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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McG (Terminator Salvation): "I regard the late 1970s and early 1980s as the golden age of science fiction filmmaking with movies like Alien, Blade Runner and Terminator and I wanted to honour that golden age but create a new language as well."
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I know it's getting repetitive but Duncan Jones just can't quit talking about Blade Runner:
Duncan Jones (Moon): Moon explores the loneliness of being isolated. I watched the documentary that Ron Howard did about the moon, watched Midnight Cowboy, The Right Stuff, Silent Running, Blade Runner, Alien, Outland or 2001. I rewatched 2001 and the making of that and Blade Runner and got a new appreciation for those films.
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Nobody mentioned this yet, but I seem to recall reading or hearing about George Lucas paying homage to "Blade Runner" in "Star Wars: Episode 2-Attack Of The Clones.
It's not mentioned yet because this is a thread where you can place actual quotes from directors or other artists talking about Blade Runner. I don't think George Lucas talks about movies other than his own. Yes, you're right about the Coruscant chase scenes. In fact, combine the Blade Runner-ish cityscapes with the subject of 'cloning' and the Gladiator-esque arena scenes and you have yourself a Star Wars Episode which is completely devoted to Sir Ridley Scott.
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Question: I've read in an interview that Altered Carbon, your first novel, was informed by Blade Runner. And you obviously do have a keen visual sense, which comes across in your books. So how do you feel about Altered Carbon's translation to the big screen? And what involvement, if any, have you had with the film's development?
Richard Morgan (author of Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Market Forces, Woken Furies, Black Man / Thirteen): Blade Runner was certainly a massive influence. And I'd love to see Altered Carbon on the big screen, that would be so cool. This is mingled with trepidation about what it'd look like, but them's the breaks - you can't put 400 pages onscreen in two hours without cutting something, so by definition it'd be different. As long as they preserve the essence, I'd be happy.
There's several ways to look at it, as an author. Obviously there's the thrill of seeing your work onscreen. More cynically, there's the idea that the film would likely drive book sales. There's obviously a downside in the sense that the movie might be disappointing, but even that has its compensations - you'd hopefully have people discovering the book through the movie, then reading the book and saying 'this is so much better.'
Having said all that, it's still not a done deal. We're still waiting to see. It's been optioned, but whether that gets exercised is another matter. But if it does happen, I'm looking forward to it.
Hmm, if this movie gets made, it could be sorta like a Blade Runner 2.
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JM: What’s your favorite movie?
CHAOS (Nick Sagan, son of Carl): Well, that’s easy – 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick, from 1968, the movie that introduced the world to HAL9000 – the greatest robot in the world. Blade Runner, by Ridley Scott, from 1982, is another great movie.
JM: Why did you like Blade Runner?
CHAOS: The visual imagery, the “film noir” style with the merging of 1940’s fashion and futuristic science fiction. Even the Vangelis music went well, and that ‘s without even mentioning the story. I have seen both the “Original Cut” and “Director’s Cut” versions, and I really think that there should be a “CHAOS Cut”. They should take the narration from the original and the “Deckard is an android” from the “Director’s Cut”. I really find it a nice version of symbolic payback that Deckard’s job is to hunt down replicants, which he does without much moral compunction, and in the end he finds that he himself is that which he has been destroying.
JM: Kind of strange.
CHAOS: I think that one can think about the character as a symbolic of the way that modern man relates to his subjectivity. We are so immersed in the mediatized “Society of the Spectacle” (televised, computerized, comsumerized social-space), we are never sure whether we have an actual childhood memory. Or was it something we saw on television. Anyway, as you can see, it’s a movie I really appreciate, but enough about it for now.
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RV: Which comic book would you most like to write that you have not?
Tom Veitch: Dick Tracy. Oh, and Blade Runner, as long as we could use Harrison Ford as a model for the character he played in the movie -- Rick Deckard. Here's another good one: I would like to do the Star Wars prequels as comics, but with my own version of what should have happened!
Wiki: Tom Veitch (born September 26) is an American writer, best known for his contributions to the Dark Horse line of Star Wars comic book titles, notably Dark Empire and Tales of the Jedi. For DC Comics Veitch wrote Animal Man, along with two Elseworlds series featuring Kamandi and an elder Superman. He is the brother of comics writer/artist Rick Veitch.
