I was a little disappointed in the presentation of Bladerunner at the Crest. No surround, only in stereo, in original scratchy 35mm film, slightly out of focus on occasion. BUT you cant beat the excitement of a fan-packed audience. Personally, i prefer the original narrated version. It added to the film noir vibe that belied the retro-future style Ridley Scott laid out for 2019 Los Angeles. It was absent here. Roy Batty is a villain to chew on. He is, without a doubt, a ruthless criminal, a true menace to society, a de facto terrorist. But he is also a survivor of subjugation and oppression, a manufactured slave who finally realized that he is far superior than his oppressors, and ultimately, his creator. His disregard of human life simply mirrors the humans disregard of his own life. By his rationale, he is inflicting the pain and fear onto people to give them a taste of their own medicine, a taste that he and his fellow replicants have known all their lives. And with nothing left to lose, he thought was a fitting means to his desperate end. The irony, was that he was superior to humankind in all ways, save one, the mortality influcted upon his kind by his 8nferior masters. An irony that he just couldnt stomach. How humiliating it must have been for such a perfect mind to suffer the fate of Algernon, and knowing there was nothing he could do about it. Screw a sequel. Bladerunner really was about the end of an era. I am far more interested in the heyday that was filled with bladerunners keeping the peace while many more replicants fought back for control of their destiny from their masters. I want to see Deckard earn his stripes. I want to see Batty go from slave to liberator to terrorist mastermind. The movie itself was such a small isolated look at a much grander world. Big enough to include the Alien franchise and Total Recall.
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 08:08:27 +0000
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