I think newcomers to this film should start with the theatrical release because the narration does explain some bits of the plot that aren't self-evident. And it omits the unicorn scene which is controversial (Ridley Scott said Deckard was a replicant, Harrison Ford disagreed). Plus you get a genuine ending instead of leaving it open-ended with an abrupt cut. This is one of my 2 favorite films, it has many layers and can generate deep thoughts on the nature of what it means to be human and dealing with mortality itself. Rachael wakes up every day thinking she's human but one day discovers she isn't, her memories aren't even hers, she has less rights than a human. Her world was turned upside down. And Roy just wants more life. He didn't have the memory implants so he and the others are like 4 year olds in adult bodies. Their emotions are limited due to their lack of experience so they enjoy Sebastian's toys and Roy likes playing with Deckard. They're artificially created humans, enhanced but disposable. They live in fear and their existence is tragic.
Re: the artificial animals. Yes, it's because real animals are super rare and expensive (because of war, climate collapse, what have you). In the original novel titled "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" Deckard's neighbor has a sheep for a pet. It's his pride and joy. But one day Deckard notices that the sheep lies writhing and glitching in its pen... it's an electric sheep! Most embarrassing trying to pass a robot off for a real animal...
@@latenightswithsammy it bombed at release because it was released with this God awful voice over narration. It was foolishly added at the last minute because test audiences were 'confused'. It didn't become popular until a VHS release of the Directors Cut without the narration. Directors Cut or Final Cut they're both great. Just not the theatrical release it's terrible. Ridley Scott the director didn't even know about the narration. It was added behind his back by the studio. I don't know whether this is Directors Cut or Final Cut. I don't know the difference. There isn't a big difference. So Roger Ebert was right both times. The theatrical release was a bad movie. The later versions are great movies.
Yes, Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (otherwise known as VANGELIS) composed a brilliant music score. He won an Academy Award the year before (1981) for the movie Charoits Of Fire.
I find it Fascinating that the whole movie is about Emotion and it teaches us the strongest of all emotion is Love When the last replicant dies he values life the most .
I actually liked the theatrical version with the narration voice over.. most people don't but I found it helpful and made him more of a columbo type cop.. great movie and fun to share your reaction.. the sequel is also good
I remember seeing at the theater but alot of it went over my head at the time, now I think it’s brilliant and really enjoy watching again and again, thanks!
You misunderstood the ending because you were talking at the crucial moment. Rachel did not create the origami unicorn, Gaff did. Rachel merely knocked it over while walking by. It tells us that Gaff was there earlier and spared Rachel’s life. This is what Gaff was hinting at when he said “Too bad she won’t live.” The significance is that Gaff was telling Deckard that he is a Replicant. Gaff apparently knows Deckard’s implanted memories/dreams. It also connects with Gaff’s comment, “You did a man’s job.” Ironically, Deckard was entirely lucky to survive. Presumably he was an older model designed to hunt Replicants (consequently without the built-in termination date), but was outclassed by the new Nexus 6 model. You watched either the Director’s Cut or the Final Cut. I think the final cut just remastered and cleaned up some of the visuals.
Stuff 1. Joe Turkel/Tyrell played Lloyd (bartender) in the original Shining. 2. Roy/Rutger Hauer plays in Blind Fury a great first time/share 😇 3. Leon Brion James in Tango and Cash. Much bigger role first time/share also. 4. Deckard/Harrison Ford two overlooked must first time/share "Witness" and "Force 10 from Naverone". 5. In the original Roy tells Tyrell, "I want more life FUCKER" not father. 6. Ford disliked almost everything about this movie (including Sean Young). He mostly disliked the voiceover. He refused to watch it until the changes were made. 7. Daryl Hannah cut herself when she ran into that van mirror 8. The bird Roy had was a dove. 9. The original ending had them flying away on a plane. 10. You must watch Blade Runner 2049.
I saw Blade Runner on VHS 42 years ago in 1982. At first I did not get the message. It had to grow on me. The music of Vangelis and the deeper moral questions. Thanks to global warming it rains a lot more in my country,
@@5ricky23 I actually liked the narration and think it makes it feel like an old columbo movie and explains some of the things like the Boss cop's prejudice when calling them "skin jobs"
@@latenightswithsammy It's definitely preference. Many like the Director's Cut. The Final Cut is definitely the most polished version. You should definitely check out the original version released in theaters or the International Cut.🙂
The original theatrical version adds in a voice over and a "happy ending" , both of which the studio demanded. Harrison Ford hated the v/o idea and intentionally read the lines blandly. Despite that the studio kept it in.. The v/o idea was to give the movie a more NOIR feel like detective movies from the 1930s and 40s.
