Ridley Scott On Harrison Ford As Deckard In BLADE RUNNER

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Ridley Scott discusses Harrison Ford's portrayal of Decker in the Sci-Fi classic film BLADE RUNNER.
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[@Mineav]

As with most good art, Blade Runner was ahead of its time.

[@VolvoImpala]

This is my absolute favorite Ridley Scott film. It is just incredible even if you just pay attention to the art, the background, the effects. The actors were all extraordinary, too.

[@tryscience]

Sean Young as Rachel was so perfect she had to be a replicant lol

[@rgrandles]

still stunned by this artistically and philisophically, stunning film

[@thalliadruid]

Just watching the opening scene takes me to another place.

[@dilatedmuscle]

It took 25 to 30 years for people to take their heads out of their asses and realize how timeless and amazing this movie is, the sad part is, most people STILL dont realize it. I just saw this movie 2 years ago for the first time, i didnt know much about film or hype so i didnt care too much, i definitely didnt expect it to be the type of movie it was. I was pleasantly surprised and amazed. I was late to the party but realized it was something special, shame on the people who didnt.

[@1king4all]

This man deserves an Oscar for AWESOMENESS!!!

[@WarBeanz]

RIP to his brother, Tony Scott

[@MichaelFlynn0]

One of my favourite films of all time. Love especially the floating Chinese noodle cart.

[@mrxmusic2012]

his performance in Mosquito Coast is by far his greatest.

[@tryscience]

There's always one....

[@mrblue8439]

He is a fantastic film maker

[@phealy02]

was

[@acrnm]

Harrison Ford is a great actor, ppl say hes cocky and arrogant but w/e hes a great actor and entertainer, I like him.

[@WalkerMachine]

@michaelivingstone That's from THE FIFTH ELEMENT, which Luc Besson has described his setting as Blade Runner but with sunlight.

[@MDWhiteDove]

I'm a Harrison Ford fan so any movie he makes is AWESOME. . . .lol

[@kalevraa]

i think no actor in this movie has had a better performance in later movies. was it ridley scott who managed to extract it from them, or was it the movie itself --the combined talents of philip k. dick, the script writers, and the director, with the actors responding to the sheer brilliance of this story they were in?

[@wtfkurtis]

Ford did Deckard justice. He's dislike for the 'tough 'shoot' came across in his acting and created a brooding Deckard, which Dustin Hoffman probably would not have done if he was cast in the role. Besides, working in all that smoke would piss anybody off.

[@gwynedd1]

A reluctant actor to play a reluctant Blade Runner....Fate was on this movie's side in so many ways.

[@1interesting2]

Really insightful to hear.

[@billyjesus5442]

when ridley talks you wouldn't think he's the genius behind so many great films.,

[@JohnWesleyDowney]

The performances George Lucas got from his actors in THX 1138 and American Graffiti were excellent.

[@mikebasil4832]

Especially Donald Pleasance who should have been nominated.

[@dangosse]

Discouraging to see the AFI have left the typo "Decker" in the description for over 13 years now.

[@ThomasSellers]

Rick Deckard is comparable to Philip Marlowe as well as tons of tough guy detectives in films and tv shows, but he coulda kicked Marlowe's ass. Not to mention he coulda out-hammered Mike Hammer, but that's just me. Harrison Ford was the very best as science fiction's ultimate detective, a film version of Lije Baley from Asimov's Robot books, tough, world weary, with nerves that threaten to snap any second. Bureaucrat maybe, but still heroic enough to tough it out against incredible odds. His performance remains his best, say what you will about Witness (which I liked but not as much as BR) and he totally rocks the trenchcoat! Thirty five years as the Blade Runner, and who can debate that kinda commitment to Ford Quality. THE BEST BUILT, BEST SELLING AMERICAN FILMS ARE STILL.....FORD TOUGH!!!!

[@rianlemon]

he looks like an older version of bryan cranston

[@MajorGeneralPanic]

Actually, in the newest Special Edition Rerelease, Harrison Ford plays Luke Skywalker, and Hayden Christensen plays Han Solo.

