@@RealBLAlley It had potential, but it took until the 92 Director's Cut for it to begin to actually reach that potential. I always felt that the narration could have really added to the noir feel of the film, if it didn't sound like Ford was reading it at gunpoint and it didn't totally undercut the point of Roy's final act.
@@StormhavenGaming The rumor is that he and Scott deliberately recorded the most bland, uninteresting narration possible expecting the studio to change their mind about requiring it, but instead the studio stood fast because studio stooges will never admit they are wrong.
@@RealBLAlley In all the many versions of the story, Ridley holds fast to claim that he suggested narration, and Ford said he never thought they would use it, so he didn't give it much effort. There are takes of the narration where he's mocking it. But then, he had a horrible time on this film :P First time I saw it w/out it, I immediately thought of Chinatown, and watching the two back to back works GREAT :D
@@chrisclanton4430 I thought he improvised them on the spot. But either way, it's probably my most favorite part of the movie. The lines were so tight and short, but extended one's mind into profound thoughts. It was awesome.
@@chrisclanton4430 In his autobiography, Hauer said he merely cut the original scripted speech of some lines, adding only, "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
Neon looks a million times better too, the light from neon REALLY visibly glows a good distance even outside the bulb. The reason why neon lights were replaced by LED signs everywhere is that its a lot of maintenance to use neon lights, they would regularly burn and then you had to replace a letter on your sign with a new one.
I really love how this movie is 40 years old, and yet there are still people having the same realizations, epiphanies and questions that we all did, and even still debate over. Such an outstanding movie.
Vangelis' most interesting album was called "666" from 1971 which was a concept album based on the book of Revelations. He also did an album called "Earth" in 1973 which is a genius piece of Greek ambient music.
@@moonglow9251 I’ve never heard this version, no interest. Vangelis, for reasons of his own, didn’t agree to release a soundtrack for a decade… which launched a little “bootleg” business, different iterations of the soundtrack released online. Vangelis produced more than four hours of material for the film. The “29th Anniversary” bootleg is the most complete collection so far.
The author of this story was the late, great Phillip K. Dick. He loved writing about people forced to doubt their senses, their reality, and the world around them. Several of his works have been adapted to the screen, including "Minority Report", "A Scanner Darkly", "Total Recall" and "The Man in The High Castle".
In an interview on the 5-disc DVD extras, Joanna Cassidy (Zhora) was asked how she felt about working with the snake in the dressing room scene. Joanna said, "It was great because she was mine; I brought her from home."
I was very lucky just recently, my local cinema had a special viewing of the final cut for 1 evening, i immidiatly booked 2 tickets for me and a friend. It was one of the most incredible cinema experiences i have ever had. If anyone ever get the chance i highly recommend it.
Roy did the most human thing possible. He broke his programming. He was a combat replicant and yet his last act on earth was not killing someone, it was saving someone. mercy.Whats going to mess you up is The other character? The one with the cane? Edward James Olmos's character? His characters name is Gaff. A gaff is a sailing term for a hook to grab a hold of things and lead them in the water. Thats why he was immediately there when Roy died. He always knew where Decker was. Gaff is the real Blade Runner, and Deckard is a replicant used like a blood hound. which is why he made a unicorn in the end. He knew Deckard's dreams and memories. Deckard was not a replicant in the short story "Do androids dream of electric sheep," however they made it more ambiguous in the movie adaption and Ridley Scott refuses to tell if Deckard was or not to let the audience decide . .
There is nothing in the movie that shows Deckard was a replicant. In fact the plot ceases to make sense if he was, they'd just order him to do his job, I don't think he'd be allowed to retire. It makes no sense. Roy broke his inclinations, he was an organic machine, and had no empathy, the androids don't, as shown my their indifference and cruelty to suffering, they lack empathy, which is what the void kampf text detects. He broached his inbuilt genetic inclination, when he felt empathy for another person, and saved him. Roy at the beginning of the movie wouldn't have done that.
@@onastick2411 and to quote "This was in stark contrast to director Ridley Scott, who framed the movie around the notion Deckard was a replicant, even though the character himself wasn't aware of it. Scott played out coy about this in interviews but finally confirmed the truth during the 2000 documentary On the Edge of Blade Runner"
@@tubesocksofchaos1 He didn't frame it very well then, and waited to 2000 before confirming the idea he never actually had? Sort of explains how all his films are pretty rubbish these days. Who's the quote from? A reference would be nice, sounds like bad opinion to me. While you're fantasising about movies, do you have the quote where he says, the Alien was actually a member of the crew all along? It was all about the shares, apparently. Ridlely Scott, 2019.
This is quite possibly the most perfect and best sci-fi film of all time, everything about it is a piece of Noir genius..... With or without voice over. Also this is my brother and mine favourite film. R.I.P Little brother.
This masterpiece is probably the most immersive science fiction movie ever. It bears repeated viewings. I saw it on a big screen in a high-end theater in 1982, and the big difference is that you can see even more of the detail. Dick's books and stories have had more films made from them than any other SF writer, I think. One that I highly recommend, both novel and film, is "A Scanner Darkly"; only a few reactors have watched it.
In case you've missed it (and watched it) Edward James Olmos who plays Gaff (the one who folds the origami) in Blade Runner was later Commander Adama in Battlestar Galactica. Also, Pris (Daryl Hannah) was later in Kill Bill: Vol 2.
They went out of their way to show that the replicant animals are organic. It's weird that people don't consider that when thinking about the human ones.
If you've ever seen The Matrix, or Gattaca, replicants are genetically engineered humans that are birthed in artificial wombs. They're physically and mentally superior to normal humans. Tyrell mentions them having RNA, they bleed, they're affected by diseases, J.F. Sebastian says he's a genetic engineer, not a mechanical or robotics engineer...the whole "robotic" thing was a red herring in the story. The Tyrell Corp found it easier to get the public to accept treating replicants as slaves by calling them machines.
@@TheeGoatPig More human _than_ human :). (they're fully _organic_ but not human i'd say - my impression has always been that they're an artificial _recreation_ of humans, not e.g. human tissue that's been altered but I suspect, as with so many aspects of "Blade Runner", that's open to interpretation)
@@anonymes2884they're Frankenstein monsters, but instead of being assembled from human tissue, each tissue is specially designed and grown... think artificial meat, and then assembled with a complete set of mental patterns so they can do a job. That the end result seems perfectly human fits the spirit of the Turing test.
This is film noir. Usually a detective genre created in the 1940s and 1950s, usually in black and white . Film noir means "black film" or film of the night. Film noir classics include Double Indemnity, Laura, The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep, which inspired The Big Lebowski.
no, he modified it. The monologue was 70 words long in the script and Hauer thought it was too clunky for smooth delivery. It was re-written at 48 words but he was still not satisfied, so he modified the re-write by taking out 12 words and adding nine of his own to get the finished delivery.
Your next move is clear - “Blade Runner 2049”. It delves even deeper into the concept of how memories define individuals. And it’s just as epic to look at, but with more advanced FX. That famous monologue by Roy at the end was mostly written by Rutger Hauer and has been used in eulogies at many funerals since the movie came out. Sadly, Mr. Hauer departed this mortal coil in 2019. This is the performance he will forever be remembered for.
The final scenes are so haunting and intense, sparing Deckard at the last moment as his real triumph. Putting it plainly that he is more than just some killing machine, ha can choose
Yeah, I don’t get the hype for 2049. Also Deckard didn’t feel the same, and the movie undid the wonderful open question of Blade Runner. I don’t like sequels of old classics as they almost always undo the narrative that was set up in the original.
