9 Deleted Scenes That Explain Confusing Movie Moments

1. The Unicorn - Blade Runner

As the most commonly available version of Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece is 2007's Final Cut, to many this no longer classes as a deleted scene, but before the 1992's Director's Cut (there's too many versions of the film than is reasonable) it most certainly was. What's so fascinating about this scene is that even though it runs at less than thirty seconds long, it has completely changed the film's plot.

All versions of the Blade Runner end with Harrison Ford's Deckard finding an origami unicorn as he and Rachael are running away together. Left by the mysterious Gaff, in earlier version it's a wholly symbolic deal that no doubt played a large part in audience's mixed (read: confused) reaction at the time. But then the Director's Cut added in a dream sequence.

A normally predictable narrative trope, this one seemingly went full-pretentious; it simply features a unicorn running through an orange-hued forest. And yet it's become a key pillar in the film's reputation-defining argument that Deckard is actually a replicant; Gaff planted the origami unicorn because he's seen Deckard's dreams. Artificial humans that the titular police are employed to hunt down if they go rogue, the notion of Harrison Ford actually playing an android had been around since release (that moment where his eyes go red does it for me), but the unicorn (and Ridley Scott's subsequent comments) really give it some credence.

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