Blade Runner:

[CanuckAmok]

Poll question: Blade Runner:

I like both versions. I, like most people, saw the narrated version first, so I came to love it on those terms. Plus, I really enjoyed the Sam Spade feel of the Narration (btw, did you know the narration is NOT Harrison Ford's voice? It's a sound-alike) I acknowledge that the un-narrated version is a 'better' movie, though.

[Wonk]

1. Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

Hands down, the best version of it, imho.

[GregW]

11. Do androids dream of electric sheep?

[Wonk]

23. Oops, I stand corrected. It's been awhile since my PK Dick phase. nt

[JackSwift]

2. I've never seen the Director's cut

but I loved the original. And if that was Harrison Ford doing the narration, it was fabulous.

I've got to rent the DC sometime.

[Dead_Parrot]

3. Yeah, I'd have to go with the original.

The reasons for doing it may be have been totally wrong (The film co. thought people were too stupid to understand the plot!) but it added a nice 50's touch...

[DS1]

4. I can't say I've ever seen the narrated version

:shrug:

[Kamika]

5. I like both versions but.. (recap of directors cut

I really like darker movies so I have to go with the directors cut.

Recap of the directors cut: spoilers!!








In this movie there is NO narration, decker has really really weird dreams about a unicorn, in the end things starts to look like Decker is the last Replicant that fled, and when two cops comes to him (one is the guy that speaks portugese greek?) he folds a unicorn in paper (indicating he knows deckers dreams) so anyway in the end when decker is supposed to kill the female repilicant the movie ends as he steps into the elevator with her.. indicating he will kill her.

The original movie had a happier ending where they are seen travellin with their hoover car after the elevator shuts.

[RainDog]

6. the narrated version, because

I HATE the unicorn scene. I think it was really smart to cut that from the original because it is feels so "My Little Pony" to me.

[Kamika]

7. oh yeah

How dare you diss My little pony!!!

I own over 30 of them :D


Wonder if they sell good on ebay

[Paul1574]

10. i always thought......

it was a more open ending....kinda let the viewer think what they will....the narrated one has the "happy" ending but the directors cut leaves it open to interpretation ~ i like to think he doesnt kill her and they at least try to escape, cos maybe the cop doesnt follow them showing a human side to him ? (or maybe he too is a replicant ??)

does this make sense ? lol

[madddog]

8. original version for me...

I like the narration...the DC just doesn't seem "right" to me...

[Swede]

9. I loved Roy Baty's soliloquy at the end.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams ... glitter in the dark near Tanhauser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost ... in time, like tears ... in rain. Time ... to die.

[tigereye]

12. totally agree about the soliloquy!

One of the great film dialogues and so beautiful. I prefer the original, since I also love the Sam Spade'film noir- vibe, but the Directors' cut is also very poignant in it's own way. I guess I always saw the Unicorn as the only slightly human side of the creepy lieutenant, a neat metaphor to be taken different ways. What a great film and a favorite at our house.

[Kamika]

14. unicorn was his memory *spoiler

The unicorn he folded was to show he KNEW what decker dreamt about..

indicating decker was a replicant with enginered dreams.


Remember at the piano decker dreamt about them

[GregW]

13. Did you know the car scene at the end of the happy version ...

... was an outtake of the movie, "The Shining" ... when the family is driving to the hotel?

[Loonman]

15. The clue to Deckard being a replicant is his dreams

What is he dreaming about?

Why is he dreaming about it?

[scottcsmith]

16. Not Ford's voice?

What I read was that Harrison Ford thought the voice over was so stupid that he read it as badly as he could, but it was still used.

[Beetwasher]

17. There Are Books That Continue the Story (Spoilers)

Some might not consier them official because they are not by Dick, however, for those interested, spoilers are as follows:




In the books that contine Bladerunner, "Edge of Human" and "Replicant Night", the possibility that Decker is a replicant IS thoroughly explored and in the end, it turns out, he is NOT a replicant.

Also, if I remember correctly (it's been a while since I read them) Pris was actually a human!

[CanuckAmok]

18. M. Emmet Walsh's Character says, at one point...

That he's got "four skin jobs walking around".

But later in the same scene, it's revealed that SIX replicants had revolted, and hijacked the shuttle to return to Earth.

It's also revealed that they had attemtted to gain forced access to the Tyrrel Corporation, and one had been "fried in a force field"

That would leave FIVE Replicants to track down:

Roy
Pris
Leon
(the snake woman--can't remember her name)

and... who?

I think that the reason Walsh was only looking for FOUR missing Replicants is because he had the fifth one sitting across from his desk, taking notes. I also think the EJ Olmos character was assigned to Decker in order to "retire" him after he had completed his mission.

[tigereye]

19. Kamika I never looked at it that way

about the unicorn. I should probably see the Dir cut again with that in mind. My husband is a big Phillip K Dick fan, does this part fit with the original short story ( Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
Never thought about Decker that way. Interesting.

[Kamika]

20. The short story is nothing like the movie

I actually borrowed the short story from our library and it was practicly nothing like the movie.. decker had a wife and everything.

I don't remember anything about Decker being a repilicant in the short story

[Capn Sunshine]

21. There's an unarrated version?

where have I been? I can't even imagine how jumbled a movie that would be....

[Kamika]

22. read my 1st reply to read about it

topic

[no name no slogan]

24. Directors cut, hands down

That cheesy tacked-on ending of the original really pissed me off. I don't mind artistic license by directors (in fact, I almost expect it) but the whole "nice" ending completely fUx0r3d it for me.

[SOteric]

25. I love them both, just in different ways.

The unnarrated version is darker, more brooding, has an artistic 'edginess' that I find compelling.

The narrated version and a smoothness, a satiny kind of Film Noire feel to it which lends an intriguing sense of nostalgia to a series of events in some alleged future.