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Vangelis Vangelis is a famous Greek composer and keyboardist.
He composes and performs mainly instrumental music and film scores. During his career he has flirted with many genres and
has proved to be very hard to categorize. His music has been filed as "synthesizer music", "new age", "progressive rock",
"Symphonic rock", "Space music", "electronic music", etc. etc. None of those terms is spot on and his output is too varied
to catch in one word.
He was born as "Evanghelos Odyssey Papathanassiou" on march 29th 1943 in a small town near Volos,
Greece. He started playing the piano at the age of 4 and gave his first public performance of his own compositions at the
age of 6.
Most legendary soundtracks are perhaps the Oscar winning score to "Chariots of Fire" and the ever popular
score to Ridley Scott's landmark cult film "Blade Runner".
Source:
ELSEWHERE -- Independent VANGELIS Web-site
Vid-phōn
Book/Movie/Game
The primary
method of communication allowing people to communicate audibly and visually with one another.
Book
Referred to as a "vidphone", it is used throughout the book.
Movie
Referred to as a "vid-phōn".
Examples when used:
• Roy Batty is introduced exiting a vid-phōn booth.
• Rachael appears
on the telephone vid-screen when Deckard calls her from "The Snake Pit".
• Deckard uses one from his spinner receiving
an update from Captain Bryant and to call J.F. Sebastian.
Game
It is specified as a Zenith Vidphone in the game. You frequently want to
check the vidphone in Ray's apartment. There is also one at Taffy's bar and in Luther and Lance's place above Moraji's Dermo
Design.
Voigt-Kampff
General/Concept/Equipment
Description - Voigt-Kampff refers to the Voigt-Kampff test as well as the Voigt-Kampff
machine. The Voigt-Kampff test is the empathy test used to determine if a person is a human or a replicant. The Voigt-Kampff
machine is a briefcase-sized device, that measures involuntary contractions of the iris muscle, capilary dilation of
the human skin blush response, and the presence of airborne particles emitted from the body (presumably sweat, pheromones,
etc.). The Voigt-Kampff machine is used primarily by blade runners to determine if a suspect is human by measuring the degree
of his empathic response through carefully worded questions.
According to DADoES the name Voigt-Kampff
refers to the two Leningrad scientists specializing in android science and psychology, Dr. Voigt and Dr. Lurie Kampff, who
invented and enhanced the reaction scales.
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Slang: V-K is Slang for the Voigt-Kampff test, or for conducting
such a test.
Dialog #1 (Holden and Deckard from an early script)
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DECKARD
You Voight-Kampff him ?
(Holden's eyes flutter a moment. Deckard waits. The breathing
changes rhythm.)
HOLDEN
Yeah! I thought maybe I was getting something......
Maybe it doesn't work on these ones
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Dialog #2 (Deckard and Bryant from the film)
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BRYANT: Now there's a Nexus 6 over at the Tyrell Corporation. I want you to go put the machine on
it.
DECKARD: And if the machine doesn't work? |
Note: In DADoES it is spelled "Voigt-Kampff",
however in the film subtitles, and in the movie scripts it is spelled "Voight-Kampf".
See: Empathy Test
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