Blade Runner (1982)

Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard, and Edward James Olmos as Gaff.

Blade Runner (1982)

Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982)

Blade Runner Art

One of the many reasons I love Blade Runner is for the richness of the environment. The sheer level of detail and conceptualization, the mash-up of a myriad of stylistic sources from Mayan and Aztec designs to Punk style of the 1980s, all makes the whole thing a feast for the eyes. The concept art for the film reveals a high level of attention to detail that went into the creation of Los Angeles, 2019. What I love is how detailed these are, as well as how dark there are, yet at the same time so full of life and colour! Which is an interesting point when one thinks about the film itself, which deals in concepts of reality versus illusion, life versus death. In the 2019 world the filmmakers envisioned, despite the fact that the world is a dying place, life thrives.

Deckard's kitchen
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And two fan-made pieces:

Blade Runner

I always loved the quote below about Blade Runner. I wrote a paper on the film in university and I found this in an article that I have long since forgotten. I wish I had made a note of the source. Anyhow, I think this perfectly describes the appeal of Blade Runner to me.

"That's part of the poetry under the film's gaudy nightmare, the deep poignancy that underlies the vicious action. It's about people who flare up and die in a strange city glowing and dying all around them. When the expiring Roy talks about all the memories--fantastic, violent, bewitching--that will perish with him, he's clinging, for those last instants, to the validity of his strange, desperate, deadly life. Blade Runner has a quality that Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris and Stalker and Kubrick's 2001 have: a sense of awe and helplessness, before both technology and the universe itself, a sense (running counter to the spirit of most science fiction) that man cannot master surrounds him, that he is, finally, helpless."

Screen caps from The Blade Runner - Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

Blade Runner

Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard.
"He say you cop. He say you blade runner!"

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Blade Runner

from andy's excellent tumblr page
http://sexandrobots.tumblr.com/page/32

One of my favorite movies of all time.
One of the best science fiction movies of all time.
One of the best noir films of all time.
Must see.