Blade Runner

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It's on TV this afternoon. I haven't seen it in years. Yay!

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

blech edited for TBS

[Master Xaio]

This is a very good movie.  UNTIL YOU HAVE TO )@#$(*)@ STUDY IT AND RIP A PERFECTLY GOOD MOVIE TO SHREDS!!!!
Sorry.  I had to study this movie at school, and what was a perfectly good movie has now been ruined forever.  I don't think I'll ever watch it again.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

again, you people who think art is ruined by studying it completely baffle me. if it's so good, you would get even more out of it by a close analysis.

[JP Dogberry]

What he said ^

Getting to study it was great, and I got a whole heap more from it. There's a film with a LOT of depth.

[Master Xaio]

I didn't say that studying it ruined it; I said the method of studying ruined it (or at least thats how I meant it).  Yes, it has got a lot of depth.  Yes, studying it can bring it out.  However, studying with a teacher who's not particularly good, who doesn't know what they are talking about, and is trying to read stuff into it that just isn't there; that irritates.  Especially when they trust and twist a movie to fit a school course.  

[JP Dogberry]

What teacher did you have? Every english teacher I had at the school was great.

Also, I think that Blade Runner fits perfectly into the "in the Wild" topic. They hacn't tried to twist it around at all.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

it's also been my experience that most people, while at the same time arguing that a teacher is trying to force them into a specific interpretation, think that a teacher or professor is ignorant for seeing a work differently than you.

[Lieutenant Kije]

One reason why Bladerunner stands out as an all-time great for me is that it was based on an excellent book to begin with, but that it was also made by a director who knew how to turn that book into a great film (he kept what was good for the screen and left the rest, and did a great job of it.)  Although the stories are fairly different, I like both equally.

That, and it's such a visually impacting film, too.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

it's also been my experience that most people, while at the same time arguing that a teacher is trying to force them into a specific interpretation, think that a teacher or professor is ignorant for seeing a work differently than you.

So, your saying the universe doesn't revolve around me....
I disbelieve....

You know how I still get angry about how we analyzed Lord of the Flies... in high school well I just remembered that my teacher thought it was a science fiction book....


no kidding


A science fiction book.

Do you want to know why?

Because when their rescued at the end its by a rocket ship.
Which by the way isn't a long shiny cylindrical vehicle used to transport people into space...
Its a ship
Used to fire rockets at places.
Rocket Ship
Think of it as an early kind of cruise missile ship.
I kind of take Bob Dylan's side when it comes to creativity.... not everything has to mean something either. At least not intentionally.
Sometimes a rock used to bash in someone's head is just a rock...

[Entsuropi]

I need to watch this again. In fact, i need to BUY it. I'm gonna go buy me a DVD collection at the end of the month. Indiana jones boxed set and the Godfather boxed set are top of the list.

I never analysed it. I'll just state my position on analysis : I don't like doing it, because i'm not good at it. One track mind. I don't think of something and generate a whole list of things it could mean or be or imply. I generate one image. I mean, I dunno. Maybe I didn't try hard enough or anything, but I simply couldn't pull it off. Plus, I read fast, and once i have read something, I can't remember much of the specifics, but I will have enjoyed myself during the reading of it.

/me is shallow

[GorgonlaVacaTremendo]

See I am excactly the opposite.  I naturally break things apart while I am reading.  If I don't I can't pay attention to what I am doing.  So if I am reading a book, specifically, or *sometimes* when watching a movie, I need to see that rock as death or evil or greed or curiosity or something.  I, therefor, like allegories more than just plain stories.  Like The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe.  Very good.

[Maxwell]

I love bladerunner... The only thing that eluded me was the title..

[42]

Well, if I'm right, Blade Runner is what they call the detectives who hunt down the androids. I guess the people who made the movie thought that would attract more people than calling the film Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

[Maxwell]

yeah thats what the detectives were called, but I wanted to know why.
also I think "do androids dream of electric sheep?" kicks ass.