Bladerunner-DVD

I received my Original Trilogy Star Wars films the day before. :p

All region 1.

Will get Clerks 2 and and Evening with Kevin Smith on 28/11/06 too. *Signed by Kev as well*

Region 2 sucks....

Simon/~Flibster
 
The directors cut was one of the first DVDs I've bought and I still have it sitting on my shelf, great sci fi film
 
What with next year being the Blade Runner anniversary there is apparently a few things going on.
Scott is at last being allowed to go back to the film and finish it off so to speak.
So we should see a "Directors, Directors Cut".
This should get a cinema release which will introduce a new generation to this amazing film and also allow some of us the chance to see it on the Big Screen for the first time.
Then at around this time next year there should be that new version released on DVD which will also include the "Cleaned up" Director's Cut and also the original theatre release.
 
I always thought the whole Deckard is a replicant angle effectively destroyed the entire meaning of the film.

Didnt Ridley Scott say in a recent interview that in his eyes Deckard was a Replicant, but Harrison Ford himself strongly disagreed with this statement and basically he played Deckard as a human. To me the film makes little sense if he is a replicant. In my opinion the entire film questions what it is to be human. Deckard as the human, hunting replicants that in many ways are more alive and "human" than he is (its bascially the garbage of humanity still on Earth), has to question his own humanity and what it is that makes us human. Batty's last action on Earth is to save Deckard which is a real act of compassion and very human, especially given Deckard's ruthless destruction of the other replicants.

Im finally looking forward to being able to own a good quality version of the film on DVD. If i recall correctly it was one of the first films to be released on DVD. The version i have is certainly pretty poor quality.
 
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Melchy,

I agree 100%. To me, Deckard isn't and was never a replicant. He's just a very jaded ex-cop brought out of retirement.
 
And that is the beauty of it.
Everyone has their own opinion.
Some say he is, some say he isn't - you can look at the evidence in the film and decide for yourself if you feel he is a rep or not.
There is no definitive answer on that question - Although Scott does claim that Phil Dick told him that Deckard was a Rep, you have to decide if Scott is telling the truth.

However....the omission of the Unicorn sequence is unfair as the arguments are then in favour of him not being a rep.
Leaving the paper unicorn in at the end was a waste of time if you're going to remove the dream sequence, so it should have been both removed or neither.

It will be interesting to see what happens in the director's, director's cut.
 
stoofa said:
And that is the beauty of it.
Everyone has their own opinion.
Some say he is, some say he isn't - you can look at the evidence in the film and decide for yourself if you feel he is a rep or not.
There is no definitive answer on that question - Although Scott does claim that Phil Dick told him that Deckard was a Rep, you have to decide if Scott is telling the truth.

However....the omission of the Unicorn sequence is unfair as the arguments are then in favour of him not being a rep.
Leaving the paper unicorn in at the end was a waste of time if you're going to remove the dream sequence, so it should have been both removed or neither.

It will be interesting to see what happens in the director's, director's cut.
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You see, i've always taken the Unicorn to have a different meaning. In its simplest form (in the original cut of the movie) it could be said that it was simply placed there to show that Gaff had indeed been to Deckards apartment, but let Rachael live. In christian mythology its seen as a symbol of mans spiritual nature, spiritual and intellectual illumination, and purity/virginity. It was also used as a symbol for Christ. If you place that symbolism into the dream sequence you can come out with all sorts of arguments for what it meant. Other cults and organisations put other meanings onto the unicorn, so we'll never know quite what was meant by it.
 
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There will be loads of people who have not seen Bladerunner and will not know what the hell we are going on about :)
It really is a film where everone can have an opinion on what parts of the film actually mean and nobody is right/wrong as the man behind the story is no longer with us to give us the definitive answer.

There are so few films around these days that can provoke this level of discussion - and to think Harrison Ford doesn't actually like talking about Bladerunner that much as he doesn't consider it one of his most famous roles.
 
Flibster said:
It could have been fantastic if Spielberg hadn't got involved with it and Kubrick lived to see it through.

Simon/~Flibster
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AI would have been great if it had <spoiler> stopped with him just looking at the statue, having reached his goal in life</spoiler> the entire last act should definately have been cut out.
 
melchy said:
Didnt Ridley Scott say in a recent interview that in his eyes Deckard was a Replicant, but Harrison Ford himself strongly disagreed with this statement and basically he played Deckard as a human. To me the film makes little sense if he is a replicant.
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Thats right. I saw an interview with Ford and he said that they both disagreed with how the part should be played - to the point where it almost torn the film apart.

I have to admit, its one film i still havent seen :eek: but im very keen to see it.
 
james.miller said:
Thats right. I saw an interview with Ford and he said that they both disagreed with how the part should be played - to the point where it almost torn the film apart.

I have to admit, its one film i still havent seen :eek: but im very keen to see it.
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As you can see from this thread, its a bit of a marmite film (you either love it or hate it). All i can say is go into it with an open mind, and at least view it all of the way through before making any decisions about it. I think you'd probably be best to watch both versions if you can get a hold of them, although its probably quite hard to find the original now days. If you watch both you'll understand some of the points people have raised in this thread.

Im still blown away by how it looks and the influence its had on other films is staggering. I still think its got one of the best pieces of dialogue ever with Roy Batty's last speech, most of which was Ad libbed. The Vangelis soundtrack is a bit of a classic as well.
 
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I read an interview with Ridley Scott somewhere online where he said he thought it was obvious that Deckard was the missing replicant. If you don't have that ambiguity, the film is a dull action flick. With that as a serious option, the film becomes a fascinating treatise on identity and self. When Deckard sits at the piano looking at his photos, he is clearly questioning his own memories. Are they real? If Rachel doesn't know she's a replicant having had implanted memories, how does anyone know if they are one hour old or forty years old?
 
Bladerunner is a fantastic film - one of my all time favourites. Try and spot the special guest appearance by the Millenium Falcon!
 
atpbx said:
I must be the only person who thinks Bladerunner is a boring ass film.
I've been trying to watch it this week, i cant manage anymore than 10 minutes at a time.
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you're not alone. i can see why people like it, but i just don't. loved AI though. all of it.
 
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