Blade Runner è stato il film che, più di ogni altro, mi ha fatto amare il cinema. Tuttora, quando si stilano quelle più o meno stupide classifiche del "film che ti è piaciuto di più", è il primo titolo che mi viene in mente.
Non potevo quindi perdere l'occasione di comprarmi l'
Ultimate Collector's Edition in 5 dannatissimi DVD.
È bene fare presente che sul solito
amazon.co.uk l'ho pagata la bellezza di circa 16 o 17 sterline, spedizione compresa. In Italia è prezzata ad 83 fottutissimi euro, munificamente scontati a 63 su dvd.it ed alla comet. Come si suol dire,
now, you do the fucking math.
La versione con la valigetta mi tentava, ma temevo problemi di spedizione; la confezione è comunque pregiata, ed oltre ai dvd presenta un libretto riassuntivo del contenuto ed una decina di cartoline di ottima qualità.
Esaminando il contenuto dei dischi, abbiamo nel
disco 1 il
Final 'Til-The-Next-One 
Cut: ultima revisione voluta da
Ridley Scott; oltre alle ripuliture audio, sono stati corretti numerosi piccoli difetti: alcuni volti di controfigure sono stati sostituiti digitalmente con gli originali, un certo numero di effetti speciali sono stati migliorati, così come piccoli problemi di sincronia. Il tutto, credete a me, fatto con una quantità d'amore inimmaginabile (niente a che spartire con le orde di stormtroopers di
George Lucas): ricerca delle pellicole originali, attori richiamati per le digitalizzazioni, pulitura dei retini e molto altro.
A livello di
qualità video, si raggiungono vette che non credevo possibili su un dvd:
perfezione totale di definizione, contrasto e colori, una magnificenza indescrivibile; non oso immaginare cosa sia il
blu-ray su un full-hd.
La storia in sé è di fatto identica a quanto già visto nel
Director's Cut.
Non posso davvero definirla una bieca una operazione commerciale (o almeno, non solo: è chiaro che non speravano di rimetterci
): su questa riedizione sono stati spesi parecchi soldi, e la cura è stata davvero maniacale.
Disco 2: il
making of del film, dal libro al rilascio nelle sale ed in VHS, con una marea di interviste con tutti i retroscena di un parto estremamente sofferto.
Disco 3: la versione passata al cinema nel 1982 negli USA, quella passata in Europa (un po' di violenza in più) e la Director's Cut del 1992. La qualità video non ne soffre affatto, immagino che larga parte del video sia in comune. Introduzioni del regista.
Disco 4: altri documentari, su
Philip K. Dick e sull'immenso lavoro che ha portato alla creazione di un universo così dettagliato come quello di Blade Runner. Inoltre,
screen tests, trailers, i poster e note sulla fotografia e le riprese.
Disco 5: la
Workprint Edition, che venne mostrata solo all'epoca ad un pubblico ristretto; video ripulito, ma ancora molto "ruvido".
Sparsi su tutti i dischi, commenti audio di più o meno chiunque ed una marea di altri extra. Sui contenuti aggiuntivi c'è da dire una cosa: se amate il film, li adorerete. Sono quasi tutti molto dettagliati ed interessanti, e vale la pena vederli tutti.
Per ora ho visto tutti gli extra ed il Final Cut; se devo essere onesto, sono tra i pochi che ha sempre apprezzato molto la versione originale, con la voce narrante che fa tanto
hard-boiled; va però detto che in effetti - se il doppiaggio italiano era ottimo - nell'originale il buon
Harrison Ford sembra davvero scoglionato (e non ho certo un orecchio pregiatissimo, per le intonazioni inglesi).
Per quanto riguarda l'audio, nessuna edizione ha la traccia in italiano (ma qualche lingua che nessuno usa davvero c'è - tipo il tedesco, lo spagnolo o il francese
), mentre solo l'ultima ha i sottotitoli nella nostra lingua. Se lo volete in italiano, direi che non ne valga la pena. Altrimenti...
Voto: 11 - Blade Runner è Il Cinema.
PS: Ridley ci dice anche se
Deckard è un replicante o meno. E Ford lo smentisce.
