A Gorgeous Movie! FIRST TIME WATCHING Blade Runner (1982), Reaction x Commentary

[@ShreeNation]

My Review of Blade Runner: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZbUlZWDrrmUhrs

[@shainewhite2781]

"I've..seen things your people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've C beams glittering in the dark near Tannhauser gate. Now all those moments will be lost like.. tears in the rain. Time to die." RIP Rutger Hauer.

[@ShreeNation]

That was a beautiful moment :')

[@MissAPierce]

@@ShreeNation That's one of the most beautiful moments in film, IMHO.

[@scottalynch]

Written by Rutger Hauer (Roy Batty)

[@JW666]

@@ShreeNation One of the most poetic & beautiful monologues performed by an iconic actor! RIP Rutger Hauer.

[@kizunadragon9]

the little grin he gives at the end it was because that speech was ad libed, it wasn't in the script, and that little grin at the camera was rutgur hauer saying "i was a bad boy" to the director

[@maingun07]

My dad took me to this movie, my first R rated film. It had a major impact on my love of story telling. Before this, I was a typical kid that was only into action, scifi, or war movies. This was when I realized the difference between story telling and spectacle. Unfortunately, the trend of movies today have gravitated away from the former and more towards the latter.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

That trend already existed back then when you were a kid. And many spectacle movies made today take pains to present characterization, ence why the average Marvel movie is way more than 2 hours long.

[@eddhardy1054]

15:42...In 1982 there was, as far as I know, no cgi being done to enhance visual fx. Everything you'd see on screen would be to all intents practical.

[@eddhardy1054]

38:20...I think it's more that Roy's toying with Deckard because he knows he's in control at least for the moment and he wants Deckard to appreciate the value of his own life (& all lives).

[@geraldvance7925]

Not only is it a awesome movie the soundtrack is incredible.

[@ShreeNation]

Agreed

[@carlossaraiva8213]

My favorite film soundtrack composed by Vangelis, my favorite electronic music composer. RIP. He will be missed.

[@eddhardy1054]

15:08...To be fair there's no real indication that the Tyrell Corporation is evil just thoughtless and no real indication that the replicants are unhappy with the jobs they're asked to do...just with the lifespan they're given.

[@applejayz1987]

Vangelis' amazing score, the impeccable model work and exposures on the environment, better than anything ive seen in a LONG time since. Plus the retro futuristic dystopia style is just perfect.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

Its my favorite movie.

[@ubit397]

Actually, in this film, Rachel(and possibly Deckard) are the only replicants with implanted memories. That's why it took 4 times as many questions to detect that she wasn't human. The other replicants have no memories preceding their inception, so they're like adult bodies with adult intelligence, but the emotional maturity of 3 year olds.

[@ShreeNation]

That makes sense :)

[@justmeeagainn]

Possibly Deckard? Where do you think the whole unicorn thing comes from and how do you think Gaff just happens to know about it?

[@atti97]

@@justmeeagainn i think Rachel and Deckard was two Nexus 7 prototypes.

[@ChronosTachyon]

I'm of the opinion that the movie works better if Deckard is *not* a replicant. The unicorn origami goes unexplained in that interpretation, but the core of the movie -- a human learning to empathize with replicants, and learning that the replicants are themselves capable of empathy -- works better if Deckard is human.

[@valashar5313]

@@atti97 While whether or not Deckard is a replicant is a great thought experiment when ONLY looking at this film, 2049 drops it right into the fire. The entire issue in 2049 is the idea that a replicant reproduced with a human.

[@DanJackson1977]

"Of course there's some CGI going on". Well, about that... 🤣 That's the beauty of 80s movies.. amazing effects, almost ZERO cgi. Sure, Tron and The Abyss had it, but photo realistic CG wasnt a thing til the 90s. This is all models, optical fx, and great filmmaking.

[@ShreeNation]

That is so cool! My bad, growing up in this CGI world that's all i see, these movies are showing me a whole new world of visual effects.

[@DanJackson1977]

@@ShreeNation yeah there were some outliers that used CGI.. The Last Starfighter was a pioneer..but its *really* noticable, as it all looks like Playstation 1 looking models. Oddly enough the first photorealitic CGI effect was in Young Sherlock Holmes (1985).. in a hallucination scene. The Abyss was also an early one but it was used for water FX.. the creatures in that movie are puppets.

[@fredericjuliard4261]

Rachel ( Blade Runner ) = Sean Young ( actress ) = Chani (Dune 1984) ;) Music by Vangelis , one of the greatest "analog synth music" composer in the 70s/80s/90s, with Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, etc... Merci.

[@HonkeyKong54]

Definitely no cgi as far as I know. You should look up behind the scenes photos of the film and you'll see the insane miniature city, vehicles, sets,etc, that were built.

[@pleasantvalleypickerca7681]

No CGi. It did not exist back then. Real practical effects they had build physically. That's why it looks "Real" because it is.

[@AubreySciFi]

I met James Hong "I just do eyes" at a convention a few years ago, and I had him sign a picture from this film. It was a tough call, as he's been in a number of great films over the years.

[@Roux.D]

Priss's fit after being shot was from anger. like the rest she did not want death so soon; she was waiting for Roy to bring good news that he found a way for "more life, fucker". when Priss was shot and realizing that it was a fatal blow - at least a shot to immobilizer her for the kill shot - she chose to go out in a fury of anger, pain, sadness, and sorrow. she could not live longer and she could not say goodbye to Roy. her screams and pounding were her absolute rejection to death. just my take on it. what kind of mushrooms are these, again???

[@AubreySciFi]

The building used as the location of the climax of the movie is an art deco building in downtown L.A. that was also used as the location for the"Demon with a Glass Hand" episode of The Outer Limits" TV show back in 1964! It's interesting to see how much they grunged it up for this film twenty years later.

