Ridley Scott Has Finally Created the Blade Runner He Always Imagined

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Wired: It was never on paper that Deckard is a replicant.

Scott:It was, actually. That's the whole point of Gaff, the guy who makes origami and leaves little matchstick figures around. He doesn't like Deckard, and we don't really know why. If you take for granted for a moment that, let's say, Deckard is a Nexus 7, he probably has an unknown life span and therefore is starting to get awfully human. Gaff, at the very end, leaves an origami, which is a piece of silver paper you might find in a cigarette packet, and it's a unicorn. Now, the unicorn in Deckard's daydream tells me that Deckard wouldn't normally talk about such a thing to anyone. If Gaff knew about that, it's Gaff's message to say, "I've read your file, mate." That relates to Deckard's first speech to Rachael when he says, "That's not your imagination, that's Tyrell's niece's daydream." And he describes a little spider on a bush outside the window. The spider is an implanted piece of imagination. And therefore Deckard, too, has imagination and even history implanted in his head.

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywo...r?currentPage=3

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Wired: It was never on paper that Deckard is a replicant.

Scott:It was, actually. That's the whole point of Gaff, the guy who makes origami and leaves little matchstick figures around. He doesn't like Deckard, and we don't really know why. If you take for granted for a moment that, let's say, Deckard is a Nexus 7, he probably has an unknown life span and therefore is starting to get awfully human. Gaff, at the very end, leaves an origami, which is a piece of silver paper you might find in a cigarette packet, and it's a unicorn. Now, the unicorn in Deckard's daydream tells me that Deckard wouldn't normally talk about such a thing to anyone. If Gaff knew about that, it's Gaff's message to say, "I've read your file, mate." That relates to Deckard's first speech to Rachael when he says, "That's not your imagination, that's Tyrell's niece's daydream." And he describes a little spider on a bush outside the window. The spider is an implanted piece of imagination. And therefore Deckard, too, has imagination and even history implanted in his head.

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywo...r?currentPage=3

I read that article - BR is coming out in the theatres toward the end of the year in a new cut to coincide with the DVD release.

Let's hope there's no "Deckard shot first" jiggery-pokery.

[almaty 19]

one of my favorite movies...i like the book by ####### too...

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I read that article - BR is coming out in the theatres toward the end of the year in a new cut to coincide with the DVD release.

Let's hope there's no "Deckard shot first" jiggery-pokery.

I was impressed to find out that Scott went to art school and still loves to paint. His design sense definitely shows in Bladerunner. It's a great interview and I was thinking of you comments about the convoluted mess the original book was when Scott said he couldn't read the through the book.

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Does anyone remember reading a book by the same author? It was called 'white' something....... and was about the world that would have been if Japan had beaten the US in WW2....... I read it years ago, and it was brilliant.

[almaty 19]

Does anyone remember reading a book by the same author? It was called 'white' something....... and was about the world that would have been if Japan had beaten the US in WW2....... I read it years ago, and it was brilliant.

does it include that nazi german and japan divide up america..with germany having the eastern part and japan the western?

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Does anyone remember reading a book by the same author? It was called 'white' something....... and was about the world that would have been if Japan had beaten the US in WW2....... I read it years ago, and it was brilliant.

It's called "The Man in the High Castle". Still in print I believe.

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Does anyone remember reading a book by the same author? It was called 'white' something....... and was about the world that would have been if Japan had beaten the US in WW2....... I read it years ago, and it was brilliant.

It's called "The Man in the High Castle". Still in print I believe.

That's it... thanks. It was actually very good, so I might try to get a copy..........

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I read that article - BR is coming out in the theatres toward the end of the year in a new cut to coincide with the DVD release.

Let's hope there's no "Deckard shot first" jiggery-pokery.

I was impressed to find out that Scott went to art school and still loves to paint. His design sense definitely shows in Bladerunner. It's a great interview and I was thinking of you comments about the convoluted mess the original book was when Scott said he couldn't read the through the book.

Scott was originally a director of TV commercials before he got into movies.

Shows a lot in his early stuff - Alien, BR and to a lesser extent, Legend.

I haven't really liked much of his stuff since then. Same with Steven Spielberg really - Spielberg lost me when he started making 'serious' movies. Oddly enough Scott lost me as well but for the opposite reason.

Does anyone remember reading a book by the same author? It was called 'white' something....... and was about the world that would have been if Japan had beaten the US in WW2....... I read it years ago, and it was brilliant.

It's called "The Man in the High Castle". Still in print I believe.

That's it... thanks. It was actually very good, so I might try to get a copy..........

####### really isn't the best writer - his short stories really aren't that well polished, but his ideas and meditations on reality are unique and simply fantastic.

[almaty 19]

yes, that is also, the book i was writing about..i remember ####### did is an alternative history....similar to turtledove's books

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Does anyone remember reading a book by the same author? It was called 'white' something....... and was about the world that would have been if Japan had beaten the US in WW2....... I read it years ago, and it was brilliant.

does it include that nazi german and japan divide up america..with germany having the eastern part and japan the western?

Not sure, but it was set in Japan-occupied San Francisco.......

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####### really isn't the best writer - his short stories really aren't that well polished, but his ideas and meditations on reality are unique and simply fantastic.

Can't say I remember what I thought about his skills, but his creative thinking was impressive.

Harris' book 'Fatherland' is on a similar subject but his writing is very well researched and skilled.

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I'm looking forward to it.

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Blade Runner was a classy film. It had a dark, oppressive atmosphere to it, and was set to a fabulous score by Vangelis, which is up there with the great fim soundtracks.

Oh, and Daryl Hannahs legs ................. on, my!

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Blade Runner was a classy film. It had a dark, oppressive atmosphere to it, and was set to a fabulous score by Vangelis, which is up there with the great fim soundtracks.

Oh, and Daryl Hannahs legs ................. on, my!

That's true - and its criminal the full soundtrack has never been released commercially, only a cut together montage of music and audio quotes. Still very good - but you lose a lot.