Final chase scene: The Bradbury Building is an architectural landmark in downtown Los Angeles, California. Built in 1893, the five-story office building is best known for its extraordinary skylit atrium of access walkways, stairs and elevators, and their ornate ironwork. Of course the roof-top stuff is just a film set.
I saw this on a random cinema visit in 1982 without knowing what I was going into.... it totally blew me away on every level a movie could, nothing like it before or even since really.
@08:03 _All the LED lights make it look really good too._ They are *Neon* & *Florescent* lights. Remember this movie was finished in 1982. The early LEDs were red but barely bright enough for use as indicators, as the light output was not enough to illuminate an area. Readouts in calculators were so small that plastic lenses were built over each digit to make them legible.
in the end Roy is going thru the 5 stages of grief , knowing that he is dying and in the end he saves Deckard proving that the nexus 6 are more human than human, what i love about this neo noir film is that the hero and vilain role switch in the end , this is my favorite movie of all time.
It is, indeed, very different from the movie. I haven't read it in a looooong time. It was one of the books on the assigned reading list when I took a science fiction literature course in college. This is one of my favorite movies ever. I saw this in the theater when it was released in 1982. The visuals were stunning. It was so far ahead of its time.
Ridley Scott's neo-noir, cyberpunk MASTERPIECE. This movie, along with the works of visionary authors like Harlan Ellison, and, Phillip K. Dick defined the genre of cyberpunk.
What makes this film special is the visuals combined with the music. Never has dystopia looked and sounded so beautiful. With all the detailed set designs and costumes it looks like a real lived in world. The sequel that takes place 30 years later has a good continuation of the story but unfortunately we don't get to see the same Blade Runner world. It's much cleaner and generic.
When Daryl Hannah smashed her hand through the van window running away in her first scene, it wasn't planned, she just slipped and it broke her wrist. She finished the scene without acknowledging it.
34:00 that's very well said. I definitely think that a movie is really good if it pulls you into its world so tightly that you forget about reality, and when the movie ends, you wake up to the real world.
Yes, this is a de rigueur reaction! When this came out in theaters in 1982 it made you believe that movies would always be there to transport you to another world and give you a timeless, mind-opening experience. I'd say that happened for another 20 years or so but not anymore....
One major difference is that this movie was made in a time when moviemaking was more of an artform and less of a commercial enterprise than it is today.
@@jennybeard6341 Or Lord of the Rings or Avatar or Pan's Labyrinth or dozens or hundreds of other movies. I get it. I'm an older viewer, I could have seen Blade Runner in the theater, and while my musical tastes still trend older I don't make that mistake with movies. Movies get better every year as everyone improves their craft. The directors of today watched and loved those old movies, and they learned from them. It's why Blade Runner 2049 was so good. I will say, about this film, it aged so much better than other films from around the same time.
@@lemoncakes0 let’s agree to disagree on Dune. I think it’s a modern masterpiece. Honestly a large issue is that quality has moved to the small screen. God in the Eighties most TV was crap, and we had little in choices. Streaming has proliferated amazing shows… that leaves less money for film and less butts in chairs.
Saw this in the theater when it came out when I was still in Jr. Highschool. I was in complete awe. This movie was so far ahead of its time. To this day it is my favorite sci-fi movie.
For Harrison Ford movies that have not been widely covered, I would suggest Witness, and also Frantic. Part of the story in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is that a virus killed off most of the animals in the world, a fact alluded to in the movie. The author, Philip K. Dick also wrote the source story for Total Recall.
The exterior shots of buildings, the intro with the cityscape/flames, etc, were all miniatures that they lit and shot. Absolutely outstanding design and craftsmanship that really get the scale and perspective correct. The cars, I believe, are just wirework with smoke generators/chemtubes -- don't quote me on that one, though. You two both noted the blue notes in the visual language of the film, smoke accompanying it and all. One thing to keep in mind is that this was shot on film, and on film smoke shows up as blue; probably the most famous examples of this being reality after you develop the film is old Hasselblad shots of basketball games where smoking was still allowed in the stadiums. The shots? Blue on blue tints. This is my favorite film to watch others take in the first time just to see how detail oriented they are and how they take in dialogue/character development, it's an illuminating featurette, the reaction, so you can really understand the vibe that a person or persons is going to go with or has gone with. Thanks for the reaction.
A re-write, not improvised. In his autobiography, Hauer said he merely cut the original scripted speech of some lines, adding only, "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
I saw this in theatres in 1982 when I was 12. I just remember thinking how amazing it looked. It didn’t do well at box office as people didn’t understand the film. It also came out same time as ET I think. Back then people just wanted happy films this was too bleak and ahead of its time. I also got to see it again in theatres for the Directors Cut and Final Cut. Probably watched this more times than any other movie. It’s a work of art.
One of the many pleasures of this film is its great supporting cast. James Hong ("I make your eyes") is in maybe more movies than anyone else, he has a legendarily extensive filmography, and is probably still working on some movie or another as I type this. Spotting him in a film is like shooting replicants in a barrel, he is absolutely everywhere. William O. Sanderson ("J. F. Sebastian") became a household name for his role as Larry, of the Anything for a Buck brothers Larry, Darryl, and Darryl in the hit sitcom Newhart (1982-1990). The joke was that he was the only brother who talked, they were essentially three people with one brain between them. I like him as Loretta Lynn's moonshining uncle in "Coal Miner's Daughter" (1980), and a hilarious stint on the show "LOST" (2004-2010). That accent is from Memphis, Tennessee. As I understand it, Ridley Scott brought Joanna Cassidy ("Zhora") back in 2007 for The Final Cut to reshoot her iconic run through the plate glass window. She would have been in her early 60s at the time of the reshoot. Hell of a stunt at any age. She is in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) and many other films. Oh yeah, a big personal home town hero shout out to Sean Young ("Rachel") gotta be proud of her as she's from my own home town of Louisville, Kentucky (go Cards!)
Philip K. Dick had so many of his novels turned into movies. He got to see the pre-production cut before he passed away. Dick's other books that became movies, some share the name of the books and some don't: Blade Runner, Man in the High Castle (Series), Total Recall, The Adjournment Bureau, Paycheck and Minority Reportment as the more famous ones.
Its impossible to realise upon first watching this, that you are viewing a piece of cinematic history, effects that were brand new at that time, huge minature sets, a timeless score by the great Vangelis, and actors who would become household names shortly after. The final scene with Decker and Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) is pure gold, litteral cinematic history, with the 'Tears in Rain' speech, ad-libbed by Rutger himself not knowing the impact it would have on the Sci-Fi world. Well spotted Chandra. a lot of the city scape minature sets were canibalised from 1977's Star Wars Death Star exteriors, and the deck of the Imperial Cruisers. The answer to the ultimate question has never been revealed, the question being that Decker never took the test, was he so good at retiring Replicants because he was one, built for that purpose and not knowing? Its never been answered, one of the great mysteries of Sci-Fi movies..........
Thank you so much for reacting to this...this is my favourite sci-fi film ever made. I love the world of Blade Runner...great reaction! Love you guys! 👍🏻
@@JohnnyJohnny-f5o Isn't that the opening line to the Soap Opera- DAYS OF OUR LIVES which started in 1965? I know it's more than likely a biblical quote, but just saying.
That's James Hong. He also played the grandfather in "Everything Everywhere All at Once." He's been in more than 600 movies & TV shows in his 70-year career.
@@tescherman3048 Of course it is, but I figured they would remember it better as BTiLC since they watched* it a few weeks back. Terrific actor, shows up on the con circuit regularly.
