Steven Spielberg: "I thought Ridley [Scott, director of Blade Runner] painted a very bleak but brilliant vision of life on earth in a few years. It's kind of acid rain and sushi. In fact, it's coming true faster than most science fiction films come true. Blade Runner is almost upon us. It was ultranoir."
http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/10.06/spielberg_pr.html
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Terry Gilliam: "After The Fisher King, Richard LaGravenese who wrote the film, and I went to the studio with his script for Philip K Dick's A Scanner Darkly. Nobody's done a Dick novel right yet; Blade Runner was stunningly good, but Dick's idea was missing - that people were killing replicants to buy real animals. I saw how to make Scanner cheaply, and for it to be disturbing. But did the studio say, 'These two guys just made us our second-most profitable film of the year, let's give them the money to develop the idea?' No. I simply wasn't understanding the rules of this place called Hollywood."
Well it's more of a comment than a review but...
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that is kind of a weird thing to say. i don't think a central idea of DADoES was that people were killing replicants to buy real animals... that was an important part, but it wasn't the crux of the book, i didn't think so anyway. i think scott did a good job with blade runner. not in making it exactly like DADoES, but modifying it somewhat to make it a movie while still keeping the same feeling and some of the same central themes while adding some of his own.
anyway, let's see more quotes. sorry, i don't have any. where do you guys find stuff like this?
It was merely an interpretation of the book. After reading DADoES, I was surprised how the film did NOT closely resemble the book. Central themes, characters and key points, yes, but the film is different.
In my opinion, Blade Runner was made to be bleak, but visually stunning. The book didn't give off that vibe. Scott's vision of HOW to portray the future was something unlike anything that had ever been seen before. After watching all the featurettes, interviews and special features on the multi-disk set, I'm even more astonished at what a masterpiece this film really is. It's simply amazing. The costuming detail alone blew my mind.
When it first came out in the early 80's, I think people were expecting something like Star Wars, since Harrison was known that way. The fact that the film was highly visual, with limited movie dialogue and haunting music....it was just way ahead of it's time. I don't think audiences at that time were in a mindset to appreciate what they saw. And Phillip K. Dick fans were probably upset at the departure from the novel.
When you think about it, it still looks pretty good today. There are some funny things that date the movie (Atari) but overall, it holds up well and is a compelling, atmospheric film that leaves a keen viewer haunted.
How DARE you kiss me?!?!
I don't like fast women....
and I HATE arrogant men.....
If a film was made to portray all the ideas and concepts laid down in DADoES, it would have to be at least a trilogy (to which it does not lend itself) or a TV season (at least).
To get people to understand even the basic motivations of people acquiring live animals as status symbols would take 2 hours, then having your lives run by Penfield Mood Organs and Mercerism Virtual Reality Boxes to achieve union with Mercer is another 3 hours. Plus, the replicants in DADoES were wimpy.
DADoES is a head job, not an entertainment flick.
Blade Runner was the best meeting place between the two.
Humans scorn what they can't grasp, and suffer in their longing for it.share
I agree. There's no way Blade Runner would have been as successful if absolutely faithful to the book. Head job is one way to explain it. It definitely has some interesting concepts that worked well in the book but I don't see how the empathy box would have translated to the screen. Bladerunner made the book palatable.
How DARE you kiss me?!?!
I don't like fast women....
and I HATE arrogant men.....
Maybe it's just me but what the hell does DADoES mean?
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DADOES = Director Adored Droids Over Epic Story.
"Lófaszt, nehogy már. Te vagy a Blade ... Blade Runner"
Dadoes = don't ask dudes obvious excluding stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdTmT3wVBxM someone should remake hollywood
Oh, ok thanks man.
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hahahaha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdTmT3wVBxM someone should remake hollywood
This post has been deleted by the poster because the stupid IMDb computer posted it twice by mistake.
shareWhen it first came out in the early 80's, I think people were expecting something like Star Wars, since Harrison was known that way. The fact that the film was highly visual, with limited movie dialogue and haunting music....it was just way ahead of it's time
Oh wow, imagine if Terry Gilliam had made A Scanner Darkly...
shareMamoru Oshii (Ghost In A shell): People tend to classify my movies as cyberpunk fictions but I personally don't think they are. There are some films that I really enjoy such as Blade Runner, and they may have been helpful in making my movies to a certain degree, but I think many filmmakers consider so other than just myself. When you create a film dealing with humans and cyborgs, you have no choice but to refer back to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, as this movie is probably the foundation of movies with this theme.