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Mark J. Gordon (film director): "I think the resurrection of film noir began in the 80's with Blade Runner and Body Heat. I think they are still the Neo Noir films that others are measured by. There have been many others since then and the genre is more alive than ever. Some of my favorites have been Blood Simple, To Live and Die in L.A., Witness, At Close Range, Fatal Attraction, House of Games, After Dark My Sweet, The Grifters, Silence of the Lambs, Cape Fear, and Reservoir Dogs. Martin Scorsesse was a little ahead of the revival with Taxi Driver in the 70's as was Roman Polanski with Chinatown but it really didn't get going again till the 80's."
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Your doctoral thesis was on the novels of Philip K. Dick – how has his work been an influence on you? Have you enjoyed the various film adaptations of his stories?
Kim Stanley Robinson: Yes, inevitably I have been somewhat influenced by PK Dick’s great work, though we are not very much alike. What I admire in his novels is the consistent and penetrating critique of capitalism and its corrosive effects on human relations, also his foregrounding of ordinary people as heroes of the plot, and his sympathy for all his characters. Then also there is his tremendous boldness and comic sense, which cannot be imitated but only admired.
Of the many Dick movie adaptations, I only really liked Blade Runner, and to an extent Total Recall, but not Minority Report or the others.
Editor’s note: Kim Stanley Robinson is a widely acclaimed author of novels with strong science and scientist characters including the Mars trilogy, Antarctica and The Years of Rice and Salt, and he has won a number of prestigious awards such as the Hugo, the Nebula and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. The upcoming book Sixty Days and Counting will complete his best-selling climate change trilogy ‘Science in the Capitol’.
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Which Hollywood movies of today do you like?
John Boorman (director of Point Blank, Deliverance, Excalibur, Hope And Glory): Seven was an interesting film. I also like the Coen brothers. Like them, there are some who remain independent within the system and do good work. But there is little in the mainstream genre which I find interesting. The Matrix was amusing. Unfortunately, it didn't really have the resonance of BLADE RUNNER, although it had a similar subject. But it was an amusing poem about form and technology.
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BE: I have a few questions about some of your other projects. I didn’t realize until recently that “Soldier” takes place in the same universe as “Blade Runner.”
Paul W.S. Anderson (Event Horizon, Soldier, AvP): Well, y’know, it was written by David Peoples, who was one of the writers who did the adaptation of “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” So in the original screenplay, there were always references to the Tannhäuser Gate or…there were kind of side references to the world of “Blade Runner” and the idea that this was a story that was taking place off-planet while “Blade Runner” was taking place on-planet. And that’s why some of the scenes in the garbage planet, in Arcadia, there’s a spinner. We managed to find a spinner…or part of a spinner…from “Blade Runner.” So there’s a scene with Kurt Russell where there’s a spinner in the background. But, mind you, there also a chunk of the Lewis & Clark from “Event Horizon” in there as well.
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Roger Ebert: ... but that I feel I may have undervalued "Blade Runner." "Dark City" helped me appreciate the values of the earlier film.
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Do you have a link for that? Wouldn't mind reading the full article. Thanks.
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It's not from an article, wing, it's from one of those interviews where fans can ask a question. Don't have the link right now since I'm on a different computer. Do you still want it?
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If you get a chance yeah, I wouldn't mind watching it. No hurry. Thanks Alex.
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Ah, I found it, it's from Roger Ebert's Answer Man. People can ask Ebert questions through email and he answers them.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=ANSWERMA N&date=20051113
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Thank you Alex. Lol, this is published right here in Chicago and I didn't even know about it. He works for the Suntimes newspaper and I get the rival paper (the Chicago Tribune) so I often miss his reviews and things like this.
Interestingly, this was from November 2005 - two years earlier than the Final Cut release and (what I thought was) Ebert's first admission of his change of heart regarding his original bad/mediocre review of Blade Runner.
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I can't find it anymore but Ebert once published a list with what he thought were the 10 best or greatest opening scenes ever and Blade Runner was one of them. That surprised me because I knew Ebert wasn't too fond of the movie. Maybe I dreamt it.
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You're obviously a big fan of Blade Runner. When did you discover it?
Richard K. Morgan (author of Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Market Forces, Woken Furies, Black Man / Thirteen): Back when I was still a student mid eighties, a couple of years after it came and went at cinemas. I remember a friend of mine who was a film critic for local radio mentioning it as something special, but by then it had disappeared from the big screen, and of course we didn't have the all pervasive video and DVD release culture that we do now. Worth remembering Blade Runner was a flop at the box office it took several years of dedicated cult following before it was recognized for the masterpiece it is.
