Ridley Scott Opens Up About Blade Runner's Famously Fraught Production | Entertainment Weekly

Ridley Scott opens up about famously fraught production for his iconic film, Blade Runner, following Harrison Ford's reveal that the original was not easy to make.
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Ridley Scott Opens Up About Blade Runner's Famously Fraught Production | Entertainment Weekly
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[@guileniam]

Where's the full thing

[@litote9]

Transcript: Ridley: Blah blah blah I owned a roller at age 30 Interviewer: right right right... right (inane grin) Ridley: blah blah blah that's how us pro's do it Interviewer: right right right... right... (inane grin)

[@flyflybaby2723]

You're a fooking fool as Ridley would say

[@omgsolikevalleygirl]

I really admire Alien and Blade Runner, but I find it hard to fathom how creatively bankrupt movies like Prometheus and Alien Covenant, even "The Martian" could have been made by the same person - it just doesn't feel right. Almost as if 20th Century Fox had just dragged him out of hiding as a brand and neither him nor them seem to care about keeping his artistic legacy intact. Imagine Kubrik or Polanski had started to make such middle-of-the-road movies toward the end of their careers. I really want to know how Scott feels about that - on the other hand he comes across very self confident and boasty in most interviews, like he does here. So maybe he thinks he is beyond everything and nothing could do his reputation any harm, not even turning people's brain to mush by piling on more and more harrowingly nonsensical "Alien Universe" plotting.

[@Syklonus]

You just shot yourself in the foot. Film is art and art is subjective so you can't have "creatively bankrupt" films, because guaranteed some people out there love them. There are no absolutes in film. There are no rules, and there is no "best" or "worst" - there is only "favourite" and "least favourite".

[@nickpastorino5370]

@@Syklonus Art is not 100% subjective. There are great movies that I am not a fan of, and there are terrible movies that are a guilty pleasure (The Room). And if you think there are no rules then you don't know anything about film making. Alien Covenant was terrible because the film had this bizarre agenda about promoting Michael Fassbender. Probably backstage politics BS.

[@guileniam]

The martian was great, and Prometheus still is one of the best looking films of the decade. The issues were script

[@mikearchibald744]

I would say the difference is the story. He's a director, not a writer. He did do storyboards, but look at the team he had with BOTH those operations. If you don't have the team or the script, you have every OTHER film he's done. During the nineties I swore he was just making propaganda films they were so bad and dated, but at the time thats probably what would get done. As the guys in Genesis said, one reason they were great in the seventies is their LABEL said "go do what you want, we'll try to sell it". Certainly for big pictures thats probably long gone. And if you havne't got the STORY, your in big trouble. Hell, he's probably be better off doing a superhero movie now.

[@willpeony5534]

I can help answer this. Men peak in their twenties and gradually come down. If someone produces great work in, say, his sixties you can be pretty sure he had been thinking it through long before then.

[@evanescapades2513]

I love this guy but to be honest he hasn’t made anything as unbelievable since Alien and Blade Runner..... perhaps it’s the studios that have way too much say even for legendary director’s such as Rid.....

[@exoxoe7128]

"I love this guy" but totally unaware he made Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, Martian, and Thelma and Louise.

[@mikearchibald744]

@@exoxoe7128 Thelma and Louise was a zeitgeist movie and certainly isn't known for its 'directing'. Martian was self indulgent crap along the lines of 'castaway' that for some reason the 'academy' was really into for awhile. Black hawk down was rewritten progaganda. Although thats actually not to disparage him as a director, the fact is that movies rise and fall on a thousand different things nobody can really control. For some reason its just been decided to lump all the technical aspect into the guy called 'the director' despite there being crews of hundreds on most movies. But certainly the guy knows how to direct, but then so do lots of people that dont' get talked about. But I think partly its that he just talks like a smug bastard and a lot of people don't like that.