Blade Runner [1982] was set in the year 2019

Ridley Scott's dystopian classic Blade Runner, an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, combines noir with science fiction to create a groundbreaking cyberpunk vision of urban life in the twenty-first century. With replicants on the run, the rain-drenched Los Angeles which Blade Runner imagines is a city of oppression and enclosure, but a city in which transgression and disorder can always erupt. Graced by stunning sets, lighting, effects, costumes and photography, Blade Runner succeeds brilliantly in depicting a world at once uncannily familiar and startlingly new. In his innovative and nuanced reading, Scott Bukatman details the making of Blade Runner and its steadily improving fortunes following its release in 1982. He situates the film in terms of debates about postmodernism, which have informed much of the criticism devoted to it, but argues that its tensions derive also from the quintessentially twentieth-century, modernist experience of the city – as a space both imprisoning and liberating.
In his foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Bukatman suggests that Blade Runner 's visual complexity allows it to translate successfully to the world of high definition and on-demand home cinema. He looks back to the sciencefiction tradition of the early 1980s, and on to the key changes in the 'final' version of the film in 2007, which risk diminishing the sense of instability created in the original.

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EmmaMcG said:

The Final Cut is brilliant. One of the best sci fi movies ever made.

and the soundtrack was brilliant too

I'll have to see if Netflix has it

The 'opening' scene in the 2nd Blade Runner where he shows up at the 'farm' and retires the replicant, is actually a scene that was intended for the original Blade Runner.


I'm watching a 'Making Off' dvd now, some great stuff, and a LOT of stuff was cut.

Seeing how they physically made this movie, reminds me why so many new movies just lack that 'IT' factor

They were literally in the hotel between 12midnight and 6 am shooting, using the smoke, dust, water etc. And had to be cleaned up by 6am and out

There was a 5th replicant Mary who shot scenes, but it was cut for budget reasons

Goddess4Real said:

EmmaMcG said:

The Final Cut is brilliant. One of the best sci fi movies ever made.

and the soundtrack was brilliant too

In the 'Making Off' doc, the actors said Ridley would have the music playing from a system above everyone for the scenes and filler time

luv4u said:

I'll have to see if Netflix has it

I believe it is on there. You might have to pay $2

Blade Runner is the soundtrack album for the 1982 film Blade Runner, composed by Greek electronic music composer Vangelis. It is mostly a dark, melodic combination of classical composition and synthesizers which mirrors the futuristic film noir envisioned by director Ridley Scott. The original soundtrack release was delayed for over a decade, until 1994, despite the music being well-received by fans and critically acclaimed—it was nominated in 1983 for a BAFTA and Golden Globe as best original score. The soundtrack is regarded as a historically important piece in the genre of electronic music.

Since the premiere of the film, two official albums have been released containing music omitted from the film and also new compositions featuring a similar style. An orchestral rendition of part of the soundtrack was released in 1982 by the New American Orchestra. However, the original soundtrack album (1994) features vocal contributions from Demis Roussos (Vangelis's former bandmate in Aphrodite's Child) and saxophone by Dick Morrissey on "Love Theme". The track "Memories of Green" from Vangelis' 1980 album See You Later was also included. A new release made in 2007 includes a disc of new music inspired by the film.

"Memories of Green" originally featured on Vangelis' 1980 album, See You Later.^[3]

The first official release (on LP, tape and CD) was a reinterpretation by the New American Orchestra in 1982. Billed as an "orchestral adaptation of music composed for the motion picture by Vangelis", this release consisted of jazz-inspired, orchestrated renditions of the major tracks from the film, but not the original score tracks.

It has been variously described as "influential and mythical",^[9] "incredible and pristine",^[10] "evocative",^[11] and "the pinnacle of synthesiser soundtracks".

