Awesome project, but you did say something about Blade Runner should only be 30 minutes, and now your heresy is the only thing I can focus on.
Itâs very beautiful, but I like it better as a short. It was difficult for me to watch after a while without getting vertigo.
I agree with that being heresy but here is an interesting fact. Last year I decided to edit out every bit of dialogue from the film leaving a series of strange looks between characters and amazing visuals in between. With that done, the run time was only about 35 mins shorter than the regular run.
For an example of a scene with no dialog check it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qnJR1eSIIc
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Okay, maybe you can tell the whole story in 30 minutes, but youâd miss a lot of phantastic visuals. I first saw it on itâs original release, the first movie I saw in 70mm on the BIG screen, and it was just great.
Thatâs lovely!
I agree, that scene is wonderful. Iâd love to see the whole thing, and to see how other movies with a less deliberate pace hold up.
Itâs an impressive feat. It isnât watchable, though, unless you remember the original movie well enough to interpolate past the lack of detail⌠and at that, I found I gave up at about the word âskinjobsâ.
For some reason I am strongly reminded of the experience of watching â2001: A Space Odysseyâ before I had read the book.
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Agreed. Awesome at first and then the cataract feel to it became too disturbing to continue. It gives me a sense of empathy for those who suffer from it.
This is gorgeous, and an incredible effort. BUT. The medium of watercolor is the wrong choice. Itâs too bright. The mood would have been captured much better using color pastels on black paper. Iâm not trying to be a dick. But I did go to art school, soâŚ
This is why I am very skeptical about the Directorâs Cut. Take away the narration, and there are numerous places where the result is exactly like what you did with your editing. I canât remember if it was this same scene, or the one right before it when Deckard first shows up at Bryantâs office. But take away the narration, and you have this inexplicable shot of M. Emmet Walsh just sitting there. It left me with the impression that, in spite of Ridley Scott and Harrison Fordâs subsequent complaining, the film was originally and purposely shot â or at least edited â with the idea that the narration would be there. Thus itâs only a âdirectorâs cutâ in the sense that they edited the narration, but not the film itself.
On a similar note, you will never watch My Three Sons the same way again (though maybe you werenât going to watch it again, anyway) after you find out that Fred MacMurray filmed all his scenes at once, for the entire season, so he could go off and work on movies. They filmed the rest of it without him and then spliced him back in.
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Technically, the VO narration was in early scripts. It was then pulled and re-inserted numerous times in the filming process. What we got in the narration was put in at the studios behest because they felt the film needed it to help drive the film, but it was not an unprecedented idea. Fordâs âblandâ take had nothing to do with him wanting to sabotage it. It was merely that he recorded it months after final production had stopped and he had moved on from the project and was also given no direction on his performance. If you have a chance, watch the work print version for some additional narration lines.
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What I wonder, is if they had a hand in the editing â e.g. those shots of Bryant sitting there and just breathing might have been alternate PoV shots for when Deckard was talking to him. My speculation is that the studio (or whoever) edited these shots in to give more room for the narration (something to go underneath), but when Scott (or whoever) put together the Directorâs Cut, they deleted the narration, but left in these âpaddingâ shots. It might just look that way to me because I saw the narrated versions so many times before I saw the Directorâs Cut, but even keeping that in mind, the DC is kind of awkward for me.
I wonder if this de-wording is automatable? If youâve got a 5.1 mix, then IIRC the center channel should just be dialogue, so it shouldnât be too hard to strip out all the talky-bits⌠Then we could have whole films worth of wordless beauty 
heh. It was actually your original posting of the Dune clip that inspired me to do it!
