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"content": "Steven Spielberg: \"I thought Ridley [Scott, director of Blade Runner] painted a very bleak but brilliant vision of life on earth in a few years. It's kind of acid rain and sushi. In fact, it's coming true faster than most science fiction films come true. Blade Runner is almost upon us. It was ultranoir.\"\r http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/10.06/spielberg_pr.html Alex",
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"content": "Terry Gilliam: \"After The Fisher King, Richard LaGravenese who wrote the film, and I went to the studio with his script for Philip K Dick's A Scanner Darkly. Nobody's done a Dick novel right yet; Blade Runner was stunningly good, but Dick's idea was missing - that people were killing replicants to buy real animals. I saw how to make Scanner cheaply, and for it to be disturbing. But did the studio say, 'These two guys just made us our second-most profitable film of the year, let's give them the money to develop the idea?' No. I simply wasn't understanding the rules of this place called Hollywood.\"\r Well it's more of a comment than a review but...\r ~little wing~",
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"content": "that is kind of a weird thing to say. i don't think a central idea of DADoES was that people were killing replicants to buy real animals... that was an important part, but it wasn't the crux of the book, i didn't think so anyway. i think scott did a good job with blade runner. not in making it exactly like DADoES, but modifying it somewhat to make it a movie while still keeping the same feeling and some of the same central themes while adding some of his own.\r anyway, let's see more quotes. sorry, i don't have any. where do you guys find stuff like this?\r",
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"content": "It was merely an interpretation of the book. After reading DADoES, I was surprised how the film did NOT closely resemble the book. Central themes, characters and key points, yes, but the film is different.\r In my opinion, Blade Runner was made to be bleak, but visually stunning. The book didn't give off that vibe. Scott's vision of HOW to portray the future was something unlike anything that had ever been seen before. After watching all the featurettes, interviews and special features on the multi-disk set, I'm even more astonished at what a masterpiece this film really is. It's simply amazing. The costuming detail alone blew my mind.\r When it first came out in the early 80's, I think people were expecting something like Star Wars, since Harrison was known that way. The fact that the film was highly visual, with limited movie dialogue and haunting music....it was just way ahead of it's time. I don't think audiences at that time were in a mindset to appreciate what they saw. And Phillip K. Dick fans were probably upset at the departure from the novel.\r When you think about it, it still looks pretty good today. There are some funny things that date the movie (Atari) but overall, it holds up well and is a compelling, atmospheric film that leaves a keen viewer haunted.\r How DARE you kiss me?!?!\rI don't like fast women....\rand I HATE arrogant men.....",
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"content": "If a film was made to portray all the ideas and concepts laid down in DADoES, it would have to be at least a trilogy (to which it does not lend itself) or a TV season (at least).\r To get people to understand even the basic motivations of people acquiring live animals as status symbols would take 2 hours, then having your lives run by Penfield Mood Organs and Mercerism Virtual Reality Boxes to achieve union with Mercer is another 3 hours. Plus, the replicants in DADoES were wimpy.\r DADoES is a head job, not an entertainment flick.\r Blade Runner was the best meeting place between the two.\r Humans scorn what they can't grasp, and suffer in their longing for it.",
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"content": "I agree. There's no way Blade Runner would have been as successful if absolutely faithful to the book. Head job is one way to explain it. It definitely has some interesting concepts that worked well in the book but I don't see how the empathy box would have translated to the screen. Bladerunner made the book palatable.\r How DARE you kiss me?!?!\rI don't like fast women....\rand I HATE arrogant men.....",
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"content": "Maybe it's just me but what the hell does DADoES mean?\r Cult Leader my minds frightening, I drink blood from a human skull like a Viking",
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"content": "DADOES = Director Adored Droids Over Epic Story. \ue026 \"L\u00f3faszt, nehogy m\u00e1r. Te vagy a Blade ... Blade Runner\" ",
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"content": "Dadoes = don't ask dudes obvious excluding stuff\r http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdTmT3wVBxM someone should remake hollywood",
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"content": "Oh, ok thanks man.\r Cult Leader my minds frightening, I drink blood from a human skull like a Viking",
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"content": "hahahaha\r http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdTmT3wVBxM someone should remake hollywood",
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"author": "warnerchild",
"date": "Tue Nov 4 2014 01:33:31",
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"content": "This post has been deleted by the poster because the stupid IMDb computer posted it twice by mistake.",
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"content": "When it first came out in the early 80's, I think people were expecting something like Star Wars, since Harrison was known that way. The fact that the film was highly visual, with limited movie dialogue and haunting music....it was just way ahead of it's time It's look was original, and very much ahead of it's time. But the way Ridley Scott directed it, was not really ahead of it's time. His way of making \"Blade Runner\", had been done before. The difference is that people were not ready for something like \"Blade Runner\", because of it's bleak tone, dark atmosphere, and pessimistic look. During the 80's, alot of people were very optimistic.\r It was a decade of celebration in a way. So a film like \"Blade Runner\" was not going to appeal to most peoples preference during that time. I also feel that the studio hurt the film to a certain degree. By adding in that annoying voice over, and happy ending that contradicted the rest of the film. If they let Ridley do what he wanted to do, then the film could of gotten a bit more love in my opinion. It might not of gotten RAVE reviews, but they wouldn't of been so mixed. Sadly, Ridley didn't have the clout that he has now. He wasn't on Spielberg's level, so he couldn't do what he wanted to do with this film. \r Now in this decade, \"Blade Runner\" could be a big hit at the box office. And if hollywood had more faith in what it could do at the box office, then it might of made more money then \"Saw 4\" last year. \r Last Films Seen: Free Willy(1993)- 7/10\rBowling for Columbine(2002)- 8.5/10",
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"date": "Sun Nov 30 2008 12:21:47",
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"content": "Terry directed the all time best sci-fi movie ever made, so his comments seem respectable for me.",
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"content": "All time best Sci-fi movie? Incorrect.",
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"author": "timmy9313",
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"content": "Oh wow, imagine if Terry Gilliam had made A Scanner Darkly...",
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"content": "Mamoru Oshii (Ghost In A shell): People tend to classify my movies as cyberpunk fictions but I personally don't think they are. There are some films that I really enjoy such as Blade Runner, and they may have been helpful in making my movies to a certain degree, but I think many filmmakers consider so other than just myself. When you create a film dealing with humans and cyborgs, you have no choice but to refer back to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, as this movie is probably the foundation of movies with this theme. \r",
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"content": " I always wondered why no Anime directors were not interviewed for the box set, since some anime is influenced by Blade Runner The two obvious ones that reference Blade Runner are Ghost In The Shell & Akira. \r The Trifecta of Cinematic Evil: Michael Bay > Uwe Boll > M. Night Shyamalan",
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"content": "Christopher Nolan: \"I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. Alien, Blade Runner just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons.\" And this:\r Before the shooting began, Christopher Nolan invited the whole film crew to a private screening of Blade Runner (1982). After the film he said to the whole crew, \"This is how we're going to make Batman.\"",
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"content": "Christopher Nolan: \"I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. Alien, Blade Runner just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons.\" \r And this: \r Before the shooting began, Christopher Nolan invited the whole film crew to a private screening of Blade Runner (1982). After the film he said to the whole crew, \"This is how we're going to make Batman.\" Thats also why I love Blade Runner and basically everything by Kubrick. Because they create these worlds that you don't usually see in real life but you feel like you're there just by watching the movie. When it's finished you feel like you've stepped out of that world and then you enter reality. lol\r And also, Nolan made the entire film crew watch Heat, and then told them that is how they are going to make The Dark Knight. I guess for similar reasons\r If you piss in your pants you can only stay warm for so long ",
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"content": "Before the shooting began, Christopher Nolan invited the whole film crew to a private screening of Blade Runner (1982). After the film he said to the whole crew, \"This is how we're going to make Batman.\" They weren't very successful then. \r THE INQUISITOR\rMovies, Culture, Opinion and more...\r http://robertod.wordpress.com/",
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"content": "Nolan's brother, the scriptwriter, is also a fan of Blade Runner. \r Sara Maitland quoting Stanley Kubrick: \"He complaint about Blade Runner, that if it was that difficult to determine who was a replicant - why did it matter? Why do they have to be hunted down? If robots are made by us and act like us, why are they not our children?\"\r Alex",
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"content": "Ha Genius! 2001 is a far superior film on A.I. by a far superior director. Blade Runner = not as great as people praise it to be.",
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"content": "if it was that difficult to determine who was a replicant - why did it matter? Philip K. Dick's entire literary career was about the problem of determining what was real. Also , the problem of evil.\r \"Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects\". Will Rogers (1879-1935)",
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"content": "Richard Linklater (A Scanner Darkly): \"My opinions on previous Philip K. Dick adaptations are probably really similar to everybody else's. I think we all rally around 'Blade Runner'. I like the original cut of 'Blade Runner' more than the Director's Cut -- the so-called 'Director's Cut'. I liked the narrator. I hear there's a new DVD coming out with three different versions, and I'm waiting for that, because the original cut has become unavailable.\rIt's more in the film noir tradition to have a narrated voice -- and you kind of need it to pull the elements together. It's not cheesy or bad in any way. It's classic. But I saw it in the theater at the time, too, so maybe it's just special to me.\"\r How about them apples?! That's Linklater and Del Toro vs. Frank Darabont.\r Alex\r",
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"content": "David Fincher: The voiceover in Blade Runner, if you listen to it, sounds like a guy reading prose while he's sitting on the john.\r Alex\r ",
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"content": "Chris Cunningham: \"Ridley said some time ago that with Blade Runner, for him, the design was the statement. Well, for me,\" says Cunningham, \"the atmosphere was the statement. I can't think of another film that has such a strong atmosphere. So melancholy, and the strangest feeling of nostalgia for a place and time that never was.\"\r One of my favorite quotes about Blade Runner.\r Alex",
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"content": "Is that true about Nolan, that he showed TDK cast Blade Runner and said \"Like this\"? Not TDK but BB.",
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"content": " ahem, *beep* David Fincher!!\r that is all...\r The Trifecta of Cinematic Evil: Michael Bay > Uwe Boll > M. Night Shyamalan",
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"content": "\"So melancholy, and the strangest feeling of nostalgia for a place and time that never was.\" \r My NEW favorite quote on \"Blade Runner.' Perfect.",
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"content": "Seconded! Cunningham's a classy bloak. Where is that long awaited feature from him already!?\r Would you happen to have any... flan?\rhttp://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=194240",
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"content": "More about nostalgia for a time and place that could be.",
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"content": "Chris Cunningham: \"Ridley said some time ago that with Blade Runner, for him, the design was the statement. Well, for me,\" says Cunningham, \"the atmosphere was the statement. I can't think of another film that has such a strong atmosphere. So melancholy, and the strangest feeling of nostalgia for a place and time that never was.\" Wow that's exactly how I feel about it, he summed up my feelings perfectly. Great quote.",
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"content": "Wow that's exactly how I feel about it, he summed up my feelings perfectly. Great quote. It is! The world of Blade Runner (which is a hybrid of the old and the new) doesn't seem to be able to let go of the past and oozes a kind of beautiful decay. Combine this with the never-ending rain, the compassionate sounds of Vangelis (another fusion of the old and the new), the themes of mortality and aging, and it could explain what Cunningham is talking about.\r Alex",
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"content": "David Fincher: The voiceover in Blade Runner, if you listen to it, sounds like a guy reading prose while he's sitting on the john. The great David Fincher is 100% correct. Last Films Seen: Free Willy(1993)- 7/10\rBowling for Columbine(2002)- 8.5/10",
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"content": "Mark Leckey (video artist and professor of film): The film that has had the greatest influence on me is Blade Runner (1982, directed by Ridley Scott). I love this film for the same reasons I love Roxy Music: they share a sense of yearning for the past and the future, for another place and another time, but it\u0092s flattened out, so everything seems to occur at the same time in the same space. In Blade Runner you really feel that everything and everyone is piled on top of each other, mounting up like wreckage at the feet of the angel of history.\r Alex ",
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"content": "Andy and Larry Wachowski: Blade Runner was a benchmark science fiction film, a masterpiece. Of course there's influence. But we were like the only guys who liked that movie when we saw it, everyone else hated it.\r Alex ",
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"content": "Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen): \"I first saw Blade Runner when I was 16. It rocked my world. All those incredible images were burned into my psyche. It's one of those movies you can't help but quote, an involuntary reference source that will be recycled throughout cinema forever. It's like a lesson from the master saying, 'Go out into the world and do good.'\r Hm, nice quote.\r Alex",
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"content": "I like all these quotes Alex. Great stuff. I don't know where you're even finding them all. I've been searching and came up with only that first one I posted. \r Have a better one...",
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"content": "Thanks! I thought nobody was interested. \r How do I find them? Well, when I first started out, I didn't really know what I was getting myself into. I was just muddling on. Then I heard of this new product called 'Google', and wow, since then my life has never been the same. It's like having a crystal ball, a window to the world. They offered me two for the price of one and let me tell you, I never regretted the purchase. I highly recommend it to everyone! \r If you too want to impress your friends and family, call now, and receive a free gift!\r Alex\r ",
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"content": "Oh man Alex, I haven't even finished my first cup of coffee and already the sarcasm is so thick I can stir it with a spoon. Well aparently you're better than I at stringing together search terms because that's where I went too. \r Have a better one...",
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"content": "Indeed, little wing, the right search terms is what does the trick.\r Paul Verhoeven: \"I have to continuously run old movies to keep my faith in cinema. When I feel very depressed I look at Ivan the Terrible or The Rules of the Game or Metropolis or even Blade Runner, say, or The Terminator or something like that, or every Hitchcock movie \u0096 or maybe 50% per cent of them. I need them \u0096 sometimes I come home completely depressed and I have to put them on. It\u0092s so difficult in an industry where the parameters have become so much those of pure entertainment, to still keep your belief that cinema is an art.\"\r Alex\r",
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"content": "Curtis Harrington: \"One of my favorite films of the last 20 years or so is \"Blade Runner.\" \"Blade Runner\" is just magnificent in its own way. But the director has directed a lot of guff too. So I can't say Ridley Scott is one of my favorite directors because he goes from directing a masterpiece like that to \"G. I. Jane.\" So there's no consistency.\"\r Alex",
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"content": "Joseph Kahn who is reputedly directing an adaption of Neuromancer: \r \"If you want to become an aesthetic filmaker there is no other way to cross that threshhold....unless you study Blade Runner.\" \r\"Blade Runner\" is almost a playbook, I feel, for filmaking of the last 30 years.\"\r Have a better one...",
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"content": "Is that for the fact that Neuromancer is coming to the big screen or that I finally found another quote btw, the fact that Kahn is directing Neuromancer scares me not a little. But a discussion for another board perhaps.\r Have a better one...",
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"content": "Oh yes, I applauded the fact that you finally found another quote. Keep them coming! ",
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"content": "William Gibson himself on Blade Runner:\r\u0093\u0092Blade Runner\u0092 came out while I was still writing Neuromancer,\u0094 he wrote in his online diaries a couple of months ago. \u0093I was about a third of the way into the manuscript. When I saw (the first twenty minutes of) \u0091Blade Runner,\u0092 I figured my unfinished first novel was sunk, done for. Everyone would assume I\u0092d copped my visual texture from this astonishingly fine-looking film. But that didn\u0092t happen. Mainly I think because \u0091Blade Runner\u0092 seriously bombed in theatrical release, and films didn\u0092t pop right back out on DVD in those days. The general audience didn\u0092t seem to get it, relatively few people saw it, and it simply vanished, leaving nary a ripple. Where it went, though, was straight through the collective membrane . . . where it silently went nova, irradiating everything from clothing-design to serious architecture. What other movie has left actual office-buildings in its stylistic wake? Some of this was already starting to happen in the gap between my submission of the manuscript and the novel\u0092s eventual publication; I noted with interest, for instance, the fact of a London club called Replicants.\u0094 \r \"I was a child of the '50s, so it wasn't as though I noticed science fiction as part of the culture, it was the culture... The post-war era was when the future was clearest and most real, flying cars and atomic refrigerators... The future we live in today is something not only the '50s could never have dreamed of, but I think would have regarded with deep and genuine horror. As far as the '50s is concerned, we're living Blade Runner and Neuromancer right now.\" \r Not a director but revelent Have a better one...",
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"content": "Joel Schumacher: When I watch a movie, I like to have the feeling that the person (Jordan Cronenweth) who brought the look to the photography had a real vision, whether it's Blade Runner or The Wages of Fear. You feel you're there, inside that world. I appreciate that talent the way I appreciate a great piece of music.\r PS: It's funny Joel mentions 'The Wages Of Fear' because, just like Blade Runner, it's one of my favorites.\r Alex",
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"content": "Brian Lonano: I definitely wanted \"Attackazoids!\" to be very experimental with its imagery, special effects and story structure. I don't think this will limit its appeal because science fiction is very impressionistic and image-driven to begin with. '2001: A Space Odyssey' is a great film that is image-driven and its story is simple (in a good way, of course). 'Blade Runner' is another great example. Not that I can compare myself with the greats .. hehe.\r Alex",
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"content": "PS: It's funny Joel mentions 'The Wages Of Fear' because, just like Blade Runner, it's one of my favorites. I like The Wages of Fear also. It's not only funny Joel mentions it - it's odd when anyone mentions it. You don't hear it mentioned much, although it has an 8.4 rating on imdb. \r There is a parallel to Blade Runner too. The ending of The Wages of Fear was changed to a happy ending at some point. I've only seen the proper ending, but I've heard there was a happy one also.\r Have a better one...",
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"content": "Where it went, though, was straight through the collective membrane . . . where it silently went nova, irradiating everything Brilliant quote. As evocative as BR and Neuromancer themselves. \r Would you happen to have any... flan?\rhttp://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=194240",
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"content": "Guillermo Del Toro on Blade Runner: \"This movie is one of the movies that changed my life. I came out of it and I was not the same person.\"\r\"This movie, to me, embodies the elegance, the power, the uniqueness, of a film experience.\"\r This one may have been posted on another thread - it sounded familiar, but it's really a good one - bears repeating.\r Have a better one...",
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"content": "Mark Romaneck: \"Of all the big, influential, science-fiction films, the ones that made a real serious stab at predicting the way things would be, this film [Blade Runner] has been the most accurate.\"\r Have a better one...",
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"content": "Very good, little wing, I never heard of that one. I remember I liked the photography of Romanek's 'One Hour Photo'.\r Andrew Dominik (The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford): \"The problem with director's cuts is that no one really sees them. I'm not even sure if I believe in them per se, because you can't really give somebody back the first experience of seeing a movie. I don't know how I feel about them, really. I guess there's no doubt that the director's cut of Blade Runner is better than the version that was released in the theater, but I saw that version when it came out and it still had a big impact on me.\"\r Is that another vote for the Theatrical Version? Anyways, I'm a big fan of Dominik.\r Alex\r",
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"content": "Hear, hear. Jesse James was excellent. After seeing it only twice, though, I'm not sure I'm qualified to comment upon it. Sure, it's Malickian, but when a film...\r (a) is unbelievably beautiful\r (b) is filled with great performances\r (c) contains such a moving ending\r ...it seems to demand at least a few years before being definitively evaluated. Hell, that's certainly what happened with BR.",
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"content": "I agree with you balthazer, re: TAoJJbtCRF, but we seem to be in the minority. I can see why Ridley Scott was interested in the project. I'd add that it was quite underviewed and underrated. \r Thanks for the quote Alex to remind me of this excellent film. \r Have a better one... ",
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"content": "I'd add that it was quite underviewed and underrated. I think that Andrew Dominik has already distinguished himself as one of best directors of this decade. I believe that with this film alone he placed himself at lonely heights next to such 'auteurs' like Paul Thomas Anderson.\r Alex",
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"content": "I think that Andrew Dominik has already distinguished himself as one of best directors of this decade. I believe that with this film alone he placed himself at lonely heights next to such 'auteurs' like Paul Thomas Anderson I can't really consider him to be one of the best in this decade, since he's only done two films. But if he keeps it up, then he'll be compared to the all time great filmmakers in cinema.\r \"Jesse James\" was a fascinating experience. I felt that one, or two parts didn't need the narration. But overrall, it was used brillianty, and eleguently. The performances were fantastic, the images were aestically brilliant, and the score is both beautiful, and tragic. Kinda like the films journey of Jesse James, and Robert Ford. Beautiful, and tragic. Last Films Seen: Free Willy(1993)- 7/10\rBowling for Columbine(2002)- 8.5/10",
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"content": "Try as I might, I have been unable to find one single instance of Alex Proyas commenting on Blade Runner. I do however have a quote by Will Smith when asked by Tom Charity at lovefilm.com about I, Robot.\r Will Smith on Alex Proyas I, Robot: TC: Was Blade Runner an influence?\r WS: Yes, Blade Runner definitely. That was the film that we all really looked at as far as trying to capture both elements, to create a film that pleases the sci-fi audience and also, anyone that walks into a movie theatre there's a story that can be followed. You don't have to like science fiction to like the movie.\r Have a better one...",
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"content": "Try as I might, I have been unable to find one single instance of Alex Proyas commenting on Blade Runner. Which is strange because Dark City looks like it has been greatly influenced by BR. It has that same cyber-gothic-punk-German Expressionism feel about it. Dark City also uses photographs and memories as a theme. The humans (instead of replicants) have implanted memories.\r Alex",
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"content": "Which is strange.... Yeah, that was my thought too. I found several interviews where he was asked about or talked about films that had an influence on him. It was almost as if he instructed interviewers not to ask about BR as it was conspicuously missing in both the questions and his answers. \r Have a better one...",
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"content": "Matthew Nourse: \"I've always been involved in filmmaking whether I was shooting shorts on a video camera and music videos for friends. But really by high school I became so immersed in American Independent film that I realized I wanted to become a filmmaker. I didn't see Blade Runner and decide I wanted to be a director...\"\r I thought that was funny.\r Alex",
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"content": "Michael Crichton: But by \"Blade Runner\" in the 1980s, a different image of the future had emerged - a hodge-podge city that had grown organically, and was full of chaotic disconnects. It envisioned an Asian model of urban growth, and indeed many urban landscapes today look as if they are right out of Blade Runner. \r RIP\r Alex",
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"content": "Michael Crichton:...RIP How sad. With the election going on news of his death was overlooked here in Chicago. I enjoyed his books and many of the films adapted from them. 13th Warrior is on my all time favorite list (likewise the book it was adapted from). The film's not rated too highly but I've probably it watched more times than any film except BR. We all have our foibles, .\r Have a better one...",
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"content": "Tony Scott: \"Blade Runner for me is...Ridley's movie. Cause Blade Runner took a piece of his soul as well. Yeah. It was very hard. He did Blade Runner at a time when the film community, Hollywood was not ready for...that sort of obsession with detail.\" \r Alex",
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"content": "Cause Blade Runner took a piece of his soul as well. I would have to believe Tony Scott's statement. Even though Ridley never comes out and says so, if you read/listen to enough interviews it's there between the lines.\r Matthew Nourse: \"I've always been involved in filmmaking... That was an odd sort of reference to BR. Almost a left handed compliment, lol. But what really intrigues me Alex, is how you came up with such an obscure director. The guy's only directed one film which aparently had a very small viewing community (87 votes) and produced one with even less of a viewing audience. Not saying they weren't good (I haven't seen them) just really obscure.\r Have a better one...",
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"content": " But what really intrigues me Alex, is how you came up with such an obscure director. I don't remember. I know I was looking for something else but ended up with Matthew Nourse. Of course, he was jokingly commenting on the fact that so many directors said they stepped into this profession because of Blade Runner.\r John Alan Simon (director of the upcoming 'Radio Free Albemuth', also based on a Philip K. Dick novel): \"When I first saw Blade Runner (when it was originally released), I was disappointed that it lacked the humor of the novel \"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?\". I thought it was a bit dull, though visually stunning. On viewing the Director's version (or versions), I've really upgraded my assessment.\"\r Alex\r",
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"content": "It is widely reported that Tom Tykwer (Perfume: Story of a Murderer, Lola Rennt) would lock himself in the theater and watch the copy of Blade Runner that belonged to the theater over and over again. This is the quote I found from him on that subject:\r When an art theater opened in town, Tykwer hired on as a 16-year-old projectionist. \"This was paradise,\" he recalls. \"We had our own print of 'Blade Runner' because we showed it every week. I had the key to the cinema, and I could close the door after the last person left and watch movies.\"\r How cool would that be to have a cinema to yourself every night?\r Have a better one...",
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"content": "I didn't know that about Tom Tykwer. Good find, little wing! I guess I must see his films now. I heard that Lola Rennt is pretty good.\r Alex",
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"content": "I guess I must see his films now. Of the three I've seen (the two I listed and The Princess and the Warrior) I liked Perfume the best. At the time it was made it was the most expensive film ever made in Germany and it shows. It's a beautiful production; dark and a bit disturbing. At the time I saw it I thought it was one of the better movies I'd seen in my life. I'd like to see it again to see if I still feel the same. Stanley Kubrick was interested in adapting it from the book at one time, but said he thought it was unfilmable. So it's to Tykwers credit that not only did he make it but he made it well. \r Have a better one...",
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"content": "This time not a director but a director of photography.\r John Toll (Legends Of The Fall, Braveheart, The Thin Red Line, Vanilla Sky, etc.): \"I met Jordan right after he shot Blade Runner. I went to a screening of Blade Runner with him when he saw it from the beginning to end for the first time \u0097 other than in timing sessions. It was unbelievable. It was about two o'clock in the afternoon, and there were about 20 people in the theater. Bing Sokolsky and Ernie Holzman were there. We all did commercials together. I was Jordan's operator and Bing and Ernie were his assistants. We sat in the theater with Jordan watching Blade Runner. He was so enthusiastic it was like being with a kid at Christmas. It wasn't his work that excited him. He was almost detached from his specific work. He was actually watching the photography as part of a total story. He got very vocal as we were watching the film. He started whooping and hollering and it was genuine. You couldn't blame him, it was absolutely stunning. No one else in the theater seemed to mind.\"\r Alex \r",
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"content": "Alex Rivera (Sleep Dealer): The most memorable things about Blade Runner is the ambiance of the world, this part-Chinese, part-Chicano future where robot slaves are rebelling. It\u0092s the stew of the future and getting to see that which draws us into science fiction. Sleep Dealer is competitive with any sci-fi at that level. Its ideas of the future are more true, I think, than the ideas in Blade Runner.\r Interviewer: I\u0092ve long felt that the futuristic city depicted in Blade Runner is a false city because we all know it would be more Chicano than Chinese; it\u0092s ethnically imprecise.\r Alex Rivera: [Laughs.] Exactly. But Blade Runner and so many other science fictions tell us about a future where robots are built to work and all of a sudden they rebel and want to kill people. Then Harrison Ford or Will Smith or somebody has to kill the robots. Intellectually, that\u0092s what they give us. What Sleep Dealer gives us is a lot more true. It\u0092s a lot more real and a lot more imaginable. In terms of the ideas, Sleep Dealer is competitive with any science fiction film.\r Clearly a case of a director 'quoting' Blade Runner to promote his own film.\r Alex",
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"content": "True. kind of weird because what he says about Blade Runner has nothing at all to do with what Sleep Dealer is about. \r The Trifecta of Cinematic Evil: Michael Bay > Uwe Boll > M. Night Shyamalan",
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"content": "I\u0092ve long felt that the futuristic city depicted in Blade Runner is a false city because we all know it would be more Chicano than Chinese; it\u0092s ethnically imprecise This guy has obviously never been to New York City. Last Films Seen: Free Willy(1993)- 7/10\rBowling for Columbine(2002)- 8.5/10",
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"content": "This time a quote from a film producer:\r Bill Mechanic(The New World): To me -- and I don't mean this with any disrespect at all to the film -- there was no best picture last year. Was \"Gladiator\" the best of the choices? Not for me to judge. ... \"Gladiator\" didn't transport my life, and nothing on those top five movies did. Erin Brockovich didn't change my life. They're good movies, well made, good pieces of entertainment. I enjoyed them. Do I think they're the ultimate test of greatness? Ridley Scott made \"Blade Runner,\" and \"Blade Runner\" is, to me, a much better movie than \"Gladiator.\" \"Alien\" is a better movie than \"Gladiator.\" Those movies will stand the test of time or have stood the test of time.\r Alex\r ",
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"content": " making hip hoppers funny 3 hours long sci-fi movies?\r only for teens\r ",
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"content": "...there was no best picture last year. Was \"Gladiator\" the best of the choices? Not for me to judge. ... \"Gladiator\" didn't transport my life... I would humbly have to disagree with Bill Mechanic (presuming he's talking about the 2001 Academy Awards). I thought Gladiator was outstanding and never forgave the Acadamy for not giving the Oscar to Ridley Scott that year. Soderbergh's Traffic can't hold a candle to Gladiator, imho. As a double slap in the face, again mho, Joaquin Phoenix was robbed in the Best Supporting actor category. And finally John Mathieson should have won for Cinematography. At least the BFA had the sense to award Mathieson. I'm surprised they passed up Scott for Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon though. Of course this is all jmo:-) I don't eat and sleep by awards shows anyway. And from everthing I've read about Ridley Scott, I don't think he does either.\r I've been having a look at Ridders' oeuvre. I don't see much after BL to write home about. I never compare any of Ridley's later films to Blade Runner. It stands alone and it would be unfair to compare other films of Scott's or of any director to such greatness. Have a better one...",
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"content": "I would have to agree with Mechanic. Gladiator didn't change my life either. ",
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"content": "I would have to agree with Mechanic. Gladiator didn't change my life either. Mechanic didn't say Gladiator didn't change his life - he said Gladiator didn't transport his life. \r Gladiator didn't change my life either, but I certainly felt transported into Maximus' time by the film. Regardless of how much impact the film had on us individually, I still felt it was deserving of the Oscar it won but felt Ridley should also have had an Oscar for his direction. For we all know that Scott's films are almost entirely his own creations no matter how many others are involved in them. \r Have a better one...",
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"content": "I am a Ridders fan, I didn't like Gladiator all that much. Joaquin Phoenix for an oscar? I hope you're kidding that was one of the hammiest performances north of William Shatner I'd seen in a long time. I probably would have like the film more if my seat wasn't like in the far front corner of a packed theater... the digital effects gave me a headache... and the opening scene (I totally dig barbarian warfare type scenes like that) was hard to watch. I've only caught parts of it on TV since I saw it in theaters, and if I watch it again beginning to end on high def I'm sure it will go up a few notches in my book but my initial impression was it was a bit corny, with good action, and mostly won being a harkening back to old Hollywood epics... and the Academy loves nothing more than to reward themselves. \r I agree though Traffic was rubbish. I'd rather have my skin peeled off than watch that again.\r IMDB TDK message board = 4CHAN",
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"content": "Joaquin Phoenix for an oscar? I hope you're kidding.... Yes, I did like Phoenix as Commodus in the film. He was nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA, and a Golden Globe for his performance so there were a few people out there who thought the same. Obviously there were some who shared your sentiments sm, since he didn't actually win any of those awards, lol. I do think the Shatner comparison is a little harsh though. Er, Sorry squeeth;-)\r and the opening scene (I totally dig barbarian warfare type scenes like that) was hard to watch.. Funny you should mention that. I watched Mongol the other day. The cinematography is phenominal. But when I watched the Mongol warfare scenes the first thing that came to mind was that opening scene in Gladiator. It irritated me too with the digital choppiness. \r I never sit in the front of the cinema. Gives me a headache too. I guess everyone has their favorite spot. Mine's dead center with adjustments depending on the size of the theater. I saw 3:10 to Yuma on opening day in a smaller theater with stadium seating. The only seats left were all the way in the last row but the place was so small it was still good.\r Have a better one...",
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"content": "Soderbergh's Traffic can't hold a candle to Gladiator, imho \"Gladiator\" is a great film. But Ridley's direction in that film, doesn't really compare to what he accomplished in \"Alien\", and \"Blade Runner.\" And Soderbergh's camera-work in \"Traffic\" was not only intoxicating, but aestically brilliant as well. He perfected the concpet of the \"shaky-cam.\" \r As a double slap in the face, again mho, Joaquin Phoenix was robbed in the Best Supporting actor category So I guess you've never seen \"Traffic??\" Last Films Seen: Free Willy(1993)- 7/10\rBowling for Columbine(2002)- 8.5/10",
