Blade Runner (1982) (Workprint) 3
Blade Runner (1982) (Workprint)
"The Workprint version of the film was shown to preview audiences in Denver and Dallas. It was the mixed reactions to the "Workprint" at those sneak previews that led the producers to make two controversial additions to the theatrical releases: a voice-over by Harrison Ford, who plays the film's protagonist, and a happy ending featuring an escape to the green north. The Workprint wasn't a real "director's cut" at all but rather a pre-release version that Ridley Scott believed to be closer to his vision of what the film should have been than the final theatrical releases.
Vangelis's score wasn't complete at the time the Workprint was first shown to preview audiences, and the final scenes of this version of the film (when Deckard is finally confronting the lead replicant, Roy Batty, played by Rutger Hauer) are accompanied by cues taken from music written by Jerry Goldsmith for such films as Planet of the Apes and Alien. The cues were chosen and inserted by Blade Runner's editor, Terry Rawlings, and their effect is jarring in its conventionality. It's canned suspense music that has the effect of highlighting just how important Vangelis's score is to the overall effect of the film.
Based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968), Blade Runner is set in Los Angeles in 2019 and tells the story of Rick Deckard, a hard-boiled cop? a blade runner ? who must find and retire four replicants (androids with superior physical and mental abilities) who have returned to earth illegally from the off-world colonies." -Cyrus, patell.org
Director: Ridley Scott
Writer: Hampton Fancher, David Peoples
Score: Vangelis
Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Darryl Hannah, Edward James Olmos, M Emmet Walsh
Author: nigelhalfwit
Keywords: 1982 Workprint Ridley Scott Philip K. Dick Harrison Ford Rutger Hauer Sean Young Darryl Hannah Edward James Olmos
Added: September 12, 2008
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