How do you improve on perfection? Well, you don’t, at least not too much. A little dialogue tweak here, an added special effect there, some recolouration and audio balancing and you’re done. Because Blade Runner truly is, in many ways, a perfect film. Most obviously in it’s production design and art direction which, even on a big screen, still looks completely seamless. The level of detail on display is staggering, sets and costumes utterly alien but still oddly familiar. The characters are no more or less than they need to be, portrayed by actors generously willing to subsume themselves within Ridley Scott’s grand vision. Vangelis’ music seems to actually improve over time, despite it’s distinctively 80’s synth sound. The plot is derivative but wonderfully direct, and the script says everything it needs to say in as few words as possible (though Rutger Hauer does get a few too many lines during the chase scene- ‘You’d better get it up, or I’m gonna have to kill ya!’ is probably the film’s daftest moment).
by Tom Huddleston | Source: 35mm Print
20 Dec 2007 9:16 AM | Submit Comment
