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Sci Fi Focus > Encyclopedia > Philip K. Dick > Blade Runner
Our Rating: 5 out of 5
In a nutshell:
Classic science fiction film based on a Philip K. Dick story (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), that like a fine wine, has improved with time. One of the greatest science-fiction movies ever.
Plot Synopsis (may include spoilers):
In the future *CLONES* ("Replicants") are used in outer space, but are banned on Earth. Harrison Ford is a cop who is tasked with hunting down and killing four replicants who have come to Earth.
Best Bits:
- Compelling story with many levels
- Thought provoking
- Visually amazing
- Vangelis soundtrack
- Excellent cast, all acting well
- For once a movie even better than the book
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Blade Runner
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 | Directed by Ridley Scott Featuring Harrison Ford, Sean Young & M. Emmet Walsh Ingram Released: 1997-03-26 DVD Product Description: A blend of science fiction and noir detective fiction Blade Runner (1982) was a box office and critical bust upon its initial exhibition but its unique postmodern production design became hugely influential within the sci-fi genre and the film ga Amazon.com: When Ridley Scott's cut of Blade Runner was finally released in 1993, one had to wonder why the studio hadn't done it right the first time--11 years earlier. This version is so much better, mostly because of what's been eliminated (the ludicrous and redundant voice-over narration and the phony happy ending) rather than what's been added (a bit more character development and a brief unicorn dream). Star Harrison Ford originally recorded the narration under duress at the insistence of Warner Bros. executives who thought the story needed further "explanation"; he later confessed that he thought if he did it badly they wouldn't use it. (Moral: Never overestimate the taste of movie executives.) The movie's spectacular futuristic vision of Los Angeles--a perpetually dark and rainy metropolis that's the nightmare antithesis of "Sunny Southern California"--is still its most seductive feature, an otherworldly atmosphere in which you can immerse yourself. The movie's shadowy visual style, along with its classic private-detective/murder-mystery plot line (with Ford on the trail of a murderous android, or "replicant"), makes Blade Runner one of the few science fiction pictures to legitimately claim a place in the film noir tradition. And, as in the best noir, the sleuth discovers a whole lot more (about himself and the people he encounters) than he anticipates.... With Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah, Rutger Hauer, and M. Emmet Walsh. --Jim Emerson List Price: $14.98* Lowest New Price: $2.98* Lowest Used Price: $0.89* *(As of 02:21 Pacific 12 Mar 2010 More Info) Buy It Now |
 | Directed by Ridley Scott Featuring Harrison Ford, Sean Young & M. Emmet Walsh DVD Amazon.com essential video: When Ridley Scott's cut of Blade Runner was finally released in 1993, one had to wonder why the studio hadn't done it right the first time--11 years earlier. This version is so much better, mostly because of what's been eliminated (the ludicrous and redundant voice-over narration and the phony happy ending) rather than what's been added (a bit more character development and a brief unicorn dream). Star Harrison Ford originally recorded the narration under duress at the insistence of Warner Bros. executives who thought the story needed further "explanation"; he later confessed that he thought if he did it badly they wouldn't use it. (Moral: Never overestimate the taste of movie executives.) The movie's spectacular futuristic vision of Los Angeles--a perpetually dark and rainy metropolis that's the nightmare antithesis of "Sunny Southern California"--is still its most seductive feature, an otherworldly atmosphere in which you can immerse yourself. The movie's shadowy visual style, along with its classic private-detective/murder-mystery plot line (with Ford on the trail of a murderous android, or "replicant"), makes Blade Runner one of the few science fiction pictures to legitimately claim a place in the film noir tradition. And, as in the best noir, the sleuth discovers a whole lot more (about himself and the people he encounters) than he anticipates.... With Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah, Rutger Hauer, and M. Emmet Walsh. --Jim Emerson Lowest New Price: $24.98* Lowest Used Price: $15.98* *(As of 02:21 Pacific 12 Mar 2010 More Info) Buy It Now |
 | Directed by Ridley Scott Featuring Harrison Ford, Sean Young & M. Emmet Walsh DVD Lowest Used Price: $52.33* *(As of 02:21 Pacific 12 Mar 2010 More Info) Buy It Now |
| | Directed by Ridley Scott Featuring Harrison Ford, Sean Young & M. Emmet Walsh Creative Design Art Released: 2001-09-11 DVD List Price: $200.99* Lowest New Price: $139.00* Lowest Used Price: $126.95* *(As of 02:21 Pacific 12 Mar 2010 More Info) Buy It Now |
