Blade Runner

This set is really a must for any fan of Ridley Scott's iconic dystopian future movie, Blade Runner. The movie made in 1982 and set in 2019 involves a group of fugitive androids called Replicants, which have escaped from a space colony where they are forced to work. A cop named Rick Deckard (played by Harrison Ford) is tasked with hunting down and "retiring" the fugitive replicants. The rest of the main cast includes Sean Young, Rutger Hauer, Daryl Hannah, Edward James Olmos, and Joanna Cassidy. Chances are most people reading this know what the movie is about and whether they like it or not. For those who do not, if you are familiar with Ridley Scott's other sci-fi movies, it very much has a similar feel, with a very dark and moody tone, but does not try to copy a movie like Alien or some of his other works. It can be a bit slow in pacing in parts of the movie, but even the final director's cut comes in under two hours, so it is not overly long. The set includes all the prior editions of the movie (on disc 3), including the 1982 theatrical edition, the 1982 international theatrical edition, and the 1992 director's cut. Each cut of the film has a similar run time, just under two hours, and the 1982 editions are nearly identical. The 1992 cut does make substantial changes to the movie, some of which are carried over into the new final cut which is on the first disc.Really, where the set shines, is the bonus features. On the first disc, there are three separate commentary tracks on the final cut of the film, one by Ridley Scott one by the executive producer and some of the writers, and the third by the production designers and effects supervisors. Each of the commentary tracks provides great insight into the making of the movie. The second disc includes a three-and-a-half-hour-long making-of documentary that combines new and archival footage and includes a ton of interviews with cast and crew members. There are also some trailers and promos for other movies on the second disc. The third disc, as I mentioned, has all of the prior versions of the movie, and disc four includes a ton of featurettes including a comparison of the movie to the novel, features on the graphic design, the costumes, deleted and alternate scenes, and a lot more (including original promotional material from 1982). On the fifth disc, there is a workprint version of the movie that was the pre-release/test screening version of the film. It has an introduction by Ridley Scott and a commentary track by a film historian. Then there is a half-hour-long feature called All Our Variant Futures that details the processes to create the final cut of the movie.Overall, the movie is a classic sci-fi film. It is one that does not have as wide a fan base as say Star Wars, or even the Aliens franchise, but even being more in the cult-classic category, it still holds up well after forty years. This release has every possible cut of the movie, so if you prefer the theatrical release above all others you can watch that one exclusively, or you can watch them all compare the versions. It will definitely take days to watch every version of the movie (which you may get sick of after a while) and all the bonus features, but if you are a fan of the movie, this set has everything you could possibly want, especially if you love watching bonus material.

Answer: This movie, appearing on every list of not only the greatest science-fiction films of all time, but the best movies ever made. "Blade Runner" is a movie that you have to not only see, but own, because it's one of the few monumental American classics, along with "Casablanca", "It's a Wonderful Life", "The Third Man", "Vertigo" and "The Godfather", that gets better by age. Like most of these movies, "Blade Runner" was a critical and commercial bomb, ludicrously dismissed as style over substance, for lacking a coherent story and for its one-dimensional human characters. Seen today, in a time of economic recession, class division and the state's utter disregard to come in human terms, "Blade Runner" feels more modern and relevant than ever.Why is "Blade Runner" one of the greatest movies of all time? I could write a lengthy review describing the movie's greatness, but I'll do the movie greater service by listing the reasons:1.) It's a simple story, brilliantly told, tightly paced and superbly directed. A retired police officer is forced by the police state to hunt down (or "retire") a group of bio-engineered cyborgs called Replicants. Under Ridley Scott's tight direction, the movie is a gripping experience as we see the main character struggle to fulfill his obligations and survive. The opening sequence where Leon is interrogated as rather or not he's a Replicant and the scenes where Deckard is pursuing Pris in a room cluttered with mannequins are as suspenseful as the best of Hitchcock.2.) The acting is utterly terrific. Harrison Ford probably gave the greatest performance of his career as the replicant hunter Deckard. Ford hated the movie and called it a miserable experience, yet in some ways, this helped add greater depth to his character, as we see Deckard's anguish, frustration and anger simmering throughout the movie. Sean Young is outstanding as the Replicant assistant Rachael and her scenes with Deckard, where he tries to teach her about love in his apartment, have