I didn't plan to watch it at the cinema, because I'd never seen "Blade Runner" (I know, shame on me), but luckily I found out that there would be on TV (the International Cut) so I watched it and now I'm ready to understand the brand new film.
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Considering that it is
a very famous film, in this post I will write the things I like
the most of this film and five fun facts you may not know.
Atmosphere: I like the atmosphere of this film, which is dark and merciless: the constant rain, the narrow streets, the absence of the sun (but also its disturbing presence in some scenes), the miserable life of the characters we meet during the film; all these elements are perfect to show a dystopic world, populated by shadows.
Replicants: in some films the antagonist is perfectly recognisable, because he is mean and he doesn't care if he has to hurt others to reach his evil goals. But in Blade Runner the bond is evanescent. Replicants are complex creatures: they were created by men to work as slaves and their life is very short so that they aren’t dangerous. They are exactly like humans in appearance, but they are stronger, more intelligent and each one has a particular ability; they don’t have emotions, but they can “elaborate” something similar to emotions thanks to some memories implanted in them (especially in the new series of replicants). So who is evil? They kill as men kill, they are worried and fragile as men are. Also, if we think that they reproduce humans’ behaviour, we can say they are not evil by nature, but their actions are deplorable as the humans are. They want to live more and isn’t it the same desire of men?
Eyes: eyes are the mirror of the soul and to recognise replicants a test (called Voight-Kampff) based on the eyes is taken. "A very advanced form of lie detector that measures contractions of the iris muscle and the presence of invisible airborne particles emitted from the body. [...] The VK is used primarily by Blade Runners to determine if a suspect is truly human by measuring the degree of his emphatic response through carefully worded questions and statements" (description from the original press kit). Eyes are connected with truth: it's from the observation of reactions that one can determine if one is a replicant or not. But eyes can make mistakes too. Also the eye is a metaphor of God, who can see everything and everyone and can judge every bad and good action. An interesting thing is that when Roy Batty kills doctor Tyrell he presses his eyes into his face: in my opinion Roy thinks eyes aren't useful anymore to the doctor to create or to fix life, because he seems not to understand his feelings.
Fun fact #1: there are seven different versions of the film which reveal new information in particular about Rick Deckard: is he a replicant? We may discover the answer in the new film.
Fun fact #2: the film is a loose adaptation of the 1968 novel "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheeps?" by Philip K.Dick. Unfortunately, he died before the film was finished, but when he saw the first showings, he praised Scott because visually he managed to create a perfect world for his novel. The film was dedicated to him.
Fun fact #3: the name of the project of this film (joint by Ridley Scott on the 21st of February 1980) was “Dangerous Days”, but it changed into “the Bladerunner” which were a book by Alan E. Nourse (and read by Ridley Scott) where the Blade Runner were traffickers of surgical equipment.
Fun fact #4: Ridley Scott wanted Dustin Hoffman for the role of the protagonist, but Hoffman thought that some characteristics of Deckard didn't fit for him, so Scott started to consider other actors, as Gene Hackman, Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Pacino and Burt Reynolds. At the end Harrison Ford was chosen, also thanks to positive references from Steven Spielberg.
Fun fact #5: The Roy Batty's final monologue is a lot different than the one thought by the screenwriter David Webb Peoples: Rutger Hauer thought it was too long and not very sharp, so he reduced it and improvised some phrases, as this one: "all those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain". Also the dove kept in hand by Batty was an idea of Hauer.
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Yours, Silvia
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