Blade Runner: Book or movie? Why?
Richard K. Morgan: Movie. Blade Runner is still, twenty five years on, one of the finest SF films ever made. It still looks like the future (lack of mobile phones notwithstanding). Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, in contrast, is actually a quite poorly written piece of pulp. But that's often the case with Dick's novels - fantastic ideas, mind blowing concepts, shabby execution. Blame the amphetamines.
Wow! Now that's the kind of quotes we're looking for!
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Stephane Marais (world-renowned French makeup artist): Movies are a huge source for me, Fritz Lang movies, old black-and-white films with smoky eyes, then Cabaret [1972] eyes ... I could even jump to Blade Runner [1982]."
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What are the films you are most proud of?
Michael Kaplan (costume designer): Probably Blade Runner, Flashdance and Fight Club.
Blade Runner came very early in your career, followed immediately by Flashdance. How did your participation in those epic cinematic moments come about?
Michael Kaplan: For Blade Runner, Ridley Scott was interviewing people and most of the costume designers in the union were talking to him about silver mylar as a means to convey the future, but he wanted to meet someone young and fresh with new ideas. At the time I was the newest member of the union. Someone said he should meet the newest member, so we met. After that Ridley recommended me to Adrian Lyne and that's how Flashdance came about. I have to say, I love working with Brits.
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And, of course, Duncan Jones never lets us down:
Your favourite piece of science-fiction technology?
Duncan Jones (Moon): The automated sentry gun in Aliens was the coolest thing I had ever seen, when that film came out... Deckard's photo analysis computer from Blade Runner was right up there too. I know its not a film, but I NEVER felt like anyone captured cyberspace as I imagined it in William Giobson's Neuromancer. Robocop's ED-209... Winner!
What are you favourite films and what film are most looking forward to seeing this year?
Duncan Jones: Again, too many to mention... I always go back to Altman's MASH and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner at least once a year. There is a little known sci-fi B-movie called "Blood of Heroes," (also known as "Salute of the Jugger") starring Rutger Hauer and Joan Chenn that puts a smile on my face. It created a vivid, imaginative future world and is, in my opinion, right up there with the original Roller Ball as the best future sport film ever!
What are you working on next?
Duncan Jones: Hopefully another sci-fi film! A slightly bigger budget, and a very different feel, as its a city based thriller that takes place in a future Berlin. It's a loving homage and companion piece to Blade Runner, even if the story has nothing in common.
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Thanks Alex...It's cool he mentions The Blood of Heroes. That's one of my favorites. David Webb Peoples wrote and directed it. It wasn't a big budget film, and it shows, but still there's something about it I've always liked.
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Never seen it! I always thought it was part of Rutger's questionable output*.
* You know, his straight to video work. I stopped following Hauer's career after films like Wanted: Dead Or Alive.
However, I did enjoy his little comeback in Batman Begins and Sin City. I'm still hoping Quintin Tarantino will cast him for one of his future movies.
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Never seen it! I always thought it was part of Rutger's questionable output*.
Well I guess it depends on what one likes. I know it wasn't straight to video as I remember seeing it at the cinema. BoH is in the Mad Max genre of movies. It's not award winning material but an excellent diversion and well done for that particular genre. Hauer was well suited for the lead role and Joan Chen was great in her role. Sadly, it's not available in the original widescreen version and the DVD transfer is bad here (in the US), but it may be available in widescreen in Europe.
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Q: Interesting that you should mention Indiana Jones, because I thought in Charisma Koji Yakusho looked a lot like Harrison Ford in Blade Runner, with the long brown coat and the bandages.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: (smiles) I'll tell mister Yakusho that. Certainly that dirty long coat in Blade Runner is a very memorable film costume. Over the years I've told my costume department to create that kind of a look.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi_Kurosawa
Q: To me it doesn't seem to be coincidental that the rabbit is white. I immediately thought of Carroll´s “Follow the white rabbit” or the same wonderful scene in Matrix, where one of the actors has a tattoo of a white rabbit on her shoulder. Did you see Matrix before you created Alba, the albino rabbit?
Eduardo Kac: The rabbit does seem white to the human eye, but if we wished to be more precise, we would say that the rabbit is albino, because she has no pigmentation. The fact that she is albino allows the fluorescence to be seen more intensely. I love science fiction and I'm a big fan of films such as Lang's "Metropolis", Kubrick's "2001: The space odyssey" or Scott's "Blade Runner", for example, but I really did not get into the Matrix fad. It just did not have the same appeal to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Kac
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GM: I know this will be tough to answer, but what are your top 5 special effects movies?