I always wondered why no Anime directors were not interviewed for the box set, since some anime is influenced by Blade Runner The two obvious ones that reference Blade Runner are Ghost In The Shell & Akira.
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Christopher Nolan: "I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. Alien, Blade Runner just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons."
And this:
Before the shooting began, Christopher Nolan invited the whole film crew to a private screening of Blade Runner (1982). After the film he said to the whole crew, "This is how we're going to make Batman."
Christopher Nolan: "I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. Alien, Blade Runner just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons."
And this:
Before the shooting began, Christopher Nolan invited the whole film crew to a private screening of Blade Runner (1982). After the film he said to the whole crew, "This is how we're going to make Batman."
Before the shooting began, Christopher Nolan invited the whole film crew to a private screening of Blade Runner (1982). After the film he said to the whole crew, "This is how we're going to make Batman."
They weren't very successful then.
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Nolan's brother, the scriptwriter, is also a fan of Blade Runner.
Sara Maitland quoting Stanley Kubrick: "He complaint about Blade Runner, that if it was that difficult to determine who was a replicant - why did it matter? Why do they have to be hunted down? If robots are made by us and act like us, why are they not our children?"
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Ha Genius! 2001 is a far superior film on A.I. by a far superior director. Blade Runner = not as great as people praise it to be.
shareif it was that difficult to determine who was a replicant - why did it matter?
Richard Linklater (A Scanner Darkly): "My opinions on previous Philip K. Dick adaptations are probably really similar to everybody else's. I think we all rally around 'Blade Runner'. I like the original cut of 'Blade Runner' more than the Director's Cut -- the so-called 'Director's Cut'. I liked the narrator. I hear there's a new DVD coming out with three different versions, and I'm waiting for that, because the original cut has become unavailable.
It's more in the film noir tradition to have a narrated voice -- and you kind of need it to pull the elements together. It's not cheesy or bad in any way. It's classic. But I saw it in the theater at the time, too, so maybe it's just special to me."
How about them apples?! That's Linklater and Del Toro vs. Frank Darabont.
Alex
David Fincher: The voiceover in Blade Runner, if you listen to it, sounds like a guy reading prose while he's sitting on the john.
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Chris Cunningham: "Ridley said some time ago that with Blade Runner, for him, the design was the statement. Well, for me," says Cunningham, "the atmosphere was the statement. I can't think of another film that has such a strong atmosphere. So melancholy, and the strangest feeling of nostalgia for a place and time that never was."
One of my favorite quotes about Blade Runner.
Alex
"So melancholy, and the strangest feeling of nostalgia for a place and time that never was."
My NEW favorite quote on "Blade Runner.' Perfect.
Seconded! Cunningham's a classy bloak. Where is that long awaited feature from him already!?
Would you happen to have any... flan?
http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=194240
More about nostalgia for a time and place that could be.
shareChris Cunningham: "Ridley said some time ago that with Blade Runner, for him, the design was the statement. Well, for me," says Cunningham, "the atmosphere was the statement. I can't think of another film that has such a strong atmosphere. So melancholy, and the strangest feeling of nostalgia for a place and time that never was."
Wow that's exactly how I feel about it, he summed up my feelings perfectly. Great quote.
Wow that's exactly how I feel about it, he summed up my feelings perfectly. Great quote.
It is! The world of Blade Runner (which is a hybrid of the old and the new) doesn't seem to be able to let go of the past and oozes a kind of beautiful decay. Combine this with the never-ending rain, the compassionate sounds of Vangelis (another fusion of the old and the new), the themes of mortality and aging, and it could explain what Cunningham is talking about.
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David Fincher: The voiceover in Blade Runner, if you listen to it, sounds like a guy reading prose while he's sitting on the john.
Mark Leckey (video artist and professor of film): The film that has had the greatest influence on me is Blade Runner (1982, directed by Ridley Scott). I love this film for the same reasons I love Roxy Music: they share a sense of yearning for the past and the future, for another place and another time, but it’s flattened out, so everything seems to occur at the same time in the same space. In Blade Runner you really feel that everything and everyone is piled on top of each other, mounting up like wreckage at the feet of the angel of history.
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Andy and Larry Wachowski: Blade Runner was a benchmark science fiction film, a masterpiece. Of course there's influence. But we were like the only guys who liked that movie when we saw it, everyone else hated it.
Alex