an emotional intensity barely found in other sci-fi movies. Darryl Hannah made a huge impression as the lonely and tragic Pris and Edward James Olmos provides comic relief as the officer Gaff, who raises an ambiguous question at the end that still resonates to this day. But the highest acting honor, of course, belongs to Rutger Hauer, as Roy Batty, the movie's main antagonist. Subtle yet dangerous, a menace to society yet one with tragic grandeur, Hauer's Batty may rank as one of the greatest and most memorable villains in movie history.3.) "Blade Runner" successfully continues the tradition that has defined science-fiction movies in decades, in that it presents the central theme that the most humane characters are in the fact the most inhuman. Despite their supposed lack of humanity, Roy Batty and Pris are arguably the most sympathetic characters in movie, primarily because they are outcasts who refuse to blend in to an oppressive society (see below). In fact, the general complaint about "Blade Runner" when it was released was that the replicants were more interesting than the hero, when that was precisely the point. There's a disturbing sequence where Deckard is hunting down a female replicant and instead of having the audience root for him, the movie defies conventions and has us hoping that the replicant escapes (there's even a hint in the movie's finale that Deckard himself may be a replicant). At the end, when Batty chooses his fate, you feel a great sense of sadness for this inhuman yet paradoxically humane character.4.) No other movie, not even "2001" or "Metropolis", captures the feeling of being displaced, oppressed and and dehumanized in an oppressive society. One of the biggest reasons for the movie's initial failure was that it presented such a dark vision of a world where privacy is lacking, noise is abundant and commercialism runs rampant throughout the city. The sets, outfits, the insufferable rain and the cluttering masses on the street create a feeling of powerlessness, a feeling that prevents people from having the free will to be themselves. Deckard is a perfect example of that, as he is powerless towards a quasi-fascist police state that determines his fate or he will be part of the "little people". The movie is, for all its futuristic technology, is an expressive drama.5.) "Blade Runner" has one of the best musical scores ever made. Composed by "Chariots of Fire" conductor Vangelis, the music is a groundbreaking merge of futuristic synthesizers, organic compositions and even an element of jazz, as seen in the beloved "Love Theme", with its beautiful saxophone solo. You can listen to this music without seeing the film and imagine the whole movie in your head.6.) "Blade Runner" seems more relevant and prophetic today than it was released in 1982. Critics and moviegoers were taken back by seeing such dark, dreary vision, a vision where the rich care so little about the poor that they form a hostile, miserable ghetto. Yet walk down the inner slums of any city, from Los Angeles in early 1990s and Moscow to Tokyo and that vision is there before our eyes. Technology, which was supposedly man's gift to preserve humanity, has slowly overtaken our human traits, making us cold, mechanical and increasingly dependent on machinery.And yet...7.) The movie, despite its darkness, ends with a suggestion of hope. When Batty spares Deckard's life and delivers that immortal monologue which has earned its place in cinema, this scene suggests a promising hope in the future: that machines and human, instead of striving to dominate the other, can live side-by-side in harmony. This is not a hippie message, but a heartfelt plea for everyone in diverse groups to coexist and accept one another."Blade Runner" is one of the American cinema's most towering achievements and an institution for every science-fiction entity that has come afterwards, from "The Matrix" and "Dark City" to "Ghost in the Shell" and "Cowboy Bebop", from the fantastical adventures by Hayao Miyazaki, to the grim, political fables by Guillermo Del Toro and Alfonso Cuaron. Even "The Fifth Element", in some ways, plays like a sunny, cartoony alternative to this grim classic. It is essential that you watch "Blade Runner", even if you don't like it (which is highly doubtful). If you even think of starting a Blu-Ray/DVD collection without it, then you are simply just one of the "little people".Strongest recommendation to steal at all costs.P.S. Like many great movies, "Blade Runner" has come out in a variety of editions, each of them a worthy purchase. There was a five-disc ultimate collector's edition that came out on both DVD and Blu-Ray. That is currently out of print. In its place, there was 30th anniversary edition released in two box sets: a multi-format version (with that memorable Asian face on the front cover) and a three-disc set released with only Blu-Rays (that's the one with the unicorn on the front cover). Either version you watch is fine, but if you just want the Blu-Rays in an affordable set, go with the three-disc set. Besides nearly a dozen hours of supplements, the picture and audio qualities are excellent. Since "Blade Runner" is an intensely visual experience, it is highly recommended that you watch it on a big screen and with big speakers. As the saying goes, the bigger, the better...in everything.

