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- bluepill2, on 07/24/2008, -1/+82Hey, great interview and stuff, but there was nothing about the dreampod erotic machine! Did I miss it? did it end up in the editing room floor for -this- interview too?
- krypton70, on 07/24/2008, -1/+50dugg for the genius that is Blade Runner
- MrSkills, on 07/24/2008, -6/+49Nothing would ruin it quicker than the "hyper-real" (i.e. obviously not real) CGI that pervades movies these days.
- wedges, on 07/24/2008, -0/+35wait... are you secretly George Lucas?
- ZeNiTH456, on 07/24/2008, -0/+19I feel cheated.
- thegrantman, on 07/24/2008, -0/+18Nothing about the "erotic machine". I wonder what the movie would have been like had Stanley Kubrick made it.
- oderdigg, on 07/24/2008, -4/+21It's called Star Wars 1, 2 and 3 and they SUCKED.
I ***** hate George Lucas. - inactive, on 07/23/2008, -17/+34Think of what that movie could have looked like with today's technology.
- CptBuck, on 07/24/2008, -0/+16I think they called it cyberpunk just because a lot of cyberpunk novels borrow so much from noir, like neuromancer. The aesthetic of cyberpunk though, that vision of the future, i think is one that shares a lot from Bladerunner. The influence of Asian culture on Snow Crash, for instance. The lack of computers or anything like that in Bladerunner puts it squarely in Sci-Fi Noir though.
- otbeverly, on 07/24/2008, -0/+13You're not the only one. I was even listening to it again while browsing these comments, but I might as well stop as it's obviously not in there.
Still a cool interview ... especially the part about the people watching the same channel in the housing pyramids. - gn0stik, on 07/24/2008, -3/+15And you'd be correct. There is nothing Cyberpunk about Blade Runner. It's sci-fi. Good sci-fi. Great sci-fi, in fact, that needs no en-vogue genre titles attached to it, to make it any better.
- Draculecom, on 07/24/2008, -0/+10Buried for retarded, you Lucas Fanboy.
Point is, what they accomplished back then is admirable on so many levels. The last of the great live-action model sets, L.A. and the sets are organic, something you can't recreate in CGI - as impressive as it is. BR was dirty and better for it. - Jack9, on 07/24/2008, -0/+10As per another comment,
"genre of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology"
It can be said the replicants are the ones in the lawless subculture. So yes, cyberpunk. Heck, the Roy Batty character has a typical cyberpunk haircut and eccentric mannerisms. - shadowspawn, on 07/24/2008, -1/+11Bad, boingboing, bad. Either inside joke or advertisement zing to suck us bladrunner fans.
- RobotBuddha, on 07/24/2008, -0/+10They'd never be able to make it as good as it is now. The beauty of bladerunner is how much of it wasn't effects. The sets were some of the most elaborate ever made, coming right before the CG prevalence began.
- neFariou5, on 07/24/2008, -0/+10Awesome interview, but ***** misleading, inaccurate article.
- OSXpert, on 07/24/2008, -0/+9Barbarella had an erotic machine:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ye5Jo1I4XXc - CrucialMatt, on 07/24/2008, -0/+9From the Oxford-American dictionary
cyberpunk: "genre of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology."
so maybe not. - inactive, on 07/24/2008, -1/+9It has nothing to do with batman, idiot.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time....
......Like tears in rain. Time to die"
Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOphFl88U-g - Mizzike, on 07/24/2008, -0/+8Yeah, I stopped at 6:41 after I kept switching back and forth between the video and the comments, before finally burying this bitch as inaccurate. Thanks for nothing, MakiMaki. :-)
- inactive, on 07/24/2008, -1/+9I always though that big pyramid building was the corporate headquarters of that genetics company. Never realized it was a giant apartment complex.
- Battlecry, on 07/24/2008, -5/+12"The 1982 cyberpunk cinema classic Blade Runner remains one of the most influential science fiction movies of all time, and tops many a nerd's favorite films list."
Blade Runner is cyberpunk? I've never really thought of it that way before. - u8muhrice, on 07/23/2008, -3/+10that would definitely be an interesting "deleted scenes" from the DVD.
- gn0stik, on 07/24/2008, -0/+7Wasn't Zhora an Opera singer in the book?
I have to say, although I was pretty disappointed in Ridley Scott's choice to abandon much of the plot of the book, it is one of the only movies that I can say is probably better for it.
