Aside from the fact that Ridley Scott makes amazing movies in general, Blade Runner is so gorgeous to look at, I could watch the thing with the sound off and still be fascinated at the sheer look of the film. You can tell this gem of a movie is such a close cousin to Ridley's masterpiece, "Alien" from 1979.
We're all back here again celebrating a wonderful movie which many of us were too young to appreciate at the time. Everything about Rutger was coolness, may he rest in peace
this is such a painful truth every being must wrestle with... ultimately everything we do and experience wash away like tears in the rain, everything is transient
The most powerful movies usually have a divisive impact when they first come out. If a movie is universally popular like Star Wars, it doesn’t have much going for it except as a commercial entertainment.
Is and will always be one of the best SciFi movies in my book. Mind you the Directors cut. Still remember as a teen seeing it for the first time.....Mind blowing....The visuals, the music....the acting.....Superbly put together by the genius directing by Ridley Scott!!! ....i have seen Blade Runner over 200 times i think....still never get tired of seeing it.
Even though "Blade Runner" was made over 30 years ago, it was so ahead of its time that even today it doesn't feel dated. It's like a particularly intricate dream that you're not sure you want to wake up from.
Brilliant totally original film - great soundscape, no car chases, nobody fighting on public transport, nobody running away from explosions, no cinematic cliches whatsoever. This and 2001 my favorite films.
One of my favourite movies of all time. Great visuals, original concept, many deep themes, immortal words at the end "tears in the rain" & it improves with every viewing.
I liked the movie as a kid, but I love it as an adult. I remember going to the theater to see it. I expected Harrison Ford's character to be like Han Solo, I was wrong.
I was one of those that did not understand blade runner when it came out. I was a product of commercial films, aka star wars. It took some time for me to understand and appreciate Blade Runner for what it was and what meant. If you were to ask me today, blade runner is a much more thought prevoking film than any science fiction film of it's time could ever be.
The sets and costumes are fantastic but for me it's the emotional component make this a truly exceptional film. Every character is yearning for something that is unobtainable but there is a beauty and romanticism in the hopelessness that mirrored my, at the time, 18 year psyche. I think the beautifully sombre goth culture was attracted to many of the same ideas and themes.
Best sci-fi movie ever made...end of discusion. Perfect in every single detail... I think I'm going to enjoy The Final Cut on my home cinema tonight......again....
Anthony Fins I did that too, such a magical place. I used to go there often when I was studying photography in Los Angeles. I really missed that place.
It’s worth watching the original cut just because it’s a different edit and is rich in the way that you discover more about the directors cut and you can understand the intended story in a much fuller way.
It is funny how some works of art stand by themselves as an originator of a way of looking at our world. Ridley pried the top off of a murky and very scary future with a vision of a world that while whole and very big is also claustrophobic and confining. This world in "Blade Runner" is not too far in the future and yet it is way off as who really has the vision to see that place. If the realm of Blade Runner is at all like this one we are in for more of the same more or less. This genre of film making is almost in a class all by itself and this film set the stage for a look and a fashion that is copied by many other works since then.Blade Runner will continue to be a fashionable work of art. Thanks for the video. J. 5 Eagles.
Saw Blade Runner in Westwood (L.A.) the night it premiered. Susan and I couldn't get tickets until the midnight show, so we walked around trying to get in a restaurant --no luck. We didn't want to sit in the front corner of the theater so we got on line at 11--starving. We figured we just get popcorn, but when we got in the theater, the concessions was jammed. I said, a reel in I'll come back out. We were already home still talking about Blade Runner when we remembered how hungry we were.
THAT WAS AMAZING!!!!! I'm so thankful that VANGELIS' music was mentioned!! Such a great movie!!! I can't get enough of anything and everything "behind the scenes" about BLADE RUNNER!! It's 4AM-- 08.18.2016--- I can't sleep, can't think, drowning in depression and anxiety, tomorrow I'll be dropping $5,000.00 for a cataract surgery for my cat that I don't have the money or a job to even pay for it, thus plastic payment of course,,,,,, what a GREAT find to get my mind off my matters!!! I'm beyond appreciative that this even exists!! Me and Twee thanks you!!
I read an interview with David Fincher a while back. When he got to make Alien 3, he had, like Ridley during the Blade Runner shoot, producers, studio executives and money men bending his ear on how the film should be made. Fincher, being young and wanting to make a good impression, took a lot of that advice.....and the movie failed because of it. Fincher took a lesson from all that. it doesn't matter who financed a picture, it will always be the Director who gets the bullet if the film flops or fails in anyway, so, when making art, be like Ridley and tell the fuckers to piss right off!!!
***** you should imagine what the film would of been like if Fincher had been given the kind of control he would have on a movie set now. Imagine if Fincher had been like Ridley and told the money men to f**k off
***** in your opinion. I love PKD's work, The Man In The High Castle is one of the most outstanding books I have ever read, no question, but when it comes to this story, I prefer Ridley's movie. It's all opinion anyway opinion about a movie, in other words, it's nothing to get to bothered about.
***** I hear plenty of talk about the philosophy of Blade Runner myself. There's a lot of stuff there, it's different to Electric Sheep but it's just as deep.
a lot of decisions are made outside the influence of the visioneers.. like they say, ridley scott and deeley were fired (even with deeleys background) as for fincher.. the restored alien 3 is amazing, the theatrical version is ghastly. those were decisions made after principal photography. theres not much you can do against the money.. so kindly.. this world is as bleak as the futurist made it in the film.. that whole, every rose has its thorns bit. I must admit I like ALL the blade runner cuts, strictly because I cant get enough of the story. as for all this talk about being unfaithful to the novella.. that's just ridiculous.. that like complaining about the different versions of dune, another entire universe you just cant get enough of.. scotts not one to expect to conform to canon, "Hannibal" for example, doesn't mean I didn't enjoy getting to see the book brought to the screen though.
Blade runner...the only movie i've ever seen that is perfect in every way. Thank god they had Ridley Scott directing it, to chose any other would have been a disservice to Philip K.Dick's genius.
holy shit that was awesome. How fascinating that in that cut hospital scene he goes "what are you reading? Treasure Island" and then in Blade Runner 2049 Deckard cites from this book again. God how I love these films, and with the new movie I"m rediscovering this love all over again.