Blade Runner is a masterpiece. I have it on Blu Ray and never get tired of watching it. One of the synths used was a Yamaha CS80 by Vangelis who was an amazing musician who also wrote the music for Chariots Of Fire. Such a great film and I could tell you guys truly enjoyed it. Watch it again on a big 4K screen with a premium sound system and you'll still enjoy it and probably notice new details on every viewing.
I saw the theatre release when it came out. Imagine my shock when I saw that a movie had been made of my youthful love of Phillip K. Dick stories and novels. I was so blown away. I’ve been quoting this movie since it was released and I’m now 63 yrs young. I bet I’ve watched it a 100 times.
Back in the day, I leant a laserdisc player and the disc of this movie to a goth DJ. He locked himself in his tiny apartment for a week and watched this on repeat. His windows were blocked out too.
The spinner police cars were shot hovering by the usual old school special effects by having the car on cables attached to a heavy crane. This film is way ahead of its time and the late great rutger hauer's tears in rain speech has gone down in history as one the most heartbreaking death scenes put to film...there's no drama to Roy dying just "time...to die" and a slow lowering of his head...fantastic
Blade Runner is THE GOAT of sci-fi movies. A cinematic masterpiece. And yes, the final cut is the best cut of the movie. No CGI. All practical. Just a stunning piece of work and Roy's monologue in the end is one of the greatest in the history of cinema.
I saw the title, did a double take, then clicked on play at light speed! Now I've organized my heart rate a bit, I'll get some drinks ready for this one. LOLOL, Brilliant film; hope you guys didn't see the sequal yet either!
Despite the motif with the eyes, they are not a giveway, otherwise they wouldn't have to do the whole voidcomp test thing, just shine a light in their eyes.
Seeing this as a kid in the early 80s set an aesthetic understanding for me that continues to drive my creative work today. It's a pinnacle of movie making.
Deckard's residence is based from architect Frank Lloyd Wright house commissioned by Samuel Freeman in Santa Monica. Sebastian's residence is based from The Bradbury building in LA. Roy putting a nail through his hand was to incite a rush of adrenaline into that body part and regain some or more use. This movie is a piece of top art with top level directors, producers, cast of actors, and other movie personnel.
I don't remember the year or details but when the Final Cut came out there was a special screening at a theatre in Toronto. It was a beautiful FILM theater with a huge screen and incredible sound system. They played it LOUD and it was BIG! I saw there 3 times. Incredible. In Toronto. Also, that last scene with Roy on the roof is, in my opinion, one of the most perfect scenes in film. From the dove to his death. Incredible film. It was fun watching it with you.
Unpopular opinion: there are SO many different edits of this film and so many cut scenes, there isn't really a "final cut" of this movie apart from the name. But that's why it still lives on in my head 40 years later. It's a puzzle I can never quite solve, and that's why I love it
The original cut, with the voice over, and the ending, makes the film less dark. All the cuts after that, are playing fiddling around. The first Directors cut, without the voice over, and the lift door closing, makes for a better film, the unicorn and stuff like that, should have been left on the cutting room floor.
Harrison Ford's partner? Edward James Olmos. If you have seen the 2003 Battlestar Galactica reboot, you know him as Commander Will Adama. If you have not seen Battlestar, WATCH IT, lol. It's some of the best television in the last 30 years. Even if you don't decide to formally react to the show, still, treat yourself to it one of these days. 11/10, will not disappoint.
Mr. Holden's resemblance to Harrison Ford in look and sound is such an awesome detail. the debate about who is a replicant goes on, but this is intentional for sure.
If you'd like to see Rutger Hauer be even more terrifying, try watching the 1986 thriller, "The Hitcher" (not to be confused with the more recent film of the same name).
I highly recommend watching the documentary about the making of the film, Dangerous Days: The Making of Blade Runner. It’s three and a half hours long and gives you everything you ever wanted about how the film was made.
Blade Runner and Alien are set in the same universe. I think (don't quote me) that the replicants are the predecessors to the synthetic humans in Alien/Aliens. (The) Tyrell (Corporation) was the megalith before the Weyland/Yutani Corporation came about
One of the greatest sci-fi films ever. Excellent script & storyline, outstanding casting, wonderful score & the set design & cinematography are superb! The way that the feeling of a film noir/steampunk vibe mixed with art deco & that kinda Philip Marlow-esque sets this film apart from others. --So many think Deckard was a replicant but there are a few reasons I disagree; he was called back to duty, when theres no way the department would do that given the Blade Runners task. Next is his weaknesses; he couldn't even fight against Zera & Priss let alone Leon & Roy...he was no match. Lastly his emotional range was so human compared to them; he showed real fear while they never did. Great reaction y'all, give us more science fiction, especially pre-90s. (Have a suggestion: "THX 1138"! it's so unique, hope you at least add it to the list 😊)
This was my first rated R film in theaters. You had to be 17 or accompanied by a parent back then. I was 14 and begged my mom to take me because I had read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Get it and anything else by Phillip K. Dick. Genius SciFi writer. Blade Runner is so layered it;s my all time favorite film.
I send this movie as a teenager ( my friend and I snuck in to it, due to it's R rating ) Opening weekend, June of 1982, in one of the largest theaters in Portland Ore. the Eastgate theater, 30x70 screen. It was so Beautiful and Mesmerizing, felt like we floated through that movie. Vangelis composed that Amazing Music. All these years later, still one of most beautiful movies, to watch.
Another great reaction! Harrison Ford may have been the star, but without Rutger Hauer's oddly ethereal, menacing, poignant, and nuanced Roy Batty, and the monolog that he wrote for his final scene, it wouldn't be the classic that it is. Other great Rutger Hauer films: Ladyhawke (1985) The Hitcher (1986) Blood of Heroes (1989) Just a few of the many movies he's starred in. Daryl Hannah (Pris) is great in Splash (1983) co-starring Tom Hanks. Keep up the good work!
The scanner Deckard used is real now. Lightfield cameras can take photos which allow you to alter the perspective and depth of field after the photo was taken. Pretty cool!
My all-time favourite film. I have never been more stunned by a movie than this one, it's a true work of art. Seeing your first-time reaction to it was wonderful - this was a great video. If you get a chance to see it on the big screen, you will be utterly amazed. You did good in choosing the Final Cut - the theatrical version is brilliant but flawed, the Director's Cut is an incredible improvement and the Final Cut tweaks the perfection of the DC and er...makes it even more perfect.
Great reaction :) Love seeing even after 40 years new viewers still connect with the fantastic world building, themes and style. Really happy to see you both got fully absorbed into the story. Definitely gets better with every rewatch. Hope you both choose to follow up with Denis's Blade Runner 2049, a great sequel to a sci-fi classic.
A Wonderful Sci-Fi film , i can rewatch it over and over. I saw it on a special showing At The Chinese Theater in Hollywood in the 90's,Edward James Olmos hosted it and talked before showing the film, It was great to have seen it on the big screen finally .
One of my all time favorite films based off of a novel by one of my all time favorite authors, Philip K Dick (PKD). This film is credited with being the genesis of the cyber punk aesthetic, and caused PKD to marvel upon seeing an effects shot reel from the film “How did they get inside my head?” Legendary score by the artist Vangelis, so much so, that the exact equipment (synth) and patches used for the score are sought after and often replicated in the music making marketplace. Oddly, not a box office success, and the original film includes a voice over from Ford that helps explain what’s going on, including the “skin jobs” line one of you questioned. I would recommend getting into PKD’s work, although starting with a collection of short stories may be better than jumping into a novel first go. He’s a difficult read at times for the uninitiated. He’s considered in some SF circles to be a member of the big 3 of SF, the other two being Asimov and Heinlein. As a starter novel, I recommend A Maze of Death. The resolution may seem less impactful now, given all of SF’s tropes that have developed since the novel’s publication, but keep in mind, this was written before those tropes existed. Other novels of his that are stellar include Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, Ubik, VALIS, A Scanner Darkly, and my personal favorite, The Divine Invasion.
