Blade Runner

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Blade Runner was made on a very tense set. Due to American union rules, director Sir Ridley Scott co [...]	D
It took three hours to glue all of the sequins onto Joanna Cassidy.	D
Rachael's hairstyles and elaborate wardrobe were inspired by Joan Crawford.	D
According to Hampton Fancher, he originally wrote the role of Rick Deckard for Robert Mitchum, and t [...]	D
Rick Deckard's apartment, drawn by set designer Charles William Breen and built on-stage at Warner B [...]	D
(at around 1h 14 mins) J.F. Sebastian says he has Methuselah syndrome, which causes him to look old [...]	D
The miniature from Dark Star (1974) can be seen in the background near the Police station.	D
(at around 12 mins) Bryant's line (spoken off-camera), "I got four skin jobs walking the streets", s [...]	D
All of the replicants have a visual or thematic relation to an animal: Leon Kowalski - Tortoise (via [...]	D
Sean Young and Rutger Hauer appeared in In the Shadow of the Cobra (2004).	D
While this movie is loosely based on Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", the tit [...]	D
A poster of this movie can seen in Superman III (1983) in the scene in which Evil Superman fights Cl [...]	D
Grace Jones was considered to play Rachael.	D
On the September 26, 2019 episode of the podcast "Harmontown", Edward Neumeier recounted the story o [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott has always maintained that this movie is a piece of entertainment, nothing more. In [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott and Michael Deeley were briefly fired from the production shortly after principal p [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott wonders if it's melodramatic to have Rick Deckard be a replicant. "At the time it's [...]	D
There are only ninety visual effects shots in the entire movie in every version. Most were done with [...]	D
Roy Batty shares a "birthday" (January 8) with two rock and roll icons: Elvis Presley and David Bowi [...]	D
"This film was honestly resurrected by the advent of MTV", Sir Ridley Scott says. He began noticing [...]	D
Roy Batty's inception date is January 2016, so he should have lived until January 2020. Why does he [...]	D
(at around 26 mins) The scene where Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) is introduced has a close-up of his fac [...]	D
In the follow up book to this movie stated that "Replicants who stayed away from Earth had normal hu [...]	D
The idea was tossed around to call the laborer replicants part of the "T.A.B.I.T.H.A." series (Trans [...]	D
Rutger Hauer bought a yacht with part of the salary he made on this movie. He christened his ship "T [...]	D
The film takes place in November 2019.	D
The brand of cigarettes smoked by the characters Rachael, Holden, and Pris are Boyard, French cigare [...]	D
In the narrative as to how Leon Kowalski smuggled his gun into the Voight-Kampff test, and how he es [...]	D
Many changes were made to Philip K. Dick's original novel: Originally, the action happens in San Fra [...]	D
(at around 15 mins) The inception (birth) date of Pris (Daryl Hannah), a "basic pleasure model", is [...]	D
(at around 4 mins) The iconic blue eye seen at the beginning of the movie, where Los Angeles, Califo [...]	D
M. Emmet Walsh said of his entire movie career, he gets asked more about this movie than anything el [...]	D
Over the course of a year, Producer Michael Deeley turned down the project eight times before finall [...]	D
(at around 24 mins) For the scene in the bathroom where Rick Deckard finds the snake scale, Deckard [...]	D
(at around 13 mins) When Gaff brings Rick Deckard to Blade Runner Headquarters before Bryant, Gaff i [...]	D
(at around 57 mins) The scene where Zhora (Joanna Cassidy) crashes through the sheets of glass was s [...]	D
Eye symbolism is prevalent throughout this movie. For example, the all-seeing Orwellian eye in the o [...]	D
Although for many years Harrison Ford refused to talk about this movie, he did contribute to the 200 [...]	D
Years after completion of the film, director Ridley Scott revealed that the mood of the film was mea [...]	D
Harrison Ford wanted Rick Deckard to order a Tsingtao beer after killing Zhora, but Sir Ridley Scott [...]	D
Hampton Fancher had written a love scene between Rick Deckard and Rachael, which Director Sir Ridley [...]	D
Roy Batty first came online in 2016 and died in 2019. Incidentally, Rutger Hauer himself would pass [...]	D
To ensure that he didn't have to wear a hat in this movie (having just come off I predatori dell'arc [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott, a big fan of Strange Behavior (1981), insisted on giving Sean Young a hairdo simil [...]	D