I’m 47 and have probably seen the movie 10 times maybe more. I have to admit that until this week, I never ever could understand the hype over Blade Runner. It makes the top pick in almost every magazine’s greatest sci fi film lists. For years I couldn’t understand why really. Then when the sequel 2049 came out I absolutely loved the sequel. After seeing that movie several times it made me really start to wonder what connection I was missing because I began to really love the story and the universe of blade runner. After reading many people’s reasons behind their love for the original, i rewatched the directors final cut the other night. I FINALLY FINALLY get it! It was a sci fi universe that had never been created before and the visuals, the lighting, the cinematography the music and acting…it was so perfect and extremely ahead of its time. It certainly is a benchmark in cinematic and art history. I dream of a prequel or two dealing with the Tyrell Corporation coming to power and developing the Nexus series replicants, then how they begin laboring at one of the 9 off world sites. I can visualize a very good cgi rendering of Roy Beatty watching attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion and again seeing the reflection of C-beams glittering in his eyes as he stands so tiny against the backdrop of an enormous Tannhaüser Gate. I can absolutely see it and would be sobbing joyfully if I ever get to witness this as of yet unmade film in the story. I think if the right team were to handle this project it could be so beautifully done and be yet another jewel in the crown that is the Blade Runner franchise. Rarely have any sequels lived up to the original much less a 3rd or 4th film. I hold out hope that this could happen. But to the entire fan base of Blade Runner that has been there from the beginning praising its genius, I am sorry I didn’t “get it” sooner. I finally do and count it as probably the most important sci fi movie of our time.
@@pylgrym I read the article you linked thank you for giving me that insight. I never once thought about either movie putting women in a bad light necessarily, but the article might have a point. I definitely admit that the scene from the original BR where Deckard basically forces himself onto Rachael was…cringeworthy for sure. I fail to understand why that scene was left in there the way it was. Again, thanks for the article, it certainly makes me think.
First time i saw Bladerunner was by pure chance. Me and a friend went to the video store to rent a VHS for the weekend and ended up choosing Bladerunner cause the box art looked cool. Must have been in the early 90's.
BLADE RUNNER and THE THING were both released on June 25th, 1982. Both films had dark visions, graphic violence and question mark endings. Both films failed at the box office. They simply came out at the wrong time. Both films were reviled by critics and rejected by audiences, but later when on to achieve classic status.
Best SF flick made until this day. Love the film noir aspect of it. Remember when having seen the movie in it's original form back in the eighties coming outside the cinema it was dark and raining in the city with reflecting lights and the feeling I was still in the movie. Amazing.
I remember first seeing Blade Runner in the cinema back in the 80s too. I was 12 and I saw it with my dad. We were both #1 fans of the film ever since. The recuts made me reflect on it a lot more deeply. Especially when Robert J. Sawyer called it the last great breakthrough SF film that would probably ever be. Whether or not that can be entirely accurate.
Blade Runner and Dune: 2 80s sci-fi movies adapted from great 70s sci-fi novels. 2 movies that were WAY ahead of their time. 2 movies that confused their intended audiences. 2 movies that were dubbed "massive failures" during their original theatrical release. 2 movies directed by incredibly talented directors. 2 movies that went overbudget. 2 movies that are GREAT.
Great documentary. I really enjoyed Blade Runner, no matter how many scenes are added or deleted. I've always been interested in how a movie was made, even BEFORE watching the flick. I have the movie poster pinned up in my room. Love this film. Thank you for sharing.
I like how Vangelis cribbed the melody of "You're Just Too Good to Be True" for parts of the soundtrack. Makes me wonder if there might be some other puns in there.
Scott Lahteine Yes, Can't Just Take My Eyes Off You is the other. "You're just too good to be true, I can't take my eyes off of you..." Those are two lyrics in a row that play well into ideas dealt with in Blade Runner.
I loved Blade Runner when it first came out, especially the visuals. I didn't know of the significance of the origami unicorn when I first saw it. I just thought that Edward James Olmos's character was leaving something like a calling card. Now it makes sense. I'll have to view the director's cut.
Blade Runner is my favorite movie. Beautiful film that presents great commentary on artificial intelligence and a breathtaking Orwellian future. Went to go inspire films like Ghost in the Shell and Akira
pawel ostaszewski I think everything including the Vangelis score came together brilliantly and it's a stunning film as a result. And Ridley would have chosen Vangelis to write the score.
Thank You for this video. I always am amazed by the fact there are still making of videos made of this video. I hope it never changes either. So much to see, and to tell about it. REALLY COOL.
one of very few movies that is behond perfect...have watched it about 100 times over 34 years...vangelis's music is astonishingly sexy, haunting and cuts into your soul. Rutger and Sean brought it to life. actually reached out to Mary Sean through email and we chatted for a while. one of the pictures on the piano is my grandmother. first time I had sex with a young woman I was very attracted to was the soundtrack, love theme, memories of green...perfectly romantic. BLADE RUNNER is very much apart of me like the skin around my bones. Thank Ridley Scott and the writer of do androids dream of electric sheep when they sleep...need to read that book one day.
He is not underated he is well acclaimed as a director !! however I must warn you if you want to maintain your image of him don't watch EXODUS gods and kings avoid that one at all costs!!
Yo what the fuck, you're right. I've been a fan of the series and Blade Runner since I was 4 years old (not age appropriate I know lmao) and never connected the two. Fuck, I'm enlightened.