I like everything about it, except a few things. First, be practical. Deckard got his ass kicked several times. Have more than 1 weapon on you, Van Helsing. Does the Future have Assault Rifles? Or tasers? I feel that, Deckard lacked the right attitude. Each replica is technically a modern toy, so it would be like Deckard fell in love with a advanced Blow Up Doll. LOL!!! I would still have a sex scene, just to some sexy time with the real actress who is pretending to be advance sex doll. Just throwing it out there. However, the actual love scene was forced and kinda aggressive, which I did not appreciate. Anyway, great movie with a fun, dark post-mecha cyberpunk future. And was the pigeon on hand really necessary? You release his robot spirit via a dirty city pigeon? And what is up with the unicorn symbolism? Is was like "Was this a cyberpunk futuristic film? Or a Medieval Futuristic Fantasy with Unicorns and Orcs?" If I was Deckard, I would be like "Look, here you crazy Blow-Up Dolls. We can do this the easy way or the hard way. Now, who want to go out while dancing disco?" Just say. I would have definitely had more fun than Blow-Up Doll Chasing, Deckard.

世紀の傑作ですがスクリプトに「ひっかけ」があり、日本語字幕はそれを拾えていないのです。> Roy: Not very sporting to fire on an unarmed opponent. I thought you were supposed to be good. Aren't you the good man? Come on Deckard. Show me what you're made of.> 「無防備の者を撃つのか？」「キミは腕がいいと思ってた」「腕利きなんだろ？」「来いよ　デッカード」「鍛えた腕前を見せてくれ」ただしく訳すとこうなのです。　ロイ：丸腰の相手を撃つのは卑怯だぞ。あんたはいいやつにされたはずだと思ったが、違うのか？来いよ、デッカード。あんたがなんでできてるか教えてくれ人間は卑怯badなのです。バッティはここではじめてデッカードの名前を呼ぶが、接触もないのに知っているはずがないのです。でも知っているということは、彼がthe good manレプリカントであり、バッティとは知り合いだったということなのです。だから「なんでできてるのか」教えろと言っているのです。> Gaff: You've done a man's job, sir. I guess you're through, huh? 「お見事でした」「これで終わりですね」> Deckard: Finished. 「そうだ」> Gaff: It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does? 「彼女も惜しいですな」「短い命とは」　ガフ：男の仕事です。うまくいったようですな？　デッカード：ああ、やったよ　ガフ：彼女も長くないとは残念ですな。でもそれなら、だれが長生きできましょう？throughってアンタ…。長生きできないことをbadだと言っているのだから、jobを果たしたthe good manは長生きできるのです。レイチェルは妊娠はできるが短命なネクサス7型、デッカードは長命な8型レプリカントなのです(バッティら6型の寿命が短いのは技術の限界であり、反乱防止のためそう設定されているわけではありません)。ガフはそれを知っていて「だれが長生きできましょう？」とデッカードに言うのです。> Bryant: Body identified with Tyrell a twenty-five year old male caucasian named Sebastian. J. F. Sebastian.> 「タイレルと一緒の死体は25歳の白人男性」「名はJF・セバスチャン」(Body identified) with Tyrellなら字幕のとおりですが、Body (identified with Tyrell)なら「タイレルと同一人物の死体」という意味なのです。セバスチャンはタイレルのクローンなのです。> Sebastian: What generation are you?「世代は？」> Roy: Nexus six. (字幕なし)> Sebastian: Ah, I knew it. 'Cause I do genetic design work for the Tyrell Corporation. There's some of me in you. Show me something.「やっぱりね」「僕はタイレル社で働いている」「君らの一部も作った」「見せてくれ」> Roy: Like what?「何を？」> Sebastian: Like anything.「機能を」バッティの中にはセバスチャン=タイレルの遺伝子が入っているのです。セバスチャンはお兄チャンなのです。Show me somethingは直前のsomeを受けるのです。字幕は大間違いなのです。> Definition of -some (Entry 6 of 6)> 1: body> chromosome> 2: chromosome> monosome(merriam-webster)chromosomeは染色体なのです。friendという単語が何度か出てきます。調べ切れていないが、friendはレプリカントやクローン人間やおもちゃなど、普通の人間以外しか指さないようです。バッティの最後のセリフ：> All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die.「そういうできごとも、いままさに消える。雨の中の涙のように」「死ぬときがきた」in timeには「ちょうど」「間に合う」という意味があります。バッティは泣いているのを見られたくないので、雨が降っているうちに死ねると言っています。in (time like tears in rain)と解釈するとall those momentsが雨の中の涙となって降ることになります。ロサンジェルスの雨にはレプリカントのmomentsが混じっているのです。time like tears in rainをTime to dieで言い換えているとも解釈できます。そうするとAll those moments will be lost in time to dieになり、またto die=like tears in rainになります。バッティがdieするtimeではなく、timeがdieするのだとすると、rainがもうじき止むという意味になります。映画は実際にそうなっています。『ブレードランナー』には矛盾がいろいろ指摘されていますが、わざと入れてあるのです。💛ガフの演者のエドワード・ジェームズ・オルモス氏の大変興味深いインタビューがありました。avclubという米国のサイトによるとIt's too bad～はアドリブだったそうです。モノホンの芸を解説してみます。