Centauro wrote:
Feel free to correct my mistakes, and please replace Snape with the correct interviewer name.
You got it 99% right. Ross has a pretty stong 'cockney' accent and also a speech impediment (he tends to pronounce 'R' like 'W' - 'jonathon woss'.
I did him a bit of a diservice in describing him as a 'chat show host', he is also the presenter of the UKs best known and longest running movie review show (Film 2006) and i believe he's also a huge fan of comics, sci-fi, Japanese Anime and martial arts movies.
Anyway, at the risk of wasting precious bandwidth:
[Narrator] In 1982, Ford returned to sci-fi in Blade Runner, playing a cop on the trail of killer replicants who were indistinguishable from humans. Now considered a cult classic, it was a problematic production, with the star, studio and director Ridley Scott arguing over the content of the film.
[Film excerpt: Rachael's VK Test]
Harrison Ford: ?I've made my peace with Blade Runner whether there was a bit of unhappiness between myself and Ridley, and Warner Brothers to be fair, at the... at the end of the film they took the film away from Ridley, that's when the, ah, voiceovers began to be generated by a, by a variety of different writers, none of whom apparently wrote something which satisfied the studio and their need for explanation of what was going on. So I was very dissapointed that we had to do a voiceover.
Jonathon Ross:?It's a less subtle, less sophisticated movie than the one which you were hoping to put out then?
HF: I hoped, you know, I hoped we wouldn't need that.
S: It's weird, cos I obviously saw it like you know, like the rest of the audiences out there, only with the voiceover initially, I've now seen the restored director's version, and it's kind of impossible for you to remove what the voiceover told you about the film when enjoying that, but both movies, I think, stand up remarkably well.
HF: Well, they're tremendous, yeah, I mean they're both... either way, it's a huge amount of work and there are some wonderful moments in them.
[Film excerpt: Rachael's VK Test]
Sean Young: He does acknowledge that it's become a kind of cult classic and he does acknowledge the sort of visuals, and he does acknowledge, you know, the unusual characters and things like that, he acknowledges all of those things, it seems, but I don't, I don't really think in his heart of hearts he is in love with that movie.
[Narrator] Controversy still surrounds the film today, with no one ever agreeing on the definitive version, but at least the fighting is now confined to the screen.
[Film excerpt: Pris attacks]
Darryl Hannah: Not only do I have to, you know, like, you know, crush him with my thighs but I also have to jam my fingers up his nose and lift him up and, you know, smash him back down to the ground and... there was really no other way to do it than just to do it and Harrison's nose was bleeding, and he was just like "just go for it!"
He just wants to do the scene the way it should be played, and if that means he's gonna, you know, have a bloody nose and, you know, a sore head for a while, you know, it's not the worst thing in the world and he can deal with that.
[Film excerpt: Spinner checking on Deckard]
JR: Can you be drawn on the whole idea behind the script as to whether or not Deckard is, or is not a replicant?
HF: Well, that was the, that was the main area of contention between Ridley and myself at the time. I thought that the audience deserved one human being on the screen that they could establish an emotional relationship with, and I thought I had won Ridley's agreement to that, but in fact I think he had a little reservation about that. So I think he really wanted to have it both ways.
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:38 pm