What are we to make of the Replicant? What is it, exactly? I've watched this movie more than 20 times, it never gets old to me. For the longest time, I assumed that replicants were robots with skin. Something akin to David in AI. It was quite a revelation, and enhanced the movie even more for me, when I realized that they were not that at all - or at least not fully that. What we know for sure: Replicants are constructed beings. They are clearly not humans. "Commerce is our goal, here. More human than human." - Tyrell. But what is the exact nature of their construction? Regardless of any mechanical structure they may or may not have, the brain of a replicant is a genetically engineered organ of flesh and blood, not some programmed AI. "We're not machines, Sebastian. We're physical" - Roy. What does Roy's use of the word "physical" tell us about how he views himself? Are not robots or androids also "physical"? Replicants have true emotions, not scripted ones or algorithms. "If we gift them with a past, we create a cushion or a pillow for their emotions, and consequently, we can control them better." - Tyrell Replicants clearly have a physicality which surpasses almost any human. As a young person, I always assumed because this was due to them being mostly mechanical inside. But in light of the above facts, I'm no longer sure. When Roy and Leon visit Chew, they witness Chew working on the genetic design of eyes. For a while, I thought that perhaps that Chew would make eyes, other shops would make other organs, still others would make things like bones and skin etc, and the various components would then be fashioned together like some sort of futuristic Frankenstein's monster in a Tyrell lab. Perhaps the fleshy bits being suspended from a totally artificial skeletal structure, as per The Terminator. Now that I'm more educated and have had more time to analyze the many clues, it seems to most likely that replicants are 100% bio-engineered. All aspects of their physicality, knowledge, personality traits and abilities, and (in Rachel's case) memories are 100% programmed into their minds at the genetic level. Their bodies are grown to full maturity in a lab and only then are they allowed to become conscious, possessing all the characteristics (minus emotional maturity) of a fully developed adult. This also includes the programmed and irreversible accelerated senescence (cell aging), resulting in the four-year lifespan. Above all the speculation about the exact physical nature of the replicant, is the bigger issue, upon which the movie tries to offer opinions from many perspectives: Does the replicant have a soul? Do we?
Bladerunner surely is one of the most amazing SciFi movies i´ve ever seen. The only thing i never understood was the directors cut from the 90ies where all the narration from the off had been removed instead of adding the hospital scenes with Holden.
Hey Edgar Allan Poe . . . I re-discovered Bladerunner vai the 1992 Director's Cut sans narration. I prefer this version as I have grown so use to it, the narration annoys me. I also found that I could use my imagination as opposed to Deckhards narration . . . which at times . .. is annoying.
In the mid-80's ... I was ever so fortunate to work as an assistant editor for Douglas Trumbull's 'ShowScan' company on an in-house piece about Mr. Trumbull and the ShowScan Process that he & Richard Yuricich invented. It was to be utilized to get the studios, distributors and the most resistant exhibitors to embrace this wondrous new way of seeing movies in the all but dead days of 70mm ... ... Now ShowScan is shot in 65mm & projected at 60 frames per second (fps) If one wonders what ShowScan looks like -- it's the difference of a VHS tape to BLU-RAY today. The frame was utterly & wondrously crystal clear to behold. You felt as if you were looking at it live. It was-IS because of Mr. Trumbull's first film as a director , 'SILENT RUNNING' -- that I saw at age 12 during the film's first release in 1971 -- that caused me to be want to be a screenwriter & director ... and always to see this life, this art, this science, this universe in terms of 'Oooh, what IF ...? And then -- in my middle 20's I actually got to meet THE MAN ... my unknowing 'Obi-Wan' ... my teacher who gave his lessons by the outstanding technical ability to make it, the idea, happen in terms of getting it on film. Better yet -- about a year before I worked for Mr. Trumbull ... as a most excellent coincidence worked as a PRINT CONTROLLER / FILM BOOKER for a very small start-up motion picture distributor. And when I say 'small' -- I mean we were in an old clapboard two-story house with our offices being in the two upstairs bedrooms -- the living room (reception) -- and the dining room was my office. Said offices by 'furnished' by means of used furniture. Then one day, I bought the original screenplay to 'SILENT RUNNING' and on the cover page, it gave the name and address of the Producing Company and the Address ... and guess what-? SAME HOUSE I had offices in and ps: I actually lived in it for the first month or so whilst looking for nearby digs. Me, the kid who loved SILENT RUNNING was here in the house / office where they made the film from. Talk about your synergy .... the blessing of the stars above ... I have been given it more than once in this life with this and other things. So, filmmakers reading this -- follow your dreams. Learn the lessons, make your heart of heart the promise to complete your circle. It can & does happen. SOAR ... DARE TO DREAM, YOUR PATH LEADS ONWARDS, EVER ONWARDS ... D.A. 2/7/16
Saw this in 1982 at a theatre in LA. Dudes, this movie is phucking real. I knew it then, I know it now. Ridley Scott and Phillip K. Dick are something of prophets to my way of thinking. I don't think they even realized it, but they are. They had a future vision and this movie was part of it. And by the way, Deckard definitely is a Replicant. How else would Gaff have known about the dream Deckard had of the unicorn and make an oragami figure of it. Everyone knew he was, except Deckard.
I haven't seen it yet, but will and will let you know. Each time a movie is remade it changes the one you really liked in the first place. This new one will probably be more like what Philip K. Dick's book was like instead of what Scott saw in it. Hard to say. The mood of this one was so unique I bet the new one will have it's own 'mood'.
+Nautilus1972 But Scott's opinion is just that; an opinion. Certainly neither Fancher nor Peoples ever considered Deckard to be a replicant. Scott isn't an auteur; he's making a movie of a screenplay written by other people adapted in turn from somebody else's book.
+KingKaitain In the film.....Deckard see's a Unicorn in is dream state, and at the end of the film, Gaff clearly indicates that he has an insight into Deckard's mind with an origami unicorn creation. Regardless of Philip K Dicks or the Screenplay writers intentions, this film dictates, illuminates, and catagorically states that Gaff is aware of Deckards innermost thoughts clearly because Deckard is a Replicant and Gaff has knowledge of this fabricated personal prolfile. No other reason. You may not like it, but that is what the film is telling us.
Lee Gerrard That is total nonsense. If you wanted an unfakeable watermark proving that Gaff knew something nobody else could, you wouldn't use something so well-known as a unicorn. OR you would have Deckard REPEATEDLY dream of a unicorn (the way e.g. Lowry repeatedly dreams of flying in "Brazil"). The tenuous nature of the connection is exactly as it should be: Deckard realizes that once memories can be replicated, one cannot guarantee that one's own past is real. This causes him - and the audience - to wonder whether Deckard is himself a replicant. His nodding (prompted by seeing Gaff's unicorn) is an acceptance that he simply can't know for sure. Does it prove that Deckard IS a replicant? (Laughs.) Of course not. And it categorically states NOTHING. At best there is suggestion, innuendo, possibility. There is absolutely no proof that "Gaff has access to Deckard's mind". If it makes you happy to think that Deckard is a replicant, you have that freedom. But if you think the movie states it categorically, you're gravely mistaken.
