Blade Runner Contexts: ‘On the edge of blade runner’ – documentary
P.K Dick ‘Do androids dream of electric sheep?’
- Source material- Nazi diary ‘The screens of children…’
- Hampton Francher- script
- 1st draft- $9 million interior set
- 7 month re-write (final $49 million budget)
- Michael Deeley- producer
- David Peoples- 2nd writer
- Harrison Ford ‘Indianan Jones’- big star
- Sean Young- upcoming actor
- Rutger Hauer- ‘European sensibility’- writes ‘tears in rain’ and improvises.
- David Snyder set design
- Dough Trumball- designer (Silent Runnings)
- Forced perspective-miniature set model
- Bud Yorkin- finance- personal investment as they overspent budget
- Rain- environmental concerns
- Burbank studios set- night shots to hide Hollywood hills
- 360 degree Retro fitted design to look old and new- puts whole world on set
- Use smoke to hide set/ Hollywood hills
- Ridley Scott- Visual director- worked close with illustrators and storyboard artists- demanded exact technical direction
- Voient Kampen machin- animal design
- 5 months to shoot- all at night
- Scott not so experienced with actors at this time- previous art and camera director
- Peckard is anti-heroic and Batty comes across as central character
- One year post production – ‘happy ending’ inserted and voice over exposition
- Test screen rough cut- audiences don’t understand plot- out takes from ‘The Shining’
- Harrison Ford deliberately under performed voiceover
- Accidental screening 1982- directors cut- cut voiceover
- Fear of new technology
- Cyber punk inspiration
- Box Office lost $28 million in 1982
- Vangelis composed the score
Filming in LA:
- LA seen as becoming more like the film
- Bradley building- real LA locations
- LA represented as multi-cultural
Emma Coe Film Studies 