Interview w/ Ridley Scott RE: Bladerunner final cut *spoils*

[buzzmong]

Quick interview with Ridley Scott about his new re-edited Blade Runner release.

**WARNING, Spoils the really important question, you know the one I'm talking about. Involving Deckard**

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/holl ... laderunner


However, will be bought, and hopefully some cinema will screen it as well around here.

[Roman Totale]

Buy it. Read it.

[buzzmong]

Buy it. Read it.

Already have a copy, will get around to it some day.

But the film IS a masterpiece.

[FatherJack]

I know someone who has the book, and has watched the film, but wasn't aware the two were at all related.

Also, while the film has had an unquestionably massive effect, most notably on almost every similar-themed film, manga and anime, I would say his Alien and Black Hawk Down have had a greater effect on games, especially if you include what those films influenced.

For me, the universe depicted in the film has always been the benchmark believable future, quite distinct from the Star Trek utopian one.

[deject]

psssst

everyone knows Ridley Scott thinks Deckard is a replicant. It was what he thought from the beginning.

[HereComesPete]

I agree. With Roman's insistance on reading the book, it is all of the win, as is 'a scanner darkly' among others. (Strangely enough, I got lead by PKD's hand into lovercraft stuff, which is truly epic, try 'at the mountains of madness')

Also I agree with FJ on the fact that this is a hard sci-fi future, it seems very likely that if we survive to a point that had that kind of technology and government, it wouldn't be happy and free, it would be even more desperate and painful an existence than any we have now. That it could be our future.

And finally, I agree with dejects psssst, I thought it was rather common knowledge that he intended this (rather false) dichotomy to exist within his work.

[bomberesque]

Most of PKD's stuff revolves around the main character being confused (and often wrong) about who and what he is. The confusion build because it is the main character who is telling the story, thus the reader is along for the ride. I love his stuff.

This is the basis on which a good friend of mine declared the Matrix as an essential PKD meme-theive, dealing as it does with our perception of reality and how we can be fooled into accepting a thing as real when it is not. Dark City also dealt with the same theme as the matrix, although in a much more styalised way.

Scanner darkly is the best of his books that I have read. Closest to him aswell, the drug-soaked old looney.

The world of the movie Bladerunner looks a lot like modern Kowloon, although I'd accept that teh flying cars are a ways off. The image manipulation hardware Deckard uses to analyse the picture on his telle is about with us. Flying cars can't be far off.

I agree wrt to relative desirability of that kind of future though... we used to call Kowloon (or Lowloon side, as the locals term it) "the dark side"

[mrbobbins]

I can't believe no-one has said 'Dystopian' yet.

There, I just did.

[Killavodka]

Involving Deckard Cain**