@@SpectreNUT The last bit is half true and half myth according to Harrison Ford. The narration was part of the script early on, in fact Ridley Scott had pushed for it. It's true that Harrison didn't like it but he certainly didn't sabotage it, in fact he made several recording sessions and read the lines in various ways, 5 or 6 according to his interview in the book "Future Noir" by Paul M. Simmon. He didn't like the result used but he blames it on whoever selected those versions of the lines.
"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 Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die." Deckard is not a Replicant. First off, he gets his ass handed to him by other Replicants. Two, Deckard's arc starts with him hating Replicants and then ends with him falling in love with one. That arc would be meaningless if Deckard is himself a Replicant. Three, even the book makes it very clear he's human. By the way, I love Rachel (Sean Young). She has this WWII secretary aesthetic style that is REALLY doing it for me. 😍 Fun Fact: Joanna Cassidy (Zhora) was at ease with the snake around her neck because it was actually Darling, her pet Burmese Python. Shine Job Fact: Director Sir Ridley Scott and director of photography Jordan Cronenweth achieved the famous "shining eyes" effect by using the "Schüfftan Process" technique invented by Fritz Lang. Light is bounced into the eyes off of a piece of half mirrored glass mounted at a forty-five-degree angle to the camera. Authentic Battle Damage Fact: After Pris (Daryl Hannah) first meets J.F. Sebastian (William Sanderson), she runs away from him, skidding into his car and smashing the window with her elbow. This was a genuine mistake caused by Hannah slipping on the wet ground. The glass wasn't breakaway glass, it was real glass, and Hannah chipped her elbow in eight places. She still has the scar from the accident.
Steven Templar ...The biggest problem with the unicorn dream as "proof" he's a Replicant, is that dreams are not memories. The argument from the other side goes like this: "Rachel has implanted memories! So the unicorn dream is implanted too!" That doesn't fly with me. How Gaff knew of Deckard's can be left to speculation, but we have to deal with what's seen and heard on the screen. We are given no indication that DREAMS can be implanted, ONLY memories.
I agree . I think Deckard being a replicant seems a bit too much like a cheap gimmick that is a bit of a distraction from what I think the main arc of the movie. Which I think is, whilst the humans including Deckard look down on the replicants as being cold unfeeling machines (justifying their exploitation) it is in fact the humans that act with the coldness of an unfeeling machine. Whilst the replicants despite this assumption about them being cold and unfeeling, ended up showing mercy and compassion to those who probably deserved none. As the title of this video says "More human than human". Deckard being a replicant I think would undercut this message. I don't think Deckard hated replicants. I think he just felt nothing at all for them. Like most other humans. Until at the end, he did.
i never thought he was a replicant, but i think the intent is for you to compare the man with the replicant, and see that they are similar in ways of dying, emotion, and discontentment.. the unicorn was always thought of as a perfect mythological animal.. i think this symbolizes the replicants, whereas the dick stick man represents deckard
It wasn't a pigeon, but a dove. Roy grabs one of the many, many birds living in the dilapidated buildings during the final chase. Fun fact: they shot the final scene for like 24 hours and when it was time to let the dove go, it didn't feel like flying away. Hence the cut away shot of the dove flying into the air.
Ahh, my mistake 😅 24 hour shoot, tough, and understandable why the dove would not fly 😂 although, it would have been cool to have it as a single shot where it does, either way, it's cool!
The tunnel is located on 2nd Street in Los Angeles. Some of the locations for the movie were shot in LA. The apartment building was shot at the Bradbury Building and Union Station was used for the police station. Such a good movie! The sequel is also good.
Appreciate you sharing this Carlos! Really like that Ridley used Union Station for the police station ... and yes, very eager to check out the sequel 😆
I think newcomers to this film should start with the theatrical release because the narration does explain some bits of the plot that aren't self-evident. And it omits the unicorn scene which is controversial (Ridley Scott said Deckard was a replicant, Harrison Ford disagreed). Plus you get a genuine ending instead of leaving it open-ended with an abrupt cut.
This is one of my 2 favorite films, it has many layers and can generate deep thoughts on the nature of what it means to be human and dealing with mortality itself. Rachael wakes up every day thinking she's human but one day discovers she isn't, her memories aren't even hers, she has less rights than a human. Her world was turned upside down.
And Roy just wants more life. He didn't have the memory implants so he and the others are like 4 year olds in adult bodies. Their emotions are limited due to their lack of experience so they enjoy Sebastian's toys and Roy likes playing with Deckard. They're artificially created humans, enhanced but disposable. They live in fear and their existence is tragic.
I like the theatrical release the best, too.
Re: the artificial animals. Yes, it's because real animals are super rare and expensive (because of war, climate collapse, what have you). In the original novel titled "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" Deckard's neighbor has a sheep for a pet. It's his pride and joy. But one day Deckard notices that the sheep lies writhing and glitching in its pen... it's an electric sheep! Most embarrassing trying to pass a robot off for a real animal...
