Blade Runner provided for countless academic careers in screen studies, media studies and then communication studies. I don't know who wrote the original 'Blade Runner Lecture' but it has been delivered to at least thirty years of university students across the western world and adapted into everything from dystopian political studies, digital marketing as well as art historical examinations of Valasquez's 17th century painting Las Malinas. I would imagine that the original author of the lecture has become a Cote D'Azur gambling addict with endless reserves of moolah.
For myself, I wish the bloke went to see a Scorcese flick instead - but, too late now. If you've got a college age kid at uni ask them if they been given the 'Blade Runner Lecture - I guarantee they have.
RoLy has always struck me as a bloke that would deliver that lecture.