I had the privilege of watching this in my local cinema, on a 70ft Screen in 1982...to an almost empty theatre....it blew ME AWAY! I've seen some reactors try to watch this masterpiece...on a sodding Laptop screen! There is a good documentary "Dangerous Days", about the making of this masterpiece, well worth watching. Probably the best sci-fi film ever made. And the Vangelis Soundtrack is on my playlist....
All the cityscapes were miniatures. Enormous model sets covering entore studio floors; just incredible work. Everything is detailed in a book, _Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner_ by Paul M. Sammon. Great read, an exhaustive history from the original Philip K. Dick story to the film's rediscovery on video.
Such a fantastic movie. Glad you watched it and enjoyed it! Oh, and Rutger Hauer's rooftop monologue was improvised. I think it's still one of the best seen/heard on screen.
They shot it by actually doing it in camera. Yes. Blade Runner was incredible in the theater. There is a recent indie fan film based on Blade Runner titled Slice Of Life that is exceptional.
I first watched "Blade Runner" in its theatrical release. I read years ago that Joanna Cassidy(Zhora) acually owned the boa constrictor that her character had.
Ridley Scott promised the special effects crew that he would use every model they make somewhere in the film. The Spinner, the iconic hover car was just a model one of the team was messing about with on his lunch breaks.
Imagine seeing this (at least the first cut) in the theater. Back then, there was a thing I called Futurism, with magazines such as Omni leading the way. And the artwork and aesthetics of Syd Mead, who I believed worked on the design of this movie, particularly the 'spinners' or cop cars. Many of us thought that this could well have been our future in many ways. Instead, we got soulless tract housing and concrete arteries choked with SUV clones. I wonder which one's worse.
Trivia - Philip K Dick’s story, which is nowadays marketed as “Bladerunner” though as mentioned it was called “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” - it never uses the word “Bladerunner”. That word was used in some totally unrelated story by a different author years later, but Ridley Scott liked it and wanted to use it. Also: the characters in the book want nothing more than to own real animals (which are nearly extinct from nuclear war), it’s like a civic duty. But most people have to settle for robotic fakes - hence electric sheep.
'Deckard was a Replicant, Decard is a human" is a koan that an entire generation, my generation, contemplated as a mantra. I guess our time did not last. But then again, what does?
The actor who played Roy is Rutger Hauer. CHECK HIM OUT... Also, he improvised the final libe during his first table read of the script ("...like tears in rain" was the actor, nit the screenwriter)
Blade Runner not only inspired many sci-fi movies, it actually has a sequel! Sort of. "Soldier," with Kurt Russel, was written by one of the screenwriters of this film, and intended to be basically a tie-in in the same universe. Budget prevented showing the actual "Battle of Tannhauser Gate" alluded to in this film, but there are several little nods if you know where to look. It's a fine film in its own right, the tie-ins enrich the experience, but it doesn't detract from either film.
For me, one of the main plot elements is human and replicant falling in love. Is it possible? Can it work? Is it - allowed? So if Deckard is a replicant too, that whole line is destroyed. So I'll stick to what was obvious in the theatrical release, that Deckard is human.
Roy is just 4 years old, him breaking fingers in revenge for killing his friends or counting to let Deckard run, shouting "I can see you" is all showing it's just a child's play for him - at the end he even sits like kids used to sit. One of my favourite movies, along with the sequel, which is maybe even better, although, not as groundbreaking as the original was, of course.
Really enjoyed your vid!! The flying cars were cars on wires, but there were different versions of each car-- like a hero car for filming sitting in it, or one for getting out of where only the doors worked, and the lightest mostly empty vehicle for floating around. As video has progressed, and the movies have been remastered (and reworked, there are multiple versions of the film), they eventually had to paint out the wires cause they showed up in higher def! There are *hours* on the Making Of this film posted to youtube! Hope you watch some! "She really, really seems human..." aye, that's the rub :D Stanley Kubrick commented (paraphrasing) that it didn't matter what they 'really' were, they were as human as any other humans.
This movie was so far ahead of its time, it took years for audiences and critics to learn to appreciate it.
Many of us appreciated the mastery right away, even with the narration.
@@RealBLAlley It had potential, but it took until the 92 Director's Cut for it to begin to actually reach that potential. I always felt that the narration could have really added to the noir feel of the film, if it didn't sound like Ford was reading it at gunpoint and it didn't totally undercut the point of Roy's final act.
@@StormhavenGaming The rumor is that he and Scott deliberately recorded the most bland, uninteresting narration possible expecting the studio to change their mind about requiring it, but instead the studio stood fast because studio stooges will never admit they are wrong.
Yeah it came out the same time as " ET"@@RealBLAlley
@@RealBLAlley In all the many versions of the story, Ridley holds fast to claim that he suggested narration, and Ford said he never thought they would use it, so he didn't give it much effort. There are takes of the narration where he's mocking it. But then, he had a horrible time on this film :P First time I saw it w/out it, I immediately thought of Chinatown, and watching the two back to back works GREAT :D
Rutger Hauer died in 2019. The same year his character, Roy died in Blade Runner.
That’s crazy
"...like tears, in rain." Roy's dying monologue is some of the best in movie history.
Rutger Hauer wrote those lines
@@chrisclanton4430 I thought he improvised them on the spot. But either way, it's probably my most favorite part of the movie. The lines were so tight and short, but extended one's mind into profound thoughts. It was awesome.
@@Codametal I think he wrote them the night before shooting and then showed them to Scott, who immediately agreed to put them in the film.
Rutger Hauer died in 2019, the same year his character died in the movie.
@@chrisclanton4430 In his autobiography, Hauer said he merely cut the original scripted speech of some lines, adding only, "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
No LED lights here, this was the age of neon.
Blue LEDs didn’t exist commercially or practically in 1982.
But they were super expensive till much much later.
@@ravissary79 which is why I said “commercially or practically”.
@@HappyHarryHardon yeah, my bad, I misread 1 of the words which changed my perception of your meaning.
Nice. Well said. I searched the comments section looking for this before commenting myself.
Neon looks a million times better too, the light from neon REALLY visibly glows a good distance even outside the bulb.
The reason why neon lights were replaced by LED signs everywhere is that its a lot of maintenance to use neon lights, they would regularly burn and then you had to replace a letter on your sign with a new one.
I really love how this movie is 40 years old, and yet there are still people having the same realizations, epiphanies and questions that we all did, and even still debate over. Such an outstanding movie.
The music is by Vangelis, who won an Oscar for Chariots of Fire, about the 1924 Olympics.
1492, Christophe Colomb.
Vangelis' most interesting album was called "666" from 1971 which was a concept album based on the book of Revelations. He also did an album called "Earth" in 1973 which is a genius piece of Greek ambient music.
Prior to this film, he did an acclaimed LP titled Albedo 0.39 released 1976. Totally great LP!!!
bladerunner is my favorite soundtrack of all time
The OST by Vangelis it´s simply ETERNAL.
Yes, indeed. Also I'd say that the adaptation by "The New American Orchestra" is excellent in its own way. The only choice we had in 1982.
@@moonglow9251 Yes. the only cassette I have left. I treasure it.
@@moonglow9251 I’ve never heard this version, no interest. Vangelis, for reasons of his own, didn’t agree to release a soundtrack for a decade… which launched a little “bootleg” business, different iterations of the soundtrack released online. Vangelis produced more than four hours of material for the film. The “29th Anniversary” bootleg is the most complete collection so far.
