Blade Runner (Two-Disc Final Cut)
by Ridley Scott
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Actor: Harrison FordDirector: Ridley Scott
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Hungarian (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 117 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-12-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: 114482
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Visually spectacular, intensely action-packed and powerfully prophetic since its debut, Blade Runner returns in Ridley Scott's definitive Final Cut, including extended scenes and never-before-seen special effects. In a signature role as 21st-century detective Rick Deckard, Harrison Ford brings his masculine-yet-vulnerable presence to this stylish noir thriller. In a future of high-tech possibility
DVD Reviews of Blade Runner (Two-Disc Final Cut)
DVD Review: A future worth striving for
Summary: 5 Stars
Described a few days ago by a public radio announcer as being a "box office flop" when it was released in 1982, this movie nevertheless has had a huge following since that time. Some have considered the movie as a warning against dangerous technological influences, while others, a small minority in fact; consider it a tour de force, as an indication of where technology is headed. If one examines the evidence carefully, there are strong indications that advances in genetic engineering and neuroscience will allow the kinds of beings portrayed in this film to be produced in the near future. These beings, called "replicants" in the movie, have mental and physical abilities that are enhanced to a large degree over the humans that surround them. These abilities were designed into them by their creators, with the hopes of using them to perform dangerous physical labor on the "off-world" colonies. All of the actors who portray the replicants in the movie give convincing performances, especially when displaying their emotional immaturity and their reaction to fear. In the latter, they are behaving like any ordinary human would: protecting themselves against forces that seek to destroy them.
Everything about this movie is interesting, and for a technophile it is an excellent vehicle with which to project oneself into a future that he may not get to experience. Indeed, there is so much to contemplate while viewing it: advanced space travel, flying cars, sophisticated toy robots, voice recognizing machines, the artificial owl and snake, and of course the advances in genetic engineering. But whether put in by the director on purpose or not, there are a few things in the movie that point to the limitations of scientific understanding at the time (2019). For example, the toy-maker J.F. Sebastian complains about having "Methuselah syndrome", which as he explains it is a form of accelerated aging, which prevents him from living in the off-world colonies. Medical science is apparently still not advanced enough to cure him of this illness. Another example is when Roy Batty challenges Eldon Tyrell to extend his lifetime to one that is greater than four years, but Tyrell gives Batty the biological reasons why this cannot be done. So even though genetic engineering is advanced enough to create functioning replicants, it is still unable to "alter the coding sequence once it has been set". These two examples exemplify the idea that there are always issues, problems, and areas that science has not yet explained, thus motivating further research.
The replicants Zhora and Pris are both sexually enticing figures in the movie, and of course this was by design. But they cannot compare to the desirability of Rachel, a special replicant designed by Tyrell and who totally overwhelms all the other characters in movie. Her fragility and naiveté are to be contrasted with her sophistication in dress and demeanor. Every set she is in becomes her runway, but the best scene is when she first meets Rick Deckard, and asks him about the artificial owl. Her clothes, makeup, and hairstyle are pure twenty-first century, and naturally Deckard is very attracted to her, as any man would be. And in this regard it does not matter whether Rachel is a replicant or not. All that matters for an attraction to take place is the responses in the brains of both parties. This movie gives a glimpse of the love affairs between humans and machines that will be a common occurrence in this century, and there is no rational or ethical reason why they should not take place.
And far from being evil, the Tyrell Corporation exemplifies the kind of future that is ahead. No doubt corporations in this century will cause some difficult social problems, and technological advances of course have their negative ramifications (the "acid rain" and filthy streets in the movie), but these can be cured by new technology. Thus one technological advance requires another, and this one still another. Each advance seems to occur much more rapidly than the other, forcing an unrelenting march into the future. Sometimes this march can be as a drunkards walk, and sometimes it takes place with huge leaps, but as this movie and those it influenced after it was released portrays, there are always consequences, sometimes negative and sometimes positive. But far from being a dystopian vision of the future, this movie portrays one that all humans should strive for. And in the process of doing so, we will be assisted by the very technology we create. This technology will also develop its own vision of the future, and it might be very different from our own.
Description of Blade Runner (Two-Disc Final Cut)
BLADE RUNNER:FINAL CUT SPECIAL EDITIO - DVD MovieIn celebration of Blade Runner's 25th anniversary, director Ridley Scott has gone back into post production to create the long-awaited definitive new version. Blade Runner: The Final Cut, spectacularly restored and remastered from original elements and scanned at 4K resolution, will contain never-before-seen added/extended scenes, added lines, new and improved special effects, director and filmmaker commentary, an all-new 5.1 Dolby® Digital audio track and more. Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos, Joanna Cassidy, Sean Young, and Daryl Hannah are among some 80 stars, filmmakers and others who participate in the extensive bonus features. Among the bonus material highlights is Dangerous Days, a brand new, three-and-a-half-hour documentary by award-winning DVD producer Charles de Lauzirika, with an extensive look into every aspect of the film: its literary genesis, its challenging production and its controversial legacy. The definitive documentary to accompany the definitive film version.
Disc One
RIDLEY SCOTT'S ALL-NEW "FINAL CUT" VERSION OF THE FILM
Restored and remastered with added & extended scenes, added lines, new and cleaner special effects and all new 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio. Also includes:
- Commentary by Ridley Scott
- Commentary by executive producer/co-screenwriter Hampton Fancher and co-screenwriter David Peoples; producer Michael Deely and production executive Katherine Haber
- Commentary by visual futurist Syd Mead; production designer Lawrence G. Paull, art director David L. Snyder and special photographic effects supervisors Douglas Trumbull, Richard Yuricich and David Dryer
Disc Two
DOCUMENTARY DANGEROUS DAYS: MAKING BLADE RUNNER
A feature-length authoritative documentary revealing all the elements that shaped this hugely influential cinema landmark. Cast, crew, critics and colleagues give a behind-the-scenes, in-depth look at the film -- from its literary roots and inception through casting, production, visuals and special effects to its controversial legacy and place in Hollywood history.
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