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Release Date: |
June 25th, 1982 |
| Studio: |
Warner Brothers |
| Filming Locations: |
Los Angeles (Burbank Studios) |
| Genre: |
Science Fiction/Action/Suspense |
| MPAA Rating: |
R |
| Running Time: |
117 minutes |
| Box Office: |
Domestic: $31,320,441
International: $30,947,728 |
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| Summary |
Rick Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when five "skin jobs", a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious.
The movie is based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick |
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| Awards/Nominations |
| BAFTA |
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design
Best Production Design/Art Direction |
| Hugo |
Best Dramatic Presentation |
| Academy Award Nominations |
Best Art Direction/Set Decoration
Best Visual Effects |
| BAFTA Nominations |
Best Film Editing
Best Make Up Artist
Best Score
Best Sound
Best Special Visual Effects |
| Golden Globe Nomination |
Best Original Score |
| Saturn Awards Nominations |
Best Science Fiction Film
Best Director
Best Special Effects
Best Supporting Actor (Rutger Hauer)
Best Genre Video Release (1994: Director's Cut) |
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| Tidbits |
- Was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1993
- Dustin Hoffman was Ridley Scott's original choice to play Deckard but the script rewites he insisted on made Scott re-evaluate his choice. Other actors considered for the role were Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Tommy Lee Jones and Christopher Walken
- The ending that features Deckard and Rachel driving in the countryside contains unused footage from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
- In the sequence where Deckard and Gaff approach police headquarters in a spinner, a model of the Millennium Falcon, disguised as a building, can be seen in the lower left corner of the frame. The model was a personal project of one of the film's model builders, and was used as a building at the last minute
- Blade Runner was given poor ratings by most critics in 1982, including Siskel & Ebert. In 1992, the two critics re-evaluated their attitudes toward the film and gave it two enthusiastic thumbs-up
- All the replicants are called by their names and the humans are called by their surnames. Rick Deckard is called by both his name and surname
- The question whether Deckard himself is a replicant or not has been a hot subject of discussion ever since the movie opened. Ridley Scott has said that he is, Harrison maintains he isn't; he's the human with whom the audience identifies. It can safely be argued that the story's moral and existential dilemmas come out much clearer if Deckard is a replicant, and this is the favored view in science fiction and art critic circles
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| DIRECTOR'S CUT |
Studio: |
Warner Brothers |
| Release Date: |
February 4, 2003 |
| Run Time: |
117 minutes |
| Production Company: |
Warner Studios |
| Package Type: |
Keep Case |
| Aspect Ratio(s): |
Widescreen letterbox - 2.35:1 |
| Discographic Information |
| Layers: |
Single |
| Available Audio Tracks: |
Dolby Digital Surround - English |
| Edition Details |
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Letter Boxed; Closed Captioned; English Subtitled; French Subtitled; Spanish Subtitled; Full Frame; Widescreen |
| BOX SET |
Studio: |
Creative Design Arts |
| Release Date: |
June 6, 2000 |
| Run Time: |
117 minutes |
| Production Company: |
Warner Studios |
| Package Type: |
Box Set |
| Aspect Ratio(s): |
Widescreen letterbox - 2.35:1
Full Screen (Standard) - 1.33:1 |
| Discographic Information |
| Layers: |
Single |
| Available Audio Tracks: |
English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround) |
| Available Subtitles: |
English, Spanish, French |
| Features |
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- Production notes
- Director's Cut
- 8 Original Limited Edition Lobby Cards
- Exclusive Limited Edition Senitype image from movie with 35mm Film Frame
- Original One Sheet Movie Poster (27x40)
- Full screen and widescreen letterbox formats
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| Composed, Conducted and Produced by: |
Vangelis |
| Orchestrated by: |
Mark McKenzie |
| Special Performance By |
Cassio Duarte |
| Release Date: |
June 9, 1998 |
| Label: |
Hollywood Records |
| Track Listing |
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