[@ShreeNation]

That's awesome! The house added so much character to their confrontation

[@AubreySciFi]

@@ShreeNation And it's worth your time seeing the "Demon with a Glass Hand" episode sometime as its one of the best classic Outer Limits episodes, IMO. "The Inheritors", a movie length episode, is another.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

There is no CGI in this movie. The visual effects are optical printed superimposition on green screen or in-camera effects like force perspective or models. CGI already existed back then but were still quite primitive and used mostly to create computer screen graphics.

[@blindazabat9527]

CGI in 1982? VERY little. It's really amazing craftsmanship.

[@brettmanus7904]

You edited out Roy's 2 great lines. "That was unsportsmanlike. Shooting at an unarmed opponent." And, "That's the spirit!" when Deckard clobbers him.

[@michaelbastraw1493]

No CGI - all photochemical. Best. Leo.

[@wratched]

The VK test is a measure of empathy. Replicants supposedly don't have empathy. Roy saving Decard at the end showed that he had developed empathy. In the Blade Runner universe, EVERYONE is vegan, because animals are nearly extinct. Blade Runner pretty much invented the entire cyberpunk aesthetic. This is a good movie for today, because Anne Rice just died, and Blade Runner was one of her favourite films.

[@ShreeNation]

Thank you for the explanation, and I'm glad you enjoyed :)

[@philosopher0076]

Everyone is not...a vegan. The guy next to Deckard at the lunch counter was eating fish. Even in the deleted scenes where the Deckard sticks his fingers in the guys fish at that lunch counter which was initially going to be a scene that occurred later in the film...he was looking at the scales on the fish on the guys plate, wondering if the scale he found in Leon's bath tub might be a fish scale.

[@brettmanus7904]

Many of the questions you ask have been answered, like the void-comp. They told you that 2 of the escaped replicants died in the escape. This is why I suggest pausing. 🤔

[@lukebarber9511]

Note: the actor who played the head of Tyrell Corporation also played Lloyd in The Shining.

[@Mirage_Mach5]

This film is far superior to the 2017 sequel. I don't know why the sequel was greenlit. By the way, it's great to see you back!

[@justmeeagainn]

The sequel sucked balls. So does Dune.

[@craigfurness5278]

Of course, if you want to see one of literally the earliest sci-fi movies (silent movie!), Watch the movie "Metropolis". Giant city scapes, robots, and the vast gulf between the social classes. Worth a watch, even if there is only the incomplete version.

[@ShreeNation]

That sounds intriguing :) I will check it out!

[@christopheryochum3602]

Shree! You're doing it again...allowing us to see the mastercraftsmen who built all the models you're looking at. Thanks. The film is a visual spectacle. There was no CGI. I'm tempted to modify something you said. You mentioned the movie looks good for the time period. How about, "...the movie looks good..." I watch CGI movies all the time and this movie looks more real. There's something shiny and smooth about CGI, something that doesn't convey depth like the shots in this movie do. As I mentioned before, I always look forward to your reactions because you don't strip out all the neat shots. Something you mentioned about the director of the newer movie, Denis Villeneuve, nailing the look. Imagine how Ridley Scott had to work with his genius production design team, headed by Lawrence Paull, to make it look that good to begin with.

[@ShreeNation]

I agree, Ridley Scott is a genius. I'm surprised it took me so long and a sequel to hear about this film. This is original and unique and deserves all the recognition 👏 And thank you so much!

[@Furie66]

Escape from new york. Big trouble little China..ya..born 73 here so ya..cant touch these movies 90s kids. Sorry...there is no more thought processing..we win.

[@philosopher0076]

@@Furie66 " we win " ? Unless YOU worked on such 90's films personally, directly then....you...win nothing and were just a spectator during the 90's like the rest of us old enough, lucky enough to be alive and seeing the great films, like Blade Runner, that were made then.

[@SPEEDPAINTER1]

15:45 ---- No CGI, Shree. This was all set build, miniatures, glass matte paintings. The City was built on the Warner Bros. Backlot and set dressed locations in Los Angeles. Amazing what they use to do before CGI huh? Love this movie!!!

[@ShreeNation]

Thanks for the info!

[@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.]

There was no CGI back in the early '80s, this is all done with practical effects. Just about all the animals in this world are almost extinct so people purchase replicas as the real ones cost a fortune. The soundtrack of this film is by Vangellis, it's really well worth getting.

[@MDBowron]

David Lynch's version of Dune came out in 1984, the first film adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1968 novel "Dune"

[@Retrostar619]

The Voight-Kampff test is checking for a stable range of emotional responses. The Nexus 6 Replicants dont't have memories or the store of experience that comes with them, and these are the cushions that help Human Beings deal with new situations. The VK questions are deliberately provaocative and there are a lot of them, because a replicant could still improvise and bluff their way through a few. But to get through the full range you need to have memories and experience to stop yourself from reacting in odd or overdramatic ways.

[@ShreeNation]

Thank you for the explanation :)

[@Retrostar619]

@@ShreeNation You're very welcome. And thank you for your thoughtful reaction video!

[@MDBowron]

in a way this film set the scene for what was called cyberpunk films, as Blade Runner from 1982 and William Gibson's 1984 novel "Neuromancer" introduced the look of Cyberpunk, for the 1980s, even though Blade Runner was based off a 1968 Philip K Dick novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"

[@88feji]

William Gibson (author of Neuromancer) actually watched Blade Runner while in the middle of writing Neuromancer ... he went back to changed some things in his book so that it will not be too similar to Blade Runner ... Philip K Dick only got to watch a rough cut of the Blade Runner before he died suddenly shortly before the movie got released ... the rough cut blew his mind so much he kept asking the production people "how did you guys do it ?", and he gave glowing reviews of the movie in various interviews before he died .. (hear his audio interview on Blade Runner on yt and also his interview in Starlog Magazine issue 55 which is available to read online by a simple google)

[@flibber123]

I think the purpose of the tests is to see if they feel empathy. No matter how intelligent an AI is, it does not mean it can feel empathy. It might know what empathy is yet still be unable to feel it. Concepts like right and wrong, goof and evil, are human concepts. The smartest AI still will not be human, if it was we'd call it a human and not call it AI. If I went to another country during their national holiday, I might know all about that holiday and what it means to the people there, yet I would feel nothing about that holiday because it's not my holiday. That's how I see the replicants.

