June 25, 1982 he was released Blade Runnerfrom Ridley ScottThe film that did not succeed in either among critics or among the public, which seemed to be confused and expected another science fiction production, given that the director came from signing success StrangerBut this in this film adapted the novel with an ambiguous and dark way.
Nevertheless, over time, this will become a cult name, predecessor, and this would inspire the movie of the next generations, will ultimately become one of the most outstanding films of the director’s filmography, and which had a special story with literary adaptation.
Complex relationships of the runner runner with Philip K. Dick
Blade Runner, although its name does not give hints about this, is based on the novel Philip K. Dick Do Androids dream of electric sheep?Published in 1968, and from it mainly takes his common argument, based on the fact that the hunter should eliminate the Androids that fled to the ground.
But both tone, and topics and characters differ from a novel, which is less gloomy than Ridley Scott’s film. It is also due to the fact that they did not cooperate with the author of the novel, which was not pleased with the fact that the producers did not give him the awareness of the project, with which he was critical from the moment he received the script.
Philip K. Dick The distrust of what Hollywood could do with his history, and was a clear disgusting from the first scenario that he received, the one from Robert Jaffa In the early 70s, which will then inspire Hampton FancherOne Scott used the base. That would be the second screenwriter David Webb The one who finds the finale who managed to convince the author of the novel.
The special effects that were shown in the video were fundamental to convince Dick, and this would approve Blade RunnerThe film, which, however, will never see, because he died four months before the premiere early at the age of 53.
“Androids dream of electric sheep”? “Begun blades”
Another of the largest conflict points was the name. Blade Runner Does this have nothing to do with the original novel “Androids dream of electric sheep”? and was taken from the text written Alan E. Nurs Which described NLADE Begunov as traders of medical instruments in the future of anti -utopia without public health.
Hampton Fancher He took these characters as a link and bought rights to the name, because it sounded good and modified it as a way to go to replicants, as a metaphor for a hunter for Android.
Blade Runner It was a failure at the box office, overshadowed Stephen SpielbergAnd not in order to be critical success, and not until 1992, when with the eighth eight he included a new director, he discovered a certain reputation in order to ultimately become a cult film for his topics and aesthetics, which began the continuation, the Blade 2049 runner. Denis Vilnius and s Ryan Gosling Like the main character.
