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Ridley Scott Finally Talks New ‘Blade Runner’
PJ Media Lifestyle ^ | November 4, 2011 | Jehuda

Posted on 11/05/2011 7:40:04 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Vaquero

I prefer the narration version too. Not for the back story but for the feel. At it’s core Blade Runner is a pulp detective story, he’s basically a PI, it’s always at night, everybody smokes, the weather sucks, and there’s a dangerous dame. Pulp detective is always narrated, the structure becomes incomplete and not as satisfying.


21 posted on 11/05/2011 8:14:18 AM PDT by discostu (How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today)
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22 posted on 11/05/2011 8:14:33 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: discostu

Maybe they have, but it’s epidemic now, and they have lost their skill.


23 posted on 11/05/2011 8:17:09 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: chris37

It’s no more epidemic now than ever before. The only difference now is people complain about it now.


24 posted on 11/05/2011 8:22:15 AM PDT by discostu (How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today)
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To: Vaquero
without the narration it was UNWATCHABLE....

I hate the narration and am glad it was cut. Part of the fun of Blade Runner, and why it endures, is that you can interpret much of it in different ways, and just having a narrator hand you the official interpretation on a platter completely destroys it.

Without narration - Roy

I don't know if I want this new movie. I'm perfectly happy with the old one. Scott was never happy with this film, but he should probably view it like the movie Jaws. Spielberg had so many problems, technical and human, on the set filming Jaws he ended the shoot not knowing if he had enough footage to make a movie, and thought his young career was over. What he assembled in editing was not the film he intended, but ended up better than what he would have made if he hadn't had those problems. He admits this openly now. Sometimes it is good for an artist to let go of the art and let the audience own it.

25 posted on 11/05/2011 8:23:52 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: discostu
Hollywood has ALWAYS stolen ideas and remade their own movies.

The first whole generation of Disney movies was taken from Grimm's fairy tales and other older children's stories, sanitized by taking the violence out.

26 posted on 11/05/2011 8:28:46 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer

I was taking German in Jr High and the German teacher decided a good exercise was for us to translate the original Grimm’s fairy tales. HOKEY SMOKE, I can see why Disney sanitized them. Those things are serious, kids getting their thumbs cut off and all kinds of nastiness. Quite the shock to a brain that had been raised on the Disney versions. Of course she was from Germany, she grew up on the real thing.


27 posted on 11/05/2011 8:33:14 AM PDT by discostu (How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today)
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To: max americana

an abomination to be sure...Ridley has spoken out many times of his disdain for traditional western culture and in particular Christendom

the original Blade Runner was spectacular in it’s day...Rutger Hauer....Sean Young

Body of Lies...GI Jane...1492 and so forth

he’s a lefty no question

but he does texture well and give nice Leanesque panorama and decent with dark moods as in Blade Runner

Duellists is another gem of his...big time..how Keitel pulls off the Brooklyn Jewish French guy think is amazing...he nails it in an odd way

I did not find Blackhawk entertainment...I don’t like American tragedies filled with just irony and little morality beyond self sacrifice for one’s military brother but with no overriding purpose to the slaughter of our kinsmen..nothing much about why we were there first place..to feed folks and keep warlords from stealing the food.

anyhow...it’s the culture...time we took it back or at least tried


28 posted on 11/05/2011 8:36:30 AM PDT by wardaddy (Ethnonationalist...I'll cop to that....Suicide of a Superpower)
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To: Erik Latranyi
BladeRunner has California in a pluvial. Star Trek's Confederation is headquartered in California which is also well watered.

The only difference is that San Fran occasionally gets overrun with these insect creatures who take over the High Command and in Blade Runner the Chinese own the streets ~ and that's because they are not as rich as the white people who have moved to the stars.

I do believe Africa is a dangerous radioactive waste ~ the Africans not having succeeded incontrolling thermonuclear weapons. In Star Trek note that Jordi and other blacks are treated like they belong to an endangered species. There are so few of them Jordi couldn't even get an eyeball for transplant ~ no one compatible!

They are missing completely in Blade Runner.

Then, there are the Arabs ~ there are NO ARABS in either theatrical event, nor any Moslems!

Both stories draw from the same imagined reality.

29 posted on 11/05/2011 8:36:30 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: max americana
Agree on Rutger Hauer. Ford is a stiff by comparison. Actually, Sean Young was pretty bad too. Too robotic, even for a replicant. Some real hits on casting--Olmos, Walsh, Hauer, but two big misses--Ford and Young.

Bruce Willis would have done a much better job as Decker. Maybe Kelly McGillis as Rachel, or Debra Winger (just thinking 80s actresses.)

30 posted on 11/05/2011 8:37:58 AM PDT by Huck (TAX TEA NOW==SUPPORT 9-9-9!)
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To: DManA

Agreed. The cityscapes are awesome, and the Vangelis music that goes with them is great too. It’s a shame the movie is so flawed. I want to love it. I love noir. I love dystopian sci-fi. But it’s got some really annoying flaws—sort of like the Star Wars movies.


31 posted on 11/05/2011 8:39:20 AM PDT by Huck (TAX TEA NOW==SUPPORT 9-9-9!)
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To: discostu

There was usually a reason though, for the violence. It was usually the end result of children doing something they shouldn’t have been doing. The world was a more dangerous place for kids when they were written, and the stories warned the kids of that fact.


32 posted on 11/05/2011 8:42:44 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vaquero
without the narration it was UNWATCHABLE....

LOL. I'll never understand this. The story is totally understandable without the idiotic, monotone narration. The executives put it in because they figured (I guess correctly) that the average viewer was too STUPID to watch it otherwise.

33 posted on 11/05/2011 8:42:54 AM PDT by Huck (TAX TEA NOW==SUPPORT 9-9-9!)
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To: Kaslin
Trivia Question....

What do the films Blade Runner, Brazil and Atlas Shrugged have in common...?

34 posted on 11/05/2011 8:48:43 AM PDT by spokeshave (Cain....100% American, 100% Black and 100% for the Constitution...999 an added benefit.)
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To: Huck
Agree on Rutger Hauer. Ford is a stiff by comparison.

Of course, what you learn in the original book is everyone and everything is actually a replicant. No wonder the acting is stiff!   ;-)

35 posted on 11/05/2011 9:02:08 AM PDT by 6SJ7 (I'm an AmeriCain!)
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To: DManA

“Why are there so many Asians there now?”

Why are there so many Asians now?


36 posted on 11/05/2011 9:03:48 AM PDT by ngat
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To: Kaslin

37 posted on 11/05/2011 9:05:04 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: spokeshave
What do the films Blade Runner, Brazil and Atlas Shrugged have in common...?

Dystopian futures?

Monty Python? No, that can't be right.

Dead parrots? Oh, that's right out.

38 posted on 11/05/2011 9:05:33 AM PDT by 6SJ7 (I'm an AmeriCain!)
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To: Huck
I am pretty astute at picking up nuance in movies...I hate some of the so called Directors cuts like for instance “The Wild Bunch” where Peckinpah added more scenes where you got to see some of the dynamic between Holden's ‘Bishop’ and Robert Ryan's, Thornton in a flashback...in this case adding those scenes destroyed the flow of the movie that the studios and their editors did a good job of creating....

Blade Runner? never read the book...and going into it cold, the first time, I did not realize how important the narration was...

....30 years later having forgot most of the plot of the movie, I found it hard to fill in what Scott assumed should be either understood, or unimportant....

39 posted on 11/05/2011 9:05:35 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Kaslin

Blade Runner is my favorite movie by far.


40 posted on 11/05/2011 9:15:12 AM PDT by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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