Shannon Shea (verteran special effects wizard):
Okay, I would say my five top makeup effects films would probably be:
1. John Carpenter’s The Thing (1981) because again to me that was the zenith of contemporary pre-CGI makeup effects.
2. Aliens (1986) because I worked for Stan Winston the first job I did for him was Aliens and I was in the mold shop.
3. The 3rd one I would say is JurassicPark (1993). JurassicPark was a landmark to me it was the beginning of a very successful relationship between makeup effects and CGI. I could go on and on with stories about JurassicPark. It was a tremendous achievement.
4. Then I would say The Howling (1981). I loved The Howling. To this day, I don’t think anyone has produced werewolf puppets that have been used as effectively as in that picture.
5. I really think that again in context the original Planet of the Apes (1968). If you think about what that did back in 1968 in terms of creating characters and a population. A population of characters in makeup it’s huge.
My top five visual effects films would be:
- King Kong the original 1933 without a doubt
- 2001 a Space Odyssey (1968) I watched that again on High Definition recently still amazing…absolutely amazing.
- Blade Runner (1982) I think is a tremendous thing
- The original Star Wars IV: A New Hope (1977)
- Close Encounters of a Third Kind (1977)
Those are like what I just described to you those 10 films I think are the hallmark of really what you can achieve with visual effects.
http://www.goremaster.com/interviews/shannonshea.html
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Robert Rodriguez when asked about his favorite films:
Blade Runner is also one of my favorites. I love film noir movies, and that was just a new way of doing it. Set in the future, made up worlds. It's just a straight up great movie; everything fell into place, which is just rare for things to happen that way. How everything came together, the artistry that went into it, the design, the music, and how resilient the story is, how you can just keep making new versions of it, and they all still kind of work. [laughs] When you can just keep remaking the same movie with the same footage and just kind of tweak it a little bit...
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/comic_con_2009/news/1834188/five_favor ite_films_with_robert_rodriguez
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Lol! Great find, wing. This puts the other thread ("Robert Rodriguez bitchslaps Blade Runner") into the right perspective!
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This time a quote by Ridley Scott himself because ... well, read for yourself:
Who's the biggest pain in the arse you've ever worked with?
Ridley Scott: He'll forgive me because now I get on with him - but it's got to be Harrison [Ford]. Now he's become charming. But he knows a lot, that's the problem. When we worked together it was my first film up and I was the new kid on the block. But we made a good movie.
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What draws you to writing for genre television?
Jeffrey Bell (Executive producer and writer for 'V', Angel, Alias, Harper's Island): It's visual. I love visual storytelling. It allows you to tell stories that you couldn't tell on a regular TV show. You could deal with taboos. Blade Runner, I keep finding, is maybe my favorite movie ever. I think the reason is that at the center of it is, everybody asks the question of "who am I and why am I here?" It's just profound. And what I love is the Replicants want the same thing that the humans want, and whether Harrison Ford was a Replicant or not, he still felt the same pain.
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This has to be the best thread I've ever read on IMDB, it felt like watching this great movie with new eyes. Thank you to everyone involved.
shareYou can only watch three movies for the rest of your life, which three?
Paul Salamoff (FX Artist): Blade Runner, Star Trek II, Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Technically one movie)
Who or what are the influences on your work?
Kenneth Oppel (author): Science and technology issuess (particularly their social implications); the Gothic, good sci-fi movies (Blade Runner, Metropolis); news stories about people who take their beliefs, manias, delusions, to the end of the line.
What are some of your favorite sci-fi films from the era you cover and do you have any favorites from the last few years or decade?
David Gargani (Director, documentary maker): My two favorites from that era are “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms” and “Forbidden Planet.” Beast, was the very first “disaster monster movie.” Everything from Godzilla to Cloverfield owes that film and Ray Bradbury I huge debt of gratitude. Amazingly it still works and Ray Harryhausen’s animation is timeless. If any sci-fi film was ever capable of winning a Best Picture Oscar in the 1950’s it was “Forbidden Planet.” To this day it still stands as one of the most intelligent and innovative science fiction films ever made. This is because great science fiction isn’t just about monsters and ray guns, it’s about humanity and how men react both morally and philosophically to the world in which they live. Conceptually, the ideas put forth in that film still have never been matched. After the 1950’s there have been groundbreaking science fiction films that unfortunately were separated by huge spans of time. I believe the greatest Sci-Fi films of the last 4 decades were, 2001, Blade Runner, Alien, & Dune. If only we dared to make films like that today. However, I did enjoy Danny Boyle’s “Sunshine” immensely. If George Pal was alive today, this is the type of movie he would like to make, minus the dark undertones, subtle stylings, and serial killing mutinous ship captain.
