell Starlog magazine in 1982 that this written scene "moved him to tears." And Rutger Hauer made it round with your changes.
The nature of replicants and space
Without the spectators have been able to see the real marquee of the Coronet cinema in "The Series Finale", it would be difficult for Blade Runner to come to mind when Vision (Paul Bettany) manages to stop the White Vision (idem) by talking about the paradox of Theseus and transmitting his synthezoid memory to him. On the one hand, some of the replicants, robots that are difficult to distinguish from human beings, were given specific memories of flesh and blood people to make them believe that they were of such a species. Thus, the superhero android manages to convince his pale nemesis that, despite the fact that his pieces are different from those of the original Vision like those of the reformed ship of Theseus, he is Vision now.
The obvious, however, is in the first post-credit scene of the chapter. An alleged law enforcement officer (Lori Livingston) alerts Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris), to whom the magic of the Hex has conferred the superhuman powers of Spectrum, who claim her in the Coronet cinema. There, she informs him that Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) sends her without naming him, reveals himself as an alien Skrull who hides behind the identity of a woman whom he will have replicated and offers to meet with the creator of SHIELD in space. outside. Back where Roy Batty got his true memories and where what is supposed to be a gas station is located for spaceships: the Tannhäuser Gate.
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