Comment by evo_9

4 days ago

I always loved Alien and Blade Runner because of this shared aesthetic. It gave the sense that the doomed ship Nostromo departed Blade Runner earth.

Owners of Frank Lloyd Wright homes licked their lips with glee when Bladerunner fans made the bricks-and-mortar movie-famous.

How Deckerd can afford to live in one post economic meltdown is a bit unclear. And those whisky glasses are worth a mint now too.

"Enhance" indeed.

  • >How Deckerd can afford to live in one post economic meltdown is a bit unclear.

    He's part of a precarious minority of semi-technical functionaries, armed bureaucrats afforded generous promotions and great inner leeway amidst the post-meltdown order of things, in return for their unquestioning allegiance to the same

    • Retconning 2049 into that was.. Hard.

      Personally I prefer the PKD book. It was more nuanced. But the aesthetic of the first film was just wondeful. If somebody had sold cold cathode flouro umbrellas when the movie came out they would have cleaned up.

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    • In the "Deckard is a replicant" version that Scott has defended for years, I assume he's simply living in someone else's place (unaware that it's not his own).

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