The original Blade Runner is a legendary film which all of at babbletop love.
So we wanted to share a few awesome easter egg style moments that even die hard fan may
not know about.
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Pris’ incept Date In Blade Runner Harrison Ford’s deckard
is tasked with tracking down 4 Nexus model 6 replicants and retiring them.
Which is a nice way to say kill them.
When Deckard is given this mission at the LAPD headquarters from Police Chief Harry
Bryant they look over profiles for the replicants that Deckard will be hunting.
Among the profile information is the incept dates for each of the replicants.
For Daryl Hannah’s Pris that date is Valentine's Day.
Which given her designation a pleasure model is pretty funny easter egg that she would
be built on the quote un quote “most romantic” day of the year.
It is uncertain if all pleasure model Nexus-6 were made on Valentines day or if it’s a
one off that our acrobatic replicant is a valentine's baby.
We will probably never know the answer.
Stock Footage ending In the end of Blade Runner we are treated
to Deckard and Rachael fleeing from Los Angeles to start a life together.
We get them driving through a countryside with trees passing over before being treated
a montage of rolling hills as the main credits start.
Something that many fans of the film don't know.
Is that this footage is nothing more than stock footage from another legendary Film
maker.
That being Stanely Kubrick and that footage coming from his film The Shining.
You know if you’re going to end you movie with stock footage from another filmmaker.
You can do a whole lot worse than lifting from arguably the greatest auteur of all time.
The Millennium Falcon repurposed In the early part of the film when Deckard
is coerced by Gaff to come with him to the LAPD there are series of shots of them flying
in the the LAPD spinner to the police station.
In one of the wide shots of the buildings you can notice in the background that one
of the skyscrapers base bares a resemblance to a vehicle Harrison Ford knows all too well.
That being the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars.
Don't fret if you haven't been able to spot this easter egg as it is pretty well hidden
and most fans didn't even know about it until featurettes on the dvd and blu ray releases.
But now that you know next time you watch this movie with some friends you can let know
about one of the coolest Blade Runner easter eggs.
That forehead tattoo In the second act of Blade Runner.
Deckard finds a scale in a bathtub.
So he takes it to someone to get it identified and contrary to Deckard’s belief that it
is a fish scale.
It in fact belongs to a snake which leads him to a snake vendor and here we can see
that the snake vendor has a tattoo on his forehead.
That tattoo is of… you guessed it.
The millennium Falcon from Star Wars.
This is another blink and you’ll miss it easter egg.
So we hope you pause skills are up to snuff.
Or just watch it in something you can frame by frame it so you can make sure you see it.
They settled on Harrison Ford When Ridley Scott set out to make Blade Runner
Harrison Ford was not the first choice for the role of Deckard.
Far from it.
Screenwriter Hampton Fancher wanted Robert Mitchum for the role of Deckard and when he
wrote the dialog for the character he Wrote it as if Mitchum was delivering the dialog.
Other notable actors wanted for the role of Deckard include Tommy Lee Jones, Gene Hackman,
Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery, Burt Reynolds, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Al Pacino, and Paul Newman.
But in the end it would be Harrison ford that would be Deckard I think we all can agree
that he was the right choice as we could not see any of those actors delivering in the
role.
Phillip K Dick Loved Rutger Hauer Another fun casting easter egg.
When Hauer was cast as Roy Batty Ridley Scott showed him some photos of Hauer and Dick was
ecstatic about the casting.
I was looking at the stills of him and I said, ‘Oh my God, this is the Nordic superman
that Hitler said would come marching out of the laboratory.
This is the blond beast that the Nazis were creating.
And of course the origin of the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
was my research into the Nazis for The Man in the High Castle.
As far the man who made the source material for Blade Runner was concerned the casting
for Batty was spot on.
Harrison Ford hated making the movie For an incredibly long time Harrison Ford
stayed quiet about his terrible experience making Blade Runner.
As rumor had it he and Ridley Scott rarely got along and were constantly fighting about
Deckard's character on set and why the character would or would not do something.
But it wouldn't be until the 2007 Documentary Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007),
where we would hear from Ford on his experience making the film.
In the Documentary he claims to have made peace with the film and is now on amicable
terms with Ridley Scott.
In fact, Ford says the thing he remembers most is not the grueling shoot or the arguments
with his director, but being forced to record the voiceover which executive producers Jerry
Perenchio and Bud Yorkin insisted be in the film.
Ford doesn’t actually mention any names, but in discussing the voiceover which was
used in the theatrical cut, he says it was written by “clowns.”
Ridleys Inspirations Visual influences for Blade Runner include
Edward Hopper’s painting Nighthawks, French science fiction comics magazine Métal Hurlant,
the Hong Kong landscape, the industrial landscape of his former home in England, and the work
of futurist Italian architect Antonio Sant’Elia.
Rutger Hauer had Control of his Character In Blade Runner Rutger Hauer plays the Villain
of the film.
A nexus 6 replicant by the name of Roy Batty.
What not a lot of fans know is that he was given teh freedom to make choices on what
dialog Batty would use and his mannerisms on set.
The most notable of which is that Hauer would “re-write” the now famous tears in Rain
speech by removing what he thought to be over written techno speak.
He kept the attack ships and c-beams line and added the classic “tears in rain”
line.
But let us be clear he wrote those lines they were not and never were improvised on set
as many fans claim them to be.
Quick Hits Instead of one final easter egg moment we
thought we would toss out a few quick things we thought all blade runner fans would want
to know.
Critics hated the movie.
Siskel and ebert gave the film 2 thumbs down when it came out.
Siskel had a change of thumb years later and Ebert would go on to give the director's version
4 stars.
The original Cut was over 4 hours long.
At one point Martin Scorsese had interest in optioning the film.
Ridley Scott was not allowed to use his normal crew for the film due to union regulations.
The snake scale magnification image is actually marijuana.
In the scene with the newspaper all the magazines are $30 dollars and dated the wrong year.
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