Thanks, guys. I look worse in person than I did in the sequel. CGI can be amazing! So can progress. Amazing and challenging. For an example, I can’t seem to be able to remove the silly dots from the brief article I found covering the earth shaking date in The Independent. Worth posting because it carried the trailer from Ridley’s Final Cut. I have all the versions, of course, but this one is the best. How time flies! I read the source material in the late ‘60’s and now Mr Dick’s vision created in the past is, yet again, in the past. In some ways, his future (today) is far more frightening than the reality, but in many ways, we are worse off. I won’t say how, this not being the proper forum, but the world today is far from smelling like roses. I think I’ll go out and buy some flowers. It seems appropriate. Blade Runner has officially caught up with the real world 'November 2019, Los Angeles' By Jacob Stolworthy @Jacob_Stol In extremely alarming news, the world of Blade Runner has caught up with real life. November 2019 marks the exact month that Ridley Scott’s 1982 science-fiction classic is set in. Blade Runner stars Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard, a cop who’s tasked with hunting down and “retiring” replicants – humanoids that bear such a similarity to real people that they want to lead normal lives like those they walk among. While the film depicts a dystopian future featuring things we’re still quite a way off from experiencing – flying cars and genetically engineered humanoids – it’s actually quite impressive to see how many things Scott predicted correctly for the future. Firstly, Deckard uses voice command to activate technology, which is standard practice nowadays thanks to Alexa and Siri. If anything, we’ve advanced even further considering our tech is far more sleeker than the clunky machinery seen in the film. Then there’s the matter of climate change. Just like in the rain-soaked Blade Runner, we’re hurtling towards a natural disaster – although we’re hoping things won’t get as bad thanks to activists like Greta Thunberg. Blade Runner is based on Philip K Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which was first published in 1968. A sequel to Scott’s film, set in 2049, arrived in 2018. Independent.co.uk
Fun facts for Deckard to ponder: In '69, a year after the book, Martin Scorsese talked to Phil Dick about making the movie, it would have been his 2nd movie, and 4 years before Mean Streets. The first choice to play Rick Deckard was Dustin Hoffman. The reason the sets and backdrops were so awesome was because of an actors' strike. That postponed filming (it was already greenlit and funded) but gave the set designers about 6 extra months to do their thing.
haven't seen the first one. what do i need to know to prepare my body for such greatness? is tom cruise in it?
Edward James Olmos made up his polyglot language on the spot in the scene with Deckard. Wasn't in the script, he talked to Ridley and then Ridley made up his lines afterwards.. At some point he calls Deckard a "horse ****" in Hungarian.
