Unicorns and Happy Endings - Blade Runner The Final Cut
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- Опубликовано: 29 мар 2024
- What makes Blade Runner such a great film? And which version should you watch?
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Sometimes we just have to discuss something good. So why not one of the greatest science fiction films ever made, Blade Runner. With its futuristic cityscapes, and emotion-pulling Vangelis score, a film noir dystopian movie set in a future that questions what it is to be human.
And with multiple versions, which cut of Blade Runner should you watch? Let me tell you!
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Sometimes we just have to talk about something good! Are you a Blade Runner fan? And the original voice-over, yes or no? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram. And do the “Like”, “Subscribe” and “Bell” thing so you don’t miss a video. Cheers! Go to www.expressvpn.com/robothead and find out how to get 3 months of ExpressVPN free!
I was one of the people who kept the film alive by showing up at late night screenings in a little basement theater. Along with the Rocky Horror picture show which I didn't care for. This was before the advent of big screens or dvd players. Thanks for the video.
You mention that Blade Runner is in your top three sci-fi films? What are your other two?? Perhaps you could do videos on those to keep the happy memories alive??
I love it, definitely one of my top movies. I've only seen the Director's and Final cuts.
I've never seen Blade Runner, there are so many jokes that go over my head, it pisses me off sometimes, like when people keep saying "Enhance, enhance, enhance", man that pissed me off so much because I kept seeing everywhere and didn't know where it came from. It still pisses me off even though I now know it's from Blade Runner.
Robot, jedi rocks might be devicive, but it offset by the rankor introduction, wich kind of evens out. And the sarlac pit's beak, is more appealing than a wide open desert vagina!😂
You're going on quite the video tear lately? Have you read the book? And have you read the excellent book Future Noir by Paul Sammon about the making of the film? Seems like a miracle they managed to finish it when you see what went on!
Next time you’re driving, take a good look at the idiots all around you and then ask yourself “do you want them having flying cars?”
I don't want them to have internet access in their hands but oh well!!!
Like I said, it’s bad enough when they’re on the ground.
A rigorous licensing system would keep the idiots out of the sky but current day governments let idiots do anything.
Let's be damned, I want it.
I'd rather them have a 4 year lifespan to be honest.
it kills me that they dont make movies like this any more
And the modern person thinks 2049 is better 🙄
My very thought - they seem literally incapable of doing so. We may have sailed through peak cinema and not known it??
That said, look closely at the work of Alex Garland. He might be a hidden modern day Kubrick!!
@@metatechnologist he's hardly hidden and he's nowhere near Kubrick
@@pigchamp3627 I think you prove my comment because you can't see his 'Kubrick ess'. His ex-machina was Kubrick level brilliant and all his films are entertaining.
@@metatechnologistpsssh, he’s okay, nowhere near Kubrick you’re just making excuses to justify your earlier exaggeration.
The soundtrack makes this movie an experience unlike any movie, especially any science fiction movie, I've ever seen or heard. Vangelis was a genius.
Definitely. I think Dune part 1 also has an excellent soundtrack without it it would be a totally different experience.
I've heard a lot of it was improvised while watching the rough edits.
He was so far ahead of his time. As an electronica/ambient/experimental music fan, you can see him as a primary antecedent for the entire genre with what he creates here.
I was always expecting Jean Michel Jarre to do a SciFi movie soundtrack lol
Vangellis was so vastly underappreciated, i'm sad he's dead now. He's made such beautiful music.
Tears in the rain. This makes me miss Rutger Hauer.
A masterfully acted scene
I know right, he was a phenomenal talent. Have you seen him in HBO’s Fatherland or Nighthawks? His role as John Rider in The Hitcher was as iconic as Bladerunner.
Thank you for not letting this movie get lost...like tears in the rain.
Scott did some reshoots in 2007 with Joanna Cassidy, who played Zhora, since he didn't like some of the imperfections of that scene. Cassidy kept Zhora's clear costume from the scene where Deckard shoots her and she crashes through the glass, and she still fit in it after 25 years!
