But it's almost like an art movie, the first science-fiction art film
It's a futuristic film beautifully put together
It's really impeccably made by one of the great visionary directors
And you really saw a future that looked very different from the future you had seen before
A future that looked very believable like the visual-effects shots of the flying car going over a futuristic city
The fight sequence doesn't prepare you for the traumatic emotional side that there is in the film, it leaves you sort of broken
There is a beautiful, delicate emotional great scene that I remember when I first saw the movie
I'm in the theater and I'm so drawn in what Rutger Hauer's doing
I'm so drawn in by what the theme of the movie has brought us to
The magnificent moment where he is letting go of life
And in those last moments of letting go of life he's really learned to appreciate life to the point where he spares Deckard's life, and where he's even holding a white dove because he just wants to have something that's alive in his hands
It's an amazing sort of crescendo that's going and there's Rutger saying: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. All these moments will be lost in time like tears in rain." Hauer puts all the things that are so amazing about people: sense of poetry, sense of humor, sense of sexuality, sense of the kid, sense of soul
Scott brought out the best qualities in his performers
He coaxed and very gently manipulated performances from his actors that in some instances I think they've rarely topped
You feel the story, you feel the emotions of the characters and you will be lost in the middle of this wild world, you know, it's so rich and it's painful
I mean it's a very bluesy, dark story and told very compassionately
The overpopulation, the sort of crowd scenes is so rich and varied and there's such an extreme detail designing the magazine covers, designing the look of the punks, the Hare Krishnas, the biological salesman, everything is designed
You have just Piccadilly Circus punks walking by
You have a sense of layers in that society
That is one of those things that you see again and again
The city landscape with the big billboards à la Kyoto or Tokyo
Scott was able to create the look based on what goes on in various cities all over the world
Whether it is Tokyo, Kyoto or Beijing or Hong Kong or whatever, you're right in "Blade Runner" country
"Blade Runner," to me, embodies the elegance, the power, and the uniqueness of a film experience
It's the most classical, beautiful, purest movie-making writing and then the film-making itself is
The images and the sound and the music, it's pure cinema
Ridley came out with an amazing, brilliantly executed future of an absolute dystopia
The intensity of his perfectionism on "Blade Runner" made the movie
This is a master at his best
