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Frank Darabont hates the Blade Runner VO
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- Опубліковано 19 кві 2014
- Frank Darabont on the infamous "Blade Runner" voice-over. Quite amusing.
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The best part of the VO is how Harrison Ford sounds like he'd rather lick the inside of a toilet than continue reading the script for it.
CrystalJupiter Harrison hated the voice over and so did Ridley Scott. Ford even said in an interview he did it to the best of his ability but knew it was terrible. However the studio wanted the damn thing and there was no talking them out of it.
It sounds like ford was drunk while recording
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Harrison had to lie that he "tried his best" ..
.. or else he may get sued as an actor who signed a contract for intentionally bad acting ...
Harrison is laughing inside he intentional bad acting did help to get rid of the voice over that he's been against since the beginning of shooting ...
And this is why the Final Cut is so much better
uhh ... wrong, the clips are not from Final Cut ... the old chimney shot is there.
By the way, I love Director's Cut's colors a lot more, its richer rather than more bluish ... and the old chimney shot suits the music and wet tonal reflections of the rooftop a lot more ... the new shot looks like a mish-mash montage of many obviously photoshopped images ..
He's absolutely correct. This scene is SO much better without the voiceover.
Frank is the master
"Thudding, dunderheaded voiceover."
I fucking love Frank Darabont.
I agree with him, Scott AND Harrison Ford about the awful narration. Thank GOD for the director's cut.
Final Cut is the best.
Weak encode though.
Clay3613 There will surely be a 4K release.
TheVideoInvader which is now available
fuck all the stupid cuts. They're just made for people to buy the DVDs. The original movie is the only one, the more coherent and meaningful, none of the stupid unicorn dreams and all of that bullshit that left people wondering if Deckard is a replicant... of course he isn't and he can't be. If Deckard would be a replicant all the story would crumble like a card castle
I keep coming back to this, astounded by his charisma.
Listen to his audio commentaries. One of the best filmmakers to listen to, by far.
Total agreement with Frank. The final cut is my favorite without the voice over.
It's one of the most beautiful scenes in cinematic history the title of the music is Tears In The Rain by Vangelis
The cool thing about this modern era though, is that we the ability to enjoy multiple versions. The VO version certainly helped me understand the context as a kid. As I grew older, I appreciated the Directors Cut much more. That said, it's absurd to continue to beat this dead horse on the VO matter.
He should love the directors cut of that film then ... I feel bad for people who saw this in theaters who had to wait 15 years or so for a good version of that great sci fi movie to come out
I've only ever seen the directors cut. I love it.
Henry Garcia I've only ever seen the Final Cut, and boy am I glad I waited!
There were bootlegged versions of the workprint that people could watch. But I do agree with you that it took a while to remove that voiceover
The voice over feels like the end of every episode of The Wonder Years😂
And there you had it - another replicant retired...what a day... I could not help but feel like an utter butthead.
continuously tap 1:23
Spot on.
2 people are replicants.
Ha...as soon as the voice over kicked in I felt like I was watching the Wonder years...
NO ONE WANTED the voice over in the original release of Blade Runner, EXCEPT the fucking studio. Scott hated it, Ford hated it, pretty much everybody hated it except for some twerp at the studio. The Final Cut is the most definitive cut of the film.
The studio insisted on the voice over because test audiences didn't understand what was going on. To this day, people complain that the movie is slow, boring and confusing when they watch the Director's Cut without the narration. The voice over fills in crucial details about the story that the director didn't bother to explain on the screen. If you've never seen the original voice over version then you only know half the story.
Studio interference is part of the filmmaking process though. The original release with the VO is what people saw on opening night and that has to give it some authoritative status over the other versions.
Gold.
Haha the voice over sounds like John Wayne or something, completely ridiculous.
trha2222 No, that's right up there too. How long did it take you to get over the shame and embarrassment?
The voice over version is not worth seeing. It ruined the movie. Gotta see the directors cut only.
the director cut give me life
Don't know which version of Blade Runner I like the most. On the one hand, the original cut had the voiceover (which I didn't mind, except here) but it also had three additional scenes too violent for the American movie-going public. On the other hand, the Director's/Final Cut had no voiceover and retained the original ending but also had these STUPID fucking allusions to Deckard being a Replicant put in there by Ridley Scott like Deckard's eyes glowing a faint red in dim light and the infamous "Unicorn Scene".
I'm going with Word of God on this one. Philip K. Dick said Deckard was human, so he's human. If Deckard was a Replicant, then Blade Runner would be a far shallower, vapid science fiction film. The story of a man who loses his humanity hunting artificial humans who want more life falls flat if said man is really an artificial human too and just didn't know it.
What can I say? I get around.