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"content": "So I guess you've never seen \"Traffic??\" Lol, I did see Traffic when it came out, Evangelion. It's just one of those things. It's not my type of film and while both Benecio Del Toro and Michael Douglas are fine actors they aren't actors I'm drawn to. My opinion of Del Toro though, has changed considerably over the years.\r He perfected the concpet of the \"shaky-cam.\" A filmatic device I'm not fond of. At least not in large doses. \r In all fairness I should probably watch Traffic again one of these days. It wouldn't be the first time I've changed my mind about a film. \r Gladiator isn't a popular film on this board and I respect all opinions posted but I'll still stand behind my statements. \r Have a better one...",
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"content": "It's not my type of film Same here. I really don't like shaky-cam, nor an excessive use of editing. But it just works so perfectly well in \"Traffic\", and the film becomes so different during repeated viewings. Which is mostly due to the added layers to the characters, and different dimensions that is revealed to us. It sucks that it lost best picture, while a lesser crime/drama like \"The Departed\" manages to win that big reward. \r Last Films Seen: Free Willy(1993)- 7/10\rBowling for Columbine(2002)- 8.5/10",
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"content": "Christopher Nolan was highly influenced by \"Blade Runner\", in order to capture a dark, and very bleak atmosphere within \"Batman Begins.\"\r Now for \"The Dark Knight\", he used Michael Mann's \"Heat\" as an influence. And the cinematography in that film is different, but equally as gorgeous. And he used Michael Mann's way of navigating Las Angeles, as a way for him to navigate Gotham City, and go to different places. And like \"Heat\", it's more of an ensemple film, and a police procedral type of film, instead of a character study.\r I'm getting kind of side-tracked here. But my point is that Ridley's influence with \"Blade Runner\" has no limits at this point. You can even see simularities in Zack Snyder's film adaptation of the \"Watchmen.\" And there is an anime called \"Ergo Proxy\", that looks, and feels exactly like \"Blade Runner.\" It's probably one of the best animes that I've seen at this point in my life. \r P.S: I just wanted to mention that Nolan was also highly influenced by Stanley Kubrick, with \"2001: A Space Odyssey.\" Which was pretty obviouse during \"TDK.\" \r Last Films Seen: Free Willy(1993)- 7/10\rBowling for Columbine(2002)- 8.5/10",
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"content": "Enough talk of Gladiator. On to another director (and writers)\r Interview with Michael Bay and writers on his film The Island by Mike Szmanski at scifi.com\r Szmanski: What were some of the science-fiction influences in this story? Obviously people will make comparisons to Blade Runner and Logan's Run, and some from writer Philip K. Dick. Did screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci go back and look at some of those movies?\r Bay: Logan's Run, sure, there will be some comparisons. I haven't seen that film since I was a kid, so I wasn't consciously aware of it.\r Orci: We knew we were going to deal with this subject matter at some point or other, so we did some research, but we didn't necessarily go back and look at every cloning movie ever done, and there aren't that many, really. I never saw Logan's Run.\r Kurtzman: But Blade Runner was deeply in our consciousness. Science fiction can be very distancing, and in this case they're exploring what it means to be a human. That's where we started from; we started with a guy who goes to work every day and realizes there's something very wrong with his life. And, yes, there's no doubt Philip K. Dick is an influence.\r Have a better one...",
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"content": "Now let's find one by Uwe Boll!",
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"content": "Now let's find one by Uwe Boll! Oddly enough Alex, if one Googles 'Uwe Boll' 'Blade Runner' this message appears:\rYour search - 'uwe boll' 'blade runner' - did not match any documents.\r Not sure where I found the Michael Bay interview. It was one of those times when I was searching for something else and that one popped up, so I saved it for when we had a lull in our thread, lol.\r Have a better one...",
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"content": "It's actually good to know that bad filmmakers do have great taste in cinema.\r Uwe Boll loves \"Apocalypse Now.\" \r Last Films Seen: Free Willy(1993)- 7/10\rBowling for Columbine(2002)- 8.5/10",
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"content": "Since using the name Michael Bay and Blade Runner in the same post seems to have brought this thread to a screaching halt let's move on.\r Darren Lynn Bousman talking about his new film Repo:\r \"Some of my favourite movies were met with extreme opposition when they came out \u0096 Blade Runner, Brazil\u0085these are movies that were revolutionary at the time they were made, but people didn\u0092t get them. Blade Runner, the critics hated when they first saw it. It wasn\u0092t until ten years later that people were like \u0091Wow! Blade Runner\u0092s amazing'.....\"\r Have a better one...",
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"content": "Darren Lynn Bousman talking about his new film Repo!The Genetic Opera. ... a sci-fi movie with Paris Hilton who says:\r \"It (Repo!) reminds me of 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' meets 'Blade Runner.' Just the music is incredible, it's really futuristic. There's like a story to it as well though. There's a sweet story.\"\r Alex\r ",
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"content": "Margarita Jimeno: \"Perhaps the road to go is to do something inspired by the book, the best film adaptations are the ones where something unique is brought to the story yet the novel shines though, like Blade Runner, or The Dead.\"\r Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Sunshine): The great ones [everyone knows] are a huge inspiration [like Alien, Blade Runner, etc.]. You remember the first time you saw them and the effect they had on you, the spell of them.\r Peter John Ross: \"My favorite films are (in no particular order) Blade Runner, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Fellowship of the Rings, Star Wars (1977), A Clockwork Orange, and Porky's.\"\r Alex",
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"content": "This time a comment by an actor:\r Daniel Craig (James Bond): I walked into the cinema not knowing what was on, sat down with my drink and popcorn and Blade Runner came on. I didn't know Ridley Scott from Adam, but I wanted to make movies like that, to create beautiful images in a great story. The movie had a huge influence on my life.\r Alex",
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"content": "Another quote by Blade Runner's biggest fan:\r Guillermo del Toro: Blade Runner is simply one of those cinematic drugs, that when I first saw it, I never saw the world the same way again. \r Alex",
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"content": "Thanks for the Christmas quote Alex. This has always been one of my favorite threads. Hope you're having a good one over there in Merry Old... \r have a better one...",
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"content": "Merry Old... ... England?\r Alex",
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"content": "That is where you're from isn't it? Although from what I've been reading things aren't too merry over there right now. \r If not England feel free to insert the location of your choice;-)\r have a better one...",
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"content": "A forgotten artist:\r Jim Burns: \"Here's the story in brief. Ridley Scott got in touch via my agent. Earl days in his film career, Alien under his belt and a new project gestating. That project was Dune. He saw my illustration for 'Colonel Kylling' in the joint book project Planet Story I did with the sf writer, Harry Harrison - and thought that this depiction was perfect for the Baron Vladimir Von Harkonnen character in Dune. Shortly before I was supposed to fly out to Hollywood and participate in early concept work on Dune - that project was shelved and Ridley Scott found himself instead with a script based on the novel by Philip K. Dick called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. This of course became Blade Runner. The offer to go and work on early concept material for this new film was held open for me - and so I went over to Hollywood for ten weeks and found myself involved mostly on design work for the police spinner and the various city design details. The police spinner found it's earliest incarnation in a machine I painted for a book a few years earlier called Tour of the Universe - actually a 'flying ambulance' in that story. Ridley turned the image upside down and said \"Hey Presto - there's the police spinner!\" - or words to that effect. Eventually the hugely talented Syd Mead was taken on and he basically took on the look of the whole film - very successfully indeed. But I like to think that some germ of my original police spinner resides in the version you see on film!\"\r Alex",
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"content": "Question: Aside from yourself, what filmmaker has given us the best picture of human-robot relations? \r Greg Pack (Robot Stories, 2003): I think Blade Runner is tremendous. I like the way the replicants have real emotional lives; they may do terrible things, but we understand their motivations and almost love them anyway. I actually prefer the way they're depicted in the movie to the way they're depicted in the original Philip K. Dick novel -- Dick makes them incapable of any real emotion, which strikes me as false. Ultimately, if a machine is able to think with as much complexity as a human and has the ability to learn, I'm guessing that an emotional life will inevitably follow. \r Alex",
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"content": "@Wing: When it comes to Dick's novel, Mr. Pack seems to think like you, wing!\r Alex",
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"content": "When it comes to Dick's novel, Mr. Pack seems to think like you, wing! I read your post with Pack's quote this morning (with my coffee, as usual) and it made me smile 'cause I thought \"cool..someone else thinks like me!\"....'course then my second thought was \"the poor fool\" ~We don't see things as they are, but as we are~",
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"content": "'course then my second thought was \"the poor fool\" ",
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"content": "Michel Chion: \"Sometimes a film appears which tries to recover this idea of an organic unity of all sounds. In my opinion, Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, US, 1982) is one rare recent film which tried to do this and which succeeded because of an analogical content relation between the electronic sounds as noise and Vangelis' synthesised music, and also because of the rhythmic conception of the film as a whole. This is a kind of rhythmic pyramid which goes from broad rhythms on the deep notes, electronic 'drones', to quicker rhythms in the ultrahigh notes, and also because of the 'symphonic' conceptualisation, the admirable organic mix achieved by Graham Hartstone.\"\r Michel Chion: born in 1947 in Creil, France, is a composer of experimental music. He teaches at several institutions within France and currently holds the post as Associate Professor at the Universit\u00e9 de Paris where he is a theoretician and teacher of audio-visual relationships.\r Alex\r ",
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"content": "Axcess May 1997 \rby Alison Rosen \rJill, the make-up artist, who happens to be a close friend of Jovovich's from years ago, asks if The Fifth Element is \"Blade Runner-ish?\" Milla Jovovich: You can compare it to Blade Runner only because it's futur- istic,\" she says. \"I would compare it more to Star Wars than Blade Runner, because it's really fun. Blade Runner was very dark. New York City in this movie is very bright. There isn't enough space, so people build up. The richer you are, the farther up you live, and the poorer you are, the lower down. But all the smog stays down, so if you have enough money, you live above the smog where the air is clear, and if you go down it's all dusty and dirty and horrible.\" --- (Millaj.com)\r Milla Jovovich on 'ULTRAVIOLET'\rContributed by Michael J. Lee, Executive Editor\rfor Radio Free Entertainment\rMarch 2, 2006\rWere all of the stylized buildings in Ultraviolet just sets and miniatures, or did the locations in China actually feature some of that futuristic-looking architecture? Milla Jovovich: Oh, man, it was amazing! Like in Hong Kong...I mean, it's like Blade Runner times ten. They have freeways that are like multi-layer freeways. And you're driving on the freeway, and you see a building, and then you look down, and you're like halfway up the building, on the freeway. So it's all built \"up.\" And there's high-rises up in the mountains. And Shanghai is crazy because they have the most modern architecture, but it's kind of a strangely set up city, because it's not like the modern architecture is there for people to enjoy. It's just business...It's not like you have a restaurant around there, or a plaza. And then you have to go like \"all the way over there\" for like restaurants. So that was kind of annoying, because there's so much amazing stuff, but there's nowhere to kind of sit down and take it all in...So hopefully they'll incorporate that kind of architecture with something more pleasurable.\r SAN DIEGO COMIC CON 2007 | RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION\rAn Interview with Milla Jovovich\rBy Denzel Walkes\rHow was it working with the Mexican crew and with Eugenio Caballero? MJ: It was such an amazing thing to work with him because he is so talented and he showed me all the books for Pan\u0092s Labyrinth which were just unbelievable. He had all these diaries where he kept all the photographs, the feelings of the inspiration, his writing, just incredible and he\u0092s just such a cool guy. I think it\u0092s funny because the Mexican people in general were very cultural and there is a lot of cultural diversity over there. They have really great museums and a really sophisticated city in Mexico city and you\u0092ve got a lot of young artists there and it was a really great feeling in that sense like a lot of young people that are very creative which I love and it reminded me of Berlin actually, it was like \u0093oh you can actually compare those too cities\u0094. I had an amazing time too because I got a chance to go see the pyramids. So I went a few times and it was unbelievable. The second time I went it was pouring down with rain which was really great because no one was there so we were like the only people there and I have some great pictures of the pyramids that almost look like blade runner. I almost feel like blade runner took inspiration from the pyramids for their building because they look so modern\u0085 I loved it.\r \"I think, Sebastian, therefore I am.\" --- Pris (Blade Runner)",
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"content": "Interesting quote from Michel Chion, alex. You mention he's a composer - have any of his compositions been recorded? If so are there any links for listening? \r ~We don't see things as they are, but as we are~",
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"content": "You mention he's a composer - have any of his compositions been recorded? If so are there any links for listening? http://www.michelchion.com/v1/index.php?option=com_content&task=vi ew&id=32&Itemid=52 Milla Jovovich: You can compare it to Blade Runner only because it's futur- istic,\" she says. \"I would compare it more to Star Wars than Blade Runner, because it's really fun. Blade Runner was very dark. New York City in this movie is very bright. There isn't enough space, so people build up. The richer you are, the farther up you live, and the poorer you are, the lower down. But all the smog stays down, so if you have enough money, you live above the smog where the air is clear, and if you go down it's all dusty and dirty and horrible.\" Eh, Millla, that's exactly how the city in Blade Runner functions. Another thing Blade Runner and The Fifth Element have in common is that they both borrowed heavily from the Metal Hurlant artists (Heavy Metal magazine). \r Alex\r ",
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"content": "Thanks Alex. Loved it. Funny thing, when I listened to the first few excerpts, Godard and particulary Alphaville popped into my mind. \rStrange huh?\r ~We don't see things as they are, but as we are~",
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"content": "Not quite a direct quote but - concerning the Coen Brothers film The Hudsucker Proxy: No. 6 from 'The Coen Brothers FAQ'6. Why the large budget?\r The Coens wanted to build large sets and use elaborate special effects. They had screened Blade Runner (1982) before making The Hudsucker Proxy, which also used elaborate sets and a large, detailed cityscape. Twenty-seven craftsmen spent three months building a '50s New York skyline, constructing fourteen skyscrapers. The movie's skyline was based on photographs from a book that Dennis Gassner found called, New York in the Forties and the scale after Citizen Kane (1941). From: http://www.youknow-forkids.com/coenbrothersfaq.pdf ~We don't see things as they are, but as we are~",
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"content": "Some cool quotes, especially the Coen bros one. Too bad Hudsucker was a flop, but at least it didn't stop their careers.\r My uncle (now dead) worked on Blade Runner as a make-up artist. He said it was the most massive set he had ever seen, and the amount of detail was just stunning and he thought a lot of it wasn't even able to be seen on screen. I would have loved to be able to walk around that set, now it'd be harder because most big budget spectacles are largely CGI... so on set, there's less to see.",
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"content": "Patrick Lussier (director/editor): In terms of direction, I\u0092ve take a lot of inspiration from Tsui Hark, the films he\u0092s produced, \"Chinese Ghost Story\" etc, as well as Guillermo del Toro who I had the privilege to edit \"Mimic\" for. And these days I think Ridley Scott is one of the most profound influences on contemporary filmmaking. \"Blade Runner\", its look, tone and feel may have inspired more directors than anything else.\r Alex \r ",
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"content": "Marc Miance (original visual concepter of Renaissance): One the design side, one we start with designing Paris. What we wanted to do is make a futuristic version of Paris, but we wanted to avoid is making science fiction. For sure we've got big influences from Gattaca and Blade Runner and so on. But what we wanted to do is to keep it believable, so push it as far away as we can, without getting too science fiction looking. So that was the main topics about the design.\r George Bures Miller (creator of multimedia pieces that combine aspects of sculpture, cinema, sound installation, and short-story fiction): In 1982 we saw Ridley Scott\u0092s \u0093Blade Runner\u0094 in Edmonton. It was a bright sunny day when we went into the cinema and when we came out it was pitch black and it was raining. I think we\u0092ve been in another dimension ever since.\r Alex\r",
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"content": "More from the creators of Renaissance:\rDelaporte and Petelliere (scenarists for Renaissance): Our main influences were Blade Runner and Ellroy. You have the example of a very brilliant future movie. It integrates the technology of todays problems and it takes us far away. Blade Runner keeps an interesting concept that we find in film noir. As fans of murder mystery novels, we always had Ellroy in mind. Many of his novels are set in the 50's or 60's in the city of Los Angeles. We used Paris.\r I may have posted that before. Not sure but you reminded me of it Alex with your post. I watched Renaissance a month or so ago. It's very experimental and a little hard to follow but the Blade Runner influence is undeniable.\r For those not familiar with Renaissance, it's a Frence sci-fi thriller from 2006 that was made entirely by using MCI and entirely in starkly contrasting B&W. \r ~We don't see things as they are, but as we are~",
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"content": "Delaporte and Petelliere. I may have posted that before. I don't think you have, wing, not in this thread anyway. Must put Renaissance on my list of movies still to see.\r Alex",
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"content": "Yeah I saw it when it released a few years ago, very nice animation. Story isn't amazing, it's a little on the boring side but the BR influence is unmistakeable. \r -------------------------------------------\rhttp://www.oneplusyou.com/bb/fight5?kids=30",
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"content": "I found it (Renaissance) hard it follow because it was difficult to differentiate between the characters with such high contrast B&W. Still it's worth seeing for it's style. I don't think anything like it was done before or after. I don't think I even watched it in it's entirity but it's images sure stuck with me. \r ~We don't see things as they are, but as we are~",
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"content": "Tyler Bates (composer of Watchmen): There are moments in the score where it definitely reflects that and you would probably say Blade Runner, because you hear us playing an CS-80 keyboard, which is pretty famously associated with that film but that\u0092s pretty apparent in Jan Hammer's work and Frank Zappa, so there\u0092s a whole pod of influence at least as far as I\u0092m concerned.\r It\u0092s like you said, Blade Runner \u0097 Blade Runner just spilled over into pop culture all together so, I think it was one of those early movies that song and score sort of had a similarity to them as far as how people perceived their musical experience with that film. There are just a lot of movies like that. Like Manhunter is another movie that actually has a vibe or Miami Vice \u0097 you know, the TV show. Thereare a number of things \u0097 even To Live and Die In L.A. has that vibe.\r Alex",
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"content": "The Wachowski brothers when asked about Blade Runner had this to say:\r\"Of course we f*/*cking liked it - but no one else did.\"\r That was taken from a bit more colorful interview with Ridley Scott in November 2008. Here's the entire excerpt:\r RS:\"With Blade Runner, I knew I\u0092d nailed it really good, or I thought I had, but I hadn\u0092t because no one got it except for a few loony diehards. In fact, the Wachowski brothers were asked about it recently and they said: \"Of course we *beep* liked it - but no one else did.\" So, they were being complimentary and bitchy at the same time. So I say that what they did was copy Blade Runner - it obviously influenced everything they do. So they can stick that up their pipe and smoke it.\"\r ~Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing. ~",
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"content": "Hernan Findling (Breaking Nikki): I am not going to be very original; without a doubt Stanley Kubrick is the director who has the most influence in my work. Since I was twelve years old and when I saw \u0093The Shining\u0094 I took the decision to make cinema. The first stage of Ridley Scott (The Duellists, Alien, Blade Runner) are impressive to me and most of the films of John Carpenter. For Breaking Nikki the inspiration was David Lynch and Calvarie (of Fabrice Du Welz) and Naboer (of P\u00e5l Sletaune).\r Alex\r",
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"content": "Tone: What film\u0092s visual effects do you gush over?\r Mark Spatny (the supervising visual effects producer of Heroes) : Blade Runner. When that movie came out I was studying to be an aerospace engineer. Then I saw that movie and thought, \u0093Well, I\u0092m going to be a really bad engineer because I\u0092m not very good at it\u0094. I\u0092d have been the guy designing doorhandles in the plane! I wanted to design scenery and visual effects [as in Blade Runner], so that\u0092s what I did.\r Q: Weird Science or Blade Runner?\r Robin Hunicke (game designer): Blade Runner all the way! Robots that are sexy and emotional (we\u0092ll forget for now that they\u0092re homicidal) are the best!\r Q: Since we're on the topic of films, AI's been the main focus for a few recent movies such as I-Robot and AI. When you watch these productions what do you think? I mean, is the rhyme and reason right? Or is it all just Hollywood hooloomooloo?\r Robin Hunicke: I really liked AI. Many films explore the link between technology and death \u0096 usually demonizing what\u0092s new and unfamiliar (Matteo Bittanti wrote a great thesis on movies about video games). But films like AI and Blade Runner contemplate death (loss, really) in conjunction with love and life. They push us to analyze the hopes and fears that fuel our technological practice \u0096 which I think is essential to our survival.\r ",
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"content": "Vito Acconci (architect): When we\u0092re designing something, yes we\u0092re channeling ourselves into doing architecture, but it\u0092s got to be an architecture that\u0092s affected by the other things in the world. Blade Runner is probably just as big an influence on architects as a lot of architecture. But you know Blade Runner came at such an interesting, Post-Modern time, and came out of that, but it was a very different version of Post-Modernism than a lot of architects were doing at the time. It was Post-Modernism because it was desperate, because you were building on the ruins of the old\u0097which Rome has done for a long time. \r Bryant Rousseau: Do you think you were influenced by Blade Runner?\r VA: Yup, yup, yup, very much. For me, it was, wow, for me it was, this is the alternative to 2001. In 2001, the future is all white, it\u0092s built as if there was nothing there. Blade Runner kinds of shrugs its shoulders and says, well, you can\u0092t get rid of everything, so let\u0092s build on it. Blade Runner, I don\u0092t know if it introduced me to [the concept], but I started to think of architecture as a parasite. There were all these empty facades in New York, and we built stuff on them. \r Information about Vito Acconti: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Acconci Alex\r ",
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"content": "Your doctoral thesis was on the novels of Philip K. Dick \u0096 how has his work been an influence on you? Have you enjoyed the various film adaptations of his stories? \r Kim Stanley Robinson (novelist): Yes, inevitably I have been somewhat influenced by PK Dick\u0092s great work, though we are not very much alike. What I admire in his novels is the consistent and penetrating critique of capitalism and its corrosive effects on human relations, also his foregrounding of ordinary people as heroes of the plot, and his sympathy for all his characters. Then also there is his tremendous boldness and comic sense, which cannot be imitated but only admired.\r Of the many Dick movie adaptations, I only really liked Blade Runner, and to an extent Total Recall, but not Minority Report or the others.\r Kim Stanley Robinson:\r \"Kim Stanley Robinson is a widely acclaimed author of novels with strong science and scientist characters including the Mars trilogy, Antarctica and The Years of Rice and Salt, and he has won a number of prestigious awards such as the Hugo, the Nebula and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. The upcoming book Sixty Days and Counting will complete his best-selling climate change trilogy \u0091Science in the Capitol\u0092.\" \r Alex",
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"content": "There were all these empty facades in New York, and we built stuff on them. That's been happening in Chicago alot for the past 15 or 20 years. The old buildings in the downtown area are saved when possible and the insides will be rebuilt if necessary. Often a new facade and occasionally even extra floors are added. I've never seen more than a few stories added though. Buildings are usually limited by their exsisting foundation as to how much extra weight they can carry. But yes, retrofitting is happening now. \r Thanks for the new quotes Alex:-)\r ~ We don't see things as they are, but as we are ~",
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"content": "Carl Graig: It was on video, when I was a teenager. What was really phenomenal about Blade Runner, other than the visuals \u0097 because the storyline was kind of *beep* \u0097 was the music, which was incredible. Vangelis did an amazing job at bending ideas and capturing moods in what he composed. It's a remarkable soundtrack: I felt it at the time, and I still feel that way now. That Blade Runner influence was big here in Detroit.\r Carl Craig is a Detroit-based producer of techno music and is considered to be one of the most important names in the Detroit second generation of techno producers and DJs. \r Alex",
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"content": "First time filmmaker Noh Young-seok, from Korea, talks to The Hollywood Reporter about the films that inspired him.THR: What kind of films did you watch growing up? \r Noh: I read a lot of Korean comic books when I was in middle school. As I grew older, I turned to Japanese animation, which I thought was Korean at the time, like \"Gundam\" and \"Laputa.\" Japanese films were banned in Korea. So basically I got these illegal videotapes in the city's black markets. Then I watched \"Akira\" one day, and I was shocked. Then there are films like \"Blade Runner,\" \"Taxi Driver\" and \"Once Upon a Time in America\" that I grew up watching and listening to their great soundtracks, thinking I wanted to make films like those one day. Full article from The Hollywood Reporter:\rhttp://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/features/interview s_profiles/e3ie6e188c4e3413aa7b78e0e56955af7fc ~ Have a better one ~",
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"content": "Sam Grawe (Editor in chief Dwell Magazine and musician in Windsurf and Hatchback): I think Vangelis' Bladerunner soundtrack continues to have a huge influence on me. The synthesizers on that are so on point, and the songs have a really emotive quality. Its pretty much as genius as it comes. You should also check out the Bilitis soundtrack by Francis Lai and La Planete Sauvage by Alain Goraguer.\r Alex\r ",
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"content": "Duncan Jones, director of Moon (currently showing at the Tribeca Film Festival)\r \"It looks like I'm going to be doing another science-fiction film next. I love Blade Runner, it's one of my favorite films, and I've always been really... depressed that there was never - not a sequel, because I don't think it's right to make a sequel about Blade Runner, but no one's really tried to make a film which was set in the same kind of world or had that same kind of field. So that's what I'm doing, a big-city mystery story that takes place in a future Berlin.\" \r http://io9.com/5212617/moon-director-brings-back-the-glorious-days-of- blade-runner ~ Have a better one ~",
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"content": "Nice find wing.....sounds interesting, Duncan Jones is David Bowie's son.\r \"Lo fa, ne-ko shi-ma, de va-ja blade, Blade Runner.\" ",
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"content": " ... but no one's really tried to make a film which was set in the same kind of world or had that same kind of field. Dark City?\r Alex",
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"content": "I picked up on that comment too Alex. Not sure what he meant by it since BR has been copied many times. \r I didn't know Jones was Bowie's son jimmy. Well, he's got a good background for theatrics then... ~ Have a better one ~",
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"content": "I think he's doing a promo campagne for his movie. He's trying to buy the sympathy of the Blade Runner fans. He needs to fill them seats, wing. It happens a lot.",
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"content": "This was/is a fantastic thread.\r The other night I was on a date and a serious girl asked me \"What's your favorite movie of all time?\" So I wanted to give her a serious answer. I thought a long time because I disagree with the notion of a Greatest Film of All Time, because of the genres being so divergent. I told her \" I think Blade Runner might be the best made film of all time. \"\r It most completely succeeds and then excells at everything it is trying to do, imo.\r I don't have any quotes. I think you all must have listed them all!",
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"content": "This was/is a fantastic thread. Glad you like it nbubacz. Alex gets the credit here - this thread is his creation but I'm fond of it too. \r ~ Have a better one ~",
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"content": "More on Duncan Jones and his upcoming sci-fi pic Moon: \r \"I had three people I wanted to watch it: Ridley Scott, Terry Gilliam and Neil Gaiman. Neil Gaiman and Terry Gilliam have both watched it and loved it, so now I'm just waiting for Ridley Scott, which is the big one for me.\" \r http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/04/14/duncan-jones-wants-to-make-a-bl ade-runner-like-sci-fi-mystery-next/ I must say, after reading this article, I'm a little more pumped to see Moon.\r Alex",
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"content": "Even more Duncan Jones:\r Question: I know you showed the film to Terry Gilliam and Neil Gaiman, but did Ridley Scott ever get back to you?\r Duncan Jones: Yes he did, he finally did, he watched the film. I managed to catch up with at something called the BFI, they did a testimonial for him, where they were just sort of talking about what an amazing career he has. Then afterwards he basically, there was a VIP lounge and I was able to get in there and say hello to him. I got like thirty seconds of his time, and I said \u0093so did you get to see Moon?\u0094 (laughs), and he had seen it, and he said he really liked it a lot and I asked him if it was OK if I kept ripping him off and he said \u0093yeah that\u0092s fine\u0094, he keeps ripping other people off (laughs).\r http://thefilmstage.com/2009/05/06/exclusive-interview-duncan-jones-ta lks-his-blade-runner-esque-film-moon-dvdblu-ray-release-ridley-scott-m ansells-score/ Alex",
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"content": "Andrew Orloff (Creative Director and Visual Effects Supervisor): \"The kind of visual effects that I like ... I mean I grew up in kind of the golden age of visual effects. I saw Star Wars in the movie theater and I have to say that, you know, Blade Runner with all the model work and brilliant matte paintings ... just the tone of it was something that really spoke to me and kind of got me very interested in doing this. I think we kind of recaptured that in Children of Men, I mean as far as ... in a more modern setting. As you can see I kind of gravitate towards these films that create a very highly realistic world of fantasy that you feel you could really sit in that really has an internal logic to it that kinds of\u0085the visual effects kind of bring you into the film than just being something that\u0092s cool to look at.\"\r Alex\r ",
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"content": "Jack Reher: What\u0092s your favorite science fiction film of all time? \r Gary Lockwood (actor 2001): \"That's a split decision, \"2001\" and \"Blade Runner\" are my runaway favorites.\"\r Alex \r",
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"content": "Gary Lockwood (actor 2001): The only way we may ever see again really great science fiction is if a real talented, well-connected individual gets into a position where he makes something that works financially. I feel that what science fiction filmmakers are doing now is nice technically, but storywise, it's kind of lame.\rYou couldn't make 2001 today unless you were Kubrick or maybe Ridley Scott, who made BLADE RUNNER, that was totally brilliant but fell on its ass financially and he couldn't get a job for awhile. There isn't anybody out there right now that's as good as them. I mean, I hear about these hot directors like David Lynch and I go see their movies and they only go so far. If ERASERHEAD is brilliant, you guys are on to something that I don't get.\r Alex",
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"content": "These are some of the best quotes you will ever hear about Blade Runner.\r Philip K. Dick:\r \"All I can say is that the world in BLADE RUNNER is where I really live. That is where I think I am anyway. This world will now be a world that every member of the audience will inhabit. It will not be my private world. It is now a world where anyone who will go into the theatre and sit down and watch the film will be caught up and the world is so overpowering, it is so profoundly overpowering that it is going to be very hard for people to come out of it and adjust to what we normally encounter.\r \"Once the film begins, you are taken from this world into that world and you really are in that world. And I think the most exciting thing is that it is a lived-in world. A world where people actually live. It is not a hygienically pristine space colony which looks like a model seen at the Smithsonian Institute. No, this is a world where people live. And the cars use gas and are dirty and there is kind of a gritty rain falling and its smoggy. Its just terribly convincing when you see it.\"\r \"Everbody seems to have some kind of business that he is engaged in. Everybody is involved in some kind of thing. Which is what you really do see in a big metropolis. You always wonder, who are these people? Where are they going? What are they doing? What kind of lives are they leading? You become endlessly curious about this amazing complex life of the metropolis. What exists behind those closed doors? What is going on behind those lighted windows? You get a glimpse but you never get the full story.\r Alex\r ",
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"content": "Fecal Face Dot Com: Name drop list, what is tickling your fancy right now? \r Michael T. Rea: Fergie, MIA, Folkert de Jung, Ben Stone, No Country For Old Men, Soft Pretzels, Peroni, Jens Lekman, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Cloverfield, Jaws, Lolita, the 27th directors cut of Blade Runner, thongs, Alex Katz, Robert Morris, Hey Willpower, Paris Hilton, Klarbrunn water, Paul McCarthy, Grind House (in the theater). \r Homepage of Mike Rea:\r http://www.mikerea.com/flash.html Alex\r ",
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"content": "CNET News: What do you think of the Internet, digital music, and all this futuristic stuff we're seeing?\r Kate Perry (I Kissed A Girl): \"It's so Blade Runner. I love living in the future, but I don't know why we don't have hovercrafts yet.\"\r Now look at the first second of Kate Perry's video 'Waking Up In Vegas', freeze frame it and tell me of whom she reminds you of.\r http://tr.truveo.com/kate-perry-waking-up-in-vegas/id/2472192727 Alex ",
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"content": "Richard Starkings (creator of the award winning Hip Flask and Elephantmen series): I think comparisons to BLADE RUNNER originally had more to do with the style of Ladr\u00f6nn's art in the HIP FLASK series that spawned ELEPHANTMEN, but as a matter of course themes such as the matter of what it means to be human - when you're not - naturally emerged from my story and characters and I can't deny that these are the same themes that drive BLADE RUNNER, which also happens to be my favourite movie. Ironically, I'm now lettering the comic book adaptation of DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? So I guess I'm the BLADE RUNNER guy now - serves me right for using the quote \"BLADE RUNNER meets TAXI DRIVER!\" on the first ELEPHANTMEN collection, I guess. Oh, and naming it after a track on the soundtrack - \"Wounded Animals.\"\r Alex",
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"content": "ARGNet: What is your favorite movie?\r Brian Clark: My favorite movie? Probably my favorite movie of all time would be Blade Runner. \r The director\u0092s cut or the original version?\r Brian Clark: Oh, definitely the director\u0092s cut. No narration, no Mickey Spillane voice-over with the extra wrinkle that the Blade Runner\u0092s a replicant (Oh, no, spoiler alert! Spoiler alert! I spoiled the movie!)\r Did you see the narrated version first?\r Brian Clark: Yes.\r Do you think that made you appreciate the second one better?\r Brian Clark: No. I think once they took the voice-over out, it left more to speculation. Peoples\u0092 motivations and machines\u0092 motivations became less clear. We didn\u0092t need to have Harrison Ford tell us about Rutger Hauer dying. We could just watch that scene and not have to say, \u0093Maybe in the end he valued any life, even his own.\u0094 I think that the film company underestimated the intelligence of the film-going public.\r I read somewhere that Harrison Ford said he did the narration badly deliberately so they\u0092d have to cut it.\r Brian Clark: Really? That\u0092s a great detail - a little sabotage.\r True, but I don\u0092t know whether it\u0092s an urban myth or not.\r Brian Clark: Yeah, but it\u0092s interesting.\r Editor\u0092s note: For those of you who played Art of the Heist last year, or who are currently enjoying Who Is Benjamin Stove?, you might already know about GMD Studios, the driving force behind some of the biggest Alternate Reality Games to date. Brian Clark, who co-founded the company in 1995, has become a valuable and active member of the ARG community. His energy and creativity have helped in taking the genre to new heights, and Dee Cook was lucky enough to sit down with Brian during the SXSW Interactive festival for a few words.",