[@russellward4624]

It tracks the contracting of the iris. When presented with complex emotional concepts the iris will contract uncontrollably in a replicant.

[@sean---the-other-one]

The animals you see are all replicants. Very expensive. This movie was derived from Philip K Dick’s short story ‘Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep’. It’s only got limited connection with the plot of this movie (or the way it was fleshed out, at least), but one aspect was that Deckard had a robotic sheep that he kept on the roof of his building. Recall Rachel asking if Deckard liked their owl and he asked if it was fake and she replied ‘of course’, as if it would be unheard of for it to be a real owl. The Voigt-Kampf test they perform to check for replicants has a lot of questions about animals to gauge emotional responses to them - the tortoise, the wasp, the cow-hide wallet. Remember from 2049 there was surprise at the bees in that remote location. It’s never really made clear (like so much in the movie), but it’s obviously a basis for common understanding among the characters.

[@ShreeNation]

Ah thanks for explaining, the 2049 bees scene caught me off guard and i didnt understand the significance of it, until now. And thanks for the recommendation, i will definitely read the short story now :)

[@sean---the-other-one]

@@ShreeNation Philip died some decades back, and there have been some ructions over his works, which meant that Blade Runner, for instance, spent several years unable to be released on DVD due to arguments over rights. He is seen as one of science fictions greatest writers. Two other stories of his that made it big time as movies are Minority Report, which is very well known and starred Tom Cruise. It was quite enjoyable. The trippiest one was A Scanner Darkly. You’d love it. A complete mind bender. I’ve seen it twice and I’m nowhere near understanding it, but it was very stylistic. Unfortunately it has also hit obstacles in terms of ownership or some such thing and is not available on DVD here in Australia. I’d recommend the movies, haven’t read the books, but I dare say they’re great. Don’t know how far they are from the plot of the movies, but if Blade Runner was anything to go by, they might be completely different animals.

[@Radagast-]

Cruelty to animals is an early indicator of violent and antisocial behaviour towards people... if you remember, the replicants in Androids cut the legs off a real spider, to see if it could still walk. The VK was scripted with lots of animal questions for that reason, I think.

[@visionaryventures12]

The writer of the original story also wrote other stories which have become movies. They explore the theme of consciousness. The movie with Tom Cruise about Precogs was based on a story of his.

[@ChronosTachyon]

Yes, for just one author Philip K. Dick has been a rich source of shockingly good Hollywood movies, even if none of them are faithful to the original stories. * Blade Runner * Total Recall * Minority Report * Screamers (low budget, almost direct-to-video, but much better than it has any right to be) * Many other movies that I haven't personally seen * Lots and lots of movies that were inspired by Dick's writing, even if they aren't direct adaptations of his work It's worth noting that Dick struggled with mental illness, particularly vivid hallucinations and delusions. Some suggest he may have had undiagnosed schizophrenia, but even if his hallucinations and delusions were due to something else, he used them as inspirations for his stories, and they made a big impact on his readers' imaginations.

[@annaclarafenyo8185]

@@ChronosTachyon A Scanner Darkly, completely faithful.

[@miller-joel]

Yeah, but Minority Report had such a "Hollywood" anti-PKD ending. Ugh.

[@danielroenna6735]

I love that you jumped right in to the deep end and absorbed the fuck out of this.

[@ShreeNation]

:)

[@eddhardy1054]

25:20...The test is purely to gage responses to particular situations. When asked the same set of questions a replicant will respond in a different way (both emotionally, verbally, and physically) than a human would. I'm surprised you didn't get this as it's more or less explained during the scene when Deckard first meets Rachel at the Tyrell Corperation.

[@meropemerope6096]

10:00 and if you read at the beginning, they treat them like slaves (Prim was being rap*d by soldiers), so obviusly if you give them a mixture of memories of adults plus having little experience they would basically want to rebel immediately

[@BigGator5]

Deckard is NOT a Replicant. It would make his arc of hating Replicants in the beginning to falling in love with one, just plain dumb. Roy and Leon clearly owns Deckard in both fights, because Deckard is HUMAN. Sean Young is incredibly sexy here. Love the WWII era secretary vibe going on and it's hot. Fun Fact: After Pris (Daryl Hannah) first meets J.F. Sebastian (William Sanderson), she runs away from him, skidding into his car and smashing the window with her elbow. This was a genuine mistake caused by Hannah slipping on the wet ground. The glass wasn't breakaway glass, it was real glass, and Hannah chipped her elbow in eight places. She still has the scar from the accident.

[@micksailor4715]

Deckard is a replicant. It was confirmed by Ridley Scott.

[@ubit397]

Your emotional attachment to your assertion not withstanding, Ridley Scott disagrees.🤷‍♂️ Nevertheless, I think that the ambiguity created by the contradictory clues of Deckard not being as strong as Roy and Leon, and his eyes never casting the 'replicant reflection' vs. Deckard's uncanny similarity to Holden and Gaff knowing about his unicorn dreams work really well. One could effectively make an argument for him being or not being a replicant.

[@BigGator5]

Kristopher76 ...Ridley Scott can kiss my hairy white ass! The evidence presented in the movie clearly tells us Deckard is HUMAN. I mean, didn't 2049 confirmed Deckard is human outright? If anything, you have an emotional attachment to a long debunked theory. Seek help my friend.

