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Article: SIGNS OF LIFE: SOUL AND CINEPHILIA IN 'BLADE RUNNER'
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- Australian Screen Education
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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Following its original theatrical release in 1982, in various cities across America video copies of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner rapidly became the focus for beer-and-dope get-togethers - 'Blade Runner parties' - at which fans pored over each scene and learned every line, edit and camera move. As British film theorist Peter Wollen has written: 'Ridley Scott's Blade Runner was not an instant commercial success. The modest amount of money it eventually made came from secondary or tertiary markets - Japan, video-stores, TV rights, the Director's Cut.'1 Between its original release and the Director's Cut of 1991 the film gained a cult following and is now highly regarded among cinephiles around ...
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