Sun Apr 11, 2004 10:03 am by Centauro
I find it irresistible not to say what follows. Imagine that you have a dog, (if you don't like dogs, replace with something else), and it is the perfect dog. OK, maybe the hair could be shinier and the tail is a bit too long, but all in all, is the closest to perfection dog you can dream of. Like everything, death comes one day. You can take the body to a taxidermist and turn it into a sculpture, or there is an obscure rite that can bring back life to the body of your dog, but the barks will not be the same, and the dog forgets the game both of you liked the most to play. In any of the two cases, you are going to get as a result something alike your dog and related to, but you won't get back YOUR DOG. It is not more of the same, it is something else... it lacks the most inner qualities that made your experiences with him/her unique and wonderful. Me, I'd bury the dog for good.
That is the way I feel about BR. Call me whatever you like, but I wouldn't accept everything with the blade runner name or logo on it, because it is "more of blade runner". Buying those low quality books and asking for more (!) is just a way to keep prostituting blade runner, making the ones who can do it produce crap with the blade runner name on it, just because they know it will be sold. (And, ironic as it gets, they hold back the most profitable thing to do: release the SE DVD). I don't want to sound snob, or be like a preacher telling you what you should or should not like (not that you'd accept it if I did), but in some way this film is sacred to me, and I don't like the name used ad libitum as a brand for crappy shit.
That said, doing things with love and respect for BR is not enough. You've got to put the best of you/your team into it, and sometimes (most of them) money is a big constraint. But even with money and all that, if you don't have talent, you don't have it, and even then the things done with enough respect, effort and money, just don't work. These are the words of someone who has never produced anything, maily because of lack of faith in his own talent, but that doesn't mean that I think that nobody has it at all; if that was the case, BR would have not existed and we wouldn't be here. I really appreciate the work of people like BenMund with his props, the "Tech Manual" guy (sorry, the name eludes me right now), and of course, Treybor & Co, whose films I'm eager to see... and judge by their merits.
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