The author of this story was the late, great Phillip K. Dick. He loved writing about people forced to doubt their senses, their reality, and the world around them. Several of his works have been adapted to the screen, including "Minority Report", "A Scanner Darkly", "Total Recall" and "The Man in The High Castle".
Amazon adapted "The Man in The High Castle" into a series.
There was also "Imposter" with Gary Sinese and Vincent D'onofrio. Also, "Paycheck" with Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman.
The genius of Ridley Scott and Syd Mead.
Hugely influential.
Rutger Hauer died too soon. I think he was a great actor that should have gotten to play bigger roles than he did.
Blood of Heroes is one of my guiltiest pleasures.
He actually died the same year as his character here. How crazy is that.
@@norwegianblue2017 Yeah that one is cool :)
@@norwegianblue2017 I know it as "Salute of the Jugger" but yeah, guilty pleasure indeed.
@@janak132 I like that name much better. Blood of Heroes sounds like a generic war movie title. Oh, and don't forget 'Flesh and Blood"!
In an interview on the 5-disc DVD extras, Joanna Cassidy (Zhora) was asked how she felt about working with the snake in the dressing room scene. Joanna said, "It was great because she was mine; I brought her from home."
I was very lucky just recently, my local cinema had a special viewing of the final cut for 1 evening, i immidiatly booked 2 tickets for me and a friend. It was one of the most incredible cinema experiences i have ever had. If anyone ever get the chance i highly recommend it.
Im so jealous!
Roy did the most human thing possible. He broke his programming. He was a combat replicant and yet his last act on earth was not killing someone, it was saving someone. mercy.Whats going to mess you up is The other character? The one with the cane? Edward James Olmos's character? His characters name is Gaff. A gaff is a sailing term for a hook to grab a hold of things and lead them in the water. Thats why he was immediately there when Roy died. He always knew where Decker was. Gaff is the real Blade Runner, and Deckard is a replicant used like a blood hound. which is why he made a unicorn in the end. He knew Deckard's dreams and memories. Deckard was not a replicant in the short story "Do androids dream of electric sheep," however they made it more ambiguous in the movie adaption and Ridley Scott refuses to tell if Deckard was or not to let the audience decide
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I disagree. Deckard was not a replicant.
I have always thought Gaff's line "You've done a man's job" to Deckard was a pretty big hint. But I know audience opinion is sharply divided.
There is nothing in the movie that shows Deckard was a replicant. In fact the plot ceases to make sense if he was, they'd just order him to do his job, I don't think he'd be allowed to retire. It makes no sense.
Roy broke his inclinations, he was an organic machine, and had no empathy, the androids don't, as shown my their indifference and cruelty to suffering, they lack empathy, which is what the void kampf text detects.
He broached his inbuilt genetic inclination, when he felt empathy for another person, and saved him. Roy at the beginning of the movie wouldn't have done that.
@@onastick2411 and to quote "This was in stark contrast to director Ridley Scott, who framed the movie around the notion Deckard was a replicant, even though the character himself wasn't aware of it. Scott played out coy about this in interviews but finally confirmed the truth during the 2000 documentary On the Edge of Blade Runner"
@@tubesocksofchaos1 He didn't frame it very well then, and waited to 2000 before confirming the idea he never actually had? Sort of explains how all his films are pretty rubbish these days. Who's the quote from? A reference would be nice, sounds like bad opinion to me.
While you're fantasising about movies, do you have the quote where he says, the Alien was actually a member of the crew all along? It was all about the shares, apparently. Ridlely Scott, 2019.
One of the most visually influential movies of all time. Absolute touchstone.
Rutger Hauer's monologue as Roy Batty is one of cinema's best as haunting as it is sad
He added-libbed the “tears in the rain” line…it wasn’t in the script
This is quite possibly the most perfect and best sci-fi film of all time, everything about it is a piece of Noir genius..... With or without voice over. Also this is my brother and mine favourite film. R.I.P Little brother.
This masterpiece is probably the most immersive science fiction movie ever. It bears repeated viewings. I saw it on a big screen in a high-end theater in 1982, and the big difference is that you can see even more of the detail. Dick's books and stories have had more films made from them than any other SF writer, I think. One that I highly recommend, both novel and film, is "A Scanner Darkly"; only a few reactors have watched it.
Definitely need to watch A Scanner Darkly.
In case you've missed it (and watched it) Edward James Olmos who plays Gaff (the one who folds the origami) in Blade Runner was later Commander Adama in Battlestar Galactica. Also, Pris (Daryl Hannah) was later in Kill Bill: Vol 2.
Before BG, Olmos was Lt. Martin Castillo on the groundbreaking cop TV drama, "Miami Vice" and won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actor In A Drama.
Yes, in fact Hannah's ending scene in Kill Bill is intentionally similar as a nod to her role in Bladerunner.
As close to a perfect picture as you can get.
The replicants aren’t robots they’re organic.
They went out of their way to show that the replicant animals are organic. It's weird that people don't consider that when thinking about the human ones.
If you've ever seen The Matrix, or Gattaca, replicants are genetically engineered humans that are birthed in artificial wombs. They're physically and mentally superior to normal humans. Tyrell mentions them having RNA, they bleed, they're affected by diseases, J.F. Sebastian says he's a genetic engineer, not a mechanical or robotics engineer...the whole "robotic" thing was a red herring in the story. The Tyrell Corp found it easier to get the public to accept treating replicants as slaves by calling them machines.
I never thought they managed to grasp that these are constructed organic beings, not machines. The blood and viscera didn't seem to tip them off.
Its tough to grasp on 1st watch but the replicants arent robots, theyre genetically engenired humans.
I wouldn't necessarily classify them as human. They are near human, but not quite.
@@TheeGoatPig More human _than_ human :).
(they're fully _organic_ but not human i'd say - my impression has always been that they're an artificial _recreation_ of humans, not e.g. human tissue that's been altered but I suspect, as with so many aspects of "Blade Runner", that's open to interpretation)
@@anonymes2884they're Frankenstein monsters, but instead of being assembled from human tissue, each tissue is specially designed and grown... think artificial meat, and then assembled with a complete set of mental patterns so they can do a job.
That the end result seems perfectly human fits the spirit of the Turing test.
Yeah Sebastian introduces himself as a geneticist.
Synthetic
This is film noir. Usually a detective genre created in the 1940s and 1950s, usually in black and white . Film noir means "black film" or film of the night. Film noir classics include Double Indemnity, Laura, The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep, which inspired The Big Lebowski.
Double Indemnity... SO good.
Kiss Me Deadly, the ultimate noir.
Rutger Hauer wrote the dying monologue himself.
no, he modified it. The monologue was 70 words long in the script and Hauer thought it was too clunky for smooth delivery. It was re-written at 48 words but he was still not satisfied, so he modified the re-write by taking out 12 words and adding nine of his own to get the finished delivery.
Your next move is clear - “Blade Runner 2049”. It delves even deeper into the concept of how memories define individuals. And it’s just as epic to look at, but with more advanced FX.
That famous monologue by Roy at the end was mostly written by Rutger Hauer and has been used in eulogies at many funerals since the movie came out. Sadly, Mr. Hauer departed this mortal coil in 2019. This is the performance he will forever be remembered for.
Rutger Hauer died the same year as his character did.
. That's interesting!🤔 I had no idea. Thanks for sharing.
The final scenes are so haunting and intense, sparing Deckard at the last moment as his real triumph. Putting it plainly that he is more than just some killing machine, ha can choose
2049 is worthless. Forget it was ever made.
Yeah, I don’t get the hype for 2049. Also Deckard didn’t feel the same, and the movie undid the wonderful open question of Blade Runner. I don’t like sequels of old classics as they almost always undo the narrative that was set up in the original.
