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Blade Runner, 1982
English, German, Cantonese, Japanese, Hungarian
USA, Hong Kong
Profile of Blade Runner
The mood of Blade Runner is gloomy, stylized, and atmospheric. The plot centers around A.I., technology gone awry, and fugitives. It is a thriller, sci-fi, and action movie. Stylistically, Blade Runner is postmodernist, is neo-noir, and is futuristic. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. The setting is Los Angeles. Blade Runner is based on a book. The movie is known for being a modern classic, essential viewing, and an award winner. Note that it includes violent content.
Summary of Blade Runner
Director Ridley Scott's hauntingly prescient vision of the not-too-distant future stars Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard, a retired police assassin, or "blade runner." The Los Angeles of 2019 is a dark, polluted, overcrowded dystopia dominated by cloud-piercing buildings and looming neon billboards, the air dense with acid rain and flying traffic. World-weary Deckard has been called out of retirement to liquidate four escaped "replicants"--genetically derived androids of great strength, intelligence, and nearly-human emotion who serve as slaves and prostitutes in the off-planet colonies. Led by Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer), they've come to Los Angeles to confront their designer, Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkel), with their unhappiness about the brevity of their four-year life span. In the course of his search, Deckard becomes romantically entwined with Tyrell's lovely assistant, Rachael (Sean Young), and must eventually confront Batty in an unforgettable rain-soaked sequence.
A highly influential fusion of the science fiction and noir genres based on the novel DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? by Philip K. Dick, this postmodern film boasts astonishingly rich art direction, juxtaposing ingenious technological gadgetry with yellowing photographs and fetishistic objets d'art as it touches on questions of time, memory, identity, and mortality. Different from Scott's 1992 director's cut, this widely released edition of the film, which features Ford's narration and an ending culled from footage of Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING, remains the most well known version of this stunning cinematic landmark.
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| Language: | English, German, Cantonese, Japanese, Hungarian |
| Country: | USA, Hong Kong |
| Release date: | 25 June 1982 |
| Runtime: | 117 min |
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Critics Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
This is perhaps the only science-fiction film that can be called transcendental.
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- by: Owen Gleiberman
Users Reviews
This film is a lion slowly moving through the high grass before striking a prey. With grace and carefully planned steps, it treads carefully forward. It knows that simply doing something fast, doesn't mean you do it well.
- 16.May.2009
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- by: Sockerbit
- Sockerbit rated this movie
9/10Amazing
Not only a classic SF film, but a classic film, period. I can watch this once or twice a year and still be totally enthralled. A masterful piece of film-making: great set design, acting, visual effects, plot, directing and music.
- 17.April.2009
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- by: groovyreligion
- groovyreligion rated this movie10/10Must See
