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Do Top Hats Dream of Electric Trains?

2009-09-20T18:30:09Z

"I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Boots mortgaging property to tiny dogs. Apartments torched on Baltic Avenue..."

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/12/do-top-hats-dream-of.html
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ie9098baec9eb95cd0d7bac3726b6ce9e

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more feline than feline

2008-10-30T22:49:07Z

History was made this weekend in New York City as Platina Luna Blade Runner, a year and a half old male with a shimmering blue-gray coat and emerald green eyes triumphed over 248 other cats in 41 breeds to become the first Russian Blue cat to win the Cat Fanciers’ Association title of Best Of The Best.

http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/united-states/russian-blue-makes-history-at-2008-cfa-iams-cat-championships-5863.html

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Five-Disc Complete Collector's Edition: Contents

2008-01-02T20:44:40Z

I'm holding mine right now, and I couldn't be more excited!

Here's what's in it (in case you haven't read the Amazon page):

* Disc 1: The Final Cut (2007)

* Disc 2: "Dangerous Days: The Making of Blade Runner"

* Disc 3: Archival Versions
- U.S. Theatrical Cut (1982)
- International Theatrical Cut (1982)
- Director's Cut (1992)

* Disc 4: Enhancement Archive
INCEPTION
The Electric Dreamer: Remembering Philip K. Dick
Sacrificial Sheep: The Novel vs. the Film
Philip K Dick: the Blade Runner Interviews
FABRICATION
Signs of the Times: Graphic Design
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
Screen Tests: Rachael and Pris
the Light that Burns: Remembering Jordan Cronenweth
Deleted and Alternate Scenes
LONGETIVITY
1982 Promotional Featurettes
"On The Set"
"Convention Reel"
"Behind-the-Scenes Outtakes"
Trailers
1981 Teaser Trailer
1982 Theatrical Trailer
1982 TV Spot
1992 Director's Cut Trailer
2007 "Dangerous Days" Teaser Trailer
2007 Final Cut Trailer

"Promoting Dystopia: Rendering the Poster Art"
"Deck-a-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard" (Deckard is not a replicant; repeat 5000 times)
"Nexus Generation" Fans and Filmmakers"

* Disc 5: The Workprint (now I can die)

Metal toy Spinner replica (so cool! -- and I just saw the original in Seattle at the sci-fi museum)
Metal origami unicorn
Lenticular motion film clip (this is wholly bad-ass)
Collector's images, with art design and storyboard art

Lots of disc commentary by just about everybody. The stylish faux-metal (plastic) case is marked "Voight-Kampff" by the handle.

Awesome -- everything I hoped for and more. Now I have to restrain myself from buying the Blu-Ray version...these cases are limited edition and numbered. Mine is 069069! I am such a fucking geek.

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Official Site for Final Cut is up.

2007-12-21T02:32:51Z

Harrison says it was a bitch.

http://bladerunnerthemovie.warnerbros.com/

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Theatrical release this year??

2007-11-05T18:23:46Z

I heard that there is a 'Final Cut' version of the film which is slated for release in theaters sometime this year. Anyone have info confirming this?

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The Voiceover...

2007-09-22T17:58:29Z

Obviously it is "cooler" to prefer the non-voiceover version of bladerunner, but dammit, I saw it first with the voiceover when I saw BR at a drive-in theater when I was 12 back in '82, and that is how I first loved the film. It seemed to me to be an homage to the '40s-'50s crime noir detective films... existing peacefully alongside the action on screen. The ridley scott director's cut is fine as well, with a different set of strengths and weaknesses, but not necessarily "better." what say you all?

PS...
I think the consumer is led to believe that the original version of a film released in theaters will never be as good as the "director's cut" that will inevitably come out on DVD. The cynic in me sees this as the logical progression of marketing tactics to increase film profits, by leading us into this cycle of paying repeatedly for viewing the same film. This may be fodder for another discussion elsewhere though.

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Deckard the replicant

2007-09-21T06:21:38Z

If, as everyone seems to think, Deckard was a replicant, why didn't he use his super strength to defend himself in the fight scene with Roy Batty (played by Rutger Hauer)? Was it because he was not Nexus-6?

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Blade Runner Final Cut

2007-07-27T04:56:44Z

worth the wait?

http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/upcoming-movies/blade-runner-final-cut-its-the-unicorn/

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BR on HD

2007-06-21T07:04:18Z

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Warner/Disc_Announcements/Blade_Runner_Comes_to_Blu-ray,_HD_DVD_This_October/634

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My name is Devin Kelly and my father Executive Produced this film.

2007-02-21T06:28:24Z

I'm not trying to brag (well, I guess I am), but I thought I'd just drop a line and say thanks to all the folks out there who have always supported Blade Runner, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and the overall vision of people like P K Dick.

My father is Brian Kelly, the Executive Producer of the original film and the guy who decided to make the book into a movie.

Blade Runner was his only successful run at making a film. The forces of nature, Hollywood and his own misfortune conspired against him after this one success... But what a success!