Now every SF movie bares the stigma of Blade Runner's vision of the future. Just like every alien movie need to accept or reject the Alien's tone. What phenomenal visual artists.
I still think that the mystery of whether Deckard is a replicant or not is much more interesting than the answer itself. I know Scott says that Deckard is a replicant, but again I personally believe leaving it up to the audience to decide for themselves is much better than giving the answer. That said, Blade Runner is still one of my favorite films.
I think the question needs to be asked, but the answer kind of cheapens this 30 year old mystery. Its something that movies these days tend to do often.
I wonder what Villeneuve will do with this :) For me though Scott shot the original with a human Deckard but changed his mind well after the fact and as for the man himself Harrison Ford, Deckard is still totally human as it is still for me I must say. A human falling in love with a replicant was one of the most powerful theme in the movie but a replicant with a replicant makes it insignificant like a love story between Ken and Barbie :)
I was only a kid when i watched Blade Runner in the cinema and was extremely disappointed, found it boring, i had perceived it would be something like a star wars film, of course after all these years Its in my top 5.
Will the sequel 'blade runner 2049' take another 20 years to be fully appreciated, probably more than likely, the sequel just looks and sounds ahead of it's time, so here is to the year 2037...or as HAL says, "lay down and take a stress pill😊
What happend to this generation of film makers? Ridley Scott makes nothing close to this level of quality today. Prometheus was a fall from grace to say the least
A very good documentary I seem to have totally missed on British tv, travelling around a lot. This is my all time favourite movie and I still remember how stunned I was, walking out of the cinema afterwards. I don't know if it is true, but I read in a German magazine around that time that they used the then current VW Passat as a base for Deckard's car. I never read the original book - shame on me :o)
I stumbled out of the theatre back in 82' knowing full well i had stepped into a realistic future. 2020 is only 6 years from now and back then it seemed so far away! Ok, maybe it's 2018 now and it's only 2 years away.
Ironically, instead of being repulsed by this bleak dystopia, people actually WANT to live there, to be Deckard, sharpening his chopsticks in the rain while the waiting for his noodles before going on a replicant hunt.
Most people, upon initial viewing of Blade Runner, had the wrong idea of who the real villain was in this film. Who's the villain? Someone who wants more life or someone who wants to end another's life? Rutger's portrayal gave us that same ambiguous feel we had with Clint Eastwood's character in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. I've wanted to work on a prequel focusing on Roy Batty's life so that we could all see that if we were put under the same adventures/pressures/time limitations, we might all do the same things he did to attempt to increase his life duration. I'm struggling with whether to include a subplot of Deckard. I do think he is a replicant but I wouldn't want to take away from the mystery of it and the debate people still have today about what he is (even though Scott thinks he's a replicant...as do I). Hopefully the sequel won't suck.
Hampton Fancher does seem like a cool guy, but I think the Blade Runner sequel really missed David Peoples' input, not to mention the direct involvement of Scott himself. Give me the classic original any day!
Dick's research in the stacks, the Nazi officer's diary which spurred him to think about humanity, empathy, etc--I assume that was while researching The Man in the High Castle?
BLADE RUNNER (1982) should be shown worldwide in Cinema Theatres for 2019..
Aside from the fact that Ridley Scott makes amazing movies in general, Blade Runner is so gorgeous to look at, I could watch the thing with the sound off and still be fascinated at the sheer look of the film. You can tell this gem of a movie is such a close cousin to Ridley's masterpiece, "Alien" from 1979.
The score tho 😍
Blade Runner isn't just a masterpiece. It's a unique breathing creature.
Beautifully said. ❤️
And to me, what you have eloquently stated here is the reason for the unicorn symbology. Ironic in a film about "look-alikes".
RIP Rutger Hauer, He passed a few days ago :( Like Roy Batty he died in 2019
RIP Rutger Hauer
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
We're all back here again celebrating a wonderful movie which many of us were too young to appreciate at the time. Everything about Rutger was coolness, may he rest in peace
this is such a painful truth every being must wrestle with... ultimately everything we do and experience wash away like tears in the rain, everything is transient
I like Daryl's words: "I'd go onto the set and I'd be in another world." Having once been an extra on a sci-fi film, I know how that feels.
Rutger Hauer is a Boss. Seen this movie many many times but i just want to see it again
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The most powerful movies usually have a divisive impact when they first come out. If a movie is universally popular like Star Wars, it doesn’t have much going for it except as a commercial entertainment.
Is and will always be one of the best SciFi movies in my book. Mind you the Directors cut.
Still remember as a teen seeing it for the first time.....Mind blowing....The visuals, the music....the acting.....Superbly put together by the genius directing by Ridley Scott!!! ....i have seen Blade Runner over 200 times i think....still never get tired of seeing it.
Even though "Blade Runner" was made over 30 years ago, it was so ahead of its time that even today it doesn't feel dated. It's like a particularly intricate dream that you're not sure you want to wake up from.
"He gets a gun to his head and then he fucks a dishwasher" ohh myyy gooddddd xD
The Mode out and about! Never have seen his old stuff before! Great documentary.
Alien and Blade Runner are the two best sci-fi movies ever made bar none. Ridley Scott is a genius.
Replace Alien with 2001 and you'd be much more accurate.
What about 2001 and The Matrix...?
Solaris and 2001..both superior in every way pissible.
Both Alien and Blade Runner thanks to Ridley Scott were indeed equally pivotal in refreshing the sci-fi cinema.
Brilliant totally original film - great soundscape, no car chases, nobody fighting on public transport, nobody running away from explosions, no cinematic cliches whatsoever. This and 2001 my favorite films.
One of my favourite movies of all time. Great visuals, original concept, many deep themes, immortal words at the end "tears in the rain" & it improves with every viewing.
I liked the movie as a kid, but I love it as an adult. I remember going to the theater to see it. I expected Harrison Ford's character to be like Han Solo, I was wrong.