 | Featuring Warner 2pak Warner Home Video Released: 2004-11-16 DVD List Price: $18.98* Lowest Used Price: $8.99* *(As of 02:21 Pacific 12 Mar 2010 More Info) Buy It Now |
| | Featuring Artist Not Provided Warner Home Video Released: 2004-11-16 DVD List Price: $18.98* Lowest New Price: $48.40* Lowest Used Price: $8.99* *(As of 02:21 Pacific 12 Mar 2010 More Info) Buy It Now |
![Blade Runner - The Director s Cut [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517VE6KE5NL._SL160_.jpg) | Directed by Ridley Scott Featuring Harrison Ford, Sean Young & M. Emmet Walsh Warner Home Video Released: 1999-11-23 VHS Tape Amazon.com essential video: When Ridley Scott's cut of Blade Runner was finally released in 1993, one had to wonder why the studio hadn't done it right the first time--11 years earlier. This version is so much better, mostly because of what's been eliminated (the ludicrous and redundant voice-over narration and the phony happy ending) rather than what's been added (a bit more character development and a brief unicorn dream). Star Harrison Ford originally recorded the narration under duress at the insistence of Warner Bros. executives who thought the story needed further "explanation"; he later confessed that he thought if he did it badly they wouldn't use it. (Moral: Never overestimate the taste of movie executives.) The movie's spectacular futuristic vision of Los Angeles--a perpetually dark and rainy metropolis that's the nightmare antithesis of "Sunny Southern California"--is still its most seductive feature, an otherworldly atmosphere in which you can immerse yourself. The movie's shadowy visual style, along with its classic private-detective/murder-mystery plot line (with Ford on the trail of a murderous android, or "replicant"), makes Blade Runner one of the few science fiction pictures to legitimately claim a place in the film noir tradition. And, as in the best noir, the sleuth discovers a whole lot more (about himself and the people he encounters) than he anticipates.... With Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah, Rutger Hauer, and M. Emmet Walsh. --Jim Emerson List Price: $14.95* Lowest New Price: $0.95* Lowest Used Price: $0.01* *(As of 02:21 Pacific 12 Mar 2010 More Info) Buy It Now |
 | Nelson Entertainment VHS Tape Product Description: The Unrated Version of Blade Runner with Harrison Ford Narration. In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed lifespans. In Los Angeles, 2019, Deckard is a Blade Runner, a cop who specialises in terminating replicants. Originally in retirement, he is forced to re-enter the force when five replicants escape from an offworld colony to Earth. Lowest Used Price: $9.95* *(As of 02:21 Pacific 12 Mar 2010 More Info) Buy It Now |
![Blade Runner [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TKRV08BRL._SL160_.jpg) | Directed by Ridley Scott Featuring Harrison Ford, Sean Young & M. Emmet Walsh Warner Home Video Released: 1994-07-14 VHS Tape Amazon.com essential video: When Ridley Scott's cut of Blade Runner was finally released in 1993, one had to wonder why the studio hadn't done it right the first time--11 years earlier. This version is so much better, mostly because of what's been eliminated (the ludicrous and redundant voice-over narration and the phony happy ending) rather than what's been added (a bit more character development and a brief unicorn dream). Star Harrison Ford originally recorded the narration under duress at the insistence of Warner Bros. executives who thought the story needed further "explanation"; he later confessed that he thought if he did it badly they wouldn't use it. (Moral: Never overestimate the taste of movie executives.) The movie's spectacular futuristic vision of Los Angeles--a perpetually dark and rainy metropolis that's the nightmare antithesis of "Sunny Southern California"--is still its most seductive feature, an otherworldly atmosphere in which you can immerse yourself. The movie's shadowy visual style, along with its classic private-detective/murder-mystery plot line (with Ford on the trail of a murderous android, or "replicant"), makes Blade Runner one of the few science fiction pictures to legitimately claim a place in the film noir tradition. And, as in the best noir, the sleuth discovers a whole lot more (about himself and the people he encounters) than he anticipates.... With Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah, Rutger Hauer, and M. Emmet Walsh. --Jim Emerson List Price: $19.98* Lowest New Price: $1.99* Lowest Used Price: $0.01* *(As of 02:21 Pacific 12 Mar 2010 More Info) Buy It Now |
