Green Room - Week 4 - Day 3

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Happy Valentine's Day!

Today is a day to celebrate love and your relationships and/or massacre a bunch of people. "Bladerunner" is obviously ahead of that particular curve, for combining them both!

Here at Idol, we recognize this thing called "love", and yes, Ms Raitt, we are indeed ready for it! How we express it though is by setting up polls and making contestants fight to the death! Or maybe for votes, but I'm pretty sure it's to the death!

The Second Chance poll is up http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/621791.html
and the deadline for the main competition is tonight: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/620811.html so the evening will get off to a good start and romantic start as people ignore their loved ones to spend the evening on the computer reading Idol entries!

Comments

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

Dang, I thought I might make first just by the off chance that I'm awake when I shouldn't be!

I've never seen Blade Runner...

[zephyrly.livejournal.com]

You should do yourself a big favour and watch it. I'd be here for hours going into how revolutionary it was, or how it's just pretty to look at.

Blade Runner is the movie version of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, but honestly, the two can stand independently from one another. They're both terrific, but they're just different.

Apparently, PKD was very excited about Blade Runner. I recently read a letter that he wrote to somebody about it, and it was kind of funny how worked up he was. Ridley Scott asked for his input throughout the process, and apparently PKD was extremely pleased about how it all looked. Unfortunately, he suffered from a massive stroke and died before the movie was finally released.

However, literally at the last moment, the studio requested a voice-over to "tie up" the ending (which really wasn't needed, but studios are stupid like that.) Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and a lot of the crew were upset about this because PKD had already died, and they felt badly that they couldn't get his permission. So, the night before he had to do the voice-over, Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer stayed up all night drinking and partying. The next morning, Harrison Ford was hungover and sick. That's how he did the voice-over, as a way to stick it to the studio. And he insisted on only doing it once with no re-takes. I always liked Harrison Ford, but I absolutely love him for that.

Also, the most famous scene in Blade Runner, the whole "time to die" speech, was completely ad-libbed. Rutger Hauer had come up with it, and mentioned to Harrison Ford that he was going to try it out, but he didn't tell anybody else. Ridley Scott decided to keep it because it was so amazing.

http://youtu.be/ZTzA_xesrL8

So, yeah, Blade Runner was totally amazing. I could say a whole lot more about it, but I'll just stop here so I can go work on my entry.