Blade Runner: Where to begin?

[CessnaDriver]

I think for meaning one simply need look at Gaff the character.
Gaff is an a**hole, but not an enemy of Deckard, not very happy to be Deckard's babysitter. Probably considered it well beneath him.

He's taunting Deckard each time.

The chicken is obvious.

The matchman with an erection, your getting a ***** over this job now aren't you?
Your getting all hot about it now, found some clues.

Unicorn, chase your fantasy, it isn't real, I was here and let her live.


I wonder if he ever got his promotion?

 

[robstyle]

He indeed got that promotion, didnt you ever see Miami Vice? He ran that joint.

 

[micdavis]

When you stand in line in 1982 and buy a ticket, and respond to the film so well that you buy another four or five or ten times tickets again, closed elevator doors and unicorns and alternate tracks without VO might as well be walkie talkies instead of guns and Greedo having a fair chance at defending himself.

If you put down the ink to make the line on the paper, so should the line stay as a testament to the resources and ability you had available at the time. Like John Buscema said: if you draw a telephone and you feel you can do it better, don't go back and redraw it; draw it better the next time.

+1

The theatrical version is just the best. I think the Director's Cut was just one last grab at money until Blu-Ray.

I saw it at the Cinerama in Seattle and all it did was make the models look like models. Nothing in it really did anything for me. I'd seen every damn incarnation already. Except that "father" thing, hadn't heard that. Hated it.

 

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[nickytea]

+1

The theatrical version is just the best. I think the Director's Cut was just one last grab at money until Blu-Ray.

Another vote here for theatrical. It's the version I generally recommend to people when they ask me. Which is a bummer, as there's a lot I dig about the "final cut" updates.
I may actually be one of the few that digs the narration.

 

[Nwerke]

It's all I can do to not put that on my sig file.

Oh man, I had the same thought myself. And throttled it mercilessly. :lol

you can all

Gasping, now!

Why was the topic locked?
Just because somone swore?
I still can't figure out why those three get some perverse pleasure out of trying to wind people up. They are a curious ménage à trois.

Violation of guidelines. If "he" had put a smiley, it'd have been fine.

You think it's just three of us?

And since you ask, it is because sometimes the screamingly obvious is screamingly obvious. We get some mild pleasure from gently pointing it out. It passes the time, until the inevitable...

 

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[rodneyfaile]

.....if Deckard is a replicant, the story means nothing.

That is not true at all. The story may take on a different meaning than what you originally perceived, but there is still a very deep story there.

 

[rodneyfaile]

Stop talking about "truth."

No.


YouTube - Spandau Ballet - True

 

[rodneyfaile]

According to "Dangerous Days", there was an idea of making Tyrell a replicant as well. Deckard was going to discover the body of the REAL Tyrell in some sort of chamber, but the idea never came to fruition.

 

[Larry Young]

That is not true at all. The story may take on a different meaning than what you originally perceived, but there is still a very deep story there.

Yeah, a very deep episode of the Muppet Show.

 

[CessnaDriver]

According to "Dangerous Days", there was an idea of making Tyrell a replicant as well. Deckard was going to discover the body of the REAL Tyrell in some sort of chamber, but the idea never came to fruition.

I remember hearing/reading something also about Batty killing the replicant, recognizing it as phony, and demanding to be taken to the real Tyrell, only to discover the cryo crypt. Dead end. Nobody can help him now.

 

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[Carson Dyle]

Yeah, I have a draft of the script that includes the Tyrel-as-replicant stupidity.

Given Scott's fondness for human-as-replicant gimmicks I wouldn't be surprised to learn there existed a draft in which Sebastian, Chew, Bryant, and the Sushi chef are replicants.

 

[CessnaDriver]

I wonder if the Tyrell buidling being a pyramid was influenced by the crypt idea.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Oh, without a doubt.

 

[CessnaDriver]

I love this one.

The spinners were supposed to be armed.
You can see the rail mount in the film, but they put a stupid light on instead.
Maybe it interfered with the door too much to be practical. Wonder if they ever tried though.

 

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[terryr]

When Batty crushed Tyrells' head he realized he was a replicant. He said to J.S. Sebastian "where's the real Tyrell? I've crushed enough heads to know the difference." He thought it was a decoy.

The real Tyrell had died and so the board of governors replaced him with a replicant for the good of the company. He didn't know, just like Rachel didn't.

Supposedly it was filmed but not included.

 

[joker-scar]

(Dave, the legend is that Harrison did the narration badly because he was so disgusted at having to do it at all.)

While this is very true...if you watch "GREAT MOVIE STUNTS - RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK", a doc on stunt-men made a year earlier, you will soon realize that Harrison's host/narration is just as stiff and awkward as in BR. He also did the voice in the 1979 ESB trailer, equally bad.