blade runner remake
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I think a remake of bladerunner just would'ent work,it should be left as it is as a moment in movie history and even today it still has timeless quality to it.
Also many things in bladerunner are atually becoming reality in our real world which shows just how visionary the movie was.Over population, massive corporate power,genetic engineering etc.I don't think it would work in this time.
Roger
Also many things in bladerunner are atually becoming reality in our real world which shows just how visionary the movie was.Over population, massive corporate power,genetic engineering etc.I don't think it would work in this time.
Roger
'In time all these moments will be lost, like tears in the rain'
Re: blade runner remake
THX1138 wrote:alright, this isnt just a thread about your typical movie remake, like flight of the phoenix. here's my question:
what if ridley was approached to remake blade runner. what if WB decided to clean up the script, clean up some of the inconsistencies, and give it a bigger budget, allowing other scenes to be shot like the mysterious 6th replicant? if they could get harrison ford and all the original actors, do you think you would be for a remake? mind you, all old model special effects would be replaced with CGI, the world would be bigger and immerse you more, all because the budget will be bigger. ridley is still at the helm of directing....so, would you be for this? or do you think the original version is good enough for now?
basically, its the same script, same story, just reshot and redone with better effects.
i dont know how i would feel about this. i want it to be longer, with those added scenes, but im affraid they might change it too much with their new CGI techniques that it wont be the same old blade runner. im in the gray area on this.
A remake of Blade Runner would be crap, and besides i dont see the point.. would we wanna see remakes of the old Star Wars movies?
Hell no, why? Nothings wrong with the originals.
It would end up beeing a worse movie and staining the original forever.
Im sure some remakes are ok, but thats not good enough.. "ok" is failure.
I would love to see a movie with a completly diffrent story.. taking place in the Blade Runner world.. maybe a few years after or before..
but not linked with Blade Runner in any other way then the enviroment/world..
"..like tears in rain.."
Alien was made from two films actually both from the 50's
THX 1138 was remade from the original film school project and was derived from Logan's Run
Lifepod started off life as an earlier version of Lifepod, but is primarily from Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat.
The Island is from a multiple sources including Thx 1138, Logan's Run, Coma and others.
Galaxy Quest is a remake of Three Amigos.
Blade Runner? It is a combination of "On The Beach", Road Warrior, and others but its closest inspirations are from Frankenstein and let's not forget the play R.U.R.
THX 1138 was remade from the original film school project and was derived from Logan's Run
Lifepod started off life as an earlier version of Lifepod, but is primarily from Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat.
The Island is from a multiple sources including Thx 1138, Logan's Run, Coma and others.
Galaxy Quest is a remake of Three Amigos.
Blade Runner? It is a combination of "On The Beach", Road Warrior, and others but its closest inspirations are from Frankenstein and let's not forget the play R.U.R.
Perhaps you should make a better difference between remakes and plagiates.
Just because something reminds you something else doesn't necessarily mean it's an intended remake faithful to one original source. Could be merely an inspiration, or, in worse cases - shameless plagiarism (if the author of the newer artwork doesn't give credit to the original).
Of course, recently are plagiates often being sanctioned by calling them "tributes".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remake
In film, a remake is a newer version of a previously released film or a newer version of the source (play, novel, story, etc.) of a previously made film, mainly to appeal a certain old movie to newer generations. For example, 2001's Ocean's Eleven is a remake of the 1960 film of the same name.
The term "remake" is generally used in reference to a movie which uses an earlier movie as the main source material, rather than in reference to a second, later movie based on the same source. For example, 2001's Ocean's Eleven is a remake of the 1960 film, while 1989's Batman is a re-interpretation of the comic book source material which also inspired 1966's Batman. The same can be said for Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale, which has been adapted three times; as a 1954 television episode, a 1967 spoof, and a 2006 adaptation. These are considered separate adaptations, not remakes, though they use similar characters and a similar plot.
Just because something reminds you something else doesn't necessarily mean it's an intended remake faithful to one original source. Could be merely an inspiration, or, in worse cases - shameless plagiarism (if the author of the newer artwork doesn't give credit to the original).
Of course, recently are plagiates often being sanctioned by calling them "tributes".
Masao wrote: THX 1138 was derived from Logan's Run.
Lucas looked into the future before he made THX?
Masao wrote:Blade Runner? It is a combination of "On The Beach", Road Warrior, and others but its closest inspirations are from Frankenstein and let's not forget the play R.U.R.