The tears in the rain bit was not in the original script and it was improvised by Rutger hauer in that moment out of the blue.
Final chase scene: The Bradbury Building is an architectural landmark in downtown Los Angeles, California. Built in 1893, the five-story office building is best known for its extraordinary skylit atrium of access walkways, stairs and elevators, and their ornate ironwork.
Of course the roof-top stuff is just a film set.
Another great compositions by Vangelis are "1492: Conquest of paradise" or "Chariots of Fire".
I saw this on a random cinema visit in 1982 without knowing what I was going into.... it totally blew me away on every level a movie could, nothing like it before or even since really.
I think, the first thing I saw Rutger Hauer in was "The Hitcher", a thriller from the 80s. Worth checking out. He was creepy as hell in that one.
@08:03 _All the LED lights make it look really good too._
They are *Neon* & *Florescent* lights. Remember this movie was finished in 1982. The early LEDs were red but barely bright enough for use as indicators, as the light output was not enough to illuminate an area. Readouts in calculators were so small that plastic lenses were built over each digit to make them legible.
My other favorite Rutger Hauer movie is Ladyhawke.
The Hitcher. Watch it. Awesome thriller! Rutger Hauer being scary af!
"-Where are you from? -Disneyland." :)
I’ve seen no one react to Ladyhawke, so I’ll keep waiting….patiently
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 I saw one the other day. ruclips.net/video/K4z_tjmhaqI/видео.htmlsi=ErGhAAocqahbXZSX
in the end Roy is going thru the 5 stages of grief , knowing that he is dying and in the end he saves Deckard proving that the nexus 6 are more human than human, what i love about this neo noir film is that the hero and vilain role switch in the end , this is my favorite movie of all time.
It is, indeed, very different from the movie. I haven't read it in a looooong time. It was one of the books on the assigned reading list when I took a science fiction literature course in college.
This is one of my favorite movies ever. I saw this in the theater when it was released in 1982. The visuals were stunning. It was so far ahead of its time.
You need to watch Rutger Hauer in The Hitcher for another brilliant performance
So much of the look of the city in this film is homage to Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis,” the granddaddy of sci-fi cinema
Ridley Scott's neo-noir, cyberpunk MASTERPIECE. This movie, along with the works of visionary authors like Harlan Ellison, and, Phillip K. Dick defined the genre of cyberpunk.
What makes this film special is the visuals combined with the music. Never has dystopia looked and sounded so beautiful. With all the detailed set designs and costumes it looks like a real lived in world. The sequel that takes place 30 years later has a good continuation of the story but unfortunately we don't get to see the same Blade Runner world. It's much cleaner and generic.
When Daryl Hannah smashed her hand through the van window running away in her first scene, it wasn't planned, she just slipped and it broke her wrist. She finished the scene without acknowledging it.
She didn't break her wrist, she smashed her elbow through the glass and still has the scar to prove it.
34:00 that's very well said. I definitely think that a movie is really good if it pulls you into its world so tightly that you forget about reality, and when the movie ends, you wake up to the real world.
Check out Rutger Hauer, he has a really great body of work.
The Hitcher 😉.
Surviving the game
Ladyhawk
Yes, this is a de rigueur reaction! When this came out in theaters in 1982 it made you believe that movies would always be there to transport you to another world and give you a timeless, mind-opening experience. I'd say that happened for another 20 years or so but not anymore....
One major difference is that this movie was made in a time when moviemaking was more of an artform and less of a commercial enterprise than it is today.
Dune… it still happens it’s just more rare.
@@jennybeard6341 Or Lord of the Rings or Avatar or Pan's Labyrinth or dozens or hundreds of other movies. I get it. I'm an older viewer, I could have seen Blade Runner in the theater, and while my musical tastes still trend older I don't make that mistake with movies. Movies get better every year as everyone improves their craft. The directors of today watched and loved those old movies, and they learned from them. It's why Blade Runner 2049 was so good.
I will say, about this film, it aged so much better than other films from around the same time.
@@jennybeard6341 I agree with you it was rare. I have a mixed view on Dune 1 and 2 but can see it is a good effort.
@@lemoncakes0 let’s agree to disagree on Dune. I think it’s a modern masterpiece. Honestly a large issue is that quality has moved to the small screen. God in the Eighties most TV was crap, and we had little in choices. Streaming has proliferated amazing shows… that leaves less money for film and less butts in chairs.
Saw this in the theater when it came out when I was still in Jr. Highschool. I was in complete awe. This movie was so far ahead of its time. To this day it is my favorite sci-fi movie.
For Harrison Ford movies that have not been widely covered, I would suggest Witness, and also Frantic. Part of the story in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is that a virus killed off most of the animals in the world, a fact alluded to in the movie. The author, Philip K. Dick also wrote the source story for Total Recall.
Witness is fantastic, and also jump started my fascination and respect of the Amish. Such amazing and humble people.
A virus? I remember it has being pollution and radioactivity, can't recall a virus being involved.
The exterior shots of buildings, the intro with the cityscape/flames, etc, were all miniatures that they lit and shot. Absolutely outstanding design and craftsmanship that really get the scale and perspective correct. The cars, I believe, are just wirework with smoke generators/chemtubes -- don't quote me on that one, though.
You two both noted the blue notes in the visual language of the film, smoke accompanying it and all. One thing to keep in mind is that this was shot on film, and on film smoke shows up as blue; probably the most famous examples of this being reality after you develop the film is old Hasselblad shots of basketball games where smoking was still allowed in the stadiums. The shots? Blue on blue tints.
This is my favorite film to watch others take in the first time just to see how detail oriented they are and how they take in dialogue/character development, it's an illuminating featurette, the reaction, so you can really understand the vibe that a person or persons is going to go with or has gone with. Thanks for the reaction.
The tears in the rain speech is one of the greatest improv scenes of all times. Hauer nailed this tole.
Just a heads up for your information: Only the words "Like Tears in The Rain" was improvised. Everything else was written in the script.
See what you did there.
A re-write, not improvised. In his autobiography, Hauer said he merely cut the original scripted speech of some lines, adding only, "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
I saw this in theatres in 1982 when I was 12. I just remember thinking how amazing it looked.
It didn’t do well at box office as people didn’t understand the film.
It also came out same time as ET I think.
Back then people just wanted happy films this was too bleak and ahead of its time.
I also got to see it again in theatres for the Directors Cut and Final Cut.
Probably watched this more times than any other movie. It’s a work of art.
One of the many pleasures of this film is its great supporting cast.
James Hong ("I make your eyes") is in maybe more movies than anyone else, he has a legendarily extensive filmography, and is probably still working on some movie or another as I type this. Spotting him in a film is like shooting replicants in a barrel, he is absolutely everywhere.
William O. Sanderson ("J. F. Sebastian") became a household name for his role as Larry, of the Anything for a Buck brothers Larry, Darryl, and Darryl in the hit sitcom Newhart (1982-1990). The joke was that he was the only brother who talked, they were essentially three people with one brain between them. I like him as Loretta Lynn's moonshining uncle in "Coal Miner's Daughter" (1980), and a hilarious stint on the show "LOST" (2004-2010). That accent is from Memphis, Tennessee.
As I understand it, Ridley Scott brought Joanna Cassidy ("Zhora") back in 2007 for The Final Cut to reshoot her iconic run through the plate glass window. She would have been in her early 60s at the time of the reshoot. Hell of a stunt at any age. She is in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) and many other films.
Oh yeah, a big personal home town hero shout out to Sean Young ("Rachel") gotta be proud of her as she's from my own home town of Louisville, Kentucky (go Cards!)
