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Blade Runner is a dark science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott released in 1982. It presents a bleak dystopic vision of Los Angeles in the not too distant future. Harrison Ford stars as "Blade Runner" Rick Deckard. In the future world of the movie artificially manufactured androids called replicants are used for dangerous and degrading work in Earth's "offworld colonies". Replicants are considered dangerous and are illegal on Earth, and the Blade Runners are bounty hunters who track down and "retire" (kill) any trespassers. Deckard is called out of his own retirement to "retire" several advanced "Nexus-6" replicants who are illegally present in Los Angeles.
Rutger Hauer and Darryl Hannah play two of the fugitive replicants, and Sean Young plays Rachael, Deckard's love interest, whose own humanity is in question.
1 Creators
Based loosely on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickPhilip Kindred Dick ( December 16 1928 March 2 1982), often known by his initials PKD or by the pen name Richard Phillips was an American science fiction writer and novelist who changed the genre profoundly. Though hailed during his lifetime by peers such, the original screenplayA screenplay or script is a blueprint for producing a motion picture. It can be adapted from a previous work such as a novel, play or short story, or it may be an original work in and of itself. Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was written by Hampton Fancher which attracted the interest of Producer Michael Deeley . Deeley secured financing from the film from a range of sources (which later proved a problem) and secured the services of Ridley Scott. Scott was not happy with the script and had David Peoples do a re-write. The soundtrackGenerally speaking, the term soundtrack refers to the recorded sound in a motion picture. In terms of film formats, the soundtrack is the physical area of the film which records the synchronized sound. The term soundtrack is also commonly used to refer to was composed by VangelisEvangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou better known as Vangelis ("Van" being pronounced to rhyme with the "an" in "angle" and not "angel" as the spelling might suggest) (born March 29, 1943) is a world-renowned new age and electronic musician. His best known c.
The term "Blade Runner", used in this film as a designation for people of Deckard's profession, comes originally from a 1974 novel by Alan E. NourseNourse ( August 11, 1928 July 19, 1992) was an American science fiction author and physician. He wrote both juvenile and adult science fiction, as well as nonfiction works. Alan Nourse was born August 11, 1926 to Benjamin and Grace (Ogg) Nourse in Des Moi, The Bladerunner, the protagonist of which is a smuggler of black-market surgical implements. Nourse's book inspired William S. BurroughsWilliam Seward Burroughs ( February 5, 1914 August 2, 1997) was a bisexual American author associated with the Beat Generation writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Jack Kerouac. He is best known as the author of Naked Lunch an unusual novel's book, Bladerunner, A Movie , a script treatment in the form of a novel.
Neither Nourse's novel nor Burroughs's had any influence on Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner except that Hampton Fancher happened upon a copy of Bladerunner, A Movie while Scott was looking for a snappier title for his film - Scott liked it, and obtained the rights to the title (but not any aspect of the plot).
Scott contracted Syd MeadSyd Mead (born July 18, 1933 in St. Paul, MN) is an industrial designer best known for his vehicle designs in science-fiction films such as Blade Runner, Aliens, and Tron. In much of his film work, he is billed as a "visual futurist" or "conceptual design who did most of the production design. Jim Burns also worked briefly on the project on the design of the Spinner flying cars. The Special Effects were supervised by Douglas TrumbullDouglas Trumbull (born 1942) is a film director and special effects supervisor. Trumbull's early work with NASA and the science film maker Con Pederson caught the attention of Stanley Kubrick who employed him to work on 2001: A Space Odyssey''. Trumbull's and Richard Yuricich .