The eye at the start of the movie, storyboards indicates that it belongs to Dave Holden (Morgan Paul [...]	D
Gaff (Edward James Olmos) can be seen wearing blue contact lenses in a few shots. These were a sugge [...]	D
(at around 27 mins) On the right side of the door to the eye specialist is the sign, "l a Eyeworks", [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott actually turned down directorial duties on the project, as he was about to begin wo [...]	D
The scene with Hannibal Chew (James Hong) was shot in a freezer and was ice cold, so the cast really [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott initially wanted a more action-packed opening scene that would have set-up Rick Dec [...]	D
(at around 36 mins) When Rick Deckard is scanning the replicants' photos, a man can be seen posing a [...]	D
Director Sir Ridley Scott and director of photography Jordan Cronenweth achieved the famous "shining [...]	D
The famous skyscrapers, which shoot flames from their summits in the opening shot of the movie, are [...]	D
It has long been rumored that the chess game between Dr. Elden Tyrell (Joe Turkel) and J.F. Sebastia [...]	D
This was Rutger Hauer's favorite of his own movies.	D
Joanna Cassidy felt very self-conscious about basically parading around naked for most of her scenes [...]	D
According to Paul Sammon, who toured the set in 1981, the level of detail on everything (what Sir Ri [...]	D
When the movie aired on ITV in the UK on August 12th 1992, it was preceded by Le amanti di Dracula ( [...]	D
Ralph Bakshi was asked to direct (possibly making an animated adaptation of the book), but he declin [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2005 list of 250 movies nominated for AFI's 100 Years o [...]	D
The outtakes link between this movie and Shining (1980) was not the only element that connected the [...]	D
Due to an imminent strike amongst the actors and actresses near the end of photography, the shooting [...]	D
Brion James played a cyborg in Cyborg - La vendetta (1992).	D
The photo that Rick Deckard scans into his computer and then explores in 3-D is still in Sir Ridley [...]	D
Hampton Fancher's screenplay was optioned in 1977.	D
Looking towards future tech, Sir Ridley Scott feels pretty confident that video communication won't [...]	D
(at around 1h 12 mins) In the strange Japanese advertisement shown on the side of a blimp, in which [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of the top 100 Most Heart-Pounding American M [...]	D
The film makes it appear that Holden was killed by Leon. However, Bryant later tells Deckard that Ho [...]	D
This movie suffered at the box office because it opened at the same time as E.T. - L'extra-terrestre [...]	D
The question of whether or not Rick Deckard is a Replicant has a curious past. In the source novel, [...]	D
The release of the official soundtrack recording was delayed for over a decade. There are two offici [...]	D
The first draft of the script was written by Hampton Fancher in 1978 under the same title as the nov [...]	D
(at around 16 mins) The reason Dr. Elden Tyrell can't afford a real owl in the shooting script (date [...]	D
Although Edward James Olmos ("Detective Gaff") and James Hong ("Chew" the eye technician) do not sha [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott scoffed at attempts to shoehorn this movie into a metaphor for ideas like Apartheid [...]	D
At Rick Deckard's apartment, Rachael shows him several photos to prove she's a human being. Deckard [...]	D
Rick Deckard does not say one word to Roy Batty during their confrontation at the end of this movie.	D
(at around 24 mins) The bathroom scene where Rick Deckard finds the scale was a pick-up shot filmed [...]	D
Zorah's snake dance was originally supposed to be in this movie. The scene was storyboarded as an el [...]	D
Leon Kowalski's gun is a COP .357 Derringer. The double action COP (Compact Off-duty Police) was des [...]	D
At the end of this movie, Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) confronts his creator, calls him "father" and cru [...]	D
Arnold Schwarzenegger was considered to play Rick Deckard, which went to Harrison Ford. Arnold starr [...]	D
There are a total of three origami creatures made by Gaff (Edward James Olmos). The first is a chick [...]	D
As well as using Edward Hopper's painting "Nighthawks" for visual inspiration during the making of t [...]	D
Conflicts on-set arose almost immediately upon commencement of filming. The first scenes to be shot [...]	D
(at around 1h 23 mins) Roy Batty's odd meld of "father" and "fucker" after he says to Tyrell, "I wan [...]	D
Director Sir Ridley Scott regards this movie as probably his most personal and complete movie.	D
(at around 8 mins) The voice from the blimp says:-Workprint: "A new life awaits you in the Off-World [...]	D