I knew that [Deckard] was a replicant. See, I’m the only one that did at that moment in time. The very last moment that Deckard’s on screen—they changed it when they got into editing, but they went back to the original. There are four or five different cuts, but if you go to [Ridley Scott’s] final cut, at the end when Deckard’s leaving his house and Rachel goes into the elevator, he looks down and sees the origami unicorn. He realizes [Gaff] was there. Because that origami is something that I made; it was my signature. So he picks it up, looks at it, and it’s a unicorn, which was his dream. So he knows that I know his dreams at that moment. But no one ever pronounced it. And for many years, people said, “No, Deckard was not a replicant.” People have argued about this so much over the years. And Ridley finally came out and he said, “Yeah. Deckard was a replicant.”> I knew that was a replicant.この引用部ではIは俳優自身とガフをかけ、インタビュアーをからかっています。thatにはなにかありそうです。> See, I’m the only one that did(=saw) at that moment in time.これはバッティの> All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.もじりになっていますが、これもバッティ役のルトガー・ハウアー氏のアドリブだそうです。監督や脚本家はknewしていないと映画を撮れませんが、俳優は知らされていたknewのではなく「saw自力でわかった」です。at that moment in timeには「撮影時に」「当時」「あの歴史的瞬間に」「あの時すぐに」「(アドリブに)間に合うように」という意味があります。それに加え、thatは何やら意味深です。> There are four or five different cuts, if you go to final cut, at the end when Deckard’s leaving his house and Rachel goes into the elevator,これは場面の記述になっていますが、現在形で「ガフの復活」という、わかる人にだけのプレゼントです。> Definition of house (Entry 1 of 2)> 2 a (1): a shelter or refuge (such as a nest or den) of a wild animalwhen節は映画の最後の場面と、その前にあったはずの撮影していない場面を掛けていることがわかります。ガフはこれをこっそりseeしてThere are four or five different cutsと言いました。そのfinal cutがthat momentなのです。上でも下でもthe elevatorの先にはheavenがあります。> It's too bad she want (to) live. But then again, who does?口語ではよくtoを省略します。意味は二つあります。> he looks down and sees the origami unicorn.デッカードが折り紙に気づきました。> He realizes was there. Because that origami is something, that I made; it was my signature.there wasの転置形で過去形です。thereは名詞です。that origamiと何やら怪しくisと現在形です。「,」は発音されないことを利用し、something=that I madeという言い換えだとすると、somethingは「自分がかつてmakeしたthat」とも言え、それを象ったのがユニコーンなのです。またセバスチャンのShow me something.が思い出されます。ガフはit=折り紙を名刺代わりにしていました。> So he picks it up, looks at it, and it’s a unicorn, which was his dream.デッカードはそれを知っており、Soそれゆえ拾い上げてよく見たのです。デッカードがここで初めてユニコーンだと気づいたのでa unicornと不定冠詞なのですが、「the origami unicornとは別物である」という意味合いもあります。ここのitは先ほどのitと重ねられており、origamiでありunicornなのです。またorigamiはorganやorgasm=it's comingとのダジャレで、 everybody's dreamなのです。彼はガフとのやり取りを思い出し、回想が入ります。　ガフ：男の仕事です。うまくいったようですな？　デッカード：ああ、やったよ> So he knows that I know (his dreams at that moment).こっそりseeしていたガフは、that moment=final cutに抱いていたデッカードの複数形の夢(=家族と生活)を知り、追手と戦うためのblaster gunブラスター銃を与えました。unicornはblasterでもあります。デッカードは彼の意図をknow理解しました。> It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?子供も長生きするのです。デッカードの夢はたまたま同じユニコーンの形で表れただけです。ガフには彼の頭の中までは知ることはできないので監視していたのです。しかしガフもいいやつだからレプリカントなのでしょう。> I knew that [I] was a replicant.レプリカントでない人間は「関係ありそうで実はない」ことを見抜くのを非常に苦手としています。まとめると　　ガフもレプリカントでデッカードの過去を知る監視役だったが)、彼の望みを知り銃を与えて逃がした。なのです。これは確定記述ではなく、オルモス氏=ガフがfinal cutをseeしたとつけ加えた上(つまり彼がファイナルカット版の編集を観て)での解釈ですが、一番面白い解釈が一番正しいのです。> But no one ever pronounced it.何か品がなくなってきた気もしますが、pronounceはこのように他人に明かすことで、「わかっているやつはずっと黙ってきた」です。事情が変わったのでこうしているのですけども。実際のところ文字で何度も読まないと気づくのは難しいのですが。スクリプトは見た人が書き起こしたものならアドリブも入っており、ネットで拾えます。

