Arguably, Rachel’s eventual role as a progenitor of a new race conveys society’s deep-seated concern with women’s reproductive capabilities, seeking to either control or otherwise eradicate it. Ana Stelline ( Carla Juri) is revealed to be the born-Replicant, the daughter of Rachael and Deckard, rather than the male protagonist. However, Blade Runner 2049 does subvert certain tropes, as Dr. K’s dubiously consensual relationships parallel Deckard’s and Rachael’s, as the question of the manufactured women’s sexual autonomy is never sufficiently explored. To provide for his physical ‘needs’, she hires Mariette ( Mackenzie Davis), a Replicant prostitute, and the two ‘merge’ into one being for K to sleep with.ĭespite K also being a manufactured being, it’s Joi and Mariette who occupy sexual roles, as staple products of their society consumed by male Replicants and humans alike. ‘Joi’ (Ana de Armas), a hologram based on a 1950s housewife, acts as ‘K’s artificial girlfriend, providing him with his only emotional companionship. While, the Replicant ‘K’ ( Ryan Gosling) inherits Deckard’s role as a Blade Runner, manufactured women in 2049 occupy differing roles sexualized, militarized, and even messianic. In Denis Villeneuve’s sequel, Blade Runner 2049, Replicants have become more integrated into human society, though they remain second-class citizens. She is later forcibly restrained and kissed by Deckard, her lack of consent a point of criticism, and is through their relationship that her true ‘purpose’ is later unveiled. Once more, a creator-patriarch has designed a Manufactured Woman, and Rachael’s role goes beyond a mere assistant. Deckard concludes that Rachael is a Replicant who believes she is human, and Tyrell explains that she was given false memories as an experimental model.
Eldon Tyrell ( Joe Turkel), the CEO of the company that creates Replicants, tasks Deckard with testing his assistant Rachael, to distinguish whether or not she is a Replicant. Ridley Scott’s cyberpunk, neo-noir thriller, Blade Runner, codified the trope, following Rick Deckard ( Harrison Ford) he hunts down bioengineered humanoid beings known as ‘Replicants’.
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