Blade Runner

Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer Director: Ridley Scott Original UK Premiere: 1982 Dvd Release: 1st November, 1999 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Director's Cut, PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish Dubbed In: Italian

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Blade Runner is a dark science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott released in 1982. It presents a bleak dystopic vision of Los Angeles in the not too distant future. Harrison Ford stars as Blade Runner Rick Deckard. In the future world of the movie artificially manufactured androids called replicants are used for dangerous & degrading work in Earth s offworld colonies. Replicants are considered dangerous & are illegal on Earth; Blade Runners are specialist police personnel who track down & retire escaped Replicants. Deckard is called out of his own retirement to retire several advanced Nexus-6 replicants who are illegally present in Los Angeles. Rutger Hauer & Darryl Hannah play two of the fugitive replicants & Sean Young plays Rachael, Deckards love interest, whose own humanity is in question. Based loosely on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick, the original screenplay was written by Hampton Fancher which attracted the interest of Producer Michael Deeley. Posters Of Blade Runner

When Ridley Scotts cut of Blade Runner was finally released in 1993, one had to wonder why the studio hadnt done it right the first time, 11 years earlier. This version is so much better, mostly because of whats been eliminated rather than whats been added . 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 wouldnt use it.

The movies spectacular futuristic vision of Los Angeles, a perpetually dark & rainy metropolis thats the nightmare antithesis of Sunny Southern California, is still its most seductive feature, another worldly atmosphere in which you can immerse yourself. The movies shadowy visual style, along with its classic private-detective/murder-mystery plot line , 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 than he anticipates. The cast also includes Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah Rutger Hauer & M Emmet Walsh.

Another actor named Harrison Ford has gained fame in movies since the 1970s. Harrison Ford was an American actor in the silent film era of the 1910s & 20s. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Harrison Ford began acting on stage & made his Broadway debut in 1904. He turned to film beginning in 1915 & moved to Hollywood. He became a leading man opposite early stars such as Constance Talmadge, Norma Talmadge, Marie Prevost, Marion Davies & Clara Bow. Harrison Ford was one of the actors whose career ended with the advent of talkies, making his final film in 1932. He returned to acting in theatre & also directed productions at the Little Theater of the Verdugos in Glendale, California. During World War II, he toured with the United Service Organizations. In the early 1950s, he was struck by a car while out walking. He never recovered from the severe injuries received & died in 1957 in the Motion Picture & Television Country House & Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. He was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale. Posters Of Harrison Ford

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Rutger Hauer is an international movie star. The son of drama teachers Arend & Teunke, he grew up in Amsterdam but at age 15 ran away to the sea & spent a year scrubbing decks aboard a freighter. Returning home, he worked as an electrician & a carpenter for three years while attending drama classes at night school. He went on to join an experimental acting troupe, which he stayed with for five years before getting the lead role as a swashbuckler in the 1969 television series Floris, a Dutch Ivanhoe -like medieval action show. His career changed course when director Paul Verhoeven gave him the lead in Turkish Delight. The movie found box-office favour abroad as well as at home & within two years, its star was invited to make his English language debut in The Wilby Conspiracy. This film was set in South Africa & starred Michael Caine & Sidney Poitier, it was an action melodrama with a focus on apartheid .Hauers supporting role, however, was hardly enough to establish him in Hollywood s eyes & he returned to European film making for several years. Posters Of Armageddon

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Sir Ridley Scott in South Shields is a British film director & producer. Scott studied photography at the Royal College of Art & helped establish the film department there in the mid-1960s. After graduation he secured a traineeship with the BBC leading him to work on the popular television series Z Cars. Along with Alan Parker, Hugh Hudson & his younger brother Tony Scott they estalished an advertising company. Having cut his teeth on UK television commercials in the 1970s he graduated to Hollywood, where he produced & directed a number of top boxoffice films. His striking visual style, incorporating a detailed approach to production design & innovative, atmospheric lighting, has been tremendously influential to an entire subsequent generation of filmmakers — many of whom have simply imitated him outright. Scott is notable for his versatility. He rarely makes two films in the same genre & many of his films are popularly rated as some of the best examples of their genres. Posters Of Black Hawk Down

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