Why was it Tyrell Corporation instead of Rosen Corporation?

The Balinese Goddess of Eng-er-land

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Jul 25, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/25/00

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> I really don't know, but I think that Tyrell just sounds a lot cooler
> than Rosen. Up here in Canada we have a paleontology musem called the
> 'Royal Tyrell Museum' and ever since I was a kid I thought that was a
> cool name. Don't you?

European's may have heard of a man named Ken Tyrell. He owned a Formula 1
racing team a few years ago called Tyrell, except everyone in this country
pronounces it 'Tirr-ell' rather than 'Tie-rell'. But I also use the american
pronounciation when I'm using the name in the context of BR, for some
reason.

Alex

~Chris

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Jul 26, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/26/00

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I really don't know, but I think that Tyrell just sounds a lot cooler
than Rosen. Up here in Canada we have a paleontology musem called the
'Royal Tyrell Museum' and ever since I was a kid I thought that was a
cool name. Don't you?

~Chris

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MrBlondeSK

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Jul 27, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/27/00

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Does Rosen sound menacing and oppressive to you?

lol

-Steve Klein
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Wellthtsgud

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Jul 27, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/27/00

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Steve wrote:
>Does Rosen sound menacing and oppressive to you?

mmmmm I dunno, I dont happen to think Tyrell sounds menacing either but then is
it really supposed to sound that way? Of course "Rosens' Replicants" is kinda
catchy... but hey.... not as catchy as Bullet Bobs! :-) I think Tyrell Corp
sounds more formal and important and upper-crust than Rosen Corp, but again...
menacing? Nahhh.

~RD~

W A Mccabe

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Jul 27, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/27/00

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Original version is "Rosen Organisation". There are suggestions that
because of either political correctness or some form of semitic influence
Hollywood is extremely sensitive about jewish characters being cast in a
detrimental light and so you find that in many mainstream pictures
characters who are not entirely "good" avoid having names of any specific
ethnic origin. If nothing else it prevents problems with pressure groups.

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W A Mccabe

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Jul 29, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/29/00

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Something I hadn't thought of before - is Rosen just an altered version of
Rossum (see RUR)?

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Quetzalcoatl

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Jul 30, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/30/00

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> From: "W A Mccabe" <w...@wamccabe.freeserve.co.uk>
> Organization: Customer of Energis Squared
> Newsgroups: alt.fan.blade-runner
> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 21:38:07 +0100
> Subject: Re: Why was it Tyrell Corporation instead of Rosen Corporation?

PKD had a strange hang-up about Jews, you'll find him using Jewish names
rather alot in his books, and I reckon that the film makers just wanted to
avoid any possible antisemitics.