Has ANYBODY heard ANYTHING about WHEN Blade Runner: SE???
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 21:09
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No one mentioned the red eye flashes that all the replicants have (even the owl) in one shot? Deckard has it too which just adds to the 'he is!' argument.
Anyone ever play the Blade Runner pc game with the mulitiple endings?
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Originally posted by XON2000:
In the director's cut, Scott removed the voice-over, added the unicorn dream, to tie in with the origami unicorn at the end, and removed the scene of Deckard and Rachel flying away over the beautiful green landscape.
What the unicorn dream implies is that Deckard is a replicant. The origami unicorn demonstrates that Gaff knows about the dream, which means that it is implanted. This isn't my own speculation, this is from Ridley Scott himself (check out a book called "Future Noir" if you want to know absolutely everything about this movie).
Also, without the voice over, there is no indication that Rachel was "special" and therefore immune from the four-year lifespan.
So, in Scott's version, the movie ends with Deckard realizing that he's a replicant and he and Rachel on the lam, and both probably going to die within four years. In the theatrical release, Deckard is human, and he and Rachel fly off into the sunset to live happily ever after. Quite a difference!
Shawn
This is a beauty of a discussion folks, I've been cheering for your exchange with Chris et al clear down.
I loved loved this movie in the original release, and having read Electric Sheep, was able to apply a different understanding to the movie's ending. The 'director's cut' was an extreme disappointment to me because while I liked the idea of the insertion of the unicorn dream, I thought Scott's execution of the scene was extremely heavy handed and jarring (slo-mo, and so very glow-y), and I liked the future noir aspect the voice over lent the original. I haven't seen it in years, cuz all I can ever find is the d.c., guess I'll be giving it another chance soon.
Does anyone know anything about the status of the sound track? Has it ever changed from absolutely unavailable? I looked for it for years, but a person can get tired of that kind of seemingly futile activity.
Thanks for a great discussion, this place continues to warm my heart.
Barb
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Originally posted by liminalosity:
Does anyone know anything about the status of the sound track? Has it ever changed from absolutely unavailable? I looked for it for years, but a person can get tired of that kind of seemingly futile activity.
Amazon has the soundtrack on CD. (I had included a link, but it was so big it stretched the screen out, and tinyurl wasn't working. It's really easy to find, though.)
I've had it for years. Have you had a hard time finding it?
Shawn
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There are two soundtracks, the cacky one and the full two disc one. 
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Originally posted by XON2000:Quote:
Originally posted by liminalosity:
Does anyone know anything about the status of the sound track? Has it ever changed from absolutely unavailable? I looked for it for years, but a person can get tired of that kind of seemingly futile activity.
Amazon has the soundtrack on CD. (I had included a link, but it was so big it stretched the screen out, and tinyurl wasn't working. It's really easy to find, though.)
I've had it for years. Have you had a hard time finding it?
Shawn
It was released at the same time as the film, but only a few zillion copies, and (I heard this from several music store peeps) there was some kind of contract dispute between Vangelis and the record company. It was eventually re-recorded by the Living Strings or some such crappy distortion. I looked for it for years and finally gave the heck up. Huh, wonder how the dispute was resolved. I will go to the land of the downloadable, thank you both ever so much.
geek0tek
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