Posted on 01/07/2016 7:13:51 PM PST by Perdogg
It's a boy! It's a Roy! For Blade Runner fans, 8 January 2016 is a date of major significance. It's the "day of activation" for Roy Batty, one of the most charismatic and significant characters in this landmark movie. He's a replicant, or android – and, although he might not be flesh and blood, he certainly makes us think about what it is to be human. He's arguably the heart and soul of the movie, even more than its putative hero, played by Harrison Ford
Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, is one of the most influential films of the 1980s, a philosophical science fiction-action work set in the near future that's steeped in a sense of the past, a reflection on memory, identity, emotion, creation and invention that takes place in a dazzling yet downbeat neo-noir urban landscape. Loosely based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, its events begin to unfold in November 2019, in a world in which highly realistic androids, known as replicants, have been built by a company called the Tyrell Corporation.
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Just So Classy,
thanks
There is a directors cut out there that completely erases Ford’s narration. BTW, Ford did not want to narrate it but I guess he was told to and he wasn’t happy about it. He liked it the way it was without the narration. Are you a fan fan of 2001 a space odyssey? 12th of January 1992.
Tears in the Rain. Heavy stuff.
I heard there are sane ones,
never knew one for long.
Coinkydink. Blade Runner is my favorite movie. I just found my DVD in a pile of disks this morning and was about to watch it.
Without Hauer it would have been a different movie. He nailed the role. Sean Young was hot and Daryl Hannah played a good part. Come to think of it it had a very good cast.
Ahhhh....Pris
“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 Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears...in...rain. Time to die.”
That line always sends chills up my spine, one of the best crafted lines in moviedom IMHO.
HAL’s Birthday!
Do you like our Owl Mr. Deckard?
As with flying cars in The Jetsons ... the future is already here ... and it sucks.
Progressives are probably to blame for it.
“Yeah but bat crap crazy in real life wasn’t she ?.....:o)”
I was sooo in love with Sean Young. Then there was the cat woman thing and the dolls head for James Woods. After that, I knew she was my kinda dame :)
The movie was so much more profound than the book.
The movie explored the question: What would you do if you met your maker?
Roy told his maker, "I want more life, effer."
To which his maker said, we made you as best as you could possibly be.
Of course, the creature was unsatisfied with what all his creator gave to him, so the creature proceeds to kiss his maker and kill him.
It was a futile act, because the creature itself dies eventually.
The moral of the film: You can be unhappy enough with yourself and kill the one who made you (atheism), but it won't change a thing.
Rachel (S. Young) is a Clevelander. May be the best thing to come out of NE Ohio. Bladerunner is my all time favorite movie, without exception.
Great pics posted, keep it up!
ROTFLMAO ..... Rodeo sex sort of attraction ?
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