Blade Runner Stuff

Blade Runner Stuff

Blade Runner overview: Oliver Harper goes through the amazing Blade Runner movie. I really can't watch the theatrical version of the movie with the really bad voice over. Harrison Ford's VO work is really-really poorly done and Ford just sleepwalks through it. The Scott and Ford hated the VO work and it doesn't help the movie. 

I think both extended versions of the movie are better than the theatrical version. There is a work print out there too, but there was another cut called the “Director's Cut”. Scott didn't have much to do with this “Director's Cut”. He would later do a “Final Cut” in the 2000s and this one is amazing with a few added scenes and some of the loopier things cut out. 

I have to disagree with Harper on the score. Vangelis ' score is fairly uninteresting to me. I like the main theme, but it is bit to boring to me. I think a Goldsmith would have made a better choice with a blending of real orchestra stuff mixed with synth. Goldsmith was known to blend to the two. However, Ridley Scott had screwed over Goldsmith with Alien and would later screw him over again with Legend. 

William Sanderson (the toy maker dude) would go on to play another character JUST like his character in BR.  It would be in the Batman Animated Series.  They even modeled the character after Sanderson's look in Blade Runner.  He's the inventor that created the AI H.A.R.D.A.C.  He would later go on to be toy-robot maker just like his character in the movie!

 BTW, the video game that came out in the 90s was amazing. The devs used actors from the movie in the actual game, which is cool.

Here are some deleted scenes. (Most of these scenes not in any cut)

 

Comment: Gaff speaks more English in the deleted footage as presented here and there are strong hints at Deckard being a robot with this conversation.

Comment: Holden deleted scene. This one is famous because it is talked about all the time. I can see why it was cut, because it does slow down the movie and doesn't present anything new, just more background stuff.