Cinema
Blade Runner
Ridley Scott · 1982
Synopsis
Los Angeles, November 2019. Replicants, androids stronger and more agile than humans, serve as slaves in the space colonies and are banned from Earth; specialised police officers, the blade runners, are tasked with retiring them. Rick Deckard, a former blade runner, is called back by his chief to track down four escaped replicants led by Roy Batty, whose life is limited to four years. His investigation leads him to the Tyrell Corporation, where he meets Rachael, an assistant who believes herself to be human, and he begins to doubt his profession.
Context
The shoot was tense: after the director told the British press that he preferred English crews, members of the American crew had hostile T-shirts printed, and his entourage retaliated with others. The production imposed a voice-over and a happy ending, removed in the 1992 version, edited by the studio from Scott's notes; he did not have full control of the editing until the 2007 version. There are seven versions of the film. Released two weeks after another hugely successful science-fiction film, it failed in cinemas and became profitable thanks to video.
Who it is for
Science fiction of one hour fifty-seven minutes, slow-paced, of which several versions circulate on video.
Prizes and reception
A commercial failure on release, it received two Oscar nominations, for visual effects and art direction, and the Hugo Award in 1983.
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