A strange, but interesting reality it would be if it were real 😆
This movie took me by surprise, by how much I enjoyed it. Fantastic reaction 🔥🤌🏾
Thank you so much, it is a truly enjoyable film 😀
@@latenightswithsammy it bombed at release because it was released with this God awful voice over narration. It was foolishly added at the last minute because test audiences were 'confused'. It didn't become popular until a VHS release of the Directors Cut without the narration. Directors Cut or Final Cut they're both great. Just not the theatrical release it's terrible. Ridley Scott the director didn't even know about the narration. It was added behind his back by the studio.
I don't know whether this is Directors Cut or Final Cut. I don't know the difference. There isn't a big difference.
So Roger Ebert was right both times. The theatrical release was a bad movie. The later versions are great movies.
Looking forward to watching 2049 with you!
Excited to get to it eventually Tracy 😆
I love the music in this movie!
It's awesome! So appropriate for the aesthetic and storytelling!
Yes, Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (otherwise known as VANGELIS) composed a brilliant music score. He won an Academy Award the year before (1981) for the movie Charoits Of Fire.
This is my favorite movie of all time.
It is quite a masterpiece in its own regard ... so layered and full of wonderful textures, dialogue, camera work, score. Hard not to like it 😊
I find it Fascinating that the whole movie is about Emotion and it teaches us the strongest of all emotion is Love When the last replicant dies he values life the most .
Very true! Love is the greatest 😊
The book's author belueved Deckard was human. The director of the film, believed Deckard a replicant. Harrison Ford believed Deckard to be human.
I actually liked the theatrical version with the narration voice over.. most people don't but I found it helpful and made him more of a columbo type cop.. great movie and fun to share your reaction.. the sequel is also good
I'm curious now of the narrated version .. it does sound intriguing, and yes, the sequel looks really well shot. Great choice of lead actor too 😆
I remember seeing at the theater but alot of it went over my head at the time, now I think it’s brilliant and really enjoy watching again and again, thanks!
The practical effects in this film are insane. The sets and miniatures are awesome.
Completely in agreement!
You misunderstood the ending because you were talking at the crucial moment. Rachel did not create the origami unicorn, Gaff did. Rachel merely knocked it over while walking by. It tells us that Gaff was there earlier and spared Rachel’s life. This is what Gaff was hinting at when he said “Too bad she won’t live.” The significance is that Gaff was telling Deckard that he is a Replicant. Gaff apparently knows Deckard’s implanted memories/dreams. It also connects with Gaff’s comment, “You did a man’s job.” Ironically, Deckard was entirely lucky to survive. Presumably he was an older model designed to hunt Replicants (consequently without the built-in termination date), but was outclassed by the new Nexus 6 model.
You watched either the Director’s Cut or the Final Cut. I think the final cut just remastered and cleaned up some of the visuals.
Stuff
1. Joe Turkel/Tyrell played Lloyd (bartender) in the original Shining.
2. Roy/Rutger Hauer plays in Blind Fury a great first time/share 😇
3. Leon Brion James in Tango and Cash. Much bigger role first time/share also.
4. Deckard/Harrison Ford two overlooked must first time/share "Witness" and "Force 10 from Naverone".
5. In the original Roy tells Tyrell, "I want more life FUCKER" not father.
6. Ford disliked almost everything about this movie (including Sean Young). He mostly disliked the voiceover. He refused to watch it until the changes were made.
7. Daryl Hannah cut herself when she ran into that van mirror
8. The bird Roy had was a dove.
9. The original ending had them flying away on a plane.
10. You must watch Blade Runner 2049.
Thank you guys so much for providing these interesting insights and explanations 😆
"Passed away" does not sound right when someone is murdered/killed.
True ..
I saw Blade Runner on VHS 42 years ago in 1982. At first I did not get the message. It had to grow on me. The music of Vangelis and the deeper moral questions. Thanks to global warming it rains a lot more in my country,
Does anybody react to the narrated version?
There is a narrated version? Interesting!
Makes the movie feel like the old detective shows. It's the "theatrical" version.
@@5ricky23 I actually liked the narration and think it makes it feel like an old columbo movie and explains some of the things like the Boss cop's prejudice when calling them "skin jobs"
You watched the final cut of Blade Runner.
Sweet! Thanks for that William 😀 Now, is that the best version, or is it all preferential?
@@latenightswithsammy It's definitely preference. Many like the Director's Cut. The Final Cut is definitely the most polished version. You should definitely check out the original version released in theaters or the International Cut.🙂
The original theatrical version adds in a voice over and a "happy ending" , both of which the studio demanded.