A lot of modern people are wrong about the scene where Deckard stops Rachel from leaving his apartment and "forces" himself on her. They think he is forcing himself on her, and if you take the scene without any context of what happened to them up to that point, then it is a problem. However, you have to take into account everything that happened with them up to that point. Rachel and Deckard were snarkily bantering back and forth when they met. When Rachel finds out that she might be a replicant, she seeks out Deckard to find out what he knows and he bluntly tells her, but then immediately feels bad when he sees her reaction. Later he calls her and invites her to the bar and tries to apologize again, but she tells him "No", then hangs up on him. She shows up there anyway and ends up saving his life. I think the two characters are draw to each other, since Rachel wants to be human and feel, but Deckard doesn't want to be human and suppresses his emotions(which is why he doesn't want to be a Blade Runner anymore and why he drinks). I think when Deckard stops Rachel from leaving, he wants to be sure that she is leaving or staying because she is choosing to do so, and not following a program, and wants Rachel to realize she is doing it by choice.
I saw online Joanna Cassidy in the outfit just recently. Amazing. 100% on the Deckard/Rachael relationship 👍
I think people tend to overcomplicate it. Replicants were humans. They were just artificially made and FOR commercial reasons were relabeled as non-humans - in a society, where humans can´t be slaves BUT there´s a demand for human slaves, this could be a bit of a problem, lol. To be honest - if it looks like a human, if it´s built inside like a human, then a question if you were born or made in a lab is totally irrelevant. Still, since it was corporations with real power, the latter were produced as slaves for profit. All of this said, it doesn´t change at all what this film is about - what it means to be human. It means to suffer, fight, feel pain, love, overcome the odds - and yourself. Love and self-sacrifice are probably the most important ones. If you were born or made, it´s trivial and unimportant. In a way, an allegory for trans movement... lol, kidding. :)
I always read that scene as uncomfortably rapey. Wrote a paper about BR in film school, and praised the director for his courage to make Deckard so morally ambiguous. Maybe I was reading too much into it, who knows. It certainly wouldn't be shot like that now, and we are all the poorer for it.
@@davidjazay9248 the scene by itself is obviously a problem, but not within the context of the entire film. Deckard knew there was something different about Rachel, even before Tyrell told him. Deckard had never seen reactions like hers from a replicant before, and he quit being a Blade Runner because he didn’t like “retiring” them. In the original theatrical release with the voiceover, Deckard said he didn’t feel good about shooting a woman in the back, and you can tell that just by looking at him in the scene. Even the Captain Bryant character commented on how bad Deckard looked after he “retired” Zhora. I think Deckard wanted Rachel to decide for herself and not feel it was “programmed” in her.
As much as I applaud Joanna Cassidy for getting back into the outfit and reshoot the scene, it just stands out too much. With today's deepfakes it could probably be done much better. But what studio is going to spend the money to do that for a few seconds of a movie? hm, maybe when the 8K edition is released?
Like all good science-fiction movies, the flying cars and all the technological advancements are already assumed to be no big deal. It’s still about a good drama. Sci-fi is just a backdrop.
Sympathetic villain, hero is flawed and not invincible. Questioning morality of their actions. Concept of empathy. Acceptance of death. Dreaming and losing dreams, fake reality with painted memories. Always dark, always smokey, always raining. Being stuck on a planet that's rotting with a promise for a new life, better life off world, but not everyone can afford it. Is it better to be human or machine?
This IS exactly as Robot Head described it. 40s noir and 70s revitalization.
So many modern movies, including Blade Runner 2049 try and fail to emulate this movie.
Nice summary. 2049 was a disappointment
@@RobotHead As time has now proven (at least to me), DV is a great visual director. However, the characters in his movies as well as the atmosphere, often feel one dimensional and sterile (not lived in). I mean, don't get me wrong, the scenes he films are visually stunning, but the more of his movies I watch, the more I tend to notice he's made little to no improvement in these aspects over the years. That's why I would love to read the actual screenplays for BR2049 and Dune movies. To see if this is definitely by his choice, or just due to bad writing. Currently, I am leaning towards the first possibility.
"Let me tell you about my mother", has become my favorite quote. What an opening scene with Leon.
