> Which cut? I'm intrigued...
Can't remember now, and it could be that there was no actual melodic similarity, just one of those instances where a piece of music psychically triggers the need to hear another piece by someone else.
― unperson, Thursday, 16 August 2007 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
http://media.bladezone.com/esper.php
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 23 August 2007 21:37 (sixteen years ago) link
i used to put the movie on and just go sit on the doorstep smoking a cigarette and listening to the soundtrack.
theres no other movie I would even consider doing that with.
then the soundtrack came out and the ritual was lost.
off topic but Bladerunner is the one reason Im considering a HDTV this year.
p.s. dont touch the orchestral vinyl soundtrack. it sells on ebay occaisionally for good money and was a blatant cash in.
― Hamildan, Friday, 24 August 2007 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
So I still can't find hide nor hair about an official 25th anniversary release of the soundtrack...
― Mr. Odd, Saturday, 22 September 2007 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link
You'll have to steal it.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 September 2007 14:26 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20056516,00.html
― s1ocki, Saturday, 22 September 2007 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
...in a cute supporting role alongside Tom Selleck in the CBS movie-of-the-week Jesse Stone: Sea Change.
This combination is all the more sad when you think about the two of them in the screen test for Raiders of the Lost Ark that's on the extra DVD with the box set.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 September 2007 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link
But WHOA on that James Woods bit:
Some bitterness dies hard. In a 1992 EW cover story on Young, Woods sounded a note of contrition when he said that ''I love and admire Sean,'' and elsewhere he has been quoted as saying ''Maybe she'll say it's time to bury the hatchet. I can only be a gentleman and say I hope for the best.'' But when approached again for this piece, he struck back at the actress in four angry and raw e-mails sent to EW over the course of 12 hours, cc'd to his lawyer and publicist. He wrote, among other things, that the actress perpetrated a ''jihad of terror'' against him and his now ex-wife, that this all ''was certainly not about spurned advances, as they were most assuredly not spurned,'' and that ''I am sure it is fashionable to bash the guy (yawn) and pity the poor woman.'' (He also stressed that a highly publicized urban legend, wherein Young superglued his penis to his leg, was entirely false and if the magazine suggested otherwise he'd take EW to court. The actress also denies the incident.) His lawyer quickly followed up Woods' eruption with an e-mail saying the messages had been accidentally sent, and insisted EW only quote his client using the following statement: ''These incidents took place over 20 years ago, and I have moved on and would suggest Ms. Young do the same.''
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 September 2007 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link
oh man
― s1ocki, Saturday, 22 September 2007 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
watching the final cut in the theater really makes the official version of this score seem like an insult
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 4 November 2007 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Yup.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 November 2007 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
When the end credits started I could barely move.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 November 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
otoh listening to "blade runner blues" from the lame old OST makes me feel like the loneliest man alive*.
* which I might be.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 10 November 2007 10:07 (sixteen years ago) link
haha Ned when I saw it (twice) it was the opening credits that made me feel like a tiny bastard for having a bladder!
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 10 November 2007 10:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Hahah wow. But I hear you. Talk about how a few sounds just nail you to the wall (or rather the chair).
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 November 2007 14:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Rather than spend $80 on the set, ask for a Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD player for the holidays (available in certain sales for $98), then rent the HD Bladerunner from Netflix. Best way to truly enjoy the enhanced picture/sound (if you have a good screen and soundsystem).
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 10 November 2007 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.elsew.com/data/latest.htm
Wow, it looks like it's happening, woohoo!
― Mr. Odd, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw it bigscreen as a kid. Then the first Director's cut big screen at a Bijou in the early 90s. It was nice to see it a third time with higher resolution everything.
Always enjoyed this cd soundtrack... but I couldn't necessarily rate it higher than a lot of similar Wendy Carlos stuff.
