QIs this in the same universe as Blade Runner(1982)?
Apossibly, becouse its the same author
QWhy don't the higher-numbered types of Screamers appear to be more advanced than the lower-numbered types?
AFirst of all, nothing in the film suggests that the order of the "types" is anything but chronological: a Type 3 Screamer is simply developed later than a Type 2 and is not necessarily therefore more advanced. Although we can generally expect a trend toward more advanced capabilities in higher-numbered types, if the Screamers develop a type that e.g. imitates one of the rock bugs we see midway through the film, its "type" will presumably be whatever the next available integer is, whether it's more capable than previous types or not.However, the film does make clear that the trend is in fact toward increasing capabilities.The Type 1 Screamer is the one that burrows under the sand. There are at least two variants of the "Type 1 Revised": the one Hendricksson examines at the beginning of the film, and the reptile-like one encountered at NEB Headquarters an hour into the film. (The one that "looks like an animal" may be a third.) The Type 2 is said to be a "wounded soldier" (although it should be noted that the only reliable source of this information is Ross; the others turn out to be Screamers) and the Type 3 is revealed by the Screamers' own tag to be the David Edward Dearing model. Becker himself may or may not be a Type 2, and if he is one, he may be an evolved, advanced, "revised" version that is more capable than the original "wounded soldier." It seems likely that Jessica is a Type 4, and there's no telling about the teddy bear in the final shot -- perhaps it's a Type 5, or pehaps it's a 4 and Jessica is a 5.
QHow does the Screamer know about Point Reyes?
AChuck Elbarak and Hendricksson have a conversation early in the film about Point Reyes, and the Screamer with Chuck's face appears to know about it. How?That's the Type 2 Screamer that posed as Becker. He has put himself back together. He takes faces by peeling them off of his victims. It's not impossible to think that Chuck was tortured for info before the Type 3 Davids killed everyone in the base.
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