Oct 24 - Blade Runner (the movie)

Happy Birthday Talissa!

I was pretty shocked at Blade Runner. It was so BAD! and so Violent!! Who would would have thought? Ridley Scott is one helluva guy.

He basically took out all of the intellectual stuff and put in more romance, strippers, fight scenes, blood, and violence. I think making the opera singer into an exotic dancer is perfectly characteristic of how the book was converted into a movie. Or perhaps how the Rachel Rosen model was converte from just a regular model (in the book) to a PLEASURE ANDROID (in the movie). I'll give him a little credit to his name because it was the 80s and I was one of the few good things to come out of the 80s (besides parachute pants, of course).

I do understand that a lot of the book had to be taken out because the book itself didn't make any sense, let alone trying to make sense of mercerism to a pop-culture movie audience during a feature length film. That would have been a REAL nightmare. I did like the actor who played Roy Baty, however, i think is only because i thought he was a pretty convincing android. He just looked slightly inhuman. The end when he was running around in his underpants like a crazed animal was entertaining in the same way that people create traffic jams as they slow down to look at car accidents. I thought the decision to have the android save Harrison Ford at the end also seemed a little silly--kinda hollywood. I mean... he's an android. what does he care about saving the life of a human? especially if he can feel vengeance (since he got angry when rachel was killed).

Perhaps the best part was the very end when that dude said: "SHE WON'T LAST LONG.... BUT THEN AGAIN, WHO DOES?" I mean. it was worth watching the entire movie just for THAT.

Word.