From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. You can also for this show at KCRW.com.

It's always great to have a guest to return, this time, my guess is, Ridley Scott,

who's been making films for 30 years now with the duelist, at least 30 years ago.

His newest film, of course, is American Gangster.

Thanks for coming back.

Thank you, for coming back.

Do you look back at the dualist at all?

What's the last time you saw it?

I do. Because of technology today, Warner is constantly asked to upgrade old prints.

I'll always keep my eye on the quality of everything I've done before.

Very important.

And what we've discovered is that digital is fading quicker than photochemistry.

Is that true?

Yeah.

So suddenly those disks that you think are forever, they're not.

And they, in fact, after 10 years, they tend to, you run it.

If you've had a disc for 10 years and you run it.

And you think, my God, it's not quite as rich as I thought it was when I remembered it.

The blacks were blacker and the contrast was greater, and it's fading.

And I found this out because I've been doing 25th anniversary of Blade Runner,

but there's a five-disc box which covers every version of your mother,

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