Originally posted by Silent Warrior
See the original BR-movie, and you'll easily see why I'm fuming over the severely maimed DC-version.
Screw the original cut. The execs thought people were too stupid to follow a visually expressive film with long periods of no talking, so they forced Ridley Scott to do a narrative.
The DC is superior for many, many reasons, esp for deleting that goddamned driving sequence at the end of the film. Actually, that shot was later used in the opening titles of the Shining , I hear. Eerie...
Ridley Scott can barely direct his way out of a bag, he's such a hack. His earliest stuff is wonderful and so was White Squall, but the rest is pretty much Hollygarbage.
I'd also like to point out, that Philip K Dick saw a work print of the early cut of Blade Runner only a week or so before he died. Supposedly, he cried from the first 20 minutes on because Ridley's visuals were so true to the way PKD saw them.
I also had some black and white photos from unused footage from that film, like Deckard talking in the hospital to the Runner that gets shot in the beginning.
Beautiful film, none-the-less.
God, can Rutger Hauer act..."IIIIIIII'm coooooooooming fooooooor yooooooooooou!!!"