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https://laist.com/2019/11/05/blade-runner-november-2019-los-angeles-future-is-here.phpAnyone watch it recently?....They have the special version to without narration from Deckard and the different ending, but i still prefer the original narrated version...
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pbmus
(12,422 posts)dweller
(23,632 posts)with all versions and extra added the making of Blade Runner, etc
so yes watched it often and the original narrated is the best, imo
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Arthur_Frain
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Aristus
(66,367 posts)It's how they prove their 'authenticity'.
I don't care. I like the narration. The film is essentially a hardboiled detective story in a cyberpunk setting. World-weary narration is almost a requirement. Also, the narration has a way of pushing into the background Ridley Scott's insistence that Deckard is secretly a replicant. I really think it's ridiculous to assert that he is. The movie doesn't make any sense if he is, unicorn dream and origami sculpture notwithstanding.
Hawaii Hiker
(3,166 posts)He did not have the physical strength of the other replicants (Batty, Leon). Also they were aware they were replicants...So somehow Deckard is replicant yet he isn't aware of it ?...
Aristus
(66,367 posts)And she was a brand-new experiment in replicant technology.
And we're supposed to believe that Deckard is the same way? That he was secretly built years before, gifted with the memory of an ex-wife, then put into the system to be a real Blade Runner with colleagues who think he is human? The mental twists one has to do to accept that Deckard is a replicant are countless; and if one does accept them, I can't see how it enhances enjoyment of the film.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)For some reason, it strikes just the right note, intentionally or not. That happy ending, though, had to go. For me, that was the biggest improvement in the subsequent cuts.
And no, Decker is not a replicant.
Aristus
(66,367 posts)Narratively, it makes no sense. If there's this beautiful, pristine world beyond the city, why are people going off-world, instead of returning to the outlying areas?
But from an aesthetic viewpoint, I like it. That wide open, lovely, serene vista relieves the dreary, stifling claustrophobia of that nightmarish city.
Hawaii Hiker
(3,166 posts)I have that theme on my phone!..
Why do you think Batty spared Deckard?....I mean Leon would have ripped his head off and was incapable of showing mercy, pity, or remorse....But Batty seemed to acquire human emotions in the end..
Aristus
(66,367 posts)"love life more than he ever had before".
He wanted to be remembered. And saving Deckard's life was the only way that was going to happen.
Harker
(14,018 posts)I do prefer the version without Deckard's hard-boiled narration and 'happy ending.'
hunter
(38,312 posts)We had to pay off guys like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, and don't even ask about people who discovered anti-gravity or kitchen science fusion power.
It's all fun and games until some asshole builds a mirror-matter bomb in their basement.