From: bart@muppet.bt.co.uk (Tim)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: bladerunner script
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:25:36 GMT
Reply-To: bart@muppet.bt.co.uk
Organization: British Telecom

Well now. I was in San Francisco a couple of weeks back, trying to find the
book "Retrofitting Bladerunner :..." Edited by J. Kerman. Had no luck :-(
However, this guy in a shop directed me to limelight books, at ~1800 Market
St, which specialised in Films. He hadn't got it either, but he did have...
 
Bladerunner shooting script.

Like wow.
Off the top of my head (script not in front of me) this will confound even
further.

1) Yes, at the start, the rolling text includes dictionary definitions of 
android and replicant, with dictionaries dated in the 1980's vs one from 2010.

2) There's still the voiceover. But's the film doesn't follow this script, 
especially when Roy dies. This goes something like "It took all night for him to
die".  Actually, having watched the normal version, I don't mind the voiceover.

3) There are several scenes not in the film - a couple when deckard goes and sees
Holden on life support to get info, and some with Bryant.

4) Six Replicants. Yup, you read right. 6. One gets fried in the Tyrell corp
(not in the film). Roy, Leon, Pris, Zhora, .... and Mary. Actually she doesn't 
do much except expire near the end of the film, but she's there nevertheless.

5) Roy kills Tyrell by smashing his skull right ? Wrong. That *wasn't* Tyrell, it
was a double. roy turns to JF Seb and says "don't lie, I want to see the real 
Tyrell"  JF stalls but eventually they go to the basement where the real Tyrell
is in Cryonic suspension. It infers he's dead, or close to it ( I can't remember
right now). Anyway Roy goes ape and destroys the body and casket. Its all very
eygptian  - the dead king buried in the centre of a pyramid :-)

6) No unicorn. Well what can you say really ? The scene of deckards  apartement
with rachael is extended, but there's not sufficient info to say whether he had
 a dream or not.

7) Zhoras snakedance is included :-) :-o ;-)

8) the scene with the eygptian snake seller has original script. Deckard really
leans on the guy because he's so unhelpful, threatening the usual trading/safety
licenses etc before losing his cool and saying "If you don't tell me what I want
to know I'll rip your fucking spine out..."  Kinda makes sense they dubbed it :-\

9) The playing about in JF's house at the end is slightly different.

10) The bit with roy and leon in EyeWorld is different - I don't think there
was any poetry spoken :-(

11) The end...  Well its still green and happy...  not quite. On the roof bryant
confronts deckard about rachael. They agree to give deckard 24hrs - bryants guessed
he's in with rachael, but calls deckard a pervert for falling for a replicant.
	The last scene is the skimmer going through the trees.... followed by another
skimmer piloted by Gaff. No happy endings, just an open one...

Is this script for real ? Who knows. At the end is reference to the unicorn and 
some parts in it look as though the person writing this script throws in his/her
own ideas and thoughts on what goes on. However, a lot of the above I had heard about
before, in an interview with Ridley Scott from an old issue of Starlog.

enjoy

Tim

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