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"content": "p2pnet: What\u0092s your favourite movie?\r Bram Cohen (the mastermind behind BitTorrent): \"Someone asked me what my favorite movie was a few years ago, and I said Blade Runner, and she said Everybody says Blade Runner, and asked for a different movie, so I guess the right answer is Amadeus.\"\r Alex",
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"content": "Do you feel that Blade Runner\u0092s an overrated text as far as architectural criticism is concerned? It always gets name checked, but one thing I feel it missed was the \u0091invisibility\u0092 of new technology. It\u0092s probably the last of the old-school dystopian sci fi films, where the city itself was a major character, imposing and present\u0085\r Geoff Manaugh: As an architectural film, yes: I do think Blade Runner is over-rated. Even as a film about urban design or the urban future. But as a film about the overwhelming sadness of being alone in the world \u0096 in that regard I think it\u0092s unbelievable, and deserves its reputation. The self-distrusting madness of thought, doubting your own reality, your own solidity, whether or not what you did yesterday was real: all obvious questions, of course, and all themes already done by the Existentialists, the Romantics, even The Matrix \u0096 but what I mean is that, in a world where it\u0092s possible to work and grow old and be completely alone for the whole thing, self-disappearance is an interestingly under-explored phenomenon. And I think Blade Runner really tackles that. It\u0092s a sad movie. It can sometimes be almost unbearable to watch. \r Geoff Manaugh is a writer and essayist whose work has appeared in Contemporary, Space & Culture, Blend, Lumpen, Inhabitat, WorldChanging, the Oyster Boy Review, the Urban Design Review, Subtopia, Vector, things magazine, and The Allen Ginsberg Audio Collection (a short essay in the CD liner notes). He\u0092s also a contributing editor at Archinect, and Senior Editor for David Haskell\u0092s Urban Design Review. And he\u0092s the main man behind BLDGBLOG, a blog devoted to \u0091architectural conjecture, urban speculation and landscape futures\u0092. \r Alex",
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"content": "Who's he, what the hell is an \"Alternate Reality Game\" and what the fook is Benjamin Stove?\r $ sudo make CHEEZEBURGER --mayo -off\rsystem made you CHEEZEBURGER but ated it :-( ",
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"content": "Now look at the first second of Kate Perry's video 'Waking Up In Vegas', freeze frame it and tell me of whom she reminds you of. That guy sure as hell isn't Harrison Ford though.\r $ sudo make CHEEZEBURGER --mayo -off\rsystem made you CHEEZEBURGER but ated it :-( ",
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"content": "Gary Lockwood (actor 2001): \"That's a split decision, \"2001\" and \"Blade Runner\" are my runaway favorites.\" Traitor!\r Still, I like the fact that most people who name either BR or 2001 as their favourite film almost certainly picks the other as their second favourite. Like me. \r $ sudo make CHEEZEBURGER --mayo -off\rsystem made you CHEEZEBURGER but ated it :-( ",
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"content": "BS: Are you influenced by world events? Have any specific events struck a cord in you, so to speak?\r Janet Biggs: There are certain films where I can completely loose myself ... totally buy into the Hollywood dream machine. Blade Runner is one of those films. I have always been a fan of cyperpunk and science fiction. Philip K. Dick and Ridley Scott hit on themes that interest me ... what makes us human such as empathy, relationships to animals, constructed memories, as well as hybridization, globalization, our role in climate change and genetic engineered, drug enhanced identity.\r Wikipedia: Janet Biggs (born 1959) is an American video artist, photographer and performance artist living in New York City. Her work is in the permanent collections of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, and The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut.\r Alex",
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"content": "Alex Proyas (Director of The Crow, Dark City, I, Robot, Knowing): \"Well, you know, it's interesting because my favorite films are ones that I keep watching. I just don't think there have been many great science fiction films made. I mean, 2001 is genius, there's no question it's a masterpiece, but I've already picked a Kubrick film. I find Dr. Strangelove a more user-friendly and enjoyable film to look at and watch repeatedly. I can watch it endlessly. Blade Runner is a masterpiece, but I don't know that I would put it in my top 5 at this stage. Maybe at some other point in my life, I would've.\"\r And the 5 favorite films of Alex Proyas are:\r - Dr. Strangelove\r - Stalker\r - The Exorcist\r - Psycho\r - The Godfather \r Alex",
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"content": "We've had several quotes from Duncan Jones in this thread. Here's a new one. This time it's Jones talking about his upcoming project Mute.On how he was inspired by Blade Runner:\r \"The only reason that I mention Blade Runner is because there\u0092s something about that particular film, where they really created a believable and realistic living breathing futuristic world. For all of the other films that have tried to do that I don\u0092t think anything has come as close the way Blade Runner has to creating something believable. Something that feels real and organic. It\u0092s like going to a real city and shooting a film there. You just get a sense that this place exists. [In] most of the science fiction films, it always feels a bit fake and a bit flat, but Blade Runner really didn\u0092t. That\u0092s the aspect of Blade Runner I\u0092m hoping to capture.\"More on his upcoming film here ==> http://screenrant.com/duncan-jones-follows-moon-with-blade-runner-insp ired-mute-robf-12754/ Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Danny Boyle:\"I am actually of an age where I remember when Blade Runner came out.I remember how vilified it was at the time.I was young then and didn't have that arrogance to reject all the criticism of it,to be defiant.I couldn't quite understand the hatred and I thought 'Am I wrong? This is absolutely amazing'The creation of that world you can lose yourself in a couple of hours-it's staggering.I still don't understand why it got such a negative reaction.\"\r ",
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"content": "Good find, blue socking.",
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"content": "Thanks Alex,:)",
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"content": "Quentin Tarrantino and Brian Helgeland (screenplay writer for L.A. Confidential and Ridley Scott's upcoming Robin Hood) are exchanging their favorite screenplays.\r Favorite Screenplays: A Rapid-Fire Exchange:\r Helgeland: Moonstruck, by John Patrick Shanley; Cool Hand Luke and Dog Day Afternoon, by Frank Pierson (Those Pierson scripts made me want to write screenplays).\r Tarantino: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, by Sergio Leone and Luciano Vincenzoni; His Girl Friday, adapted by Charles Lederer from the play The Front Page (Not only the greatest dialogue in the history of cinema, but it's a genre that doesn't exist anymore: the newspaper comedy. And it's a blistering social satire); Unfaithfully Yours, by Preston Sturges (I don't love Preston Sturges the way other people love him, but his dialogue is fantastic).\r Helgeland: The Poseidon Adventure, by Stirling Silliphant and Wendell Mayes (The characters are introduced perfectly -- you know everything about them almost instantly); The Outlaw Josey Wales, by Philip Kaufman and Sonia Chernus; Horton Foote's adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird (It's just a great adaptation).\r Tarantino: Rio Bravo, by Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman (It works as a crackerjack story, and it's just fun. It's the ultimate hang-out movie); What's Up, Doc? by Robert Benton, David Newman and Buck Henry; Hero, by David Webb Peoples (This stands alone as a great script that a great movie didn't make).\r Helgeland: Heaven Can Wait, by Elaine May and Warren Beatty (A great ending and one of the all-time best remakes); Slap Shot, by Nancy Dowd (One of the best profane scripts of all time); The Big Lebowski, by Joel and Ethan Coen (Because they so convincingly make their own world); Klute, by Andy and Dave Lewis (Jane Fonda's character talks all the time, and you don't know anything about her. Donald Sutherland's character doesn't say a word, and you know everything about him).\r Tarantino: Shampoo, by Robert Towne and Warren Beatty (It's just brilliant); The Great Escape, adapted by James Clavell and W. R. Burnett (The shortest three-hour movie ever made in the history of time); Switchblade Sisters, by F. X. Maier and John Prizer (The dialogue is so wonderful that half the people watching it would think that it's bad dialogue -- the script is ingenious).\r Brian Helgeland: Rocky, by Sylvester Stallone; Blade Runner, by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples (It wasn't all art direction -- the dialogue was terrific in that movie); Unforgiven, by David Peoples (The best script in my lifetime).\r Tarantino: Out of the Past, by Daniel Mainwaring (Maybe the best dialogue in a dialogue-heavy genre, the noir movie); Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! by Russ Meyer and Jack Moran (The funniest, most quotable dialogue); Scarface, by Oliver Stone (Extremely memorable -- nearly every line of the movie is worth repeating). \r http://www.tarantino.info/wiki/index.php/QT_Talks_to_Brian_Helgeland Alex",
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"content": "McG (Terminator Salvation): \"I regard the late 1970s and early 1980s as the golden age of science fiction filmmaking with movies like Alien, Blade Runner and Terminator and I wanted to honour that golden age but create a new language as well.\"\r Alex",
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"content": "I know it's getting repetitive but Duncan Jones just can't quit talking about Blade Runner:\r Duncan Jones (Moon): Moon explores the loneliness of being isolated. I watched the documentary that Ron Howard did about the moon, watched Midnight Cowboy, The Right Stuff, Silent Running, Blade Runner, Alien, Outland or 2001. I rewatched 2001 and the making of that and Blade Runner and got a new appreciation for those films.\r Alex",
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"content": "Nobody mentioned this yet, but I seem to recall reading or hearing about George Lucas paying homage to \"Blade Runner\" in \"Star Wars: Episode 2-Attack Of The Clones. It's not mentioned yet because this is a thread where you can place actual quotes from directors or other artists talking about Blade Runner. I don't think George Lucas talks about movies other than his own. Yes, you're right about the Coruscant chase scenes. In fact, combine the Blade Runner-ish cityscapes with the subject of 'cloning' and the Gladiator-esque arena scenes and you have yourself a Star Wars Episode which is completely devoted to Sir Ridley Scott. Alex",
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"content": "Question: I've read in an interview that Altered Carbon, your first novel, was informed by Blade Runner. And you obviously do have a keen visual sense, which comes across in your books. So how do you feel about Altered Carbon's translation to the big screen? And what involvement, if any, have you had with the film's development?\r Richard Morgan (author of Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Market Forces, Woken Furies, Black Man / Thirteen): Blade Runner was certainly a massive influence. And I'd love to see Altered Carbon on the big screen, that would be so cool. This is mingled with trepidation about what it'd look like, but them's the breaks - you can't put 400 pages onscreen in two hours without cutting something, so by definition it'd be different. As long as they preserve the essence, I'd be happy.\rThere's several ways to look at it, as an author. Obviously there's the thrill of seeing your work onscreen. More cynically, there's the idea that the film would likely drive book sales. There's obviously a downside in the sense that the movie might be disappointing, but even that has its compensations - you'd hopefully have people discovering the book through the movie, then reading the book and saying 'this is so much better.'\rHaving said all that, it's still not a done deal. We're still waiting to see. It's been optioned, but whether that gets exercised is another matter. But if it does happen, I'm looking forward to it.\r Hmm, if this movie gets made, it could be sorta like a Blade Runner 2.\r Alex\r",
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"content": "JM: What\u0092s your favorite movie?\r CHAOS (Nick Sagan, son of Carl): Well, that\u0092s easy \u0096 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick, from 1968, the movie that introduced the world to HAL9000 \u0096 the greatest robot in the world. Blade Runner, by Ridley Scott, from 1982, is another great movie.\r JM: Why did you like Blade Runner?\r CHAOS: The visual imagery, the \u0093film noir\u0094 style with the merging of 1940\u0092s fashion and futuristic science fiction. Even the Vangelis music went well, and that \u0091s without even mentioning the story. I have seen both the \u0093Original Cut\u0094 and \u0093Director\u0092s Cut\u0094 versions, and I really think that there should be a \u0093CHAOS Cut\u0094. They should take the narration from the original and the \u0093Deckard is an android\u0094 from the \u0093Director\u0092s Cut\u0094. I really find it a nice version of symbolic payback that Deckard\u0092s job is to hunt down replicants, which he does without much moral compunction, and in the end he finds that he himself is that which he has been destroying.\r JM: Kind of strange.\r CHAOS: I think that one can think about the character as a symbolic of the way that modern man relates to his subjectivity. We are so immersed in the mediatized \u0093Society of the Spectacle\u0094 (televised, computerized, comsumerized social-space), we are never sure whether we have an actual childhood memory. Or was it something we saw on television. Anyway, as you can see, it\u0092s a movie I really appreciate, but enough about it for now. \r Alex",
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"content": "RV: Which comic book would you most like to write that you have not?\r Tom Veitch: Dick Tracy. Oh, and Blade Runner, as long as we could use Harrison Ford as a model for the character he played in the movie -- Rick Deckard. Here's another good one: I would like to do the Star Wars prequels as comics, but with my own version of what should have happened! \r Wiki: Tom Veitch (born September 26) is an American writer, best known for his contributions to the Dark Horse line of Star Wars comic book titles, notably Dark Empire and Tales of the Jedi. For DC Comics Veitch wrote Animal Man, along with two Elseworlds series featuring Kamandi and an elder Superman. He is the brother of comics writer/artist Rick Veitch.\r Alex",
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"content": "Mark J. Gordon (film director): \"I think the resurrection of film noir began in the 80's with Blade Runner and Body Heat. I think they are still the Neo Noir films that others are measured by. There have been many others since then and the genre is more alive than ever. Some of my favorites have been Blood Simple, To Live and Die in L.A., Witness, At Close Range, Fatal Attraction, House of Games, After Dark My Sweet, The Grifters, Silence of the Lambs, Cape Fear, and Reservoir Dogs. Martin Scorsesse was a little ahead of the revival with Taxi Driver in the 70's as was Roman Polanski with Chinatown but it really didn't get going again till the 80's.\"\r Alex",
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"content": "Your doctoral thesis was on the novels of Philip K. Dick \u0096 how has his work been an influence on you? Have you enjoyed the various film adaptations of his stories?\r Kim Stanley Robinson: Yes, inevitably I have been somewhat influenced by PK Dick\u0092s great work, though we are not very much alike. What I admire in his novels is the consistent and penetrating critique of capitalism and its corrosive effects on human relations, also his foregrounding of ordinary people as heroes of the plot, and his sympathy for all his characters. Then also there is his tremendous boldness and comic sense, which cannot be imitated but only admired.\r Of the many Dick movie adaptations, I only really liked Blade Runner, and to an extent Total Recall, but not Minority Report or the others.\r Editor\u0092s note: Kim Stanley Robinson is a widely acclaimed author of novels with strong science and scientist characters including the Mars trilogy, Antarctica and The Years of Rice and Salt, and he has won a number of prestigious awards such as the Hugo, the Nebula and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. The upcoming book Sixty Days and Counting will complete his best-selling climate change trilogy \u0091Science in the Capitol\u0092. \r Alex",
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"content": "Which Hollywood movies of today do you like?\r John Boorman (director of Point Blank, Deliverance, Excalibur, Hope And Glory): Seven was an interesting film. I also like the Coen brothers. Like them, there are some who remain independent within the system and do good work. But there is little in the mainstream genre which I find interesting. The Matrix was amusing. Unfortunately, it didn't really have the resonance of BLADE RUNNER, although it had a similar subject. But it was an amusing poem about form and technology.\r Alex",
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"content": "BE: I have a few questions about some of your other projects. I didn\u0092t realize until recently that \u0093Soldier\u0094 takes place in the same universe as \u0093Blade Runner.\u0094\r Paul W.S. Anderson (Event Horizon, Soldier, AvP): Well, y\u0092know, it was written by David Peoples, who was one of the writers who did the adaptation of \u0093Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?\u0094 So in the original screenplay, there were always references to the Tannh\u00e4user Gate or\u0085there were kind of side references to the world of \u0093Blade Runner\u0094 and the idea that this was a story that was taking place off-planet while \u0093Blade Runner\u0094 was taking place on-planet. And that\u0092s why some of the scenes in the garbage planet, in Arcadia, there\u0092s a spinner. We managed to find a spinner\u0085or part of a spinner\u0085from \u0093Blade Runner.\u0094 So there\u0092s a scene with Kurt Russell where there\u0092s a spinner in the background. But, mind you, there also a chunk of the Lewis & Clark from \u0093Event Horizon\u0094 in there as well.\r Alex",
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"content": "Roger Ebert: ... but that I feel I may have undervalued \"Blade Runner.\" \"Dark City\" helped me appreciate the values of the earlier film. \r Alex\r",
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"content": "Do you have a link for that? Wouldn't mind reading the full article. Thanks.\r Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "It's not from an article, wing, it's from one of those interviews where fans can ask a question. Don't have the link right now since I'm on a different computer. Do you still want it?\r Alex",
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"content": "If you get a chance yeah, I wouldn't mind watching it. No hurry. Thanks Alex.\r Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Ah, I found it, it's from Roger Ebert's Answer Man. People can ask Ebert questions through email and he answers them.\r http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=ANSWERMA N&date=20051113 Alex",
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"content": "Thank you Alex. Lol, this is published right here in Chicago and I didn't even know about it. He works for the Suntimes newspaper and I get the rival paper (the Chicago Tribune) so I often miss his reviews and things like this. \r Interestingly, this was from November 2005 - two years earlier than the Final Cut release and (what I thought was) Ebert's first admission of his change of heart regarding his original bad/mediocre review of Blade Runner. \r Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "I can't find it anymore but Ebert once published a list with what he thought were the 10 best or greatest opening scenes ever and Blade Runner was one of them. That surprised me because I knew Ebert wasn't too fond of the movie. Maybe I dreamt it.\r Alex",
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"content": "You're obviously a big fan of Blade Runner. When did you discover it?\r Richard K. Morgan (author of Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Market Forces, Woken Furies, Black Man / Thirteen): Back when I was still a student mid eighties, a couple of years after it came and went at cinemas. I remember a friend of mine who was a film critic for local radio mentioning it as something special, but by then it had disappeared from the big screen, and of course we didn't have the all pervasive video and DVD release culture that we do now. Worth remembering Blade Runner was a flop at the box office it took several years of dedicated cult following before it was recognized for the masterpiece it is.\r Blade Runner: Book or movie? Why?\r Richard K. Morgan: Movie. Blade Runner is still, twenty five years on, one of the finest SF films ever made. It still looks like the future (lack of mobile phones notwithstanding). Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, in contrast, is actually a quite poorly written piece of pulp. But that's often the case with Dick's novels - fantastic ideas, mind blowing concepts, shabby execution. Blame the amphetamines.\r Wow! Now that's the kind of quotes we're looking for!\r Alex",
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"content": "Stephane Marais (world-renowned French makeup artist): Movies are a huge source for me, Fritz Lang movies, old black-and-white films with smoky eyes, then Cabaret [1972] eyes ... I could even jump to Blade Runner [1982].\"\r Alex\r ",
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"content": "What are the films you are most proud of?\r Michael Kaplan (costume designer): Probably Blade Runner, Flashdance and Fight Club.\r Blade Runner came very early in your career, followed immediately by Flashdance. How did your participation in those epic cinematic moments come about?\r Michael Kaplan: For Blade Runner, Ridley Scott was interviewing people and most of the costume designers in the union were talking to him about silver mylar as a means to convey the future, but he wanted to meet someone young and fresh with new ideas. At the time I was the newest member of the union. Someone said he should meet the newest member, so we met. After that Ridley recommended me to Adrian Lyne and that's how Flashdance came about. I have to say, I love working with Brits.\r Alex",
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"content": "And, of course, Duncan Jones never lets us down:\r Your favourite piece of science-fiction technology?\r Duncan Jones (Moon): The automated sentry gun in Aliens was the coolest thing I had ever seen, when that film came out... Deckard's photo analysis computer from Blade Runner was right up there too. I know its not a film, but I NEVER felt like anyone captured cyberspace as I imagined it in William Giobson's Neuromancer. Robocop's ED-209... Winner!\r What are you favourite films and what film are most looking forward to seeing this year?\r Duncan Jones: Again, too many to mention... I always go back to Altman's MASH and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner at least once a year. There is a little known sci-fi B-movie called \"Blood of Heroes,\" (also known as \"Salute of the Jugger\") starring Rutger Hauer and Joan Chenn that puts a smile on my face. It created a vivid, imaginative future world and is, in my opinion, right up there with the original Roller Ball as the best future sport film ever!\r What are you working on next?\r Duncan Jones: Hopefully another sci-fi film! A slightly bigger budget, and a very different feel, as its a city based thriller that takes place in a future Berlin. It's a loving homage and companion piece to Blade Runner, even if the story has nothing in common.\r Alex",
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"content": "Thanks Alex...It's cool he mentions The Blood of Heroes. That's one of my favorites. David Webb Peoples wrote and directed it. It wasn't a big budget film, and it shows, but still there's something about it I've always liked.\r Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Never seen it! I always thought it was part of Rutger's questionable output*.\r * You know, his straight to video work. I stopped following Hauer's career after films like Wanted: Dead Or Alive.\r However, I did enjoy his little comeback in Batman Begins and Sin City. I'm still hoping Quintin Tarantino will cast him for one of his future movies.\r Alex",
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"content": "Never seen it! I always thought it was part of Rutger's questionable output*. Well I guess it depends on what one likes. I know it wasn't straight to video as I remember seeing it at the cinema. BoH is in the Mad Max genre of movies. It's not award winning material but an excellent diversion and well done for that particular genre. Hauer was well suited for the lead role and Joan Chen was great in her role. Sadly, it's not available in the original widescreen version and the DVD transfer is bad here (in the US), but it may be available in widescreen in Europe. \r Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Q: Interesting that you should mention Indiana Jones, because I thought in Charisma Koji Yakusho looked a lot like Harrison Ford in Blade Runner, with the long brown coat and the bandages.\r Kiyoshi Kurosawa: (smiles) I'll tell mister Yakusho that. Certainly that dirty long coat in Blade Runner is a very memorable film costume. Over the years I've told my costume department to create that kind of a look. \r http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi_Kurosawa Q: To me it doesn't seem to be coincidental that the rabbit is white. I immediately thought of Carroll\u00b4s \u0093Follow the white rabbit\u0094 or the same wonderful scene in Matrix, where one of the actors has a tattoo of a white rabbit on her shoulder. Did you see Matrix before you created Alba, the albino rabbit?\r Eduardo Kac: The rabbit does seem white to the human eye, but if we wished to be more precise, we would say that the rabbit is albino, because she has no pigmentation. The fact that she is albino allows the fluorescence to be seen more intensely. I love science fiction and I'm a big fan of films such as Lang's \"Metropolis\", Kubrick's \"2001: The space odyssey\" or Scott's \"Blade Runner\", for example, but I really did not get into the Matrix fad. It just did not have the same appeal to me.\r http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Kac Alex",
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"content": "GM: I know this will be tough to answer, but what are your top 5 special effects movies?\r Shannon Shea (verteran special effects wizard):\r Okay, I would say my five top makeup effects films would probably be:\r 1. John Carpenter\u0092s The Thing (1981) because again to me that was the zenith of contemporary pre-CGI makeup effects. \r2. Aliens (1986) because I worked for Stan Winston the first job I did for him was Aliens and I was in the mold shop.\r3. The 3rd one I would say is JurassicPark (1993). JurassicPark was a landmark to me it was the beginning of a very successful relationship between makeup effects and CGI. I could go on and on with stories about JurassicPark. It was a tremendous achievement.\r4. Then I would say The Howling (1981). I loved The Howling. To this day, I don\u0092t think anyone has produced werewolf puppets that have been used as effectively as in that picture.\r5. I really think that again in context the original Planet of the Apes (1968). If you think about what that did back in 1968 in terms of creating characters and a population. A population of characters in makeup it\u0092s huge. \r My top five visual effects films would be:\r - King Kong the original 1933 without a doubt \r- 2001 a Space Odyssey (1968) I watched that again on High Definition recently still amazing\u0085absolutely amazing.\r- Blade Runner (1982) I think is a tremendous thing \r- The original Star Wars IV: A New Hope (1977)\r- Close Encounters of a Third Kind (1977)\r Those are like what I just described to you those 10 films I think are the hallmark of really what you can achieve with visual effects.\r http://www.goremaster.com/interviews/shannonshea.html Alex",
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"content": "Robert Rodriguez when asked about his favorite films:\r Blade Runner is also one of my favorites. I love film noir movies, and that was just a new way of doing it. Set in the future, made up worlds. It's just a straight up great movie; everything fell into place, which is just rare for things to happen that way. How everything came together, the artistry that went into it, the design, the music, and how resilient the story is, how you can just keep making new versions of it, and they all still kind of work. [laughs] When you can just keep remaking the same movie with the same footage and just kind of tweak it a little bit... \r http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/comic_con_2009/news/1834188/five_favor ite_films_with_robert_rodriguez Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Lol! Great find, wing. This puts the other thread (\"Robert Rodriguez bitchslaps Blade Runner\") into the right perspective!\r Alex",
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"content": "This time a quote by Ridley Scott himself because ... well, read for yourself:\r Who's the biggest pain in the arse you've ever worked with?\r Ridley Scott: He'll forgive me because now I get on with him - but it's got to be Harrison [Ford]. Now he's become charming. But he knows a lot, that's the problem. When we worked together it was my first film up and I was the new kid on the block. But we made a good movie.\r Alex",
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"content": "What draws you to writing for genre television?\r Jeffrey Bell (Executive producer and writer for 'V', Angel, Alias, Harper's Island): It's visual. I love visual storytelling. It allows you to tell stories that you couldn't tell on a regular TV show. You could deal with taboos. Blade Runner, I keep finding, is maybe my favorite movie ever. I think the reason is that at the center of it is, everybody asks the question of \"who am I and why am I here?\" It's just profound. And what I love is the Replicants want the same thing that the humans want, and whether Harrison Ford was a Replicant or not, he still felt the same pain.\r Alex\r ",
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"content": "This has to be the best thread I've ever read on IMDB, it felt like watching this great movie with new eyes. Thank you to everyone involved.",
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"content": "You can only watch three movies for the rest of your life, which three? \r Paul Salamoff (FX Artist): Blade Runner, Star Trek II, Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Technically one movie)\r Who or what are the influences on your work?\r Kenneth Oppel (author): Science and technology issuess (particularly their social implications); the Gothic, good sci-fi movies (Blade Runner, Metropolis); news stories about people who take their beliefs, manias, delusions, to the end of the line. \r What are some of your favorite sci-fi films from the era you cover and do you have any favorites from the last few years or decade?\r David Gargani (Director, documentary maker): My two favorites from that era are \u0093The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms\u0094 and \u0093Forbidden Planet.\u0094 Beast, was the very first \u0093disaster monster movie.\u0094 Everything from Godzilla to Cloverfield owes that film and Ray Bradbury I huge debt of gratitude. Amazingly it still works and Ray Harryhausen\u0092s animation is timeless. If any sci-fi film was ever capable of winning a Best Picture Oscar in the 1950\u0092s it was \u0093Forbidden Planet.\u0094 To this day it still stands as one of the most intelligent and innovative science fiction films ever made. This is because great science fiction isn\u0092t just about monsters and ray guns, it\u0092s about humanity and how men react both morally and philosophically to the world in which they live. Conceptually, the ideas put forth in that film still have never been matched. After the 1950\u0092s there have been groundbreaking science fiction films that unfortunately were separated by huge spans of time. I believe the greatest Sci-Fi films of the last 4 decades were, 2001, Blade Runner, Alien, & Dune. If only we dared to make films like that today. However, I did enjoy Danny Boyle\u0092s \u0093Sunshine\u0094 immensely. If George Pal was alive today, this is the type of movie he would like to make, minus the dark undertones, subtle stylings, and serial killing mutinous ship captain.\r Alex\r",
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"content": "Lets talk Blade Runner, I have noticed you are a fan of perhaps one of my favorite all time movies. What do you think of the new transfers, extended scenes etc. and what draws you so much to this film?\r Godmachine: It\u0092s weird that the film should come back into my life recently. I havent thought about it since I was a kid- I loved the film then but I left it there in my past. I think as you get to a certain age you slow down enough to not only be able to look back but you want to look back- almost as if you are taking stock. One of the things I got into recently was to retrace all the films I loved from back in the day. I have also become a big fan of soundtracks, been listening to Dark City soundtrack and Krull. So I went into town to see that dusty section in the record store of film soundtracks - saw Blade Runner and it all came flooding back. The people in the know\u0085know. The soundtrack is genius. It\u0092s great when you meet people that \u0091know\u0092 about Blade Runner and the soundtrack and its equally entertaining when a young wipper-snapper is looking at you puzzles as you praise a film sountrack haha. I\u0092m all about the 1994 version of the soundtrack though. I went and bought the 3 disk special but its all a cash cow- stick with the original. If anyone has a copy of the film with the overdub- I will buy it- I cant find it anywhere.\r I bought the 4 disc collectors dvd with the toys etc. it felt worth it as a collectors tool but not the dvd\u0092s themselves\u0085the original version of the film is the best by far.\r Godmachine: Tru dat.\r Click link to learn more about Godmachine:\r http://www.godmachine.co.uk/ Alex",
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"content": "What are your favourite sci-fi movies?\r Tim Haines (BBC producer Walking With Dinosaurs, Primeval, etc.): Alien, Blade Runner and Forbidden Planet. When you say \u0091favourite\u0092 you usually discount ones that you think are a bit flawed. So things like Tremors, Starship Troopers and Dark Star also rank highly to me.\r Do you have an all-time favourite moment in science fiction?\r Tim Haines: Roy Batty dying in Blade Runner; it\u0092s really corny but I think that\u0092s the point. You can get away with melodrama in sci-fi \u0096 try and get away with it in Coronation Street and it\u0092ll never work. Also, I like the opening of Star Wars and the escape pod scene in Alien.\r Alex",
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"content": "Your ambient music and groove-oriented material are perfectly suited to soundtracks. Did your film work start when directors and producers heard these qualities in your music?\r Brian Transeau (a.k.a. BT): \"It actually started another way. I'd had an interest in film scoring since I was a kid after I saw the movie Blade Runner with music by Vangelis. Knowing that he played that music live-99 percent of it wasn't sequenced-sealed the deal for me. From then on, I wanted to get into electronics and write for picture.\" \r SciencePunk: The central character in the film is a scientist - but he starts off as a toymaker. That's quite the career change...\r Shane Acker (director of '9'): Ha, yes it is. I wanted to make a reference to Blade Runner, to the artificial intelligence of his toys. They become his friends. All of the characters are doll-like, puppets, like Pinocchio, and the Scientist is this Geppetto-style character. I wanted to convey how he likes to play, being creative to bring these to life.\r Watch the trailer:\r http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/9-feature/trailer Alex",
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"content": "Jesper Kyd (game music composer of the Hitman series and Freedom Fighters): \"I'm drawn towards anything unique and experimental in art, movies and music. With music I work towards creating interesting orchestrations and instrumentations. I program many of my own sounds and certainly have a major interest in new and progressive sounds. As for Blade Runner, that is one of my favorite film scores. As a kid I saw the film so much that to this day I know every single dialog in the film.\"\r Alex",
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"content": "What are your 3 favourite movies?\r Toby Wilkins (Splinter, The Grudge 3): That's a tough one, I have a really broad list of favourites, and it changes a lot. In the horror genre it's usually things like \"Alien\", \"28 Days Later\" and maybe the original \"Dawn of the Dead\". Outside the genre I'll go with \"Blade Runner\", \"The Game\", and \"Bound\" though that's an even harder list to pick from.\r Alex\r ",
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"content": "Translated from a French interview\r Does Alien stand as a model for SF movies for you?\r Danny Boyle: Yes, it was an astonishing, extraordinary film and the public started to respect the producer of SF with a film like the first Alien and Blade Runner which at the time was perceived like too commercial, too violent one, too marketing. And I believe that these films finally gained the respect of the public. And there are three references, one cannot make a film of SF without thinking of these references. This is not the same thing with a thriller example: Hitchcock is a reference but not all the time. But in SF it is necessary to recognize the expertise of people like Ridley Scott in his films ...\r Alex\r ",
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"content": "Who are your sonic influences?\r Richard Barbieri (Japan, etc.): \u0093From an experimental point, Stockhausen, and all the early electronic experimental stuff he was doing in the \u009150s and \u009160s,\u0094 says Richard. \u0093From an abstract sound point of view, Eno and Ryuichi Sakamoto in the early days were quite an influence on me. In terms of playing and playing sounds, Joe Zawinul. I\u0092m not a great lover of jazz keyboards, but for me Zawinal was so different, because he used to create these sounds and then play them as the sounds should be played \u0096 he would get a beautiful flute sound, or some kind of exotic wind instrument sound, and he\u0092d just play it right, with sensitivity. And that\u0092s really amazing programming. Early Vangelis \u0096 I was listening to the Blade Runner soundtrack the other day and it\u0092s just amazing. If you really want some saturated analog sounds, that\u0092s a beautiful album. And the early stuff from Tangerine Dream, Edgar Froese, the early analog sequencer music, Kraftwerk. I loved all those sounds and approaches.\u0094\r Alex",
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"content": "Alan Moore (Watchmen, V For Vendetta, etc.) talking about the film adaptation of 'From Hell': \"What I'm hoping for is a situation like, say, the one with Philip K. Dick's short story, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? It was a very, very good short story, and the film Blade Runner was a very good film which didn't necessarily have a great deal of connection with Dick's story. But both were successful entities in their own right.\"\r Alex",
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"content": "Tom Smith (Editors):\"There's a sheen to the whole album. Some kind of backdrop to a scientific future - I don't want to say sci-fi because I think it gives the wrong impression \u0096 but you know how 'Blade Runner' looks beautiful, that civilisation on the brink of the edge? It feels the album could soundtrack that kind of thing.\"\r --------------------------------------------------------------------------------\r Cineaste: The fact that you were involved in academic architecture and yet received an invite from Warners seems like something that could only happen in Los Angeles, since it's a hotbed for architecture and academia and remains the center of the film industry.\r Lance Hammer (Architect and also writer, editor and director of the film Ballast): It's true. I worked for architects who were influenced by Blade Runner. Architects I worked alongside at some great firms were influenced by the film industry, while Ridley Scott was influenced by the architecture of the future, so there's an interesting incestuous relationship between architecture and film in Los Angeles.\r Alex",