I actually liked the dove flying up to clear skies better. It was like, in this world of perpetual rain and darkness, that one moment Roy’s spirit was able to cut the darkness…
I do too. I always saw it as his metaphorical soul going to heaven
I saw this and The Thing in the theater on the same day, back to back as a kid, it was amazing.
Both theaters were empty except for a handful of teens making out. I had no idea how lucky I was.....
You! Lucky! Bastard! :)
Dude! This and John Carpenters The Thing could arguably be the two best stand alone scifi films of that decade! I love them both! I was a little too young to see them in the theater when they came out. I’m jealous!
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn so it was probably easy for British directors like Ridley Scott to get them for filming.
I didn't know Scotland was gay
@@meal_team_six not all of em are but enough that they have the world's supply of unicorns on lock.
The Scotch use the unicorns to hunt down the wild haggis shortbread is tied to the unicorn or CORNI'BASSAD YA ! as they are called by the rough Scotch CORNI beaters . The cories are then let loose on the highlands the haggis are atracted by the shortbread and run to the buttery sweet smell the unicorns then stab the haggis with pointy horn, then everyone goes home for a wee dram and some heroin.
@@jesushitler2000 You wouldn't want to tangle with a wild haggis on a normal horse, that would be effectively suicidal. After all It was the danger posed by the wild haggi that led to the development of the two handed claymore.
Of course you can't say any on this under the new hate crime laws, they are terribly sensitive.
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Robothead, I'm down with you reviewing top tier classics like this. Raise awareness of good movies and raise our expectations
My favorite is the International Release. It's the one I owned on VHS when I was a kid. I understand the politics surrounding the voice-over narration, but I still like it. The happy ending is okay, but I prefer it cutting to black when they step into the elevator. I think the Final Cut is the most beautiful version, but I don't like the unicorn dream and I don't like Roy Batty saying "father" instead of "fucker." what I like the most is Ridley Scott including every version of the film so I can choose which one I want to watch.
Yeah, bad move changing fucker to father. The Final Cut ending is far superior, especially when it just slams into that End Theme.
100% agree. I grew up with the voice narration so I like it. Nearly wore out my VHS of it
And I actually don´t like the fact Ridley Scott answered the uncertainty of Deckard being a replicant\human. :)
Thanks for doing this video mate. It's really nice change of pace to see you make a video not draped in distain and hate. Very kool...cheers!
Cheers Mate. I plan to do more. Hopefully people watch them 👍
Yes please.
@@RobotHead Thank God for your sense of humor or we all might perish unfavorably. I have all versions of Blade runner and final cut is my favorite. If you make more videos people will cum..err I mean watch (forgive me field of dreams I can't afford your tribute).
The irony is, the more we are reminded of how good classics like this are, the more we are reminded as to why so many modern movies deserve disdain and "hate"
I'm just excited this isn't about Star Wars -
Alas I had seen the original release to many times before "directors cut" so my brain just fills in the voice over anyway.
There´s nothing wrong with a good voice over, lol. For example, porn should have considerably more voice overs, is my humble expert opinion. LOL.
@@Film_Sushi Does really bad dubbing count, because I've seen that.
@@petergunn7039 nope, but that´s another topic for consideration, lol.
It's not truly the weekend until Robot Head blesses us with a video. Lead us, your Metallic Majesty.
Roy Batty's speech is so powerful that it made Robot Head question his own existence and that just shows how that speech is still being quoted even today and in Cyberpunk 2077 video game you go to the grave site and you see certain names both in game characters and iconic characters from other sci-fi and you see the white dove on a grave name graphic that tell you that is a tribute to Roy himself.
This is one of those movies that gets better after repeat viewings. 2001 and The Big Lebowski are the same, always something new you catch when you watch it again.
best timing ever! i've encountered a robot head content almost instantly!
Saturday evening sitting at home stormy outside perfect timing indeed!
Tears in the Rain ❤
Calling it now! This will be the name of Taylor Swift's Travis Kelce breakup song and it will suck!
Let's see more of your take on the greats RH.
I'm just old, cant run on blades anymore.