Despite having fourth billing, Edward James Olmos had less than ten minutes of screen time.	D
About two-thirds of the neon signs seen in the streets were re-purposed from Un sogno lungo un giorn [...]	D
(at around 20 mins) (Final cut only) During Rick Deckard's interview of Rachael, there is some stran [...]	D
After retirement, Rick Deckard keeps bees, similar to Sherlock Homes after his retirement to Sussex [...]	D
5 of the main actors appeared at least once in the TV Show "Starsky and Hutch" from 1975-1979 : Edwa [...]	D
Rick Deckard is only called by his surname. He is not called by his first name throughout this movie [...]	D
The police offices constructed in Union Station, Los Angeles, California for filming still stand tod [...]	D
The model of Tyrell's pyramid was nine feet square at the base and two and a half feet high, a ratio [...]	D
Although Replicants are supposed to be androids pretending to be human beings, Replicants' bodies ar [...]	D
When the movie was green-lit, the screenplay was still being re-written, and due to ideas being adde [...]	D
Rachael's phone number is 555-7583.	D
Included amongst the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.	D
Rutger Hauer came up with many inventive ideas for his characterization, like the moment where he gr [...]	D
Regarding whether or not Rick Deckard is a replicant, Director Sir Ridley Scott is okay with either [...]	D
The Hades landscape in the opening shot was filmed using forced perspective. The miniature was only [...]	D
The dialogue from the opening scene between Dave Holden and Leon Kowalski is repeated on two other o [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott has recently said that this movie shares a universe with the "Alien" film franchise [...]	D
Harrison Ford cites this movie as one of the most frustrating movies he's ever made, partly because [...]	D
Ranked number nine in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 50 Cult Films of All-Time."	D
(at around 9 mins) Translation of the entire noodle-bar scene: Upon a seat becoming free at the coun [...]	D
Rick Deckard only kills replicant women (Pris and Zhora). Leon Kowalski was killed by Rachael, and R [...]	D
Daryl Hannah's make-up was inspired by the title character in Nosferatu - Il principe della notte (1 [...]	D
One of the Spinners from this movie (the levitating car) is on permanent exhibit at the Museum of Po [...]	D
The original VHS version that Warner Home Video (U.K. and Ireland) released was a 4:3 pan-and-scan o [...]	D
The film featured a number of actors who were just starting to establish them selves such as Rutger [...]	D
At first, Sir Ridley Scott's original cut, without the voice-over, amongst other things, was thought [...]	D
The Blade Runner Definitive Cut project (which ultimately became the Final Cut) was initially announ [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott was dismayed to discover that American crews operated very differently from British [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott has considered directing a sequel to this movie at various times. Some sequel scrip [...]	D
(at around 47 mins) The "snake scale" seen under the electron microscope was actually a marijuana bu [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott initially considered shooting in Hong Kong.	D
Syd Mead's conceptual drawings for the spinner were transformed into 25 working vehicles by automobi [...]	D
In an infamous incident, author Philip K. Dick publicly denounced this movie after reading an early [...]	D
People attempted to dissuade Sir Ridley Scott from shooting at the Bradbury Building as it had becom [...]	D
(at around 1h 21 mins) It is often claimed by fans that the moves Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) plays to [...]	D
M. Emmet Walsh said that this movie required many looping sessions due to his character's dialogue w [...]	D
(at around 38 mins) After Pris (Daryl Hannah) first meets J.F. Sebastian (William Sanderson), she ru [...]	D
Philip K. Dick first came up with the idea for his novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" in 1 [...]	D
Dustin Hoffman was the original choice to play Rick Deckard, although he wondered why he was asked t [...]	D
After Philip K. Dick saw Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard on-set, Dick declared: "He has been more Deck [...]	D
(at around 12 mins) In the narration from the original theatrical cut, Rick Deckard says "'Skin jobs [...]	D
As Ridley Scott puts it (as cited in "The Dystopian World of Blade Runner: An Ecofeminist Perspectiv [...]	D
(at around 1h 24 mins) As Roy Batty and Dr. Elden Tyrell talk about how to prolong replicant lifespa [...]	D
