Ridley Scott's works, in addition to "Alien", Mr. Lei has also filmed black science fiction films like "Blade Runner". This man always shoots films with changeable themes, such as "The End of the Wild Flower" and "Black Hawk". "Fall" and "Gladiator", these movies are his masterpieces, but the film mentioned in this article was not very popular at the beginning, unlike the previous ones, which are both popular and popular, the box office of this film is bleak. Not only that, the most professional film critics in the United States at the time also criticized it. What kind of movie was this?
The experience of this film is quite similar to "Western Journey". At first, no one cared about it. Later it became a classic that everyone sought after, because they surpassed history, surpassed the audience's understanding level at that time, and surpassed the mainstream values of the time. But as the years go by, they will one day get the appreciation and recognition they should have, and it will last forever!
The film was shot in 1982. At that time, the future of science fiction movies was always better than reality, with advanced technology and people living happily. This was not the case. The plot is set in Los Angeles in 2019, a city that has become smoggy in the future. Various ethnic groups live together. People speak the languages of different regions and different ethnic groups on the dark, dirty and humid streets. At this time, the earth is no longer suitable for human habitation due to environmental pollution. Rich people have immigrated to other planets and stayed there. The people on the earth are the poor, the people whose bodies are not up to standard. This can be described as subverting the tradition. There is no trace of sunlight from beginning to end of the film. The sky is overcast with clouds. It is always raining. People are crowded with umbrellas like machines. The film’s style is gloomy, depressing, and successful. The earth creates a sense of doomsday.
As early as in the silent film "Metropolis", we saw the vehicles flying over the city in the future. Future science fiction films are all affected by it. This film is no exception. An electronic soundtrack with a sense of alienation, suddenly a sense of desolation came to my heart. The opening is a close-up of an eye, electronic music sounds, and a few fire-breathing buildings stand in the night sky, setting the dark tone of the whole film. On the huge electronic display in the building, a drug advertisement endorsed by a Japanese singer was shown. Her goose bumps sang in the night, and the radio broadcasted an advertisement encouraging humans to migrate to Mars. The planet rendered into a paradise on earth.
"Male pig's feet" Deckard appeared next to the pastry shop on the street. The pastry owner was actually a Japanese, calling for "Dao Sau" and "Dao Sau" (the same as Bruce in "The Fifth Element" The food that Willis eats for breakfast is also sold by a Japanese, and his noodle stall is also equipped with a flying machine to pay tribute to the film).
In the future society, humans will gradually master the technology of cloning (advanced enough, this movie is about human cloning, profound). Cloning is just a human machine, a tool of human beings, human beings give them life, and they also have their own Emotions, they also want to live like real human beings, eager to be recognized by people, but human beings only give them three years of life, their death is called "retirement", the police department has a special organization, they are responsible To hunt down those clones who defected, this special organization is called "Blade Runner".
Deckard is a retired Blade Runner. At this time, he was notified that "six" clones had escaped from the aliens and returned to Earth. Note that there were six people in total, so the boss once again used the retired Di Card, when Deckard was eating noodles on the street, his colleague—a mysterious man, Geff, came to pick him up to the police station. This Geff was a taciturn man with melancholy eyes. He seemed to know Some secrets that Deckard doesn't know, his hobby is origami, and his origami shots appear many times in the film, which play an important role in promoting the development of the film. At the same time, these shots are also hinting to the audience!
As mentioned above, six clones defected and returned to Earth. One of them died accidentally on the way. There are five left, but there are only four defectors, Roy, Priss, Zola, and Leon. This is one of the films. The loopholes were corrected in the final edited version.
Roy and Priss are a couple, Priss three-year deadline is coming, Roy takes her and his companions to escape back to the earth, trying to return to the Terry factory that made him to find Dr. Elton. Terry, ask him to help extend Pris's lifespan. Deckard was ordered to come to Terry’s factory to investigate the clone. It was Terry’s secretary Rachel who received him. In the future, real humans can identify clones by asking questions while observing the changes in the pupils of their eyes. Deckard is in The factory performed how to test, and the subject was Rachel, but the results were surprising: Rachel turned out to be a clone too!