Lucas, George
Nome di battesimo: Jr., George Walton Lucas
Data di nascita: 14 May 1944
Altezza: 5' 7" (1.70 m)
Coniuge: Marcia Lucas::(22 February 1969 - 1983) (divorced)
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:George Lucas was raised on a walnut ranch in Modesto, California. His father was a stationery store owner and he had three siblings. During his late teens he went to Downey High School and was very much interested in drag car racing. He planned to become a professional racecar driver. However a terrible car accident just after his high school graduation ended that dream permanently. The accident changed his views on life. He decided to attend Modesto Junior College before enrolling in the University of Southern California film school. As a film student he made several short films including THX-1138: 4EB (Electronic Labyinth) which won first prize at the 1967-68 National Student Film Festival. In 1967 he was awarded a scholarship by Warner Brothers to observe the making of Finian's Rainbow (1968) which was being directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Lucas and Coppola became good friends and formed a company called American Zoetrope in 1969. The company's first project was Lucas' full-length version of THX 1138 (1971). In 1971, Coppola went into production for The Godfather (1972), and Lucas formed his own company, Lucasfilm Ltd. In 1973 he wrote and directed the semi-autobiographical American Graffiti (1973) which won the Golden Globe and garnered five Academy Award nominations. This gave him the clout he needed for his next daring venture. From 1973 to 1974 he began writing the screenplay for Star Wars (1977). He was inspired to make this movie from Flash Gordon and the Planet of the Apes films. In 1975 he established ILM (Industrial Light & Magic) to produce the visual effects needed for the movie. Another company called Sprocket Systems was established to edit and mix Star Wars and later becomes known as Skywalker Sound. His movie was turned down by several studios until Twentieth Century Fox gave him a chance. Lucas agreed to forgo his directing salary in exchange for 40% of the film's box-office take and all merchandising rights. The movie went on to break all box office records and earned seven Academy Awards. It redefined the term "blockbuster". The rest is history. Lucas made the other Star Wars films and along with 'Steven Spielberg' created the Indiana Jones series which made box office records of their own. From 1980 to 1985 Lucas was busy with the construction of Skywalker Ranch, built to accommodate the creative, technical, and administrative needs of Lucasfilm. Lucas also revloutionized movie theaters with the THX System which was created to maintain the highest quality standards in motion picture viewing. He went on to make several more movies that have created major breakthroughs in film making. He is chairman of the board of The George Lucas Educational Foundation. In 1992 George Lucas was honored with the Irving G. Thalberg Award by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his lifetime achievement.
Trivia random: His script for Star Wars (1977) was turned down by every major Hollywood studio, the reason being that no one would want to see it. In a last ditch attempt, Lucas approached 20th Century Fox who decided to go ahead with the script even though they were convinced it would flop. Star Wars ended up becoming the highest grossing movie ever released at that time. It still ranks as one of the highest grossing movies ever made to this day.
Citazione random: "I am very concerned about our national heritage, and I am very concerned that the films that I watched when I was young and the films that I watched throughout my life are preserved, so that my children can see them." - expressing concern over the Colorization of black & white films
Salario massimo: $400,000,000, per Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Dick, Philip K.
Nome di battesimo: Dick, Philip Kindred
Data di nascita: 16 December 1928
Data di morte: 2 March 1982
Coniuge: Tessa Busby::(18 April 1973 - 26 March 1978) (divorced) 1 child, Nancy Hackett::(1966 - 1973) (divorced) 1 child, Anne Williams Rubinstein::(1958 - 1964) (divorced) 1 child, Kleo Apostolides::(June 1950 - 1958) (divorced), Jeanette Marlin::(May 1948 - November 1948) (divorced)
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:Philip Kindred Dick was born in Chicago in December 1928, along with a twin sister, Jane. Jane died less than eight weeks later, allegedly from an allergy to mother's milk. Dick's parents split up during his childhood, and he moved with his mother to Berkeley, California, where he lived for most of the rest of his life. Dick became a published author in 1952. His first sale was the short story "Roog." His first novel, "Solar Lottery," appeared in 1955. Dick produced an astonishing amount of material during the 1950s and 1960s, writing and selling nearly a hundred short stories and some two dozen or so novels during this period, including "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?," "Time Out Of Joint," "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch," and the Hugo-award winning "The Man In The High Castle." A supremely chaotic personal life (Dick was married five times) along with drug experimentation, sidetracked Dick's career in the early 1970s. Dick would later maintain that reports of his drug use had been greatly exaggerated by sensationalistic colleagues. In any event, after a layoff of several years, Dick returned to action in 1974 with the Campbell award-winning novel "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said." Perhaps more importantly, though, this same year Dick would have a profound religious experience that would forever alter his life. Dick's final years were haunted by what he alleged to be a 1974 visitation from God, or at least a God-like being. Dick spent the rest of his life writing copious journals regarding the visitation and his interpretations of the event. At times, Dick seemed to regard it as a divine revelation and, at other times, he believed it to be a sign of extreme schizophrenic behaviour. His final novels all deal in some way with the entity he saw in 1974, especially "Valis," in which the title-character is an extraterrestrial God-like machine that chooses to make contact with a hopelessly schizophrenic, possibly drug-addled and decidedly mixed-up science fiction writer named Philip K. Dick. Despite his award-winning novels and almost universal acclaim from within the science-fiction community, Dick was never especially financially successful as a writer. He worked mainly for low-paying science-fiction publishers and never seemed to see any royalties from his novels after the advance had been paid, no matter how many copies they sold. In fact, one of the reasons for his extreme productivity was that he always seemed to need the advance money from his next story or novel in order to make ends meet. But towards the very end of his life, he achieved a measure of financial stability, partly due to the money he received from the producers of Blade Runner (1982) for the rights to his novel "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" upon which the film was based. Shortly before the film premiered, however, he died of a heart attack at the age of 53. Since his death, several other films have been adapted from his works (incuding Total Recall (1990)) and several unpublished novels have been published posthumously.
