Blade Runner: tale of two cities
There are two gods in Blade Runner: the god of symbols and the god of gaff.
They both supply clues to Deckerd's backstory--the paper man with tail (chasing his own tail), the unicorn, the chicken (awaking consciousness). If you only have memories and genetic code to get it right--how could anyone get it right?
The script opens INT:HADES: NIGHT: (close-up, Deckerd's eye?) Deckered wants to see Heaven, so he knows where to go. The only place we've ever gotten there--table's turn, Pacino barks, "....you need a bad guy!"
Scarface never killed like this. But Deckerd does--
"Say hello to my little friend." Product testing made a stage.
A synthetic Brando sits with his pupil waxing poetic in the rain--the jungle remade, the bull sacrificed, the tenants, kneeling before their new god--the machete lifts--dove tail's:
"the horror, the horror...."
*If you want to know more: Apocalypse Now and Blade Runner are required watching, you can google the Scarface quotations and get what you need from youtube.
Great movie! Apocalypse Now is better though )
My inner nerd disagrees--for using the chess gambit from The Seventh Seal, Blade Runner scores points for incorporating movie history into new age prophecy--Apocalypse Now is literal in its use of stage. In Blade Runner, the bad guy gets a soul--in Cambodia Unplugged, you get a river, heads, and a lot of people scratching their collective asses--"The god-man is gone, now what?"
*To be fair to Apocalypse Now--I also give Kill Bill extra points for reusing Pris's kicking and screaming death scene--so that sort of thing gets me every time :P
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