When Sickboy told Mark Renton his theory of life and "had it, lost it", he didn't know it, but he was talking about Ridley Scott.
Honestly, I wish you made more videos like this. I get shitting on Star Wars gets you lots of quick interaction and views, but videos like this one are much more interesting and worth watching again.
Syd Mead did an amazing job for the concept art of the movie. He always had such a great way of blending futuristic but not pushing it so far that it seems unbelievable.
I consider myself a lifelong fan of Blade Runner… and it was not until today that I realized that the guy giving the test was a blade runner. I just thought he was some random test administrator. ( nor did I ever realize he was named Holden… I thought that dialogue was just exposition) lol
I can see why they cut the hospital scene. Holden doesn't look his best lol
Pay no attention to the view count of this video. It’s important to make videos about things we are passionate about, no matter the result. Thanks for this one.
Broken, beaten down and lonely? I think I saw Deckard in The Force Awakens.
Amd also more recently in Indiana Jones: Dial of Destiny
I try not to even think about that one
Yeah all his old characters are crushed and squished flat by the w 0.k-e bandwagon
I like the voice over. It has one of the best lines in the movie. But that version is not my favorite. One must watch all of the versions, it’s the only way to be sure.
Ahh yess Rick Dickhard, my favourite scifi character in movies.
New Zealander?
I always refer to Blade Runner Final Cut as to why it's sometimes okay to tinker with an old project. The Final Cut is the only version I'll watch. (Even though I have to admit I don't think Scott always understands his own movies)
In the screenplay I saw Roy does say "f*cker" but I swear in the scene at 2:58 Rutger Hauer is saying "father."
Still one of my all time favourite movies, in the final cut version of course. Thankfully enough I was never exposed to the version that has a voiceover and a happy ending. Apart from some unconsequential inconsistencies, this movie has everything. Wonderful, and a pleasure to re-watch from time to time. I also frequently listen to the original soundtrack.
Thanks for this video, less funny than usual but also less depressing somehow.
What a phenominal film! My parents took me to see it in 1982 when I was 10.
Now I have to watch it again, which means 2 or 3 times 😊. Best part is Roy's dying monologue, which was totally improvised by Rutger. You'll never see movies like this again. Thanks Robot Head.
It was not "improvised," it was re-written by Hauer the night before.
Robot Head, thank you so much!!! You’ve made the review of one of my favourite movies just one day before my birthday! I really like this movie. It has interesting plot, great atmosphere and fantastic soundtrack. “Tears in the rain” scene is one of my favourite moments in movie history. It’s breathtaking how replicant observes his whole life before dying. This scene also gives the feeling of existence of the huge, interesting sci-fi world outside of the plot of this film. I’ve watched this movie several times and also read the original novel. “Do androids dream of electric sheep” is vastly different from the film, but is great too.
I'm always down for some excellent content like this! Subbed instantly
Ok you just blew my mind with the Roy/Rutger death year thing. How tf have i never put that together before!
Rutger Hauer came up with the "like tears in the rain" quote on the spot himself.
This movie is so good. I am an SF fan, but this movie is better than almost all books I have read.
No, he wrote it the night before.
#3 on my list of favorite films. Interesting that you see Roy as the central character, though. He’s sympathetic and fully three-dimensional, yes, but he’s still the antagonist. Great video, though. I hope you make more like this one.
I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe, mm
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion
I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark, near the Tannhauser gate
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...💖
Time to die...
great video, mate. I'd love a video about your top 10 movies.
You know what would be cool?? A discussion of what the top 10 should be then robot head does a few videos about them!
Walk. Walk. Don’t walk. Father or Fucker? Debate amongst yourselves.
Such a masterpiece.
Well, this is a lovely change of pace. Robot Head talking about a film he actually likes? A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
Bladerunner and its sequel 2049 are two of the best movies ever made. ❤
The final cut is actually streaming here in south america too but on hbo max
I bought The Final Cut version back in 2008. I've of course watched both versions, the 'to voiceover or not to voiceover'. I prefer The Final Cut version, but I still enjoy the voiceover version. I also own both versions of 'Legend'.
