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.

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[arkhamrefugee.livejournal.com]

There was a ninety minute debate last quarter in the science fiction appreciation class at AIA about whether or not Deckard was a replicant. It would have come to blows had the instructor not shaken from her malaise long enough to call a break and let people cool off.

Also, this is the only movie where I have looked at Sean Young and said, "Oooh, baby, give me some of your circuit-based loving." Or, you know.. words to that effect.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Another piece of Ridley Scott magic: garnering decent performances from Sean Young and Darryl Hannah, both of whom are far better suited to modeling. The man is a marvel.

[arkhamrefugee.livejournal.com]

I dunno about that. Supposedly, most of his crew for Blade Runner wanted to draw and quarter his ass for being an insufferable prig. I figure that he's a talented filmmaker but still a human with all that it entails.

And I figure David Lynch also managed to pull a decent performance out of Sean Young. Just my opinion, though.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Fortunately for me, I get to enjoy the fruits of Scott's insufferable priggishness without needing to work with or talk to the man. :P

Sure, Young was decent in Dune, and I'm sure there must be at least one other film in which Hannah turns in a good performance -- but both of them together? In one film? Nothing short of a miracle, IMNSHO.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Sean Young is in Dune?

Oh, wait... she's Chani, isn't she? Gods, she looks like...12.

[malvito.livejournal.com]

That's the type of thing one tends to hear. One tended to hear that sort of thing about Hitchcock, but it depended on who was doing the talking. Sort of like RenFaire rumours.

I don't mean to defend priggish/prickish/adjective of your choice behavior, but I'd prefer to judge the man on his works rather than on what is said of him in the rumour mill.

Hot Damn!!!!

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

There I am, innocently clicking the internet, and I find 24-year old Boy (http://www.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1390/Mptv/1390/8864_0026.jpg?path=gallery&path_key=0087182) Hawtness (http://www.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1390/8864_0027.jpg.html?path=gallery&path_key=0087182&seq=2).

I'm just sayin'.

_{(thank you)}

Re: Hot Damn!!!!

[arkhamrefugee.livejournal.com]

Always glad to help. :)

Re: Hot Damn!!!!

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Wait. Are you telling me you haven't seen Dune INTERROBANG

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

That's a hell of a thing. Why didn't we have science fiction appreciation at my school? I'd have seen this damned thing ten years ago!

[arkhamrefugee.livejournal.com]

What's really going to chap your ass is the "Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence" course I took as an elective. Our curriculum consisted of us watching Terminator, Terminator 2, Blade Runner and the Star Wars trilogy plus reading DADoES, I, Robot and Neuromancer. And then discussing them in class as possible senarios for AI evolution.

Best class I ever had, ever.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Madness. What division held that class?

[arkhamrefugee.livejournal.com]

The philosophy department. It was technically a senior level class but I happened to know the instructor so I got in as a sophomore.