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wow, news to me. another set of versions for me to buy though... will it ever end? -
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what does that add up to, 10 versions?
i guess we can be happy there's no remake on the way... -
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!HUSH! U know how they are nowadays..........
Shyt..., i think someone in Hollywierd heard you... -
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Yeah babies, I'm posting this just in case the e- link goes stale. They were also promising something like this for 2002's 20th anniversary, so I'll believe it when I am holding it in my hot little hands.
Blade Runner Final Cut is Coming
Source: Variety
May 26, 2006
Warner Home Video has disentangled the rights issues for Blade Runner to pave the way for a September reissue of the remastered "Director's Cut" version, followed by a theatrical release of a version promised to be truly Ridley Scott's final cut.
Variety says that Warner's rights to Blade Runner lapsed a year ago, but the studio has since negotiated a long-term license. The film, now considered a sci-fi classic, has had a troubled history from the start: When Scott ran overbudget, completion bond guarantors took control of it and made substantial changes before its 1982 theatrical release, adding a voiceover and happy ending. That version was replaced by the much better-received director's cut in 1992, but Scott has long been unhappy with it, complaining that he was rushed and unable to give it proper attention.
The helmer started working on the final cut version in 2000, but that project was shelved by Warner soon after, apparently because the studio couldn't come to terms with Jerry Perenchio over rights issues.
The trade adds that the restored "Director's Cut" will debut on home video in September, and remain on sale for four months only, after which time it will be placed on moratorium.
"Blade Runner: Final Cut" will arrive in 2007 for a limited 25th anniversary theatrical run, followed by a special edition DVD with the three previous versions offered as alternate viewing: Besides the original theatrical version and director's cut, the expanded international theatrical cut will be included. The set will also contain additional bonus materials. -
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So i wonder how much more(minite-wise) there will be added........
How dissappointing if its just yet another re-cut........
Had no idea this 'Special Re-re-cut' has been around that long ... -
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oh, that's SO gonna rock!! can't wait...
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Word on the street is that in this version Holden shoots first.
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heh.
I've been waiting for a decent Bladerunner DVD presentation and finally the legal swamp looks to be spitting it out...FINALLY!!! -
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This is the maximum depth. Additional responses will not be threaded.I remember getting all super excited four years ago or whatever... so I won't hold my breath. but if it does come out, you can bet I'm gonna be pre-ordering that shit in a heartbeat.
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If the set does indeed get released as described with all of the bonus disks, then I might possibly wet my pants with joy.
Yet, it would still be incomplete, because I was fortunate enough to see the rough cut, which was screened as the "Director's Cut" before such a thing was out on DVD. There were only two theatrical engagements of this print, and one was in SF at the Castro, where I saw it.
The rough contained stock music in spots (a track from the David Byrne/Brian Eno album, "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts," for example), didn't have the hotly debated "unicorn dream" (which was taken from "Legend," for fuck's sake), and weirdest of all, I noticed that when Rachael plays the piano, it was in a minor key instead of a major key. Lots of weird choppy bits were in there that didn't make the "Director's Cut," and I loved trying to spot all of the differences. I would be ecstatic if they added that version to the release, but I'll take what I can get.
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if i remember correctly, and i rarely do, there was an original unicorn dream shot that dissappeared after it was first cut out...so they had to reuse the one from legend...
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I always thought the unicorn sequence was silly and didn't really add anything to the movie. In fact it kind of takes you out of the narrative in an overpressing metaphoric kind of way.
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"I always thought the unicorn sequence was silly and didn't really add anything to the movie."
I guess I'll be taking a minority position here, but I appreciated the unicorn sequence. I thought it helped add to the evidence of Deckard being a replicant -- what with Gaff leaving Deckard the unicorn paper sculpture and all.... -
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Hmmm...I thought that the origami unicorn was plenty for that allusion. Ah well, it's only a petty nit pick on my part anyway.
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Hate the unicorn dream. Hate it!
It's not in the source material. It's not in the script. It's just Ridley Scott's dumb idea.
Look: Deckard's growth is that he starts out as a human who is so burned out on killing that he's like a machine. Falling in love with an artificial human, Rachael, and seeing the will to live shown by the other replicants, humanize him again.
If's Deckard's an effing replicant it undermines the whole point of the story! Arrgh! -
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And furthermore -- the whole point of the origami unicorn was to let Deckard know that Gaff was there but let Rachael live. End of story.
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i didn't think the point was to humanize him...it was to humanize the replicants...
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I don't think it was either of those, entirely.
I took the main point to be the question of what makes us human. What makes a human human?
Deckard starts out being burnt out and being far less human the replicants he is hunting. Seeing the replicants struggle to live, and to find a way past their four year life-span, seeing Roy at the end, and the way Ratchell behaved made him (and the audience) question their lack of humanity as well.
Both Deckard and the replicants ended up being very human in the end.
I remember somewhere I once read that P K Dicks stories were more of a vessel for his philosophies. The more of his work I read, the more I tend to agree. -
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"I took the main point to be the question of what makes us human. What makes a human human? "
Exactly, Ivan, because the replicants are, ironically, more human than Deckard. Again -- having Deckard be a replicant undermines this irony!
I have almost one whole shelf of PKD's works (almost read all of his novels, but not quite) and he is indeed driven by the philosophical underpinings of his narratives. (Join the PKD tribe to talk more on this -- we haven't had a good discussion there in a while, need some new blood.)
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Indeed, Atom -- shot, used in the studio screening, then cut out and lost. (According to the BR bible, "Future Noir.")
It wasn't in any version of the script, purely Ridley Scott's idea. -
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Well I just have to say .. it's about time they released athe version with thte voice over.. the directors cut with out it leaves me some what wanting.. I still love the movie.. but my mind is wanting the voice over.. mainly because when I saw it in the theatre that's what ya got.. and that's what I want.. and the Unicorns were rather silly to add in.. and made no sense really.. must get this new set..
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It was out in various formats already with the voiceover -- where were you? :)
I have the laserdisc version of the European cut with the voiceover, for example (which is unfortunately pan-and-scan, but it was cheap). And laserdisc is still the highest quality commercial digital format. -
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So Deckard falls asleep at the piano and dreams of the unicorns and then Gaff leaves the little origami unicorn to show that he knows Deckard's memories - shows Deckard that he is a replicant.
I could have done without that because having Deckard remain human makes it more of a compelling story of Replicants who bring life back to a human who was more of a machine than they were, plus it showed a small trace of humanity in Gaff for letting Rachael live.
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