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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian)
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Subject: re: BLADE RUNNER voice-overs
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Date: Mon, 16-Jul-84 06:28:18 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 16 06:28:18 1984
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>> ...and one movie (Bladerunner) that was good SF but a mediocre movie.

> Whoa, back off.  Bladerunner is one of the best movies ever made period,
> IF you ignore the voice-over.  The Hollywood movie execs killed it by
> turning adding the voice-over and turning it into a stupid 1940's style
> detective movie....
>
>		Ray Chen

Whoa, back off. How about us guys that *like* 1940's style detective movies?? I,
and some friends, thought that part of what made BLADE RUNNER work was that its
*film noire* style. I didn't find any problem, per se, with the voice-over being
in the film. The only problem was in Ford's delivery of said voice-over.
	Besides, it wasn't the "Hollywood movie execs" that put the voice-over
into the film [talk about conspiracy paranoia]. The fault, if you view it as
such, rests in the hands of the scriptwriters and the director.

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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