+Kevin Striker 100%. "If Deckard was a Replicant, then Blade Runner would be a far shallower, vapid science fiction film. The story of a man who loses his humanity hunting artificial humans who want more life falls flat if said man is really an artificial human too and just didn't know it." Totally agree here. Part of the inherent tension that gives the film such dramatic arc is the irony that Deckard, a human, *loses* his humanity by opposing these machines that are actually trying to *gain* that very same humanity.
Agreed. Part of the greatness of BR is the idea that a MAN learns the value of life from an artificial human. Dekkard is human in my mind.
If you read DO Androids Dream of Electric Sheep clearly Deckard is human. A sub theme of the story is the desire to own a real animal but nobody can afford one so people buy robot animals. This emphasises the desperate position of humanity in a dystopic future. Personally I also preferred the voice over because it was supposed to be a Philip Marlow story set in the future and that was often a feature of film noir private eye stories.
I loved this movie dearly even WITH the voiceover
I actually liked some of the voice overs. They added a sam spade film noir feeling
good thing there was no voice over narration in the Shawshank Redemption...oh wait
B...but Morgan Freeman.
He's not saying the concept of voiceover narration is bad; he's saying that this is a horrible execution of it.
To use Shawshank as an example, this is the equivalent of having a flatly-delivered voiceover by Andy Dufresne in the scene where he comes out of the pipe and stands in the rain.
It's about knowing where to use a voiceover and where not to.
well ***** is much better at it AND in Shawshank the VO is used troughout the whole movie unlike in #bladerunner .
He's talking about where the voice-over was placed, also it didn't help that Harrison Ford did a bad narration.
Brando Hill Not surprised, seeing how he didn't want to do it and as he say's was dragged back 'kicking and screaming' by the producers. Guess his heart wasn't in it and it shows.
Fact is Darabont loves Blade Runner, same as Guillermo Del Toro
In fact, 99.9999% of all artists love Blade Runner ... if you're visually inclined there's no way of denying how mindblowingly beautiful the movie is. Not a single movie can match the world building ability of Ridley Scott, definitely not the Denis Villeneuve sequel which looks pale and emotionally hollow compared to the gloriously invigorating scenes throughout the first Blade Runner...
He’s right.
Harrison Ford gave a bad performance in that VO. You can tell he’s not into it.
ironically, Ford's clunky narration does add into the film noir vibe of the movie. I LOVE IRONY!!!!!!
I get chills every single time I watch Hauer's "Tears in the Rain" monologue. What a masterpiece this movie is, so glad it was made without the voice over because it really is a mood killer and so much better without it.
I've never seen the theatrical cut and I probably never will for that exact reason, only ever watched the final cut, own it on Amazon as well as on dvd along with 2049 and that's the way I like it.
I didnt see it that way!!
Yes the Studio did this to Scott's film, but this is the version that carried Fans for years till the DC was released. I am a Fan of all cuts for their individuality, because I appreciate each one for its contribution.
I loved the voice over as a young teen watching this in 1982 for the first time. It gave the film a film noir or comic book effect. It is odd watching the director's cut without hearing the voice over.
Agree with you 🤝🙋♂️
I saw Bladerunner in the theater all those years ago. Back then, there was no final cut to compare which was better.
I love both versions. The final cut is great but I hate the unicorn dream sequence as much as Darabont hates the VO. I still have a soft spot for the VO and even Ford’s delivery. His unenthusiastic delivery reinforces the sense that Deckard was a tired, depressed, hard boiled detective with not much to live for.
But the voice over is a big distraction from Vangelis's beautiful little distant eletronic sounds and atmospheric noise in the movie, only by removing the VO can we truly soak in its wonderfully dystopian atmosphere ...
I don't mind it. Brings it back to the everyday of his work and life.
Joe Gillis (as narrator): Well, this is where you came in, back at that pool again, the one I always wanted. It's dawn now and they must have photographed me a thousand times. Then they got a couple of pruning hooks from the garden and fished me out... ever so gently. Funny, how gentle people get with you once you're dead.
Doesnt everyone
Pretty much constantly when trying to watch outlander.
He reminds me of Louis C.K. 😂😂😂
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Morgan Freeman’s VO in Shawshank has entered the chat
Well... such is life. Usually someone's climax is misunderstood by or irrelevant to others.
What's this from?
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner, as I recall.
The original Theatrical version was what made Blade Runner a classsic & cult hit...the introduction of The Director's Cut as marketing gimmick gave critics who hated it on its release a chance to absolve themselves of being wrong about a masterpiece.
Henry Hill: [voiceover] I could see for the first time that Jimmy was a nervous wreck. His mind was going in eight different directions at once.
Jimmy Conway: Think Morrie tells his wife everything?
Henry Hill: Morrie? Him?
