Posted on 06/21/2007 8:43:24 AM PDT by qam1
Oh yeah! That’s just one of the many little things where if you blink you can miss it.
Cheers,
CSG
Yeah!
Leon, oh jeez! I think my favorite thing about Leon is the sense of being the “creepy garbage man.” I mean Leon has a sense of “hlue collar worker” to him opposing Roy’s more cerebral uber-man. Leon wants the same things as Roy, but definately not for the same reasons. I also like Leon’s pictures, which are random, creepy, and yet childlike in their simplicity. Most of all they are important enough to Leon that Roy asks about them. Just another great character in a movie that is timeless.
Cheers,
CSG
Supposedly, every living thing that is a replicant (skin job as they are sometimes called) has that red reflectivity/lens flare thing going on.
You can see it best in the scene where Deckard meets Tyrell for the first time, in the owl.
hehheheh yes that and a copy of buckaroo bonsai in the 24 century. Another film my best friend has watched dozens of times and I just stare at him strangely wondering if he is watching the same film as I am???
No kidding, like Asimov and I, Robot. Johnny Mnemonic didn't do too bad on a William Gibson story, IMHO.
And that's what makes some movies so great. No matter how many times you watch it, you still catch stuff you didn't catch the first time. You never tire of it.
It’s funny that there is now a good market for saying your movie is based on a PKD story, because there wasn’t any money in writing PKD stories. Something about getting an award named after him I’m sure. And yes 90% of those movies basically take one concept from the story, like implanting memories, or telepaths detecting crime before it happens, and run right off the cliff with it in an entirely different direction. The good part is it helps keep his stuff published and available for new generations of fans, I wish Zelazny’s heirs would sell some books for bad movies he’s almost impossible to find in the bookstore anymore and seeing his books disappear from the collective consciousness of fandom makes me sad.
“Tortoise, what’s that?”
“Let me tell you about my mother...”
There's an expression in Hollywood that Scott has never filmed a dry sidewalk.
My reaction when it first came out was undoubtedly not common. I had just returned from spending several years in Tokyo, so for me it was almost a nostalgia experience. The weather and the street scenes look a lot like Akihabara and Shinjuku. The commercial signs are mostly phrases lke "Golf supplies.." in Japanese.
The only movie where it got really annoying was Legend. All the pollen and buzzing, fluttering insects floating around.
I love the line Leon says to Deckerd: “Wake up, it’s time to die.”
That is dead true. I saw it in the theaters with my dad. It's one of my favorite movies--it influenced a lot of my view of the world. I was 14 when I saw it....
I was in LA last week. It's getting there....
I never realized that Deckard was a replicant until I watched the '92 director's cut. Without the dopey-assed voice over, it is obvious.
Roy Batty was my hero growing up.
I'll bet the anticipation for Shrek III was killing you.
I had the opposite experience--I walked around Seoul thinking "Geez, this looks just like something outta Bladerunner!"
Never bothered to see Shrek. It’s a boring film, sure some neat production values for its time but so was “break dancing two electric boogaloo” ( Er no I didnt see the latter either)
Illegals will take the place of replicants in the Demoncrats vision of the future.
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