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"content": "James Cameron: I think Ridley really should do science fiction. He made the two most iconic science-fiction films of the 20th century. When he came to visit me [on the set of Avatar] I said to him, \u0093Quit ****ing around with these wine movies in the south of France, make another science fiction film.\u0094 And he saw the technique we were using and got all fired up about it. He turned to his producer and said, \u0093Why am I doing this Robin Hood? I should be doing science fiction!\u0094 \r Thanks to ailig68 who posted this on the Ridley Scott forum.\r Alex",
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"content": "He turned to his producer and said, \u0093Why am I doing this Robin Hood? I should be doing science fiction!\u0094 Yes Ridley, why Robin Hood?\r $ sudo make CHEEZEBURGER --mayo -off\rsystem made you CHEEZEBURGER but ated it :-( ",
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"content": "Alan Moore (Watchmen, V For Vendetta, etc.) talking about the film adaptation of 'From Hell': \"What I'm hoping for is a situation like, say, the one with Philip K. Dick's short story, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? It was a very, very good short story, and the film Blade Runner was a very good film which didn't necessarily have a great deal of connection with Dick's story. But both were successful entities in their own right.\" Good old, Alan. But where is the source for this quote?\r Clint Eastwood is such a non-conformist that he gave birth to his own Mother!",
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"content": " Good old, Alan. But where is the source for this quote? Here it is:\r http://www.avclub.com/articles/alan-moore,13740/ Alex",
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"content": "Richard Barbieri Interesting. Great keyboard player - well, by no means a virtuoso player, but in terms of designing and using sounds, the guy's a genius.\r ______________\r ",
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"content": "From the A.V. Club interview with musician Alan Palomo on the cut 'Psychic Chasms' from his new album 'Neon Indian':\r AVC: Psychic Chasms has a cinematic element that\u0092s reminiscent of some of the soundtrack work that Vangelis and Tangerine Dream were doing in the \u009280s. Was that a direct influence? AP: Vangelis, of course! Blade Runner is one of my favorite f cking movies of all time. Part of the creative process in writing the album was, if I ever felt depleted, I'd go to I Luv Video and then stay up and watch movies. \r http://www.avclub.com/austin/articles/fun-fun-fun-fest-between-blade-r unner-and-sonic-th,34802/ Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention. ",
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"content": "Charles de Lauzirika: I think Blade Runner endures on three fronts. One is that there's just so much detail in the film plugged into every single shot. That every time you see it you see something new. I mean, today I did a picture and sound check for the screening tomorrow and I saw something new that I hadn't spotted before and I had seen the film hundreds of times. So that's--it's like this kind of puzzle that you keep coming back to. There's always a different way to solve it, there's always a different angle you can take when you see it. Additionally the film is so influential with other film makers. Immediately after Blade Runner you started seeing not only other science fiction films and commercials and music videos, comp books, was just--you know, ripple effect, that you started seeing neon steam and rain. It was always kind of like we're going to have some visual cliches. But back then they were really striking. And there's this interesting shorthand to the future that really had figured out that he kind of started with the Alien but definitely kind of blew out of the water with Blade Runner. So even though Blade Runner kind of faded away on its first release, it was still alive through these other film makers that were kind of copying it or paying homage to it along the way. And on top of that you look at the real work and it's like becoming slowly like Blade Runner. I mean look at Times Square. I mean that's Blade Runner. You look at\u0097[to Hackett-Dick] I mean this goes back to your father's work but I mean the\u0097paranoia about government and the corporate mindset. And that was in the film. Then you look at it today and it's--it is so much like a Blade Runner world minus the flying cars which I really want\u0085I think that we're seeing it unfold before our eyes, and that kind of keeps it alive too.\r Alex",
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"content": "I always enjoy Charles de Lauzirika's comments about Blade Runner. It's so clear that he's such an unapologetic fan of the film - like so many of us. \r For fans of di Lauzirika - he's been working on his first feature film. He's directing, writing and producing Crave:\rhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535432/ We all wish him good fortune on this endeavor.\r Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention. ",
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"content": "We all wish him good fortune on this endeavor. Ditto....\r I'm going to give you a few seconds before I come. ",
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"content": "What are some of the science-fiction films that present the view of the future with which you would tend to agree?\r Sir Arthur C. Clarke: Well, 2001 missed the date by a few decades. Blade Runner is a classic, of course.\r Alex",
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"content": "'Brighton Music Scene' magazine talks to John Fowler of Gentleman's Vase.\r What has been the inspiration for the music on your EP?\r John Fowler (Gentleman's Vase): I love artists like Daft Punk, Kraftwerk, Peter Gabriel, Vangelis, David Bowie, Dead Can Dance, Fun Lovin\u0092 Criminals, Depeche Mode, Electric Six and many many others. The EP title \u0091More Human Than Human\u0092 was inspired by Ridley Scott\u0092s movie \u0091Blade Runner\u0092. It\u0092s the motto of the Tyrell Corporation, which manufactures \u0091Replicant\u0092 humans.\r The vocals are very unusual \u0096 how did you get that sound?\r John Fowler: There are real voices on it but I have also used two different virtual vocalists in homage to the replicants in that film as well as the HAL 9000 computer in \u00912001 A Space Odyssey\u0092. Its not completely unique as Japan have virtual pop stars called Kyoko Date and Hatsune Miku - I think they have been high in the charts over there. I read that Hatsune Miku is a new speech synthesiser developed by Yamaha.\r What is it you like about those films?\r John Fowler: \u0091Blade Runner\u0092 is an amazing film. I love the sci-fi concepts in the story, the astonishing visuals, the brilliant soundtrack by Vangelis and great performances by Rutger Hauer and Harrison Ford. I was moved by the replicants struggling to come to terms with emerging raw human emotions and their acute awareness of their 3-year lifespan. In \u00912001\u0085\u0092 the character HAL also appears childlike as he struggles to use logic to resolve conflicting human instructions. I think the characters make us ask questions about the nature of being \u0091human\u0092 as well as drawing attention to the relatively short length of human life.\r http://gentlemanvase.fourfour.com/ Alex",
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"content": "their 3-year lifespan. I wonder if he's recently watched Moon? There is an explanation for this, you know. ",
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"content": "No spoilers please! I haven't seen Moon yet. Alex",
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"content": "You're in for a treat! There is an explanation for this, you know. ",
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"content": "Alex Epstein is a screenwriter for television and movies, and author of the book Crafty Screenwriting.\r Alex Epstein: \"Voice overs are generally looked down on, as a non-cinematic \"cheat\" for getting thoughts into the screenplay that you were too lazy to communicate through action and dialog.\r That's an extreme view, fostered in film schools. Voice overs are often used as a last gasp, when the movie is too confusing for audiences and needs explaining.\r Ah, you think, \"explaining\" is bad. Exposition is dull. But exposition, properly done, is as essential to crafty screenwriting as handles are in a cabinet.\r Blade Runner is a prime example. Test screening audiences couldn't understand who Deckard was or what replicants were or what was going on. Then the studio (not Ridley Scott) put in Harrison Ford's voice over (Ford reportedly hated doing it) and the movie made more sense.\r (Between you and me, Blade Runner is a rare example of where studio meddling makes a picture better. The various director's cuts floating around are, in my humble opinion, self-indulgent. The studio cut tells the same story with less subtext and more emotional affect. It's just a more effective picture.)\" \r Alex",
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"content": "Question: You are the son of an acclaimed director and a gifted script writer. Maybe the reason for cinema to surprise you in such a way to jump into your life is this. We know that you have a movie project as well as your poster designs and your commercial works. Can you tell us about this issue?\r Emrah Y\u00fccel (Graphic Designer): I have such a project. But I would like to talk about it after I finish it. I do not like disappointments.\r Question: What kind of a portrait do you see when you compare Hollywood and European film genres? Which of the two are you most influenced by regarding intimacy of expression and visual value?\r Emrah Y\u00fccel: Of course I am influenced by European cinema. I find Hollywood too commercial although I work for it. On the other hand, the most important things that I admire in Hollywood are the size of the projects and the power of the people who create them. For instance, Ridley Scott. He can do any project with whomever he wishes. And he can enter any studio that he pleases. I admire this strength that developed in time.\r My favourites are European and recently Latin American cinema. Especially French and British cinema from Europe, and Brazilian and Argentinean cinema from Latin America.\r Question: Our theme for the 4th issue of Bak Magazine is 2050. How do you see the future of humanity and visual arts? What, in your opinion, will constitute the agenda of the world in 2050?\r Emrah Y\u00fccel: I thought whether I will be alive then when you asked the question. 2050 is not that important to me but 2019 is of the upmost importance.\r When I was a young design student in Ankara, Blade Runner was one of the milestone movies that influenced me. Blade Runner opens in 2019, Los Angeles. I live in LA right now and I am excited that I will be here in 2019. Yo ... The idea of being in LA in 2019 was very far when I watched the movie in Ankara.\r Returning to the question, I don\u0092t know about the future of humanity but I have an idea about visual arts. I am sure that it will keep its past and present significance. The medium will change for sure, but the designed visual will always be on the front.\r http://www.emrahyucel.com/movieposters.html Alex",
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"content": "MovieRetriever: Who are those filmmakers and what films?\r Neill Blomkamp (Director District 9): I've been thinking about this lately. The ones that had the biggest effect on me are the ones that I was young enough to be highly impressionable but old enough to sort of grasp what was going on. For me, at my youngest, around ten is when I saw Alien. It scared me but it made me want to get into films. Obviously, when you're like ten, you have no idea how films are even made. All I knew is that I drew about 600,000 illustrations of H.R. Giger's Alien. It's from ten until about fifteen is what solidified ... and, within that range, was Alien and Aliens were the two biggest one by far. James Cameron's Aliens had a life-altering effect on me. So, it was the two first Alien films and then I saw Blade Runner was I was like fifteen and I was obsessed with that. Those three. I saw 2001 when I was younger but then I saw it again when I was sixteen and that had a massive effect. I didn't realize it until I was a bit older but the first two Star Wars, especially Empire Strikes Back, I had been watching pretty much every afternoon for most of my childhood. That has to be in there and I think had more effect on me than I knew at the time. And Robocop.\r Alex",
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"content": "Gerard Way - frontman for the band My Chemical Romance talks about how their album, due out in spring 2010 was influnced by muscle cars, the film Blade Runner and Judas Priest.\r Way on Blade Runner: \"I watched a lot of Blade Runner and I watched a lot of the Making Of Blade Runner, [director] Ridley Scott was really inspiring too, just kind of his unwillingness to put the camera down and really capture something special,\" he said. \"People were upset by that, but he was very strong in his vision and I think the band was very strong in its vision this time. That's why the record took - instead of a month and a half to do - four months to track because our barometer for great was very high.\"\r http://www.nme.com/news/my-chemical-romance/49017 And the juke box plays. Apocalyptic be-bop. ",
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"content": "Then in the next episode (of Heroes), you killed off two major characters. Was that your decision?\r Bryan Fuller (Producer and writer for Heroes, Pushing Daisies, Dead Like Me): Well, we killed one. Just Daphne. Tracy shatters and then you see her blink and the tear goes down the drain. We will see Tracy again. I'm such a sci-fi geek so the tear coming out was totally a shout-out to Zhora from Blade Runner. \r http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s1/heroes/tubetalk/a153559/bryan-fuller -talks-heroes-return-finale.html Alex",
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"content": "Speaking about foreign films... where there any foreign films that influenced you in your work?\r Shozin Fukui (Japanese horror movie director): Blade Runner was a very important film for me. It was not very successful in its first run in Japan, my local movie theater showed it just for a week. I sat through all the shows during that one week, all afternoon and evening. Mostly, I was the only one sitting in the theater. \r Alex",
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"content": "George Hull (Concept illustrator artist for The Matrix, V For Vendetta, The Island, Speed Racer, Avatar, and many others): Yes. Traditionally, I learned through Industrial Design School how to use markers, pastels, color pencil, and gouache, and I\u0092ve developed through the years looking at my heroes. What really got me into this thing was, essentially, when my Mom took me to see Blade Runner back when I was a kid, and when I saw the conceptual paintings that were done for that film they just knocked my socks off. I thought, I\u0092d love to that when I grow up. And they\u0092re still, to this day, some of the most beautiful, spot on conceptual paintings. It would really make me happy if, one day, I could perform to that kind of level of artistry, and also, Ralph McQuarrie\u0092s initial paintings for Star Wars. So I\u0092m keeping a library of artistic challenges and stuff I\u0092ve tried to work to. What we all use are markers and lots of materials, but just since January [2000] I\u0092ve started to paint into Photoshop to sort of enhance that photographic feel.\r Alex\r ",
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"content": "Chuck Beaver (Senior Producer for the game Dead Space): As for movies, we are huge horror and sci-fi fans. We\u0092re influenced by many, but we didn\u0092t want to be exactly like any of them. Our goal was to create something new and fresh that could live in the sci-fi universe without being identified and compared. We aspired to have a frame of Dead Space be as uniquely identifiable as a frame of Blade Runner, where when you looked at it, you knew immediately where it came from. We were inspired by all these, and maybe subconsciously some of their stuff made it into our game, but we wanted to be unique.\r ",
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"content": "Don\u0092t you regret not having been more adapted like Philip K. Dick was ?\r Norman Spinrad (SF author): It\u0092s just about luck. This is always the wrong question. It\u0092s not \"Why hasn\u0092t your stuff been adapted ?\" It\u0092s rather : \"How come anything gets done at all ?\" You\u0092re in Hollywood, you\u0092re going into somebody\u0092s office and say : \"Give me 15 million dollars !\" When something gets made, that\u0092s what\u0092s unusual. In the case of Phil Dick, he was broke you know, his car wasn\u0092t working and that just came all over. Dick didn\u0092t hate Hollywood. It\u0092s just that the movie can never be the book. You have to do more than cut, you have to extract the essential story and then make a film. That\u0092s why Blade Runner was good, whereas Dune was a horror. It was terrible because David Lynch tried to make a literal adaptation of the book. With Blade Runner, David Peoples - who wrote the second script, the one Ridley Scott shot - extracted the real essential story and wrote a movie. Phil understood that when he saw the rough cut of Blade Runner. He said to me that the movie captured the spirit and the essence of the book. There was a scene at the end of the movie where the replicant saves Dekerd instead of killing him, which is not in the book at all. And Phil said \"that\" captured the spirit of the book, even though it was never in the book. As a good example, take Minority Report. That wasn\u0092t adapted from a novel, that was adapted from a short story, a novelette. That is a much more manageable length of a story to make a movie from, that\u0092s the natural length to adapt into a movie, not a great big novel. Sure I\u0092d like to have some more of these adaptations working out, if nothing else for the money ! And for getting the books more known. But the book also is going to be separate from the film, I think.\r http://www.digital-athanor.com/PRISM_ESCAPE/article_usf9e5.html?id_art icle=29 Alex",
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"content": "TrekMovie: What are some of your favorite movies?\r Zoe Saldana (Uhura in Star Trek): Blade Runner. I grew up in a sci-fi environment and am a huge sci-fi fanatic so Ripley [Alien] and Sarah Connor [Terminator] are some of my favorite characters of all time. I am driven toward women who are very strong and commanding and kick alien ass and all that stuff, and also kiss aliens. I would say Blade Runner, and The Hunger, which is one of Tony Scott\u0092s first films. I saw it when I was very young, I think I saw it when I was nine or ten, I fell completely in love with the movie. It felt completely dark and hopeless because these people were eternally condemned and unable to love. And Blade Runner, I knew watching Blade Runner, and Dune, that I wasn\u0092t old enough to understand the concept. But the fact that I was to grow older and be able to one day look at it and go \u0091I get this now\u0092 was so exciting to me at the age of five. \r Alex\r",
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"content": "Jonathan Carroll (novelist): \"Also...did you ever see Blade Runner? One of my favorite lines in the movie is when Rutger Hauer is about to die, and he says to Harrison Ford, \"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.\" It's such a wonderful, tragic line, it's true. All of the stuff that you have accumulated, all this experience, all these loves, all this coffee, all these dogs...as soon as you die, it's just tossed? I can't imagine that it works like that. I think there's probably some repository of this stuff. And that made a kind of sense for me. You just take this thing that you arrange, and once you're finished arranging it and you die, someone puts it into the mosaic, and the mosaic is made up of 10 zillion pieces. That made sense to me.\"\r http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Carroll Alex",
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"content": "Please cite sources kylio.\r And the juke box plays. Apocalyptic be-bop. ",
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"content": "LOL, that sounds exactly like the kind of thing Lucas would say. What a strange and awkward man.",
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"content": "Salman Rushdie (novelist and essayist): I do think film at its best is fully the equal of a great novel. Blade Runner, for example, is a film that would stand up against most contemporary novels.\r Alex",
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"content": "Five Favorite Films with Fame director Kevin Tancharoen:\r - All That Jazz\r - Taxi Driver\r - Schindler's List\r - Close Encounters Of The Third Kind\r - Blade Runner : I appreciate Blade Runner on a visual aesthetic level -- it's just visually stunning.\r Rotten Tomatoes: And this has inspired Arcana, your next film?\r Yeah, true. We're actually writing the first draft right now. [Screenwriter] John Ridley just finished [World War II fighter pilot film] Red Tails for George Lucas, which was taking up a lot of his time. So he's writing the first draft right now... we a have a little ways to go\r http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10011235-fame/news/1845930/five_favori te_films_with_fames_kevin_tancharoen Kevin Tancharoen (Fame): \"Arcana is a unique blend of the graphic-novel backdrop - like Blade Runner - and shot like 300, and has a little bit of Warriors mixed in there, with a little bit of martial arts, so it\u0092s got a lot of crazy elements in there.\" \r http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/08/26/kevin-tancharoen-directing-sci-fi- actioner-arcana/ Alex",
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"content": "Wow, little wing and Alex, you guys have really kept this thread going for quite a while, haven't you?\r Impressive!\r \"That which you manifest is before you.\"\r ",
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"content": "Thank you! Actually, it's necessary to keep contributing to this thread or else it gets deleted.\r Alex",
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"content": "Miguel Sapochnik, director of Repo Men on his early influences:Miguel: Well, thank you. I was\u0085 listen, \"Robocop\" was a huge influence in my life when I was growing up watching movies, and it was a guilty pleasure in some respects. Interestingly, my upbringing was kind of Schwarzenegger and Tarkovsky. And my dad was the one who used to push Tarkovsky on me, so secretly I would watch Schwarzenegger. \"Robocop\" was a rare movie that he loved because it walked that line. And Monty Python was like that as well. You know... there was also Terry Gilliam and \"Brazil\" and \"Clockwork Orange\" and obviously \"Blade Runner\". All those are the kind of movies that influenced this film. But definitely the intent was to kind of entertain and at the same time have an underlying social comment that didn\u0092t really hit people over the head with giving its point but was there if you choose to take a closer look.From an interview for HitFix http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2008-12-6-motion-captured/posts/the-m-c-in terview-repo-men-director-miguel-sapochnik-talks-verhoeven-music-and-m ore And in another interview with Sapochnik from CinemaBlend.com:And yes, his movie set in a dingy futuristic Los Angeles where people hunt down artificial beings has a little bit of Blade Runner in it too, and he doesn't mind the comparison. \"Better Blade Runner than Demolition Man,\" he told me in our later conversation. In fact he imagines Repo Men as taking place about 25 years before Ridley Scott's seminal sci-fi film, in which people are \"building the foundations of that world.\" The Asian influence in the Los Angeles of Blade Runner becomes an economy completely dominated by China, and the flying cars Deckard uses are still in the prototype phase-- Sapochnik told me his film initially included news reports on more flying car test deaths.From: http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Exclusive-Interview-Repo-Men-Director-M iguel-Sapochnik-17650.html It might get loud",
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"content": "Nice Blade Runner quote by Moby\r Moby: \"It was very seductive\u0097the fact that it was always raining, it was always nighttime, and when it wasn't nighttime it might as well have been because everything had this pall cast over it. And the score was such an integral and perfect component of the movie. It really was the New Wave aesthetic of the time, perfectly crystallized in this movie. If someone were to remake the movie now, they'd probably have to throw in all these, like, Nickelback songs, but instead you have this very, very dark, unrelentingly gritty film with this very ethereal music on top of it. That contrast is what makes it. Without the music the movie would have been good, but with the music it was close to perfect.\"\r Alex\r ",
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"content": "Will Wright (Game Designer): \"When I was researching Sim City I read a lot of city planning documents, and it was amazing how often the term Blade Runner came up\u0097you know, 'We don't want Union Square to turn into Blade Runner.' But there was a concept that we used that was nicely realized in Blade Runner\u0097the idea of arcologies, these massive structures that are like whole cities within a single building, like the pyramid where Tyrell lives. You have these giant arcologies where everyone has gone because they're the modern places, yet you have all this old infrastructure that's ignored and abandoned right underfoot. A lot of squatter cities have a similar dynamic\u0097you have people living in the cracks without standard infrastructure, kind of like rats in the sewer.\"\r Alex ",
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"content": "Mark W. Tilden (creator of Robosapien, you know, the famous toy robot): \"Ever walk through florescent Hong Kong at midnight wearing a trenchcoat in a hard rain contemplating your next massive robot production line? I am Blade Runner without the Vangelis soundtrack.\" \r http://www.gadgetmadness.com/archives/20041122-hyper_cool_interview_wi th_robosapien_creator_mark_w_tilden.php Alex",
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"content": "Victor Gishler (American author of hard-boiled crime fiction): I always enjoy the Friday movie quotes over at Nobody Move. Especially today since the quotations come from one of my favorite films Blade Runner. Although I respect the director's cut, I always had a soft spot for the original version with Harrison Ford's voice-over. Critics often claim Ford's voice-over is flat and lame and detracts from the film, but I always thought it contributed to the film's over all noiry goodness. During grad school, I spent most of my energies writing creatively, but the essay I wrote on Lacan and Blade Runner was one of the few papers that made me think I could cut it as a scholar. I'm also a fan of Phil Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but there's just something visually stunning about the film that adds a creamy layer of enjoyment the novel doesn't offer.\r Alex",
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"content": "What are five science fiction movies you think are absolutely essential?\r Burton C. Bell (from Fear Factory, which is an American heavy metal band): Blade Runner, that\u0092s the top one. David Lynch\u0092s Dune. THX 1138 offered an interesting vision of the future. I love Alien. And the first Star Wars movie, the original .\r Alex",
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"content": "No, no, it isn't a question for a thread. It's the question they asked Bell. It's a thread where artists talk Blade Runner.\r Alex",
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"content": "Favreau then went on to say that Ford\u0092s character in Cowboys and Aliens will have something in common with some characters from his past:\r John Favreau: \u0093I\u0092m trying to make him what we love him to be. Think about him whether it was \u0091American Graffiti,\u0092 Han Solo, \u0091Indiana Jones,\u0092 or \u0091Blade Runner.\u0092 He\u0092s sort of that edgy, likeable but not likeable guy. I don\u0092t like the cuddly Harrison Ford. I don\u0092t like the sensitive, thoughtful Harrison Ford.\u0094\r http://scifimafia.com/2010/05/cowboys-and-aliens-favreau-talks-about-t he-bad-ass-harrison-ford-will-play/ Alex",
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"content": "OMG! I just found this article. I can't believe it! Chris Cunningham's favorite film moment of all time (in 2000) is my favorite film moment of all time too!\r Chris Cunningham: My all-time favourite film moment is the love scene from Blade Runner, with Harrison Ford and Sean Young. It's about 10 minutes long and within it are all the things I love most about film.\r The scene begins in Deckard's apartment. Rachel has just saved Deckard's life. The minimal and awkward exchanges between the two are in perfect harmony with the music and sound design. Waves of sound and light bleach out the frame randomly and fill the spaces in the scene with a rich ambience. Rachel watches Deckard clean himself up whilst Vangelis's music becomes progressively more abstract. This moment has an ambiguity to it that is impossible to describe, but gives me goosebumps every time.\r http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2000/feb/06/culture.100filmmoments3 Alex",
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"content": "NY Times: \r Mr. Christopher Nolan spoke admiringly of Mr. Scott\u0092s science-fiction thriller \u0093Alien,\u0094 which he said is most memorable not for its chest-bursting shock scenes but for \u0093the naturalism of it that was shocking at the time.\u0094 He added: \u0093It\u0092s like Ken Loach in outer space. Hand-held camera, overlapping dialogue, bickering and incredibly naturalistic performances. That\u0092s the bit that everybody forgets.\u0094 Also, he said, \u0093you couldn\u0092t really aim higher than his work in \u0091Blade Runner\u0092 in terms of putting the audience into an alternate reality and allowing them to experience a different world for a couple of hours.\u0094\r Alex",
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"content": "What was the most difficult element of the graphic novel to translate to the film?\r Jonathan Mostow (director Terminator 3 and Surrogates): I'll give you a slightly different answer: The most difficult element to translate successfully would have been the distant future, which is why we decided not to do it. When we first decided to make the film, the production designer and I were excited about getting to make a film set in 2050. We planned flying cars, futuristic skyscapes -- the whole nine yards. But as we began to look at other movies set in the future, we realised something -- that for all the talent and money we could throw at the problem, the result would likely feel fake. Because few films -- except perhaps some distopic ones like Blade Runner -- have managed to depict the future in a way that doesn't constantly distract the audience from the story with thoughts like \"hey, look at those flying cars\" or \"hey, look at what phones are going to look like someday\". We wanted the audience thinking only about our core idea -- which was robotic surrogates -- so we decided to set the movie in a time that looked very much like our own, except for the presence of the surrogate technology. \r Mostow is right. The future has to strike you as a normal, natural place otherwise you'll end up with distracting bogus.\r Which 5 albums do you find yourself going back to time after time for sonic/musical inspiration?\r Eric Persing (Chief Sound Designer for Roland and founder of Spectrasonics): That's impossible to narrow it down to five (when I could easily come up with a hundred), but here's what pops into my mind first when I think of inspiring albums that I often relisten to:\r 1. Arvo Part \"Litany\"\r2. Wendy Carlos \"Beauty and the Beast\"\r3. Peter Gabriel \"So\"\r4. Vangelis \"Bladerunner\"\r5. Bruford \"One of a kind\"\r Alex",
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"content": "Heard an interview on Radio 5Live last night with Leonado DiCaprio at the premiere of Inception yesterday evening. Asked about science fiction films, he first mentioned Blade Runner \"How can you not love Blade Runner?\" and 2001 \"I've seen it lots of times. Almost a religous experience.\"\r There is an explanation for this, you know. ",
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"content": "Asked about science fiction films, he first mentioned Blade Runner \"How can you not love Blade Runner? And yet, a lot of Dicaprio fans know the answer to that question.\r Alex",
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"content": "Jay Gordon (Orgy): Oh, of course, we do love glamour and craziness. Colors, you know, the world has to be colorful, brilliant, crazy, decadent! We like the big chaos! You know, there is a reason why we all think Blade Runner is the best movie ever. Blade Runner just denies the reality. It's the perfect science fiction, what is real and what is unreal, fiction and reality, absolute madness, absolute chaos. I think that's the right atmosphere. That is exactly where Orgy fits in.\r http://www.nyrock.com/interviews/2001/orgy_int.asp\r LUMEN ECLISPE: Do you have any recommendations for our readers?\r Janet Biggs (Video artist): I would definitely say that anyone who hasn\u0092t seen Blade Runner should definitely see it. The original release, and the reissued versions. My initial experience was to see Blade Runner when it first came out, but I think it\u0092s a real treat that they keep releasing it and changing it, and it\u0092s a testimony to the strength of that film that that keeps happening. You get to relive it over and over. \r http://www.lumeneclipse.com/home/interviews/18_full.html\t\r",
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"content": "Tony Scott: \"Of my top 10 movies, three... of those movies are my brother's films.\" (Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator) ",
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"content": "Does anybody know if Richard Serra's sculpture 'Blade Runner' is inspired by the film?\r And any sources to prove this?\r Thanks.",
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"content": "TGL: Not a lot of people would know about your composition for the Blade Runner soundtrack on the PC. When you were brought in to compose the soundtrack for Blade Runner, where you a fan of the movie?\r Frank Klepacki (video game music composer): I was brought in about mid way through the project, and couldn\u0092t wait to work on it. Yes I was indeed a fan of the movie so it was an honor to be a part of expanding on that.\r TGL: Did you try to keep the sound of your Blade Runner music similar to that of Vangelis soundtrack for the movie? If so, was it difficult?\r Frank Klepacki: We didn\u0092t have the rights to use the orignal soundtrack recordings, but we did have the rights to replicate it (no pun intended) so I recomposed it entirely by ear [Vangelis' main themes of the film], and then added my own originals to to the mix. Recreating the film pieces were definitely a challenge, because not only did I have to listen for all the parts and nuances of how they were performed, I had to edit and fine tune lots of synth patches to recreate the sound of those instruments. One of the most flattering compliments I got was that a lot of the company said they enjoyed my versions a bit more only because the recording quality was cleaner than the originals.\r http://thegamingliberty.com/index.php/2009/12/03/tgls-exclusive-frank- klepacki/",
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"content": "Robert Rodriguez (Director of Sin City, Planet Terror, Machete, ...): Blade Runner is also one of my favorites. I love film noir movies, and that was just a new way of doing it. Set in the future, made up worlds. It's just a straight up great movie; everything fell into place, which is just rare for things to happen that way. How everything came together, the artistry that went into it, the design, the music, and how resilient the story is, how you can just keep making new versions of it, and they all still kind of work. [laughs] When you can just keep remaking the same movie with the same footage and just kind of tweak it a little bit... \r http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/comic_con_2009/news/1834188/five_favor ite_films_with_robert_rodriguez/ Alex",
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"content": "Alex - I posted that Robert Rodriguez quote on Sept. 20, 2009!! \r Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Yeah, I'm just celebrating its one year anniversary!\r Alex",
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"content": "I've been searching for an Alex Proyas reference to Blade Runner for almost two years. This is the closest I've come to date. From a 2009 interview in which Proyas is asked to discuss his five favorite films:Well, you know, it's interesting because my favorite films are ones that I keep watching. I just don't think there have been many great science fiction films made. I mean, 2001 is genius, there's no question it's a masterpiece, but I've already picked a Kubrick film. I find Dr. Strangelove a more user-friendly and enjoyable film to look at and watch repeatedly. I can watch it endlessly. Blade Runner is a masterpiece, but I don't know that I would put it in my top 5 at this stage. Maybe at some other point in my life, I would've. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/knowing/news/1802657/1/five_favorite_f ilms_with_alex_proyas/ Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Michael Deeley, producer of Blade Runner:I'm immensely proud to have produced a picture which, over the years of recuts and reissues, has travelled from being more or less a flop to becoming a cast-iron cult, and today, it seems fair to say, a classic.From the book 'Blade Runners, Deer Hunters, And Blowing The Bloody Doors Off' by Michael Deeley, p.262. Recommended reading for fans of the film.\r Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Novelist, Neil Gaiman:\"Kurt Vonnegut believed that what science fiction and pornography have in common is that they're both visions of impossibly hospitable worlds. But what Blade Runner did was create a dystopic, inhospitable world. It's dark and it's grungy and you wouldn't want to live there---but you'd love to go there.\" Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "I don't have the quote in front of me. But if you listen to the commentary on Aliens (1986) Lance Henrikson (who is an intense method actor) said that in preparation for his role as Bishop the android, he studied Blade Runner because it is the quintessential robot movie. And he goes on to exlain how authentic the performances are. \r Funny story, I think Lance is a great actor who never got his just due. And after years of hearing about BR, I watched it just based on his quote. I love it and it's in my top 10. Most atmospheric movie ever (next to Alien, of course).\r Come with me if you want to live.",
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"content": "(new scenes in Avatar extended edition)\r It\u0092s a bleak world you\u0092ve created, with a strong flavour of Blade Runner about it.\r Jon Landau (producer Avatar): \"You see advertising in the sky, but you don\u0092t see flying cars. We wanted to ground it.\rThat\u0092s interesting, but I think anytime anyone does something with the future, they see Blade Runner. We didn\u0092t have flying cars. We have a scene in a bar \u0096 and a bar looks like a bar \u0096 but we did say, \u0093Where\u0092s the advertising going to be in the future?\u0094 So we advertised in the sky \u0096 a little bit like the Bat symbol. We also said, \u0093What\u0092s transportation going to be like?\u0094 You don\u0092t see flying cars [in the film], you see mag-trains, because we thought that\u0092s a possible future. We wanted to ground it.\"\r http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=1120 Alex",
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"content": "Ben Affleck: \"With 'Superman,' I think they\u0092re going to do a great version. Chris Nolan is brilliant and they\u0092ve got a great director for it. I\u0092ve love to do something like 'Blade Runner,' but a lesson I\u0092ve learned is to not look at movies based on budget, how much they\u0092ll spend on effects, or where they will shoot. Story is what\u0092s important. Also, there are a lot of guys ahead of me on the list to do epic effects movies.\"\r http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/11/29/ben-affleck-superman/ Alex",
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"content": "Blade Runner by dance choreographer Erik Kaiel:\r http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnaIgZ6gGWo Alex",
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"content": "I know Satoshi Kon, for the audio commentary to 'Paprika', commented on a certain scene to be a reference to Blade Runner.\rThe sad fact is, I don't remember what he was saying about it, or which scene it was in.\r Your movie sucks.",