[@ubit397]

@@BigGator5 Lmao. No, actually, it didn't. They intentionally made it ambiguous in 2049 too. I'm not sure how you'd debunk a work of fiction, how Ridley Scott could be mistaken about his own intentions or whether or not he'd be interested in taking you up on your offer. Lol But it doesn't really matter. I'm not emotionally attached to any of it. I literally said that I preferred the ambiguity to either concrete answer. Good luck with your ass hair and... whatever your deal is, man. lol

[@BigGator5]

Kristopher76 ...Deckard is still alive in 2049! The Nexus 6 was the most advanced model in this movie and it only lives 4 years! Deckard was allowed to quit being a Blade Runner when Nexus 3 models came out. If he was a Replicant, why would he be allowed to quit? Even if Earth allowed him to stay as a Blade Runner, wouldn't he be retired after quitting his job? Wouldn't Tyrell have noticed a Replicant Deckard when he visited? Why wouldn't Wallace in 2049? The Origami Unicorn is proof of nothing. The Unicorn is also not a memory, it was a dream. If Deckard was a Replicant, why would Gaff know of what Deckard DREAMED about just mere hours before? If we are going for ultimate authoritative source, even the book makes it very clear that Deckard is human. In the book, Deckard is scared that the Voight-Kampff test is too sensitive and might give off false positives. He's fearful he might kill a human by mistake. Let go of this stupid theory. You and Ridley Scott are the only ones holding on to this fantasy.

[@scottalynch]

Decard & Rachel are the parents of the child they were searching for in BR2049. Gaff (origami guy) was in the sequel too.

[@promnightdumpsterbaby9553]

The abortion that is 2049 is NOT a worthy successor to this masterpiece. I waited over 20 years for a sequel and they didnt even mention rutger hauer....

[@mrglasses8953]

The replicants lack empathy, the Voight Kampff test is supposed to test their empathetic responses. Roy in the moments before he dies develops empathy, hence why he saves Deckard in the end. In terms of aesthetics the original looks identical apart from a few minor clean ups in the final cut (some removals of wires, colour grading and the scene where the dove flies up to the sky at the end.)

[@mikechevy9307]

There is a version of the film where Deckard narrates. Many people do not like it, but it is my favorite. If you like the film, you might want to check it out.

[@ShreeNation]

Oh that's interesting, i will check it out :)

[@MDBowron]

there are some edits to this, as this is probably the 2007 Final Edit version. The changes made were some of Bryant's voice-over on the replicants, a better version of Zhora's head and face during a shooting scene, the change of dialogue when Roy meets Tyrell, the image of Deckard's face during the unicorn dream, and the lower half of Deckard's face when questioning the snake person. They're just little edits, but they were the only major ones done. Also it has the Deckard voice-over from the original theatrical version, and the happy ending from that theatrical version removed to make it more accurate to Ridley Scott's vision.

[@darkhorse1280]

If you're looking for another sci-fi 80's film to react to, I highly recommend RoboCop (1987 - Director's Cut). Like Blade Runner, a lot of films and video games took inspiration from this film. Most of the practical effects still holds up today. An absolute masterpiece imo! Hope you react to it ;)

[@M3TR01DFANBOY]

Robocop is superb! Robocop 2 is also quite good. Robocop 3 however . . .

[@darkhorse1280]

@@M3TR01DFANBOY Hahaha, agreed 😂

[@ShreeNation]

Thank you, i definitely will :)

[@JW666]

@@ShreeNation I agree, Robocop is also a great dystopian, cyberpunk masterpiece & just like Blade Runner is also one of my favorite movies! 🙂

[@Bfdidc]

If you like Harrison Ford, I strongly suggest the movie Witness. It was a great film but is mostly forgotten today.

[@ShreeNation]

Thank you, i will :)

[@MDBowron]

also Dune was written in 1968, the same year as Philip K Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" was published, which is the inspiration if not basis for Blade Runner. A lot of Philip K Dick's stuff has been adapted. Next with Nicholas Cage, Paycheck with Ben Affleck, Imposter with Gary Sinesce, Screamers with Peter Weller, A Scanner Darkly with Keanu Reeves, Total Recall with Arnold Schwartzenegger and the remake with Colin Farrell and Minority Report with Tom Cruise, Electric Dreams TV series based on several PKD stories, and the TV series The Man In The High Castle. Phillip K Dickian has become an adjective today, and there's an award named after him, which the major cyberpunk work "Neuromancer" by William Gibson won, along with the Nebula and Hugo awards. You could say PKD's work as being proto-cyberpunk, but are more regarded as new wave.

[@ShreeNation]

Damn. I gotta check out some of his work now.

[@Roux.D]

At the end, Roy saves Deckard because he wants acknowledgment and testimony to his existence. He chases for more life but it vain. realizing this at his ending he shares his most precious possession - his own very real and personal memories. with someone trying to kill him. Roy was the smartest of the replicant group. We can't live forever but we find peace (the dove?) in being remembered. .... just my take on it. ok.... puff, puff..... pass. ;-)

[@iliketostayhome]

Just didn't want to die alone.

[@ShreeNation]

Makes sense :(

[@Radagast-]

The cityscapes are all models... no cgi in 1982! The soundtrack was by Vangelis and I think I am right in saying that he composed it by improvising as the film played, which would explain why it "fits" so well. PS Fun fact: Joe Turkel (Dr Eldon Tyrell), played the bartender in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining".

[@frankrossi6972]

Fortunately, you chose the right director’s cut to screen (and there were many), without the intrusive and insipid voiceover that was in the original version released in theaters (The producers didn’t trust that the audience could figure out what’s going on, despite the summary at the beginning, and demanded that Scott add a narration by Ford. Even he sounded embarrassed and frustrated while he was reading it.) This is arguably the best cyberpunk movie ever, with “Dark City” a close second. Scott captured the vibe masterfully, right down to Vangelis’ hauntingly effective and moody synth soundtrack. The film was actually a big dud at the box office in the summer of ’82, as it was released at the same time ET and Poltergeist came out. (Spielberg always wins.) However, it has become a bona fide sci-fi classic over time as people rediscovered it and realized what a masterpiece it is.

