Blade Runner 2
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Well, Deckard and Rachael...Adam and Eve...as a possible angle. But I still don't think the original actually supports the Deckarep without ignoring very important things. Though I did see (likely again) the unused 'made for each other' ending...which would have supported it. But since that's part of the reshoot, and Ridley Retcon Purist Deckarep Theorists don't support anything outside of principle photography except unicorns, it's inadmissible in the court of fandom...
It does look a bit to actioney..but maybe that's ok. There are parts where, even with the greatest love for it, the original does slow down too much.
Man I wish I had access to the files and tools to make a re-edit with dam near everything cut back in. Even the Holden scenes don't seem so bad, and the Extended love scene is better, and would benefit from re-editing to curb some of Scott's odd peccadilloes. Of course odds are someone has done something close, but i really can't lay my hands on those fan edits.
Reckon someone (Wallace) has made an imperfect copy of Rachael, because he can't get his hands on the right files or tools either?
The trailers and commercials suggest that this one has a plot.
I love Blade Runner, but it's a visual tone poem with a story that, in the hands of another director and editor, would last about forty minutes because there's so little narrative there. It's a film noir about a burned out investigator who is so good at his job that there are no red herrings, no blind alleys. That's kind of why I get annoyed with the narration-less cuts of the film, because the visuals left to themselves sometimes feel like Melville's interminable chapters in Moby-Dick on whale biology.
I see that about BR, but I love those chapters!
Or they check everyone's eyes as the Nexus-6 Replicants likely died out within a few years of the Blackout from their 4 year lifespans leaving the Nexus-8 Replicants that have serial numbers on their eyeballs.
Chew made replacement eyes for people as well as designing the nexus six eye...it's kind of implicit in the narrative that replacement parts are part of what blurs the line between human and replicant.
And yet Blade Runner 2049 is treating the eyeball serial number thing as an easy way to identify Replicants they even did so in the Nexus Dawn short.
I'm revisiting K.W. Jeter's sequels in advance of the new film. (I realize the new film is unlikely to be any sort of continuation of Jeter's novels, given where Deckard ends up at the end of Replicant Night. Heck, no one's even bringing the books back into print as tie-ins to the film.)
I haven't read Edge of Human since it came out twenty-two years ago. Heck, I barely recall the basic plot. Without giving much of anything away, Deckard has been brought back to Los Angeles to hunt a replicant, this time at the behest of the Tyrell Corporation while avoiding the LAPD.
This book is such a chore. I feel like Edge of Human is to Blade Runner as The Force Awakens is to Star Wars, a remix of the original work that only serves to remind you of when it was done better the first time around. And it doesn't help that Jeter, who is a very good writer (though I know many people who would say he's not a good tie-in writer), writes in a rather distancing way in order to obscure the story he's trying to tell. (A prime example is the identity of the man in the green scrubs; it's around page 100 when you finally get a name to go with the character.) There are some nice touches to bring the world of DADOES into the Blade Runner story -- the Salander 3 deep space mission, Jack Isidore and the pet hospital -- and as a Philip K. Dick fan I appreciate those, but in general I'm finding Edge of Human quite frustrating.
I remember Replicant Night as the better of the two books published by Bantam.
I haven't read Edge of Human since it came out twenty-two years ago. Heck, I barely recall the basic plot. Without giving much of anything away, Deckard has been brought back to Los Angeles to hunt a replicant, this time at the behest of the Tyrell Corporation while avoiding the LAPD.
This book is such a chore. I feel like Edge of Human is to Blade Runner as The Force Awakens is to Star Wars, a remix of the original work that only serves to remind you of when it was done better the first time around. And it doesn't help that Jeter, who is a very good writer (though I know many people who would say he's not a good tie-in writer), writes in a rather distancing way in order to obscure the story he's trying to tell. (A prime example is the identity of the man in the green scrubs; it's around page 100 when you finally get a name to go with the character.) There are some nice touches to bring the world of DADOES into the Blade Runner story -- the Salander 3 deep space mission, Jack Isidore and the pet hospital -- and as a Philip K. Dick fan I appreciate those, but in general I'm finding Edge of Human quite frustrating.
I remember Replicant Night as the better of the two books published by Bantam.
Must be a post Tyrell thing. Will have a look see.
I never got to 3 and didn't enjoy 2 too much. Too much weird retconning around Priss, Rachael a bit of a no show...it was dull. Which is a shame cos I quite liked Farewell Horizontal, so don't mind Jeter. He's a bit testosteroney, but he does have some nice cyberpunk in his works.
Yeah, its basically a feature of the Nexus-8 series along with longer life spans that showed up about two years after the first Blade Runner.
The revised edition of Future Noir is out this week. It's a doorstopper.
Ah, so it is. I had it in my Amazon Cart saved for later but forgot about it. I'm impressed that it's 624 pages long but only $12!