Es wundert mich nicht, dass Bladerunner damals im Kino ein Flop war. Es ist definitiv kein Popcorn-Kino Film für die breite Masse. Science-Fiction Fans und Liebhaber des endzeitlichen Genres kommen aber voll auf ihre Kosten.Diesen Film schaut man nicht nur mit den Augen und hört ihn mit den Ohren, nein, man fühlt ihn dabei auch noch. Die Elemente des "Film noir" und der durchaus - aus heutiger Sicht - realistische Blick auf die Zukunft wirken genau da, wo sie es sollten. Bladerunner ist beklemmend und faszinierend zugleich, auch Dank der visuellen Effekte und der musikalischen Begleitung.Der Film spielt 2019 in L.A., wir haben nun das Jahr 2018 und die damaligen Zukunftsaussichten sind gar nicht mal so abwegig. Auf den Gebieten der VR, AR und KI wird seit Jahren intensiv geforscht und entwickelt, die Erde ist bereits wirklich überbevölkert (Tendenz steigend) und die sozialen Kompetenzen der Menschen schwinden langsam aber sicher - vor allem aufgrund der technischen Innovationen und die Flucht in virtuelle Welten.Auch der gezeigte Dauerregen ist möglich, wenn man sich unsere wirklichen Klimaveränderungen und deren Auswirkungen anschaut. Alles in Allem ein denkbares Gesamtszenario, welches uns in der Tat irgendwann erreichen könnte.Wer ein rasantes Actionfeuerwerk oder pfiffige Dialoge erwartet, wird nicht bedient werden. Bladerunner fesselt den Zuschauer auf seine ganz eigene Art und Weise. Die dystopische Atmosphäre erzeugt Stimmung und regt zum Nachdenken an.Sicherlich nicht jedermanns Sache aber für die o.g. Zielgruppe ein fest etablierter Kultfilm, den man gesehen haben sollte.Tipp: Auch die Fortsetzung ist sehenswert.

Blade Runner and 2001: A Space Odyssey are my all time favourite films, so when my daughter kindly presented me with this definitive version of the former, in Blu-ray to boot, I was absolutely over the moon.There's a little toy included (bit of a gimmick really, but it sets this presentation box set apart from previous ones). There's several versions of the main feature here, but the one to watch of course is the very final (yes, final) director's cut version. In Blu-ray it's absolutely stunning (I'm quite new to Blu-ray and HD TV, so forgive my unbounded joy here) especially if you watch it in a dark room, with the sound fed through your hi-fi into good quality closed back headphones (the only way to enjoy films at home, in my opinion).There's a load of extra material which takes up another several hours of viewing time (I did that over a few days, I must confess). It's fascinating to see how the original was cleaned up and tiny bits of one or two scenes were even re-shot many years later, to be edited into the final cut. I absolutely love programmes about 'the making of' .. I should have worked in films!Blade Runner is one of those films that, if you like your sci-fi all atmospheric and frankly slightly weird, will stay with you for a very long time.

This is one of the greatest science fiction films ever made. The characters, plot, soundtrack and visuals are all phenomenal.I am very disappointed however by the packaging, which looks like this Blu Ray case was on another film before being hastily changed so that it now contained this film. The box is scuffed and whilst not being broken, looks extremely poor. This packaging is so poor, I have deducted a star from a genuinely 5 star film.

Review for the 30th Anniversary 'Ultimate Collectors Edition' (apparently).Great to have all versions of this great movie in HD. picture is hit and miss, varying from scene to scene but this is common with older movies especially special editions and director cuts etc. No doubt that it's a great movie but this 'boxset' could be better. Packaging a bit flimsy and random art-work. The 'Spinner' model car is only slightly better quality than what you may expect to find from a Kinder Egg. There's a rushed to print book of archive material, not enough to get excited about and all from material you can find in earlier DVD boxset's or simply on google. A bit of a rush job all round really but so what, stick the film on, The final cut is great, just a slightly expensive way to get the film in HD with the additional 'mark-up' tat that's included.