Henry Hill: [voiceover] That's when I knew that Jimmy was gonna whack Morrie. That's how it happens. That's how fast it takes for a guy to get whacked.
I disagree that the voice over from Harrison was clunky. When the film was released, it would have been harder to follow without some of the voice over. It explained "cityspeak", "skinjob", "cop/little people", and other things that you need to know to understand what was going on. Even the end "but then again who does" defines the film. I prefer it without it, but for the first time watching it I think it fits.
No one wanted the voice over except some dude at the studio. It wasn't meant to be in the movie.
+douglas787 I have seen both versions of the movie, and it's not hard to understand without the voice over. I'm glad I saw that version first because that last voice over really destroys the scene
+douglas787 You're one of those idiots who can't use context to figure things out for himself. They refer to a replicant as a "skinjob" nearly at the start of the movie; it requires no further explanation. The reason they don't explain "cityspeak" is because it's completely inessential; they just wanted to establish that English wasn't the norm anymore because the culture had changed. The "cop/little people" reference...it was just meant to hint at authoritarianism, it didn't need any fucking explanation.
I remember the first time Pulp Fiction came out, people asked me if I "got it" the first time I watched it. I was utterly confused. What the fuck is there to "get"? That the movie isn't chronological?
That was the first time I got a hint of how profoundly stupid the average person is.
Actually, Ridley Scott was the one who came up with the idea for a voiceover. He even says in this documentary, "It was not their decision -- it was *my* decision." Scott believed the voiceover would help the movie at the box office. He only removed it for the director's cut after he was confident that the movie would be fine without it.
adamzanzie The fact that it was his mistake doesn't make it any less of a mistake.
most movies' have a clear good guy and bad guy, as a kid, without the narration, i would of been lost on what just happen
TIL Frank Darabont also hated the voice over at the end of Blade runner.
What was this from?
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner, if I recall correctly.
Just goes to show that the corporate drones from the studio (who insisted on the voice overs) shouldn't be involved in artistic endeavors. Probably shouldn't have jobs at all, really.
/shrug
I thought the original cut was fine with the V.O. and added an old school feel that I enjoyed.
Ditto.
I hear that Harrison Ford deliberately did the voice over badly so it wouldn't be used. That makes sense, because it is horrible. The worst voice over ever. I've always hated it -- ever since the film was first released almost 40 years ago.
The cat was out of the bag on the 1st movie, re-editing a film does not make the overall plot any different. We already know the story, so thanks for giving us another look at a movie we already know.
The theatrical version is a masterpiece. And it works because of the narration.
Yeah, but is the dove a real dove or is it fake like the owl? I mean, then Roy Batty is releasing his ersatz, fake soul. This is a heavy, heavy thought!
Even though i'd not really want anyone messing with my favorite film of all time, I am curious what it would feel like if Darabont ever went and cut a new version of Shawshank without VO.
lmfao other parts of the voice-over, in earlier scenes, there are some merited insights that arguably help viewers with the investigation and thought process, though still unnecessary. But in this scene it's truly redundant and awful.
I agree on this exact line, but not with the rest of the voice overs, which I find necessary to understand what's going on, and gives the movie a beautiful old noir films touch. SO, this is the ONLY V.O line I would delete.
Also, I hate the unicorn scene and it's implications about Deckard being a replicant, and the teal filter of the final version...
Darabont is off the mark when it comes to roy's motivations for saving deckard's life. It's not because he's learned to appreciate life. It's because he wanted deckard to understand what the life of a replicant is like. To live in fear as a slave. He wouldn't be able to understand that if he fell to his death. And i'm pretty sure the dove is symbolism for roy's soul leaving his body (once he dies the dove flies off). I'm surprised darabont's interpretation sounded like a 1st year film student's assessment. Pretty lame.
He sounds just like Paul Giamatti
I don’t agree it works 🎥🎬🎶💚🙌
It's film noir... the VO is supposed to be clunky. Like a pulp fiction novel. But anyway, the movie plays fine without it too.
Most films noir actually don't have a voice-over. It's a false stereotype, just like the idea that every film-noir protagonist is a cool hard-boiled private eye.
The Voice over is essential in the first version - to criticize it today is just to stupid...
Not this voice over. Should have been left out.
Don't agree. The contrast of the two dialogues is what is interesting.
Well thank the Maker, now we know what Frank Darabont thinks about the "Blade Runner" narration... How did I ever enjoy the movie before this piece of knowledge?
I only wish I was as smart as Mr. Darabont. I like a narrator holding my hand and me not having to work hard to figure out what just happened... Just sayin...
The theatrical version is the best.
I could have done without the unicorn.
Such a smart alec, I thought movie with VO was OK. Deckard is narrating his own feelings not our perceptions. Does that make Deckard a replicant or human?