Gettin' Our Phil: BLADE RUNNER (1982)

Ian and David are back with a different take on a classic film! There may be five versions of Ridley Scott's seminal sci-fi thriller, BLADE RUNNER, but recently the guys experienced the movie with a mind-blowing orchestral accompaniment, courtesy of the Chicago Philharmonic!
Harrison Ford stars as Deckard, a cop living in the far-flung world of 2019 Los Angeles, who specializes in tracking down and decommissioning "replicants"--rogue androids created by the nefarious Tyrell Corporation, whose resemblance to people makes them almost undetectable. While hunting four dangerous renegade 'bots, Deckard begins questioning his own humanity, and whether or not he's truly serving justice.
In this retrospective review, Ian and David look at what makes BLADE RUNNER different from the sci-fi movies that preceded it; unravel memories (both real and false) from the various cuts; and try to figure out how the film's notoriously "problematic" scene survived ALL of the edits over 42 years.
PLUS: They talk about seeing the movie at Chicago's famed Auditorium Theatre with live instruments and vocals!
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Very glad I happened upon your discussion on this film! My favorite film (along with 2049) I saw the film when I was 15, blew my mind! Loved it! Was my fist dvd purchase and then my first blu-ray! So it's my opinion that Deckard is human! The original book he's human, the two screenplays he's human, and despite the ambiguous and more overt comments by Scott...the story works so much better with him as a human. So in my Bladerunner world he's human! Works for me and I'm sticking with it lol Thanks for the discussion!!! - The animals were extinct (or extremely rare) and illustrate the loss due to ecological collapse. - The photos are from Rachael's (used by Tyrell to reinforce their implanted memories) They're not Deckard's pictures. And he's drinking and musing...which could naturally lead to his "dream sequence) btw - Might be of interest: "In the documentary Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner, Hauer, director Ridley Scott, and screenwriter David Peoples confirm that Hauer significantly modified the speech. In his autobiography, Hauer said he merely cut the original scripted speech by several lines, adding only, "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain". One earlier version in Peoples' draft screenplays was: I've known adventures, seen places you people will never see, I've been Offworld and back… frontiers! I've stood on the back deck of a blinker bound for the Plutition Camps with sweat in my eyes watching stars fight on the shoulder of Orion... I've felt wind in my hair, riding test boats off the black galaxies and seen an attack fleet burn like a match and disappear. I've seen it, felt it...![ And, the original script, before Hauer's rewrite, was: I've seen things... seen things you little people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion bright as magnesium... I rode on the back decks of a blinker and watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments... they'll be gone. Hauer described this as "opera talk" and "hi-tech speech" with no bearing on the rest of the film, so he "put a knife in it" the night before filming, without Scott's knowledge. After filming the scene with Hauer's version, crew-members applauded, with some even in tears. In an interview with Dan Jolin, Hauer said that these final lines showed that Batty wanted to "make his mark on existence ... the replicant in the final scene, by dying, shows Deckard what a real man is made of"." - wikipedia Again (imo) pointing to Deckard being human. Also in 2049 he has aged. It's very apparent 😉