[@MDBowron]

the gothic horror element at the end is a nod back to gothic science fiction novel Frankenstein, which was about technology running amok, or humans trying to create artificial people, and not raising them right, and thus getting their comeuppance from the artificial people they create, which is what Frankenstein was about. The term Robot originally meant slave in Czech.

[@Crespwnian]

Seeing i saw nobody comment it (yes 6 month late but why not) At 5:35 a little easter egg during production they took the prop of the Millennium Falcon and used it in this movie as a building

[@jamesoblivion]

None of the backdrops or visual effects are CGI. They are mostly in-camera effects, utilizing multiple exposures to combine matte paintings (actual physically PAINTED paintings), scale miniatures, and other real physical effects, to build the world of Blade Runner on film. The 2007 final cut does include some CGI, but it's exclusively used to correct flubs in the original version. But almost all of the visual effects and urban landscapes you're seeing were in the original 1982 version of the movie. Ridley Scott had pushed practical visual effects forward with Alien, building on what has been accomplished in milestones like 2001 and Star Wars, and he and his crew propelled them further still with Blade Runner. They built this rich, vibrant world, not in a computer, but in a camera.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

This film Blade Runner, together with 2001: A Space Oddyssey and Apocalypse Now are my favorite films. For me they are perfect cinema.

[@eddhardy1054]

30:19...Sorry to ruin the illusion but you do realise don't you that the 'special effect' with the replicant owl is infact just what happens when light shines into any animal's eye. It even happens with people only our eyes then look red like a terminator.

[@longfootbuddy]

rutger hauer was always the hero of this movie in my view heheh

[@ShreeNation]

He won me over with his ending speech and broke my heart. He definitely stole the show

[@tbirdguy1]

This movie influenced an entire generation of film makers... it is the genesis of so many different stories and story tellers.

[@williamjones6031]

1. Joe Turkel/Tyrell played Lloyd (bartender) in the original Shining. 2. Roy/Rutger Hauer plays in Blind Fury a great first time/share RIP 3. Leon Brion James in Tango and Cash. Much bigger role first time/share also. 4. Deckard/Harrison Ford two overlooked must first time/share "Witness" and "Force 10 to Naverone". 5. Sean Young/Rachel also played in "Stripes" with Harold Ramis and Bill Murry.😍😋 6. NO CGI in 1982 hun. (not that good yet) 7. In the original Roy tells Tyrell, "I want more life FUCKER" not father. 8. Roy didn't want to die alone. That's why he saved Deckard. 9. Harrison Ford hated doing this movie, especially the narration he thought was stupid and unnecessary and to the very day refuses to watch it. 10. Bryant told Deckard there were 6 skinjobs. ONE of them was killed. Must have been your missing female. Like "The Shining" and "Dr. Sleep" you should have watched this one first before 2049.

[@ShreeNation]

Wow thanks for these! 6. That's so sad about Roy, i didn't even think of it :( 7. And too bad for Harrison Ford, because I just watched the movie for the third time.

[@donaldgilbert6739]

The unicorn scene was cut from Ridley Scott;s other fantasy movie, Legend, Starring Tom Cruise!

[@ShreeNation]

That's amazing! I wonder why they did that though...

[@guitarman8462]

Now that I look back , if you take a look at the police station at the begining . Where Harrison Ford has a drink with the captain , that's the Los Angeles train station. You can see extras in the back.

[@porflepopnecker4376]

I've been there! I was traveling to San Francisco from Texas and we stopped there briefly.

[@ShreeNation]

That must've been an awesome experience!❤

[@guitarman8462]

@@ShreeNation sure was👌 . That station is where you can catch the Amtrak or Metrolink .

[@AubreySciFi]

Cartoon network just started a "Blade Runner" anime this year called "Blade Runner: Black Lotus" which looks interesting. Nice to see more stories set in that universe.

[@ShreeNation]

Ah lovely! Gotta check that out!

[@MaoKatz]

So, from you saying that this picture has elements that match with your taste since you're a adolescent I guess your style is something between the gothic and the punk (or cyberpunk as this movie). I like that. I recommend you to watch 1927 "Metropolis" by Fritz Lang as the font of inspiration for this movie and many more (directly and indirectly through Blade Runner), as The Fifth Element by Luc Besson or Star Wars Ep. I-III.

[@ShreeNation]

You nailed it! That's what i love. Also thanks for the recommendation!

[@MDBowron]

if you like multiple films of humanity and slavery, you'd love the 2012 film Cloud Atlas, which has six stories set in the 1840s (a maritime slavery story told as a journal), 1930s (a star crossed romance music story told in letters), 1970s (a geopolitical thriller about a nuclear power plant conspiracy told as a airport/pulp novel), 2010s (a black comedy elderly farce told as a film), 2140s (a cyberpunk dystopian clone science fiction told as a recorded interview) and the 2320s (a post-apocalyptic fantasy told as a campfire yarn), with actors playing multiple roles (one for each time period), playing different races and ages and genders. It's all based off a 2004 novel by David Mitchell. The 2140s period is much influenced by Blade Runner as well as Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World, Farenheit-451, The Island, Soylent Green and Neuromancer.

[@ShreeNation]

Thank you, i have the book Cloud Atlas as well, I'll give that a read then check out the film :)

[@micksailor4715]

This has become a cult favorite, and I love it. It wouldn't have gotten a sequel if it weren't for the growing popularity from new fans of sci-fi through the years, who appreciate the story. I hope this one answered a few of the questions you may have had from the sequel. As always, I love your reactions. :) Take care, be safe, best of luck!

[@ShreeNation]

Thank you :)

[@FlexStudioPL]

You are one of the ppl from "young" generation that really "got it". Some ppl on youtube are not going deep enough watching it. Love that movie. PS Blade Runner, Alien, Predator are the same universe. Androids in Alien are from Blade Runner mother company (i dont remember when somebody got idea to connect those worlds). Much love from Poland. Have a good one!

