Posted on 11/05/2011 7:40:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
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.
Maybe they have, but it’s epidemic now, and they have lost their skill.
It’s no more epidemic now than ever before. The only difference now is people complain about it now.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Bruce Willis would have done a much better job as Decker. Maybe Kelly McGillis as Rachel, or Debra Winger (just thinking 80s actresses.)
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.
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.
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.
What do the films Blade Runner, Brazil and Atlas Shrugged have in common...?
Of course, what you learn in the original book is everyone and everything is actually a replicant. No wonder the acting is stiff! ;-)
“Why are there so many Asians there now?”
Why are there so many Asians now?
Dystopian futures?
Monty Python? No, that can't be right.
Dead parrots? Oh, that's right out.
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....
Blade Runner is my favorite movie by far.
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