"Man Has Made His Match... Now It's His Problem"
Directed by Ridley Scott
Produced by Michael Deeley
Screenplay by Hampton Fancher, David Peoples
Based on "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos
Music by Vangelis
Cinematography: Jordan Cronenweth
Edited by Terry Rawlings, Marsha Nakashima
Production companies: The Ladd Company, Shaw Brothers, Blade Runner Partnership
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date: 25 June 1982
Running time: 117 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $28 million
Box office: $33.8 million
"Blade Runner" is a science fiction thriller film directed by Ridley Scott, and written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, based on "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick. The story is about a former Blade Runner who has to return to work and try to terminate four escaped replicants.
Cast
- Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard
- Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty
- Michael Emmet Walsh as Capt. Bryant
- James Hong as Hannibal Chew
- Edward James Olmos as Gaff
- Morgan Paull as Dave Holden
- Brion James as Leon Kowalski
- Hy Pyke as Taffey Lewis
- Daryl Hannah as Pris Stratton
- Sean Young as Rachael
- William Sanderson as J. F. Sebastian
- Joe Turkel as Dr. Eldon Tyrell
- Joanna Cassidy as Zhora Salome
Los Angeles. November 2019. Genetically engineered replicants, which look like ordinary people but have superior strength, agility, and variable intelligence, are treated like slaves and utilized for dangerous or menial work on off-world colonies. But some of them decides to return to Earth, find the creator from the Tyrell Corporation and then they just want to live like human beings. And maybe it'd be okay if it wasn't banned: escaped replicants are hunted down and killed (a.k.a. "retired") by Blade Runners, special police operatives. And that's why the former Blade Runner, Rick Deckard, gets a new mission to hunt this group down.
"Blade Runner" has become a cult film in the 34 years since it was released and it's now regarded by many critics as one of the all-time best science fiction films. And here comes the question: what makes it differ from a lot of dystopian films of the 1970s and ’80s?
Despite the fact that it's an action film (somehow), "Blade Runner" is quite multilevel. So here we can find philosophical questions, the theme of morality, features of the film noir genre and all of these components let us rewatch it in order to understand the picture better.
As for the cast, I want to say some words about one of my favourite actors - Harrison Ford. Of course, I do love watch him on screen, however I have to admit that sometimes in "Blade Runner" he... overacts. Yes, he does, and it's especially notable in the fight scene with Leon. Sadly but truly.
However I have no remarks to melodic combination of classical composition and synthesizers and dark and shadowy cinematography as they help us to feel an aura of paranoia of a not bright future.
It's also worth to thank Ridley Scott who not only filmed it, but also got the release of the director's cut (which I advise you to watch first and foremost) without "happy ending" and 13 explanatory voice-overs.
"Blade Runner" is also known for its uncertainty that let viewers see from their own perspectives. For example, are you a human or a replicant? Who knows? In the world full of fakes it isn't very simple to figure out the truth. That's why there's no guarantee Deckard is really a human...
Advantages
- Special effects
- Music
- The plot
- The atmosphere
Disadvantages
- Overacting at times
"Strangenesses"
- Robots from the Tyrell Corporation? eps1.0_hellofriend.mov from 2015
- "Cogito, ergo sum"
Clue Moments
- The escape
- The "Voight-Kampff" test
- Meeting with Rachael
- J.F. Sebastian
- "...memories are implants..."
- Zhora and a synthetic snake scale
- Leon's death
- The kiss
- Tyrell and Sebastian's deaths
- The roof
- An origami unicorn
Soundtracks
- Vangelis - Main Titles
- Vangelis - Blush Response
- Vangelis - Wait for Me
- Vangelis - Rachel's Song
- Vangelis - Love Theme
- Vangelis - One More Kiss, Dear
- Vangelis - Blade Runner Blues
- Vangelis - Memories of Green
- Vangelis - Tales of the Future
- Vangelis - Damask Rose
- Vangelis - Blade Runner (End Titles)
- Vangelis - Tears in Rain
Quotations
* * *
Batty: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.
* * *
Gaff: You've done a man's job, sir. I guess you're through, huh?Deckard: Finished.
[Gaff throws Deckard his gun]
Gaff: It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?
* * *
Batty: Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
* * *
Tyrell: [Tyrell explains to Roy why he can't extend his lifespan] The facts of life... to make an alteration in the evolvement of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.Batty: Why not?
Tyrell: Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutation give rise to revertant colonies, like rats leaving a sinking ship; then the ship... sinks.
Batty: What about EMS-3 recombination?
Tyrell: We've already tried it - ethyl, methane, sulfinate as an alkylating agent and potent mutagen; it created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before it even left the table.
Batty: Then a repressor protein, that would block the operating cells.
Tyrell: Wouldn't obstruct replication; but it does give rise to an error in replication, so that the newly formed DNA strand carries with it a mutation - and you've got a virus again... but this, all of this is academic. You were made as well as we could make you.
