What are you thougts about the trailer

I didn't say Ford's performance was bad, I said it was a good performance...especially if you consider the contrast between him and the replicants.

Wooden to me, doesn't mean it has to be a bad performance, and maybe not the correct term to use, but it captures what my thoughts are about the character. It is just a one-dimensional approach to a character and if used correctly, can make a particular meaning stand out. Deckard is a retired blade runner and is exhausted from his former job. His job became routine and his life doesn't seem to have much going on anymore. Being brought back in is not very engaging for him.

While his performance was "like a former hero who gave up," I think that lends to him having a somewhat wooden performance. He is just kind of there doing things, going through the motions. Deckard doesn't even do any detective work (Ford even admitted this). While not doing any detective work doesn't translate to a wooden performance, my point is that Deckard is just going through the motions tracking/killing the replicants. He doesn't develop any kind of moral struggle or anything of the sort through examining the behavior and needs of the replicants. He is the one that often seems to lack empathy. This is where I get the wooden performance from. The comparison between Deckard and the replicants in regards to emotions is something that people have talked about when discussing this movie and happens to be one of the ways that I interpret the storytelling. Do I think that Deckard truly has no emotions? No, he probably does. But in terms of telling a narrative, it makes for a more interesting story showing that the replicants are just as, if not more, capable of showing emotions and wanting to live a longer, more fulfilling life than the humans around them.

What I love is that the original is so great that it allows for multiple interpretations (whether one is more right or wrong doesn't really matter) and discussions.