Are you sure about that? I thought they were just put in, because after test screening the film, people complained about not understanding it (and wanting a happy ending).
Ridley Scott to Direct New Blade Runner
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Are you sure about that? I thought they were just put in, because after test screening the film, people complained about not understanding it (and wanting a happy ending).
The voice-over goes back to before Harrison Ford was even cast. You can see it in this early Hampton Fancher script, dated July 24, 1980. From Scene 9:
It's only a myth that the voice-over wasn't wanted and was forced onto the film. It was always an integral part of the film, which is why I find the versions without it to be naked.
Interesting. I took stuff (like this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/movies/30kapl.html?pagewanted=2 ) to mean that while he may have considered for a moment voice-overs before starting filming, Scott only really agreed to do them after test screenings.
The version I've always read (certainly, since the 1992 director's cut) is that Scott wanted to find a way for the voice over to work, but never did. He's often noted that he wasn't opposed to voice over on principal (just the crap that someone else put into the movie). After all, Michael Herr's voice over saved Apocalypse Now, which only came out three years prior to the release of Blade Runner.
That it shows up in an early Fancher draft of the script doesn't really indicate much. Scott had Fancher rewritten by David Peoples after all, significantly enough that Peoples got screen credit.
^ I read an interview with George Lucas last night, he was bemoaning the fact that Blade Runner has 5 different cuts officially released, and that BR fans tend to embrace and revel in the different versions rather than whine about them like Star Wars fans.
He has a point, I rarely hear people criticising Scott for refining his vision into what he ultimately wants from the movie, rather BR fans seem more likely to celebrate the different ways they can see the film.
I agree all the cuts are good, Final Cut is my favourite, but the workprint is a really interesting watch.
He has a point, I rarely hear people criticising Scott for refining his vision into what he ultimately wants from the movie, rather BR fans seem more likely to celebrate the different ways they can see the film.
I agree all the cuts are good, Final Cut is my favourite, but the workprint is a really interesting watch.
More importantly, all versions of Blade Runner are still available, something that cannot be said about the original trilogy of Star Wars. That's the difference Lucas fails to grasp.
Apparently Han never shot first, according to Lucas in a recent interview.
Bullshit.
Han was the only one who shot, and paid to clean up the mess.
Becuase their whinning self-important asshats who only think they represent every star wars fan?
Hampton Fancher, who wrote the screenplay for the first film, is now in talks to write the sequel.
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