How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Blade Runner.
Quote #4
DECKARD: The charmer's name was Gaff. I'd seen him around. Bryant must have upped him to the Blade Runner unit. That gibberish he talked was city-speak, guttertalk, a mishmash of Japanese, Spanish, German, what have you. I didn't really need a translator. I knew the lingo, every good cop did. But I wasn't going to make it easier for him.
In Blade Runner's version of L.A., the society is so linguistically and ethnically diverse that it's become a fusion of tons of cultures all intermingled at once. But the movie doesn't depict this in a positive way (compare Star Trek and its World Federation, for example). All these diverse communities seem to be trapped in a grimy, decaying underworld, without great opportunities for social advancement.