Trivia random: A recurrent motif in many of Dick's stories involves the collapse of an artificial reality; the main character discovers that his entire world has been mechanically imposed on his psyche and that "reality" is vastly different. Other uses of "alternate realities" also figure in some of his novels and stories.
Citazione random: [September 25, 1980, from a conversation with Paul M. Sammon (Paul Sammon)]: You would have to kill me and prop me up in the seat of my car with a smile painted on my face to get me to go near Hollywood.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Ford, Harrison (I)
Data di nascita: 13 July 1942
Altezza: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
Coniuge: Melissa Mathison::(14 March 1983 - 6 January 2004) (divorced) 2 children, Mary Marquardt::(18 June 1964 - 1979) (divorced) 2 children
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:His father was Irish, his mother Russian-Jewish. He was a lackluster student at Maine Township High School East in Park Ridge Illinois (no athletic star, never above a C average). After dropping out of Ripon College in Wisconsin, where he did some acting and later summer stock, he signed a Hollywood contract with Columbia and later Universal. His roles in movies and TV ("Ironside" (1967), "The Virginian" (1962)) remained secondary and, discouraged, he turned to a career in professional carpentry. He came back big four years later, however, as Bob Falfa in American Graffiti (1973). Four years after that he hit colossal with the role of Han Solo in Star Wars (1977). Another four years and Ford was Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). Four years later and he received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for his role as John Book in Witness (1985). All he managed four years after that was his third starring success as Indiana Jones; in fact, many of his earlier successful roles led to sequels as did his more recent portrayal of Jack Ryan in Patriot Games (1992). Another Golden Globe nomination came his way for the part of Dr. Richard Kimble in The Fugitive (1993). He is clearly a well-established Hollywood superstar. He also maintains an 800-acre ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Trivia random: While in college Ford appeared as Mac the Knife in the musical play, "The Threepenny Opera".
Citazione random: If people recognize me when I'm out in public, I'm very nice to them. I'm very nice to people even when they don't recognize me. I don't even mind if people come up to me while I'm eating dinner, but if they recognize me while I'm having sex, I refuse to sign autographs.
Salario massimo: $25,000,000 + 20% of the Gross, per K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Blade Runner (1982)
Regista: Ridley Scott Scrittore: Philip K. Dick,
Hampton Fancher Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Action
Valutazione: 8.3/10 (135466 voti) [#99 nella top250]
Durata: 117 min
Paese: USA, Singapore
Lingua: English, German, Cantonese, Japanese
Cast:Trama:In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed lifespans. In Los Angeles, 2019, Deckard is a Blade Runner, a cop who specialises in terminating replicants. Originally in retirement, he is forced to re-enter the force when six replicants escape from an offworld colony to Earth.
Trivia random: It has been rumored for years that Harrison Ford purposefully gave a bad reading of the voiceover narration added during post production in hopes that the studio wouldn't use it. Ford has denied this vehemently, stating that he gave the voice over six different readings and neither version came out sounding right and that the narration didn't work simply because the film wasn't originally made to have one.
Citazione random: Deckard: They don't advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex-blade runner. Ex-killer.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Scott, Ridley
Data di nascita: 30 November 1937
Altezza: 5' 7½" (1.71 m)
Coniuge: Sandy Watson::(24 May 1979 - 12 January 1989) (divorced) 1 child, Felicity Heywood::(March 1964 - 15 December 1975) (divorced) 2 children
Ultimi lavori: Trivia random: He cast his partner in life, Giannina Facio, in all of his films since Gladiator (2000).
Citazione random: The digital and theatrical markets are two different marketplaces. I think the digital marketplace - thank God for it! - is like having a book on the shelf: so you can actually go to that book and if it's four hours long, you can put it on pause, you can have a beer - no one's counting.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
- così come il secondo film), mi risulta un po' difficile affrontare questo nuovo oggetto con l'adeguato distacco critico, e quindi mi limiterò a sottolineare alcuni difetti, senza soffermarmi troppo sui meriti che eredita dal materiale di partenza. 
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