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Soundtrack

2007-01-28T15:57:32Z

I know we've talked about this (sort of) before, but I'm just listening to the soundtrack and reflecting on how it really just WORKS with this movie. The icing on the cake, so to speak.

Does anyone know where to pick up the bootleg?

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One Hour Bladerunner documentary (2000)

2006-09-11T15:04:46Z

On The Edge of Bladerunner

this may very well be posted here already, if it is, someone tell me to delete it and I will.

http://www.jonhs.net/freemovies/on_the_edge_of_blade_runner.htm

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Deleted Scene

2006-07-06T12:58:23Z

This is a deleted scene from Blade Runner that takes place in the hospital, I hadn't seen it until now...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieusmdtJWeM

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Bryant's exposition in the "Blue Room"

2006-06-23T07:52:33Z

Is there a fanwankable reason Bryant would have to explain the four-year lifespan to one of his best Blade Runners?

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Whole lotta 'Running going on....

2006-06-08T01:21:05Z

Just saw this...
Am i late, or is this news...

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/comments/?entryid=328205

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do androids dream of electric sheep

2006-05-25T23:01:43Z

I just finished reading the book. I just have a few questions if anybody can answer them. Towards the end of the book, Deckard is somewhere out by Oregon, and he keeps referring to himself as Mercer. Does this mean he's an android, just like Mercer, or is it opened to interpretation? Any thoughts.

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This New Format

2006-01-21T02:04:04Z

isn't the technoir I was promised...at least it's nothing the god of biomechanics would let you in heaven for.

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closer then we think

2006-01-09T18:07:20Z

I may be totaly paranoid bout this, but in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Phillip K Dick's book which Blade Runner is based on, the birds die off first. that's why Tyrell Corp has a fake owl. today in Turky 12,000 birds, chickens and turkeys were destroyed.

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When I say Tyrell what comes to mind?

2005-12-08T14:08:24Z

Title says it. What do you think of. Cool, Good, Evil.

I am thinking Some say hey its an evil Bill Gates and Microsoft. While others will say futuristic, in control, master, Thunder Ruler.

Perhaps stuborn. I think the dictionary lists it as the God of Battle....

I guess I am trying to decide it this is something I want to call something/someone..

Thanks
P

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New Photos

2005-10-21T19:58:21Z

Hope you like them.

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More Human Than Human

2005-08-27T19:40:15Z

Do you suppose Rob Zombie watched Blade Runner before writing the song?

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drive-by moderator

2005-06-12T08:03:18Z

I haven't read this in about a year. If there's any spam or stupid stuff that needs to be deleted, write me directly.

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BladeRunner on TV

2005-03-13T23:46:37Z

It's 11 Pacific time and our movie is playing on FX. I don't remember the last time I've seen the theatrical release version and the VOICEOVER is taking me back. Does anyone know who claims authorship of Deckard's hard-boiled noir narration? It sure doesn't sound like H. Fancher or D. Peoples.

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Nerd Hunter 3004

2005-03-08T20:43:20Z

A spoof of “Blade Runner” with various types of nerds taking the place of the deadly replicants. It’s 3004, and being a nerd is a crime punishable by death...

http://filmthreat.com/Reviews.asp?Id=7174

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Going into hiding

2005-02-21T22:09:38Z

Is it right that Philip K. Dick went into hiding because of death threats made by some official order?

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Opening shot

2005-02-13T19:01:15Z

does anyone have a jpg of the opening 'hades landscape' shot? I'm looking for reference online and having no luck. thanks in advance.

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Life immitating Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

2004-12-24T20:44:42Z

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/23/national/23cat.html?oref=login

"Bereaved Cat Owner Gets $50,000 Clone
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: December 23, 2004

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22 (AP) - The first cloned-to-order pet sold in the United States is Little Nicky, a 9-week-old kitten delivered to a Texan saddened by the loss of a cat she had owned for 17 years.

The kitten, which cost $50,000, was cloned from a cat, Nicky, who died last year and whose owner banked the DNA that was used for the clone.

"He is identical," the woman told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "His personality is the same."

She insisted on anonymity because of fears of being a target of cloning opponents.

As Little Nicky, who was delivered two weeks ago, frolics in his new home, the cloning and sale have reignited ethical and scientific debates.

The company that created Little Nicky, Genetic Savings and Clone of Sausalito, Calif., said it hoped to produce the first cloned dog, for a much more lucrative market than cats, by May.

A critic, David Magnus, co-director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Stanford, said: "It's morally problematic and a little reprehensible. For $50,000, she could have provided homes for a lot of strays.""

It's even in San Francisco!!!

God I love reality sometimes!

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teaching "do androids dream of electric sheep"

2004-12-21T21:54:28Z

seeking help from the group mind. i'm using dick's novel in a college freshman comp.class that i'm teaching. the class is based on issues surrounding dream/reality. using texts including richard linklater's film waking life, kurasawa's dreams, readings from freud-jung-laberge, lightman's einstein's dreams, neil gaiman's sandman. was planning on reading the dick novel and then showing "the new renaissance," the short from the animatrix so that i could focus on the nature of consciousness, as well as "what is rea(ity)?" (sorry for the long intro.)

does anyone have any other ideas on interesting questions/approaches to thinking about this novel that i might borrow? ANY suggestions are appreciated. (i've read the novel several times and watched the film too many, but i'm looking for some fresh angles.) thank you.

