Today, April 10, 2017, is the birthdate of the replicant known as Leon Kowalski. Bioengineered humans created by Tyrell Corporation for cheap labor have implanted memories and a built-in four year lifespan to prevent them from developing empathetic abilities (Blade Runner, 1982)
Wonderful to revisit Blade Runner on the big screen again this evening, where it really belongs. Took chum along who had never seen it before. Those forty year old visuals are still stunning, the soundtrack by Vangelis iconic.
From Double Indemnity to Blade Runner, LA's Bradbury Building forms the quintessential film noir backdrop. There used to be a sign on the blank wall neighbouring Los Angeles' Bradbury Building that read "CANADA". When it appeared in Blade Runner in 1981, the CA had been removed leaving the word NADA. Very dark. Very noir. Very...
Today in Labor History February 11, 1938: BBC Television produced the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot." He derived the word “robot” from the Czech word for forced labor by Serfs. R.U.R. is an archetype for many of the science fiction stories and films that followed, like Bladerunner, West World and Terminator, and others about robots, replicants and hosts that rebel against humans. However, “R.U.R.,” like Čapek’s 1936 novel “War with the Newts,” is also a satirical critique of totalitarianism, which was already on the rise in Europe at the time he wrote the play.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Sleigh bells ringing from the horizon of the Aurora Borealis ... I watched Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer glow in the dark near the North Pole. All those moments will be lost in time, like snow in a blizzard... Time to die.
P.K. Dick 1968, Do Androids Dream: in ch. 16 is a paragraph that describes Rachael's body in anatomical detail and assigns race to it. It would be difficult to argue that this is a device that says more about the viewpoint character than about the author.
Last week I released Micro2K – a distillation of the Step Dice #YearZeroEngine as used in #Twilight2000 and #BladeRunner. This is based on the YZE SRD with some additional inspirations.
I really like the SD YZE version but there’s only two games that use it. So this is free and if someone wants an editable file to make their own game with it, ping me.
‘Blade Runner 2099’: Jonathan Van Tulleken Set To Direct As Amazon Series Gears Up For Production In New Location (deadline.com)
Coming off directing the first two episodes of Shōgun, Jonathan van Tulleken has been tapped to direct the first two episodes of Blade Runner 2099.
Bradbury Building (article) (www.readingdesign.org)
From Double Indemnity to Blade Runner, LA's Bradbury Building forms the quintessential film noir backdrop. There used to be a sign on the blank wall neighbouring Los Angeles' Bradbury Building that read "CANADA". When it appeared in Blade Runner in 1981, the CA had been removed leaving the word NADA. Very dark. Very noir. Very...