Agreed! The new guns looks like scifi plastic toy guns you can find a cheap supermarkets.
Blade Runner 2049
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Agreed! The new guns looks like scifi plastic toy guns you can find a cheap supermarkets.
You hit the problem exactly on the nose. That was my first thought, too.
The original looks authentic because it's crafted from real firearms.
The others look like anime guns.
Is it so hard to find a designer who likes and knows guns?
TheMechanic
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Of course you couldn't even see Ford's gun in the original movie. For 20 years I couldn't have told you what it looked like.
I believe that K's pistol is made of real gun parts too. The serial number stamped on it looks like maybe VK Brno.
I believe that K's pistol is made of real gun parts too. The serial number stamped on it looks like maybe VK Brno.
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I stared hard, I don't know every gun by any stretch, if there is a borrowed bit or bobbin I'm not recognizing it. Maybe the first one looks like an interpretation of a really huge Derringer.
https://www.sportsmansoutdoorsuperstore.com/prodimages/11856-DEFAULT-l.jpg
https://www.sportsmansoutdoorsuperstore.com/prodimages/11856-DEFAULT-l.jpg
TheMechanic
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How many people outside of Blade Runner prop builders could recognize any part of Deckard's pistol? I'm a gun nut and I can't.
It's not necessary fully, simply that they were real components, designed to handle pressures and cycle cartridges, think of the studio miniatures that used tons of parts from model kits, like the Saturn V and F4 for the X-Wings. Engine cylinder head covers and manifolds connecting on the Y-Wing implying some purpose. That kind of thing.
They were tasked back then to make a futuristic but retro detective weapon. It had to give a performance too to sell the mashup that is BR. They did such a great job it is often considered the number one prop handgun of all time. You set it next to a Cibi glass of booze and you are instantly both future and past. The new guns are all future. I don't think they are bad designs by any stretch, just not BR universe.
Noeland
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MooCriket
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Yet, still refined and gorgeous.
I meant Deckerd's, is that confirmed to be a Tom or was it made for the film?
MooCriket
Master Member
Can't really nail down definitively. I like it though.
Sweet recreation of K's blaster by 'candykiller' from reddit based on the limited reference from the trailer before the SDCC display:
He couldn't see the handle, so he just used the one from Dekard's. Dare I say, I like it better than the actual prop, though still inferior to Dekard's original blaster as a whole.
I wish they rounded out some of these details a bit for a more classic design.
He couldn't see the handle, so he just used the one from Dekard's. Dare I say, I like it better than the actual prop, though still inferior to Dekard's original blaster as a whole.
I wish they rounded out some of these details a bit for a more classic design.
Luv's piece is pretty cool. Again, not a fan of the handle (would have been cooler with a clear acrylic grip), but these designs are growing on me.
TheMechanic
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Aesthetics do change in 3 decades. What was hot in 2019 most surely wouldn't be in 2049. Same as what was cool or cutting edge in firearms in 1982 are now laughable by 2017 standards or just simply out of favor.