[@ShreeNation]

Thank you :)

[@RenfrewPrume]

CGI did not exist when this movie was made. All the effects are practical. You need to pay closer attention to the movie: Captain Bryant explained that two of the Replicants were killed before the movie began, so Deckard is looking only for four. We met Tyrell early in the movie, so he is easily recognizable when Roy and Sebastien visit him. The VK test is explained at the beginning of the movie. It’s designed to evoke an emotional response, so the testee’s responses can be matched against benchmark human responses. He told Rachel, after she saved his life, that he would not hunt her. Replicants are not killing because they are like children. They are slaves who want to be free and want to live longer.

[@bammbamm687]

A Milestone in Science fiction Movie History from Ridley Scott. Harrison Ford's Performance is awesome, every single Time when i saw a Movie with him. 👍🏻 But don't forget Rutger Hauer (Roy Batty). He was a great Character-Actor. Many Roles in his Career he was the Villain. Like in Night Hawks or The Hitcher. Good to see, that you enjoy this Masterpiece. See ya at your next Reaction. 😊

[@ShreeNation]

I came here for Harrison Ford, I stayed for Rutger Hauer. His "tears in the rain" speech was beautiful.

[@bammbamm687]

@@ShreeNation your List is getting longer and longer, because every Time new Films are added that you may not have seen yet. 🤣 His Acting is always captivating. But Sometimes you want to hate him, because he played so ruthless and profoundly evil. Greetings from Work. 😉

[@ShreeNation]

Greetings :) And that's true, looks like I'll be watching these movies for years to come :D

[@bammbamm687]

@@ShreeNation Well, you've got a Lot of catching up to do. 😜🤣 Afterwards I let myself be showered by the Films again when I get Home 😊

[@ChronosTachyon]

I'm still watching the video so I'm not sure if you figured this out, but: 6 escaped replicants on Earth, but 2 died in a previous incident, so only 2 males and 2 females (in order of death: Zhora, Leon, Pris, Roy) are still alive during the movie. Chew and Sebastian design bio-engineered body parts for the replicants; replicants are genetically engineered biological robots, not mechanical robots, so their body parts are flesh and blood.

[@jamesharper3933]

This is a very influencial sci-fi. If you haven't seen any of these movies yet, I highly recommend several Ford films that took his career in a totally different direction after Star Wars and Indy Jones. 1985 Witness, 1986 Mosquito Coast (his personal favorite) and 1988 Frantic (very Hitchcockian). Vangelis did the music for this movie. Nice reaction and great to see you!😁😁

[@ShreeNation]

Thank you, I will definitely check out these movies :)

[@atti97]

@@ShreeNation Witness is a masterpice and only oscar nomination for Harrison Ford.

[@philosopher0076]

Do not forget, " Regarding Henry " where his character becomes opposite to itself, I won't give a spoiler as to why or how, but his acting in that is incredible. Plus " Working Girl " which he did with Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver. And "Sabrina" from the late 90's as well as, " Six Days Seven Nights ". And 6 of his best performances ( along with " Witness" ) were, " Presumed Innocent " maybe his best performance out of ANY film he's done and a fantastic movie all around, " Patriot Games " and its incredible sequel, " Clear and Present Danger " both from best-selling novels by the unmatched Tom Clancy, and " Frantic " which was mentioned, directed in France by Roman Polanski, " The Fugitive ", awesome film....and finally, " Air Force One ".

[@eddhardy1054]

28:05...I'm sorry to repeat this but it's important to understand you getting things the wrong way around. Roy & Pris aren't acting like children even though they look older...infact they're emotionally fully adult but have come to realise that after only four years of actual life all their experiences both real & implanted are about to disappear...like tears in the rain.

[@meropemerope6096]

Out of context, but since I'm saving some of your videos, would you want to put in your list "The haunting of Hill House"? It's a tv series of 8 episodes, so i don't know if you want to do even TV series, but if you want to, you're not gonna regret it! It's astounding! Beautifulllllll

[@ShreeNation]

Thank you for the recommendation :) I'm a big fan of Mike Flanagan since Oculus so I've watched The Haunting of Hill House right when it came out and fell in love with it, its one of my favorite shows of all time.❤ Currently watching Midnight Mass, another great series by him 😍

[@meropemerope6096]

@@ShreeNation oh okay! Good then! I just discovered last week that Oculus and Hill House had the same creator and someone mentioned Midnight Mass so i'm gonna watch that too :D

[@ShreeNation]

@@meropemerope6096 Enjoy! I've been saving Doctor Sleep and i can't wait to watch that one😍

[@spartakas659]

That whole city was a model. Amazing.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤓

[@ShreeNation]

That's awesome!

[@robmarconi6758]

This is my favorite movie of all time. Love everything; the set design, the costuming, the soundtrack

[@eddhardy1054]

37:10...This is when Roy Batty actually starts to die.

[@thegwolf]