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Lets talk Blade Runner, I have noticed you are a fan of perhaps one of my favorite all time movies. What do you think of the new transfers, extended scenes etc. and what draws you so much to this film?
Godmachine: It’s weird that the film should come back into my life recently. I havent thought about it since I was a kid- I loved the film then but I left it there in my past. I think as you get to a certain age you slow down enough to not only be able to look back but you want to look back- almost as if you are taking stock. One of the things I got into recently was to retrace all the films I loved from back in the day. I have also become a big fan of soundtracks, been listening to Dark City soundtrack and Krull. So I went into town to see that dusty section in the record store of film soundtracks - saw Blade Runner and it all came flooding back. The people in the know…know. The soundtrack is genius. It’s great when you meet people that ‘know’ about Blade Runner and the soundtrack and its equally entertaining when a young wipper-snapper is looking at you puzzles as you praise a film sountrack haha. I’m all about the 1994 version of the soundtrack though. I went and bought the 3 disk special but its all a cash cow- stick with the original. If anyone has a copy of the film with the overdub- I will buy it- I cant find it anywhere.
I bought the 4 disc collectors dvd with the toys etc. it felt worth it as a collectors tool but not the dvd’s themselves…the original version of the film is the best by far.
Godmachine: Tru dat.
Click link to learn more about Godmachine:
http://www.godmachine.co.uk/
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What are your favourite sci-fi movies?
Tim Haines (BBC producer Walking With Dinosaurs, Primeval, etc.): Alien, Blade Runner and Forbidden Planet. When you say ‘favourite’ you usually discount ones that you think are a bit flawed. So things like Tremors, Starship Troopers and Dark Star also rank highly to me.
Do you have an all-time favourite moment in science fiction?
Tim Haines: Roy Batty dying in Blade Runner; it’s really corny but I think that’s the point. You can get away with melodrama in sci-fi – try and get away with it in Coronation Street and it’ll never work. Also, I like the opening of Star Wars and the escape pod scene in Alien.
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Your ambient music and groove-oriented material are perfectly suited to soundtracks. Did your film work start when directors and producers heard these qualities in your music?
Brian Transeau (a.k.a. BT): "It actually started another way. I'd had an interest in film scoring since I was a kid after I saw the movie Blade Runner with music by Vangelis. Knowing that he played that music live-99 percent of it wasn't sequenced-sealed the deal for me. From then on, I wanted to get into electronics and write for picture."
SciencePunk: The central character in the film is a scientist - but he starts off as a toymaker. That's quite the career change...
Shane Acker (director of '9'): Ha, yes it is. I wanted to make a reference to Blade Runner, to the artificial intelligence of his toys. They become his friends. All of the characters are doll-like, puppets, like Pinocchio, and the Scientist is this Geppetto-style character. I wanted to convey how he likes to play, being creative to bring these to life.
Watch the trailer:
http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/9-feature/trailer
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Jesper Kyd (game music composer of the Hitman series and Freedom Fighters): "I'm drawn towards anything unique and experimental in art, movies and music. With music I work towards creating interesting orchestrations and instrumentations. I program many of my own sounds and certainly have a major interest in new and progressive sounds. As for Blade Runner, that is one of my favorite film scores. As a kid I saw the film so much that to this day I know every single dialog in the film."
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What are your 3 favourite movies?
Toby Wilkins (Splinter, The Grudge 3): That's a tough one, I have a really broad list of favourites, and it changes a lot. In the horror genre it's usually things like "Alien", "28 Days Later" and maybe the original "Dawn of the Dead". Outside the genre I'll go with "Blade Runner", "The Game", and "Bound" though that's an even harder list to pick from.
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Translated from a French interview
Does Alien stand as a model for SF movies for you?
Danny Boyle: Yes, it was an astonishing, extraordinary film and the public started to respect the producer of SF with a film like the first Alien and Blade Runner which at the time was perceived like too commercial, too violent one, too marketing. And I believe that these films finally gained the respect of the public. And there are three references, one cannot make a film of SF without thinking of these references. This is not the same thing with a thriller example: Hitchcock is a reference but not all the time. But in SF it is necessary to recognize the expertise of people like Ridley Scott in his films ...