Philip K. Dick had so many of his novels turned into movies. He got to see the pre-production cut before he passed away.
Dick's other books that became movies, some share the name of the books and some don't: Blade Runner, Man in the High Castle (Series), Total Recall, The Adjournment Bureau, Paycheck and Minority Reportment as the more famous ones.
Adjustment Bureau.
Wait, r u listing the movies/books? Because, if it's the movies, u misnamed a couple THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU & MINORITY REPORT.
And let's not forget the series Electric Dreams.
Hollywood usually butchers his work with a happy ending or something.
A Scanner Darkly.
Its impossible to realise upon first watching this, that you are viewing a piece of cinematic history, effects that were brand new at that time, huge minature sets, a timeless score by the great Vangelis, and actors who would become household names shortly after.
The final scene with Decker and Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) is pure gold, litteral cinematic history, with the 'Tears in Rain' speech, ad-libbed by Rutger himself not knowing the impact it would have on the Sci-Fi world.
Well spotted Chandra. a lot of the city scape minature sets were canibalised from 1977's Star Wars Death Star exteriors, and the deck of the Imperial Cruisers.
The answer to the ultimate question has never been revealed, the question being that Decker never took the test, was he so good at retiring Replicants because he was one, built for that purpose and not knowing? Its never been answered, one of the great mysteries of Sci-Fi movies..........
Thank you so much for reacting to this...this is my favourite sci-fi film ever made.
I love the world of Blade Runner...great reaction!
Love you guys! 👍🏻
The end quote is so iconic "Like sands through an hourglass, so are the days of our lives". Gives me chills every time.
@@JohnnyJohnny-f5o Isn't that the opening line to the Soap Opera- DAYS OF OUR LIVES which started in 1965?
I know it's more than likely a biblical quote, but just saying.
The eyeball guy is Lo Pan from Big Trouble in Little China FYI.
Indeed!
And also the Chinese restaurant owner in the (appropriately titled) Seinfeld episode "The Chinese Restaurant."
That's James Hong. He also played the grandfather in "Everything Everywhere All at Once." He's been in more than 600 movies & TV shows in his 70-year career.
@@tescherman3048 Of course it is, but I figured they would remember it better as BTiLC since they watched* it a few weeks back. Terrific actor, shows up on the con circuit regularly.
Blade Runner is a masterpiece. I have it on Blu Ray and never get tired of watching it. One of the synths used was a Yamaha CS80 by Vangelis who was an amazing musician who also wrote the music for Chariots Of Fire. Such a great film and I could tell you guys truly enjoyed it. Watch it again on a big 4K screen with a premium sound system and you'll still enjoy it and probably notice new details on every viewing.
I saw the theatre release when it came out. Imagine my shock when I saw that a movie had been made of my youthful love of Phillip K. Dick stories and novels. I was so blown away. I’ve been quoting this movie since it was released and I’m now 63 yrs young. I bet I’ve watched it a 100 times.
Back in the day, I leant a laserdisc player and the disc of this movie to a goth DJ. He locked himself in his tiny apartment for a week and watched this on repeat. His windows were blocked out too.
The spinner police cars were shot hovering by the usual old school special effects by having the car on cables attached to a heavy crane.
This film is way ahead of its time and the late great rutger hauer's tears in rain speech has gone down in history as one the most heartbreaking death scenes put to film...there's no drama to Roy dying just "time...to die" and a slow lowering of his head...fantastic
Blade Runner is THE GOAT of sci-fi movies. A cinematic masterpiece. And yes, the final cut is the best cut of the movie. No CGI. All practical. Just a stunning piece of work and Roy's monologue in the end is one of the greatest in the history of cinema.
I saw the title, did a double take, then clicked on play at light speed! Now I've organized my heart rate a bit, I'll get some drinks ready for this one. LOLOL, Brilliant film; hope you guys didn't see the sequal yet either!
What an absolutely brilliant performance by Rutger Hauer.
Despite the motif with the eyes, they are not a giveway, otherwise they wouldn't have to do the whole voidcomp test thing, just shine a light in their eyes.
A cinematic masterpiece.
Seeing this as a kid in the early 80s set an aesthetic understanding for me that continues to drive my creative work today. It's a pinnacle of movie making.
Deckard's residence is based from architect Frank Lloyd Wright house commissioned by Samuel Freeman in Santa Monica. Sebastian's residence is based from The Bradbury building in LA. Roy putting a nail through his hand was to incite a rush of adrenaline into that body part and regain some or more use. This movie is a piece of top art with top level directors, producers, cast of actors, and other movie personnel.
I don't remember the year or details but when the Final Cut came out there was a special screening at a theatre in Toronto. It was a beautiful FILM theater with a huge screen and incredible sound system. They played it LOUD and it was BIG! I saw there 3 times. Incredible. In Toronto. Also, that last scene with Roy on the roof is, in my opinion, one of the most perfect scenes in film. From the dove to his death. Incredible film. It was fun watching it with you.
Unpopular opinion: there are SO many different edits of this film and so many cut scenes, there isn't really a "final cut" of this movie apart from the name. But that's why it still lives on in my head 40 years later. It's a puzzle I can never quite solve, and that's why I love it
The original cut, with the voice over, and the ending, makes the film less dark. All the cuts after that, are playing fiddling around. The first Directors cut, without the voice over, and the lift door closing, makes for a better film, the unicorn and stuff like that, should have been left on the cutting room floor.
Hope you two are having an great and awesome day ❤
Harrison Ford's partner? Edward James Olmos. If you have seen the 2003 Battlestar Galactica reboot, you know him as Commander Will Adama. If you have not seen Battlestar, WATCH IT, lol. It's some of the best television in the last 30 years. Even if you don't decide to formally react to the show, still, treat yourself to it one of these days. 11/10, will not disappoint.
Mr. Holden's resemblance to Harrison Ford in look and sound is such an awesome detail. the debate about who is a replicant goes on, but this is intentional for sure.
If you'd like to see Rutger Hauer be even more terrifying, try watching the 1986 thriller, "The Hitcher" (not to be confused with the more recent film of the same name).
I highly recommend watching the documentary about the making of the film, Dangerous Days: The Making of Blade Runner. It’s three and a half hours long and gives you everything you ever wanted about how the film was made.
Ooh, thanks! I need to watch that!
Happy to see this reaction!!
Can't wait to see your reaction for Blade Runner 2049!!
Blade Runner and Alien are set in the same universe. I think (don't quote me) that the replicants are the predecessors to the synthetic humans in Alien/Aliens. (The) Tyrell (Corporation) was the megalith before the Weyland/Yutani Corporation came about
No, they're not. Replicants are far more advanced than the androids a hundred years later. The corporations have little in common.
One of the greatest sci-fi films ever. Excellent script & storyline, outstanding casting, wonderful score & the set design & cinematography are superb! The way that the feeling of a film noir/steampunk vibe mixed with art deco & that kinda Philip Marlow-esque sets this film apart from others.
--So many think Deckard was a replicant but there are a few reasons I disagree; he was called back to duty, when theres no way the department would do that given the Blade Runners task. Next is his weaknesses; he couldn't even fight against Zera & Priss let alone Leon & Roy...he was no match. Lastly his emotional range was so human compared to them; he showed real fear while they never did. Great reaction y'all, give us more science fiction, especially pre-90s. (Have a suggestion: "THX 1138"! it's so unique, hope you at least add it to the list 😊)
Respect for watching tjis movie !!!! and Blade Runner, same univers with Alien !!!
Such a beautiful ending atop that building.
This was my first rated R film in theaters. You had to be 17 or accompanied by a parent back then. I was 14 and begged my mom to take me because I had read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Get it and anything else by Phillip K. Dick. Genius SciFi writer. Blade Runner is so layered it;s my all time favorite film.