I know, I'm late to the party as per usual, but still I'm catching up on your reactions :P I figure the odd and still fun thing about the original Blade Runner is that even after 20+ years since I have seen it for the first time, I can revisit it and have new thoughts about it, can find new approaches, new perspectives and explanations to what we can see in the movie. It must be an odd experience to watch the two movies in a reversed order, but I suppose it doesn't change much because in worst case now you see this as a prequel for the newer movie :P A bit of fan theory or food for thought is that the Blade Runner movies, and the Aliens movies, even the Firefly 'verse probably share a single universe. It has been a while since i tried to run through the whole theory, but I try to explain it as best as I can while keeping things relatively short and it will be still long: So Tyrell makes replicants, creating artificial life, using them for all purposes including off-world slave labor. Replicants have the tendency to rise up even with the limited life span - like the ones in this movie - which puts Tyrell corp. through some crap. (Imagine if Facebook would release a product that would result in deaths, I guess the company stock would go down the drain fast) Weyland-Yutani corp. using the situation eventually bought Tyrell corp. or it's research material, scrapping the replicant concept but using the development of the technology to make androids instead (Ash in alien, Bishop in Aliens). There is some technology in this Blade Runner movie is also used in Alien, when we see the Nostromo crew operating the vessel (displays and screens showing the same things in both movies) In Aliens, at Ripley's debriefing, the personnel files of the Nostromo crew is showed in the background, where the the file of Dallas mentioning that he did work for the Tyrell corp. at some point. Even later in the pilot episode of Firefly, Mal is using an air-defense cannon with a HUD, that has the Weyland-Yutani logo. Additionally the largest corporation of Firefly universe (Blue Sun) has the tagline of "Building Better Worlds", the same as Weyland, which suggests that Blue Sun is either a rebranding of Weyland-Yutani or it was in connection with it. Bonus connection there is the Predator franchise, because in Predator 2 there is a Xenomorph trophy in the Predator ship, so effectively Blade Runner, Aliens, Predator and Firefly are all connected. In all fairness, the initial connections were probably just budget cuts, where the same props got used across Alien and Blade Runner, but later on Fox, owning the rights were leaning into it a bit to fuel the imagination of these franchises. (good marketing idea if you ask me)

[@ShreeNation]

Wow, I had no idea that Blade Runner was part of a multiverse.

[@u.2b215]

You might want to check of the City of Lost Children (1995), a very different movie but with very unique aesthetics you might enjoy watching. Edit: Just make sure to pick the original French version (La Cité Des Enfants Perdus), the dubbed version is horrible in my opinion.

[@douglascampbell9809]

I still really into the cyberpunk and space opera genres. I'm going to suggest a couple books for you to read or listen to. It's Voice Of The Whirlwind (pub 1984) and Hardwired (pub 1986) by Walter Jon Williams. WJW was a gigantic influence on the cyberpunk genre. He was a major influence to the creators of the Cyberpunk 2020 RPG (pen and paper) Another couple authors would be David Drake (Hammer's Slammers, Ranks of Bronze and many others) military based sci fi. Drake's plots frequently involve a contest of political systems. William Gibson (Neuromancer (1984),Count Zero (1986) and others) The father of cyberpunk.

[@douglascampbell9809]

I would like to add The Prince - by Jerry Pournelle and S. M. Stirling.

[@ShreeNation]

This is so great, thank you! I'm starting the r/52book challenge on reddit so this is perfect❤

[@eddhardy1054]

34:26..."Is she malfunctioning?" Well I guess getting shot in the gut will kinda do that to a person 🤣 ...also not sure about the Lovecraft reference. If there were signs of cosmic horror in that scene then I missed them 😳

[@sean---the-other-one]

Nah, not CGI. Practical effects, matte paintings, all sorts of stuff, but CGI wasn’t really much help to them at this point. Tron is probably a good example of how good CGI was in the time that Bladerunner came out. Tron was incredible at the time, the Toy Story of its generation, but you’ll see how little they’d have been able to help in relation to the visual standards of this movie. It really was this gorgeous when it was released. It’s a pity you didn’t see this prior to 2049, and I’d suggest you go back and watch it again now that you’ve seen the original (I’m at around the 15:00 mark at the moment so I’m not sure if you later state you’re going to do so). In case you don’t pick up on it, basically real animals are pretty much dead and gone. Most healthy humans have gone off world. People with problems like John F Sebastian can’t get past the health checks. It’s a decaying world. The replicants are our slave labour to terraform and do all the hard stuff. But the four year lifespan is the failsafe and Roy leads his team to try to escape that fate. He can feel his death coming, which you see in his hand cramping up and him raging against the dying of the light by pushing the nail into his hand to focus his mind through pain (and possibly to feel what Deckard was feeling with his broken fingers). He finally understood the value of life when his was winking out, which is why he saved Deckard at the end. He allowed his own life to go on in the memory of another, which is all most of us have as a legacy for the future. I like the theme of killing the creator, like humans breaking free of superstition and religious beliefs. Whether you believe in a god(s) or not, it’s a powerful subject, like Frankenstein, or patricide/matricide. It calls in elements of metamorphosis to a new level of understanding and existence, possibly also regrets and guilt or madness or a whole slew of other topics. This movie has some exceptional themes, not least the ambiguity left by the unicorn dream combined with the unicorn origami to question whether it’s coincidence or is Deckard a replicant with an implanted memory. “It’s too bad she won’t live. But then again, who does?” On a side note, Edward James Olmos who plays the enigmatic Gant in this was already a sci-fi favourite through this movie, but his later turn as Commander Adama in the brilliant reboot of Battlestar Galactica has made him sci-fi convention royalty.

[@ShreeNation]

Thank you for this explanation, and also the behind the scenes element. Growing up in a CGI world that's all i see, now these movies are introducing me to a whole new world of filmmaking :)

[@philosopher0076]

Olmos character was " Gaff ", not " Gant ", perhaps autocorrect messed with you but just FYI in case it didn't. And the script has a lot of holes. The four year lifespan for one, is moronic. What if a replicant started murdering and raping and causing general destruction and chaos after just two years? Then what? Why not just have a tracker/locator implanted? Or, even more wisely and practical, a remote on/off or kill switch to stop them instantly? Silly to have a four year life span. There are many others, including that they had records of exactly what Leon's name, appearance, fingerprints etc, were, so they would have already known who he was and that he was a replicant at the get go with no need for the blade runner at the opening of the film to even have to give a VK test. Silly and bad story and/or script writing. I can go on and on with blatant script errors but won't blab on like the reactor did in the video. I still love the film but wish their was more care and intelligence and attention put on the script.

[@raleighsmalls4653]

It looks sexy deco-noir because Riddley made commercials for years before features....Also his Father (?) owned a small theatre.....

