Release date 1982
Directed by Ridley Scott
Produced by Michael Deeley
It is often said that out of chaos, great art can emerge. Such was the case with the 1982 science fiction film Blade Runner. Based on the Phillip K Dick novel , Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep?, BR was a departure from the traditional science fiction film of that day. Escapism usually took the form of such cinema thanks to films like Star Wars and Star Trek. It harkened back to the days of 2001 and Solaris, when futuristic fiction was about ideas as much as it was about hardware and flights of fantasy.
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| Miniature Tyrell pryamid built at EEG |
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| miniature police spinner being constructed |
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| Tyrell pryaamid miniature built at Doug Trumbull's EEG company |
Inspired by his appreciation for the French comic fiction magazine Metal Hurlant, Scott design his future with a look he later dubbed "retro-fitting": taking old technology and merging it with new designs by visual futurist Syd Mead (Who also designed vehicles and machines for TRON and Aliens). The result is a dark, hellish and intriguing look into our future, where global cultures and languages have merged and genetic engineering have become the norm.
The technical aspects of the film are a stand out. The visual effects were supervised by Doug Trumbull and David Dryer and the production design by Lawrence Paull was nominated for an academy award. It is fair to say that the look of this film is one of the most imitated and admired of all films of this genre ever made.
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| storyboard of teh Hades landscape seen in the film |
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| The hades landscape built and photographed by EEG in Marina Del rey |
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| The miniature Hades landscape |
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| miniature spinner built at EEG |
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| Behind the scenes with Harrison Ford |
Although a failure initially at its release in 1982, BR has enjoyed a sort of second life, afforded to it by the advent of home video and now the new digital markets like DVD and Blu Ray.
It remains one of the greatest Science Fiction films of all time. A film about deep ideas and themes and not about effects and escapism.
-Paul Taglianetti
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| deleted scene from Blade Runner with Harrison Ford and director Ridley Scott (1982) |
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Discussion points for journal entries:
-Production Design
-Science Fiction in cinema
-Topics pertaining to humanity, and morality
-Photography
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