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Topic: Happy 25th, 'Blade Runner'!
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Cameron Glendinning
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From: West Ryde, Sydney, NSW Australia
Registered: Dec 2005
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posted 06-25-2007 06:25 PM
quote: John Wilson
My friends and I went to the Village Double Bay Cinema to see the Director's Cut (Cameron, were you there too?) on its first Friday night and the place was packed.
No I wasn't John, I was working in London at the time, I tried to watch it at both the MGM Trocodero and Clappem Picture House, but walked out both times with my money back, due to the cinemas choice of sound level, Blade Runner is no fun if the person behind you's breathing is louder than the explosions!!!!!
My first viewing of Blade Runner was I suspect, my first 70mm experience, at Village Cinema City no 1 (in its pre THX days). I loved it.
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Jim Bedford
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From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer)
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 06-25-2007 08:29 PM
They say a picture is worth a thousand words but in my mind these 419 words are worth thousands of pictures...
Deckard's voice overs from BLADERUNNER (sorry, can't remember where this came from but it was probably a Google search using one or more of the lines):
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They don't advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop, ex-bladerunner, ex-killer.
Sushi, that's what my ex-wife called me. Cold fish.
The charmer's name was Gaff. I'd seen him around. Bryant must have upped him to the Blade Runner unit. That jibberish 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.
Skin jobs, that's what Bryant called replicants. In history books he was the kind of cop that used to call black men niggers.
I'd quit because I'd had a belly full of killing. But then I'd rather be a killer than a victim. And that's exactly what Bryant's threat about little people meant. So I hooked in once more, thinking that if I couldn't take it, I'd split later. I didn't have to worry about Gaff. He was brown-nosing for a promotion, so he didn't want me back anyway.
I didn't know whether Leon gave Holden a legit address. But it was the only lead I had, so I checked it out. Whatever was in the bathtub was not human. Replicants don't have scales. And family photos? Replicants didn't have families either.
Tyrell really did a job on Rachel. Right down to a snapshot of a mother she never had, a daughter she never was. Replicants weren't supposed to have feelings. Neither were blade runners. What the hell was happening to me? Leon's pictures had to as phony as Rachel's. I didn't know why a replicant would collect photos. Maybe they were like Rachel. They needed memories.
The report would be routine retirement of a replicant which didn't make me feel any better about shooting a woman in the back. There it was again. Feeling, in myself. For her, for Rachel.
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life, anybody's life, my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.
Gaff had been there, and let her live. Four years, he figured. He was wrong. Tyrell had told me Rachel was special: no termination date. I didn't know how long we had together, who does?
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Bobby Henderson
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From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 06-30-2007 01:56 PM
I don't mind the narration in Bladerunner. I thought that did more to support the kind of mix of film-noir and science fiction that was intended.
The one thing that does grate on me about Bladerunner is the very beginning. I'm sorry, but I think the opening titles are ridiculous. First, the music and audio effects mix suggest that we need to revere these titles with great importance as they appear on the screen. Meanwhile, I'm scratching my head, wondering, "why don't they SHOW US the replicants breaking out of that off world colony? Why do I have to read about it instead?"
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Bladerunner is a great looking movie. But I do not consider it to be a great movie on the whole at all. Drama-wise, I'd give it 2.5 stars out of four.
I think this movie has been able to sustain interest over the past 25 years because of its visual design, both in production design and the graphical design of its visual effects. Bladerunner has influenced the look of many science fiction movies that followed it -including the last three Star Wars prequels.
The visuals and atmosphere in Bladerunner have been very popular in the visual arts communities, whether the artist works on comic books or builds fine art shows.
Still, production design alone is not enough to make a movie truly great. While Bladerunner is often beautiful to watch, I think it is pretty flawed at its dramatic core. A lot of movies from Ridley Scott are like that.
With that said, I think another movie that came out the same year deserves even more notice. It had a better story and even more amazing, unique visuals. That movie was Tron.
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