While filmmakers my age may remember Star Wars as the movie that got us interested in the medium, it is Blade Runner that inspired us to become filmmakers (or at least try to. It really helps to be related to someone in the business, but that's another story...
I saw Blade Runner in the theater when I was eight or nine, I can't remember exactly how old I was, but I remember the images from the film haunting me for many years afterwards. I finally rented the film and watched it for a second time when I was sixteen and fell in love with everything about it. The design, the photography, the lighting, the music, the story. Even the slow pace didn't bother me. Watching Blade Runner was like escaping into a future I knew was inevitable.
Now I live in Los Angeles and I can assure you that this city is going to look exactly like the city depicted in Blade Runner in 2019. There will be very little English spoken anywhere. The rich f***s will have long since vanished, leaving the poor to squabble and fight amongst themselves. The pollution will be atrocious, the skyline already looks similar... I could go on and on, but the fact of the matter is, nobody made a more important FILM in my lifetime than this one.
For an interesting study in metaphor and meaning, watch both the director's cut and the filthy studio cut and see how minimal changes can create an entirely different story.
Amazing. Ridley Scott will be remembered for this one no matter what he does from here on.
I saw Blade Runner in the theater when I was eight or nine, I can't remember exactly how old I was, but I remember the images from the film haunting me for many years afterwards. I finally rented the film and watched it for a second time when I was sixteen and fell in love with everything about it. The design, the photography, the lighting, the music, the story. Even the slow pace didn't bother me. Watching Blade Runner was like escaping into a future I knew was inevitable.
Now I live in Los Angeles and I can assure you that this city is going to look exactly like the city depicted in Blade Runner in 2019. There will be very little English spoken anywhere. The rich f***s will have long since vanished, leaving the poor to squabble and fight amongst themselves. The pollution will be atrocious, the skyline already looks similar... I could go on and on, but the fact of the matter is, nobody made a more important FILM in my lifetime than this one.
For an interesting study in metaphor and meaning, watch both the director's cut and the filthy studio cut and see how minimal changes can create an entirely different story.
Amazing. Ridley Scott will be remembered for this one no matter what he does from here on.
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