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"content": "Q. You revisited Blade Runner a couple of times. Have you ever felt like revisiting any of your other films?\r Sir Ridley Scott: They never asked. I would. There\u0092s not a lot to change, though. With Blade Runner, I knew I\u0092d nailed it really good, or I thought I had, but I hadn\u0092t because no one got it except for a few loony diehards. In fact, the Wachowski brothers were asked about it recently and they said: \u0093Of course we *beep* liked it\u0085 but no one else did.\u0094 So, they were being complimentary and bitchy at the same time. So I say that what they did was copy Blade Runner\u0085 it obviously influenced everything they do. So they can stick that up their pipe and smoke it.\r Anyway, I knew what I did but because we were obliged to do audience research, where you screen the movie before you finish it, they were sitting there, fidgeting and then decided: \u0093It\u0092s a depressing ending.\u0094 They also asked: \u0093What is city speak?\u0094 Well, you find that out during the movie unless you\u0092re half a moron. But now we had to put on a voice-over and that silly ending where they drive off into those beautiful mountains. If you had that beautiful countryside, though, why the *beep* would you live in that city? It didn\u0092t make any sense. So, all I did was remove the voice-over, remove the ending, polish up the blacks that had faded a little bit in 25 years and it looked like it was made yesterday.\r Alex",
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"content": "BBC\u0092s Film 2011 Questionnaire: Edgar Wright\r Favorite Film?\rEdgar Wright: Is Raising Arizona - 1987 - by the Coen brothers. I saw it on VHS, I didn\u0092t see it at the cinema. And as soon as it finished, I put it back into the player, rewound it and started again. Because I was just kinda\u0085my mind was completely fried from what I\u0092d seen. And I just think it\u0092s the perfect blend of, like, comedy and action. I love the way it looks, I love the performances. The whole pre-credit sequence is incredible, which is\u0085just blew my mind cuz it was like watching a short before the feature.\r Overrated Classic?\rEdgar Wright: I used to feel that way about Blade Runner when I first saw it. Not that I didn\u0092t like it, I just didn\u0092t quite get it until I saw it on the big screen. I remember watching it on video a bunch of times and not quite getting my head round it. And then it took seeing it on the big screen for me to sort of finally luxuriate in it. I feel whatever I say is like, kinda like, it\u0092s kinda geek heresy if you say something\u0085there\u0092s things I would say in private that I wouldn\u0092t say on TV [laughs]. Cuz I\u0092m a coward! I like Blade Runner, but I respect his candidness, that\u0092s his idiosyncrasy if it doesn\u0092t go.",
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"content": "I never came across that one before. Good find, tony. \r I feel whatever I say is like, kinda like, it\u0092s kinda geek heresy if you say something\u0085there\u0092s things I would say in private that I wouldn\u0092t say on TV [laughs]. Cuz I\u0092m a coward! Is Wright still talking about Blade Runner here?\r Alex\r ",
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"content": "Question: So we're not going to consider you for the Blade Runner sequel/prequel?\r Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code): I love Blade Runner, as you know, I'm a huge fan of Blade Runner. I wouldn't touch that with a stick!\r http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/03/17/duncan-jones-interview-source-cod e/ That's the spirit, Duncan!\r Alex",
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"content": "Hmm, Tundy, the point is that people think he or Nolan are the perfect candidates for the so-called upcoming Blade Runner sequel/prequel. Now we know that true fans are not interested in a project like that. ",
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"content": "Michael Fassbender (Inglorious Basterds, 300, and Ridley Scott's upcoming Prometheus): \"Blade Runner is my favorite movie. I just love that movie. And really I love all the different versions, I just don\u0092t care, I love that world and whatever you want to take from it you can take from it, nothing is fore-set in any way. I love that it\u0092s a very feasible futuristic place, and again that quality that you\u0092re in a thriller but you don\u0092t know it. There\u0092s always something at play and everyone has an agenda but none of it is really openly expressed.\"\r http://geektyrant.com/news/2011/4/8/michael-fassbender-calls-ridley-sc otts-prometheus-breathtaki.html",
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"content": "Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner, The Hitcher, Hobo With A Shotgun): \"If Christopher Nolan would be on it I\u0092d say, \u0091All right, go for it'! But otherwise you can\u0092t do it. \u0091Blade Runner\u0092 is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don\u0092t think you should ever touch it again.\"\r Et tu, Hauer?!\r http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/04/01/rutger-hauer-only-christophe r-nolan-should-make-new-blade-runner-film/#/0 Alex\r ",
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"content": "George R.R. Martin Picks His Favorite Science-Fiction Films of All Time\r George R.R. Martin \u0096 Thu Mar 31, 12:38 am ET\rNEW YORK \u0096 Game of Thrones, HBO\u0092s adaptation of George R.R. Martin\u0092s first book in his bestselling series, premieres April 17\u0097and the network is showing the first 15 minutes of the first episode this Sunday. In anticipation, the writer curates his 10 favorite science-fiction films, from The Road Warrior to Blade Runner. And check back next week, when Martin curates his favorite fantasy films.\r 1. Forbidden Planet (1956)\rThe Tempest on Altair IV. The only science-fiction film that William Shakespeare ever wrote (admittedly with some help from screenwriter Cyril Hume). The Bard of Avon and Robby the Robot make a combination that has still yet to be surpassed. Leslie Nielsen plays Captain Kirk a decade before William Shatner, and does it better. In fact, the C-57-D and its command trio of captain, first officer, and doctor are clear forerunners of the Enterprise and its Kirk/Spock/Bones triad, though none of Kirk\u0092s myriad love interests could hold a candle to Anne Francis as the sexy yet innocent Altaira. It\u0092s Walter Pidgeon who steals the film, however. His layered portrayal of the tormented Morbius is almost\u0085 well\u0085 Shakespearean. And did I mention Robby the Robot? Forbidden Planet was his first film role, but Robby went on to make numerous appearances in other movies and television episodes, a career that R2D2, C3PO, and Robocop can only envy. Forbidden Planet\u0092s visuals and special effects were state of the art in their day, and still hold up pretty well\u0085 especially the sequence where the invisible Id monster gets caught in the disintegrator beams. The score was also amazing and unique, done in electronic tonalities that remain as unsettling as they were revolutionary. I hear rumors that they are going to remake this. Please, no.\r 2. Aliens (1986)\rOnce upon a time, Robert A. Heinlein wrote a classic (and controversial) science-fiction novel called Starship Troopers, which is still being read and argued about today. Many years later, director Paul Verhoeven and writer Edward Neumeier made a very bad film called Starship Troopers. Fortunately RAH was dead by then and never had to see it. In between, James Cameron made Aliens. According to Hollywood legend, when Cameron heard that they were going to film Starship Troopers, he said, \u0093Why bother? I\u0092ve done it.\u0094 And, you know, he had. His film was not based on the novel Starship Troopers, of course, but his Colonial Marines come a lot closer to the spirit and feel of Heinlein\u0092s Mobile Infantry than anything in the Verhoeven movie, while still remaining true to the Alien franchise. Aliens is one of the rare cases of a sequel that was actually better than the original (no mean trick here, since the original was pretty damned good). This is probably Sigourney Weaver\u0092s best turn as Ripley, though all of them were good. Her supporting cast was great as well: Hicks (Michael Biehn), Vasquez (Jenette Goldstein), the heroic android Bishop (Lance Henriksen), and especially Newt, as played by Carrie Henn. \u0093Will I dream?\u0094 Newt asks Ripley in the last scene of the film, just before they settle down into their capsules for a long, cold sleep. \u0093Yes\u0094 would be my answer. If they ever put me in charge of the franchise, the next Alien film will open with Newt waking up safe on Earth, having dreamed all those later, awful Alien movies.\r 3. Blade Runner (1982) Poor Philip K. Dick. One of the true geniuses of science fiction, he struggled all his life to find an audience, and never had two nickels to rub together. Then, after he dies, he gets discovered by Hollywood, and film after film after film follows. Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, The Adjustment Bureau, and more on the way. But Blade Runner was the first Dick film and remains the best. Based on Dick\u0092s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, with a title borrowed from an unrelated novel by Alan Nourse, Blade Runner gave film audiences an entirely new vision of what the future might hold, very different from the sterile universe of Star Trek and its ilk. This was a gritty, dirty, dark tomorrow where it seemed to rain day and night, brought to vivid life by Ridley Scott\u0092s superb direction, Syd Mead\u0092s amazing production designs, and a script by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples that even Dick might have liked. Forget the theatrical release, with its hokey voice-overs and tacked-on happy ending. To get the true impact of this one, the director\u0092s cut is the only way to go. I still get a chill listening to Rutger Hauer\u0092s final speech. \u0093I\u0092ve seen things you people wouldn\u0092t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I\u0092ve watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die.\u0094\r 4. Alien (1979)\rSome purists will argue that Alien is really a horror film in science-fiction drag, and maybe they have a point. But it\u0092s a great horror film in science-fiction drag. The look of the film was unique; we had never seen a spaceship like the Nostromo before, though you have to wonder about all those dripping pipes\u0097did this starship run on steam? H.R. Giger\u0092s alien designs made \u0093Gigeresque\u0094 an adjective. The blue-collar down-and-dirty crew seemed like real people. The chest-burster scene is strong stuff even today, and those who saw it in the theaters without knowing what was coming, like me, will never forget it. Tom Skerritt\u0092s death packed almost as much punch (a chorus of \u0093Wait a minute, I thought Dallas was the hero\u0094 was heard across the land). After that, you knew that no one was safe. And then there was the life-pod scene, Ripley in her underwear and the Alien in the pipes, sex and horror mashed together. From where I sit, Ripley is the defining role of Sigourney Weaver\u0092s career. The fact that she never won an Oscar for Ripley just underlines the sad truth that the Academy does not honor actors for roles in science-fiction or fantasy films, no matter how good they are. (The single conspicuous exception will be dealt with when I get to my Honorable Mentions.)\r 5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)\rThere have been four versions of this story filmed to date, all deriving from the original Jack Finney novel, though I doubt the makers of the three remakes are familiar with anything beyond the original film. Every time they remake it, it gets worse. The second film, the 1978 Philip Kaufman version with Donald Sutherland, Leonard Nimoy, and Jeff Goldblum, is not half bad. Let\u0092s be kind and pretend that Body Snatchers (1993) and The Invasion (2007) do not exist. It\u0092s only the 1956 original that belongs on this list. A classic tale of creeping Red Scare paranoia and alien invasion, full of fathers who aren\u0092t fathers, husbands who aren\u0092t husbands, wives who aren\u0092t wives, director Don Siegel\u0092s film made a whole generation afraid to go to sleep, and contributed the phrase \u0093pod people\u0094 to the idiom. The ending, with a crazed Kevin McCarthy standing on the highway shouting, \u0093You\u0092re next,\u0094 at passing cars, came as a real shock to the filmgoers of the 1950s, who expected happy endings in their monster movies.\r 6. The Road Warrior (1981)\rThe second of the three Mad Max films is by far the best. The original Mad Max was utterly forgettable, and while Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome has some great parts\u0097the Thunderdome itself, Master/Blaster, Tina Turner\u0092s turn as Queen of Bartertown, and the wonderful language of the tribe of lost children\u0097it also recycles some of the best bits of The Road Warrior rather shamelessly. But The Road Warrior has it all. Mel Gibson is perfect as the reluctant hero, but much of the film\u0092s juice comes from its supporting characters: Wez and the Humungous (\u0093the Ayatollah of Rocknrollah!\u0094), the Feral Kid, Pappagallo, the Mechanic, the Warrior Woman (played by Virginia Hey, who would later sign aboard Farscape)\u0085 and best of all, the Gyro Captain, masterfully played by Bruce Spence (\u0093Remember lingerie?\u0094). You have to love the end, where the embittered loner Max remains an embittered loner, while the lecherous cigar-chomping Gyro Captain becomes the new leader of the tribe. Maybe if he\u0092d known that Thunderdome, Tina Turner, and all those pigs were waiting in his future, Max would have made a different decision. \r 7. Dark Star (1974) \rSome indie films are made on low budgets. Dark Star looks as though it was made with whatever loose change John Carpenter and Dan O\u0092Bannon found under their couch cushions. The alien is a beach ball. Half the videos on YouTube have better SFX. Never mind, it is still the funniest science-fiction film ever made. Pinback\u0092s video diary, the whole \u0093Time to Feed the Alien\u0094 sequence, \u0093Let\u0092s Have Some Music in Here, Boiler,\u0094 Lt. Doolittle\u0092s climactic conversation with Bomb 20\u0097any of those segments would be worth the price of admission all by themselves. And then the end, Doolittle on his improvised surfboard, flaming into the atmosphere as \u0093Benson, Arizona\u0094 comes up once again \u0085perfect. \r 8. The War of the Worlds (1953) \rThe George Pal version, if you please. Steven Spielberg\u0092s 2005 remake hews closer to the H.G. Wells novel (and even blows up my hometown of Bayonne, New Jersey!) but loses points for having its aliens (no longer Martians) riding down on lightning bolts to activate tripods they buried thousands of years ago. Excuse me? Whose bright idea was that? In the 1953 version, produced by Pal and directed by Byron Haskin, the Martians (yay!) crash to earth in flaming cylinders, the way God and H.G. Wells intended it. Pal could not do realistic tripods with the special-effects technology available to him in 1953, but the floating \u0093manta ray\u0094 war machines he offered us instead were elegant, ominous, and unforgettable. And the scene where the Flying Wing lifts off to drop the H-bomb on the Martians thrilled and chilled every kid in America. I\u0092ll grant you that the Pal film ends with the biggest deus ex machina in cinematic history, but so does the Spielberg film and every other version. (There have been six to date, but only the Pal and the Spielberg are worth watching.) Can\u0092t be helped. That\u0092s the way H.G. ended the book, too. Now if only someone (Billy Bob Thornton, maybe?) would film Howard Waldrop\u0092s irreverent coda, Night of the Cooters. \r 9. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) \rThe original version, of course. That thing with Keanu Reaves could not make a list of the top 100 science-fiction films. How do you remake The Day the Earth Stood Still and turn \u0093Klaatu Barada Nikto\u0094 into a mumbled throwaway aside? That\u0092s like remaking Citizen Kane and leaving out Rosebud. Jennifer Connelly, while lovely to look upon, is no Patricia Neal, and Keanu Reaves is certainly no Michael Rennie. Keanu\u0092s acting range more closely approximates that of Gort from the first film. Edmund North\u0092s script for the 1951 original actually improves on its source material, the Harry Bates short story \u0093Farewell to the Master,\u0094 and Robert Wise\u0092s direction is sure-handed and impeccable. There\u0092s a certain sentimentality to the \u009251 film that may come across as hokey to modern audiences, but I find that infinitely preferable to the sour misanthropy of the remake. And the original is intelligent from start to finish, where the remake is relentlessly stupid. \r 10. The Empire Strikes Back (1980) \rIf you have to have a Star Wars film on the list, this is the one. The original Star Wars\u0097I refuse to call it A New Hope\u0097changed the face of movies and science fiction both, though not always in good ways. It has dated rather badly, though. Empire holds up better, perhaps because of the Leigh Brackett script. She was the best writer ever to work on the franchise. The second film gives us more of Han Solo and Darth Vader and less of Luke, which is all to the good. Alec Guinness is missed, but we get Yoda. R2D2 and C3PO are still fun, not yet the annoyances they become in the prequel trilogy. Lucas has yet to conceive of Jar Jar Binks, thank God, and those cuddly cute Ewoks remain a film in the future. The ice planet and the swamp planet and the floating city were all familiar staples of print science fiction, and had been since the heyday of the pulps, but it was a thrill to see them realized on screen for the first time. \r HONORABLE MENTIONS \rWell, there\u0092s Avatar (2009). Amazing special effects, a feast for the eyes, but I liked the story better when they called it Dances With Wolves. Then you have Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), if you like watching Richard Dreyfuss playing with his mashed potatoes. I want to see the movie that starts where Close Encounters ends, the one about the people boarding that starship. Serenity (2005) has a lot to recommend it, but ultimately comes across as what is: the last episode of the ill-fated and much-mourned TV series Firefly. For those who never watched the show, the film has far less impact. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) was the best of the Trek films, but that still doesn\u0092t earn it a place on the list. Maybe if I was doing the Top 20 instead of the Top 10. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is certainly a landmark, a film that students of the cinema, Kubrick fans, and French critics love to analyze and ponder. If only it wasn\u0092t so bloody dull. The only memorable character in the film is the HAL 9000. \r Galaxy Quest\u0085 ah, Galaxy Quest (1999). Maybe I should have put that one in the No. 10 slot, in place of Empire. It\u0092s a Star Trek parody that\u0092s better than any of the Star Trek films. \u0093This episode was very badly written!\u0094 Maybe, but the film was not. A near-miss. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001) had an amazing array of talent behind it. A script by Ian Watson, based on a story by Brian Aldiss, directed by Steven Spielberg, working with material that Stanley Kubrick had developed for years. They produced a brilliant, haunting, gorgeous, but ultimately flawed masterpiece. This one came close, too. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) is\u0085 what? Science fiction? Horror? Musical comedy? Cult film? Act along? It is certainly in the Top 10 of whatever the hell it is, once we find a category for it. \r Galaxy Quest, 1999 \rThe only science-fiction film ever to win an Academy Award for acting\u0097science fiction and fantasy have won plenty of Oscars for special effects, makeup, etc.\u0097was Charly (1968). Cliff Robertson took home the Oscar for his performance as Charly Gordon, a role he\u0092d originally performed in a television adaptation of the same story, called The Two Worlds of Charly Gordon. The TV version was based on Flowers for Algernon, the classic short story by Daniel Keyes, the film version (script by Stirling Silliphant) of the novel Keyes made by expanding that story. In both cases, shorter was better. \r Charly, 1968 \r Plus: Check out more of the latest entertainment, fashion, and culture coverage on Sexy Beast\u0097photos, videos, features, and Tweets. \r Author George R.R. Martin\u0097born September 20, 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey\u0097has written numerous novels, short-story collections, and television shows. His bestselling series of books, A Song of Ice and Fire, is the basis for HBO's new show Game of Thrones. Martin's present home is Santa Fe, New Mexico. Source:http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/20110331/ts_dailybeast/13241_gameof throneswritergeorgerrmartinsfavoritesciencefictionfilms_1 Leila Rasheed (author):\r 3) Speaking of films, my favourite film is Bladerunner.\r 4) Speaking of Bladerunner, I used to want to be an archaeologist because of watching Harrison Ford in the Indiana Jones movies. Source: http://blogcritics.org/books/article/interview-with-leila-rasheed-auth or-of/",
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But, in fact, closer examination reveals that there is indeed a soft, humanistic centre to Woo\u0092s violently stylish edge. As an action director he is unique in constantly pursuing the same themes of friendship, honour, betrayal, fidelity and true love, albeit via the medium of billowing explosions and people flying through plate-glass windows. Oh, and doves. Lots of doves. \u0093I like doves,\u0094 Woo announces, somewhat redundantly. \u0093They look so beautiful, like a woman. For me they represent peace and love and purity. And sometimes they\u0092re seen as the messengers of God, so they\u0092re important to me because I\u0092m a Christian.\u0094 But for this outing Woo has toned the avian content to just one solitary feathered friend, and he\u0092s also pulled back on the traditional \u0091Woo factor\u0092. There\u0092s very little slo-mo, only a couple of restrained, double-handed Mexican stand-offs and the odd freeze frame. Is he losing his touch? \u0093I\u0092ve been trying to make the action more realistic,\u0094 he says. \u0093It\u0092s deliberate. It\u0092s a story about an ordinary man, so I held back a little bit.\u0094 And then there\u0092s the concern that for the past decade or so, almost every action director of note has been ripping Woo off (or paying homage, if you\u0092re being polite). For good or ill, The Matrix trilogy\u0092s blend of kinetic action, hectic editing and surreal wire-work, as well as its fetishisation of fire-arms, are unthinkable without Woo. As is Robert Rodriguez\u0092s Mariachi trilogy. In fact, it\u0092s arguable that no foreign director has had as profound an influence on the style of American popular cinema since the Movie Brats donned their black roll-necks and decided to check out this Truffaut guy. But is he bothered by this kind of shameless pilfering? \u0093I think we all help each other,\u0094 he remarks diplomatically. \u0093To be honest, I\u0092m pretty happy about it. When I was young I learned so much by watching other people\u0092s films, David Lean, Hitchcock, and Kurasawa. We had no film schools in Hong Kong so you had to learn by seeing movies. And now, maybe some young people are learning things from my movies.\u0094 Adapted from the Philip K. Dick novel, Paycheck reprises the common Dickensian themes of memory and identity with its impressively paradox-riddled tale of a man who reverse-engineers technology for large corporations before having his memory wiped in order to protect their intellectual copyright. There\u0092s also the familiar element of a machine that can view the future (see Minority Report). It\u0092s Woo\u0092s first foray into pure science-fiction \u0096 if you don\u0092t count the loopy speculative technology in trading faces drama Face/Off \u0096 and it\u0092s a genre he approached with some trepidation, particularly since Dick has been adapted by two of American cinema\u0092s undisputed heavyweights. \u0093I\u0092m not a good sci-fi director \u0096 I\u0092m not as good as Ridley Scott with Blade Runner or Steven Spielberg with Minority Report,\u0094 he says. \u0093Those are great movies. Originally Paycheck was a very hi-tech screenplay, but I just decided to do it simply. You know, I don\u0092t know much at all about computers or technology, so I got rid of all but a little of the futuristic element and focused on the human story.\u0094 The human story in question is that of Michael Jennings (Affleck), who on completing a two-year job expects a massive pay-off, but instead gets an envelope full of unrelated objects which he has apparently sent to himself. Woo\u0092s casting of Affleck nods towards Cary Grant\u0092s dapper but bewildered Roger O. Thornhill in North By Northwest (in fact, the film is packed with Hitchcock references). \u0093I love Ben since I saw him in Good Will Hunting,\u0094 says Woo. \u0093He\u0092s a fine filmmaker, too.\u0094 All of which makes it a bit awkward when it turns out that Ben Affleck actually wasn\u0092t Woo\u0092s first choice for the role at all. \u0093Ah, no\u0085\u0094 he murmurs, apparently reluctant to proceed any further. Who was it then? \u0093Ah, er um\u0085 Matt Damon,\u0094 he winces. \u0093Yeah, Matt was the one who heard about it,\u0094 breezes Ben Affleck, apparently utterly unfazed by the notion of accepting the cinematic equivalent of his pal\u0092s sloppy seconds. \u0093Matt called me up and said, \u0091You know I got this script, it\u0092s John Woo.\u0092 Woo had seen The Bourne Identity and thought of Matt for it. But Matt said it was too similar for him to do it, dealing with the amnesia aspect. But he said it was a really good script. That\u0092s what it\u0092s like with Matt. It\u0092s nice having a friend in the industry that you can bounce ideas off without them having some agenda or other.\u0094 It\u0092s not the first actioner in which Affleck has gotten himself involved. Both Armageddon and Pearl Harbor attempted to shoehorn Affleck into the matin\u00e9e-idol mould. The experience has not always proved pleasant. \u0093The difference between Michael Bay and John Woo?\u0094 Affleck ponders as Empire requests a snap compare and contrast between the two directors. \u0093Well, John Woo is a gentleman and a prince, and Michael Bay is like this 13 year-old *beep* he concludes. \u0093He\u0092s sort of screaming all the time. It makes it hard. Some people \u0096 and not just Michael \u0096 feel the need to create drama and tension and anxiety to get what they want. And Woo demonstrates that this is not true. He\u0092s the sweetest, humblest, most decent man.\u0094 \u0085 Paycheck should stand as a model example of why a director shouldn\u0092t try to be something he or she\u0092s not. If he\u0092s going to do it, DON\u0092T hold back! Don\u0092t step outside your stylistic element/sensibilities! Stamp your fingerprints all over it! Go crazy! Yeah, people would\u0092ve still complained but at least the pic would\u0092ve been remembered as a cool curiosity and not a forgettable one. Or was the studio rabbiting in his ear?\u0085Makes you wonder why they pursued Woo in the first place. It\u0092s stretching credulity if Damon was cast as Jennings, only someone who\u0092s badass like me or Josh Holloway or Ralph Fiennes would stand a cat in hell\u0092s chance with Uma Thurman (I know she was in The Avengers with Fiennes, but we don\u0092t think about that!) It would\u0092ve improved it tenfold (imo).\r Vincent Ward (circa 2002): \r 1.Andrei Roublev (Tarkovsky)\r 2.La strada (Fellini)\r 3.The General (Keaton)\r 4.The Navigator (Keaton)\r 5.The Apartment (Wilder)\r 6.Sunrise (Murnau)\r 7.The Wind (Sj\u00f6str\u00f6m)\r 8.Metropolis (Lang)\r 9.Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Riesner)\r 10.Blade Runner (Scott) Source: http://www.listology.com/dgeiser13/story/recommendations-directors-fav orite-films",
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"content": "Denis Dyack (Eternal Darkness, MGS: Twin Snakes): My favorite movie of all time is Blade Runner, I think it was well beyond its time. It really set the stage for science fiction for quite a while, and still does. I love movies so much this is always hard -- I keep a top 20, but it's changing all the time. I guess I like movies that are poignant and say something -- The Godfather, The Usual Suspects, Apocalypse Now. Those probably sound like stereotypes. Influences on my games \u0085 did you ever see Ninja Scroll? You know the fight scene, where the blind demon was fighting Jubei? From Samurai Shodown? [laughs] That fight scene influenced the fight between Kain...no, between Vorador and Malek in Legacy of Kain. I really liked the way the cinematography was designed in that, the way it flowed. That happens all the time. I believe that in our industry you have to immerse yourself in media, you have to know what's around you. Miyamoto Musashi, in the Book of Five Rings, said you have to \"know all the arts.\" You have to know music, you have to know movies, you have to know cinematography, all kinds of things. My favorite directors are people like James Cameron, I like a lot of his movies -- these are going to be stereotypes too. Steven Spielberg, I like some of his movies a lot, and hate some of his movies a lot. Stanley Kubrick's up there -- 2001, The Shining. I really strongly feel that you have to study the classics in order to progress -- that's sort of a theme in Eternal Darkness. By studying film -- and I think you really see that in Twin Snakes -- the cinematography is a big deal. The way that's done, the way you can create emotion and movie the audience to the point where they lose track of time and get immersed in the game, that's what we have to study. We just have to apply that now in nonlinear ways. Like with the camera system in a game ... you have to anticipate what a user's going to do. Source: http://www.1up.com/features/cinemascope_2 Michel Ancel (Rayman, Beyond Good & Evil): Pulp Fiction for the non conventional and upside-down scenario. Blade Runner because of this strange atmosphere of humanity vs. technology and darkness. Grave of the Fireflies because it touches you so strongly without big effects or technology, just with a sincere storytelling. I would also add Fight Club and Twelve Monkeys. All these movies are about darkness but a piece of humanity, of meaning. Terry Gilliam, Quentin Tarantino , Ethan and Joel Coen, Wim Wenders, Tom Tykwer -- all these directors are pushing the movie industry into new directions, innovations and use of visuals for an unconventional way of telling stories. We need these people's vision because they change our point of view. If you look at the same subject with the same point of view, the same rhythm, the same effects, you don't have the feeling of evolving. So these directors make us think in different ways, which is very interesting. The video game industry needs this kind of energy to be able to explore a lot of directions. Now for each new game, I'm trying to think about the point of view, the structure, in order to please and to surprise myself and the players. I like the fact that everything is possible in Pulp Fiction. The heroes can die, the bad guys can be heroes. It's just unpredictable and at the same time it's always logical. When the character of Bruce Willis escapes from the mafia guys, you think that he's free, that he did it. But that's wrong. He stops at a light, and who is crossing the street with a burger in his hand? The chief of the mafia! That's absolutely stupid and crazy, but it works. And the two guys start to fight in the street until they arrive in a small shop, and at this time, when you think that you have seen the worst things, it appears to be the beginning of the descent into hell. So you never know where the limits are. You're just like the people in the movie; you're under the director's control. In this kind of structure, surprise and contrast are connected and avoid making you bored by repetitive or too predictable things. Most of all, the fact that it's always logical or possible is very important in this movie. I think that we can add this kind of emotion in a game. In Beyond Good & Evil, we tried to add these kinds of events that sustain the player in a good story rhythm. Source: http://www.1up.com/features/cinemascope_2 Favorite video game? Movie?\r Jeremiah Palecek: Um, favorite video game. Well this is a two part answer. Favorite old school game would have to be Joust for the Atari 2600, and contemporary game I would have to say that I'm an absolute slave to Counterstrike. Counterstrike is like crack for gamers. Well, actually Quake is crack for gamers, but I like killing people instead of aliens. Favorite film would be toss up between Blade Runner, and the original Planet of the Apes. Source: http://www.expats.cz/prague/article/interviews/interview-jeremiah-pale cek/ ",
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"content": "Are there any artists you look up to?\r Jack Moik (Magna Mana FX): Douglas Trumbull. I envy him for all those unforgettable moments he created, starting from 2001-Odyssey to my most favourite movie which is Blade Runner. Source: http://cg.creativefan.com/interview-with-jack-moik-of-magna-mana-fx/ - What were your influences ?\r Ivan Engler: My all time favourite movie is \u0093BLADE RUNNER\u0094. Next to a fantastic and very philosophical story, Ridley Scott transports so many moods, so many touching and dazzling snapshots of this unique future, that everytime I see the movie, the movie touches me not only by the emotional journeys the protagonists go through, but also by all its moods and moments. Same thing goes for \u0093ALIEN\u0094. So these two films were big and important influences for the creation of CARGO. Next to that, I am a big fan of Michelangelo Antonioni and Andrei Tarkovsky. Both these filmmakers were masters in creating moods and setting special tones, so they are like idols to me and I have seen all their films many times. I am also a fan of animated japanese movies like \u0093GHOST IN THE SHELL\u0094 and \u0093AKIRA\u0094. And of course, Stanley Kubrick and James Cameron were important influences as well \u0096 I grew up living next to a video rental store, and many of my afternoons were filled with just watching movies. I also read a lot of comic books, mostly french and belgian stuff. There are so many good stories in these books, I sometimes wonder why they are not made into films? On the literary side, I love Philip K. Dick (Do androids dream of electric sheep?), William Gibson (Neuromancer) and Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash). There is a pile of other SciFi books I wanted to read since a long time, like \u0093Diaspora\u0094 by Greg Egan and all the books by Tad Williams, but during the last years I did not have the time and inner peace to sit down and read. I am looking forward to this winter where I can sit in the warmth and read. Another very important influence for me is music and sound. I love the early ambient albums of Brian Eno, Michael Brook, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and the early Pink Floyd, very psychedelic, very inspiring for mind journeys. I love music that takes you onto a journey. I cannot stand the actual \u0093radio hit single\u0094, it makes me vomit. A good album should let you forget time and space and take you on a mind trip. I remember listening to Pink Floyds \u0093Welcome to the machine\u0094 when I was a 7 year old kid. I got up very early in the morning, just after christmas, and must have listened to the record at least 5 times already, when my mum dragged me out for a morning walk. Once outside, in the wintermorning fog, I suddenly saw two suns at the sky. Two suns! An emotional moment I will never forget. Of course, one of these \u0093suns\u0094 was the full moon that was still up, and behind the fog it looked like an additional sun. But from this moment on I was deeply fascinated by all things in space, by the infinite possibilities and infinite depths of space. And all this will always be connected with \u0093Welcome to the machine\u0094. Source: http://www.swissmadevfx.com/?p=372&lang_pref=en Robert Chang: Bladerunner (1983) - One of the most influential sci-fi classics, and requires some intelligence and maturity to sit through (I say that because I often hear people say they thought it was boring when they watched it as a teenager, but seeing it again as adults they fall head over heels for the film. Source: http://www.ethereality.info/ethereality_website/about_me/influences.ht m",
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"content": "Scott Stewart (director of Priest, Legion): When you have a dense science fiction city, everyone immediately goes to \"Blade Runner\". We live in the shadow of \"Blade Runner\", so you can't really deny it when, particuarly, we were really influenced by Soviet socialist cities and facist design. Propaganda and the industrial revolution. That all got mashed together with some futuristic concepts. We called it retro-futurism.\r Shock: It was shot with lenses from the '70's, too, right?\r Scott Stewart: Yeah, we used these anamorphic lenses which are rare now. You have to try and assemble a set of them. Then we had some new ones built for us. Don Burgess was my cameraman on the movie. Don shot \"Forrest Gump\" and \"Spider-Man\" and he was really excited to have a chance to go back and shoot anamorphic. The movies that I grew up loving, \"Blade Runner\" and \"Star Wars\" and \"Alien\" and some of the 70's westerns were shot with those lenses. They have flares and all sorts of nasty things that they've been trying to remove from lenses for years because they make visual effects harder. But they look great. They look beautiful. I love the flares and I love how distorted the image gets.\r http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/articlenews.php?id=18692 Karl Urban (Priest): And upon reading the script I met with director Scott Stewart and found myself to be quite in sync with him. The way he outlined his vision for the film was loaded with references that I understood and respected. He was talking about Blade Runner, Kurosawa\u0092s Throne of Blood and films like The Searchers. It was clear to me that he was very specific in his vision and what he was attempting to achieve had a truly epic quality to it. So I figured when you encounter someone like that it\u0092s a good idea to go with it.\r http://www.filmshaft.com/exclusive-karl-urban-priest-3d-round-table-in terview/ Alex",
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"content": "Vincenzo Natali (Director of Cube, Cypher, Splice and the upcoming Neuromancer): I think when you read it now, it still feels very relevant, maybe in some ways more relevant, because so much of what it predicted has come to pass. And therefore, my approach to it would be to be very realistic. I think The Matrix is a wonderful film, but it absolutely takes place in a comic book universe\u0085everything about it, in the best possible way mind you, but really I think it\u0092s a very heightened reality\u0085\r Neuromancer is a future reality, but I don\u0092t want to glamorize it, I don\u0092t want to inject steroids into it. I want it to feel very palpable and real, and still exciting, of course, but I think if I had to make a comparison, a little more of the Blade Runner type universe, which is kind of a more adult-type of movie. And that\u0092s what I think this film should be because it\u0092s dealing with very important and exciting themes. And I think that\u0092s where my take on it and what excites me about the book will distinguish it from other films, in so much as, in my mind, Neuromancer is really about our post-human future. It\u0092s about how we, in the future, are going to relate to machine consciousness. In the same way that Splice is sort of a treatise on how we\u0092re changing our bodies, Neuromancer could be a treatise on how we\u0092re changing our minds, evolving our consciousness.\r http://www.slashfilm.com/neuromancer-preproduction/ Alex\r ",
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"content": "My Favorite Movie: Dominic Cooper\r Dominic Cooper (The Devil's Double, Captain America, ...): \"Growing up, a movie that I always really loved was 'Blade Runner'. It was something that I was really inspired by because the whole concept, the whole image and look of the future was just really interesting to me. I loved that the way they portrayed it was kind of dirty. The future didn't work that well. It wasn't glossy. It was run-down. It was a run-down image of the future during that flashy period of the '80s and I really kind of liked the way this stood out. It totally caught my attention, even as a kid. Now it's a movie that I can still watch today, which really makes it great. I must have watched that movie--I don't even know how many times... a lot!\"\r http://www.nextmovie.com/blog/dominic-cooper-favorite-movie/ Alex",
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"content": "Actress Zoe Saldana:\r Zoe Saldana thinks cinema should always \u0093push the limits...Kill Bill, Alien, Die Hard, Blade Runner, The Matrix, Inception... I like movies which set the tone and which challenge the technology previous pictures had allowed,\u0094 she told France\u0092s L'Express when asked about her favourite movies.\r http://www.film-news.co.uk/show-news.asp?H=Zoe-Saldana-enjoys-risky-ci nema&nItemID=6349 Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Director Joe Cornish on Attack the Block\r Did you have the cinematography in mind when you started? Yeah, one thing I noticed about a lot of the movies I loved Blade Runner, Alien, Streets of Fire, The Warriors, all take place almost entirely at night. And that forces you to light everything, and it forces you to think about how you light everything. And it forces us to think about light both inside the frame and outside the frame, which is how we ended up with the glow in the dark teeth, etc.\r http://screencrave.com/2011-07-27/1-1-interview-joe-cornish/ Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Moon Bloodgood (Terminator Salvation/Street Fighter/The Surrogate 2012): \"But anytime Alien is on\u0097I watch it every single time it's on \u0097 it's really beautiful. It's well-acted, it's a piece of art. It's well crafted. There's a certain stillness in sci-fiction. Not the sci-fiction now where it's become a little hokey. I want classic Blade Runner \u0097 movies like that.\"\r http://www.complex.com/girls/2011/06/interview-moon-bloodgood-falling- skies Alex",