Batty: But not to last.
Tyrell: The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy. Look at you: you're the Prodigal Son; you're quite a prize!
Batty: I've done... questionable things.
Tyrell: Also extraordinary things; revel in your time.
Batty: Nothing the God of biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for.
* * *
Holden: You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down...Leon: What one?
Holden: What?
Leon: What desert?
Holden: It doesn't make any difference what desert, it's completely hypothetical.
Leon: But, how come I'd be there?
Holden: Maybe you're fed up. Maybe you want to be by yourself. Who knows? You look down and see a tortoise, Leon. It's crawling toward you...
Leon: Tortoise? What's that?
Holden: [irritated by Leon's interruptions] You know what a turtle is?
Leon: Of course!
Holden: Same thing.
Leon: I've never seen a turtle... But I understand what you mean.
Holden: You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back, Leon.
Leon: Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden? Or do they write 'em down for you?
Holden: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
Leon: [angry at the suggestion] What do you mean, I'm not helping?
Holden: I mean: you're not helping! Why is that, Leon?
[Leon has become visibly shaken]
Holden: They're just questions, Leon. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response... Shall we continue?
* * *
Tyrell: "More human than human" is our motto.
* * *
[last lines][Director's Cut]
Gaff: [voiceover] It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?
* * *
Batty: Yes![smiles]
Batty: Questions... Morphology? Longevity? Incept dates?
Hannibal Chew: Don't know, I don't know such stuff. I just do eyes, ju-, ju-, just eyes... just genetic design, just eyes. You Nexus, huh? I design your eyes.
Batty: Chew, if only you could see what I've seen with your eyes!
* * *
Rachael: Do you like our owl?Deckard: It's artificial?
Rachael: Of course it is.
Deckard: Must be expensive.
Rachael: Very.
Rachael: I'm Rachael.
Deckard: Deckard.
Rachael: It seems you feel our work is not a benefit to the public.
Deckard: Replicants are like any other machine - they're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem.
* * *
Batty: Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.
* * *
Deckard: She's a replicant, isn't she?Tyrell: I'm impressed. How many questions does it usually take to spot them?
Deckard: I don't get it, Tyrell.
Tyrell: How many questions?
Deckard: Twenty, thirty, cross-referenced.
Tyrell: It took more than a hundred for Rachael, didn't it?
Deckard: [realizing Rachael believes she's human] She doesn't know.
Tyrell: She's beginning to suspect, I think.
Deckard: Suspect? How can it not know what it is?
* * *
Rachael: May I ask you a personal question?Deckard: Sure.
Rachael: Have you ever retired a human by mistake?
Deckard: No.
Rachael: But in your position, that is a risk.
* * *
Deckard: I have had people walk out on me before, but not... when I was being so charming.
* * *
Deckard: You're reading a magazine. You come across a full-page nude photo of a girl.Rachael: Is this testing whether I'm a replicant or a lesbian, Mr. Deckard?
* * *
Announcer: A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies! A chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure!
* * *
Deckard: Leon!Leon: How old am I?
Deckard: [after slugging Leon, to no effect] I dunno.
Leon: My birthday is April 10, 2017. How long do I live?
Deckard: Four years.
Leon: More than you! Painful to live in fear, isn't it?
* * *
Batty: [taunting Deckard with a counting rhyme] Six! Seven! Go to Hell or go to Heaven!Deckard: [Deckard smashes an iron rod against Batty's head] Go to Hell!
Batty: [grabbing the iron rod] GOOD! THAT'S THE SPIRIT!
* * *
Leon: Wake up! Time to die!
* * *
Tyrell: Is this to be an empathy test? Capillary dilation of the so-called blush response? Fluctuation of the pupil. Involuntary dilation of the iris...Deckard: We call it Voight-Kampff for short.
* * *
Deckard: Do you love me?Rachael: I love you.
Deckard: Do you trust me?
Rachael: I trust you.
* * *
Batty: Not very sporting to fire on an unarmed opponent. I thought you were supposed to be good. Aren't you the "good" man? C'mon, Deckard. Show me what you're made of.
* * *
Holden: Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... your mother.Leon: My mother?
Holden: Yeah.
Leon: Let me tell you about my mother.
[Leon shoots Holden with a gun he had pulled out under the table]
* * *
Tyrell: I'm surprised you didn't come here sooner.Batty: It's not an easy thing to meet your maker.
Tyrell: What could he do for you?
Batty: Can the maker repair what he makes?
* * *
Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen... Taffey Lewis presents... Miss Salome and the snake. Watch her take the pleasures from the serpent... that once corrupted man.
* * *
Bryant: I need ya, Deck. This is a bad one, the worst yet. I need the old blade runner, I need your magic.
* * *
Deckard: Have you felt yourself to be exploited in any way?Zhora: Like what?
