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25 June 1982 (USA) moreTagline:
A Futuristic Vision Perfected [2007 Final Cut] morePlot:
Deckard, a blade runner, has to track down and terminate 4 replicants who hijacked a ship in space and have returned to earth seeking their maker. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 14 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(283 articles)
Back from the Dead: Movie Classics that Began as Box-Office Bombs (From ReelzChannel. 30 October 2009, 10:00 AM, PDT)
Charlotte Rampling, Souleymane Cissé, Ridley Scott: London 2009
(From Alternative Film Guide. 30 October 2009, 1:03 AM, PDT)
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A glorious, timeless nightmare more (912 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Harrison Ford | ... | Rick Deckard | |
| Rutger Hauer | ... | Roy Batty | |
| Sean Young | ... | Rachael | |
| Edward James Olmos | ... | Gaff | |
| M. Emmet Walsh | ... | Bryant | |
| Daryl Hannah | ... | Pris | |
| William Sanderson | ... | J.F. Sebastian | |
| Brion James | ... | Leon Kowalski | |
| Joe Turkel | ... | Dr. Eldon Tyrell | |
| Joanna Cassidy | ... | Zhora | |
| James Hong | ... | Hannibal Chew | |
| Morgan Paull | ... | Holden | |
| Kevin Thompson | ... | Bear | |
| John Edward Allen | ... | Kaiser | |
| Hy Pyke | ... | Taffey Lewis |
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Rated R for violence and brief nudity (definitive cut); Rated R for violence. (1991 version)Parents Guide:
View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
117 minColour:
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2.20 : 1 moreCertification:
Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Italy:T | USA:R (Definitive Cut) | Germany:12 (re-rating) (2007) | Brazil:14 | West Germany:16 (f) | Portugal:M/12 | Ireland:15A | New Zealand:M | Denmark:15 (original rating) | Spain:13 | UK:15 (video rating) (1986) | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Ireland:15 | Israel:PG | Japan:R-15 (director's cut) | Netherlands:16 (director's cut) | Norway:15 | Peru:18 | Singapore:NC-16 | South Korea:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:AA (original rating) | USA:R | Norway:16 (original rating) | Iceland:16Fun Stuff
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The Hades landscape in the opening shot was filmed using forced perspective. The miniature itself was only 13 feet deep and 18 feet wide. Almost seven miles of fiber optics and over 2000 lights were needed to illuminate it. moreGoofs:
Continuity: When Pris meets Sebastian, the visible words on the marquee on the Million Dollar Theatre change from "Azores Garcia...Vidas" to "Los Mimilo Co..Mazacote Y Orque" (Corrected in the 2007 "Final Cut" of the movie; the word are consistently "Azores Garcia...Vidas"). moreQuotes:
[first lines]Female announcer over intercom: Next subject: Kowalski, Leon. Engineer, waste disposal. File section: New employee, six days.
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How did Leon smuggle his gun into the VK test? And how did he escape from the building, given that the whole incident was on videotape, and occurred on an upper floor?Why would the Tyrell building have ceiling fans in it?
Why does Roy save Deckard?
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Dark, deep, uncertain, unsettling imagine the most beautiful nightmare you've ever had this is Blade Runner (1982).
Ridley Scott's Blade Runner is a brilliantly crafted science fiction film that not only touches upon, but bravely plunges into deep philosophical questions, making it simply ten times more important than any film of its genre. I love it not only for the initial feeling it gives, but because of its perseverance none of the visuals, themes or technology feel dated but as deep, gripping and current as ever. It is timeless beauty with huge doses of emotion.
Set in 2019 Los Angeles, Blade Runner zooms in on the eerily-lit, urban streets of the city and follows Richard Deckard superbly played by Harrison Ford who brings an exquisite moral ambiguity to his character a special policeman who tracks down and terminates artificially-created humans called replicants, who have escaped from an Off-World colony and made their way to earth and need to be stopped. The things Deckard encounters on his detective journey raise many philosophical questions like: Who is really a replicant? Are replicants really bad? If replicants are bad, when why did we go to such lengths with our technology to create them? Are replicants really humans? Is Deckard a hero? This truly is a film that demands subsequent discussion and its ambiguous ending leave a haunting and eerie feeling.
In spite of a rich glaze of science fiction and futurism coating this adventure, there are distinct film noir elements present primarily in the bluish haze that the film is seen through and its gritty urban atmosphere. Whoever thought of this combination is a genius. Since it is all about technology, it fits then that Blade Runner features a ridiculous amount of product placement, especially from Atari. In any other film, this would have felt out-of-place but here it is simply perfect. The score by Vangelis is strangely gripping when combined with the striking cinematography of the film.
Blade Runner deserves credit, celebration and remembrance for it is simply an excellent film.
10 out of 10 (and I don't just throw this grade out like SOME people)