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"content": "Hope this isn't a repeat.\r Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell, Avalon): People tend to classify my movies as cyberpunk fictions but I personally don't think they are. There are some films that I really enjoy such as Blade Runner, and they may have been helpful in making my movies to a certain degree, but I think many filmmakers consider so other than just myself. When you create a film dealing with humans and cyborgs, you have no choice but to refer back to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, as this movie is probably the foundation of movies with this theme. Whether I'm trying to re-appropriate his language or not may not apply to my movies, because my goal is to always make a new movie that nobody has ever seen before. I think I've proven that with Innocence.\r http://www.midnighteye.com/interviews/mamoru_oshii.shtml Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Joe Ray from the musical duo Nero:\r \u0093We are well into sci-fi films and that\u0092s what a large part of our album artwork is based on. Films like Blade Runner and Alien had a unique vision of dark, post-apocalyptic future worlds. So when it came to deciding about our imagery that felt natural. The sounds we use on our album are inspired by those films. We even got a tutorial to get the exact right synthesiser used by Vangelis, who did the Blade Runner soundtrack.\u0094\r http://www.dailystar.co.uk/playlist/view/204636/NERO-SCI-FI-MAD/ Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Amazing thread all! i had a great time reading through these!!",
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"content": "Actor Daniel Craig on his recent role in Cowboys & Aliens:\u0091When I was young, I sat in a cinema on my own watching Blade Runner, and I thought, \u0093I want to work with this man\u0094 \u0096 and then I did.\u0092 \r \u0091It\u0092s Harrison Ford \u0096 who wouldn\u0092t?\u0092 he said ahead of the film\u0092s premiere at the O2 in London.http://www.metro.co.uk/film/872143-daniel-craig-i-always-wanted-to-wor k-with-harrison-ford Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Jordan Hoffman: Ridley Scott announced he is going to return to the world of Blade Runner, either a prequel or a sequel or something, you heard about this? \r Luc Besson: No. \r Jordan Hoffman: Well, he\u0092s currently doing a prequel to Alien, then going back to his other sci-fi masterpiece. Are you ever tempted to return to the world of The Fifth Element.\r Luc Besson: No. \r Jordan Hoffman: Have you been approached by studios to do it? \r Luc Besson: I don\u0092t remember that. \r Jordan Hoffman: Well, it\u0092s gonna\u0092 happen, that you\u0092ll be approached, with the love of franchises right now. \r Luc Besson: I\u0092d rather ten times to make new stuff, the new Fifth Element, than ever revisit the old one. \r Jordan Hoffman: So what do you think about the mentality of Ridley Scott to go back to Alien and Blade Runner?\r Luc Besson: I can\u0092t wait to see it. If he feels it, he has something to say... he is a top director, so I will be on the line to see the films. For me, personally, I don\u0092t feel that. If you see my filmography, I go from Fifth Element to Joan of Arc to Big Blue - I love to explore. It is not how I function.",
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"content": "How did you decide to go into film and, specifically, visual effects? Were there any particular films, people or events that inspired you?\r Aaron McBride (VFX Art Director, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides): I was a big fan of effects films growing up. Star Wars, Alien, Blade Runner. I was a big fan of Ridley Scott and how he used so much atmosphere in his films. All the same aesthetics that he used in filming the sets and the actors were the same as the effects shots. There were areas of the frame that would fall to just a rim-light silhouette. Nowadays, with visual effects being digital, there is sometimes a tendency in the work to over light and show off all the detail, and we're always conscious of that.\r http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=7406 Alex",
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"content": "Are there DJs that you're still looking to for inspiration?\r Surgeon (musician, DJ, Techno producer): Sure, of course. Quite recently I realized it had been a long time since I'd really connected with a lot of music that Jeff Mills had been releasing. But then I heard him play a set on this Japanese streaming site, and it really clicked. I was in Japan at the beginning of May, and I pretty much listened to the soundtrack to Blade Runner non-stop. I was really, really jetlagged and I was walking around in this kind of haze and it was really amazing. I've kind of got a bit obsessed with the soundtrack now. \r I remember a long time ago Jeff saying how big an influence Blade Runner was for him. So the whole thing kind of made sense when I heard his set on that site. I saw one of his records that he was playing, and it said \"Blade Runner\" on it, and the whole thing came together. It's really exciting to feel connected again to Jeff's music. There's really been a lack of sci-fi in techno for a long time I think. \r http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1215",
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"content": "Dennys Ilic (cinematographer and photographer Battlestar Galactica): So I did these photographs and Eddie Olmos comes up to me -- again another jaw dropping situation for me, because Blade Runner is my one if my favorite films of all time and I'm a big fan of Eddie's and all the other work he's done as well.\r Curtis Harrington (director): The character, yes. The same thing here. All through the history of film, directors who are commercially viable, do a lot of stuff for commercial reasons. So for instance, one of my favorite films of the last 20 years or so is \"Blade Runner.\" \"Blade Runner\" is just magnificent in its own way. But the director has directed a lot of guff too. So I can't say Ridley Scott is one of my favorite directors because he goes from directing a masterpiece like that to \"G. I. Jane.\" So there's no consistency. I think there is consistency in my work, except for \"Mata Hari\" which goes into totally different area.\r http://rustywhitesfilmworldobituaries.blogspot.com/2010/04/curtis-harr ington-2001-interview.html Alex",
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"content": " Michael Fassbender on playing an android in the upcoming film, 'Prometheus': \"I kind of went my own way, really. I didn't watch the ['Alien'] films. When I found out I was doing it, I didn't revisit them. I watched 'Blade Runner', but I didn't watch the 'Alien' films. Of course, they're in there. I can remember them from when I've seen the films before, but I sort of went a different way.\" Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "What films back then had an impact on you?\r Richard Prince (photographer and painter): The Road Warrior. First Blood. Alien. Drugstore Cowboy. The Terminator. Did Blade Runner come out in the '80s? If it did, I liked that one--the original, not the director's cut.\r Hideki Arichi (art director): I met Duncan (Jones) when he was a student at the film school and met Gavin and Barrett over the years through Duncan. The first short I was involved with was actually a commercial entry for Kodak(1) where a small noodle stand was constructed and placed in London\u0092s Chinatown. It was a short but sweet tribute to \u0091Blade Runner\u0092 and I designed the physical and built the physical elements.\r Are there any artists you look up to?\r Jack Moik(Nydenion): Douglas Trumbull. I envy him for all those unforgettable moments he created, starting from 2001-Odyssey to my most favourite movie which is Blade Runner.\r Q. Your personal matte painting, \"The Decline Of Babel Myth\" has won several awards, & has been featured in the world's best Computer Graphics magazines. Can you briefly take us through the journey, from the initial concept to the final matte painting?\r Frederic St-Arnaud (Senior Digital Matte-painter at Rodeo FX): This matte painting came from a discussion with my friend Kami, who did a wonderful 3D spaceship in 3D Studio Max. He sent me a converted 3D model for Softimage XSI in order to do a futuristic matte painting. It was also an opportunity to create something inspired by the movie \"Blade Runner\" which I have a lot of admiration for this amazing film. I did not do sketches or concepts. I started with some photos I did from a summer trip in New York City. Once my photos were well blended together, I did some 2D extensions to the foreground buildings with the Photoshop tool call Clone Stamp (or rubber stamp). Then, I created 3D geometry like bridges, antennas, landing boards. Because of the perspective and complexity of these elements, it was easier to do them in 3D. I finished with the background cities, the sky and the spaceships.\r See matte painting here: http://www.cgtantra.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view& ;id=261&Itemid=35 Alex\r ",
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"content": "Interviewer: Ridley Scott broke the news to us a few months ago that he\u0092s working on a sequel to \u0093Blade Runner.\u0094 Do you welcome this news, or does it sound a little risky?\r William Gibson (author): \"If anyone could pull it off, it would be Ridley Scott. But the idea of franchise, rather than one-off films, becoming the actual form, strikes me as decadent. Blade Runner is a classic, on the order of Citizen Kane. What would a sequel to Citizen Kane have done to the original?\"\r http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/01/17/william-gibson-calls-sopa-dr aconian/?mod=WSJBlog Alex",
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"content": "Timo Vuorensola (director of the upcoming science fiction comedy Iron Sky): \"We\u0092re hoping to create something like Vangelis did for Blade Runner \u0096 not just a soundtrack, but a whole new world that echoes through the music.\"\r Trailer Iron Sky:\r http://ironsky.net/ Alex",
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"content": "Jay Shuster (art director at Pixar): ''I saw Star Wars at age six and it pretty much entirely informed my design brain,'' he says. ''I thought: 'That's it - nothing else matters' \u0085 apart from Blade Runner \u0085 nothing else really mattered to me.''\r http://smh.drive.com.au/motor-news/pixels-axles-and-a-galaxy-far-away- 20120202-1qtvf.html Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Oscar nominee, Jeff Cronenweth (cinematographer, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Fight Club), interviewed by CNN:CNN: What are some of your favorite movies?\r Cronenweth: \"Blade Runner,\" of course, my dad's signature movie. \"Shawshank Redemption\"; (cinematographer) Roger Deakins is one of my favorites. \"Apocalypse Now\"; I can't imagine the struggle and endurance to pull that movie off and have it look as breathtaking as it does. (And) the \"Godfathers\" are unbelievable accomplishments. http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/24/showbiz/movies/qa-jeff-cronenweth-oscar/ Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "You accidentally typed Jordan instead of Jeff, wing.",
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"content": "It looks like Prometheus is much more idea-driven than other movies in this genre, and that there are some enormous ideas coming. Was it a challenge to weave that into an existing mythos?\r Damon Lindeloff: \"Look, Ridley Scott birthed this universe over two decades ago. My job was to sit and listen and to channel, in the same way that a medium does. This was about the ideas that he wanted to convey, and he did not want to come back and do science fiction again unless there was some kind of a philosophical construct to it. That's why Blade Runner, which didn't really enjoy commercial success when it first came out, is viewed as a classic, and is still being discussed and dissected: there are these fundamental ideas about humanity, our relationship with technology, the presence of a soul \u0097 those are all the things that drive Blade Runner. Ridley was reaching for the fruit on the tree of knowledge in the ideas that he was having about this movie.\r At the same time, there is a line where a movie becomes overtly pretentious. We wanted to stay on the right side of it, because once you cross it, there's no going back. There had to be a version of this movie that presented big ideas, but didn't really wallow around and spend all it\u0092s time basking in the glory of it's own intelligence. We wanted to make an entertaining movie at the same time. Hopefully, it's a hybrid in tone between the original Alien and Blade Runner. I mean, Inception is a wonderful movie and I love it, but I also love that people are shooting guns at each other and buildings are exploding.\"\r http://blog.ted.com/2012/02/28/writing-a-tedtalk-from-the-future-q-a-w ith-damon-lindelof/ Alex",
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"content": "Rian Johnson, in an interview about his new sci-fi film Looper:Rian, was science fiction something you had always wanted to do? JOHNSON: Yeah, I love sci-fi, and I\u0092ve always wanted to do a sci-fi film. Sci-fi is fun because it always goes with another genre. I don\u0092t know what a straight sci-fi film would be. Blade Runner was a sci-fi noir. Alien was a sci-fi monster movie. I love the genre so much. In terms of switching it up, it\u0092s because I write these things too and I\u0092m a very slow writer. By the time I\u0092m done, I\u0092ve spent three or four years on each of these movies and I just want to do something totally different because I\u0092m so sick of that previous one. \r How would you describe the universe of this film? JOHNSON: Well, it\u0092s the near future and it\u0092s very, very grounded. It is 30 years in the future. It\u0092s kind of dystopian. Everything has fallen apart a little bit. But, it\u0092s not as completely conceptualized as something like Blade Runner. It is a little more grounded and a little more down-to-earth. The truth is that, even though we had some fun with the futuristic elements, the movie is very action and character driven. The world that it takes place in was less about making a very distinct future world and more about these characters really driving us through this thing. It was more about, \u0093What\u0092s a world that we can pull off on our budget that looks real and makes sense, as a future?\u0094 http://collider.com/joseph-gordon-levitt-rian-johnson-looper-interview /153539/ Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "I don\u0092t know what a straight sci-fi film would be. Why, 2001: A Space Odyssey, of course! \r And Blade Runner proves that Film Noir isn't a genre but a style.\r Alex",
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"content": " Gerard Way (founder and frontman of the band My Chemical Romance and he's also a comic book artist): 'Blade Runner' was really huge. 'Blade Runner' was huge during Parade as well. 'Blade Runner' was always on, but this time [while] I watched them, I felt like I was - I felt we were on a bit of an artistic crisis at a certain point. We had done this recording, we [had] just gotten back from Japan and I had about, we had a week to ourselves maybe, to kind of contemplate what we're in the midst of in what we're doing. And I watched the 'Blade Runner' documentary, and that's actually called 'Dangerous Days', because that was the original title of 'Blade Runner'. And there's, just from watching that, I gained so much insight about art and what it took to not back down. And there's this thing where he's, in the very opening when the credits are happening, there's a shadow of Ridley Scott and he says: you see this in my hands, this is my camera, this is my weapon. He goes: I'm not gonna stop until I get what I want. And I was like: oh, God, you got to really dig deep like this guy, like he, we're gonna have to really do what he just said. Had a huge impact on me just that documentary. 'Cause obviously, I've seen the film so much and there's a little bit of influence in there. There's a lot of Tokyo in there. There's a lot of Katsuhiro Otomo. And there's a lot of the director of 'Visitor Q'.\r Alex",
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"content": "Nicolas Winding Refn (Director of Drive): I will not be controlled. Well, you know, I've always wanted to do a Western ... in Asia. So I thought, I'll do Only God Forgives there. Shoot in Bangkok. Moving to Bangkok in four weeks (*) It's *beep* awesome. Been there five years in a row. We go on vacations -my family- there each year. Bangkok reminds me very much of Blade Runner. It's gigantic, beautiful, lights, buildings\u0085everything is lit up. Like a sci-fi world\"\r Shooting in Thailand has invigorated the Refn, who is clearly in awe of Bangkok. \"I love this city. Sometimes it feels like the sets of 'Blade Runner,' \" he said. \"I could eat Thai every day, buy lots of toys, robots, movie posters. Yesterday I found two original posters for...'Godzilla.' Sublime.\" ",
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"content": "Artist, animator, Khang Le interviewd by IGN on his most recent collaboration, the mech combat game Hawken:IGN: What are some of the inspirations for the visuals? \r Khang Le: Some obvious elements we pull from are classic sci-fi movies such as Blade Runner, Alien, etc. From anime: Tekkon Kinkreet, Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor. From video games it's MechWarrior and Phantom Crash. Shadow of Colossus is a favorite of mine for its atmosphere and lighting.\r The overall visual [style] of the game is also heavily influenced by our limited resources. I design the environment style around kitbashing like the old Star Wars. It works well for us since the game isn't grounded in reality, we can jam random things together and make it visually pleasing. I also like the look of old broken down machines. Not so much the cool and shiny humanoid robots. I want it to look as if our mechs were built in WW1, Frankensteined together, on the verge of breaking apart.http://pc.ign.com/articles/115/1158817p1.html Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Fashion designer, Brenda Harvey when asked what inspired her new clothing line:All of my themes and ideas come from a philosophical place so I am always looking at the big picture. Ideas of destiny, fate, the future and the human condition are reoccurring through out all my work. Phillip K Dick and Blade Runner were a big influences for the \u0091Limits\u0092 collection. The idea of an apocalyptic end is quite present in the futuristic prints and gritty textures running through the collection. The scarf prints are very digital in nature but use a classic houndstooth print to give it a timeless feel. They are actually named after each of Phillip K Dick\u0092s five ex-wives. I\u0092m not sure if the world will truly end in December, but the idea of how and when does fascinate me. The human hand or mother nature? Which one will lead us to our demise is truly scary.http://oystermag.com/exclusive-benah-aw12-campaign-interview-2 Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Grrr, you stole the 300th post from me, wing! ;)",
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"content": "6 more months and we've kept it going for 4 years!\r Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Not necessarily on topic but I saw Snide and Prejudice the other day and noticed that they'd borrowed Deckard's gaff for the filming. \r https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennis_House http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120833/ Marlon, Claudia and Dimby the cats 1989-2005, 2007 and 2010.\r",
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"content": "Does one particular film stand out for you? \r Nancy Schreiber (cinematographer): Definitely The Conformist. Storaro is such a master of so many different styles all found in that one movie. The lighting and the framing were exquisite and probably influenced me to become a cinematographer. Later, I was also quite influenced by Blade Runner, photographed by Jordon Cronenweth. Early on, when I was in college, running a film society theater, Sven Nyquist had a profound influence on me...\r https://www.cameraguild.com/AboutUs/memberspotlightcustom/member-spotl ight-nancy-schreiber.aspx Alex",
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"content": " \u0093Can't go wrong with taupe.\"- Wynn Duffy ",
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"content": "Berton Pierce (model maker, director): I MADE TANK AND AIRPLANE MODELS AS A KID, THEN AFTER \"STAR WARS\" I STARTED MAKING MY OWN DESIGNS.AND I FILMED THEM BLOWING UP WITH MY SUPER-8 CAMERA! AFTER SEEING \"BLADE RUNNER\" I TRIED HARDER TO MAKE MORE REALISTIC MODELS FOR MY LITTLE FILMS. THAT FILM CHANGED MY LIFE.\r A LOT OF THE \"STAR WARS\" MAKING-OF DOCUMENTARIES WERE FUN TO WATCH.THEY ARE ON THE DVD'S, OR YOUTUBE NOW. I STILL WATCH THEM FOR FUN AND INSPIRATION SINCE WATCHING CGI IS BORING. THE \"BLADE RUNNER\" CINEFEX ISSUE WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME.\r You say that Blade Runner change your life, in what sense ?\r AFTER SEEING BLADE RUNNER I WANTED TO BE A DIRECTOR INSTEAD OF A MODEL MAKER. ALL THE MODELS I MADE AFTER THAT FILM WERE MORE REALISTIC. STORY AND DESIGN BECAME MORE IMPORTANT TO ME. THE INDUSTRIAL BACKGROUND WALL MODEL THAT I MADE FOR \"SENSE OF SCALE\" IS INFLUENCED BY BLADE RUNNER, AND ALSO \"ALIEN!\"\r http://cinesfx.blogspot.com/2012/04/berton-pierce-interview-english-version.html",
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"content": "Darren Lynn Bousman (Director Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Repo, The Genetic Opera): \"If you look at BRAZIL or BLADE RUNNER, those movies hold up. There\u0092s things that are amazing about them that you can\u0092t possibly make any better.\" ",
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"content": "Christopher Nolan : \u0093It really spoke to me in terms of what I wanted to do as a filmmaker. Blade Runner has this sort of density to it visually. You come back to it and see something else in it every time. I try to do that in a different way, sort of more narratively than visually.\u0094\r Alex",
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"content": "Q: You\u0092ve often said that your favorite film is Blade Runner. What special significance does it hold for you?\r Christopher Nolan: As a kid watching films, you go through a gradual realization of what\u0092s behind them. You start off like everyone else, thinking that actors make up the words and create the film themselves. So when I was young and looking at Alien and Blade Runner, I was going, OK, they\u0092re different stories, different settings, really different actors, everything\u0092s different\u0097but there\u0092s a very strong connection between those two films, and that is the director, Ridley Scott. I remember being struck by that, and thinking that\u0092s the job I want. \r The atmosphere of Blade Runner was also important, that feeling that there was this whole world outside the frame of the scene. You really felt there were things going on outside of those rooms where you\u0092ve seen the film take place. That\u0092s something I\u0092ve always tried to carry with me. Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.\r http://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1202-Spring-2012/DGA-Interv iew-Christopher-Nolan.aspx Alex",
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"content": "From an interview with Donald Moore and David Eick, producers of Battlestar Gallactica:Deven Desai: To loop back to some of the things we said earlier, you pointed out [one of] the liberating aspects of having Cylons is that you can explore things that [become a little more touchy] in other contexts [such as when just humans are involved.] In some ways it reminds me of Philip K. Dick\u0092s Do Androids Dream Electronic Sheep? and then the Blade Runner adaptation, where you seem to be playing with these ideas of implanted memories in Boomer, reminding me a little bit of Rachel [the Blade Runner replicant character]. The whole question out there is whether Decker is a replicant or not. At one level, it seems that you\u0092re also looking at this question of what is it to be human. How do we treat those whom we see as different? Is that part of the lens that you\u0092re playing with?\r Moore (jokingly): First of all, what\u0092s Blade Runner? It figured into our discussions from Day 1. Very influential.\r Eick: And yes, Deckard is a replicant, for the record. http://www.webcitation.org/62AHFphB9 Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Yeah, that was not a secret, Desai! Edward James Olmos has been like a walking advertisement for that film.",
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"content": "Good to see this thread is still here after four years, and still going strong. Just finished saving it all as PNG files... just in case.\r EDSKRPHW",
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"content": "Just finished saving it all as PNG files... just in case. Good idea!\r Anthony Ingruber (impressionist and actor): \"Unfortunately one of my favorite directors, Stanley Kubrick, passed on and so I\u0092m saddened at the thought that I\u0092ll never have the chance to work with him, but Ridley Scott has always been a favorite of mine too. Blade Runner and Alien are still my 2 favorite sci-fi films ever made and I would jump through a ring of fire just to give him my resume!\"\r http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2mnYRBu23o Alex\r ",
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"content": "Not sure if this one has been included already:\r William Gibson (novelist): \"About ten minutes into Blade Runner, I reeled out of the theater in complete despair over its visual brilliance and its similarity to the \"look\" of Neuromancer, my [then] largely unwritten first novel. Not only had I been beaten to the semiotic punch, but this damned movie looked better than the images in my head! With time, as I got over that, I started to take a certain delight in the way the film began to affect the way the world looked. Club fashions, at first, then rock videos, finally even architecture. Amazing! A science fiction movie affecting reality!\"\r \"Years later, I was having lunch with Ridley, and when the conversation turned to inspiration, we were both very clear about our debt to the Metal Hurlant [the original Heavy Metal magazine] school of the '70s--Moebius and the others. But it was also obvious that Scott understood the importance of information density to perceptual overload. When Blade Runner works best, it induces a lyrical sort of information sickness, that quintessentially postmodern cocktail of ecstasy and dread. It was what cyberpunk was supposed to be all about.\"\r Alex",
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"content": "It's funny how many MTV videos copied the rooftop scene from BR. The \"smoke machine, windmill turbine, dove\" motif got abused to the point BR looks \"dated\" to some when it was the precursor. \r \"That's impossible there's no such thing as trolls.\"\r\"How do you explain the dead unicorns?\" ",
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"content": " It's awesome many directors adore this masterpiece\r \"You killed Captain Clown, YOU KILLED CAPTAIN CLOWN\"-The Joker on Batman TAS",
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"content": "And yet, Blade Runner didn't make the BFI Greatest Movies Top 50 list.\r http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-time Alex\r ",
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"content": "3DTotal: Your personal projects feature several cityscapes and a retro looking detective. Are there any Blade Runner references in there at all? \r Stuart Jennet (Concept artist): \"Oh definitely, that was kind of the brief: Blade Runner without the product placement. This was for a writer friend of mine who was playing around with a real hard-core, future-noir piece. I only spent a day or so on this stuff but it was kind of fun... Thing is, you can\u0092t even go near that subject without referencing Blade Runner - it\u0092s too seminal.\"\r 3DTotal: Which other films do you regard as being benchmarks in shaping a creative style that has been widely referenced?\r Stuart Jennet: \"Star Wars of course; it changed everything in the 70\u0092s, but in some ways though I felt it ended up referencing itself in the new trilogy through most of the other sci-fi genres it generated. Lord Of The Rings has, for now, at least defined the quintessential medieval fantasy look and I\u0092m sure will influence many films for decades to come. It\u0092s a strange one though as the sci-fi movie landscape as it exists today is still quite recent; I can already see Minority Report starting to influence nearly everything - it\u0092ll be looked back on as being as influential as Blade Runner, decades down the line. The biggest influence aesthetically on the games industry though HAS to be Aliens, that movie especially has been riffed more than any other. Where would modern sci-fi games be without marines, dropships, bevelled rusted panels with sunken screws and, of course, the obligatory chevrons?\"\r http://www.3dtotal.com/team/interviews/Stuart_Jennett/Stuart_Jennett_0 1.php Alex\r",
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"content": "The song \u0093Nookie Wood\u0094 has an interesting air about it. What do you think of when you listen to it?\r John Cale (musician, composer, singer-songwriter, record producer and founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground): \"The movie Blade Runner. I didn\u0092t realize it at the time I wrote the song. I saw the original director\u0092s cut again [recently] and I was startled by how many of the noises and ideas the sound design in \u0093Nookie Wood\u0094 have a lot to do with Blade Runner. Foreign languages being spoken a little bit, a Vietnamese girl making an announcement repeatedly. The atmosphere is very claustrophobic, and when I saw Blade Runner, I forgot how masterful the sound design was.\"\r http://www.mtvhive.com/2012/10/08/john-cale-interview/ Alex",
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"content": "Com Truise (Seth Haley, music composer, producer, designer): \"I\u0092ve been a huge sci-fi fan forever. I think I might have been born somehow preconditioned to liking everything sci-fi. But somehow I spent the majority of my life not having seen Blade Runner. About two years ago, I bought the first version that came out on DVD. I was completely blown away \u0097 I wanted to punch myself for waiting so long to watch it. I think it took me two days to go out and buy the collector\u0092s edition in the plastic briefcase with all the stuff in it.\r As far as my favorite version, I love the remastered director\u0092s cut the most. It still looks a bit wonky, nice grain, the lighting, sound quality\u0085so good. It\u0092s the first, maybe only movie I felt that I could really relate to the character, that feeling of being alone, in a hot and cold place, and the uncertainty. They just released it on Blu-Ray. I\u0092ll never stop watching it. I want a framed Laserdisc! And don\u0092t get me started on the soundtrack.\"\r http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/music-news/interview/who-is/who-is-com- truise-2/ ",
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"content": "thats why he is my choice to do the soundtrack for http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856101/board/threads/\r here is a video of him saying it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8n8s86-TV 5A#t=270s \"i wish someone would remake Hollywood\" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdTmT3wVBxM",
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"content": "The New York Times posted about what fashion designers are saying about the costumes in 'The Hunger Games', and it looks like not many of them are impressed. There are a lot of expert opinions mentioned in the article, so we thought we would share a few with you.\r Olivier Van Doorne, the head of SelectNY, a fashion advertising firm that makes commercials for brands like Emporio Armani and Tommy Hilfiger, agreed. While he liked the film, he said he found the outfits \u0093ridiculous.\u0094 \u0093 \u0091Blade Runner\u0092 gave a vision of the future you\u0092d never seen before,\u0094 he said. \u0093With this, there\u0092s nothing new. It looks like a lot of recycling stuff Jean Paul Gaultier had done before.\u0094\r Comparisons to \u0093Blade Runner\u0094 were brought up repeatedly. Released in 1982, Ridley Scott\u0092s adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel \u0093Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep\u0094 took a similarly bleak view of the future, suggesting that technology and government would metastasize into something uncontrollable. With its sheer plastic raincoats, metallic dog collars and \u009280s power suits with Grace Jones-like shoulder padding, the movie became a reference point for designers the world over.\r Judging by reactions from the fashion set, \u0093The Hunger Games\u0094 won\u0092t have the same stylistic influence. Sally Hershberger, the celebrity hairstylist and frequent collaborator with the photographer Annie Leibovitz, also invoked the 1982 sci-fi epic as the yardstick against which the newer sci-fi film had failed.\r As she saw it, the on-screen outfits looked \u0093clownish,\u0094 like things you would see at a \u0093costume party in Venice.\u0094 \u0093It\u0092s not a \u0091Blade Runner\u0092 moment,\u0094 Ms. Hershberger said. \u0093This is not a fashion film. It looks too cheap.\u0094\r http://hungergamesfandom.net/2012/04/07/designers-weigh-in-on-fashion- in-the-hunger-games/ Alex",
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"content": "Robert Place Napton (Comic books, anime, ): \"Yes, the period for Lucas I\u0092m speaking of was Star Wars, Empire, Raiders, when he basically seemed like he could do no wrong. Another huge influence at that time was Blade Runner. Honestly, if you put a gun to my head so to speak, I could safely say it\u0092s my favorite film of all time. I was there for the original, for the Criterion laserdisc, the workprint, director\u0092s cut re-release, the Final Cut, blu-rays. I think I\u0092ve bought every version of the film. It\u0092s so layered and novelistic, asks the big questions in a way that doesn\u0092t make it easy for the audience. Anyway, tangential, but thinking about that period reminded me how much that film clobbered me as a young man.\"\r Q: What are your thoughts on the proposed Blade Runner continuation? Might some works, such as the very profound Blade Runner, suffer from over-marketing like that? Granted, it was adapted from a novel to begin with, but is there ever a point where some things should remain untouchable from further exploration, further scrutiny, or is everything up for interpretation? This obviously doesn\u0092t include your more recent work for Dynamite, which I think is more about keeping these legacies alive, but we\u0092ll get to that shortly. But do we risk lessening the weight of our icons from over-exposure?\r Robert Place Napton: \"That's a great question. The fascinating thing about Blade Runner is the original film itself was its OWN sequel. What I mean by that is it came in 1982 and fell flat except for a few of us. Then it slowly gained a life on home video and became a cult classic. The accidental discovery of the workprint in the 90s led to a re-release at a few art houses and then the Director\u0092s cut bigger re-release and then the Final Cut. At each of those steps it was about bringing the film closer in line with Ridley Scott\u0092s original vision, so it was really about TIME catching up with the film and the film getting discovered. The thing I like about Blade Runner was that it was just one film. It\u0092s interesting with books, if Hemingway were alive would he be trying to write an OLD MAN AND THE SEA 2? I doubt it. But with movies, the obvious tendency is to go with pre-branded material, so studios can offset their risk, hence comic book movies are the rage and something with a marquee value like Blade Runner makes sense to people. I just hope the BR sequel is the GODFATHER 2 and not the million other negative examples we can point to of sequels that don\u0092t measure up to the original.\"\r http://thelotteryparty.com/interviews-robert-place-napton/ Alex",
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"content": "Etienne de Swardt (Creative director and President of Etat Libre D'Orange Parfums): \"I am not as hands on as some other Niche perfume creative directors. Most of the time, I give true freedom to the perfumers who create our fragrances; because I believe that they understand the individual story I am trying to tell with each perfume. It's based on the project. It\u0092s the way they talk about the idea and the theme we pick up. For Jasmine et Cigarette, I asked Antoine Maisondieu about his vision of femininity. For him, it was jasmine twisted with tobacco. I asked if he could illustrate \u0096 he said, \u0093Do you remember that film Blade Runner by Ridley Scott? We talked about the film and ideas, and then it was in his hands.\"\r http://www.cafleurebon.com/cafleurebon-creative-directors-in-perfumery -etienne-de-swardt-of-etat-libre-dorange-seduce-and-provoke-draw/ Looking at the Hoodwink trailer, it\u0092s clear that you\u0092re a fan of Blade Runner. Can the Blade Runner influence be seen throughout the series? \r Amir Irwan (Managing Director of E1 Studio) \"Blade Runner belongs to a well respected pool of media that pioneered many modern themes that we now see as popular in today\u0092s arts, when they were groundbreaking back in the 80s. William Gibson, Snow Crash, Robocop; it will be hard to pin down exact influences. They all formed a collective understanding of the world we are in, and asks us if we should be happy with what we are becoming. Hoodwink aspires to do the same, through the vehicle of comedy.\"\r http://www.mweb.co.za/games/ViewNewsArticle/tabid/2549/Article/4523/ho odwink-an-adventure-in-a-world-gone-mad.aspx Dan Glass (Senior visual effects supervisor Dan Glass, Cloud Atlas): \"The three Method facilities played a major role in creating Neo Seoul, a futuristic flooded Seoul that is central to the movie's fifth story. \"It's a world that doesn't exist as well as technology that needed to be created from scratch,\" says Glass. \"We looked a lot at Blade Runner as an influence, so there's a certain dank, dark, not very optimistic look to it. It's an authoritarian regime, which is a key part of the story, so the look fits into that idea.\" Method LA's 203 effects included a gun ship, flying police vehicles (\"skiffs\"), a prison truck, digi-doubles and numerous environments.\"\r Matt Dessero (Visual Effects Supervisor, Cloud Atlas): \"Dan [Glass] wanted the world to look futuristic, not contemporary,\" says Dessero, who said that the walled city of Kowloon in China was one reference. \"Yet there are a couple of buildings to remind you of the past, such as the 1930s Swansea building. We imagined a futuristic RV park where people can dock their homes on a tree base, so we ended up with these very organic shapes and floating houses, with cables hooking them up. They wanted an even more futuristic look than Blade Runner while keeping the grittiness of that movie.\"\r http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/cloud-atlas Alex",
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"content": "RPS: Homeworld has a very earthy, primitive tone in stark contrast to, say, 70s and 80s sci-fi which is much more aurally bombastic. How did you craft and create the sound? What were the influences?\r Paul Ruskay (composer): \"During that period everything was instinctual. There was no internet, really, no reference points. The thing with Homeworld, my big influence was, obviously, the Blade Runner score and I was also a huge fan of Brian Eno. There was just something about that form of composition. There\u0092s that moment in Blade Runner where he\u0092s walking up the stairwell and there\u0092s that Arabic singing in it\u0085 and the other thing is the art director, Rob Cunningham, had spent some time growing up in India and he turned me onto DJ Cheb i Sabbah \u0096 that was the biggest influence, DJ Cheb. He was just doing this kind of DJ\u0092ing but with traditional Indian instruments. You mix DJ Cheb with Vangelis and with Eno and those are the main forces. On Blade Runner there was this synth-sound with world music instruments, that guy just got it right, we all sit under different schools but that combination of sound palette with the visuals \u0096 for me that\u0092s what sci-fi is.\"\r What was your favorite project to work on this year?\r Godmachine (Illustrator, designer and artist): \"Blade Runner poster. One of my all time favorite films and was a real pleasure doing it. I think I don\u0092t usually boast or feel like I should boast about most things I do, but thats like a childhood dream come true. That and anytime I get to do a skateboard\u0085 seriously, all those years drooling over boards and now I\u0092m actually doing them myself.\"\r See poster here\r http://www.revolution-daily.com/interview-with-godmachine/ Alex\r ",