A masterpiece of film, I notice something new every time I experience it.
A film that makes you love Cinema.
I was one of those that did not understand blade runner when it came out. I was a product of commercial films, aka star wars. It took some time for me to understand and appreciate Blade Runner for what it was and what meant. If you were to ask me today, blade runner is a much more thought prevoking film than any science fiction film of it's time could ever be.
+Paul Davis "any science fiction film of it's time could ever be", you jest, right? There were others, also not appreciated (2001 and plenty others)
The sets and costumes are fantastic but for me it's the emotional component make this a truly exceptional film. Every character is yearning for something that is unobtainable but there is a beauty and romanticism in the hopelessness that mirrored my, at the time, 18 year psyche. I think the beautifully sombre goth culture was attracted to many of the same ideas and themes.
Best sci-fi movie ever made...end of discusion. Perfect in every single detail... I think I'm going to enjoy The Final Cut on my home cinema tonight......again....
I was able to visit the Bradbury, absolutely stunning in person and definitely has the 'Blade Runner' feeling.
Anthony Fins I did that too, such a magical place. I used to go there often when I was studying photography in Los Angeles. I really missed that place.
It’s worth watching the original cut just because it’s a different edit and is rich in the way that you discover more about the directors cut and you can understand the intended story in a much fuller way.
It is funny how some works of art stand by themselves as an originator of a way of looking at our world. Ridley pried the top off of a murky and very scary future with a vision of a world that while whole and very big is also claustrophobic and confining. This world in "Blade Runner" is not too far in the future and yet it is way off as who really has the vision to see that place. If the realm of Blade Runner is at all like this one we are in for more of the same more or less. This genre of film making is almost in a class all by itself and this film set the stage for a look and a fashion that is copied by many other works since then.Blade Runner will continue to be a fashionable work of art. Thanks for the video. J. 5 Eagles.
Saw Blade Runner in Westwood (L.A.) the night it premiered. Susan and I couldn't get tickets until the midnight show, so we walked around trying to get in a restaurant --no luck. We didn't want to sit in the front corner of the theater so we got on line at 11--starving. We figured we just get popcorn, but when we got in the theater, the concessions was jammed. I said, a reel in I'll come back out. We were already home still talking about Blade Runner when we remembered how hungry we were.
THAT WAS AMAZING!!!!! I'm so thankful that VANGELIS' music was mentioned!! Such a great movie!!!
I can't get enough of anything and everything "behind the scenes" about BLADE RUNNER!!
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I still cannot believe this was made in 1981-82. Timeless.
I read an interview with David Fincher a while back. When he got to make Alien 3, he had, like Ridley during the Blade Runner shoot, producers, studio executives and money men bending his ear on how the film should be made. Fincher, being young and wanting to make a good impression, took a lot of that advice.....and the movie failed because of it. Fincher took a lesson from all that. it doesn't matter who financed a picture, it will always be the Director who gets the bullet if the film flops or fails in anyway, so, when making art, be like Ridley and tell the fuckers to piss right off!!!
***** you should imagine what the film would of been like if Fincher had been given the kind of control he would have on a movie set now. Imagine if Fincher had been like Ridley and told the money men to f**k off
***** in your opinion. I love PKD's work, The Man In The High Castle is one of the most outstanding books I have ever read, no question, but when it comes to this story, I prefer Ridley's movie. It's all opinion anyway opinion about a movie, in other words, it's nothing to get to bothered about.
***** nah, the movie stands alone. what would be interesting would be a mvoie version of another classic PKD book.
*****
I hear plenty of talk about the philosophy of Blade Runner myself. There's a lot of stuff there, it's different to Electric Sheep but it's just as deep.
a lot of decisions are made outside the influence of the visioneers.. like they say, ridley scott and deeley were fired (even with deeleys background) as for fincher.. the restored alien 3 is amazing, the theatrical version is ghastly. those were decisions made after principal photography. theres not much you can do against the money.. so kindly.. this world is as bleak as the futurist made it in the film.. that whole, every rose has its thorns bit. I must admit I like ALL the blade runner cuts, strictly because I cant get enough of the story. as for all this talk about being unfaithful to the novella.. that's just ridiculous.. that like complaining about the different versions of dune, another entire universe you just cant get enough of.. scotts not one to expect to conform to canon, "Hannibal" for example, doesn't mean I didn't enjoy getting to see the book brought to the screen though.
Blade runner...the only movie i've ever seen that is perfect in every way. Thank god they had Ridley Scott directing it, to chose any other would have been a disservice to Philip K.Dick's genius.
Shame that nobody has the balls or vision to make a movie like this today.
holy shit that was awesome.
How fascinating that in that cut hospital scene he goes "what are you reading? Treasure Island" and then in Blade Runner 2049 Deckard cites from this book again.
God how I love these films, and with the new movie I"m rediscovering this love all over again.
I’m 47 and have probably seen the movie 10 times maybe more. I have to admit that until this week, I never ever could understand the hype over Blade Runner. It makes the top pick in almost every magazine’s greatest sci fi film lists. For years I couldn’t understand why really. Then when the sequel 2049 came out I absolutely loved the sequel. After seeing that movie several times it made me really start to wonder what connection I was missing because I began to really love the story and the universe of blade runner. After reading many people’s reasons behind their love for the original, i rewatched the directors final cut the other night. I FINALLY FINALLY get it! It was a sci fi universe that had never been created before and the visuals, the lighting, the cinematography the music and acting…it was so perfect and extremely ahead of its time. It certainly is a benchmark in cinematic and art history. I dream of a prequel or two dealing with the Tyrell Corporation coming to power and developing the Nexus series replicants, then how they begin laboring at one of the 9 off world sites. I can visualize a very good cgi rendering of Roy Beatty watching attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion and again seeing the reflection of C-beams glittering in his eyes as he stands so tiny against the backdrop of an enormous Tannhaüser Gate. I can absolutely see it and would be sobbing joyfully if I ever get to witness this as of yet unmade film in the story. I think if the right team were to handle this project it could be so beautifully done and be yet another jewel in the crown that is the Blade Runner franchise. Rarely have any sequels lived up to the original much less a 3rd or 4th film. I hold out hope that this could happen. But to the entire fan base of Blade Runner that has been there from the beginning praising its genius, I am sorry I didn’t “get it” sooner. I finally do and count it as probably the most important sci fi movie of our time.
