Blade Runner (1982) First Time Watching!!!

Ridley Scott commented in an interview that the night before shooting Roy's death scene his actor, Rutger Hauer, came to him with the "tears in the rain" monologue he had written himself. Ridley was so impressed he changed the script to include it.

Replicants are biological entities just artificially created instead of born. Basically their slaves calling them robots covers this fact. Just as calling it retirement covers the fact that they're killing them. In my opinion a slave has a right to revolt against its slave holders. People never get this about the movie, maybe it's the replicans that are in the right and the blade runners and authorities trying to enslave and kill them that are in the wrong.

The ending of this version of Blade Runner reminds me of the 'Love Conquers All' version of Brazil (1985).

Rutger Hauer has many notable movies including Ladyhawke, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Nighthawks, The Hitcher, Blind Fury, Sin City, Batman Begins, and the list goes on, playing both good guys & baddies w/ equal skill.

The style of the voiceover naration was reminicent of detective novels radio plays and early detective tv. shows....Exactley.

The guy that picked up Deckard is Gaff, played by Edward James Olmos. :)

Oops, wrong version. The Final cut is better. At test screenings people didn't seem to get it, so the company decided to do the voice over and add a happy ending. Ridley Scott made the Final cut in 2007 exactly as he wanted it to be. What makes this film special to me is the visuals combined with the music. Never has dystopia looked and sounded so beautiful. The sequel is a continuation of the story 30 years later. It's a good story, but unfortunately we don't get to see this gritty lived in world again.

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You just watched the same version I did in my youth. The origininal theatrical cut. The one with the Dashiell-Hammet-esque monologuie explaining what the hell was goling on. I loved this version, and although I quite like the Director's Cut, I still can't bring myself to dislike it.

I haven't seen the theatrical cut in years. Most people watch the final cut. The big difference between the two is that the final cut takes out the narration and the happy ending. BTW, the ending scenes were B-roll footage of the Shining.

When Daryl Hannah ran into the truck she actually broke her arm but continued to do the scene. Her arm hurts to this day because of the injury. She was in pain with a broken arm when she was doing the scene with Sebastian.

It's an interesting twist. Roy Batty, almost a sterotypical ultraviolent supervillain, and brutal as he is, turns out to be a freedom fighter antihero of sorts, fighting for a just cause in a world of human monsters. And man did Rutger Hauer play that part well. Overall, I do prefer the newer movie, but to my mind, Roy is without a doubt the best character. And the nail through the hand thing was because his body was starting to shut down and he was fighting to stave off the inevitable, if only for a few more minutes.

I missed this at the theatre first time around, but always loved it when on TV. After the passing of Rutger hauer it was put on at my Local Theatre for two days so i had to go, just to listen to the final epilogue by Rutger. Oh i cried.

1. Joe Turkel/Tyrell played Lloyd (bartender) in "The Shining". 2. Roy/Rutger Hauer😇 plays in Blind Fury a great first time/share. 3. Leon/ Brion James in Tango and Cash. Much bigger role first time/share also. 4. Deckard/Harrison Ford two overlooked must first time/share "Witness" and "Force 10 from Naverone". 5. In the original Roy tells Tyrell, "I want more life FUCKER" not father. 6. Ford disliked almost everything about this movie (including Sean Young). He mostly disliked the voiceover. He refused to even watch it until it was "fixed". 7. I prefer this original cut. 8. Daryl Hannah cut her elbow when she ran into that van window 9. Philipe K Dick first came up with the idea for his novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" 10. You must watch Blade Runner 2049.

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The narrator work of Ford makes this movie closer to the book. “Feel..” always talks about the feelings. Now that’s Do Androids Dream With Electric Sheep? premise. Empathy.

And with a wave of the hand Cyberpunk was born. Excellent film, the first one I bought on the brand new format of DVD when it became available. 👍

A lot of people don't like Ford's narration but I think it adds to the 1940s film noir detective vibe, like Humphrey Bogart

The question that was the biggest mystery was "is Dekard a replicant?" The origami unicorn is something from his memories and dreams that Gaff could only know if he had access to those as his handler.

The book this is based on, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is really quite different. I'm a fan of the author, Philip K. Dick, but it is difficult not to compare the book with the film. It is because of this that I would not recommend reading the book, but maybe try reading some of his other works. A number of his stories have been adapted, with varying degrees of success and faithfulness. The best ones are probably Total Recall, Minority Report (good film, but I can't forgive it for abandoning the premise), and The Man in the High Castle (amazon show). Personally, I have a lot of love for Screamers although I wouldn't exactly call it 'good'