― Nate Carson, Saturday, 8 December 2007 05:00 (sixteen years ago) link
so the trilogy isn't coming out domestically in the US, then? the buyers where i work (amoeba music) haven't been solicited for it at all, so they brought in the import (at a $32 pricetag). anyone have any other news about this?
― BATTAGS, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 23:30 (sixteen years ago) link
It's an Amazon.com exclusive in the US. Costs about as much as a standard double CD, $21 or $22 or something like that.
I'm glad to see the 1994 release is still part of this- I know a lot of people hate it, but I grew up with that album and it wouldn't feel right without all the (extremely well-chosen) dialog.
― Telephone thing, Thursday, 13 December 2007 03:42 (sixteen years ago) link
This is all wonderful, wonderful news.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 December 2007 03:44 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/48336-blade-runner-trilogy-25th-anniversary
― caek, Saturday, 9 February 2008 06:36 (sixteen years ago) link
While I agree the second disc is solid, I surely didn't need a Vangelis album "inspired" by the movie! So I downloaded one of the major bootlegs and all is well.
― Mr. Odd, Saturday, 9 February 2008 12:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Exaclty.
Given the much-discussed nature of Blade Runner, it's a little confusing that Vangelis tacked on a whole disc of new compositions and didn't just release the entire score. The works on the third disc are certainly fine on their own, a nice return by Vangelis to the synthesized new age that he doesn't compose much anymore. The work on this disc sounds dated at times, and sort-of purposelessly includes muffled spoken-word performances from the likes of Ridley Scott, Oliver Stone, and Roman Polanski. Is it really necessary to include, as Vangelis does on "No Expectation Boulevard", actual dialogue of Ridley Scott discussing the Final Cut project?
o_O
― caek, Saturday, 9 February 2008 13:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Finally snagged the set last weekend up in Seattle. The third disc is a bit curious but sonically it's a nice enough follow-on and the spoken word snippets make it a sequel to the 1994 soundtrack that works in its own way.
I still find it interesting that the actual opening music for the initial credits/expository crawl isn't on here but then again all I really have to do is just put on the movie to get that...
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 April 2008 05:16 (sixteen years ago) link
playing of the Blade Runner soundtrack at Massive Attacks Meltdown festival 2008.
tickets available friday.
― Hamildan, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link
As in they just set up the CD or what? A live Vangelis performance would be interesting.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
its a massive attack version, i think.
"VANGELIS' BLADE RUNNER SOUNDTRACK performed live by the Heritage Orchestra, mixed by Massive Attack 17 June" (off the webternet.)
― Hamildan, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Nice.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY9QZPCG4Yw
[skip first five minutes of sid]
i know it's nothing new, but this 'Tyrell' song is gorgeous and with the BR clips just reminds me now why it's still a fucking glorious epic of a film
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
the scene of the unicorn galloping through just gets me every time
I watched through the 3.5 hour documentary that was with the final cut release, and there were not really that many soundtrack tidbits. Sadly, no Vangelis interview. They did mention that during some of the filming, they had sound systems on the roofs playing either preliminary Vangelis cuts or some of his past work for mood music.
― mh, Thursday, 26 November 2009 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Sean Young posted some of her personal behind-the-scenes Polaroids from the set of Blade Runner.
http://www.dangerousminds.net/images/uploads/advertising_files/bladerunnerseanyoung311.jpghttp://www.dangerousminds.net/images/uploads/advertising_files/bladerunnerseanyoung111.jpg
more pics here
― Darin, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
v cool
― http://i56.tinypic.com/xnsu1g.gif (max arrrrrgh), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
god I fucking love those
― dayo, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
That awesome hair. Those 'brows. Those red, red, lips. The rewards from this movie are never ending.
― Spinspin Sugah, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
Is the 'New American Orchestra' rendition worth picking up? A cd copy is sitting in my local used record store for cheap.
― sam500, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 05:05 (twelve years ago) link
Some great polaroid shots, thanks for the link Darin.
