I've now seen Ridley Scott's final cut of BLADE RUNNER on the big screen twice and it's so unbelievably great! Staggering, beautiful and darkly haunting. The most amazing production design ever! Scott's eye for set design, cinematography and detail(what he refers to as "layering") is so powerful and he creates one of my favorite movie worlds and environments ever. Vangelis' score is so emotional and effective. His music is eerie and makes such an impact with the images.
I love how timeless and modern-feeling this still is after 25 years - it's hard for me to believe! I love the slow moody pacing and atmosphere. It's like a great depressive tone poem. The violence is also so brutal and real and devasting. I was winching throughout it!
Before seening this "final cut" I had loved the earlier so-called "director's cut" the most but this new version is definitely my favorite. It looks and sounds beautiful(I saw it on a huge screen, in 4k digital projection with a great sound system!) and the new inserts and changes(especially in the dialogue and soundtrack) are perfect. Like the director's cut, I'm so glad it doesn't have the terrible narration and tacked-on illogical "happy ending". Aside from Scott's lame irrational and meaningless theory of Deckard being a replicant, it's totally perfect! (By the way, I still believe the ending can be interpreted in different ways than Scott's. I myself have a personal interpretation of what the unicorn in the dream and Gaff's tinfoil unicorn symbolize) As much as I admire Scott's amazing technical filmmaking skills, i don't believe he's an intellectual thinker or deep philosopher. But what I really love are his gifts as a camera operator, production designer, and visualist. It doesn't surpise me that he's a great painter and illustrator as well. And I believe this movie is his masterpiece! Current Location: Torrance
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