The Blade Runner Thread

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.''

oh man

watching the final cut in the theater really makes the official version of this score seem like an insult

Yup.

When the end credits started I could barely move.

otoh listening to "blade runner blues" from the lame old OST makes me feel like the loneliest man alive*.

* which I might be.

haha Ned when I saw it (twice) it was the opening credits that made me feel like a tiny bastard for having a bladder!

Hahah wow. But I hear you. Talk about how a few sounds just nail you to the wall (or rather the chair).

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).

http://www.elsew.com/data/latest.htm

Wow, it looks like it's happening, woohoo!

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.

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?

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.

This is all wonderful, wonderful news.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/48336-blade-runner-trilogy-25th-anniversary

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.

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

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...

playing of the Blade Runner soundtrack at Massive Attacks Meltdown festival 2008.

tickets available friday.

As in they just set up the CD or what? A live Vangelis performance would be interesting.

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.)

Nice.

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

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.

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.jpg
http://www.dangerousminds.net/images/uploads/advertising_files/bladerunnerseanyoung111.jpg

more pics here

v cool

god I fucking love those

That awesome hair. Those 'brows. Those red, red, lips. The rewards from this movie are never ending.

Is the 'New American Orchestra' rendition worth picking up? A cd copy is sitting in my local used record store for cheap.

Some great polaroid shots, thanks for the link Darin.

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) :-/

shes always been totally nuts

^^^ 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.

Those polaroids are really awesome.

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.

god so beautiful

i like that theo parrish record that samples the new american orchestra version

@the girl from spirea x (f. hazel) - thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXFqPzAFv8o

Oh damn, this is an ILM thread.

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.

here you go! grab it while you can as 'they' keep taking it down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbDOl1QHerE

Funny that this reboot and teh star wars both have a theme of "we found harrison ford and its 20 years later! "

Coffee shop was playing the cut from the soundtrack with Demis Roussos's voice today. Nice way to begin the morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7FhEpif1cA

My all-time favorite soundtrack. None of the officially released versions satisfy, though, so I found the 3 disc "EMS Recombination" version. It picks up all the random bits from the film and then some!

Details here:
http://www.vangelis-rarities.com/index.php?methode=methode1&id=191

Well, have spent a lot of fruitless time trying to find a way to download that :(

It's all over slsk.

all those hours will be like tears in rain

The sound design of 'Blade Runner' shaped me as much as the soundtrack--and both were pivotal for 14-year-old-me, circa 1994 and the 'Director's Cut'. And the film and the sound have stuck with me over all these years. Discovering the sound-design-focused bootleg 'Los Angeles, November 2019' some years back, I've wanted to make a mix that treated those sounds as field recordings, to pair with contemporary music that felt like it came from the world of 'Blade Runner' as much as our own world. Now here we are in 2019--and our world is quickly tilting toward 'Blade Runner's, minus the flying cars. But the isolation-in-a-crowd, the paranoiac uncertainty about the meaning of “real,” and oligarchic dehumanization of the oppressed feel intimately familiar. And I realized a lot of my favorite music from this year sounds exactly like what music would sound like in that nocturnal Los Angeles.

So I've put together 'Like Tears, In Rain' as a tribute to today's music and the beautiful squalor of 'Blade Runner':

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/musicophilia_00_various_-_like-tears-in-rain_2019_cover.jpg

Various – ‘Like Tears, In Rain’ (2019)

[Music in the World of ‘Blade Runner’]

I. Chinatown
[00:00] Elucid – “A Great Many Wishes” (‘Every Egg I Cracked Today’, 2019)
[02:30] Hildur Gudnadottir– “Gallery” (‘Chernobyl’, 2019)

II. Police Headquarters
[04:50] Debby Friday– “Indulge Me” (‘Bitchpunk’, 2019)

III. Tyrell Corporation
[08:15] Yosuke Tokunaga – “Cabinet” (‘8 Furnitures’, 2019)
[10:50] Tim Hecker – “Step Away From Konoyo” (‘Anoyo’, 2019)

IV. Apartment 9732
[15:15] Yatta – “Francis” (‘Wahala’, 2019)
[19:35] Thom Yorke – “Dawn Chorus” (‘Anima’, 2019)

V. Downtown
[25:15] Burial – “State Forest” (‘Claustro’ EP, 2019)
[30:35] These New Puritans – “A-R-P” (‘Inside The Rose’, 2019)

VI. Animoid Row
[36:45] Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – “I Own The Night” (‘Ancestral Recall’, 2019)

VII. DNA Row
[42:20] Andrew Wasylyk – “Through The Field Beyond the Trees” (‘The Paralian’, 2019)
[43:50] Nelson Bandela – “Balance 101” (‘Fantastic’, 2019)

VIII. Apartment 9732
[45:30] Sequoyah Murray – “I Wonder” (‘Before You Begin’, 2019)
[49:30] Charles Hayward – “Watching You” (‘Begin Anywhere’, 2019)

IX. Downtown
[53:00] Country Florist – “Outlastr” (‘Outlastr’ EP, 2019)

X. The Bradbury
[57:05] Lealani – “The Mountain” (‘Fantastic Planet’, 2019)
[60:25] Clipping – “Nothing Is Safe” (‘There Existed an Addiction to Blood’, 2019)
[65:25] Fran & Flora – “Doina I” (‘Unfurl’, 2019)

[Total Time: 71:00]

If you're curious, stream or download here: https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2019/09/28/blade-runner-like-tears/

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

reminding me I never finished Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner Revised & Updated Edition

that book was a bible to me as a teen

holy moly @ Gaff theory

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.

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.

https://i.imgur.com/5PtJ4ke.jpeg

Thanks for the rec, this book looks great

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.

Revised & Updated Edition