On The Beach? Why?
Road Warrior? Not even close. Visually and story-wise they are two totally different films altogether.
Frankenstein? Only superficially. You can also say that Blade Runner resembles any film that deals with racism.
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"Lucas looked into the future before he made THX?"
I thought I made it clear but if not, I should restate it. "THX 1138 was derived from Logan's Run" meant that it came from Logan's Run.
Once upon a time; people actually got their Sci Fi from books and so I must apologize for not making the distinction. THX got its story from the novel Logan's Run
The Duvall THX was in fact a remake of the earlier student film.
I hope that is clear.
About Wikipedia: I have noticed that many of their entries are incomplete or make great leaps of faith in incorrect/incomplete data to arrive at conclusions.
If you noticed in DADoES? and even in the BR game pay homage to On the Beach. The 'Sidneys' are records of animals who have become extinct due to nuclear fallout. This may be a obscure reference but I got it. Road Warrior lent its 'trashed future' look to the film.
As for Frankentstein: R.U.R. took its inspiration from Frankenstein a but updated it to robots. Frankenstein was infact an updated version of Pygmalion which was an updated version of the old Golem Legend from Cabalism.
DADoES? took it one step further, but Blade Runner was a revisitation to the older productions and mostly ignored the novel.
-a group of robots return to their creator and revolt at the factory in an attempt to derive the secret of a prolonged life killing along the way. The only thing that stands in the way of the revolt is the perfect models of the robots. One is male and the other is female.
Familiar?
In R.U.R. the name of the robot creator is Rossum. In DADoES? the name is Rosen.
I'm not even going to go into how Star Wars was lifted from Dune.
I thought I made it clear but if not, I should restate it. "THX 1138 was derived from Logan's Run" meant that it came from Logan's Run.
Once upon a time; people actually got their Sci Fi from books and so I must apologize for not making the distinction. THX got its story from the novel Logan's Run
The Duvall THX was in fact a remake of the earlier student film.
I hope that is clear.
About Wikipedia: I have noticed that many of their entries are incomplete or make great leaps of faith in incorrect/incomplete data to arrive at conclusions.
If you noticed in DADoES? and even in the BR game pay homage to On the Beach. The 'Sidneys' are records of animals who have become extinct due to nuclear fallout. This may be a obscure reference but I got it. Road Warrior lent its 'trashed future' look to the film.
As for Frankentstein: R.U.R. took its inspiration from Frankenstein a but updated it to robots. Frankenstein was infact an updated version of Pygmalion which was an updated version of the old Golem Legend from Cabalism.
DADoES? took it one step further, but Blade Runner was a revisitation to the older productions and mostly ignored the novel.
-a group of robots return to their creator and revolt at the factory in an attempt to derive the secret of a prolonged life killing along the way. The only thing that stands in the way of the revolt is the perfect models of the robots. One is male and the other is female.
Familiar?
In R.U.R. the name of the robot creator is Rossum. In DADoES? the name is Rosen.
I'm not even going to go into how Star Wars was lifted from Dune.
Masao wrote:"Lucas looked into the future before he made THX?"
I thought I made it clear but if not, I should restate it. "THX 1138 was derived from Logan's Run" meant that it came from Logan's Run.
Once upon a time; people actually got their Sci Fi from books and so I must apologize for not making the distinction. THX got its story from the novel Logan's Run
So it's a remake of the novel? That's quite a stretch. In the "novel", there are no domed cities which were the equivalent of the underground world in THX 1138. Where do people in THX have to die at 21, or any other age, to prevent overpopulation? Outside the "controlled society" (which both movies actually lent from George Orwell's 1984), their focus is not the same. In Logan's Run, life is great but ends at age 21. In THX 1138, it is all about "control". Everything and everyone has to be controlled, as long as the control mechanism doesn't endanger the monetary system, which, in its turn, would hurt the control mechanism.
One can always find similar themes in any movie (try me), but that doesn't mean one can speak of "remake". With so much filmed, written, composed, painted and sculptured already, no work is entirely original.
Alex
Leon Corporation Employee
Masao wrote: This may be a obscure reference but I got it. Road Warrior lent its 'trashed future' look to the film.
Ridley Scott already used the "trashed look" in Alien. Much of the design of the total environment in Alien and Blade Runner is based on his admiration for Moebius (Metal Hurlant comic books).
Alex
Leon Corporation Employee
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