[@Batman1989King]

Blade Runner is on my Top 10 Favorite Movies Ever! Ford did a great job in Blade Runner! My Favorite Blade Runner Versions: 1. US Theatrical Version 2. International Theatrical Version 3. Workprint 4. Final Cut 5. Director's Cut

[@LunaSeaSane]

No. I asked a question. And I did so in order to find out what people think about it.

[@isaachaze1]

well, rutger hauer definitely agrees with you :). i think deckard was possibly somewhat redeemed by "rescuing" rachel (of course, AFTER she saved his life). it is pretty much open to debate as you point out

[@WillLiang]

What was he saying about bogart?

[@RaikenXion]

Id like to see Harrison bk as deckard and just make him younger with use of cgi, it worked for that bejammin button film. Also Id luv to see Russel Crowe in a Balderunner film, cus he works so well with Ridley and Ive never seen Crowe do a sci-fi movie. Plus seeing crowe and harrison in a movie together wud b very interesting.

[@FormatorBlack]

Amen!

[@Winnipegger]

We don't need a sequel! 😝 Probably one of the very few who feels this way!

[@pabloclarke77]

3 years Have you seen the sequel?

[@Winnipegger]

@@pabloclarke77 No I stil haven't lol! I admit I've been curious but spoke to other people who have seen it and were not impressed. So I still pass!

[@COMMANDRofAWESUM]

For the record, Harrison Ford was HAN SOLO, not LUKE SKYWALKER. lol

[@perfectionbox]

Ford is certainly flexible in his talent. He was perfect in "Witness" and equally deft in Blade Runner. Okay, he's a cop in both, but they're quite different kinds of cops. He has this Mickey Rourke quality where he can be very tough but at the same time convey this great humanity, but without competing with Rourke because he does it totally his own way. I swear, if he doesn't get an Oscar, historians will always wonder why he was robbed (at least he was nominated for best actor in Witness).

[@tryscience]

Deckard as a man or a replicant: Sounds pretty definitive to me.... Deckard is "...a tough *man*, even a violent man, a man without relationships, and a man who's very into himself." Key word: man

[@tryscience]

Hunting down human looking replicants as his job, Deckard is probably a paranoid, depressive, drinks too much.... Quite the laundry list of HUMAN responses to the situation. Unlike for example, a replicant which would "develop its own emotional responses... Hate anger fear envy".. to stimuli, which is why they were unpredictable and dangerous and illegal on Earth. Depressed humans however, are par for the course lol

[@alexasoundzen7600]

@1:05 wait what?!?!?!? did ridley just called harrison ford a luke skywalker? he meant han-solo im sure !!!

[@chriscorley6478]

A grim futurist classic sustained with vigor and success for over 25 years. Can't wait to see the new 2049 sequel. 😱

[@ninelivecat]

It was a bit of a bomb when it first came out but now it's recognised as a great movie

[@NickyLess]

@MDWhiteDove You and me both. From as early as i can remember :)

[@secretcaptivation]

@cutis1000 Harrison Ford did the voice over of Blade Runner as badly as possible in the hopes that they wouldn't use it. Because he hated the idea of adding a voice over. Or so I've heard.

[@MrLoganTH]

Ridley Scott has stated numerous times that Star Wars was a big influence on the aesthetic of his SF films. I think it was a simple mistake on his part; speaking faster than what he's thinking at the moment.

[@squamish4244]

@LunaSeaSane Whatever dude. It's because the film is so effective as a cautionary tale that you decide to pull a classic ''deny everything'' and argue the complete opposite.

[@Amish4real]

I think it takes a certain individual to appreciate blade runner to the fullest. It's not for the transformers CGI generation so much.

[@squamish4244]

@LunaSeaSane It seems pretty clear to me that Blade Runner is partly a cautionary tale against transhumanism.