Sequel drove the story into the ground!
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Keep your opinion I don't want it
@@pylgrym I read the article you linked thank you for giving me that insight. I never once thought about either movie putting women in a bad light necessarily, but the article might have a point. I definitely admit that the scene from the original BR where Deckard basically forces himself onto Rachael was…cringeworthy for sure. I fail to understand why that scene was left in there the way it was. Again, thanks for the article, it certainly makes me think.
best adaptation ever (and whats more amazing is that it hardly tackles the book itself), best movie ever.
First time i saw Bladerunner was by pure chance. Me and a friend went to the video store to rent a VHS for the weekend and ended up choosing Bladerunner cause the box art looked cool. Must have been in the early 90's.
So amazing! One of the greatest SciFi films of all time!
BLADE RUNNER and THE THING were both released on June 25th, 1982. Both films had dark visions, graphic violence and question mark endings. Both films failed at the box office. They simply came out at the wrong time. Both films were reviled by critics and rejected by audiences, but later when on to achieve classic status.
haha glad they cut the interrogation scene out, that performance could fit in a metal gear game.
Best SF flick made until this day. Love the film noir aspect of it. Remember when having seen the movie in it's original form back in the eighties coming outside the cinema it was dark and raining in the city with reflecting lights and the feeling I was still in the movie. Amazing.
I remember first seeing Blade Runner in the cinema back in the 80s too. I was 12 and I saw it with my dad. We were both #1 fans of the film ever since. The recuts made me reflect on it a lot more deeply. Especially when Robert J. Sawyer called it the last great breakthrough SF film that would probably ever be. Whether or not that can be entirely accurate.
Thanks for posting this. One of my favorite movies. I was able to meet Sean Young once in LA - totally surreal. :)
This is not the greatest Sci fi movie ever made. It is the greatest movie ever made.
For its most unique storytelling on what it means to be human, there can be truth to that.
Blade Runner and Dune: 2 80s sci-fi movies adapted from great 70s sci-fi novels. 2 movies that were WAY ahead of their time. 2 movies that confused their intended audiences. 2 movies that were dubbed "massive failures" during their original theatrical release. 2 movies directed by incredibly talented directors. 2 movies that went overbudget. 2 movies that are GREAT.
Great documentary. I really enjoyed Blade Runner, no matter how many scenes are added or deleted. I've always been interested in how a movie was made, even BEFORE watching the flick. I have the movie poster pinned up in my room. Love this film. Thank you for sharing.
I like how Vangelis cribbed the melody of "You're Just Too Good to Be True" for parts of the soundtrack. Makes me wonder if there might be some other puns in there.
Scott Lahteine Yes,
Can't Just Take My Eyes Off You is the other.
"You're just too good to be true,
I can't take my eyes off of you..."
Those are two lyrics in a row that play well into ideas dealt with in Blade Runner.
The original release with the narrative, ala film noir, is the best, taking it out looses that film noir feel that I loved so much about the original.
I agree
Beats & Elements
Yea, I'd like to see a fully restored version of the original theatrical release.
I loved Blade Runner when it first came out, especially the visuals. I didn't know of the significance of the origami unicorn when I first saw it. I just thought that Edward James Olmos's character was leaving something like a calling card. Now it makes sense. I'll have to view the director's cut.
Blade Runner is my favorite movie. Beautiful film that presents great commentary on artificial intelligence and a breathtaking Orwellian future. Went to go inspire films like Ghost in the Shell and Akira
Very good documentary! all these trouble/challenges they went through make Blade runner even more admirable !!
This needs to be remastered into HD.
Yeah, I thought about that, and then cursed the "low def" times.
+replicantargent it was taped on UK Pal format so quite close to 720i
get a bluray copy its great!
I like Blade Runner.
We like Bla de Run n er, as well.
I LOVE Blade Runner‼️
BLADE RUNNER............................................BEAUTIFUL MOVIE !!!
Awesome doc from BBC. Thanks for making this available!
This Film effected so my style and art in the 80's. It brought neon back into fashion too
great documentary, there are others much more elaborate, but this one captures the essentials
Just perfect..too perfect
Without vangelis powerfull score this movie wasnt be as terrific as it is.
pawel ostaszewski who killed the music?
pawel ostaszewski I think everything including the Vangelis score came together brilliantly and it's a stunning film as a result. And Ridley would have chosen Vangelis to write the score.
RIP Rutger Hauer AKA Roy Batty. You'll be missed.
Thank You for this video.
I always am amazed by the fact there are still making of videos made of this video.
I hope it never changes either.
So much to see, and to tell about it.
REALLY COOL.
one of very few movies that is behond perfect...have watched it about 100 times over 34 years...vangelis's music is astonishingly sexy, haunting and cuts into your soul. Rutger and Sean brought it to life. actually reached out to Mary Sean through email and we chatted for a while. one of the pictures on the piano is my grandmother. first time I had sex with a young woman I was very attracted to was the soundtrack, love theme, memories of green...perfectly romantic. BLADE RUNNER is very much apart of me like the skin around my bones. Thank Ridley Scott and the writer of do androids dream of electric sheep when they sleep...need to read that book one day.
thank you for posting this. you kind sir are a gentleman and a scholar.
One of the best films ever made.
Quiet right, it's good to hear another take on a story you are already familiar with.
I love this documentary it real explain how they came up with this brilliant picture
I think Ridley Scott is underrated. I know we all love him, but he kills at sci-fi, kills at period pieces, spy films and urban stories. Top 3 for me.
His movies have won Oscars, he's not at all underrated!
I forgot having one of your films that you directed be on AFI's list of top 100 American films still makes you "underrated" :3
He is not underated he is well acclaimed as a director !! however I must warn you if you want to maintain your image of him don't watch EXODUS gods and kings avoid that one at all costs!!
pvtrichter88 why? It is certainly not as lame as Kingdom Of Heaven.
Stunning one of the best films ever made...
I really don't believe that there is anything i DONT like about Blade Runner... it's dare i say, a perfect movie.
