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Why is Zhora working as an exotic dancer?


Leon gets a job at Tyrell to infiltrate the corporation and maybe get to Tyrell.
Roy etc. visit Chew to get info and end up with J F Sebastian's name.
Pris seduces J.F Sebastian to try to get to Tyrell.

Why is Zhora working as an exotic dancer at a club?

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She knows what all these AI programmer types do in their free time.

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Boobs. You gotta have boobs in a movie.

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If I had to guess, there was no task left to assign Zhora, so Roy suggested she simply blend into wider society for now.

Leon was created to move cargo around, and is a lot more believable as someone hired to handle waste disposal at the Tyrell Corporation.

Sebastian might get suspicious if a more conventionally attractive woman like Zhora showed interest in him.

Roy and Leon could have taken Zhora along in visiting the genetic designers, but Roy probably figured three persons draw more attention walking around the city than two.

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She was jealous of Pris. She thought she could be a basic pleasure model as well.

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I always wondered if there was a deleted scene, the part where Deckard is in the club at the bar talking to Taffy Lewis, then you hear an announcement that Zhora is about to perform...but we never see the performance.

Seems odd that they went to such lengths to create a unique look and costume for her, give her a real snake yet not show her performance.

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That scene was written. I don't know if they filmed it.

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