I would have liked to have seen some more of the Mercerism subplot though, it added a lot of motivation to the characters in the book, and gave more weight to the moral conflict of the Decker character. - MendotaLee, on 07/25/2008, -0/+6Syd Mead is a god.
- denizen42, on 07/24/2008, -0/+6It would be nice, as long as it avoided today's brainless imbecile mass-market crap scenario adaptations.
- tylerlb, on 07/24/2008, -0/+6Didn't see a thing about the erotic machine mentioned in the title, rather a video about the art design of the movie.
Buried and ... http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special% ... - UserNull, on 07/24/2008, -4/+10Like tears in the rain...
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -0/+5God, I still love this movie after all these years....
- mardraum, on 07/24/2008, -0/+510/10 would rage again
- tigre, on 07/24/2008, -0/+5Have you no shame!?
- Tyrghast, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4Inaccurate, I am the Erotic Machine.
- MrBester, on 07/24/2008, -0/+4It was both.
Think of it like the blocks in the Mega-Cities (2000AD: Judge Dredd, et al). Everything you need is contained in one massive building; shops, apartments, offices, etc. all without the need to step into the constant L.A. rain with all those undesirables like Taffy Lewis. Hence the "if you're rich enough to live there" bit. If you weren't you found a convenient Bradbury building like all the other "little people" or went to a slightly less glitzy block or to the offworld colonies. A chance to begin again in a golden age of excitement and adventure. Etc. Very Raj.
Tyrell Corp. had their headquarters in the most expensive building in the city. Of course. - Firethorne, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4Buried as inaccurate. Great interview, but doesn't say anything about what this description says.
- jedisushi, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4God, I love Blade Runner. Got the special edition of the Final Cut (came in a Voight-Kampff case). It's a cinematic treasure. I don't really know what else to say.
- SpectralSounds, on 07/24/2008, -0/+4This "Erotic Machine" they are talking about is probably based off of the Penfield Mood Organ from the book.
- RobotBuddha, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3Same here on all counts. I'm glad it wasn't 'electric sheep: the movie". But I also really think that a bit with mercerism would have made it felt more like a philip k dick novel.
- milkmage, on 07/24/2008, -1/+4yeah. look what happened to star wars with todays technology. go away ltdraper
agreed RobotBuddah/Draculecom - the way they did the special effects was the key. multiple camera passes with colored filters and good ol' scale models. - milkmage, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3the orgasmatron was the thing from Sleeper.
Blade Runner does not need to be remade. period. - The_Red_Monkey, on 07/24/2008, -0/+2Yup, she was an opera singer. The movie has little to do with the book really. There is a huge religious undertone in the book.
- ayeroxor, on 07/24/2008, -3/+5I think it might have been edited out of the video after this was submitted! Check out the description below!
"Today on Boing Boing tv, Boing Boing Gadgets editor Joel Johnson visits the studio of artist and futurist Syd Mead, who designed the film's dystopian look and feel. We learn about the "erotic machine" he dreamed for the replicant Zhora (this breast-shaped dreampod was cut from the script when director Ridley Scott ran out of dough),"
What gives, boingy? - vaxguru, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2I only saw Blade Runner for the first time about 2-3 months ago and after the first viewing I thought to myself, "that was pretty impressive but not as good as I was led to believe." A few weeks later I watched it two more times and then it started to sink in.
The first thing to hit me was the music. I did notice it on the first viewing but the 2nd viewing made it really hit home. It was absolutely beautiful. I had never heard electronic music like it before. I now listen to a couple of tracks from it almost everyday.
I could go on about the other things I truly loved about the film but this post would become quite long winded. All in all, a brilliant movie and one that I has become one of my all time favourites. - lemonkey, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2It's such a rich world that I prefer it being slower paced so you have time to absorb it all.
- gandhii, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2Yea.. I'm stuck with a hard choice. I enjoyed watching the video.. but the submission is entirely inaccurate.
- mikesbaker, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2its not cyberpunk - cyberpunk started in 1984 with neuromancer
- Diggnabbit, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2The pacing is boring? Sorry it's not whiz-bang enough for you. Sometimes great movies are slow.
- judicar, on 07/24/2008, -1/+3In the book Deker has a "mood organ" ... organ as in a piano, playing certain combinations would imbue a particular mood on a person, I've wondered if the piano he has in his apartment in the movie is a homage to this.
- ayeroxor, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2Isn't pretending to be too retarded to know how to spell "the" a meme?
- jgtg32a, on 07/24/2008, -0/+2isn't Owned a meme?
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