Blade Runner (1982)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 117m
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer,
Synopsis:
A blade runner is hired to track down escaped 'replicants', cloned humanoids with manufactured memories, but what if he is one himself?
Review:
The existential nightmare at the heart of Dick's dystopia gets swallowed in the hi-tech production design and private eye trappings (the studio even messed with the ending). Parts of it just don't make much sense, or are unintelligible, and Ford gets upstaged by the mannered camp of Hauer's lead replicant. Initial release audiences didn't know what to make of it and it almost died then, but students loved the darkness and stylistic verve and it became a sleeper classic. A director's cut eventually followed years later, but by that time we had grown so used to Ford's cheesy voiceover we sort of missed it when it was taken out.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 117m
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer,
Synopsis:
A blade runner is hired to track down escaped 'replicants', cloned humanoids with manufactured memories, but what if he is one himself?
Review:
The existential nightmare at the heart of Dick's dystopia gets swallowed in the hi-tech production design and private eye trappings (the studio even messed with the ending). Parts of it just don't make much sense, or are unintelligible, and Ford gets upstaged by the mannered camp of Hauer's lead replicant. Initial release audiences didn't know what to make of it and it almost died then, but students loved the darkness and stylistic verve and it became a sleeper classic. A director's cut eventually followed years later, but by that time we had grown so used to Ford's cheesy voiceover we sort of missed it when it was taken out.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 117m
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer,
Synopsis:
A blade runner is hired to track down escaped 'replicants', cloned humanoids with manufactured memories, but what if he is one himself?
Review:
The existential nightmare at the heart of Dick's dystopia gets swallowed in the hi-tech production design and private eye trappings (the studio even messed with the ending). Parts of it just don't make much sense, or are unintelligible, and Ford gets upstaged by the mannered camp of Hauer's lead replicant. Initial release audiences didn't know what to make of it and it almost died then, but students loved the darkness and stylistic verve and it became a sleeper classic. A director's cut eventually followed years later, but by that time we had grown so used to Ford's cheesy voiceover we sort of missed it when it was taken out.