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Philip K Dick's writing

2004-12-18T09:33:50Z

Not exactly Bladerunner per sey, but I have been reading Dicks short story collections, and wondered how many of the fans of Bladerunner here are also fans of his other works..

Previous to this I had only read Do Andrids Dream of Electric Sheep and A Scanner Darkly.

Also, is PAY Check any good as a movie?

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Scott's other works

2004-12-11T07:59:36Z

I'm actually an even bigger fan of Alien than I am of Blade Runner, and I wan wondering of there is a tribe dedicated to this piece of work. Anybody aware of any suck thing?

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Themes

2004-12-03T01:39:34Z

In addition to being visually magnificent, I love this movie for its depth. It took me a long time to start understanding the themes, and I'm sure I missed a lot of them. Dunno if you like that kind of conversations, but well.. what do you think of that anyway? Its mostly leads.. I can't stick it all together yet.

I think the main theme is : what does it mean to be human?
In the beginning of the movie, the replicant doesnt understand why he should save that turtle (lying on the back in the desert). In the end, Roy saves Deckard and redeems himself (dove flying from his hand).

Deckard kills replicants considering them as machines. In that he shows the same lack of pity as the replicants (hence the question of Rachel asking if he tried the test on himself). But he eventually falls in love with her.

There's also the theme of God, when Roy goes to Tyrell Corp to meet his maker. He beats him at chess, asks him to extend his life, and -incapable of facing his fate- kills him in rage.
It sounds awefully like a picture of humans trying to live longer through scientific progress, trying to surpass their maker, and eventually killing him with their pride and inability to accept the inevitable.

Well that's some of the leads I got. dunno how they all connect or if they do. but I'd like to know what you think of that, and what other themes you see in there.

PS :
What about JR Sebastian (whose fast aging illness making him somehow close to replicants and who seems to be very much into creating artificial life) ?
What about the policeman? I think he spares Rachel in the end ("too bad she's got to die too, but its our common fate" seems to me he's saying he'll let her die of natural death).

hmm.. ok I'd better stop there or this post will go on forever...

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written out

2004-09-10T09:48:12Z

I'm told that some rather important characters were dropped from the
story when it was converted from book to film.

Who?

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They "retired" Buster Friendly...

2004-06-11T20:52:37Z

http://www.tribe.net/tribe/servlet/template/pub%2CTribeCard.vm?tribeid=3dcf7124-2f83-41ec-a5f3-504faec69254&_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5B3dcf7124-2f83-41ec-a5f3-504faec69254%5D

He wasn't always a good brother, but he was a "replican", not a "replican't". He will be missed.

Services are now being conducted in the Tribe Cemetary, where all constructs end up eventually. Please take part in our overnight LED vigil, if you're so inclined.

http://www.tribe.net/tribe/servlet/template/pub%2Ctribes%2CViewThread.vm?threadid=1e2344c1-1122-4e6b-b059-e18abecfd606&tribeid=2b971a8f-a3b0-49d0-b8cd-bb0f1a33f85a

Repressive proteins will be accepted by the family in lieu of flowers. They're all synthetic these days anyways, so who cares...*hic*.

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Special Edition Bladerunner DVD

2004-05-09T04:37:59Z

Anyone else keeping track of the legal matters surrounding the release of the Special Edition DVD that has been in production?

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Soundrak CD

2004-05-05T08:59:56Z

Even in SF, it's fun to drive my spinner late at night in the rain, to the ambience of \/angellis

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Superhero Fan Films

2004-04-06T18:28:42Z

I know a lot of people get intimidated by doing Superhero Fan Films or sci-fi films, other than Star Wars, because of the huge amount of special effects needed. Although there's Adobe Aftereffects, how have you overcome this occurence and what are you working on or finished that would be a superhero fan film?

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FUTURE NOIR gallery show NYC

2004-02-06T18:05:35Z

any fans in NYC might want to check this show out. sounds interesting:
* "FUTURE NOIR," Gorney Bravin & Lee, 534 West 26th Street, (212) 352-8372, through March 6. An examination of the artistic influence of Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner," this show's theme is little more than a mixture of gallery artists, the usual suspects and guilt by association. The unquestionable standout is Amy Globus's video "Electric Sheep," which shows two octopuses drifting and squeezing through different parts of an aquarium to the suitably swoony (manipulated) sounds of Emmylou Harris's love ballad "Wrecking Ball" (Smith).

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the umbrella...

2004-01-18T04:29:22Z

I have an umbrella with a light up neon-blue handle... anybody else seen these? I got it a few years ago online, but have not been able to find it again since. i get really lame results when I google it too. I'd love to get another one in another color... it's really cool.

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new pix

2003-12-24T23:40:22Z

are uploaded, mostly from the rare magazine thingee...

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