Originally Posted by
GuitarGeek
Well, killing generally makes you a bad guy. Unless you're killing bad guys.
But yeah, the character is a bit deep in terms of exploring his motivations for wanting to live longer and such, or for questionign the definition of "life" or "real" (as in, a "real person" vs "just a replicant").
Something that's driven me crazy in recent years is I missed out my chance to get the DVD boxset that has all the different version of Blade Runner in it. I think there's something like three or four different versions, including the original theatrical version (with the noir style narration and happy ending), the early 90's "director's cut" (which Ridley Scott apparently wasn't happy with, either) and at least one or two other versions. I know some years back hearing about "The Final Definitive Cut" or whatever.
As it is, I've only ever seen the original theatrical version, which I VHSed off Cinemax, probably, back in the 80's, so I've never seen any of the versions that didn't "suffer" from studio meddling, nor have I ever seen it in a theater or presented in any other kind of "nice" transfer, with deluxe surround sound or whatever.
Ya know thinking about it, I remember actually reading about Blade Runner in Starlog, before it even came out, and thinking, "This looks like it's going to be a good movie", and then being upset that it was rated R (I was, I think, 9 years old at the time). I also had a comic book/graphic novel adaptation, which is probably worth like 500 bucks now, if I had only handled it while wearing rubber gloves and kept in one of those little baggies that comic book geeks put their comic books in and took care of it properly etc. Sheisse, my Guitar Player, Guitar World, Keyboard, etc magazines probably would have been worth a lot of money if I had taken care of it.
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