From: abe@dev3.emi.yamaha.co.jp (Tatsutoshi ABE)
Newsgroups: fj.rec.movies
Subject: Re: BLADE RUNNER  new version?
Date: 4 Sep 92 03:58:06 GMT
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In-reply-to: fujii@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp's message of 3 Sep 92 08:26:00 GMT

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From: jim@rand.org (Jim Gillogly)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies,rec.arts.sf-lovers
Subject: Bladerunner - the Director's Cut [Spoilers]
Summary: Review of Director's Cut: add 2 stars
Date: 30 Sep 91 17:12:17 GMT
Organization: Banzai Institute


                    Blade Runner -- the Director's Cut
			Reviewed by Jim Gillogly

The definitive version of Blade Runner runs until 10 Oct 91 at the Nuart
in West Los Angeles.  The test audience that saw this version before the
initial release was befuddled and depressed, so the studio added lots of
lame Harrison Ford voice-overs and tacked some tacky aerial footage
(recycled from The Shining) onto the end, together with more lame
voice-overs suggesting your standard Official Hollywood Happy Ending.
This release reverses those losses, turning a good and artistic (but
flawed) film into an impressive, integrated film that deserves another two
stars on *anybody's* scale.

Getting rid of the patronizing and distracting voice-overs achieves most
of the gains.  The story flows just fine without them, and we're allowed
to concentrate on the wonderful dark sets and the Vangelis score.  The
score appears to be utilized differently; I don't have it all memorized,
but I noticed one change -- when Deckard is noodling with his piano in
the Criterion Laser Disk version, the Vangelis score is woven around the
notes he's playing; the piano stands out more in the Director's Cut.  I
believe we're hearing more of it during the long approaches to Tyrell
Corporation where we used to hear voice-overs.

[SPOILER WARNING -- I'm about to go into detail that you may not want to read]

Some of the gorier scenes that had been added back into the Criterion LD
were not present in the Director's Cut (DC).  The extra footage of Dr. Eldon
Tyrell's eyeballs getting popped and dripping down his face were left out,
as was the second shot at Pris which resulted in her flailing around even
more vigorously on the floor, and the nail popping out the back side of
Roy Batty's hand.  Good riddance to all of them, say I: they didn't advance
the story or our identification or lack of it with any of the characters.

The movie ends with Deckard and Rachel getting into the elevator at Deckard's
building after finding the silver foil origami unicorn; we still hear the
echo of Gaff's parting remark: "She won't live, but then, who does?"  It's
great -- just perfect.

For the real aficionados, two of the more blatant continuity errors have
been fixed:  Bryant tells Deckard in his office that *two* of the
replicants were fried in the electric field when they tried to break into
Tyrell Corporation.  This means we no longer need inside knowledge about
Mary, the All-American Mother Replicant, to count the bodies.  The other
bug that was fixed was the Asian lady reading the serial number off the
snake scale in her electron microscope: she now reads the same one we're
seeing.  Those are the only ones I noticed; there might have been more
changes.

The issue of whether Deckard is a replicant was not clarified at all in
this version (and I was glad of it).  We still have the classic lines from
Rachel ("Have you ever retired a human by mistake?" "This Voigt-Kampff
test of yours -- have you ever taken it yourself?") and Gaff ("You've done
a man's job."). [Quote accuracy not guaranteed]  We still have Deckard's
eyes glowing gray in two places (as opposed to the gold glow in Nexus Six
replicants' eyes): when Rachel says "I'm not *in* the business:  I *am*
the business." and when Rachel is playing the piano while Deckard is
resting.  Some have speculated that Deckard's unicorn dream would appear
in this version, definitively settling the question, since Gaff's origami
unicorn would indicate that he knew one of Deckard's mind implants.
However, there was no hint of this dream in the DC.

All in all, it was a wonderful experience... the same feeling you would
get if you'd seen only colorized version of Casablanca, and finally got to
see the original black and white.

-- 
 Jim Gillogly
 jim@rand.org

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