Blade Runner Review

Blade Runner

Release Date: 16th December 1982 - Australia

Production Companies

The Ladd Company (presents)

Saw Brothers (In association with)

Warner Bros. Pictures
Blade Runner Partnership

Genre: Sci-Fi

Rating: M (Not Suitable

for Young Children)

Runtime: 117 minutes


Budget: $30,000,000

Box Office Gross: $41,713,149 (Worldwide)

Plot Summary

The year was 2019. A former police officer named Rick Deckard was called out of retirement by the LAPD to take one last assignment to hunt down a group of Replicants. These artificial humanoids are illegal and are heading to Los Angeles to search for their creator.

Cast

Harrison Ford - Rick Deckard

Rutger Hauer - Roy Batty

Sean Young - Rachael

Edward James Olmos - Gaff

Daryl Hannah - Pris

Joanna Cassidy - Zhora

Brion James - Leon Kowalski

M. Emmet Walsh - Bryant

Joe Turkel - Eldon Tyrell

William Sanderson - J.F.

Sebastian

James Hong - Hannibal Chew
Morgan Paull - Holden
Kevin Thompson - Bear
John Edward Allen - Kaiser
Hy Pyke - Taffey Lewis

Kimiko Hiroshige - Cambodian Lady

Bob Okazaki - Sushi Master

Carolyn DeMirjian - Saleslady

Crew

Co-Producer (Uncredited)/
Director - Ridley Scott

Based on the Novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" - Phillip K. Dick

Screenplay/Executive

Producer - Hampton Fancher

Screenplay - David Webb Peoples

Script Supervisor - Ana Maria Quintana

Associate Producers - Ivor Powell and Paul Prischman
(2007 Final Cut Version)

Executive Producer - Brian Keeley
Co-Executive Producers -

Jerry Perenchio, Run Run Shaw

and Bud Yorkin (Uncredited)

Producer - Michael Deeley
Restoration Producer (2007 Final Cut Version) -

Charles de Lauzirika

Restoration Consultant - Kurt P. Galvao

Casting Directors - Jane Feinberg,

Mike Fenton and Marci Liroff (Uncredited)

Production Designer - Lawrence G. Paull

Visual Futurist - Syd Mead

Production Illustrators - Mentor Huebner,

Sherman Labby and Tom Southwell

Art Director - David L. Snyder

Assistant Art Director - Stephen Dane

Set Decorators - Linda DeScenna,

Leslie McCarthy-Frankenheimer,

Thomas L. Roysddn and Peg Cummings

(Uncredited)

Costume Designers - Michael Kaplan

and Charles Knode

Prosthetic Makeup - Michael Mills

Director of Photography - Jordan Croneworth

Additional Photographers - Steven Poster,

Brian Tufano and Haskell Wexler (Uncredited)

First Assistant Camera - Michael Genne

and Steven H. Smith

Executive in Charge of Production - C.O. Erickson

Production Executive - Katherine Haber

Production Manager - Alan Collis

First Assistant Directors - Newt Arnold

and Peter Cornberg
Stunt Coordinator - Gary Combs

Special Floor Effects Supervisor - Terry D. Frazee

Special Photographic Effects Supervisors -

Douglas Trumbull, David Dryer and Richard Yuricich
Visual Effects Supervisors (2007 Final Cut

Version) - Georgia & John Scheele

Chief Model Maker: EEG - Mark Stetson

Miniature Design and Construction - Bill George

and Christopher S. Ross (Uncredited)

Miniature Technician: EEG - Robert Spurlock

Director of Photography: EEG - David K. Stewart

Camera Operators: EEG - Don Baker,

Charles Cowles, David R. Hardberger,

Ronald Longo and Tim McHugh

Matte Artists: EEG - Matthew Yuricich and

Michele Moen (Uncredited)

Matte Artist - Rocco Gioffre (Uncredited)

Action Prop Supervisor - Michael L. Fink

Animation and Graphics: EEG - John C. Wash

Additional Green Screen Photography: New Deal

Studios (2007 Final Cut Version) - Tim Angulo

and David Sanger
Supervising Editor - Terry Rawlings
Editors - Marsha Nakashima and

Gillian L. Hutshing (2007 Final Cut Version)

First Assistant Editor - Les Healey

Chief Dubbing Mixers - Graham V. Hartstone

and Gerry Humphreys

Supervising Sound Editors (2007 Final Cut

Version) - Karen Baker Landers and

Per Hallberg

Re-Recording Mixers (2007 Final Cut Version) -

Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill

Foley Artists (2007 Final Cut Version) -

John Roesch and Alyson Dee Moore

Music - Vangelis


Awards

1983 Academy Awards
Best Art Direction - Lawrence G. Paull, David L. Snyder
and Linda De Scenna (Nominated)
Best Visual Effects - Douglas Trumbull, Richard Yuricich
and David Dryer (Nominated)

Review

Painstakingly made with director Ridley Scott at the helm, BLADE RUNNER is a neo-noir science-fiction movie fancier than a chandelier. Impressive with the mastery of camerawork and a visual flair, it has faced some turbulent history. Because the film came out in the year of the big movies of 1982, BLADE RUNNER was missing the applause of the big crowds and, of course, everyone nearly forgot about it. Fortunately, the film had a roster of stars in the cast, with Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young and Daryl Hannah in their outstanding performances. It has some plausible moments written for a sci-fi epic and electronic arrangements of the score by Vangelis. The film's groundbreaking work is the scenery designs of the city and hovering vehicles, which would inspire two different stylised movies, The Fifth Element and Attack of the Clones.

It is hard to define the genre and style of BLADE RUNNER; it is unique and innovative. After watching the final cut edition, it defined two contrasting genres when its pulp engagement of sci-fi has immersed into a neo-noir crime thriller. This cult film gradually gave birth to cyberpunk fiction to show how dark the future is.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

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