While I get why people debate the different Blade Runner cuts, and I can see all sides having good points and bad points, with Legend, there is only the extended cut that’s worth watching. The original theatrical version was crap through and through.
@@tylerskiss I like the Tangerine Dream score in the Theatrical Cut. But overall, the International Cut is better, if only for the extended Meg Mucklebones scene, and more of Tim Curry's iconic Darkness.
You just like the voiceover version because Deckard says n****r lol
joking aside. I prefer the Final Cut, apart from the "love scene"
thanks for this video, I haven't seen it in years and am gonna get the Final Cut now to relive it
Recently saw this movie with a live orchestra doing the music. It was one of the best film experiences ever
I got the final cut on DVD giving me for free for working at a secret cinema showing of it about 10+ years ago
Bloody hell Robot Head,not only is it strange to hear u talk positively about a movie for once,you made me want to go back and rewatch Blade Runner yet again!
Great commentary mate!
You may not see this comment, but thank you for taking up my earlier suggestion (consciously or otherwise) and reviewing some of Cinema's greatest triumphs, and turn away (at least for a breath of fresh air) from the agenda skewered disasters of the present. Let's hope that, with your effort included, people learn from the past, see the light, and create new masterpieces not too far into our future.
Deckard being a replicant was never more than a theoretical musing originally. Both Ford and Scott confirmed he was human and there were no real discussions to the contrary.
By the time it came to the Directors Cut however, Scott had a sequel idea that Tyrell had been making his own "The Dating Game" by making a male and female replicant he'd match make together and they were both designed to be able to reproduce with eachother. His main motive for doing the Directors cut was because of this plan, and he emphasized hints Deckard was a replicant to tie in with the idea. (See WTF podcast 1281)
I have never much liked the idea that he would be a replicant because in some ways I think it negates part of the meaning of him falling in love with Rachel. If they are both replicants it's more of a kind sticking with kind, and keeps the two kinds, human and replicants, more separate. When that is about a human and a replicant falling in love it makes the idea that the replicants and humans are not that different stronger, and maybe points more towards "what makes a human" being the mind, intellect and feelings, than what exactly the physical body is made of.
I got to see the final cut in theaters last week, incredible experience. I had seen the movie twice prior, but the last detail with the unicorn somehow always went over my head. So I sat there in absolute awe when the movie ended and I understood what it meant. Top 3 movie now
Excellent review and breakdown of the quintessential sci-fi movie. Thanks RH! 👍👍
Cheers! 👍
The Final Cut was one of the first copies I picked up when it hit blu-ray quite the while ago. Having every version of the predecessors, not having the dubbed monologues and the extra shots made for a complete viewing experience; subtle but so much more of what I suspect Ridley had before all the studio intervention.
Spectacular. Do more of this.
Just watched the final cut again today,man,is it amazing!!
Rumor has it Roy's epic speech was largely improvised in rehearsal, so they added it to the film. What a legend.
🎼 More human than human!🎵
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I am an astrocreep
A little trivia for Batman fans. The visuals in Blade Runner (as well as Akira) were some of the primary inspirations for the look and style of Batman Beyond.
The bit about Deckard being a replicant is a bit of fanfiction from Scott. Originally the character is meant to be human (entirely) but he questions if he's a replicant after discovering that implanted memories exist. But that wasn't the central theme of the original novel, nor does it feel like it was intended to be the point of the movie, so making it seem like Deckard is a replicant feels out of place. But the core idea of the movie remains regardless of what you choose to believe or watch. I have only watched the original theatrical release, as the Directors Cut and the Final Cut were not available to me when I first saw it as a kid in the late 90s/early 2000s (yes I know they were around but my family was poor and the library only had one version).
I should get around to watching the Final Cut version, but even watching the "tainted/meddled" Theatrical US cut doesn't diminish from what an amazing movie it is. So much of the movie is subtle, and understated despite having some incredibly over the top visuals and themes.
I feel like Deckard being a replicant undermines so many scenes in the movie. Who cares if Roy saves him, the whole chase, the whole speech all of it is meaningless unless Deckard is human.
