Exactly. This ^^^^
The title is iconic. And even BEFORE it became iconic....I remember when the movie first came out and was being marketed.
I remember thinking what an awesome name that was for a movie.
I'm not sure why people suggest it's not relevant.
For starters...why would it NEED to be? Do we need every movie title to spoon-feed us some trite, descriptive title, like "Maniac Cop"...or "Killer Wolves"......or "Really Big Storms"?? LOL
I like the idea of a more....conceptual...metaphoric....and stylized title. And heck, what a GREAT nickname for a special unit of the police department! It's kinda like the nickname for firefighters who parachute into forest fire areas: "Smoke Jumpers".
It's just....cool.
And, the name makes sense on a metaphoric level as well. Running on the edge of a blade suggests the job carries the utmost dangers, and requires only the very best specialists to do it.
It's like complaining that "Good Will Hunting" isn't descriptive enough, and too conceptual....and should instead have been called: "Genius".
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godwulfAZ (43)
5 years ago
Great post - thank you! Not to mention that the story is set in a cultural and linguistic future some aspects of which we are not really in a position to fully understand. Imagine trying to explain to a visitor from the 1890s why we call certain things what we do. Add to that the tendency of elite units, particularly in the military, to assign themselves dramatic and cool-sounding names. Use of the term in the film may very well have been, as reported, simply because Ridley Scott thought it sounded cool; no doubt those who, in the world of that future time first did the job, thought likewise.
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