[Darkwolf]

Ridley Scott is one of the best directors around, and fairly conservative politically. When he was on Chris Matthews the other night he was his usual self--he seems bored by people who are obviously not as intelligent as he is, and I thought he was going to fall asleep on Matthews.

I will see it for the action and spectacle. (And the score--which Scott has fooled around with, using sections of Jerry Goldsmith's score to The 13th Warrior in place of Harry Gregson-Williams's reportedly less-powerful music.) But all I've heard tells me this could have been an interesting history lesson without the PC crap. Scott gave me a shudder when he said Saladin was basically a good guy.

[Borges]

Scott's Blade Runner not only influenced other movies it actually influenced literature (Cyber Punk) and social theory (Postmodernsm in its more recent academic incarnations)