In 1969, Martin Scorsese and Jay Cocks met Philip K. Dick to discuss the possibility of adapting the [...]	D
In Philip K. Dick's original novel, animals were virtually extinct, something that this movie only a [...]	D
The dialogue in all releases of the movie prior to the Final Cut alludes to another Replicant who di [...]	D
Christopher Nolan cites this as one of his major influences as a filmmaker. Other great admirers of [...]	D
The term "replicants" is used nowhere in Philip K. Dick's writing. The creatures in the source novel [...]	D
Joanna Cassidy (Zhora) was at ease with the snake around her neck because it was her pet, a Burmese [...]	D
An early version of the scene where Roy Batty kills Dr. Elden Tyrell featured him crushing the man's [...]	D
Titles considered for this movie include "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", "Android", "Mechani [...]	D
In the happy ending, Deckard and Rachel don't go to the Offworld Colony and are seen driving through [...]	D
Joe Pantoliano was considered for the role of J.F. Sebastian.	D
Amongst the folklore that has built up around this movie over the years is the infamous "Blade Runne [...]	D
The photo analysis technology allows Rick Deckard to see around corners, as if the photo had multipl [...]	D
The Voight-Kampff Test comes from Cambridge Mathematician Alan Turing's 1951 paper, in which he prop [...]	D
(at around 1h 45 mins) Gaff telling Rick Deckard that Rachael won't live at the end of the movie for [...]	D
For the nearly 20 minutes of screentime, from the time he enters the Bradbury building, throughout h [...]	D
Rutger Hauer was offered a driver to get him to the set and back each day, but he was okay with driv [...]	D
It was Sir Ridley Scott's choice to have the opening credits be simply text against a black screen. [...]	D
Make-up Designer Michael Westmore credits Sean Young with having the most perfect lips.	D
According to Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007), an actors' strike gave the art department p [...]	D
Model Maker Mark Stetson built the Voight-Kampff machine seen in this movie over a single weekend.	D
M. Emmet Walsh played a character named Willard Tyrell Bass in Il momento di uccidere (1996).	D
Originally, Tandem Productions didn't want to have a written credit sequence at the start of the mov [...]	D
This is Sir Ridley Scott's favorite movie of his own. The Final Cut released in 2007 is his favorite [...]	D
The point of Harrison Ford's narration in this movie was because it was a futuristic film-noir, and [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott is a "realist" and hates when a horror or science fiction movie goes too far past a [...]	D
(at around 34 mins) Those are real tears running down Sean Young's cheeks in the scene where Rick De [...]	D
According to Douglas Trumbull, the refinery flame bursts in the opening shot were footage of large-s [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott told National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" that he originally wanted Rick [...]	D
Hy Pyke filmed his scene in a single take, something almost unheard-of with Sir Ridley Scott, whose [...]	D
Although in the movie it's established that any replicant lives just four years, only one of them li [...]	D
(at around 10 mins) As Gaff (Edward James Olmos) takes Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) to see Bryant (M [...]	D
Originally, the novel, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", was set in 1992, although later editi [...]	D
Rutger Hauer and Brion James appeared in Flesh+Blood (1985).	D
Included amongst the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the 400 movies nominated for the Top 100 [...]	D
The Director's Cut (released in 1991) is actually a bit of a misnomer as Sir Ridley Scott didn't per [...]	D
According to former BBC Graphic Designer Bernard Lodge in a November 2013 interview for "Radio Times [...]	D
Although Philip K. Dick saw only the opening 20 minutes of footage prior to his death on March 2, 19 [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott is no fan of filming on studio backlots, although he acknowledges the convenience o [...]	D
According to the Tuesday, June 22, 2010 edition of "The Guardian" newspaper, this movie was the elev [...]	D
The ending title sequence in the theatrical cut of this movie contains un-used footage from "Shining [...]	D
Director Sir Ridley Scott and casting director Jane Feinberg disagreed over the casting of Sean Youn [...]	D
Rick Deckard's whiskey glasses and bottle, trenchcoat and even the tiles in his apartment have been [...]	D
As revealed in Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Rachel's serial number is N7FAA52318.	D
(At around twenty-seven minutes) Outside of the eye scientist's lab, on the left hand side of the do [...]	D