[@meropemerope6096]

15:10 yeah, just for the sake of experimenting i think...i hope in our future if we really accomplished techno robots, let me do the hardest things ince they don't feel anything. But if we succede in cretaing one with feelings, damn give him a house or something :")

[@philmullineaux5405]

The creepy cop is the great Edward James Olmos,too many great parts to list plus the police chief in Miami Vice!

[@russellward4624]

No CGI. CGI didn't exist. It's sets and map paintings.

[@memnarch129]

You say CGI but this was before that. Everything in this movie is practical and done through compositing, aka layering shots ontop of shots to create one scene.

[@antarfodoh]

I very much hope you watch the sequel!! To many, the sequels to Alien and Terminator are better than the originals, and I think I'd agree there. I do not think that's the case with the Blade Runner sequel, however; I DO feel that the sequel elevated the original, making them both better by both existing. Edit: I commented before watching because I didn't want to forget, lol. I still hope you rewatched 2049 on your own time, if it wasn't fresh in your memory.

[@blacklistedfellow]

Noir movie at his finest, best ever created ever and forever

[@tomre2769]

Cgi did not really enter film making until the 90s. Before that, minatures and overlays on the film etc was used. How good it looks comes down to skill and time I guess. Amazing work in this film.

[@ShreeNation]

Miniatures rock! I've only seen them nowadays in many stop motion animation movies and they're some of my favorite films of all time.

[@angelaatwood46]

Hello Shree Nation: I own this one. Haven't seen the new Blade runner yet. I was told this one is better. I awokened from a sleep, thinking as I got up, just how alone grown ups are. If you don't fall into a model, like husband or wife, If you choose not to have children, you are marginalized. What about outside of traditional American culture, or a different reality, where grown people have true friends without psychological disease that hurt us so we wouldn't be so alone. We fight against a past, that leaves us all alone, to find friends, yet some have diseases of the mind so we have to cut them off. What I mean here are people that abuse us with their diseases of the mind. A lot of valuable people have problems, including me, but they are not hurtful towards others. Even if we do find true friends, we are supposed to follow a model of life like all the others. We are never supposed to say, "I feel alone." ❤️

[@MDBowron]

if you like this cyberpunk vibe, you'll probably also enjoy Akira (1988) or Ghost In The Shell (1995), if you like anime

[@ShreeNation]

I'll give them a watch :)

[@allenslayman4272]

No cgi dude, it was 82', cgi as I know it didn't start until the 90s, they used models and optical lighting effects

[@garyburley1960]

there was no cgi, it barely existed in 1982 and only in programmable form, no computers either, the film was all practical, and this film invented cyberpunk dystopia, even william gibson saw this and went back to rewrite neuromancer. Blade Runner was the first

[@russellward4624]

Replicants aren't robots. Thier synthetic people. Genetically engineered.

[@philosopher0076]

The purpose and mechanism of the replicant VK test was explained, by Tyrell, but because you were so busy blabbing away talking non-stop, you missed it. And this Racheal died as was explained in Blade Runner 2049, but I guess you talked over that to...especially when it was explained that it was her remains found plus that Jared Leto's blind mastermind character said he brought her back....rebuilt her and Ford said the real Racheal had a different eye color. You missed other things too. Too much talking over dialogue and you become clueless to integral elements in the story. Ugh.

[@davidcottone2700]

You picked one of my favorite ridley Scott movie next to alien if you have a chance check out legend with Tom cruise if you haven't already but there are so many movies to choose from

[@ShreeNation]

Legend was badass! Tom Hardy nailed it

[@davidcottone2700]

@@ShreeNationit's tom cruise 1985 not tom hardy

[@ShreeNation]

@@davidcottone2700 Oh my bad, i was thinking of the 2015 legend lol. will check it out!

[@davidcottone2700]

@@ShreeNation black hawk down was Tom hardy and yes it was bad ass

[@philmullineaux5405]

Ill say it now and at the end, models robotics special effects and practical effects are far superior to CGI! This, The Thing, and Alien... also by Scott. And all 3 used models, miniatures, robotics, special effects and practical effects. There's a larger tie in here. In Prometheus the prequel to all. The being in the chair with it's chest blown out in alien is a Engineer. Engineers seed life on planets and watch the progression. If they don't like how the life is progressing they seed another life to wipe out the remaining then they destroy each other. Engineers created humans Aliens and supposedly Predators and gave humans the technology for Replicants and Terminators!! Also Weyland Corp, Tyrell Corp and Cyberdyne Systems, all related! . In shots in this movie u see resumes of the Crew. Dallas worked for Tyrell Corp 😮😮😮 That's Bladerunner! Cyberdyne Systems supplied tech for Tyrell Corp and Weyland Corp! Weyland Corp did industrial and flight operations for Tyrell Corp! Tyrell Corp is Bladerunner and Weyland Corp is Aliens! Cyberdyne Systems is Terminator! Pro tips, leon was supposed to be played by a huge star , I cant remember the name. But was hurt and unavailable. This guy got the role and set his career! Roy batty end speech, he changed completely up and addlibbed! The version deckerd narrarates, is better! The part of Priss was originally offered to debbie harry of Blondie, but her manager made her not take. Huge mistake! No Deckerd is not a replicant...he gets his ass kicked, bleeds, bones broke, etc.

[@scottalynch]

This was long before CG effects. It was practical.

[@leavenedits5399]

very awesome reaction! ^-^

[@ShreeNation]

Thank you🥰

[@meropemerope6096]

14:48 yeah

[@williamkirby3552]

Notice how Rachel has a faux 40s' hairdo? It symbolizes a future where only the technology changes. The Los Angelos nightscape is still full of mean streets and desperate lives. In this future the cars can fly but not the soul. They've brought forth the technological marvel of articifial humans only to use them as slaves. There's a stale, cynical the-more things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same same vibe so reminiscent of our own time. Any of these charactors could fit seamlessly into our own era.

[@ShreeNation]

Good observation 👍

[@LordVolkov]

For another synth heavy soundtrack - Risky Business (Tangerine Dream)

[@ShreeNation]

Thank you :)