Blade Runner Final Cut (Uh, "spoilers?")

[eyebeams]

Saw it, listening to the second set of commentaries (Scott's is kind of boring, so I switched mid-way through his drone about motion-control cameras).

Impressions:

* The colour restoration is gorgeous. It's night and day in spots. The matte paintings and models spring out from their former murkiness. Sometimes this tests the illusion a bit but it's so damn stylish you can forgive it.

* Many of the unfortunate bits (the edit of Leon smacking aside Deckard's gun, for instance) are gone.

* It's a bit tighter, sometimes to its detriment. The iconic scene of Roy Batty looking at the stars is a bit truncated.

* This viewing really gave me a sense that the main characters are naive. There's an almost incompetent innocence about Deckard when it comes to emotions, which from one point of view is telling. It puts the disturbing Deckard/Rachel scene in a new context for me.

* Am I the only one who sees the unicorn as pattern recognition in Leon's photo?

* The Greedo Shot First Moment: "I want more life, Father."

Comments

[freeport-pirate.livejournal.com]

Totally agree on the Greedo moment. I saw this cut in a theater a couple of months ago and really enjoyed it except for that bit. Look, Ridley, we got that Roy was Jesus when he drove the nail into his hand.

[iamnikchick.livejournal.com]

HA! Pramas beats me to it. I was logging on to say exactly this.

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

Jesus? Probably too much conflict with the father for that to really work.

I'd say he's more Satan in Paradise Lost or perhaps a very angry Adam returning to the Garden of Eden, looking for the tree of life.

[ghosthacked.livejournal.com]

ostensibly:
deckard shoots unarmed woman.
deckard shoots unarmed woman mime.
then deckard mentally rapes rachel.

not quite sure what to think of this movie anymore.

[m0rdante.livejournal.com]

Does this version have the voice over of the original release? I remember going to see a director's cut without the voice over and noticing part way through that the voice over was running in my head anyway - I'll never get to experience a pure viewing without it.

What exactly came in the big box?

[eyebeams.livejournal.com]

No voice over.

It comes with every version of the film (there are 5, total), a documentary, a toy spinner, an origami unicorn figure, a hologram of Deckard and a folio with concept art.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

There's an almost incompetent innocence about Deckard when it comes to emotions

I noticed this more and more as I got older. I didn't notice at all when I was, say, 17 or 18. My friends and I thought Deckard was cool and collected. But, yeah, as I get older, it really strikes me that Deckard is acting like a 15-year-old who is pretending to be tough.