Zhora (Joanna Cassidy) has a dual personality, she can be sexy or a lethal killer ("Talk about Beaut [...]	D
The Rick Deckard and Rachael make-out session is this movie's least successful scene per Sir Ridley [...]	D
Even though Roger Ebert gave this movie a mixed-to-negative review on its initial release, he later [...]	D
Harrison Ford became a spokesman for Japanese electronics throughout the 1980s following his role in [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott asked M. Emmet Walsh if he could smoke for his character, something Walsh doesn't d [...]	D
Ridley Scott asked Stanley Kubrick if he had any unused helicopter footage from "The Shining" (1980) [...]	D
Exasperated crews often referred to this movie as "Blood Runner".	D
The tattoos seen on Roy Batty towards the end of this movie are not tattoos. As Sir Ridley Scott exp [...]	D
In every outdoor scene, it's raining.	D
The set that was used during the climax of this movie was used in the music video for the song "Toni [...]	D
When David Webb Peoples was hired to re-write Hampton Fancher's script, Fancher quit the production. [...]	D
Ridley Scott used many of the same sound effects he had used in his film "Alien" (1979). Several are [...]	D
In 1993, it was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congr [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott sees a fairly linear path towards artificial intelligence and sums it up thusly. "I [...]	D
For the production design of J.F. Sebastian's apartment, Sir Ridley Scott suggested a feel similar t [...]	D
Rick Deckard's red Spinner (flying police car) is on permanent display at the American Police Hall o [...]	D
While Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is reading a paper and waiting for his food in the beginning, he [...]	D
An early script idea that survived several re-writes involved Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) killing Dr. E [...]	D
Contrary to popular belief, Rutger Hauer (1944-2019) did not improvise the iconic 'tears in the rain [...]	D
Harrison Ford's interesting handgun features a Mannlicher bolt handle and double set triggers. One t [...]	D
Only a few days away from the beginning of principal photography, production company Filmways, Inc., [...]	D
There is much disagreement amongst fans and filmmakers as to exactly why Roy Batty saves Rick Deckar [...]	D
(At around fifty-nine minutes) Rick Deckard buys a bottle of Tsingtao from a street vendor. Tsingtao [...]	D
The hero blaster being used by Harrison Ford was believed to have been lost after production wrap. H [...]	D
Rutger Hauer and Daryl Hannah appeared in 2047: Sights of Death (2014), which also took place in the [...]	D
Rick Deckard's gun was based upon a real-life gun, but not a pistol. It was, rather, a double-trigge [...]	D
In the narrative of the ending and the "Happy Ending": Gaff was sent by Bryant to Rick Deckard's apa [...]	D
Zhora's (Joanna Cassidy's) introduction at the dance club originally featured "a very exotic mud dan [...]	D
Joe Turkel (Dr. Elden Tyrell) had great difficulties in remembering his long and often technical dia [...]	D
In the narrative as to why did Dave Holden needed to give Leon Kowalski the Voight-Kampff test if th [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott wanted horizontal lights shining in through the windows during the scene where J.F. [...]	D
In the narrative as to how Roy Batty knew Rick Deckard's name, there are several theories on this su [...]	D
In the narration behind the happy ending which Deckard and Rachel are seen driving across the countr [...]	D
Pete Townshend was asked to compose the music for this movie. He declined due to his experiences on [...]	D
The idea for Roy Batty to release a dove after he dies was Rutger Hauer's. The dove was supposed to [...]	D
In the original theatrical cut, Bryant says that there are six Replicants, and that "one of them got [...]	D
About the reason Rick Deckard doesn't know about the replicants' four-year lifespan. While this movi [...]	D
(at around 41 mins) J.F. Sebastian's robots say "Home again, home again, jiggety-jig" which is from [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott got the inspiration for the opening futurescape shots of Los Angeles, California fr [...]	D
(at around 1h 45 mins) Sir Ridley Scott points out a detail during the end sequence with Rick Deckar [...]	D
(at around 51 mins) The phone call Rick Deckard makes to Rachael in Taffy Lewis' night club has a le [...]	D
The Echoes Of The Mind: Part 1 of Magnum P.I. features music from the soundtrack to Blade Runner.	D
Some of the Lord of Darkness' palace interiors from Legend (1985) (most notably, the huge, spirallin [...]	D
