Episode 23: Blade Runner

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The LFTS team discusses how Blade Runner expertly borrows from film noir, how the themes evolved for the sequel, and which version of the film is best.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.
0:09.4	Today we are talking about Blade Runner, the 1982 Ridley Scott film based on the book Do
0:14.9	Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick. I'm joined by the lessons from the
0:19.6	screenplay team, writer Trisha Arand.
0:22.0	Hello, everybody. Writer Brian Bittner. Hello. And editor Alex Cayanos. Hi. So Blade Runner is a very
0:28.8	old video, which is, it's really weird how there are old videos now that continues to surprise me.
0:35.6	But watching it again, it was, it reminded me of the time before I'd kind of locked down the style of the channel.
0:43.3	And I remember wanting to talk about Blaine Runner because the new one was coming out, Blade Runner 2049,
0:48.5	and really wanting to talk about film noir because I love film noir.
0:53.6	And I can't say it without...
0:59.0	It's two syllables in your mind.
1:01.4	Upon releasing the video, the first comments were like people spelling out the words
1:06.4	N-O- dash R and like, why is he saying it? No, R? But that's just how I say it.
1:12.6	Also, technically, the plural of film noir is it's actually films noir, but I decided that
1:18.2	was a little bit too.
1:19.6	That'd be a little weird.
1:20.4	Yeah, it is.
1:21.0	Yeah.
1:22.2	Anyway, I love Blade Runner because I love sci-fi and I love noir and it is such an amazing example of those
1:29.7	two things. It was the first example of those two things. And it's one of those movies where every
1:35.8	time I go back, I've seen it a million times and the plot still doesn't really make sense.
1:41.7	Like I can't justify that it's a good movie in a lot of ways, but I love it and I can't
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