Bladerunner – Director’s Cut (Ridley Scott)
by matt @ 1:15 pm. Blogged under Music, Living and Dying, Movies
Somehow I managed to reach the ripe old age of 29 without ever having seen Bladerunner before now – a film based on a screen play by Hampton Fancher which asks the fundamental question – when does the life experience of a super computer (or in this case an android) become as valuable as a human’s? In the case of Bladerunner the answer is that it has occurred – emphasised in Rutger Hauer’s final pre-death statement ‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe … and now all those experiences are lost forever like tears’.
The music for the film is composed by Vangelis – unfortunately I couldn’t help but think of the film ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ because the score used is extremely similar. I imagine Mr Vangelis didn’t have many options with the electronic music options of the early 1980s though (he did Bladerunner in 1982 and The Bounty in 1984).
It always amuses me that so many authors in the 1970s and 80s set dates in the future - by which time they thought the pace of mankind’s evolution would have increased so much that life will have become unrecognisable. In Bladerunner it is the year 2019, the sun is never out (it rains permanently), man has evolved to live beyond the solar system – yet certain things still pervade man’s life on earth – such as old cash machines and paper till rolls. Even more baffling how anybody thought we might reach a stage whereby we have flying cars and video telephones but newspapers are still being printed and blow up and down the dirty streets of a modern Los Angeles.
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November 14th, 2006 at 10:39 pm
Both of these films are awesome and classics, and for quite different reasons…
If this is your first watch of Bladerunner you probably missed the subtle reason for the folded paper at the end…
Give it another go and forget the music, there is a wealth of hidden depth there…
November 15th, 2006 at 8:16 pm
You’re right I didn’t get that, his boss was folding up bits of paper wherever he went wasn’t he? I just assumed it meant he’d been there too and was about to kill the remaining android before the film finished… or he was letting her live?
November 24th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
Yes, that’s one! Watch it again, there is a heartbreaking epiphany, think I got it on my 3rd watch…think about shapes…
November 24th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
(if you get it, don’t write it here though, other people have that moment ahead of them, shouldn’t ruin it)…