Friday, June 25, 1982

Blade Runner released

Blade Runner


Released: June 25, 1982


Studio: Warner Bros.


Genre: sci fi


Box Office (numbers in millions):

Domestic: 32.87 Worldwide: 41.47


Adjusted for Inflation:

Domestic: ? Worldwide: 108.65

Directing: Ridley Scott


Screenwriting: Hampton Fancher


Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Daryl Hannah, Sean Young, Joe Turkel, Joanna Cassidy, Edward James Olmos


Review:

Based on by Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Blade Runner is a “moody futuristic, sci-fi noirish thriller” FS set “in a totalitarian, decaying 21st century Los Angeles” FS which is “a cross between a Hong Kong street-market and a decaying 200-story Metropolis.” T95 The “future had never looked cooler…and we're not sure it ever will.” E18

The “stunning, visually-dazzling effects and…brooding atmosphere” FS make for “the most borrowed/stolen-from film of the last 20 years.” ML What makes it great is the way director Ridley “Scott and cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth give us rain-slicked streets that stir the libido, and a vision of the future that’s so dead-on, the rock videos, commercials, and features in its wake look silly for trying to improve on it.” PM

Harrison Ford plays “a jaded, semi-retired, Philip Marlowe-style ex-cop,” FS known as a “blade runner.” His job is to hunt down and eliminate “genetically engineered super-humanoid robots” FS known as “replicants” (Hannah, Hauer, Cassidy) who “have mutinied in an attempt to prolong their lifespans.” A07 “Seeing their heroic struggle against an inhuman system, the blade-runner ultimately falls in love with an android femme fatale (Young).” FS

The movie wasn’t without criticism. “The hero’s voice-over and the ending feel as if they’ve strayed in from another movie.” T95 Also, “the android villains are neither menacing nor sympathetic, when ideally they should have been both.” T95 However, the movie’s “reputation has grown since the release of the restored Director’s Cut in 1991.” T98


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Oscars:

Wins: 0

Nominations: 2 – Best Art Direction/Set Direction, Best Visual Effects


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