Bladerunner and the Unicorn

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I finally saw the Director's cut, sans harboiled voice over and happy ending, and I liked it. I thought the unicorn dream was oddly stuck in, though, and I SWEAR it was footage lifted from "Legend". Am I wrong?

 

[sexy-girl]

i thought i had seen the directors cut a while ago but i dont remember the unicorn dream so i guess i haven't seen it

 

[Marxist]

It did look second-hand. But Dix, you're only catching the Director's Cut just now?

It's only been 7 or 8 years, right?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I have kids, dude. Going out is tough. Renting something above PG is tough. When we DO get the chance to spend some quality adult time, it's usually on something just released. I may have missed the Director's cut of "Bladerunner" all this time, but I've seen all the "Land Before Time" animated films. Ducky rules.

 

[lovetoread]

You get adult time? Wow.

 

[sexy-girl]

You get adult time? Wow.

only if he's good

 

[Guest]

He's a replicunt, you know.

 

[scrymettet]

I finally saw the Director's cut, sans harboiled voice over and happy ending, and I liked it.

Is it really better than the original release ?

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Bladerunner and the Unicorn

Is it really better than the original release ?

yes, it's worth it.

 

[Laurel]

I finally saw the Director's cut, sans harboiled voice over and happy ending, and I liked it. I thought the unicorn dream was oddly stuck in, though, and I SWEAR it was footage lifted from "Legend". Am I wrong?

Dunno. But in the "original" crappy-happy ending, the footage following their car at the very end of the movie is directly lifted from "The Shining".

 

[OUTSIDER]

I finally saw the Director's cut, sans harboiled voice over and happy ending, and I liked it. I thought the unicorn dream was oddly stuck in, though, and I SWEAR it was footage lifted from "Legend". Am I wrong?

Yes the unicorn footage was stuff left over from Legend and got used in Blade runner, you might have also noticed that at the end harrison ford finds a tiny unicorn stick figure outside his apartment, this is supposed to tell us that he is really one of the new style replicants and not human at all.

 

[Never]

I have kids, dude. Going out is tough. Renting something above PG is tough. When we DO get the chance to spend some quality adult time, it's usually on something just released. I may have missed the Director's cut of "Bladerunner" all this time, but I've seen all the "Land Before Time" animated films. Ducky rules.

I remember seeing the first Land Before Time movie and thinking I was just like the little Triceratops girl. That was a while ago. Yah, ducky was cool.

 

[Ladyhawke]

Blade Runner came out in 1982....Legend in 1985. The unicorn dream was also always a part original screenplay.

 

[seXieleXie]

I remember seeing the first Land Before Time movie and thinking I was just like the little Triceratops girl. That was a while ago. Yah, ducky was cool.

yeah, i always figured sarah for a dyke...

 

[Never]

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

 

[Ice Cold]

"You brade runner!" Not sure if I've seen the directors cut, been about five years since I sat through it completely.

 

[seXieleXie]

i should probably PM you or something but i'm lazy so i'll ask you here.

have you ever read the well of loneliness?

 

[Never]

Why wouldn't you ask me that on this thread?
No, I haven't read The Well of Loneliness. I know how it ends (I mean, it came out in the 1920s, didn’t it?) and that alone puts me off it. I’m tired of reading stories that include lesbians killing themselves and/or their lover. I’m tired of hearing how depressing being gay (or an invert as the story goes) is. I can read stories where three foot humanoids save the earth from being overrun by evil I can’t read a story about a dyke getting a happily ever after? That’s so much bullshit.

 

[phrodeau]

I believe the unicorn footage isn't a dream, but Deckard's implanted memory. The unicorn origami (presumably left by Gaff) implies that he's known to be a replicant by the cops, and is a sort of "parting gift" to make him aware of his fate.

I can't say if the unicorn scene was from "Legend" footage - maybe it was the unicorn's screen test. But some of the modellers snuck in bits from other projects in the scenery. A Millennium Falcon and a Death Star model appear as buildings in the background. The police station rooftop was taken from the Mothership of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". Also, a computer graphic in the police car is identical to one from "Alien".

There has been more than one release called "Director's Cut" for this film.

 

[seXieleXie]

i know what you mean. there are plent of lesbian novels with happy endings though. i'm taking a course on lesbian fiction and we're reading Hall's novel first. the professor says it's important to understand the lesbian literary tradition.

it's an utterly depressing book though. the protagontist is so full of self loathing. it's actually difficult for me to read because it's so emotional. (yes, i am a wimp) *sigh* i just needed to complain to someone.

 

[Never]

I think the heathy response to that book would be to tear it up, piss on it, and set it on fire.

There are plenty lesbain novels with happy endings?
Name five, I have some extra money and Amazon.com is just a click away.

 

[kotori]

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[Never]

I like Philip K. Dick.. There's nothing wrong with dick.

 

[kotori]

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[Guest]

I would have preferred the Director's cut if it had turned out he was human after all. The bit where he confronts Rutger Hauer on the rooftop is there to show us how such a replicant (Hauer) can feel all of the emotions and recognise all of the beauty that Deckard has failed to do in his own human life, making it poignantly ironic that the robot should have more humanity than he does.

The Director's Cut was best out of the two, though.