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Who are your sonic influences?
Richard Barbieri (Japan, etc.): “From an experimental point, Stockhausen, and all the early electronic experimental stuff he was doing in the ‘50s and ‘60s,” says Richard. “From an abstract sound point of view, Eno and Ryuichi Sakamoto in the early days were quite an influence on me. In terms of playing and playing sounds, Joe Zawinul. I’m not a great lover of jazz keyboards, but for me Zawinal was so different, because he used to create these sounds and then play them as the sounds should be played – he would get a beautiful flute sound, or some kind of exotic wind instrument sound, and he’d just play it right, with sensitivity. And that’s really amazing programming. Early Vangelis – I was listening to the Blade Runner soundtrack the other day and it’s just amazing. If you really want some saturated analog sounds, that’s a beautiful album. And the early stuff from Tangerine Dream, Edgar Froese, the early analog sequencer music, Kraftwerk. I loved all those sounds and approaches.”
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Alan Moore (Watchmen, V For Vendetta, etc.) talking about the film adaptation of 'From Hell': "What I'm hoping for is a situation like, say, the one with Philip K. Dick's short story, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? It was a very, very good short story, and the film Blade Runner was a very good film which didn't necessarily have a great deal of connection with Dick's story. But both were successful entities in their own right."
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Tom Smith (Editors):"There's a sheen to the whole album. Some kind of backdrop to a scientific future - I don't want to say sci-fi because I think it gives the wrong impression – but you know how 'Blade Runner' looks beautiful, that civilisation on the brink of the edge? It feels the album could soundtrack that kind of thing."
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Cineaste: The fact that you were involved in academic architecture and yet received an invite from Warners seems like something that could only happen in Los Angeles, since it's a hotbed for architecture and academia and remains the center of the film industry.
Lance Hammer (Architect and also writer, editor and director of the film Ballast): It's true. I worked for architects who were influenced by Blade Runner. Architects I worked alongside at some great firms were influenced by the film industry, while Ridley Scott was influenced by the architecture of the future, so there's an interesting incestuous relationship between architecture and film in Los Angeles.
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Tony Puryear(screenplay writer Eraser): "Pick the best ones you can find, even the lousy ones. Watch them. It's very empowering when you start to see how certain tricks work. You might not have caught it the first time, but I remember when Blade Runner came out in 1983. It made me want to make movies. We went out and saw Blade Runner forty three times until we figured out why some of those things did what we liked. Sure film school is a good idea, but it's only one of many."
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James Cameron: I think Ridley really should do science fiction. He made the two most iconic science-fiction films of the 20th century. When he came to visit me [on the set of Avatar] I said to him, “Quit ****ing around with these wine movies in the south of France, make another science fiction film.” And he saw the technique we were using and got all fired up about it. He turned to his producer and said, “Why am I doing this Robin Hood? I should be doing science fiction!”
Thanks to ailig68 who posted this on the Ridley Scott forum.
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He turned to his producer and said, “Why am I doing this Robin Hood? I should be doing science fiction!”
Alan Moore (Watchmen, V For Vendetta, etc.) talking about the film adaptation of 'From Hell': "What I'm hoping for is a situation like, say, the one with Philip K. Dick's short story, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? It was a very, very good short story, and the film Blade Runner was a very good film which didn't necessarily have a great deal of connection with Dick's story. But both were successful entities in their own right."
Good old, Alan. But where is the source for this quote?
Here it is:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/alan-moore,13740/
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Richard Barbieri
Interesting. Great keyboard player - well, by no means a virtuoso player, but in terms of designing and using sounds, the guy's a genius.
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From the A.V. Club interview with musician Alan Palomo on the cut 'Psychic Chasms' from his new album 'Neon Indian':
AVC: Psychic Chasms has a cinematic element that’s reminiscent of some of the soundtrack work that Vangelis and Tangerine Dream were doing in the ’80s. Was that a direct influence?
AP: Vangelis, of course! Blade Runner is one of my favorite f cking movies of all time. Part of the creative process in writing the album was, if I ever felt depleted, I'd go to I Luv Video and then stay up and watch movies.
http://www.avclub.com/austin/articles/fun-fun-fun-fest-between-blade-r unner-and-sonic-th,34802/
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