Aug 182011
Oy.
Ridley Scott Ready To Direct New Version Of Seminal Sci-Fi Film ‘Blade Runner’
Ummm… how about NO.
I have no doubt that Ridley Scott, with modern film making tech, could make one hell of a remake. But… he got it right the first time.
From the opening scene to the death of Roy Batty, Blade Runner was loaded to the gills with pure awesome geniusocity. Any attempt to remake that will almost certainly fall short.
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Got it right…until he tried to make it seem like Deckard was a replicant, which, in my opinion, makes the character of Deckard far less interesting.
BLASPHEMY!!!
In any event, it didn’t *seem* like Deckard was a replicant… he *was* a replicant. Not only the hints in the movie (especially the directors cut), but Ridley Scott has explicitly stated so.
Also, it turns out Tyrell was also a replicant. A $20,000 head was made for the scene when Roy Batty kills him; Batty was supposed to crush his skull, revealing mechanical bits. Batty would then go a few level further up in the building and find the body of the original Tyrell in some sort of sarcophagus. So Batty went on a search for his creator, found him and killed him… only to find out that his creator was *already* dead. But those scenes were not filmed.
It’s turtles all the way down.
Rather than watch a remake of BladeRunner, I’d just like to have sex with your and Winchell’s RSS feeds. Nothing else is nearly as cool.
Harrison Ford does not agree with Ridley Scott and it would appear that Scott decided to make Deckard a replicant after filming was complete.
Deckard was not a replicant in the book and making him a replicant is cliche. Having him be a blade runner that starts to empathize with the very beings he is meant to destroy makes for a richer story, with all the questions that it raises about our relationships with increasingly intelligent and, most importantly, emotional machines and when does the difference between machine and human become meaningless.
A replicant figuring out that they are a replicant that has been killing replicants and develops an intimate relationship with a fellow replicant is meh.
“The purpose of this story as I saw it was that in his job of hunting and killing these replicants, Deckard becomes progressively dehumanized. At the same time, the replicants are being perceived as becoming more human. Finally, Deckard must question what he is doing, and really what is the essential difference between him and them? And, to take it one step further, who is he if there is no real difference?”
Philip K. Dick
> d it would appear that Scott decided to make Deckard a replicant after filming was complete.
I dunno. There are several bits of evidence that are pretty convincing:
1: The eyes. Replicant eyes shine in the dark, unlike human eyes. Deckards eyes shine.
2: The unicorn dream/Gaff’s paper unicorn at the end.
Plus all the little stuff, like Deckard having apparently *no* human attachments but surrounding himself with photos… photos that can’t possibly be of his immediate friends or family since they’re so old.
If their eyes shine (like Rachel’s), then that would be a lot easier way to identify one than using the memory test. Or do a lot of humans have replicated synthetic eyes also?
The article indicates this isn’t a remake, but rather a sequal or a prequel.
That might work, and worked very well indeed in “Aliens”.
It would be a lot of fun to see more of what the very dystopian future is like, especially once you get outside of that gawd-awful Los Angeles to the outer space the replicants work and die in.
> The article indicates this isn’t a remake, but rather a sequal or a prequel.
Actually, the article doesn’t indicate *anything.* The article-author is speculating that it’s either a prequel or sequel, but doesn’t know.
> It would be a lot of fun to see … the outer space the replicants work and die in.
It was called “Soldier.”
And Scott’s brother Tony is doing a remake of “The Wild Bunch” Holy Hell!
Wait a second… “Cowboys And Replicants”!
It’s as sure winner!
No, wait a second… they already did that in “Westworld”.
A remake of “Westworld”!
It’s a sure winner!
Especially if we put intelligent apes in it! 😀
I might like to see a prequel. The title would have to be–of course, “Tannhauser Gate”
I would have the movie start with Roy in the rain, computer morphing his face to look like the actor’s current visage due to rapid aging–and a memory is had…
Early on, the Replicants murder a recluse and then set up shop where he lived…an old estate. The replicants find out the man was some type of activist. Not having true remorse, they are interested in their victim. Later, as Greece actually conquered Rome thru culture, the replicants actually finish the life’s work of their victim, and actually want to learn more about him. The victim would be a retiring man, who often, perhaps through his own hang-ups, could not quite break the barrier as it were.
They find that he was wronged by oafs he was surrounded with–who hurt him more than any replicant gunshot ever did. There are worse things than murder, after all. Not to do a Rimmer/Red Dwarf spoof, but they find a hologram of their victim, and after finishing some work of his, leave his gravesite changed.
Tannhauser gate would thus be something to see, to tie other storylines together. A destination, as Grand Canyon was in the film of the same name. The gate is actually a cubic wormhole that was actually described by a mathematician named Vissar. This gate would actually be lightyears wide, held by cosmic strings. In the book CURIOUS AND INTERESTING GEOMETRY, there is a drawing by John Sharp depicting thursons hyperbolic paper. The drawing looks like branes gathered together, what a cubic wormhole might look like if deformed. Some characters see this and vanish.
This was on their bucket list, before returning to earth after meeting their victim/patron’s brother, and finding out they were going to die from him–except. Roy is given a downloaded message that was activated at the close of Blade runner. Why did his hand freeze up, forcing him to stab his palm in a replication of the crucifixtion? To gain ever lasting life, thru breaking a capsule there. He was lied to. Deckard and Sean youn’s character were made differently, and so was he.
Roy opens his eyes on the roof, smiles into the camera, then runs away into the rain…
Roll credits
Hopefully this is not going to delay the production of Forever War, which Scott has been talking about making for the last two or three years – ever since he secured the rights from Joe Haldeman. I’ve been waiting to see a really well made movie of this sci-fi story since the mid-70s and quite honestly, I’d leave Blade Runner alone.