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Article: 'Blade Runner' Ridley Scott (1982)
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 8, 2008
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STORY OF THE SCENE
The climactic scene of Blade Runner is the story of a famous
building and a key piece of improvisation. Ridley Scott's film was
based on the novel by Philip K Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep?. William Burroughs also wrote a script called Bladerunner
(about a surgeon who illegally sells surgical instruments); Scott
brought the script just to use the title.
The film envisages a hellish future. Genetically engineered human
beings, or replicants, are rising against their human masters.
Harrison Ford is a cop trained to track them down and kill them.
Ford leaves his car and walks towards an LA landmark, the
Bradbury Apartments. The interior shots ...
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