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"content": " Jason Reitman (Director of Juno, Up In The Air, Thank You For Smoking): \"Here\u0092s a fun fact\u0085 you know what Alien, Blade Runner, Close Encounters and The Matrix have in common? I mean, outside of being timeless groundbreaking movies that changed the way we watch cinema. None of these films were acknowledged for their screenplays \u0097 which makes me wonder, is it just because they have flying cars and hyperbaric sleep chambers and creatures with acid in their blood? Perhaps we\u0092re so thoroughly engrossed that we dismiss how these films triumph in their examination of complicated ideas. Or maybe, as writers, we have some sort of prejudice against futuristic costume and production design.\rIf you break it down, at the center of these great science fiction movies are traditional writerly themes: mid-life crisis, motherhood, gender equality, and the fragility of human experience. Alien asked ground breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. The Matrix delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.\"\r http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/12/20/consider-this-jason-reitman-loop er/ Alex",
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"content": "Jack Wolf (author): If I were a film character, who would I be? I\u0092d be JF Sebastian from Ridley Scott\u0092s dystopian sci-fi vision of the future, Blade Runner. I first saw this film when I was a teenager, and the question that runs through it \u0096 \u0091what is real?\u0092 is one that has excited me creatively and philosophically ever since.\r JF Sebastian is a hopeless loner, like me. He is socially awkward, like me, and again like me he prefers the company of those friends he has made for himself. Of course, my friends, in that sense, are characters in my novels rather than genetically engineered creatures, but I think my point still stands. Who\u0092s to say that in some different universe I am not a genetic engineer doing exactly that?\r In this world, however, I am a writer. And because I am a writer, and my creations cannot physically exist in this world with me, I have one great advantage over JF Sebastian. My characters cannot blame me for what befalls them. Unfortunately for JF Sebastian, however, his creations are alive; and his greatest creation, Roy, comes back to kill him \u0096by killing his creator acting out a metaphor for the inexcusable human hubris of \u0091killing God\u0092. But was JF Sebastian ever truly God? Clearly not, although, certainly in Roy\u0092s eyes, he obviously seemed to have usurped the divine power of creation.\r Poor JF Sebastian. Perhaps he did not truly understand the implications of the work he was doing for the Tyrell Corporation. But when do any of us really get the chance to comprehend the full significance of the things that we create? If we could see that, perhaps we would be \u0096 almost \u0096 godlike. But would we ever choose to create anything?\r Or perhaps JF Sebastian did know, and knew better than anyone else in the film (he is supposed to be a genius, after all) \u0096 and chose creation anyway. Publish and be damned, they used to say in the book trade. In his case, perhaps it was always going to be a case of publish and be killed \u0096 but to die at the hands of his greatest triumph was perhaps not so bad an exit.\r http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/features/2013/01/08/jack-wolf-i s-blade-runners-jf-sebastian/ ",
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"content": "Paul J. Salamoff (writer/producer): I am a lifelong fan of genre films and have very eclectic tastes. Blade Runner is by far my favorite movie of all time. I love the themes it explores and from a visual aspect, I can't think of any other films that match it. I know this is controversial, but I prefer the \"Theatrical Cut\" of the movie because I'm a fan of the voiceover. (Yes, I will concede that Harrison Ford phoned it in, but I still like the text of the voiceover). I also like the fact that Deckard is 100% human in this version. All the other versions suggest that Deckard may be a Replicant himself, which to me ruins an important theme of the film: The fact that you have these \"robots\" acting human and a human acting like a \"robot\". That's very powerful and it's what made me fall in love with the film in the first place.\r http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/2011/03/screenwriter-p aul-j-salamoff-g.html Paul J. Salamoff: As I grew older I discovered Blade Runner and to this day it is my favorite film of all-time. I find that I am driven as a writer by themes (as opposed to plots) and here was a movie bursting at the seams with them. Ideas about what it really means to be human.\r http://comicattack.net/2011/07/ttcsalamoff/ Alex",
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"content": "Scott Z. Burns (screenwriter): \"I talked to Ridley about it at one point as a part of a larger conversation about us trying to find something to do together because I have such admiration for him. I\u0092m as huge a fan of that movie as anybody else who would be reading this or watching it, so what I said to him was, 'Let\u0092s not do that unless we have something amazing to do or to say, because I don\u0092t want to touch that idea unless I really feel like I have something amazing to contribute and right now I don\u0092t know what that is.'\r \"I think he and I will probably talk again about [Blade Runner], but again it\u0092s less about that specifically and more about he and I wanting to make a science fiction movie together. So I hope that that happens, to me I\u0092m not particularly attached to it being Blade Runner. I suspect by the time we would come up with something it would be its own thing and not attached to that franchise necessarily, because it is a franchise, it\u0092s a great piece of work.\"\r http://collider.com/scott-z-burns-blade-runner-ridley-scott/ ",
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"content": "What is your favorite science fiction movie?\r Michelle Rodriguez (actress): Dude, you can\u0092t do that to me. Are you kidding me right now? Well, here is the thing. I can say something like Avatar, but that\u0092s the commercial me speaking. I just love the fact that love was translated into a universal language. The snobby me would be like, \u0093That\u0092s so commercial, give me a break! Why don\u0092t you say something cool like Blade Runner?\u0094 I would say Blade Runner if that\u0092s the case. That was awesome. Not too many people like that movie, but I thought it was so great. I don\u0092t know what it is about that movie, but it just really captivated me in such an original way. I like so many different things about so many sci-fi movies, I can\u0092t really choose. But I\u0092d definitely say Blade Runner if I had to pick one.\r http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/column/index.cfm?columnID=13755&c min=10&columnpage=1 Alex\r",
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"content": "Paul W.S. Anderson: Well, he (Richard Yuricich) is like a legend of visuals effects, the first movie he ever worked on was 2001, he also did Blade Runner and Close Encounters, amazing landmark sci-fi movies. And this guy never talks to the press and I think the only interview he\u0092s ever done was a short one for the book \u0093The Making of Blade Runner\u0094. He just doesn\u0092t like talking about his work and I finally persuaded him to do a commentary for Resident Evil. So he came in and we did the commentary together but when there wasn\u0092t any visual effect shots on the screen, I wound up pumping him for info on all the other amazing movies he\u0092s made like Blade Runner and Close Encounters.\r I\u0092m just a real fanboy when it comes this stuff so THAT\u0092S gonna be a really fantastic commentary because it's not only going to be about Resident Evil, it's also going to be about this man\u0092s amazing career as well. He knows so many super cool things about Close Encounters, all this *beep* he\u0092s never told anyone ever before. That commentary was done recently so it\u0092s not on the DVD available now but it will be on the next edition.\r http://www.joblo.com/arrow/interview62.htm Alex",
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"content": "i like rodriguez\r \"i wish someone would remake Hollywood\" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdTmT3wVBxM",
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"content": "Too bad such great pages are deleted by administrators. It's happening all over IMDb, to various, seemingly targeted, posters!\r Time for revolution.\r ---->\rImpossible is illogical.\rLack of evidence is not proof.\r + = !\r",
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"content": "C. Robert Cargill (writer upcoming cyberpunk movie Deus Ex: Human Revolution): \u0093That dark, wet, tech-noir look of a movie, and that kind of feel of a movie, it\u0092s just dominated cinema for thirty years. It\u0092s dominated sci-fi cinema. \u0091Alien\u0092 and \u0091Blade Runner,\u0092 together, really changed everything. Smoke and rain and fog and darkness\u0085 it\u0092s noir. And \u0091Looper\u0092 and [District 9] went ahead and just got rid of that idea, and said let\u0092s take a different aesthetic. And that aesthetic was, both in the aesthetic of the storytelling and the visuals, was \u0091Let\u0092s make it very realistic, and let\u0092s start where some of these movies end, and let\u0092s have different kinds of problems.\u0092 \u0093\r http://screenrant.com/deus-ex-human-revolution-movie-update/ Scott Derrickson (director, writer, producer): Yeah, cyberpunk is difficult. There\u0092s a reason we haven\u0092t had a great cyberpunk movie yet. There\u0092s a reason why a sci-fi movie as great as Neuromancer has never made it to the screen. I do think there\u0092s a new wave coming, and not just because the technology and the effects are up to speed, but I think that there\u0092s a sensibility to cyberpunk that the movies are catching up with. That\u0092s kind of how we feel. We feel like the science fiction, the reason why we reference Inception, Looper and District 9 was that they were all movies that took certain familiar science fiction methodologies and turned them upside-down and brought a grounded realism to them. Time travel, aliens arriving on Earth, going into the dream world\u0085 Those are all things that you\u0092ve seen a dozen bad versions of, and it dozen decent versions of that. But no one, until those three films, no one had gone into filmmaking from a grounded, realistic point of view and made something with a fresh aesthetic. And I think that there was a little bit of the Blade Runner curse, a little bit of the Matrix curse, where you\u0092ve got these movies that touch on cyberpunk elements that aren\u0092t really cyberpunk films but they are so iconic, and so insurmountable. They\u0092re perfect films in their own ways, [but] no one has been able to break free of that, or no one has broken free of that, and tried to go at it completely fresh. I think that we\u0092re going to see a wave of them, I predict. I think that cyberpunk is going to break out. There\u0092s going to be a new kind of science fiction film, and it will be cyberpunk, and it will be amazing.\r http://www.craveonline.com/film/interviews/205309-it-will-be-cyberpunk -scott-derrickson-a-c-robert-cargill-on-deus-ex ",
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"content": "loving the looper mentions - best film of last year\r http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdTmT3wVBxM \"someone should remake hollywood\"",
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"content": "Kazuo Ishiguro (novelist): \"A lot of the greatest movies in cinema history are sci-fi \u0096 from Metropolis to 2001 to Solaris to Blade Runner.\"\r Ishiguro is one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world, having received four Man Booker Prize nominations, and winning the 1989 award for his novel The Remains of the Day. In 2008, The Times ranked Ishiguro 32nd on their list of \"The 50 greatest British writers since 1945\".\r http://www.theoohtray.com/2011/06/27/interview-kazuo-ishiguro/ Alex",
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"content": "Christopher Nolan: I think anytime you look at science fiction in movies, there are key touchstones. Metropolis. Blade Runner. 2001. Whenever you\u0092re talking about getting off the planet, 2001 is somewhat unavoidable. But there is only one 2001. So you don\u0092t want to get too near to that.\r Read this interesting article about Kubrick:\r http://popwatch.ew.com/2013/04/06/room-237-stanley-kubrick-shining-inf luence/",
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"content": "Joseph Kosinski, director (Tron: Legacy, Oblivion) interviewed by /film:\r /Film: I had a lot of fun with Oblivion and watching it, I couldn\u0092t help think of all of the sci-fi of the past. There are so many things in there.\r Joseph Kosinski: Yep.\r /Film: There\u0092s The Matrix, 2001\u0085 there are things that I don\u0092t want to spoil from other movies. Now when you were making the movie, were those connections in your head or were they sort of subconscious?\r Joseph Kosinski: I think they were subconscious. I mean I wrote the story about eight years ago, so I was thinking about the seventies films I grew up with, everything from 2001, Planet of the Apes, Omega Man, Silent Running, Blade Runner, Star Wars. Those were the films that I remember seeing as a kid and the illustrations of guys like Chris Foss and Peter Elson, I don\u0092t know if you are familiar with their illustrations, but I had books of theirs. These kind of beautiful colored maker watercolor images from the seventies that are just wild. I mean you see the images now and\u0085 Sci-Fi was in a whole other world in the seventies, pre-Star Wars, pre-Alien, and it kind of changed then and went into the darkness of deep space.\r http://www.slashfilm.com/film-interview-oblivion-director-joseph-kosin ski/ Another interview but basically the same thing:\r Joseph Kosinski:\"I always think of the old 'Twilight Zone' television show,\" he said. \"That was really, I would say, the heart of it. You know, Richard Matheson was a writer for that show -- he wrote 'I Am Legend, which was made into 'Omega Man' in the 1970s, and then remade again obviously later (in 2007) with Will Smith. 'Silent Running,' 'Logan's Run,' 'Planet of the Apes,' 'Blade Runner,' 'Star Wars' -- I grew up as a kid watching movies in the late '70s and '80s and I love those kind of '70s science-fiction films.\"\r http://www.nola.com/movies/index.ssf/2013/04/oblivion_director_joseph_ kosin.html Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "he says it's name - thats hardly talking about it - but thanks for the link - i've forwarded it to chris foss's daughter\r http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdTmT3wVBxM \"someone should remake hollywood\"",
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"content": "Why do your movies keep being remade? I feel the \"Total Recall\" remake only really succeeded in making people re-watch your version. No one really saw the new one.\r Paul Verhoeven:I saw it.\r What did you think?\r Paul Verhoeven: I thought it didn't work.\r Why?\r Paul Verhoeven: It's too serious. They took themselves very seriously and didn't realize that the big story is also strange. And impossible, of course.\r But you did it.\r Paul Verhoeven: But, I felt that it was strange. I felt the movie, in some way, should not take itself too seriously. In fact, ultimately, the casting of Arnold -- he was already cast before I was there. So I had to take Arnold. I liked the script already, but Arnold was playing the main part. So, take it or leave it. I said I wanted to do it with Harrison Ford, like in \"Blade Runner.\" But I might have made a mistake because \"Blade Runner\" is also very serious. And because Arnold was there, that changed everything. Arnold being there made it really necessary to flip it a little bit. And I think, in retrospect, it was a gift. Arnold was supposed to be an accountant in the original story and it was still in the script. And I'm like, \"Arnold an accountant? That's ridiculous.\" So I proposed, \"Let's have him do something physical.\" What are those things he's using?",
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"content": "Tom Benn (author The Doll Princess): Roy Batty is my favourite sympathetic villain. He\u0092s vicious, noble and fashion-conscious (the very foundations of cyberpunk were built upon his coat collar). He also has an extremely flexible girlfriend.\r Roy, a replicant (an artificial human being), has come to Earth to try and force a meeting with his maker, in the hope he will be able to extend his life beyond its programmed four years. Our gumshoe hero, Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, must \u0091retire\u0092 Roy and the rest of his gang.\r I\u0092ve always felt for Roy. Most of us are full of questions, frightened of death, and at some point in our lives, want someone to blame for our design flaws. We\u0092d probably be better off accepting what we can change about ourselves, and what we can\u0092t. God is the ultimate absent dad. \u0091I\u0092m surprised you didn\u0092t come sooner,\u0092 Dr Tyrell, Roy\u0092s maker, tells him. It\u0092s very satisfying watching Roy beat him in a game of chess.\r Rutger Hauer is otherworldly: his platinum hair and permanent sweat-glaze make him a lizard in the neon jungle of future LA. I watched the final cut of Blade Runner recently, and while the visuals are gorgeous, the dialogue is still one part stoic, two parts characters explaining things they\u0092d already know. But Hauer delivers even the most wooden line with a regal menace.\r Roy isn\u0092t just a badass; he\u0092s the most fiercely human character in a film where potentially no one is. I may not be as stylish or murderous as Roy, but he still speaks to me, and I always root for him over Deckard.\r And although Roy doesn\u0092t find the answers he needs to be able to cheat death, he does discover what it means to be human.\r http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/features/2012/01/27/1553/",
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"content": "Everett Burrell (special makeup artist - visual effects supervisor - worked on Prometheus, Battle Los Angeles, The Mist, Pan's Labyrint, Sin City, ...): A science fiction tale which did make it to the big screen was Prometheus (2012). That was an amazing experience because of Ridley [Scott]. I was working for Weta at the time and I got on-set,\u0094 states Everett Burrell. \u0093They said, \u0091Don\u0092t talk to Ridley. You\u0092re not allowed to talk to him.\u0092 I was sitting outside the video village one day and he waved me in. I went in, and he showed me stuff and said, \u0091You\u0092re always welcomed in my trailer or tent.\u0092 I saw Blade Runner [1982] about 50 times at the theatre. That was a lot of fun. Visually I loved making that movie. I don\u0092t think the movie makes a lick of sense but it looks great.\u0094\r http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2013/06/image-conscious-conversation-wit h.html I don't know what Everett meant by \"Visually I loved making that movie\". He would've loved working on Blade Runner? Or he loved making Prometheus? Which movie makes the least sense? The latter, I'm sure.\r Alex",
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"content": "Recently I interviewed Javier Cabrera, of the Cabrera Brothers. Their latest game, Cypher, was one of few commercial text adventure releases in the last several years. Cypher is a cyberpunk adventure that will appeal to any fan of the Blade Runner or stories set in similarly futuristic urban environments. \r Cypher is constructed in Unity 3D and has a distinct graphical element that also separates it from most text adventures of today. \r GS: Was choosing to make Cypher a text adventure partially due to nostalgia? The game does have a certain Blade Runner quality in tone and theme, and text adventures are considered a tiny bit old fashioned.\r Javier Cabrera (Game developer): You got it: it was mainly because of nostalgia. We wanted to bring something we used to love and couldn't find on the shelves back into our lives. You can\u0092t fight time no matter how hard you try. Kids growing up today with Gears of War and The Last of Us will know this fact somewhere down the line tomorrow when they are 45. They will have PlayStation16 and XBOX 3000 in their living rooms and the games will be something strange for them again. They won't get as excited as they used to. They will look back and remember how cool the games they played in their youth used to be. How great those series and movies used to feel. There\u0092s only so little we can do about it when we grow up; one solution is making our own games and movies. Since making movies is almost impossible, we went for games. That\u0092s why you\u0092ll see a Blade Runner / Akira vibe on Cypher; our own little time machine.\r http://www.gameskinny.com/hsiv5/interview-with-a-developer-javier-cabr era-of-cabrera-brothers-creators-of-cypher Alex",
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"content": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYO77zNhWl4 - \"The video itself is stunning, bringing Casshern, Blade Runner, and The Fifth Element to mind. It\u2019s a Sci-Fi-meets-film noir-meets-J-horror mini-flick\"\r not sure if this counts in this thread but i came across it earlier - i'm sure there is probably an interview out there where he says it - but this image makes it a tad obvious - http://i.imgur.com/zxq3cZ4.png \"I'm not a fool\rI just love that you're dead inside (that you're dead inside)\rI'm not a fool, I'm just lifeless too\"\r relatable chorus lyric too\r http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdTmT3wVBxM \"someone should remake hollywood\"",
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"content": "Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium): I\u2019m not even sure I\u2019m a director, to be honest. I am a visual artist, though. I like mixing visual arts with sound and motion, and by doing that, creating an atmosphere and place for the audience to go to. All my favorite films are the ones that are classic cinema that transport an audience, like, Blade Runner\u2018s Los Angeles. \r http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/elysium-director-neill-blomk amp-im-not-even-sure-im-a-director.php Alex",
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"content": "Author William Gibson in an interview for Paris Review:\r INTERVIEWER: There\u2019s a famous story about your being unable to sit through Blade Runner while writing Neuromancer.\r GIBSON: I was afraid to watch Blade Runner in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better. Later, I noticed that it was a total box-office flop, in first theatrical release. That worried me, too. I thought, Uh-oh. He got it right and \u00adnobody cares! Over a few years, though, I started to see that in some weird way it was the most influential film of my lifetime, up to that point. It affected the way people dressed, it affected the way people decorated nightclubs. Architects started building office buildings that you could tell they had seen in Blade Runner. It had had an astonishingly broad aesthetic impact on the world.\r I met Ridley Scott years later, maybe a decade or more after Blade Runner was released. I told him what Neuromancer was made of, and he had basically the same list of ingredients for Blade Runner. One of the most powerful ingredients was French adult comic books and their particular brand of Orientalia\u2014the sort of thing that Heavy Metal magazine began translating in the United States.\r But the simplest and most radical thing that Ridley Scott did in Blade Runner was to put urban archaeology in every frame. It hadn\u2019t been obvious to mainstream American science fiction that cities are like compost heaps\u2014just layers and layers of stuff. In cities, the past and the present and the future can all be totally adjacent. In Europe, that\u2019s just life\u2014it\u2019s not science fiction, it\u2019s not fantasy. But in American science fiction, the city in the future was always brand-new, every square inch of it.\r http://io9.com/how-did-william-gibson-really-feel-about-blade-runner-8 96472321 Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Great quote, wing.",
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"content": "Stephan Franck (Animator, director, ...): \u201cOn the other end of the spectrum, that last scene between Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer at the end of Blade Runner [1982] is one that stuck with me forever. I have a whole theory about that scene. I\u2019ll have to blog about it somewhere.\u201d\r http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2013/10/head-start-stephan-franck-talks- about.html Why not take a step back and simply write a history of the label and detail the philosophies, principles and process of discovery? You could avoid the deeply personal stuff and still create an interesting book.\r William Ackerman (founder Windham Hill, guitarist, producer, ...): \"I have a horror scenario like that scene in Blade Runner in which Harrison Ford is confronting Sean Young with her being a replicant and forcing her to recognize that the memories she was supplied in her memory banks are nothing but that. I find that scene shocking because I have no more faith in my own memory than she had at that moment. Memory is such a flighty thing to me. I couldn\u2019t write an accurate book about the history of Windham Hill. I would be able to write about my memory of the history of Windham Hill, but it would require me to feel comfortable about it and include a tremendous amount of input from a lot of other sources to keep me from creating an entire fiction\u2014not purposefully, but I fear that\u2019s what it would become. The idea of being the editor and moderator of the book and saying \"Well, here is my memory of it, does it jive with yours?\" could be fun to do when I have the time to do it properly.\"\r Alex\r ",
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"content": "Augustine Kofie (painter, urban artist, ...): \"I owned and played with the Light Cycle toy that Mattel made for Tron back in \u201982. My favorite movie is Blade Runner. Syd Mead was the futurist designer responsible for the aesthetic look of both films. I was subconsciously inspired by his work and didn\u2019t know it until the early 2000\u2032s.\"\r http://graffuturism.com/2013/11/07/augustine-kofie-interviewed-by-carl os-mare-for-three-the-hard-way-group-exhibition/ J.H. Wyman (Screenwriter, director and producer of Almost Human, Fringe, ...) - In my mind, you can't touch something in this wheelhouse, or in science fiction, without owing a huge debt to Blade Runner. It's definitely one of my favorite films. It has so much to look at. It was just so amazing and instructive as a young person watching that movie on how not just what's happening in the scene, but what's happening ten layers behind the scene, what's going on in the street behind it, and then what's going on in the building behind that? ... creating was a real lesson for me.\r http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/BWW-Interviews-JJ-Abrams-JH -Wyman-Talk-New-FOX-Series-ALMOST-HUMAN-20131111-page2 John Higgins (comic book artist and writer): Definitely SF more than any other genre, or maybe SF with added horror. I do seem to have been put into a horror fantasy bracket as an artist which I am very happy about. The books I first remember reading were the classics of SF: Heinlein, Asimov, Eric Frank Russell, and once I discovered Harry Harrison there was no going back. I liked the idea of being part of a cult minority as it was then. In the 70s most SF movies were very limited in the scope of their special effects, imagination and in most cases they just could not interpret the imagination or imagery of the book. Some notable exceptions came along before digital fx made SF movies imaginably real: 2001 A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, Alien and my number one movie of any period or genre Blade Runner.\r http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/10/words-and-pictures-an-intervi ew-with-john-higgins/ Alex",
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"content": "Wayne Simmons (novelist, reviewer):\"When it all boils down, the most perfect example of dystopia, for me, is not to be found in literature, it\u2019s to be found in film. One particular film, in fact: Ridley Scott\u2019s Blade Runner.\"\r Wayne Simmons: \"For my own take on dystopia, latest novel Plastic Jesus, it\u2019s the smoke and cityscape and synth that I want. Essentially, this is a tech noir novel; the blending of low-life and high-tech; my love letter to Ridley Scott for Blade Runner, but also William Gibson for Neuromancer as well as a host of noir and neo-noir writers through the ages.\"\r From 'Blade Runner: Misery-fest or Masterpiece':\r http://www.litro.co.uk/2013/11/blade-runner-misery-fest-or-masterpiece / Alex\r ",
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"content": "Henry Adebonojo (Photographer/Cinematographer/Filmmaker): \"My career as a cinematographer evolved out of my developing love of photography. As a kid I went to the movies virtually every weekend and I suppose that was in my blood. When I embraced photography as an adult it seemed natural to become curious about cinematography. At college I saw three films that would change my life in that regard. I could no longer overlook the emotional connection between the moving image and the spoken word. Those films were: Apocalypse Now, Kagemusha, and Blade Runner. Upon my return to New York, just out of curiosity and driven by impulse, I made inquiries about the film industry and how to get into it. About nine months later, I worked on my first production as a production assistant and haven't looked back since. I began working as a cinematographer in 1993 and continue to do so today.\"\r http://www.thisisafrica.me/downloads/detail/20027/one-to-watch-the-qui etly-unassuming-photographer-and-cinematographer-henry-adebonojo Anel Zilic [cinematographer): \"What really inspired me, was probably one of my favorite movies of all time, Blade Runner. When I saw Blade Runner for the first time, I couldn't believe how much you could do with lighting. The cinematography is just amazing in this film. I really recommend for anybody who wants to do cinematography, to watch Blade Runner.\"\r http://www.examiner.com/article/anel-zilic-taking-cinematography-to-a- whole-new-level Peter Brewis (Deputy editor of Mondo Arc Magazine): \"In our own industry, Ridley Scott\u2019s Blade Runner (or perhaps more specifically the cinematography of Jordan Cronenweth) is constantly cited by lighting designers as a master class in the use of light and shade, and a handful will readily admit that this has fed into and informed their work over the years.\"\r http://www.mondoarc.com/comment/editor/2040397/pete_brewis_editorial_c omment.html Dan Glass (Visual Effects for Batman Begins, The Matrix Reloaded, Cloud Atlas, The Master, and many more): \"There are many films that come to mind, but Blade Runner and Brazil made the strongest impression on me. I've seen Blade Runner about eight or ten times and its opening scene is just fantastic \u2013 the way it spans the expanse of that city and integrates all this feeling and patience into aspects of this very credible future. As [a VFX artist] you aspire to that; to finding ways to bring pieces of reality, more organic elements sometimes, into things. Sadly, although they're fantastic and there are directors like Chris Nolan who always want to use them, I think the future for miniatures is very limited and they suffer from their own limitations, too. They have to be put together meticulously and shot very smartly to really make them work, and they frequently require digital enhancement as well. Blade Runner was very, very early days but you still get this variety and naturalness that would take a lot of work to create digitally. Am I a director's cut guy? Absolutely, yeah!\"\r http://www.empireonline.com/features/cinemas-greatest-vfx-shots/p6 Alex\r",
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"content": "BR: When hiring architects, what are the traits you look for? The sensibilities you want? The personalities you\u2019re looking for?\r Vito Hannibal Acconci (is an American designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist): One kind of trait we look for a lot is someone who is totally interested in architecture, but at the same time, is just as interested in music, in movies, in theater, in physics, in biology. Multi-disciplinarity is really important.\r When we\u2019re designing something, yes we\u2019re channeling ourselves into doing architecture, but it\u2019s got to be an architecture that\u2019s affected by the other things in the world. Blade Runner is probably just as big an influence on architects as a lot of architecture. But you know Blade Runner came at such an interesting, Post-Modern time, and came out of that, but it was a very different version of Post-Modernism than a lot of architects were doing at the time. It was Post-Modernism because it was desperate, because you were building on the ruins of the old\u2014which Rome has done for a long time.\r BR: Do you think you were influenced by Blade Runner?\r VA: Yup, yup, yup, very much. For me, it was, wow, for me it was, this is the alternative to 2001. In 2001, the future is all white, it\u2019s built as if there was nothing there. Blade Runner kinds of shrugs its shoulders and says, well, you can\u2019t get rid of everything, so let\u2019s build on it. Blade Runner, I don\u2019t know if it introduced me to [the concept], but I started to think of architecture as a parasite. There were all these empty facades in New York, and we built stuff on them.\r http://archrecord.construction.com/features/interviews/0718acconci/071 8acconci-4.asp",
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"content": "Hideo Kojima (Game designer Metal Gear Solid, Snatcher, ... Director of Kojima Productions): 5. I have to say Blade Runner by Ridley Scott. Blade Runner creates a unique world where all cultures comes together and it doesn't result in decadence. It doesn't create something apocalyptic but rather something 'full of life'. To see how all these cultures were mixed was a shock to me. The film is not an action film, it talks a lot about philosophy. It's a very artistic film which had a huge impact on me. It's a film that I really like.\r Kojima's 5 favorites movies are:\r 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey\r 2. Taxi Driver\r 3. Heaven And Hell\r 4. Mad max: The Road Warrior\r 5. Blade Runner",
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"content": "QUESTION: Has there ever been a movie that obsessed you because you couldn't figure it out? \r CHRISTOPHER NOLAN: The film that really struck me was Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner.' That was a film I watched many, many times and found endlessly fascinating in its density. But I think the density of that film is primarily visual density and atmospheric and sound density, more so than narrative density. But, yeah, I think for a lot of filmmakers particularly, there will be a film like that in their past that they've really become a little obsessed with and seen too many times, or more times than seems healthy.\r http://www.writingstudio.co.za/page1433.html\r Alex",
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"content": "Thank you for your dedication.\r ---->\rImpossible is illogical.\rLack of evidence is not proof.\r + = !\r",
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"content": "James Gunn (Director Guardians Of The Galaxy): \"I think of this as a space epic. It\u2019s not really science fiction. It\u2019s an adventure film. But I\u2019m a huge fan of those types of films. In the \u201870s and early \u201880s, Alien and Blade Runner came in and they were amazingly well designed films that had a great look to them. But they also then became this linchpin of everything that everyone else after that based their movies on, this sort of dark and dreary world. What I wanted to do from the beginning was create this extremely colourful, big world of the pulp science fiction movies of the \u201850s and \u201860s, but at the same time, have the dirtiness and the grittiness and the griminess of Blade Runner, or Alien in particular, which is really to me the one that\u2019s the masterpiece in terms of how it defined that look, the industrial-ness of the future. For me, it\u2019s about taking those things and then whatever\u2019s my own weird way of looking at the world.\"\r http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/05/16/why-guardians-of-the-galaxy-wil l-rock-your-world-this-summer Alex",
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"content": "Director, producer and writer, Charles de Lauzirika: \"ALIEN took me to another world. But Blade Runner took me to another dimension.\"\r This was a comment Mr. de Lauzirika made after a longer story about his first viewing of Alien. \r Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "William Friedkin (Director of The French Connection, Killer Joe, The Exorcist, To Live And Die In L.A., ...): I like Ridley Scott's film called Alien and also Blade Runner. Those are two of the best of, I would say, the most recent films I've seen. I haven't seen too many films since Blade Runner, to be honest with you (laughs), but I like the Coen brothers' work ...\r Alex",
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"content": "Q: Ghost in the Shell is often referred to as one of the greater science-fiction films of our time and is mentioned in the same breath as films like 2001 and Solaris. What science fiction works do you find have been the most influential in your life and career?\r Mamoru Oshii (Ghost In A Shell): \"Blade Runner. This film made me believe firmly about what a movie could be and what it could do.\"\r http://dorkshelf.com/2014/07/12/interview-mamoru-oshii/",
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"content": "How did you discover film?\r Itay Gross (cinematopgrapher): Narratives and stories have always intrigued me and seemed like the most fascinating method of depicting desires, visions and fantasies. When I was 16, I saw Blade Runner for the first time. Looking back, I realize that film introduced me to the art of cinematography and the world of visual storytelling. I was staring at the images, mesmerized by the way Ridley Scott and the Director of Photography, Jordan Cronenweth, had managed to depict this futuristic and postmodern world in such a real and vivid way. I could smell the acidic rain flooding the streets of the mutant city of Los Angeles through the colors projected from the old CRT television set. This significant experience made me see the power and influence of films, and the role of cinematography within the process of visual storytelling. I wanted to be able to bring these kinds of images to life myself, to be able to depict a story in such a vivid and unique way that people would be able to smell it, to feel warm or cold, to feel they were practically there themselves. When I look back at this now, I realize it was a defining moment in my life.\r What cinematographers inspired you to pick up a camera?\r Jordan Cronenweth\r Blade Runner might be Cronenweth\u2019s only film that I like, or love I should say. It changed my life. I saw the images and was mesmerized. All I wanted was to be able, one day, to create such images.\r ...\r http://horror-writers.net/blog/interview-with-itay-gross/ ",
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"content": "Ivor Powell: \"I was quite pleasantly surprised when I called Stanley up while I was making BLADE RUNNER (1982) with Ridley Scott and he told us that we could use some of his outtakes from THE SHINING (1980). I put Ridley in touch with Stanley and I think he allowed us to do that because he was a fan of ALIEN (1979) and of Ridley's work.\" \r http://blog.tvstoreonline.com/2014/07/2001-space-odyssey-interview-series.html\r Alex ",
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"content": "Blade Runner reference in new game Alien: Isolation:\r http://www.dailynewsen.com/technology/there39s-a-pretty-good-blade-run ner-reference-in-alien-isolation-h2731304.html Alex",
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"content": "Hitfix: I'm curious, beyond what I'm sure your dad instilled in you, what are your sort of personal touchstones in cinematography? What movies have inspired you on that score?\r Jeff Cronenweth (cinematographer for Fight Club, Gone Girl, The Social Network, ...) : Who do I love?\r Hitfix: Yeah, who do you love?\r Jeff Cronenweth: Well, first off I'd say \"Blade Runner,\" without a doubt. I'm a little biased because dad shot that but I remember going to the set night after night. I had just started working as a loader at a commercial company. That was in Studio City and they were shooting at Warner Bros., so it was a 10-minute drive from me every night and I would go and stay as long as I could stay awake watching them shoot \"Blade Runner.\"\r http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/cinematographer-jeff-cronenweth-ta lks-gone-girl-film-digital-and-a-career-with-david-fincher/4 Alex",
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"content": "From an interview with Andrew Bayer, electronic music producer and DJ:To round things off, we also asked about the continued Blade Runner references in his work--Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep being the book the film was based on. \"I grew up being obsessed with Blade Runner. It was my favorite film and a big thing in my family. Everyone loved it; we practically studied it. Fast forward a bunch of years later, I end up signing with Anjunabeats as Signalrunners and call one of the tracks Electric Sheep! Then, the list goes on and on about the Blade Runner references. Might need to watch it again on the plane!\" http://blog.lessthan3.com/2014/10/do-androids-dream-of-touring-a-chat- with-andrew-bayer/ Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Kat Dennings 'Replicant' fashion shoot:\r http://www.sneakpeek.ca/2014/11/kat-dennings-is-replicant.html",