How can a director make fan fiction in his own universe? You really don't like what he did, do you?
@@nerfherder4284 Why? The point is that it doesn't matter, human or replicant. They are not robots, but genetic synths. Nothing lives without a soul.
@@dannyblitz2122 Did...did you not read my comment at all beyond the first sentence?
Yes, but you only taked about how you felt, you didn't offer an explanation for calling the plot of a film fan fiction when the plot was designed by the creator of the universe in question..
'feel like'
'feels'
This doesn't tell me a lot. Sorry, I'm an idiot who doesn't know how to talk to people.
I will never not miss M. Emmet Walsh.
M. Emmet Walsh R.I.P.
OK here’s a brain breaker. Which is the better monologue? Quint from Jaws or Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner?
There's such a dearth of quality content, you have to watch remakes of movies 25 years old. Sign of the times! 👹
I remember watching this as a kid . It always stuck with me. A great film, not just “another sci-fi movie”.
When watching a Movie like this, there is a moment of understanding what we will lose if such great Movies will not be made in the future anymore.
The visual/colour-grading changes were just to sharpen everything up … That’s obvious/apparent. I prefer the changes, mostly - except that some blues end up looking a bit too green, and Rachael’s skin tone suffers a little. Everything is so much more sharper/more defined - but all the bokeh is still there, so I’m good with it.
That food stand scene I just want to be there so bad, thats how good this movie is. Its a dystopian future yet I want to be there
Cinematic ambiguity is so cool, because you never get to close your mind on the subject. You need to update yourself every so often when the subject of the film comes to mind.
Syd Mead for the concept art and work
I just got the 4K Blu-ray of this film and it was like seeing it for the first time again
RIP M Emmet Walsh.
It holds up. Such an iconic film
LOVED this one. Very nicely summarized. You might have wanted to include a spoiler section, with which I would have felt safe sending the video to friends I'm trying to talk into watching this masterpiece.
This movie was ATMOSPHERE personified.
Seeing BR as a 9year old with my estranged (now deceased) father as a treat in the theatre on release, honesty changed who I am as a person, my brain chemistry no doubt, the way I think (visualise, fantasize) about things, it affected me so much.
Perfect combat model replicants fighting on off world colonies.
Pivotal film. Soon afterwards I discovered the 2000AD comic.
I miss getting that inspired.
The soundtrack fills my soul...
Excellent video.
A classic for sure
That soundtrack changed my life.
I’ve always loved Blade Runner. I remember the original with the narration, but preferred the Directors Cut. Sadly I haven’t seen the other two versions you featured here. I may have to look out for them! Thanks Robot Head
Cheers 👍
What a masterpiece...all of it. Not for modern audiences and children.
R. I. P., M. Emmett Walsh.
Thank you, Master Head!
It's streaming here in Singapore; Watched it last night... but the line was "I want more life... father!"
Good review!
I recently bought the 4K UHD blu-ray of this film and it looks absolutely amazing. The Final Cut is definitely the one to go with.
Great video, totally on the same page. Very well done.
That said, you say Deckard funny.
PS I have that briefcase edition with the little unicorn
Just the sound design alone is beautiful. There's a bootleg CD around called "Los Angeles 2019" with extended cuts of the ambient soundscape of each area from the film. Truly immersive ASMR.
My top 5 have changed over the years as some age better than others but Blade runner is a permanent fixture. Its a timeless masterpiece.
I recall in the tv edit roy was dubbed to say ‘I want more life, father’
RIP Emmett Walsh.♥️🩵
Yessss. You made a video about something you liked.
Another great freaking video. And you are right, this was Rutger Hauer’s movie, not Harrison’s. Which is saying something.
Cheers Man 👍
It is refreshing to have a video where a great movie is praised rather than hilariously tearing Disney and other modern sh!te content to shreds. Bladerunner is an amazing film and watch it so many years. I've got the Final Cut on 4K UHD Blu-ray, definitely one to own on physical media lest some corporation thinks a different cut is all you should be allowed on streaming.
The Final Cut is my favorite movie ever. That first watch was magical
Movie? It's one of the top, underrated Pink Floyd albums.