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So that's where Kojima took the idea for the MGS4 BB corp bosses end scene.
Kojima owes his career to Blade Runner and the Asian cinema influenced by its inception.
Look up Snatcher for the Sega CD
Yo what the fuck, you're right. I've been a fan of the series and Blade Runner since I was 4 years old (not age appropriate I know lmao) and never connected the two. Fuck, I'm enlightened.
Look up some of what Kojima did before MGS. He did a game called Snatcher which is a playstation game. Its JUST like blade runner.
Very impressed with cast ...wonderful choices ...woman & men ...Joe can play anyone important
What are we to make of the Replicant? What is it, exactly?
I've watched this movie more than 20 times, it never gets old to me. For the longest time, I assumed that replicants were robots with skin. Something akin to David in AI. It was quite a revelation, and enhanced the movie even more for me, when I realized that they were not that at all - or at least not fully that.
What we know for sure:
Replicants are constructed beings. They are clearly not humans. "Commerce is our goal, here. More human than human." - Tyrell. But what is the exact nature of their construction?
Regardless of any mechanical structure they may or may not have, the brain of a replicant is a genetically engineered organ of flesh and blood, not some programmed AI. "We're not machines, Sebastian. We're physical" - Roy. What does Roy's use of the word "physical" tell us about how he views himself? Are not robots or androids also "physical"?
Replicants have true emotions, not scripted ones or algorithms. "If we gift them with a past, we create a cushion or a pillow for their emotions, and consequently, we can control them better." - Tyrell
Replicants clearly have a physicality which surpasses almost any human. As a young person, I always assumed because this was due to them being mostly mechanical inside. But in light of the above facts, I'm no longer sure.
When Roy and Leon visit Chew, they witness Chew working on the genetic design of eyes. For a while, I thought that perhaps that Chew would make eyes, other shops would make other organs, still others would make things like bones and skin etc, and the various components would then be fashioned together like some sort of futuristic Frankenstein's monster in a Tyrell lab. Perhaps the fleshy bits being suspended from a totally artificial skeletal structure, as per The Terminator.
Now that I'm more educated and have had more time to analyze the many clues, it seems to most likely that replicants are 100% bio-engineered. All aspects of their physicality, knowledge, personality traits and abilities, and (in Rachel's case) memories are 100% programmed into their minds at the genetic level. Their bodies are grown to full maturity in a lab and only then are they allowed to become conscious, possessing all the characteristics (minus emotional maturity) of a fully developed adult. This also includes the programmed and irreversible accelerated senescence (cell aging), resulting in the four-year lifespan.
Above all the speculation about the exact physical nature of the replicant, is the bigger issue, upon which the movie tries to offer opinions from many perspectives: Does the replicant have a soul?
Do we?
Bladerunner surely is one of the most amazing SciFi movies i´ve ever seen. The only thing i never understood was the directors cut from the 90ies where all the narration from the off had been removed instead of adding the hospital scenes with Holden.
Hey Edgar Allan Poe . . . I re-discovered Bladerunner vai the 1992 Director's Cut sans narration. I prefer this version as I have grown so use to it, the narration annoys me. I also found that I could use my imagination as opposed to Deckhards narration . . . which at times . .. is annoying.
I like this documentary and the movie.I really hope they don't a sequel but it might be good too Idk we'll see.
LA Times shit review of the film headline: 'Blade Bummer: a piss soaked, miserable vision of the future'. It was pearls before swine.
In the mid-80's ... I was ever so fortunate to work as an assistant editor for Douglas Trumbull's 'ShowScan' company on an in-house piece about Mr. Trumbull and the ShowScan Process that he & Richard Yuricich invented.
It was to be utilized to get the studios, distributors and the most resistant exhibitors to embrace this wondrous new way of seeing movies in the all but dead days of 70mm ...
... Now ShowScan is shot in 65mm & projected at 60 frames per second (fps)
If one wonders what ShowScan looks like -- it's the difference of a VHS tape to BLU-RAY today. The frame was utterly & wondrously crystal clear to behold. You felt as if you were looking at it live.
It was-IS because of Mr. Trumbull's first film as a director , 'SILENT RUNNING' -- that I saw at age 12 during the film's first release in 1971 -- that caused me to be want to be a screenwriter & director ... and always to see this life, this art, this science, this universe in terms of 'Oooh, what IF ...?
And then -- in my middle 20's I actually got to meet THE MAN ... my unknowing 'Obi-Wan' ... my teacher who gave his lessons by the outstanding technical ability to make it, the idea, happen in terms of getting it on film.
Better yet -- about a year before I worked for Mr. Trumbull ... as a most excellent coincidence worked as a PRINT CONTROLLER / FILM BOOKER for a very small start-up motion picture distributor. And when I say 'small' -- I mean we were in an old clapboard two-story house with our offices being in the two upstairs bedrooms -- the living room (reception) -- and the dining room was my office. Said offices by 'furnished' by means of used furniture.
Then one day, I bought the original screenplay to 'SILENT RUNNING' and on the cover page, it gave the name and address of the Producing Company and the Address ... and guess what-? SAME HOUSE I had offices in and ps: I actually lived in it for the first month or so whilst looking for nearby digs.
Me, the kid who loved SILENT RUNNING was here in the house / office where they made the film from.
Talk about your synergy .... the blessing of the stars above ... I have been given it more than once in this life with this and other things.
So, filmmakers reading this -- follow your dreams. Learn the lessons, make your heart of heart the promise to complete your circle. It can & does happen.
SOAR ... DARE TO DREAM, YOUR PATH LEADS ONWARDS, EVER ONWARDS ...
D.A.
2/7/16
Wow, amazing!
Saw this in 1982 at a theatre in LA. Dudes, this movie is phucking real. I knew it then, I know it now. Ridley Scott and Phillip K. Dick are something of prophets to my way of thinking. I don't think they even realized it, but they are. They had a future vision and this movie was part of it. And by the way, Deckard definitely is a Replicant. How else would Gaff have known about the dream Deckard had of the unicorn and make an oragami figure of it. Everyone knew he was, except Deckard.
