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Post by Villain on Jul 30, 2022 18:29:07 GMT
Incredible to think it's forty years since it was released, the same year I left school and joined the railway. I still think the original cimema release with Harrison Ford's voiceover is the best, and Vangelis's score is simply sublime. I still have pangs of guilt for not returning the VHS tape of the film I rented from Hammersmith Video shop King Street in 1984, for a wapping one pound I've got great value over the years....! Villain
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Lord Emsworth
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Aug 1, 2022 6:57:15 GMT
Yep, original is definitely best
(See also Apocalypse Now)
Dunno why these directors get so obsessed with revisting some of their works and adding more and more scenes or rejigging it in other ways
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Post by Three Litre on Aug 1, 2022 8:06:46 GMT
Yep, original is definitely best
(See also Apocalypse Now)
Dunno why these directors get so obsessed with revisting some of their works and adding more and more scenes or rejigging it in other ways
Yes, maybe because some directors feel they didn't have the control they liked. I wonder if god has considered revisiting his creation, maybe 7 days wasn't long enough to get it right?
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Aug 2, 2022 7:01:47 GMT
Yep, original is definitely best
(See also Apocalypse Now)
Dunno why these directors get so obsessed with revisting some of their works and adding more and more scenes or rejigging it in other ways
Yes, maybe because some directors feel they didn't have the control they liked. I wonder if god has considered revisiting his creation, maybe 7 days wasn't long enough to get it right? Plus I guess a lot of them feel that the studios forced them to compromise their "vision" - however when I watch these Directors Cut I usually think the studios knew best
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Post by Mickyosan on Oct 3, 2022 22:27:27 GMT
Fully agree with the previous comments as it’s a brilliant film and I’ve still never seen the director’s cut version so will have to get around to that. The use of some of the technology in the film was so accurate in many ways for the 2019 future it was portraying. I remember reading that some of the scenes in the film were based on Ridley Scott’s visits to Tokyo where the close knit yakitori chicken booths are underneath the Shinkansen railway tracks above. I first went to Tokyo in 1998 and visited this area and immediately saw the similarity with the film, albeit without the drizzle as it was early May. if anyone hasn’t heard the full Vangelis soundtrack, which also includes some dialogue, it’s worth tracking down and excellent. I got it on CD about twenty years ago and it’s still widely available. www.amazon.co.uk/Blade-Runner-Vangelis/dp/B000025FGT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Oct 7, 2022 9:13:31 GMT
The soundtrack album is wonderful
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Post by Mickyosan on Oct 9, 2022 10:27:28 GMT
The soundtrack album is wonderful
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Having a full immersion in the soundtrack as I write this and it’s as excellent as I remembered. The CD was released in 1994 by Warner Music (Time-Warner) and the CD booklet is mainly still smudges from the film although the first two pages inside are a photo of Vangelis and some words from him that are interesting. ”Most of the music contained in the album originates from recordings I made in London in 1982, whilst working on the score for the film. Finding myself unable to release these recordings at the time, it is with great pleasure that I am able to do so now. Some of the pieces contained will be known to you from the Original Soundtrack of the film, whilst others are appearing here for the first time. Looking back at Ridley Scott’s powerful and evocative pictures left me as stimulated as before, and made the recompiling of this music, today, an enjoyable experience.” Vangelis Athens, April 1994.
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