― Bill A, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 07:30 (twelve years ago) link
Slightly awkward to see that she includes 2012 endtimes stuff on her site though (click home, click the symbols to the left and right of the title/her name) :-/
― StanM, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
shes always been totally nuts
― ☂ (max), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ Yes. I remember seeing an interview with her on like Sally Jesse or something when I was little and wondering who the crazy lady with a boy's name and big shoulder pads was.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
Those polaroids are really awesome.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
Is the 'New American Orchestra' rendition worth picking up?
Not really. The magic of the soundtrack is pretty much the Vangelis synth sound, which that recording is utterly lacking.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
god so beautiful
i like that theo parrish record that samples the new american orchestra version
― corpse pose (missingNO), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
@the girl from spirea x (f. hazel) - thanks.
― sam500, Thursday, 2 June 2011 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXFqPzAFv8o
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 23:31 (ten years ago) link
Oh damn, this is an ILM thread.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 23:32 (ten years ago) link
haha. the music is inextricable from the movie tho so it's all good. my fav soundtrack ever. :)
i would like to dl the esper edition sometime but i am really torrent-illiterate. i'll figure it out eventually.
― dyl, Thursday, 17 October 2013 00:03 (ten years ago) link
here you go! grab it while you can as 'they' keep taking it down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbDOl1QHerE
― piscesx, Thursday, 17 October 2013 00:40 (ten years ago) link
Funny that this reboot and teh star wars both have a theme of "we found harrison ford and its 20 years later! "
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Monday, 17 July 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
I think I have about six reimaginings of the soundtrack that I downloaded eons ago. It was a thing people did in the early 00s
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:49 (two months ago) link
Literally found out only a few weeks ago, thanks to this video, that there are some lingering shots of the photos on the piano which are missing from every other cut except the '82 theatrical.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK8gSbIaNhM
― piscesx, Monday, 25 March 2024 21:03 (two months ago) link
I was delighted to find about about the 'deckard is gaff' theory last week: https://steemit.com/cinema/@starlight8888/blade-runner-deckard-is-gaff
― gene besserit (ledge), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 09:22 (two months ago) link
I like it.
The part of fandom that comes up with little plot speculations you can tease out that are neither true nor false in the presented fiction is so much more fun than the people arguing that something is specifically true or false when the art left it intentionally vague
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:12 (two months ago) link
Ha! I'm imagining Edward James Olmos reading it and nodding his head then pointing at his ipad going "this guy gets it!"
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 15:39 (two months ago) link
that's a fantastic theory, i love it
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:03 (two months ago) link
Wonder if that plot strand made its way through by stealth from an earlier draft of the script?
― two-one-one-two (Matt #2), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:11 (two months ago) link
edward james olmos put an astounding amount of work into developing the character of gaff on his own - he even devised the polyglot 'cityspeak' that gaff uses himself! - so i think a lot of the stuff like gaff's limp came directly from him rather than being a planned script element
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:19 (two months ago) link
reminding me I never finished Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner Revised & Updated Edition
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:22 (two months ago) link
that book was a bible to me as a teen
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:24 (two months ago) link
holy moly @ Gaff theory
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:34 (two months ago) link
I do like the idea of EJO himself planting the clues unbeknownst to Scott, Ford, Fancher as part of some ego-driven ethos that every role should be played as if it was the most important character in the movie.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:08 (two months ago) link
I don't think 2049 has anything that would explicitly break the theory. Other than Gaff using newspeak and Deckard speaking in standard English. Almost adds an additional wink in that they go to Gaff on their journey to find Deckard.
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 20:41 (two months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/5PtJ4ke.jpegThanks for the rec, this book looks great
― calstars, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 11:59 (one month ago) link
It's very good. That's the earlier edition IIRC; there's a later one with a blue color scheme for the cover and more info.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 15:13 (one month ago) link
Revised & Updated Edition
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 15:40 (one month ago) link