Most of the music contained in this album originates from recordings I made in London in 1982, whilst working on the score for the film Blade Runner. Finding myself unable to release these recordings at the time; it is with great pleasure that I am able to do so now. Some of the pieces contained will be known to you from the Original Soundtrack of the film, whilst others are appearing here for the first time. Looking back at Ridley Scott's powerful and evocative pictures left me as stimulated as before, and made the recompiling of this music, today, an enjoyable experience. (Vangelis, Athens, April 1994)

Although this release claims to be the "complete" score, there is still some music heard in the film that is missing (in sequential order):

1. Longer-length track: "Main Titles", with prologue
2. Heard in scene: Leon's Voight-Kampff test
3. Heard in scene: Deckard meets Rachael for the first time (starting with the owl)
4. Longer-length track: "Blade Runner Blues"
5. Heard in scene: Deckard's dream, before, during and after the unicorn appears (1992 and 2007 film releases)
6. Heard in scene: Deckard's dream (1984 US film release), actually an alternate recording of "Love Theme"
7. Heard in scene: Deckard meets Abdul bin Hassan (the snake seller); continuing to Taffey Lewis's club
8. Full track: before the "Love Theme" (called "I Am the Business" on the Esper Edition)
9. Full track: when Batty walks around J. F. Sebastian's apartment (called "Morning at the Bradbury" on the Esper Edition)
10. Missing prelude: "The Prodigal Son Brings Death"
11. Heard in scene: Deckard enters the Bradbury and walks up the stairs
12. Longer-length track: "Deckard and Roy's Duel" (which is an abbreviated version of "Dangerous Days" combined with "Wounded Animals")
13. Longer-length track: "End Titles"

The second disc, of previously unreleased music, contains additional music not present in the film, including two bonus tracks. One of these, "Desolation Path", is a slightly different version of "Alternate Love Theme/I Dreamt Music".^[20] This track was originally used in the workprint version of the film, during the Deckard/Rachel love scene.

How do you describe what the music causes you to feel, think about or image?

Goddess4Real said:

EmmaMcG said:

The Final Cut is brilliant. One of the best sci fi movies ever made.

and the soundtrack was brilliant too

This is the dvd set I have, it's awesome. minus the Art of BR

07:27 Bicycle Riders (Pompeii 76 A.D.)

Harps of the Ancient Temples

OldFriends4Sale said:

luv4u said:

I'll have to see if Netflix has it

I believe it is on there. You might have to pay $2

The streaming does not have it. I've never seen it but have seen the current one.

luv4u said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Rutger Haur still sexy

MrSteJ‏ @MrSteJ Mar 29

Is this the same Vangelis??

I have this vinyl - The Friends of Mr. Cairo


https://www.discogs.com/J...ster/19731

Is it really true that the original recordings used for the movies are lost or misplaced and that Vangelis himself even hasn't heard the complete sessions ever since they were recorded?

I've been listening to this remaster ever since it was posted on youtube.

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EmmaMcG said:

luv4u said:

I'll have to see if Netflix has it

If it's not labelled as "The Final Cut", then don't watch it. The Final Cut is the definitive version and truly represents the directors original vision. Even the so called director's cut is not actually the director's cut.

I'm still watching this dvd doc (i'll have to watch it a few more times) But I agree, I wish he would go and put in all the scenes that were removed.

Ridley or one of the other persons said something about 'the directors vision is never understood by those who have to view it(meaning the people paying the $)'

There are so many pieces cut (and music pieces by Vangelis)

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JorisE73 said:

Is it really true that the original recordings used for the movies are lost or misplaced and that Vangelis himself even hasn't heard the complete sessions ever since they were recorded?

I've been listening to this remaster ever since it was posted on youtube.

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I'll try to post the information I have on it from the documentary.
I posted a lot of background above in post #7

luv4u said:

Is this the same Vangelis??

I have this vinyl - The Friends of Mr. Cairo


https://www.discogs.com/J...ster/19731

Yes it is, Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου (Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou)

What do you mean you've never seen Blade Runner? (5$ for the first one to get the reference)

Syd Mead

Roy Batty

Christopher Shy fan art

This image here and many other in the movie, I never realized were a mixture of real set pieces/buildings and Syd Meads paintings

BLADE RUNNER -> PROMETHEUS(ALIEN)

Apart from being directed by the same person, Blade Runner shares more in common with the Alien franchise than you may believe. In a Blu-ray extra featured on the release of Prometheus, a diary from Sir Peter Weyland, founder of the multinational technology company Weyland Corp, admits that the creation of the synthetics seen in the Alien franchise may have had something to do with Eldon Tyrell, inventor of the replicants.

According to Scott, the connection between Alien and Blade Runner was so strong that he once considered calling the Weyland company Weyland-Tyrell. Instead, the synthetics can be interpreted as the next evolutionary step above Tyrell's creations, as Weyland calls them robotic abominations in his observation of his former mentor's inventions.

It remains to be seen if this connection will stretch further into the Blade Runner mythos, but the tie-in certainly leaves more options available for future sequels.