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"content": "Hans Zimmer: \"But I think films about the future, all of them have an inherent nostalgic quality. If you think about \"Blade Runner,\" incredibly nostalgic. If you think about \"2001,\" I mean he couldn't get more nostalgic by using the music he did in that film. And the nostalgia somehow becomes very, very personal and I kept thinking the bigger our movie got, the more personal we got. It's not that we got smaller and quieter. I mean, yes, as you know, I am throwing a fair amount of volume at you. But still, the internal workings of the tunes are virtually all based on emotions and really personal feelings.\"\r Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/hans-zimmer-says-junkie-xls-mad-ma x-score-is-mind-blowingly-brilliant#jTTXR6BeT22wT8kV.99",
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"content": "Ari Folman (Director Waltz With Bashir, The Congress) : \"If you see Blade Runner today, it's probably the best sci-fi movie ever made. It still holds up, it's still a very fresh movie. Unbelievably made, with so much talent - everyone involved. And everything's made for real! Can you imagine that? There were no [digital] effects back then. If you look at Prometheus, for example, there's no comparison. [Ridley Scott] has all the money and technology in the world to make it, but his handcrafted movie was ten times better. But it depends on who does it.\"\r http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-congress/33151/ari-folman-interview-the-congress-nolan-kubrick\r Alex",
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"content": "Zeb Larson: When you first thought of this story, did you imagine it as a Sci-Fi story or a crime story? Is it both, or is it something else?\r Michael Moreci (writer of the Roche Limit comic book series): It\u2019s hard to say, because what I took form both is the existential underpinnings that exist in both genres (sometimes, of course). I always call back to Blade Runner\u2014what is that movie? Sci-fi? Noir? Both, I\u2019d argue, though they intersect in their leanings to examining the human condition, as both genres do so well. Roche Limit ascribes to something similar, as I did use stories that defy conventional categorization as the stars I steered by. But underneath them all was this philosophical bent that really speaks to me, that made their stories so much more.\r http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2014/12/interview-michael-moreci.html",
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"content": "We've had a number of quotes from Christopher Nolan. This one is from an incredibly long, recent interview in The Hollywood Reporter:\r When did it first occur to you to try filmmaking? And when did you first realize that it was something that you wanted to do long-term? Well, I mean, right around that time. I\u2019d already started playing around with my dad\u2019s Super 8 camera, making little war films and stuff. And then, after Star Wars, my films all became space films. I think when I was about 12 or 13, I want to say, I started to begin to identify with the idea of the director as the sort of controlling force, or the closest analogy to what I was doing on my Super 8 camera, you know, just making images and putting them together. I remember being very struck by Ridley Scott\u2019s film Blade Runner and noticing or sort of analyzing the fact that I liked [Scott's] Alien, as well \u2014 two totally different films, different actors, different stories, really, but the same mind behind them. And that\u2019s what I was sort of focused on, the idea of the director and how the director could have a controlling effect on the creative side of the film that\u2019s indefinable, but important and something you kind of feel. And then I got into writing because no one\u2019s going to give you a script to direct when you\u2019re starting out, so, I started writing, just for myself, just to be able to direct things. And I grew to like that part of it, as well.\r http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/christopher-nolan-interstellar-c ritics-making-760897 http://tinyurl.com/p7jv3po Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Cool wing! \r BTW, are you sure the link to that interview is correct? Hollywoodreporter says it doesn't find the article that I'm searching for.\r Alex\r ",
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"content": "Fixed, I think.\r http://tinyurl.com/p7jv3po Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Jeff Cronenweth (cinematographer): Even on Blade Runner I shot a whole bunch of stuff just snooping around the sets and it\u2019s the same stock my dad was shooting so it looks really good. I didn\u2019t do anything, I just put the camera where his was. (laughs) That was a great learning experience. Unfortunately that\u2019s gone, but then most of film is gone now too.\r https://mattmulcahey.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/an-interview-with-gone-g irl-cinematographer-jeff-cronenweth/ Alex",
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"content": "Nathaniel West, artist and designer of video games Zelda and Transmission: \"I\u2019m a concept artist working in feature films and themed entertainment. Before that I attended Art Center College of Design, and graduated with a degree in Illustration. When I was young, I was really inspired by the artwork for Star Wars by Ralph McQuarrie, and the artwork of Syd Mead, who did amazing design work on Blade Runner among other things. I decided that using illustration to visualize fantasy worlds would be really exciting, and that\u2019s what I\u2019ve been doing ever since.\"\r http://www.siliconera.com/2015/02/13/transmission-takes-the-zelda-form ula-to-a-mysterious-painterly-planet/ Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Jonathan Nolan (writer): My brother\u2019s favorite movie is Blade Runner. I can\u2019t count the amount of times he\u2019s made me watch it. I think the other thing that\u2019s fascinating about doing this now is, in a short amount of time since Blade Runner came out, the kind of science that we\u2019re talking about has become closer to \u201cscience\u201d than it is to the \u201dfiction\u201d part of \u201cscience-fiction.\u201d I think we\u2019re standing at an interesting precipice from which to both view the future and to hypothesize about the future. I think that all of that new information will help add new dimensions to this world.\r How Blade Runner Influences Westworld:\r http://beyondwestworld.com/2015/02/23/blade-runner-influences-westworl d/ Alex",
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"content": "French musician Jos\u00e9phine de la Baume who along with her brother, Alexandre make up the band Sinktank:\r How do you create music videos that are representative of your sound? Are you involved in the process? Of course. I directed the first music video for our second record\u2019s first single \"Can You Hear Me.\" We watched a lot of movies that inspired us like Blade Runner or Chungking Express that are both about urban life, although one is more retro-futuristic than the other. We also watched a lot of 2001: A Space Odyssey during the recording of our record so it was important that all videos looked quite cinematic to us. And a video is just another tool to communicate on the universe and mood of your record.\r If your new album was a movie, what kind of movie would it be? What song on the album would be the movie's theme tune and why? It would be Chungking Express meets Blade Runner meets 2001: A Space Odyssey. \u201cUrsus\u201d would be 2001: A Space Odyssey because there's something of alien about how we mixed my voice and Alex's one\u2014we're siblings so we have the same tone except my voice is more high pitched\u2014so it sounds like one voice. \u201cComing Down\u201d would be Chungking Express because of the nostalgia it expresses about a city with the love of its discovery, the poetry of the streets and the corners of it, the bar etc. Blade Runner would be \u201cCan You Hear Me.\u201d I know it's a reggae beat, but still there's something retro-futuristic about the mood of it. It's about my best friend who passed right before the recording and it's a kind of upbeat celebration of him with a lot of tenderness and nostalgia, but a lot of hope in it, Blade Runner is our world that looks like tomorrow with a lot of elements of yesterday if that makes sense. http://noisey.vice.com/blog/josephine-de-la-baume-singtank-interview Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "The L.A. synth-pop quartet LEX: \r \u201cA lot of our inspiration comes from movies such as Blade Runner, The Neverending Story and Labyrinth,\u201d bandmember Leah Chrisholm tells EW via email. LEX is touring in support of their debut self-titled release produced by Peter Franco, who also worked on the last two Daft Punk records. The band describes its sound as \u201cfantasy synth.\u201d...The band also uses vintage analog synthesizers. \u201cWe do not play with any backing tracks or computers,\u201d LEX said in a press release.\r http://www.eugeneweekly.com/20150326/music/are-you-lexperienced Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Question: What are some of your favorite science fiction scores?\r Hans Zimmer (film composer): \"Well, Blade Runner. I love Sunshine. I think John Murphy is such an underrated composer. I just love that score. I think it\u2019s really hard to beat Alien just for its sheer elegance and what Jerry Goldsmith did. Brazil, you know. But weirdly I mean one of the things was I couldn\u2019t watch any of these movies for the last two years because I needed to make our movie. Yes we talked a lot about 2001 and 2001 was really daunting to me for a while.\r I have this crazy theory about science fiction. I think all science fiction movies are inherently nostalgic. I think Blade Runner is one of the most nostalgic movies you can think of. Gattaca is incredibly nostalgic somehow. So with this nostalgia, they become weirdly personal. And that got me back to where we were starting which was by going as far away from humanity and Earth as we possibly could in this movie. Every moment needed to remind us of who we are or question of who we are or make us an ache for who we left behind.\"\r Question: If you would had the chance to score for one movie which has already been released, which would it be?\r Hans Zimmer: \"Blade Runner. But I love what Vangelis did so much, so not really.\"\r http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/hans-zimmer/241533/hans-zimmer-talks-about-scoring-interstellar-and-why-batman-needs-a-new-theme\r http://interviewly.com/i/hans-zimmer-jun-2013-reddit\r Alex",
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"content": "Director Brian Miller talking about his movie Vice:\rI'm a huge sci-fi, action buff. I mean I grew up on Blade Runner, Metropolis, and of course the Star Wars Trilogy, the original trilogy. It was one of those things I was immediately attracted to because it took that original vision of a dystopian reality of the future combining it with the perfection of an America we no longer have and really kind of turned it on its axis and that's what really drove me towards it. This was transcribed from an interview included on the DVD special features.\r Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Keanu Reeves: \"They are bringing back Blade Runner?! No! Who's doing that madness? Oh, my gosh!\"\r ",
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"content": "PJ Manney, author of the upcoming book (R)evolution, out this summer.\r I was a sucker for Blade Runner from the start. As both a film noir and science fiction fan, the movie was a beautiful, elegiac mash-up of two genres known for ambiguity and dark social commentary. It's about my town, Los Angeles, and our deepest fears and desires sold back to us in the neon nightmare of ubiquitous marketing, with some sexy anti-heroes thrown in. And Harrison Ford? As someone who believes all the eligible men of the world are either \"Luke Skywalkers\" or \"Han Solos,\" I married my own Harrison Ford.\r Hell yeah. It seemed Ridley Scott made Blade Runner just for me. I just wish L.A. got that much precipitation. Even if it was acid rain... http://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/a14889/blade-runner-sequel-plot/ Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Don't Americans believe in sentences any more?\r Marlon, Claudia and Dimby the cats 1989-2005, 2007 and 2010.\r",
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"content": "Q: APART FROM 2001 ... what is your favourite sci-fi movie? Do you enjoy the genre apart from being one of its greatest exponents?\r Keir Dullea (actor, best known for the character of astronaut David Bowman, whom he portrayed in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey): Yes, I enjoy sci-fi and Blade Runner is my other favorite of the genre.\r http://interviewly.com/i/keir-dullea-nov-2014-reddit Alex",
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"content": "Jeff Cronenweth (cinematographer for Fight Club, The Social Network, ...) talks about Blade Runner: \r Visit the link:\r http://www.empireonline.com/features/cinematographers/19.asp Nathan Sage (director, cinematographer, writer): \"I study Blade Runner more than almost any other film.\"\r https://twitter.com/NathanOSage/status/534385028126752768 Denis Villeneuve (director for Prisoners, Enemy, Sicario, Blade Runner 2): \u201cI\u2019m ready to do it (Blade Runner sequel) because the original Blade Runner is by far one of my favourite movies of all time. Blade Runner is almost a religion for me.\u201d\r http://news.nationalpost.com/arts/movies/denis-villeneuve-on-the-big-joy-of-sicarios-cannes-premiere-and-his-upcoming-blade-runner-sequel Alex",
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"content": "More comments by Denis Villeneuve: \u201cLet\u2019s say it wasn\u2019t an easy decision to make, because I\u2019m a massive Blade Runner fan, it\u2019s one of my favourite movies. I was massively influenced, like a lot of people, by this movie. And Ridley Scott is a master. So I\u2019m going there with a great amount of humility and a great amount of deep joy. And I know I can do it.\u201d\r http://www.screendaily.com/news/denis-villeneuve-blade-runner-sequel-not-an-easy-decision/5087065.article?referrer=RSS\r",
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"content": "The longest thread I've come across yet.\r \"Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects\". Will Rogers (1879-1935)",
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"content": "Q: What I\u2019ve appreciated in all of the work that I\u2019ve seen of yours, THE SIGNAL and THE RECONSTRUCTION OF WILLIAM ZERO, is that you take these sci-fi like elements and inject them into very human and emotionally powerful stories, where the story takes the spotlight more than the sci-fi elements. Is that intentional, the interest in that approach?\r Dan Bush (writer/director/producer): Yeah, I mean I think Sci-Fi, at best, is the question of what it is that makes us human beings and what are we capable of? I like to think about movies like BLADE RUNNER, where you have that tears in the rain monologue, where you have a replicant ask the question of \u201cwhy am I not human?\u201d. So you ask yourself how do you define being a human? So the SciFi genre at its best, does ask those questions, and makes you really think about the answers. It\u2019s really a showcase for that debate.\r ",
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"content": "Michael Kaplan - costume designer for Star Wars - The Force Awakens:\r\u201cI learned a lot on Blade Runner, just my love of grit and texture and things being overly aged\u2026 I learned from Ridley [Scott \u2013 Blade Runner\u2019s director] how great it is to re-use things and make new things out of things that already exist in a way, where you\u2019re kind of not even recognizing the object that you started with. We re-used many things [in Star Wars \u2013 The Force Awakens], like taking old military gas masks and tubes and hoses and kind of applying them, which we did on Blade Runner, which I\u2019ve always liked to do when I can.\u201d http://www.inquisitr.com/2115104/star-wars-stormtroopers-the-story-behind-the-new-design/ Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Daniel Jackson (artist): They\u2019re becoming more important for me. In my last show, the videos were short loops, like gifs from social media. My favorite video from the show is a reference to a scene in Blade Runner: Roy, the main cyborg, knows that he is going to die, but he doesn't know how much time he's got left. His arm and hand are cramping up, and suddenly relaxing again, while he says \"Time enough\u2026\". I copied the scene, and added these goofy digital hearts coming out of the hand.\r http://www.artfridge.de/2015/07/interview-daniel-jackson.html",
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"content": "From a recent Forbes interview, another comment from Christopher Nolan:\r On Batman Begins as a Blade Runner homage:It\u2019s hard to say what was conscious homage, and what was my analysis of why Blade Runner was so convincing in its production design and in the way it uses its sets. From a pragmatic point of view, Blade Runner is actually one of the most successful films of all time in terms of constructing that reality using sets. On Batman Begins, unlike The Dark Knight, we found ourselves having to build the streets of Gotham in large part. So I immediately gravitated toward the visual treatment that Ridley Scott had come up with, in terms of how you shoot these massive sets to make them feel real and not like impressive sets. And immediately we started looking at the rain, the handheld cameras, the longer lenses\u2026\r So myself, my designer Nathan Crowley, and my cinematographer Wally Pfister, we started to throw all of that into the mix of how you can help the look of something, how you can create texture, as Ridley Scott has always been the absolute master of. Creating a texture to a shooting style that maximizes the impact of the set, and minimizes the artifice \u2014 the feeling that this world has edges to it that you would see at the edge of the frame. Blade Runner is one of the examples of how you can take a camera and get down and dirty\u2026 and really envelop your audience in the atmosphere of the world you\u2019re trying to create. We definitely tried to emulate that style, and I think in doing so we actually created homage, particularly where we used the rain very much. http://www.forbes.com/sites/markhughes/2015/07/30/exclusive-christopher-nolan-talks-batman-begins-10th-anniversary/2/ or\rhttp://www.blastr.com/2015-7-30/christopher-nolan-reveals-how-ridley-scotts-blade-runner-influenced-batman-begins Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Steven Spielberg: \"I thought Ridley [Scott, director of Blade Runner] painted a very bleak but brilliant vision of life on earth in a few years. It's kind of acid rain and sushi. In fact, it's coming true faster than most science fiction films come true. Blade Runner is almost upon us. It was ultranoir.\" Spielberg almost certainly drew upon Blade Runner's bleak vision when making his own (IMO inferior) A.I., which explored similar themes.",
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"content": "This quote almost makes me want to check out his music:\r Charles Duff (Matrixxman, music producer): \"Circling back to Blade Runner again, I\u2019ve always had a fascination with film noir. To me, the reason why Blade Runner was so beautiful, is because of that precise juxtaposition of hyper-futurist sensibilities, with this beautiful old, vintage, harsh-contrast lighting, sort of like a detective movie, and the trench coats, and the steamy murkiness, and all that stuff. Had Blade Runner been entirely futuristic and not had that retro palette, it might not have had the same magical qualities that it has. I think one could apply that same methodology to music, perhaps.\"\r http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/08/matrixxman-interview Alex",
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"content": "John O'Reilly, consultant, journalist, editor at Huffington Post:\rImages of the city have always wielded psychological, emotional and political power. Anyone brought up on a diet of Hollywood movies and US TV shows will have had that uncanny experience as a first-time visitor to a US city - a sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu, the feeling of being on a movie set, in a story. I took the Blade Runner cityscape so seriously as a student in New York in 1983, that after a late-night showing of the film, I went into a phone box and rang the number dialed by Harrison Ford on the 'video screen' (555-7563 in case you're interested). The decay of Ridley Scott's dystopian future spilled over into the rodent-rich, un-gentrified, occasionally threatening Lower East Side of the time. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/john-oreilly/re-imagining-our-cities_b_8113520.html Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Electronic music trio Nero, (Daniel Stephens, Joe Ray and vocalist Alana Watson) on how science fiction films have influenced their music:\r\u201cLike 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner is a visual masterpiece that is focussed more on telling a story through imagery than dialogue. It looked unlike any other film at the time of its release in 1982 and has since become a go-to reference point for many things sci-fi related. We\u2019ve often cited Blade Runner as one of the main influences on our overall aesthetic. Ridley Scott, along with concept artist Syd Mead, created and captured the quintessential dark vision of future urban environments. Vangelis\u2019 soundtrack is an equally important part of the magic of this film. There are few other films in which the visuals and music are in such perfect harmony with one another. He recorded the majority of the score on a synthesiser called a Yamaha CS-80. We managed to buy one a few years back (there were less than 1000 ever made). It has an incredible, vast sound which is unlike any other synthesiser. You can hear the CS-80 throughout our new album (particularly on \u2018What Does Love Mean\u2019 in which almost all of the synth parts are CS-80).\u201d This is what they said about 2001: A Space Odyssey:\r\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to think that this film was made before man had even journeyed to the Moon. It still stands up today as one of the most visually stunning films ever made. One of the key elements to the film is the soundtrack, which was not commissioned specially but instead made up of contemporary and classical music. The first song we ever released was a drum \u2018n\u2019 bass version of Richard Strauss\u2019 \u2018Thus Spoke Zarathustra\u2019 - one of the main pieces used in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Gy\u00f6rgy Ligeti works used in the film influenced a passage in our BBC symphony orchestra collaboration \u2018Symphony 2808\u2019.\u201d http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/11/nero-sci-fi-films-music Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "For the 7th anniversary of our thread, from an Entertainment Weekly interview with Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, cowriters of the upcoming series Westworld:From Almost Human to Dollhouse to Blade Runner, some of the themes in this story have been explored before. How conscious are you of those other projects, and are you looking to be close to them or steer away? Nolan: My brother\u2019s favorite movie is Blade Runner. I can\u2019t count the amount of times he\u2019s made me watch it. [Lisa and I] both watched and admired Dollhouse. There are really smart people asking interesting questions about this sort of universe. But I think there are lots of questions left unanswered. A.I. [Artificial Intelligence] is a topic that Lisa and I are both fascinated by. And the thing about science fiction is that it\u2019s past the golden age. The great [talents] have already taken a crack at lot of this. But it\u2019s still very pleasurable take a swing at some of the bigger ideas.\r Joy: I think the other thing that\u2019s fascinating about doing this now is, in a short amount of time since Blade Runner came out, the kind of science that we\u2019re talking about has become closer to \u201cscience\u201d than it is to the \u201dfiction\u201d part of \u201cscience-fiction.\u201d I think we\u2019re standing at an interesting precipice from which to both view the future and to hypothesize about the future. I think that all of that new information will help add new dimensions to this world. http://www.ew.com/article/2015/01/23/jonathan-nolan-westworld Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "BLADE Runner \u2014 the 1982 science fiction film featuring Harrison Ford \u2014 is the inspiration behind Perth\u2019s newest public art installation. Illuminated artwork by award-winning artist Geoffrey Drake-Brockman lit up Northbridge\u2019s Chinatown on Friday night.He is best known for his Totem artwork, nicknamed the Pineapple, outside Perth Arena and the Spiral outside the WA Police HQ in Northbridge. The Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority and the City of Perth have worked together to give the Chinatown precinct a facelift. Named Luminous, the piece includes five, two-metre spherical lanterns mounted on six-metre tall poles.\r Geoffrey Drake-Brockman describing his work on Perth\u2019s newest public art installation as \u201ccomplex, origami folded patterns\u201d of orange, purple and red metals. \u201cMy reference was the movie Blade Runner set in a futuristic Chinatown world, where there are these overhead advertising blimps inviting people to come live off-world. So my overhead spheres are like invitations to come live on different planets.\u201d\r Each lantern has its own computer and four motion detectors, which respond to human movement in their immediate vicinity.\r \u201cIf a lot of people cross by it enters a more chaotic light pattern,\u201d Mr Drake-Brockman said. I\u2019m very pleased with the finished outcome. It\u2019s highly visible and for an artist that\u2019s a great thing.\u201d\r Located on the doorstep of the Perth City Link project, the MRA expects thousands of people to pass through Chinatown\u2019s Roe Street precinct each day.\r http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/artist-geoffrey-drake-brockman-launches-northbridge-chinatowns-new-lights/story-fnii5thm-1227539192841 Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Roger Deakins (cinematographer): \"I think the look of the film is an organic process. You don't just look at the script and it comes in your head. While I think the original film is wonderful, this is not the original film... visually it doesn't have to be anything like the original. It has to stand by itself, and its particular script and its particular story. The original was wonderfully shot, but to me, the most powerful thing about the original film is the death of, what's the actor's name... Rutger Hauer's death in the rain with the white pigeon. And then you watch the documentary about the making of the film and realize that was all something that was kind of created on the day.\" \r http://movieweb.com/blade-runner-2-visual-style-different/",
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"content": "I noticed a number of websites got a crack at you in Toronto and were eager to talk about \u201cBlade Runner 2.\u201d Are you sensing more anticipation around that project than you might have expected?\r Roger Deakins: Well, I am, really. There\u2019s a lot of anticipation, which is interesting. I mean I love the original but I\u2019m surprised at how much interest there is when the original actually wasn\u2019t commercially very successful and wasn\u2019t critically very successful as well. So that tells you a lot about a movie\u2019s staying power.\r Did you know the original film\u2019s DP, Jordan Cronenweth, at all?\r Roger Deakins: I\u2019d never met Jordan, no. Unless I met him when I was in England once but I don\u2019t think so. I don\u2019t remember meeting him.\r His work on that film is pretty iconic.\r Roger Deakins: Yeah, yeah. Quite brilliant. I mean obviously there\u2019s a lot of Ridley in that, too. It\u2019s great to work with a director who really wanted to push for that look. I remember distinctly when it came out and how strong that look was when compared with other movies that were around at the time.\r http://variety.com/2015/film/in-contention/roger-deakins-sicario-interview-denis-villeneuve-1201601102/",
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"content": "We've had several comments by Denis Villeneuve. Entertainment Weekly states: Blade Runner holds a special place in the education of Villeneuve as a filmmaker.Villeneuve: \u201cThis movie is linked to the birth of my passion for cinema. [When it came out] I was a young teenager starting to understand the job of a director. Blade Runner had a huge impact on me,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s one of my favorite movies of all time. I know this movie by heart. I know every single shot of it. I have a very intimate relationship with this movie.\u201d http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/02/denis-villeneuve-new-blade-runner-movie and\r From Empire Online:EO: By your \u201cnext project\u201d you obviously mean Blade Runner 2. Presumably you\u2019d only take on a follow-up to a film like that if you have some connection to the original. So what does Blade Runner mean to you? DV: The original Blade Runner is one of my favourite movies of all time. It\u2019s not a small thing for me. I\u2019m a filmmaker who has been making films since I was ten years old. Blade Runner is a movie that for me birthed the idea of directing. I remember being in huge shock when I saw Blade Runner for the first time. It\u2019s the birth of my love of cinema. It\u2019s by far one of the most important movies to me. It\u2019s a fundamental movie for me. It\u2019s an essential movie. http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=2074 Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Oliver Nias (director The Return): We wanted to create something that was going to draw your mind back to the events of the movie long after the credits roll. Like we\u2019ve talked about, one of the ideas buried in The Return is that \u201cthings aren\u2019t always clear first time round\u201d. But I would issue caution over the importance of garnering information. Some of my favourite movies are thanks to the world they build and the feeling they leave me with afterwards. For me no understanding was needed while I watched Ridley Scott\u2019s Blade Runner, for instance, which dazzled and hypnotised me many times before I started thinking \u2018what\u2019s this about?\u2019. Needless to mention \u20182001: A Space Odyssey\u2019.\r http://moviemarker.co.uk/interview-director-oliver-nias-the-return/ Pat Hackett: What contemporary movies have you seen recently that you've liked?\r Sylvester Stallone: I really admire the dedication that goes into something like The Killing Fields. But what I really admire more than anything else is technique. Say, in Blade Runner, or the camera work in Excalibur. The special attention to details, which I realize requires such incredible patience. Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety and try to articulate every minute detail, or to go for the broad strokes and hope that the people will fill in between the lines. I tend to go for the broader strokes.\r http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/new-again-sylvester-stallone#_",
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"content": "Guillermo Del Toro (on Twitter): \"'82 Saw BLADE RUNNER in a half-empty theatre that actively booed and I, in sheer contrast, felt the visual boundaries of Cinema expand.\"\r https://twitter.com/realgdt/status/660566986422751232",
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"content": "The Weeknd (RNB/Pop Singer and Grammy Winner) I:Besides Blade Runner, Japan and Portishead - what else inspired you when writing, producing and creating KISS LAND? \rThe Weeknd: Scanners, naked lunch, the thing, polanski's Chinatown, enter the void, Amadeus and videodrome\rhttp://interviewly.com/i/the-weeknd-sep-2013-reddit Unfortunately I couldnt find a better quote. But The Weeknd's first album \"Kissland\" is heavily inspired by Blade Runner. First of all visually. The artwork concept and the music videos (just watch \"Belong To The World\"). The instrumental of the songs feeling like Vangelis. Even one of the songs is called \"Tears in Rain\".\r and by the way @CremersAlex thanks for all these great quotes!\r ",
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"content": "Zack Snyder: \"The problem sci-fi often has is that it seems impersonal. The way Ridley does it, you can imagine the gritty reality of those worlds and therefore the events that take place within the film connect with you in this personal way. Even though he creates this epic landscape, he finds a way to make it human.\"\r Alex \r",
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"content": "Cinematographer Christopher Norr at The American Society of Cinematographers awards\r Norr says executive producer Danny Cannon specified two key visual references for the look of the series: Ridley Scott\u2019s Blade Runner, shot by Jordan Cronenweth, ASC, and David Fincher\u2019s Seven, shot by Darius Khondji, ASC, AFC. \u201cOne thing I stole from Blade Runner is that I often have moving lights going through the scene,\u201d he says. \u201cThey don\u2019t even need to be motivated; they just feel right in our world.\r Norr is co-cinematographer with Crescenzo Notarile on the series Gotham.\r https://www.theasc.com/ac_magazine/December2015/ASCTVSeriesNominees/page5.php Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "Quote from Dann Lewis writer for website Neon Dystopia Blade Runner has changed the world because it was the film that changed the cultural consensus on serious SF film. Blade Runner is the reason we expect greatness from SF, cyberpunk and every other vein spouting from the bulbous mass of genre. It has impregnated creatives like myself, and still, in the 2010\u2019s, holds up thematically, especially as we near the singularity. Blade Runner, as mentioned before, is challenging, dark and decrepit\u2013everything we cyberpunks need to thank Scott for. http://tinyurl.com/z4d5h82 https://www.neondystopia.com/cyberpunk-movies-anime/why-blade-runner-changed-the-world-2/utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.",
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"content": "J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson (composer): \u201cI saw the original when I was 13, the year it came out, and it had a huge effect on me. I was already a big fan of Philip K. Dick\u2019s novels, so I knew the original. Obviously the film is very different from the book, but I was a huge fan from day one and it\u2019s a film that\u2019s hugely important to me in terms of both being a visual masterpiece \u2013 this amazing world that Ridley Scott and his team created \u2013 and also in terms of the music and the sound design, which is tremendously strong and which was very memorable at the time when I saw it. This is true of many people of my generation who experienced that film, it had a deep impact on them.\u201d\r \u201cVangelis is a composer that has been a huge influence on my own work \u2013 not only the Blade Runner score, many of his solo albums have been a rich part of my life for a long time. What I love about his work, which I think is also present in my own work, is his sense of space \u2013 the way he uses space, the way he uses silence and a sense of monumentalism. Vangelis is a huge influence on me as a composer, certainly in the early part of my career, so I have the deepest respect for him as a composer.\u201d\r http://www.factmag.com/2016/08/27/blade-runner-2-johann-johannsson-orphee/ ",
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"content": "It\u2019s strange to talk about a movie that I just did as I\u2019m doing something else. I\u2019m so profoundly into the process right now. My life is 100 percent Blade Runner right now, so I\u2019m in the future, I\u2019m not with you anymore. \r What does it mean for your life to be 100 percent Blade Runner? I wake up at six, I get to bed at midnight, it\u2019s like seven days a week and you dream about it. Very often I wake up in the middle of the night, and I know I\u2019m doomed, because I know I won\u2019t go back to bed, because I\u2019m too excited, there\u2019s so much work. So I don\u2019t sleep a lot. So that\u2019s why if you ask me what I\u2019m going to do after Blade Runner, I\u2019m going to sleep. \r With Blade Runner, will the visual language pay tribute to the original, or will it be something completely your own? Do you feel pressure to live up to the original? First of all, it\u2019s not possible to live up to the original. It\u2019s Ridley Scott. It\u2019s a masterpiece. It\u2019s one of the best sci-fi films, one of the best films in the past 50 years. \r For me, what terrorizes me right now is what I\u2019m doing is taking Blade Runner and making it my own, and that is horrific. To realize that when I look at the dailies, it\u2019s not Ridley Scott, it\u2019s me, and that it\u2019s different. It\u2019s still the same universe, we are still in the same dream, but it\u2019s mine, so it\u2019s like I have no idea how you people will react, I don\u2019t know. It has its own life. \r How has it been working with Ryan Gosling? I must say, the thing I can say is that Ryan Gosling is insanely good. I\u2019m very impressed by that actor. It\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve worked with him and I never had someone that was as much a trooper, as dedicated, as precise and engaged. I feel that he is a real partner with me. I said to him, \"You know, we are going to do it together and it\u2019s like walking in a dark room with a lighter trying to find the way out. It\u2019s a huge room and we are alone and it\u2019s dark and it\u2019s cold.\" And he said, \"Yeah, I understand exactly.\" But we have a lot of fun. \r It\u2019s funny because very often we say that nobody realizes that a bunch of Canadians took over Blade Runner. We are, like, covert, nobody knows. I knew he was a great actor, I didn\u2019t know how brilliant \u2014 he\u2019s really an intelligent person, very clever, very provocative mind, he\u2019s bringing a lot to the project right now, a lot, in a positive way. I\u2019m very excited about it. \r And what\u2019s it like to work with Harrison Ford? It\u2019s a long shoot, and I started prep with him, but I didn\u2019t start to shoot with him. But I will say that Harrison, to my great relief \u2026 you know Harrison Ford, he was one of my biggest heroes. I grew up with him, so to meet a man like that who is kind of a legend in your heart, that has that kind of humility, generosity, open-mindedness and simplicity, one of the nicest human beings I\u2019ve met. I\u2019m really looking forward to start working with him. \r What are your top three science-fiction films? 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Blade Runner \u2026 so you can see that I\u2019m in deep *beep*\r The rest of the interview is about ARRIVAL: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/venice-arrival-director-denis-villeneuve-925854 - taken from the other message board\r http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdTmT3wVBxM someone should remake hollywood",
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"content": "\"This Guy Is Replicating \u2018Blade Runner\u2019 Shot-for-Shot in MS Paint\":\r \u201cI finally saw it on the big screen as an adult when the final cut came out theatrically and I was just amazed. Just completely stunned,\u201d said MacGown, who like most Blade Runner fans is particularly drawn to the juxtaposition between what is \u201can essentially old-fashioned film\u201d and the futuristic setting. \u201cBlade Runner is a mix of the old and the new in so many ways.\u201d https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5714/30330092592_e7fef1447b_h.jpg Alex",
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"content": "Johann Johhannsson: \u201cIt\u2019s very early on with Blade Runner. They\u2019re still filming. I\u2019m sending them stuff, and we\u2019re still looking for the sound. It\u2019s a slow process. It\u2019s very early to talk, really, in any specific terms about Blade Runner, but obviously it\u2019s a sequel to a very iconic, celebrated film that is very well loved. It\u2019s a film that\u2019s one of my favorites, to be honest. It\u2019s one of my all-time favorite films, so it\u2019s a huge challenge to take on. It feels like a responsibility in many ways, like a big responsibility to take on a project like this.\u201d \r \u201cIt has to be music that exists in the world of Blade Runner, but it\u2019s Blade Runner thirty years later. It\u2019s not a remake, it\u2019s a sequel, so a lot of time has passed and things have changed. I think that will be reflected in all elements of the score and the film. Obviously, Vangelis\u2019 music played a huge part in creating that world, and Vangelis\u2019 score to Blade Runner is one of my all-time favorites. It was a huge part of why that film is so strong, so yes, it\u2019s something that I\u2019m very aware of, but as I said, this is a sequel, not a remake, so we\u2019re doing something that exists in the world but is new as well.\u201d\r http://lrmonline.com/news/exclusive-composer-johann-johannsson-on-the-music-of-blade-runner-2049",
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Directors And Other Artists On Blade Runner
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http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/10.06/spielberg_pr.html
Alex