Although Philip K. Dick died before this movie's release, he had read David Webb Peoples' re-write o [...]	D
Cityspeak was Edward James Olmos' idea. He has since been amazed at how prescient it was vis-a-vis t [...]	D
(at around 5 mins) At a point of the first conversation of the movie, Dave Holden comments that Leon [...]	D
At some point of this movie, each replicant has a red brightness in his or her eyes. It is most prom [...]	D
Syd Mead was originally hired to design vehicles and props. However, in his sketches, he included ba [...]	D
Dr. Elden Tyrell's bedchamber was modelled on that of the Pope's in Vatican City.	D
"Skinjob" is the bigoted word for replicant.	D
DIRECTOR TRADEMARK (Ridley Scott): (Mothers): (at around 7 mins) Leon Kowalski (Brion James) shoots [...]	D
(at around 28 mins) Roy Batty paraphrases William Blake's poem "America - a Prophecy" when he appear [...]	D
A lot of the hats that the passers-by wear in the streets were actually baskets purchased from Pier [...]	D
The studio wasn't happy with the original final ending where Rick Deckard is looking at the piece of [...]	D
Daryl Hannah still has the blonde wig she wore playing Pris.	D
Sir Ridley Scott had decided to cast Frank McRae as Leon Kowalski until he saw Brion James' audition [...]	D
(at around 1h 40 mins) For Rick Deckard's jump during the climax, stunt coordinator Gary Combs doubl [...]	D
This was one of the first major movies re-issued years later in a "Director's Cut" in which the dire [...]	D
According to Rutger Hauer's biography, the final confrontation between Rick Deckard and Roy Batty wa [...]	D
Philip K. Dick personally approved of Rutger Hauer, describing him as, "the perfect Batty-cold, Arya [...]	D
The tortoise story is the last remnant of an environmental theme present in the source novel and Ham [...]	D
The traffic lights say "PROSIGA" in Spanish, then they say "WALK".	D
(At around 1h 35 mins) At the end of the movie, Roy Batty is making wolf howls when he chases Rick D [...]	D
Just prior to this movie's release, Philip K. Dick turned down a $400,000 offer to write the noveliz [...]	D
About the significance of the dove Roy Batty releases after his death. Accounts in the book "Future [...]	D
J.F. Sebastian tells Roy Batty that he has only beaten Dr. Elden Tyrell once in chess. Batty is able [...]	D
About the significance of the nail which Roy Batty drives through his hand. On a practical level, Ro [...]	D
A female gymnast was hired as a stunt double for Daryl Hannah in the scene where Pris attacks Rick D [...]	D
The Tannhauser Gate, given the fact that Earth has off-world colonies in this movie, and the typical [...]	D
The main plot can be seen as a moral reflection about God and humanity marked inside of a Sci-Fi con [...]	D
Director Sir Ridley Scott cast Rutger Hauer in the role of Roy Batty without meeting him. He had wat [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott initially toyed with the idea of setting this movie in the fictional city of San An [...]	D
In 2000, Moviemail voted this movie the 4th best movie of all time. Also in 2000, BBC viewers voted [...]	D
Director of photography Jordan Cronenweth was just starting to really suffer from the Parkinson's di [...]	D
The rooftop chase climax was a combination of live-action shots of Harrison Ford combined with a mat [...]	D
Deborah Harry was reportedly the original choice to play Pris.	D
The music video for the 1997 song "Forest Ranger" by Plexi used imagery inspired by this movie.	D
Some computer displays within the vehicles were used on the Nostromo and the lifeboat in Alien (1979 [...]	D
Originally, Roy Batty was to have a lengthy monologue just prior to his death, as written by David W [...]	D
This movie was budgeted at around 20 million dollars, "marginally expensive", but a bargain compared [...]	D
(at around 26 mins) Roy Batty's first spoken line, as his hand is cramping up, is "Time enough", a l [...]	D
Rutger Hauer's first day of filming was the scene where Roy Batty murders Dr. Elden Tyrell (Joe Turk [...]	D
In an essay titled "Notes on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", written the same year the novel [...]	D
One of David Webb Peoples' early screenplays opened the movie on an off-world termination dump, wher [...]	D
In real-life, Rutger Hauer (Roy Batty) died the same year as his character (2019), though in a diffe [...]	D
The production designer Lawrence G. Paull died on November 10, 2019, the same month in which the fil [...]	D
The trash seen throughout J.F. Sebastian's apartment building is referred to in Philip K. Dick's nov [...]	D
Rachael's lifespan remains a matter of debate. Rick Deckard initially states that he did not look at [...]	D
DIRECTOR TRADEMARK (Ridley Scott): (ceiling fan): There is a large ceiling fan in the scene with Leo [...]	D
