# The Blade Runner thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 29, 2017, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blade-runner-thread/797583 "2017-09-29T10:43:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blade-runner-thread/797583/41 "2019-01-01T13:44:57Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > What BR did, and did not, get right about 2019: [https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/28/movies/blade-runner-predictions-2019-trnd/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/28/movies/blade-runner-predictions-2019-trnd/index.html) RCA and Atari are dead? You can find all sorts of RCA (labeled) products all over the place: remotes, TV antennas, etc. And “Atari” is promising to ship a new [game console](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_VCS_(2019_console)) this year. As in 2019. Love their fact checking. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blade-runner-thread/797583/42 "2019-01-02T17:14:24Z")
Apologies if this has been linked to before in a different thread, but this seemed like a good place to post this. It’s a 45 minute long assortment of alternate and deleted scenes from _Blade Runner_, uploaded to youtube in September 2018. These scenes may appear in some of the many different “cuts”, but there are many which are brand new to me. [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQGTVdLibuo). For one thing, there’s a scene where Deckard visits an injured man in a hospital bed (the interviewer who Leon blew up? I’m not clear), and the man is reading _Treasure Island_. Deckard made a reference to _Treasure Island_ in _Blade Runner: 2049_. Interesting stuff. But way too much of the kind of cheesy narration. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2019, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blade-runner-thread/797583/43 "2019-01-02T20:02:49Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > In anticipation of the sequel, I watched the Final Cut version. I’ve never seen Blade Runner before, so this was my first time. I found the experience pretty terrible. I had a lot of anticipation - it sounded like the movie should be right up my alley. But no, it took me three separate sessions to finish because it was so slow. The delivery of lines was dragged out, it seemed to be going for shock value rather than substance, I didn’t care a bit about any of the characters, and I thought the acting was pretty poor too. What am I missing that makes people think this film is so great. For the record, I didn’t like the movie the first time I saw it either. Then I saw it a second time, expecting it to stay bad, and suddenly it was a great film. Sometimes films are ruined by having the wrong or excessive expectations. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2019, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blade-runner-thread/797583/44 "2019-01-02T21:25:16Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Apologies if this has been linked to before in a different thread, but this seemed like a good place to post this. > > It’s a 45 minute long assortment of alternate and deleted scenes from _Blade Runner_, uploaded to youtube in September 2018. These scenes may appear in some of the many different “cuts”, but there are many which are brand new to me. > > [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQGTVdLibuo). > > For one thing, there’s a scene where Deckard visits an injured man in a hospital bed (the interviewer who Leon blew up? I’m not clear), and the man is reading _Treasure Island_. Deckard made a reference to _Treasure Island_ in _Blade Runner: 2049_. > > Interesting stuff. But way too much of the kind of cheesy narration. Wow, I thought I knew everything about BR. I’ve never seen any of that. By the way Original Flavor BR was cut, I always joked they made a 120 minute movie out of 119 minutes of film. I figured, if they had filmed any more scenes that would help clean it up, they would have used them. But that is a TON of footage! They went to all the trouble of creating the sets, filming it, even doing voice over, and it was all tossed. Movie making is fascinating. I can’t say if the film would have been better or worse with some or all of that footage, but it would have been different. That voice over gave too much away. While I prefer the narration, the one in the missing scenes video is just too much. Less is truly more (but in my opinion, for BR, none is too little). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blade-runner-thread/797583/45 "2019-01-03T17:12:48Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Apologies if this has been linked to before in a different thread, but this seemed like a good place to post this. > > It’s a 45 minute long assortment of alternate and deleted scenes from _Blade Runner_, uploaded to youtube in September 2018. These scenes may appear in some of the many different “cuts”, but there are many which are brand new to me. > > [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQGTVdLibuo). > > For one thing, there’s a scene where Deckard visits an injured man in a hospital bed (the interviewer who Leon blew up? I’m not clear), and the man is reading _Treasure Island_. Deckard made a reference to _Treasure Island_ in _Blade Runner: 2049_… Wow, thanks! Hadn’t seen most of that before. Yes, that’s Holden in the life-support bed; he was Deckard’s successor as a blade runner and the guy whom Leon, the replicant, shot in the opening scene of the movie. The two alternative endings certainly add a bit more fuel to the fire of the “Was Deckard a replicant?” debate. ---
**Author:** ![rat\_avatar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rat_avatar/32/255_2.png) [@rat\_avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rat_avatar)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blade-runner-thread/797583/46 "2019-01-04T05:03:23Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > RCA and Atari are dead? You can find all sorts of RCA (labeled) products all over the place: remotes, TV antennas, etc. And “Atari” is promising to ship a new [game console](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_VCS_(2019_console)) this year. As in 2019. > > Love their fact checking. RCA was bought and dismantled by GE in the 1980’s today Sony own’s the trademark and sells the right to produce under the name but the company no longer exists. A similar thing happened to Atari after the early 80’s gaming market crash. The name is all that really exist and changes owners often. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blade-runner-thread/797583/47 "2019-01-04T14:07:30Z")
> [@rat\_avatar](#): > > RCA was bought and dismantled by GE in the 1980’s today Sony own’s the trademark and sells the right to produce under the name but the company no longer exists. > > A similar thing happened to Atari after the early 80’s gaming market crash. The name is all that really exist and changes owners often. So you missed the “labeled” in parentheses and the “Atari” in quotes? Anyway, thanks for telling me what I already know. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blade-runner-thread/797583/48 "2019-08-07T14:57:25Z")
Bumped. Are there any black characters in _BR_? I know there are at least two in _BR 2049_ - one of the replicant prostitutes who approach K, and the orphanage manager in the long coat. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blade-runner-thread/797583/49 "2019-08-07T15:16:48Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Bumped. > > Are there any black characters in _BR_? looking at the cast in imdb it sure doesn’t look like it. There are a few cast without pictures. Maybe they all found new life in the offworld colonies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blade-runner-thread/797583.md?page=2)