I haven't seen it yet, but will and will let you know. Each time a movie is remade it changes the one you really liked in the first place. This new one will probably be more like what Philip K. Dick's book was like instead of what Scott saw in it. Hard to say. The mood of this one was so unique I bet the new one will have it's own 'mood'.
I came back at 10pm the next day, why wasn't Misery on???
I feel guilty that I'm 44yrs old yet still haven't seen it!
Oh dear 😳
720p50 HD version of this documentary - th-cam.com/video/B72uX1Pa2Dw/w-d-xo.html
Presenter voice over at the end. "Will we ever know...?"
Ridley Scott's just explained it for you love.
+Nautilus1972 My thoughts exactly, lmao.
+Nautilus1972 But Scott's opinion is just that; an opinion. Certainly neither Fancher nor Peoples ever considered Deckard to be a replicant. Scott isn't an auteur; he's making a movie of a screenplay written by other people adapted in turn from somebody else's book.
+KingKaitain In the film.....Deckard see's a Unicorn in is dream state, and at the end of the film, Gaff clearly indicates that he has an insight into Deckard's mind with an origami unicorn creation. Regardless of Philip K Dicks or the Screenplay writers intentions, this film dictates, illuminates, and catagorically states that Gaff is aware of Deckards innermost thoughts clearly because Deckard is a Replicant and Gaff has knowledge of this fabricated personal prolfile. No other reason. You may not like it, but that is what the film is
telling us.
Lee Gerrard That is total nonsense. If you wanted an unfakeable watermark proving that Gaff knew something nobody else could, you wouldn't use something so well-known as a unicorn. OR you would have Deckard REPEATEDLY dream of a unicorn (the way e.g. Lowry repeatedly dreams of flying in "Brazil").
The tenuous nature of the connection is exactly as it should be: Deckard realizes that once memories can be replicated, one cannot guarantee that one's own past is real. This causes him - and the audience - to wonder whether Deckard is himself a replicant. His nodding (prompted by seeing Gaff's unicorn) is an acceptance that he simply can't know for sure.
Does it prove that Deckard IS a replicant? (Laughs.) Of course not. And it categorically states NOTHING. At best there is suggestion, innuendo, possibility. There is absolutely no proof that "Gaff has access to Deckard's mind".
If it makes you happy to think that Deckard is a replicant, you have that freedom. But if you think the movie states it categorically, you're gravely mistaken.
+KingKaitain You seem to have ALL the answers (Laughs). What does the unicorn mean?
lol that scene from the hospital that got cut is fucking terrible
mathmusicstructure That actor really shit the bed. Good call to cut that scene.
In what way is it terrible?
Well, that is why it got cut !
Now every SF movie bares the stigma of Blade Runner's vision of the future. Just like every alien movie need to accept or reject the Alien's tone. What phenomenal visual artists.
I still think that the mystery of whether Deckard is a replicant or not is much more interesting than the answer itself. I know Scott says that Deckard is a replicant, but again I personally believe leaving it up to the audience to decide for themselves is much better than giving the answer. That said, Blade Runner is still one of my favorite films.
+Video Vagrancy Damn straight. The important thing is that the question needs to be asked. The answer is secondary.
I think the question needs to be asked, but the answer kind of cheapens this 30 year old mystery. Its something that movies these days tend to do often.
I wonder what Villeneuve will do with this :)
For me though Scott shot the original with a human Deckard but changed his mind well after the fact and as for the man himself Harrison Ford, Deckard is still totally human as it is still for me I must say. A human falling in love with a replicant was one of the most powerful theme in the movie but a replicant with a replicant makes it insignificant like a love story between Ken and Barbie :)
A movie way before its time....most people back then just didnt get it.
I was only a kid when i watched Blade Runner in the cinema and was extremely disappointed, found it boring, i had perceived it would be something like a star wars film, of course after all these years Its in my top 5.
Excellent thanks
Will the sequel 'blade runner 2049' take another 20 years to be fully appreciated, probably more than likely, the sequel just looks and sounds ahead of it's time, so here is to the year 2037...or as HAL says, "lay down and take a stress pill😊
31:44 - 31:59 lolol
What happend to this generation of film makers? Ridley Scott makes nothing close to this level of quality today. Prometheus was a fall from grace to say the least
5:01 and even more so 15:37 already a hint at Blade Runner 2049 🙂
A very good documentary I seem to have totally missed on British tv, travelling around a lot. This is my all time favourite movie and I still remember how stunned I was, walking out of the cinema afterwards.
I don't know if it is true, but I read in a German magazine around that time that they used the then current VW Passat as a base for Deckard's car. I never read the original book - shame on me :o)
I stumbled out of the theatre back in 82' knowing full well i had stepped into a realistic future.
2020 is only 6 years from now and back then it seemed so far away!
Ok, maybe it's 2018 now and it's only 2 years away.
Been there made it fit ! and the end speech !
a film before its time
what a great film
A very good film: well documented.
Very nice documentary, Rutger Hauer is the man :)
Finest hour of Rutger Hauer.
This movie is a fucking masterpiece
Ironically, instead of being repulsed by this bleak dystopia, people actually WANT to live there, to be Deckard, sharpening his chopsticks in the rain while the waiting for his noodles before going on a replicant hunt.
Most people, upon initial viewing of Blade Runner, had the wrong idea of who the real villain was in this film. Who's the villain? Someone who wants more life or someone who wants to end another's life? Rutger's portrayal gave us that same ambiguous feel we had with Clint Eastwood's character in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. I've wanted to work on a prequel focusing on Roy Batty's life so that we could all see that if we were put under the same adventures/pressures/time limitations, we might all do the same things he did to attempt to increase his life duration. I'm struggling with whether to include a subplot of Deckard. I do think he is a replicant but I wouldn't want to take away from the mystery of it and the debate people still have today about what he is (even though Scott thinks he's a replicant...as do I). Hopefully the sequel won't suck.
Hampton Fancher does seem like a cool guy, but I think the Blade Runner sequel really missed David Peoples' input, not to mention the direct involvement of Scott himself. Give me the classic original any day!
Dick's research in the stacks, the Nazi officer's diary which spurred him to think about humanity, empathy, etc--I assume that was while researching The Man in the High Castle?