 | Columbia Tristar / Nelson Entertainment VHS Tape Product Description: 10th Anniversary Edition of Blade Runner Unrated and Narrated by Harrison Ford. Please Note the only difference between this edition and the Nelson Entertainment Unrated Edition is the Limited Edition Cover. The tape is the exact one used in the Nelson Entertainment Unrated Edition. In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed lifespans. In Los Angeles, 2019, Deckard is a Blade Runner, a cop who specialises in terminating replicants. Originally in retirement, he is forced to re-enter the force when five replicants escape from an offworld colony to Earth. Lowest Used Price: $4.99* *(As of 02:21 Pacific 12 Mar 2010 More Info) Buy It Now |
 | VANGELIS Released: 1994-06-21 Audio CD Product Description: No Description Available No Track Information Available Media Type: CD Artist: VANGELIS Title: BLADE RUNNER Street Release Date: 06/21/1994 Genre: NEW AGE List Price: $13.96* Lowest New Price: $6.05* Lowest Used Price: $2.75* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 02:21 Pacific 12 Mar 2010 More Info) Buy It Now |
 | Warner Brothers Released: 1990-10-25 Audio CD List Price: $9.98* Lowest New Price: $6.16* Lowest Used Price: $0.47* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 02:21 Pacific 12 Mar 2010 More Info) Buy It Now |
 | By Philip K. Dick Del Rey Released: 1987-07-12 Mass Market Paperback (272 pages)
Product Description: It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignmet--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found! List Price: $7.99* Lowest New Price: $3.84* Lowest Used Price: $0.47* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 02:21 Pacific 12 Mar 2010 More Info) Buy It Now |
| | By Les Martin Random House Books for Young Readers Released: 1982-05-12 Hardcover (91 pages; 1) Product Description: In the year 2019, lifelike robots clash with their human makers in an effort to alter the destiny for which they have been programmed. List Price: $3.95* Lowest New Price: $15.00* Lowest Used Price: $3.61* *(As of 02:21 Pacific 12 Mar 2010 More Info) Buy It Now |
 | By Philip K. Dick Del Rey Released: 1996-05-28 Paperback (256 pages)
Product Description: "The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world." --John Brunner THE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . . Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time. By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . . They even built humans. Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn't want to be identified, they just blended in. Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results. "[Dick] sees all the sparkling and terrifying possibilities. . . that other authors shy away from." --Paul Williams Rolling Stone List Price: $14.00* Lowest New Price: $5.79* Lowest Used Price: $3.13* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 02:21 Pacific 12 Mar 2010 More Info) Buy It Now |
| | By Philip K. Dick Ballantine Books Hardcover (244 pages) Product Description: San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have died. Most people emigrate to Mars - unless they have a job to do on Earth. Like Rick Deckard - android killer for the police and owner of an electric sheep. This week he has to find, identify, and kill six androids which have escaped from Mars. They're machines, but they look and sound and think like humans - clever, dangerous humans. They will be hard to kill. The film Blade Runner was based on this famous novel. Lowest New Price: $39.95* Lowest Used Price: $12.95* *(As of 02:21 Pacific 12 Mar 2010 More Info) Buy It Now |
 | By Philip K. Dick Turtleback Books: A Division of Sanval School & Library Binding (256 pages) Product Description: San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have died. Most people emigrate to Mars - unless they have a job to do on Earth. Like Rick Deckard - android killer for the police and owner of an electric sheep. This week he has to find, identify, and kill six androids which have escaped from Mars. They're machines, but they look and sound and think like humans - clever, dangerous humans. They will be hard to kill. The film Blade Runner was based on this famous novel. List Price: $25.75* *(As of 02:21 Pacific 12 Mar 2010 More Info) Buy It Now |
 | Wallflower Press Released: 2006-03-01 Paperback (240 pages) Product Description: Since its release in 1982, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, has remained a cult classic through its depiction of a futuristic Los Angeles; its complex, enigmatic plot; and its underlying questions about the nature of human identity. The Blade Runner Experience: The Legacy of a Science Fiction Classic examines the film in a broad context, examining its relationship to the original novel, the PC game, the series of sequels, and the many films influenced by its style and themes. It investigates Blade Runner online fandom and asks how the film's future city compares to the present-day Los Angeles, and it revisits the film to pose surprising new questions about its characters and their world. List Price: $25.00* Lowest New Price: $19.75* Lowest Used Price: $16.05* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 02:21 Pacific 12 Mar 2010 More Info) Buy It Now |