[@squamish4244]

@doomguy5000 Good story dude. It was the bite marks to the ass part that gave it away, but then what fun would that be?

[@jamescrumbs]

it was a slip- he meant to refer to Han Solo.

[@chirik0]

What? Ford was Luke Skywalker???

[@andyyoung4476]

Yeah I was surprised he got that wrong too.

[@squamish4244]

@doomguy5000 Contributed to his death? James lived for 15 year after Blade Runner...seems like a stretch to me.

[@NRPBrute]

@badboy10ize Not really.

[@spacenoise5]

I give credit to PKD for a great fucking story

[@dacmiller]

Witness was the best that Harrison played

[@Casarzino]

if I were pretentious, I wouldn't prefer Indy over Blade Runner ;)

[@rickdynes]

@Statistic100 Study Ozu to be a great film artist.

[@rickdynes]

@Statistic100 If you want to be a great film artist study Ozu.

[@aldosigmann419]

I would think that's what an actor would want - so as to avoid typecasting and showing some range.

[@AuronTsubaki85]

@HeroOfCanton99 Ghost In The Shell!

[@MrCarpen7er]

Luke Skywalker ? I think he meant Han Solo...

[@squamish4244]

Ford plays an unpleasant character in this movie who changes because of the various experiences he has, especially at the end when he gets the crap kicked out of him by Roy Batty who then saves his life. His character is completely different from any other he's portrayed and his best role IMO.

[@featheredmusic]

@MDWhiteDove Im Harrison Ford

[@EscapePodFilms]

He meant Jabba the Hutt.

[@cocobot90]

Maybe he just mixed up the names and didn't realize, since his thoughts probably revolved around blade runner... I don't know that much about him, but does he actually have a reputation as a shitty actor's director? (like e.g. George Lucas...)

[@TOM15555555]

This is Ridley Scott one of great directors what is that a picture of Star Wars Game or no

[@LunaSeaSane]

Best death ever.

[@dwringer]

So it all cancels out, and they're both just "good". The same cannot be said about most movies.

[@hegemoniuspiper]

no no no, dont fuck around now, in the beginning it had to be thomas selleck, then tom hanks

[@LunaSeaSane]

@squamish4244 As "pretty clear" as having Darth Vader represent christianity.

[@darrellowings2343]

This story and movie were so far ahead of it's time that I think part of it was just luck. We didn't have the vocabulary in 1982 to describe what a replicant is in this story and I think there's hold over confusion from the terms and concepts of the book. These replicants are clones engineered for specific tasks with enhanced abilities. They are human the problem is in typical monkey with a machine gun fashion we have god like technology without god like wisdom and create in this story an obviously immoral dark reality doomed to eventual breakdown. We can create a term replicant to try and abstract ourselves from what we're doing and what they are but anyone could see that is headed for disaster. Having said all that I still am in total confusion as to the relevance and substance of the Deckard being a replicant. I feel like we still don't have to full real story there.

[@djstubbs]

it's deckard not decker

[@LunaSeaSane]

So given his track record... Ridley Scott is pro Transhumanism?

[@hegemoniuspiper]

it's all fake as a unicorn

[@thalliadruid]

Ridley, LOVE your work, but don't fuck with this

[@Casarzino]

AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA. The Indy films (the first 3 anyway..) are quite simply the finest examples of Hollywood popcorn filmmaking EVER. Blade Runner is pretentious, ugly, and dull.

[@mylobage]

Utter violation on Ridley. Jesus, "Luke"!?

[@Casarzino]

no. Indiana Jones rules all

[@igobivo]

paranoid android

[@yanndick]

@Frye666 Ford is great in Peter Weir's MOSQUITO COAST too.

[@Milkmytoe]

LMAO, Blade Runner is ten times the film Indiana jones ever was.

[@sexobscura]

he'll *never* top Han Solo

[@DisemboweII]

I think you're mistaking Blade Runner for yourself, mate. It's quality story-telling, if you can't appreciate that you don't really belong here ;)