Harrison Ford hated the v/o idea and intentionally read the lines blandly. Despite that the studio kept it in..
The v/o idea was to give the movie a more NOIR feel like detective movies from the 1930s and 40s.
@@SpectreNUT The last bit is half true and half myth according to Harrison Ford. The narration was part of the script early on, in fact Ridley Scott had pushed for it. It's true that Harrison didn't like it but he certainly didn't sabotage it, in fact he made several recording sessions and read the lines in various ways, 5 or 6 according to his interview in the book "Future Noir" by Paul M. Simmon. He didn't like the result used but he blames it on whoever selected those versions of the lines.
Robots
Westworld starring Yul Bryner is fantastic.
AGREED!
"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 Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die."
Deckard is not a Replicant. First off, he gets his ass handed to him by other Replicants. Two, Deckard's arc starts with him hating Replicants and then ends with him falling in love with one. That arc would be meaningless if Deckard is himself a Replicant. Three, even the book makes it very clear he's human.
By the way, I love Rachel (Sean Young). She has this WWII secretary aesthetic style that is REALLY doing it for me. 😍
Fun Fact: Joanna Cassidy (Zhora) was at ease with the snake around her neck because it was actually Darling, her pet Burmese Python.
Shine Job Fact: Director Sir Ridley Scott and director of photography Jordan Cronenweth achieved the famous "shining eyes" effect by using the "Schüfftan Process" technique invented by Fritz Lang. Light is bounced into the eyes off of a piece of half mirrored glass mounted at a forty-five-degree angle to the camera.
Authentic Battle Damage Fact: After Pris (Daryl Hannah) first meets J.F. Sebastian (William Sanderson), she runs away from him, skidding into his car and smashing the window with her elbow. This was a genuine mistake caused by Hannah slipping on the wet ground. The glass wasn't breakaway glass, it was real glass, and Hannah chipped her elbow in eight places. She still has the scar from the accident.
Steven Templar ...The biggest problem with the unicorn dream as "proof" he's a Replicant, is that dreams are not memories. The argument from the other side goes like this:
"Rachel has implanted memories! So the unicorn dream is implanted too!"
That doesn't fly with me. How Gaff knew of Deckard's can be left to speculation, but we have to deal with what's seen and heard on the screen. We are given no indication that DREAMS can be implanted, ONLY memories.
For Deckard's fate watch "Blade Runner 2048
I agree . I think Deckard being a replicant seems a bit too much like a cheap gimmick that is a bit of a distraction from what I think the main arc of the movie.
Which I think is, whilst the humans including Deckard look down on the replicants as being cold unfeeling machines (justifying their exploitation) it is in fact the humans that act with the coldness of an unfeeling machine.
Whilst the replicants despite this assumption about them being cold and unfeeling, ended up showing mercy and compassion to those who probably deserved none.
As the title of this video says "More human than human".
Deckard being a replicant I think would undercut this message. I don't think Deckard hated replicants. I think he just felt nothing at all for them. Like most other humans. Until at the end, he did.
@@shaun_v 2049 will clear it for you.
@@group-music I'm trying my best to not drop a spoiler (GMAB)🙄
i never thought he was a replicant, but i think the intent is for you to compare the man with the replicant, and see that they are similar in ways of dying, emotion, and discontentment.. the unicorn was always thought of as a perfect mythological animal.. i think this symbolizes the replicants, whereas the dick stick man represents deckard
If he is, or isn't, it surely has constructed a great conversation over the years 😆
It wasn't a pigeon, but a dove. Roy grabs one of the many, many birds living in the dilapidated buildings during the final chase. Fun fact: they shot the final scene for like 24 hours and when it was time to let the dove go, it didn't feel like flying away. Hence the cut away shot of the dove flying into the air.
Ahh, my mistake 😅 24 hour shoot, tough, and understandable why the dove would not fly 😂 although, it would have been cool to have it as a single shot where it does, either way, it's cool!
The tunnel is located on 2nd Street in Los Angeles. Some of the locations for the movie were shot in LA. The apartment building was shot at the Bradbury Building and Union Station was used for the police station. Such a good movie! The sequel is also good.
Appreciate you sharing this Carlos! Really like that Ridley used Union Station for the police station ... and yes, very eager to check out the sequel 😆
I saw this movie in the theater when it was first released. I didn’t like the scene where Roy Batty becomes a Christ figure.
That's awesome! And yes, I do see your point too ..
The unicorn scene was added later. Dick, the author stated that Deckard was human.
Nice! Thank you for writing in and explaining Gerald 😀
We are all unicorns...
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Blade Runner 2049 answers some of the questions but creates new ones as well.
But it might take months of brewing to digest just the first movie.
No big willie in Sammy's pants!
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