Friday: Harrison Ford stars in Ridley Scotts BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT at 4:30/7:00/9:30. brattlefilm.org Ridley Scott’s hands-down-classic BLADE RUNNER returns to the big screen with a 21st century makeover. Not only with restored picture and sound, director Scott was given the ability to return to the material to clean up some rough edges and redo some effects that make this the definitive version of a film that has had many lives – there are 5 separate versions in existence. The story remains the same throughout all versions however, Harrison Ford stars as Deckard, a futuristic private detective who is a specialist at chasing down ‘replicants’ – extremely lifelike androids designed to live for a brief period of time and then ‘die’ so as not to rival their human masters for space on an already over- crowded planet Earth. In the film, Deckard is hired to track down a particularly dangerous group of replicants who are searching for their inventor in order to get what everyone wants: “more life!” Rutger Hauer proves why he is a genre film icon in his role as Roy, the leader of the rogue group and a great cast of character actors gives similarly iconic performances. BLADE RUNNER is, to this day, one of the most influential science-fiction films of all time, blending film-noir and high tech in a prototype for ‘cyberpunk,’ and one of the most authentic seeming visions of the future in all of film.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:15:17 +0000
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