Truly Beautiful

Rating: 8/10 (6 May 2019)

Blade Runner has to be one of the most impressive films ever made for being an 80s film hands down. The cinematography for this film for when the film was made is insane. The sound and special effects for this film were shot extremely well.
The music and sound are very crucial to this movie in my opinion. If you were to remove some of the music from certain scenes the whole scene would be ruined and would not make much sense. The soundtrack for this film is what makes this film flow so well. The music gives the movie a certain feeling in a way. The music was very electronic, slow paced, and just overall mysterious. It sort of set the mood for the film in a way. It kind of made think of smooth jazz. The dialogue and music fit insanely well together in my opinion, the film wouldn't make feel the same if you replaced the music that is in the film or took out the music all together. It just blends so well together. There is a particular scene in the film where there are bells and it sort of symbolizes or foreshadows something that is going to happen next in the movie and when that thing happens the sounds and visuals used make the scene that much better. It's just perfect in a way. If those bells weren't in that scene and the music and sounds weren't used in that scene it would not have made it that meaningful. It gave the scene so much meaning. That also goes for so many scenes in this movies as well, but that scene in particular stood out to me the most.
The special effects and visuals for this movie were also very important and very well shot in my opinion as well too. Especially for being done in the 1980s it is beyond what I would have hoped for. All the cars and landscapes in the film felt so realistic and natural in a way. It gave the film such a futuristic feel with the flying cars, not to mention that all of the visuals and special effects were done with props, models, and art. The amount of work that was put in to make this film so beautiful can be very much acknowledged by watching it. The way some of the camera angles were shot are very important to this film especially because it wasn't so digital back then. The lighting for this film was extremely important as well too because it gave the movie that futuristic/mysterious feel to it as well. If some of these camera angles were shot any different than what they are it would throw some of the audience off and I feel as if they did a good job filming this movie.
For as old as this movie is, it is probably one of the best movies when it comes to blending music and visuals together. It probably changed the way sci fi movies were made with special effects and soundtracks. Maybe even revolutionary .