| | Wallflower Press Hardcover (240 pages) Product Description: Since its release in 1982, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, has remained a cult classic through its depiction of a futuristic Los Angeles; its complex, enigmatic plot; and its underlying questions about the nature of human identity. The Blade Runner Experience: The Legacy of a Science Fiction Classic examines the film in a broad context, examining its relationship to the original novel, the PC game, the series of sequels, and the many films influenced by its style and themes. It investigates Blade Runner online fandom and asks how the film's future city compares to the present-day Los Angeles, and it revisits the film to pose surprising new questions about its characters and their world. List Price: $80.00* Lowest New Price: $67.20* Lowest Used Price: $61.65* Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks* *(As of 02:21 Pacific 12 Mar 2010 More Info) Buy It Now |
 | By Don Shay Titan Books Released: 2003-06-01 Hardcover (80 pages)
Product Description: In 1982, to coincide with Blade Runner's original release, Cinefex, the respected magazine devoted to movie design and special effects devoted an entire, extended issue to Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece. That issue has been out of print since then, but in constant demand — copies now sell on the collector's market for over $100. Titan Books is proud to bring this classic back into print, in a remastered hardcover edition. Described as 'the single most comprehensive examination of Blade Runner's special effects', this must-have book contains scores of images not available elsewhere, as well as authoritative text, containing in-depth, exclusive interviews with director Ridley Scott and the legendary designer Syd Mead. |
 | By Scott Bukatman British Film Institute Released: 2008-01-22 Paperback (96 pages)
Product Description: color illus Blade Runner has proved to be one of the most enduring and influential films of the 1980s. In his innovative reading, Scott Bukatman details the making of the film and its steadily improving fortunes after its initial release. He situates the film in terms of the debates about post modernism that have informed the large body of criticism devoted to it. Although Blade Runner explores the tensions fundamental to a postmodern era of bewildering technological change, Bukatman argues, it derives from the quintessentially twentieth-century, modernist experience of the city-the experience of a space both imprisoning and liberating. List Price: $14.95* Lowest New Price: $8.57* Lowest Used Price: $3.60* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 02:21 Pacific 12 Mar 2010 More Info) Buy It Now |
 | By Judith B. Kerman Popular Press 3 Paperback (340 pages)
Product Description: This second edition of Retrofitting Blade Runner contains a new essay by Leonard Heldreth, an addendum to the bibliography, and an essay by William Kolb, "Reconstructing the Director's Cut." This book of essays looks at the multitude of texts and influences which converge in Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner, especially the film's relationship to its source novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
| | By Don Shay Titan Books Released: 2003-06-01 Hardcover (80 pages)
Product Description: In 1982, to coincide with Blade Runner's original release, Cinefex, the respected magazine devoted to movie design and special effects devoted an entire, extended issue to Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece. That issue has been out of print since then, but in constant demand — copies now sell on the collector's market for over $100. Titan Books is proud to bring this classic back into print, in a remastered hardcover edition. Described as 'the single most comprehensive examination of Blade Runner's special effects', this must-have book contains scores of images not available elsewhere, as well as authoritative text, containing in-depth, exclusive interviews with director Ridley Scott and the legendary designer Syd Mead. |
 | By Paul M. Sammon Harper Paperbacks Released: 1996-05-01 Paperback (464 pages) Product Description: The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all along: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling SF novel Do Androids Dream ofElectric Sheep, still rules as the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential SF film ever made. Future Noir is the story of that triumph. The making of Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry. A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and the art that is modern Hollywood, Future Noir is the intense, intimate, anything-but-glamerous inside account of how the work of SF's most uncompromising author was transformed into a critical sensation, a commercial success, and a cult classic. |
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