Blade Runner, Making Of

[jyl]

“Blade Runner” is one of my favorite movies, definitely top five.

I happened across this “making of” video, and it is fascinating. How the look was created, why it need to look that way, how the actors and crew suffered, scenes that didn’t get into the final, the replicant that I never knew was, is well worth a watch if you love the movie.

Unsure when this was made - how long after the movie - but Sean Young was so much younger than the other actors, and Harrison Ford was such a professional. Great stuff.

https://youtu.be/9AoiqICo6ZI

[MBAtarga]

[cockerpunk]

if you want to see the real making of blade runner, take a look at Jodorosksy's dune.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodorowsky%27s_Dune

its a stillborn adaption of dune, but it more or less pioneered the entire alien, blade runner, aesthetic. even 2001. basically all those 80s sci fi futurism movies were based on this stillborn movie.

[craigster59]

Earl Hayes Press has been a staple in printing and producing props for the motion picture industry since 1915. They have introduced reissues using the same techniques used to make the originals. You can get yourself a Jen-U-Wine police badge from Blade Runner....

https://www.theearlhayspress.com/memorabilia-prop-shop/p/blade-runner-police-995-wallet-badge

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by jyl

“Blade Runner” is one of my favorite movies, definitely top five.

I happened across this “making of” video, and it is fascinating.

Started watching this morning will finish tonight. Thanks.

[Steve Carlton]

Blade Runner (1982) is a testament to Ridley Scott's determination to make the movie as he envisioned it. Being without CGI (maybe the last sci-fi movie without it?) forced the effects to be analog/organic, and more difficult to capture on film. Ridley was also a demanding taskmaster requiring lots of takes to get what he wanted. That's what I get from this video.

It's one of my top favorite movies of all time as well. How many movies have had 7 versions? The first movie I saw of his was Alien (1979), another landmark. There have been so many from Ridley over the years- I will always watch his products.

The sequel Blade Runner 2049 is as good as the original in my opinion overall. I believe Ridley wasn't available to direct it, but they got Denis Villeneuve, who's talents are enormous. I'm looking forward to his future movies.

[rcooled]

Originally Posted by jyl

“Blade Runner” is one of my favorite movies, definitely top five. I happened across this “making of” video, and it is fascinating.

One of my favorites too...thanks for posting that.

As one comment said, "Mayhem created a masterpiece". It surely did...

[Steve Carlton]

"I make friends." One of the charming details in this movie.

[Steve Carlton]

I was impressed with the creativity in Blade Runner 2049. How often do you see your holographic "girlfriend" hire a prostitute so she can superimpose her image over her? It looks like you're making love with Ana de Armas, but you're poking Mackenzie Davis. Sounds good!

[cockerpunk]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

I was impressed with the creativity in Blade Runner 2049. How often do you see your holographic "girlfriend" hire a prostitute so she can superimpose her image over her? It looks like you're making love with Ana de Armas, but you're poking Mackenzie Davis. Sounds good!

this isnt supposed to be a good thing.

like this is supposed to be a impersonal, non-human, gross and uncomfortable part of the movie. it draws yet again the comparison that blade runner always makes, kinda the entire point of the film really, which is that what we deem human, and what is human, is important and often wrong line that society enforces.

if you didnt get that, i struggle to see you getting the point of the movie at all.

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by cockerpunk

this isnt supposed to be a good thing.

For someone who comes off like an arrogant intellectual troll, it seems like you could really use some green font now and then.

Originally Posted by cockerpunk

like this is supposed to be a impersonal, non-human, gross and uncomfortable part of the movie. it draws yet again the comparison that blade runner always makes, kinda the entire point of the film really, which is that what we deem human, and what is human, is important and often wrong line that society enforces.

if you didnt get that, i struggle to see you getting the point of the movie at all.

I didn’t interpret that scene as impersonal, non-human, or gross. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Your 10 cent pseudo-intellectual attack isn’t called for in this discussion of the making of a film.

[Icemaster]

Originally Posted by cockerpunk

this isnt supposed to be a good thing. :rolleyes

Please don't troll up a non-controversial conversation with a presumptous, pedantic reply.

[cockerpunk]

Originally Posted by Icemaster

Please don't troll up a non-controversial conversation with a presumptous, pedantic reply.

i didnt think "blade runner is about where we draw the line between human and non-human, and how messed up that is becoming as technology advances" was troll take.

its the entire point of the movie. its the whole thing. if you didnt get that from blade runner, you didnt get blade runner.

[Icemaster]

Years I've been watching you interact here with people, all I come back to when you chime is 'there are ways to say things, and ways not to say things.'

Try a little less arrogance, professor.

[cockerpunk]

Originally Posted by Icemaster

Years I've been watching you interact here with people, all I come back to when you chime is 'there are ways to say things, and ways not to say things.'

Try a little less arrogance, professor.

nobody likes the tone police.

but really, if you are any kind of fan of bladerunner, the notion that the film is about the blurring of the line between human and non-human and danger that line poses, should not be news to you. its literally a junior high level understanding of the film.

[Icemaster]

Originally Posted by cockerpunk

...its literally a junior high level understanding of the film.

Peace/Out.

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by cockerpunk

nobody likes the tone police.

Nobody likes ass hole tone.

[cockerpunk]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

Nobody likes ass hole tone.

again, if you are at all familiar, on even a basic level, with bladerunner, this should not be news to you.

if it is, you did not get the movie.

it doesnt make me an ******* to assume that you understand the basic premise of the movie you claim to be a fan of.

[Steve Carlton]

I understand Blade Runner very well. I'm not interested in discussing it with someone who's just trolling for an argument with an arrogant, condescending, all-knowing attitude. You missed the meaning in my post and have changed the subject matter. Not interested in talking to you.

[cockerpunk]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

I understand Blade Runner very well. I'm not interested in discussing it with someone who's just trolling for an argument with an arrogant, condescending, all-knowing attitude. You missed the meaning in my post and have changed the subject matter. Not interested in talking to you.

you made it pretty clear you were in favor of the whole "****ing a computer, who is projecting onto what is essentially a random woman's body"

so i got your post.

you just think this is a good thing, whereas the movie sees this as a very bad thing indeed. because its not being true to a human and human interaction, which the movie, views as supririor to a human/machine interaction or a machine/machine interaction. it also has the side effect of having some random woman's humanity completely erased, which should be insulting to anyone who values humanity, but again, particularly this movie, her humanity being erased in favor of a computers is particularly bad.

its not supposed to be sexy, and if you found it appealing, you didnt get the basic premise of the movie.