Deckard: Well... well, like to get this job. I mean, did... did you do, or... or were you asked to do anything lewd... or unsavory, or... or, otherwise repulsive to your... your person, huh?
Zhora: [laughs] Are you for real?
* * *
Roy: We've got a lot in common.Sebastian: What do you mean?
Roy: Similar problems.
Pris: Accelerated decrepitude.
* * *
Policeman: This sector is closed to ground traffic. What are you doing here?Deckard: I'm working. What are you doing?
Policeman: Arresting you, that's what I'm doing.
* * *
Tyrell: We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all, they are emotionally inexperienced, with only a few years in which to store up the experiences which you and I take for granted. If we gift them with a past, we create a cushion or a pillow for their emotions, and consequently, we can control them better.Deckard: Memories! You're talking about memories!
* * *
Bryant: They jumped a shuttle off-world, killed the crew and passengers. We found the shuttle drifting off the coast two weeks ago, so we know they're around.Deckard: Embarrassing.
Bryant: No sir. Not embarrassing, because no one's ever going to find out they're down here. 'Cause you're gonna spot 'em and you're gonna air 'em out!
Deckard: I don't work here anymore. Give it to Holden. He's good.
Bryant: I did. He can breathe okay, as long as nobody unplugs him.
* * *
Deckard: [narrating] The report read "Routine retirement of a replicant." That didn't make me feel any better about shooting a woman in the back.
* * *
Leon: Nothing is worse than having an itch you can never scratch!
* * *
[after Rachael kills Leon]Deckard: Shakes? Me too. I get 'em bad. It's part of the business.
Rachael: I'm not in the business... I *am* the business.
* * *
Pris: We need you, Sebastian. You're our best and only friend.
* * *
Rachael: That Voight-Kampf test of yours. Have you ever tried to take that test yourself?
* * *
Deckard: [narrating] They don't advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex-blade runner. Ex-killer.
* * *
Batty: Gosh, you've... really got some nice toys here.
* * *
Deckard: [narrating] Sushi. That's what my ex-wife called me - cold fish.
* * *
Rachael: What if I go north? Disappear. Would you come after me? Hunt me?Deckard: No... No, I wouldn't. I owe you one... But somebody would.
* * *
Deckard: Remember when you were six? You and your brother snuck into an empty building through a basement window. You were going to play doctor. He showed you his, but when it got to be your turn you chickened and ran; you remember that? You ever tell anybody that? Your mother, Tyrell, anybody? Remember the spider that lived outside your window? Orange body, green legs. Watched her build a web all summer, then one day there's a big egg in it. The egg hatched...Rachael: The egg hatched...
Deckard: Yeah...
Rachael: ...and a hundred baby spiders came out... and they ate her.
Deckard: Implants. Those aren't your memories, they're somebody else's. They're Tyrell's niece's.
Deckard: [he sees that she's deeply hurt by the implication] O.K., bad joke... I made a bad joke. You're not a replicant. Go home, O.K.? No, really - I'm sorry, go home.
* * *
Roy: There's only two of us now.Pris: Then we're stupid and we'll die.
* * *
Bryant: Stop right where you are! You know the score, pal. If you're not cop, you're little people.
* * *
Deckard: That's no way to treat a friend.
* * *
[showing Deckard photos of the Replicants]Bryant: This is Zhora. She's trained for an Off-World kick murder squad. Talk about Beauty and the Beast - she's both.
* * *
Deckard: No choice, huh?
* * *
Deckard: [Holding up his badge] Deckard. B26354.
* * *
Pris: Must get lonely here, J.F.J.F. Sebastian: Not really. I MAKE friends. They're toys. My friends are toys. I make them. It's a hobby. I'm a genetic designer.
* * *
Batty: That was irrational of you... not to mention unsportsmanlike.
* * *
Batty: We're not computers, Sebastian, we're physical.
* * *
Bear, Kaiser: Home again, home again, jiggidy-jig! Gooood Evening, J.F!
* * *
Tyrell: Milk and cookies kept you awake, eh, Sebastian?
* * *
Deckard: [to Zhora] I'm from the, uh, Confidential Committee on Moral Abuses.
* * *
Deckard: [presents scale for examination] Fish?Cambodian lady: [examines scale with microscope] I think it was manufactured locally... finest quality... superior workmanship. There is a maker's serial number... 9-9-0-6-9-4-7-X-B-7-1. Interesting. *Not* fish. *Snake* scale!
* * *
Tyrell: Commerce is our goal, here. More human than human.
* * *
Batty: Time... enough.
* * *
Rachael: That isn't really my kind of place.Deckard: Go someplace else?
[Rachael disconnects]
* * *
You may see the trailer here.
Plot: 8/10
Entertainment: 9/10
Acting: 8/10
Originality: 9/10
Music and Sound: 8/10
8/10
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