I send this movie as a teenager
( my friend and I snuck in to it, due to it's R rating )
Opening weekend, June of 1982, in one of the largest theaters in Portland Ore. the Eastgate theater, 30x70 screen.
It was so Beautiful and Mesmerizing, felt like we floated through that movie.
Vangelis composed that Amazing Music.
All these years later, still one of most beautiful movies, to watch.
Another great reaction!
Harrison Ford may have been the star, but without Rutger Hauer's oddly ethereal, menacing, poignant, and nuanced Roy Batty, and the monolog that he wrote for his final scene, it wouldn't be the classic that it is.
Other great Rutger Hauer films:
Ladyhawke (1985)
The Hitcher (1986)
Blood of Heroes (1989)
Just a few of the many movies he's starred in.
Daryl Hannah (Pris) is great in Splash (1983) co-starring Tom Hanks.
Keep up the good work!
The scanner Deckard used is real now. Lightfield cameras can take photos which allow you to alter the perspective and depth of field after the photo was taken. Pretty cool!
My all-time favourite film. I have never been more stunned by a movie than this one, it's a true work of art. Seeing your first-time reaction to it was wonderful - this was a great video. If you get a chance to see it on the big screen, you will be utterly amazed. You did good in choosing the Final Cut - the theatrical version is brilliant but flawed, the Director's Cut is an incredible improvement and the Final Cut tweaks the perfection of the DC and er...makes it even more perfect.
Great reaction :)
Love seeing even after 40 years new viewers still connect with the fantastic world building, themes and style. Really happy to see you both got fully absorbed into the story. Definitely gets better with every rewatch.
Hope you both choose to follow up with Denis's Blade Runner 2049, a great sequel to a sci-fi classic.
Sebastian's panicked movements as Roy approaches always reminds me of my cat once she realises she's been locked in the bathroom for flea ointment. 😂
A Wonderful Sci-Fi film , i can rewatch it over and over. I saw it on a special showing At The Chinese Theater in Hollywood in the 90's,Edward James Olmos hosted it and talked before showing the film, It was great to have seen it on the big screen finally .
One of my all time favorite films based off of a novel by one of my all time favorite authors, Philip K Dick (PKD). This film is credited with being the genesis of the cyber punk aesthetic, and caused PKD to marvel upon seeing an effects shot reel from the film “How did they get inside my head?” Legendary score by the artist Vangelis, so much so, that the exact equipment (synth) and patches used for the score are sought after and often replicated in the music making marketplace. Oddly, not a box office success, and the original film includes a voice over from Ford that helps explain what’s going on, including the “skin jobs” line one of you questioned.
I would recommend getting into PKD’s work, although starting with a collection of short stories may be better than jumping into a novel first go. He’s a difficult read at times for the uninitiated. He’s considered in some SF circles to be a member of the big 3 of SF, the other two being Asimov and Heinlein. As a starter novel, I recommend A Maze of Death. The resolution may seem less impactful now, given all of SF’s tropes that have developed since the novel’s publication, but keep in mind, this was written before those tropes existed. Other novels of his that are stellar include Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, Ubik, VALIS, A Scanner Darkly, and my personal favorite, The Divine Invasion.
I had the privilege of watching this in my local cinema, on a 70ft Screen in 1982...to an almost empty theatre....it blew ME AWAY!
I've seen some reactors try to watch this masterpiece...on a sodding Laptop screen!
There is a good documentary "Dangerous Days", about the making of this masterpiece, well worth watching.
Probably the best sci-fi film ever made.
And the Vangelis Soundtrack is on my playlist....
All the cityscapes were miniatures. Enormous model sets covering entore studio floors; just incredible work. Everything is detailed in a book, _Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner_ by Paul M. Sammon. Great read, an exhaustive history from the original Philip K. Dick story to the film's rediscovery on video.
Such a fantastic movie. Glad you watched it and enjoyed it! Oh, and Rutger Hauer's rooftop monologue was improvised. I think it's still one of the best seen/heard on screen.
They shot it by actually doing it in camera. Yes. Blade Runner was incredible in the theater.
There is a recent indie fan film based on Blade Runner titled Slice Of Life that is exceptional.
I first watched "Blade Runner" in its theatrical release. I read years ago that Joanna Cassidy(Zhora) acually owned the boa constrictor that her character had.
This masterpiece of cinema offers us a treatise on philosophy for reflection and debate
Ridley Scott promised the special effects crew that he would use every model they make somewhere in the film.
The Spinner, the iconic hover car was just a model one of the team was messing about with on his lunch breaks.
Imagine seeing this (at least the first cut) in the theater. Back then, there was a thing I called Futurism, with magazines such as Omni leading the way. And the artwork and aesthetics of Syd Mead, who I believed worked on the design of this movie, particularly the 'spinners' or cop cars. Many of us thought that this could well have been our future in many ways. Instead, we got soulless tract housing and concrete arteries choked with SUV clones. I wonder which one's worse.
Trivia - Philip K Dick’s story, which is nowadays marketed as “Bladerunner” though as mentioned it was called “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” - it never uses the word “Bladerunner”. That word was used in some totally unrelated story by a different author years later, but Ridley Scott liked it and wanted to use it.
Also: the characters in the book want nothing more than to own real animals (which are nearly extinct from nuclear war), it’s like a civic duty. But most people have to settle for robotic fakes - hence electric sheep.
Masterpiece from 1982 . There's a sequel made in 2018 directed by Dennis Villeneuve
Not as good, but pretty cool never the less.
'Deckard was a Replicant, Decard is a human" is a koan that an entire generation, my generation, contemplated as a mantra. I guess our time did not last. But then again, what does?
The actor who played Roy is Rutger Hauer. CHECK HIM OUT... Also, he improvised the final libe during his first table read of the script ("...like tears in rain" was the actor, nit the screenwriter)
Blade Runner not only inspired many sci-fi movies, it actually has a sequel! Sort of. "Soldier," with Kurt Russel, was written by one of the screenwriters of this film, and intended to be basically a tie-in in the same universe. Budget prevented showing the actual "Battle of Tannhauser Gate" alluded to in this film, but there are several little nods if you know where to look. It's a fine film in its own right, the tie-ins enrich the experience, but it doesn't detract from either film.
the unicorn is a big clue to answering a question the film never explicitly asks. :)
Or gave answer to...even in the director's cut...sort of....
Only a Replicant would play coy with an answer like that! ... Wouldn't they?
...But in a world full of artificial animals, what does a unicorn prove?
For me, one of the main plot elements is human and replicant falling in love. Is it possible? Can it work? Is it - allowed? So if Deckard is a replicant too, that whole line is destroyed. So I'll stick to what was obvious in the theatrical release, that Deckard is human.
Roy is just 4 years old, him breaking fingers in revenge for killing his friends or counting to let Deckard run, shouting "I can see you" is all showing it's just a child's play for him - at the end he even sits like kids used to sit.
One of my favourite movies, along with the sequel, which is maybe even better, although, not as groundbreaking as the original was, of course.
Really enjoyed your vid!!
The flying cars were cars on wires, but there were different versions of each car-- like a hero car for filming sitting in it, or one for getting out of where only the doors worked, and the lightest mostly empty vehicle for floating around. As video has progressed, and the movies have been remastered (and reworked, there are multiple versions of the film), they eventually had to paint out the wires cause they showed up in higher def!
There are *hours* on the Making Of this film posted to youtube! Hope you watch some!
"She really, really seems human..." aye, that's the rub :D Stanley Kubrick commented (paraphrasing) that it didn't matter what they 'really' were, they were as human as any other humans.