When the memory can be transplanted, can you and I tell whether you are true or not? In order to prove that he is not a clone, Rachel took a photo of him with his mother when he was a child, but Deckard ruthlessly said that all of this was forged, and the memory was transplanted into Rachel's mind! And what about Deckard himself? His family also has photos of himself when he was a child. All humans can remember is only in the photos? Even memories can deceive people, but what good is a photo? During the investigation, Deckard gradually fell in love with Rachel and fell in love with a clone.
The most dreamy set of shots in the film is none other than Deckard’s "Unicorn Dream". This kind of dream scene is not available in reality, so a question about this film arises, that is Deckard in the end. Is it a clone? After hearing this question, everyone was puzzled. How could a good Blade Runner become a clone? There are many places in the film that Decade may be a clone. Sheriff Brian once threatened Decade and said: "If you don't do Blade Runner, then you are nothing!" (The original text seems to be you are nobody). And when Deckard solved all the clones, the sheriff praised him as a real "person" (the original text forgot, roughly means that), and the dream of a unicorn. The end of the credits, the policeman, Gave was broken. A paper unicorn was placed at the door of Deckard's house. Since the unicorn only appeared in Deckard's dream, how did Geff know about it?
There is only one answer, that is, Deckard's memory is also transplanted, and his dream is transplanted into the brain. Wait, it's a bit contradictory! When the film was first released for release, there were subtitles in the opening title. When Deckard was reading the newspaper on the street, the voiceover seemed to say that he had just divorced and was out of work. What about a clone who can only live for three years? Can we get married and divorce?
The question of whether Deckard is a clone has been inconclusive to this day. Die-hard movie fans have different opinions, which is a big unresolved case.
The film's influence has spread to many movies in the future. In addition to "The Fifth Element", "Mechanical Enemy", "Rebirth Mambo", "The Sixth Day" and many other films can see the shadow of this film, and "The Sixth Day" is even more It was a spoof of the scene of the Blade Runner asking questions in the film (in "Day Six", when Schwarzenegger went to the police station to report the crime, the three-dimensional image of the psychologist said to him: "Don't think about your parents, imagine you are in In a desert..." At that time, I almost laughed and lay down). The scenes in the Hong Kong movie "The God of Fist" seem to be imitating the film, and there is a Korean movie that is copying the film naked, and adding some Korean-style brain-dead plots (but the title is forgotten).
The scene of Lloyd’s death in the film is beautiful and romantic, especially the line he said when he was dying, which is very poetic, and is now transcribed below: "I have seen tings you people would't believe. Attack ships on fire off. the shoulder of the Orion.I watched C_beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time …like tears in the rain …Time to die." A clone cherishes life so much, and a real human But regard all life as dust, wantonly destroying everything beautiful, ironic!
In the film, you don’t see the heroic character of Harrison Ford. He is very useless and disappointing in the film. His role of Deckard was dealt with by the combat clone Leon in a few times, and he was also caught in the back. Yi Chai ran all over the street, jumping around on high-rise buildings, fleeing, you can't see Indiana. Jones’s mighty bravery, you can’t see Han Solo’s humor, nor can you see Dr. Kimball’s steadfast perseverance. In short, Harrison Ford never wants to mention this movie again. In his opinion, the box office is terrible. , His role is terrible, but he successfully performed Deckard's decadence.
There are now several versions of the film, including the public release version, the director’s cut version, and the final edited version. Since the producer did not give the filming rights to the director when it was first released, the editing of the film was messy, which was also one of the reasons for the stagnant box office. Later, the director released the director's cut version and the latest final cut version. The latter was the most sophisticated. It not only used digital technology to repair the film, but also corrected several shots in the film, and even reshot several sets of clips.
In short, a good movie does not necessarily have a good box office, and the box office cannot prove everything, or the same sentence: classic movies can stand the test of time!
Wonderful shots:
1. The first set of shots, close-up of eyes, night sky, buildings
2. Unicorn Dream
3. Roy and Deckard's wonderful chase
4. The scene of Roy's death
(This article was written in my college days, so let’s post new ones)
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