Holee Shit, Blade Runner

[featherynscale]

I just saw the director's cut re-release of Blade Runner. I had not seen the film before (although I did read the story last year...) and every time I say that to somebody, they go, "WTF? You haven't seen Blade Runner? How could that be true? It's so very you!"

And, now that I've seen it, I had to ask myself "Holy shit! How could I have not seen this movie?". I mean, really, I've spent 25 years of my life having not seen Blade Runner, and it is so very very fucking me. It expresses practically the whole of my aesthetic preferences. It asks Probing Questions About What It Means To Be Human. It is chock full of moral ambiguity. You don't really know what happens to the hero and the heroine at the end. And, a guy fucks a robot(!!).

Anyway, I feel enriched by the experience.

Comments

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Now that I've looked him up, yeah, I have seen some of his stuff before, just didn't attach the name to it. I actually like his bondage stuff better than his robot stuff. (Though recommendations of robot pinups are always welcome...)

I try to consider the book version of anything and its film version to be sort of similar stories that happen in parallel universes. I remember coming away from the book with a sense that Deckard was a replicant, certainly. The film-Deckard is iffier, I think.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

It's true that the addition of ambiguity is one of Ridley Scott's greatest contributions to the story, and establishes DADoES? as one of very few P.K. Dick stories that gained something significant in the translation to film.