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OK question and possible huge spoiler.

posted 10 years ago by MuggySphere
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So Drucker was a clone.

Why was it important to keep this a secret and keep his company running?

Drucker was a bad guy. Why couldn't the secret have been revealed?

[–] mike-mika 10 years ago

^ Drucker was deadly afraid of the consequences if his secret ever got out...at least not until he got enough key political figures ideologically and/or financially on his side to ultimately help him change the legal codes in his favor, apparently in this movie's reality there are serious, draconian laws established against full-person cloning procedures and even cloned humans in general, it was sort of even implied that the Government has a lethal anti-clone mop-up squadron somewhere just waiting to be notified of stuff like what Drucker was doing.

[–] MuggySphere 10 years ago

OMG Government run clone hit squad....... I like that idea and should be a movie all of its own.

[–] smirre44 9 years ago

Personally I don't understand why he was so eager to clone himself in the first place. For all intents and purposes, he (the original) and the clone would still be dead. His second clone with the copied memories would live on, but the previous Druckers wouldn't be part of that life...

[–] Totemkauf 9 years ago

Because to him , and the others cloned , there is no noticeable difference. You retain all the memories so it's like living forever.
It was only until the end when he was in a hurry that he ever found himself in a scenario where he was still alive while his future clone was around. He finally saw things from the perspective that he wouldn't be part of the next life.

[–] PKLarkins 9 years ago

But that's just it. It's not at all like living forever. YOU would still be dead. There would just be someone else with your memories. YOUR awareness would be gone.

Earth without art is just "eh."

[–] creatorof2002 8 years ago

1. This is the exact same argument used with Star Trek teleportation. The transporter destroys you then makes a copy.

2. Maybe some of them (like the main villain) KNOW they die every time they are cloned but have a narcissistic desire to leave their mark on the world so still want themselves duplicated.

3. Seems the "illusion" of it being the same person only holds if you die (or in the case of teleportation are destroyed) before the duplicate or clone is born. If there is any overlap it makes it obvious.