I had forgotten how lovely the Barbican Cinemas were till I visited to see the rerun of Blade Runner (final cut).
The very friendly staff and most comfortable surroundings, including red leather seats-
very apt considering the film had a lot of 'blood' scenes-made this a holistic audio-visual experience.
R.Scott is timeless and his vision in this film was before its time.
Funny to think of this being made for 2019 when we are a few years away from there.
The futuristic elements were visionary in many ways: face time like TV communication, vocally operated systems at home etc aren't that far from what we use and have today.
The flying police cars and dress sense were perhaps a lit 'off world'(to use a term from the movie) but very creatively envisioned nevertheless.
From high collar jackets to very specifically styled hair does, matching shirts and ties (patterns match) and individual costumes fitting very well drawn out characters, its a cross between Hunger Games caricatures and Star Wars engineered creatures.
From a cinematic point of view the rain and smoke as well as blue lights and fire effects add to the melancholic and mysterious effects in the film. It's a game of light and shadows with the brightness being taken away by the mechanical elements in the movie.
The future is a melting pot of cultures (china town mingled with north African music in the background and the mixture of ethnic origins portrayed in the scenes set to eerie asymetrical ascending musical tones).
The script being loosely based on a novel was obviously quite lucid and well thought out in terms of ideas of what the future would be like and to me the film China Town (Jack Nicholson) came to mind in that they both share that suave classy punch line style writing as well as enough gaps in dialect to allow thinking whilst looking at the images.
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R. Scott uses close ups and lighting exquisitely to portray intense emotions and the editing juxtaposes scenes in parallel ways to show similarities and differences between the good and bad characters in the film.
This brings us to the crux of the moral message in the novel and movie alike; ie: Creation is sacred as is life and both are not to be trifled with. To create is to take responsibility for one's creation and every action has a reaction morally as well as physically. This is shown in the revenge and death scenes but also in the love and protection scenes.
The end scene when H.Ford is saved by the Replicant is indicative of the fact that this is not about the protagonist 'per se' and his opponent; it is a higher message about morality of Creation and about the search for Truth.
Humans and Replicants are different in how they have or lack souls but the intellectual and emotional experience which builds memories is similar and creates a life of its own. Experience gives them a similar feelings of existence but Creation is a complex spiritual process which cannot be simulated or emulated by Man without consequences.
R.Scott, uses parallels for example in the scenes where the body is presented equally for both Humans and Replicants (pain, bleeding, death, love and the body parts such as the hands and the eyes). He also uses mannequins, dolls, puppets and paper made shapes to show the difference between them.
Humans can be Replicants without them or us the audience knowing it, but I think here the emphasis is on the fact that the human soul is not interchangeable and the eyes being the windows to the soul never lie.
The Truth is always supreme and we can 'see' it unanimously no matter our perspective.
The Eye is used many times throughout the film to portray this message of the lack or presence of the soul.
A long narrative deserves a slightly longer paragraph and the title becomes apt enough when one thinks of Creation as being born not made. Experience makes us more of who we are but Humans cannot be Man made (by water, physics and scientific elements) Science is extraordinary but it does not fully grasp the mystery of Creation.
Run your sharp mind blades through that for a moment.
The very friendly staff and most comfortable surroundings, including red leather seats-
very apt considering the film had a lot of 'blood' scenes-made this a holistic audio-visual experience.
R.Scott is timeless and his vision in this film was before its time.
Funny to think of this being made for 2019 when we are a few years away from there.
The futuristic elements were visionary in many ways: face time like TV communication, vocally operated systems at home etc aren't that far from what we use and have today.
The flying police cars and dress sense were perhaps a lit 'off world'(to use a term from the movie) but very creatively envisioned nevertheless.
From high collar jackets to very specifically styled hair does, matching shirts and ties (patterns match) and individual costumes fitting very well drawn out characters, its a cross between Hunger Games caricatures and Star Wars engineered creatures.
From a cinematic point of view the rain and smoke as well as blue lights and fire effects add to the melancholic and mysterious effects in the film. It's a game of light and shadows with the brightness being taken away by the mechanical elements in the movie.
The future is a melting pot of cultures (china town mingled with north African music in the background and the mixture of ethnic origins portrayed in the scenes set to eerie asymetrical ascending musical tones).
The script being loosely based on a novel was obviously quite lucid and well thought out in terms of ideas of what the future would be like and to me the film China Town (Jack Nicholson) came to mind in that they both share that suave classy punch line style writing as well as enough gaps in dialect to allow thinking whilst looking at the images.
,
R. Scott uses close ups and lighting exquisitely to portray intense emotions and the editing juxtaposes scenes in parallel ways to show similarities and differences between the good and bad characters in the film.
This brings us to the crux of the moral message in the novel and movie alike; ie: Creation is sacred as is life and both are not to be trifled with. To create is to take responsibility for one's creation and every action has a reaction morally as well as physically. This is shown in the revenge and death scenes but also in the love and protection scenes.
The end scene when H.Ford is saved by the Replicant is indicative of the fact that this is not about the protagonist 'per se' and his opponent; it is a higher message about morality of Creation and about the search for Truth.
Humans and Replicants are different in how they have or lack souls but the intellectual and emotional experience which builds memories is similar and creates a life of its own. Experience gives them a similar feelings of existence but Creation is a complex spiritual process which cannot be simulated or emulated by Man without consequences.
R.Scott, uses parallels for example in the scenes where the body is presented equally for both Humans and Replicants (pain, bleeding, death, love and the body parts such as the hands and the eyes). He also uses mannequins, dolls, puppets and paper made shapes to show the difference between them.
Humans can be Replicants without them or us the audience knowing it, but I think here the emphasis is on the fact that the human soul is not interchangeable and the eyes being the windows to the soul never lie.
The Truth is always supreme and we can 'see' it unanimously no matter our perspective.
The Eye is used many times throughout the film to portray this message of the lack or presence of the soul.
A long narrative deserves a slightly longer paragraph and the title becomes apt enough when one thinks of Creation as being born not made. Experience makes us more of who we are but Humans cannot be Man made (by water, physics and scientific elements) Science is extraordinary but it does not fully grasp the mystery of Creation.
Run your sharp mind blades through that for a moment.
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