TV for Saturday 15-7-00
Posted by Chris L on
2000/
07/11 21:15
I quote from the Radio Times
On the edge of Blade Runner.
(This is immediately following the directors cut being shown on C4)
Starting with the Philip K Dick novel that inspired it, the documentary
follows the production with interviewees including Scott, Rutger Hauer,
Daryl Hannah and its designers and writers. Most excitingly, fans of this
masterpiece of science fiction film making will learn whether Deckard is
himself a replicant.
Chris Lyth (Clyth@)
When you're down and out, lift up your head and shout
HEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!
Go to the BBC news website today
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_825000/825641.stm if
you want to go directly to it) and they tell you what Ridley Scott says (and
I'll be nice and not repeat it here!)
Jacquie
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I quote from the Radio Times
On the edge of Blade Runner.
(This is immediately following the directors cut being shown on C4)
Starting with the Philip K Dick novel that inspired it, the
documentary
follows the production with interviewees including Scott,
Rutger Hauer,
Daryl Hannah and its designers and writers. Most excitingly,
fans of this
masterpiece of science fiction film making will learn whether
Deckard is
himself a replicant.
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Chris Lyth (Clyth@)
When you're down and out, lift up your head and shout
HEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!
(This is immediately following the directors cut being shown on C4)
The BBC are obviously running their "lets detect what Phil's bought
recently" software again - I laid out for this on DVD recently.
Similar phenomena has been observed in the past with TNG, Blackadder 1,
various Who stories....
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payres@
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In article <000701bfeb74$f76fdba0$e012383e@>, "Chris Lyth" <chris-lyth@> wrote:
I quote from the Radio Times
On the edge of Blade Runner.
(This is immediately following the directors cut being shown on C4)
Starting with the Philip K Dick novel that inspired it, the documentary
follows the production with interviewees including Scott, Rutger Hauer,
Daryl Hannah and its designers and writers. Most excitingly, fans of this
masterpiece of science fiction film making will learn whether Deckard is
himself a replicant.
How do they know? From what I remember, the book is pretty ambiguous.
Is this PKD's "official" answer?
Simon
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TV for Saturday 15-7-00
Posted by Adam Hattrell on
2000/
07/12 09:22
simon@ wrote:
In article <000701bfeb74$f76fdba0$e012383e@>, "Chris Lyth" <chris-lyth@> wrote:
I quote from the Radio Times
On the edge of Blade Runner.
Most excitingly, fans of this masterpiece of science fiction film
making will learn whether Deckard is himself a replicant.
How do they know? From what I remember, the book is pretty ambiguous.
Is this PKD's "official" answer?
I don't recall PKD ever definitively saying. If I recall correctly Scott
wanted him to be a replicant, but the producer wanted it left open ended.
The alt.fan.blade-runner faq is worth a read if you can find it.
In my opinion, it would rather defeat the object to have some kind of
definitive statement. It's supposed to make you think, the movie would
never have been the success it was, if the question wasn't there.
In a similar way I think 6th Sense would have been improved if they'd
implied the twist, rather than actually spelling it out.
See ya,
Adam
Bladerunner (was TV for Saturday 15-7-00)
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 simon@ wrote:
In article <000701bfeb74$f76fdba0$e012383e@>, "Chris Lyth" <chris-lyth@> wrote:
I quote from the Radio Times
On the edge of Blade Runner.
(This is immediately following the directors cut being shown on C4)
Starting with the Philip K Dick novel that inspired it, the documentary
follows the production with interviewees including Scott, Rutger Hauer,
Daryl Hannah and its designers and writers. Most excitingly, fans of this
masterpiece of science fiction film making will learn whether Deckard is
himself a replicant.
How do they know? From what I remember, the book is pretty ambiguous.
Is this PKD's "official" answer?
The BBC News article gives a few examples of some clues that point to it.
There are lot more hints in the 2 book sequels as well, but they weren't
written by PKD - still very good reading though.
Chris
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- Monty Python's Life of Brian
Simon wrote:
In article <000701bfeb74$f76fdba0$e012383e@>,
"Chris Lyth" <chris-lyth@> wrote:
I quote from the Radio Times
On the edge of Blade Runner.
(This is immediately following the directors cut being shown on C4)
Starting with the Philip K Dick novel that inspired it, the documentary
follows the production with interviewees including Scott, Rutger Hauer,
Daryl Hannah and its designers and writers. Most excitingly, fans of this
masterpiece of science fiction film making will learn whether Deckard is
himself a replicant.
How do they know? From what I remember, the book
is pretty ambiguous. Is this PKD's "official" answer?
Not read the book, but isn't the point of the Directors Cut (and thus Ridley
Scott's view) to insinuate that Deckard might be a replicant by removing his
naration and changing the ending.
I started watching my DVD copy the other night and was surprised by quite how
diffrent it feels without the naration. I'll have to sit down and watch it
right the way through - I've not seen it since I was at school (11+ years)
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