(at around 1h 11 mins) When Deckard stops Rachael from leaving his apartment, he pushes her away fro [...]	D
According to a wildly fascinating article in the July 1982 issue of American Cinematographer, the gl [...]	D
(at around 41 mins) One of J.F. Sebastian's friends in his apartment, the teddy bear in a Napoleonic [...]	D
Ridley Scott: [opening scroll] The movie opens with a scroll about the replicants and the Blade Runn [...]	D
Costume Designer Charles Knode found a trove of Greta Garbo's coats and brought them to Director Sir [...]	D
This movie was released fourteen years after the publication of the source novel, "Do Androids Dream [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott is pretty confident that this movie was the first of its kind, stating that he look [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott also used "Memories of Green" from the Vangelis album "See You Later" in this movie [...]	D
Rick Deckard pretends to be a representative of "The Confidential Committee on Moral Abuses". By int [...]	D
The inception dates of the different replicants are: Roy Batty (January 8, 2016). Leon Kowalski (Apr [...]	D
Though she has seen Blade Runner about thirty times, Joanna Cassidy still cries seeing Zhora (the ch [...]	D
The video game Blade Runner (1997) was produced as a "sidequel" to this movie (that is, a story set [...]	D
(at around 31 mins) When Rick Deckard is seen by first time driving his sedan, it's raining, but the [...]	D
The novel hints at the "Is Deckard a Replicant?" problem by having Deckard casually mention that one [...]	D
Rutger Hauer was chosen for the role of Roy Batty because of his Teutonic, non-identifiable American [...]	D
(at around 22 mins) Joe Turkel played a World War I soldier put on trial for cowardice in Orizzonti [...]	D
Michael Deeley first bought the film rights to the source novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep [...]	D
Rachael's initial hairstyle is reminiscent of that from Anna Karenina (1935).	D
There were much more ideas for the depiction of future Los Angeles, California. Concept art by Syd M [...]	D
For many aerial shot of the city, all kinds of materials were used to simulate buildings in the city [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott called Douglas Trumbull to invite him onto the project, but the Effects Supervisor [...]	D
When author William Gibson went to see this movie, he was preparing to begin his first novel, "Neuro [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott first noticed Joe Turkel in Shining (1980) and thought that Turkel's face displayed [...]	D
Much of the climax was shot on-location, with set pieces constructed onto existing buildings. When t [...]	D
Philip K. Dick's ideal choice for Rachael was Victoria Principal. Although almost 100 actresses audi [...]	D
(at around 34 mins) The story of the spider being eaten alive by an army of baby spiders was a memor [...]	D
Rick Deckard's Police badge number as a Blade Runner is 26354, and the number of his apartment is 97 [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott is no fan of night shoots. "Everyone gets exhausted after lunch, which is one o'clo [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott's first cut ran four hours. Most of the crew, including the writers and director, a [...]	D
William Sanderson researched his character by looking into real-life cases of progeria, the advanced [...]	D
The final scene was shot hours before the producers were due to take creative control away from Sir [...]	D
The first screenplay based on "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" was not written by Hampton Fanc [...]	D
Body count: seven (an unnamed replicant mentioned in a conversation between Bryant and Rick Deckard, [...]	D
For the role of Pris, Sir Ridley Scott had initially wanted to cast Dutch actress Monique van de Ven [...]	D
"Anyone saying that I was forced to do voice-over (in the theatrical cut), that's rubbish, I wasn't" [...]	D
Director Sir Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford had disagreements about the script almost from the start [...]	D
Sir Ridley Scott declared in an interview that Rick Deckard is a replicant (something disputed by Ha [...]	D
Hampton Fancher may have written as many as ten different drafts of his screenplay while he was tryi [...]	D
The Bradbury Building, J.F. Sebastian's (William Sanderson's) home and location of the final chase s [...]	D
This movie is dedicated in memory of Sir Ridley Scott's brother Frank, who died in 1980 before this [...]	D
In the Spanish release, the prologue at the beginning where the history about the replicants is expl [...]	D

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