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Charles de Lauzirika, Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007)
Everything you ever wanted to know about Blade Runner but were afraid to ask Paul Sammon. Interviews with pretty everyone ever involved with the film from Ridley Scott to the person who made the tea. The only person I thought of who was omitted was Vangelis. William Sanderson? A couple of people have died. And at three and a half hours, it might be quicker to read the book. Actually it doesn't feel like 220 minutes, which is a tribute to something.
Here the voices are allowed to speak for themselves, with no narrator to tie things together, and on the whole it's a consistent story - although the completion bond people suggest they demanded the voiceover added to the original release and Ridley Scott claims credit. Harrison Ford (called Harry by Daryl Hannah) is more polite about Sean Young than you'd imagine, Scott more sanguine about on-set troubles, Hampton Fancher oscillates between "Oh my god the film blew my mind" and "You bastards" and Frank Darabont criticises the voiceover being in at the death of Batty (when the workprint had a voiceover there, too). Something still doesn't add up there.
No mentions of Dick's notes on the film, his threat to break the script writer's arm (Fancher's?) or his pot shot at Scott in a tv guide. One producer talks about introducing an element from the book which wasn't in the book (and dammit, I've forgotten which).
Oh, and (editor) Terry Rawlings and Ridley Scott watched a four hour(!) cut of the film, complete with scenes labelled (missing). Watch this space for that release.
Totals: 54 (Cinema: 19; DVD: 33; TV: 2]
Everything you ever wanted to know about Blade Runner but were afraid to ask Paul Sammon. Interviews with pretty everyone ever involved with the film from Ridley Scott to the person who made the tea. The only person I thought of who was omitted was Vangelis. William Sanderson? A couple of people have died. And at three and a half hours, it might be quicker to read the book. Actually it doesn't feel like 220 minutes, which is a tribute to something.
Here the voices are allowed to speak for themselves, with no narrator to tie things together, and on the whole it's a consistent story - although the completion bond people suggest they demanded the voiceover added to the original release and Ridley Scott claims credit. Harrison Ford (called Harry by Daryl Hannah) is more polite about Sean Young than you'd imagine, Scott more sanguine about on-set troubles, Hampton Fancher oscillates between "Oh my god the film blew my mind" and "You bastards" and Frank Darabont criticises the voiceover being in at the death of Batty (when the workprint had a voiceover there, too). Something still doesn't add up there.
No mentions of Dick's notes on the film, his threat to break the script writer's arm (Fancher's?) or his pot shot at Scott in a tv guide. One producer talks about introducing an element from the book which wasn't in the book (and dammit, I've forgotten which).
Oh, and (editor) Terry Rawlings and Ridley Scott watched a four hour(!) cut of the film, complete with scenes labelled (missing). Watch this space for that release.
Totals: 54 (Cinema: 19; DVD: 33; TV: 2]
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