If you look at what Ridley Scott has contributed to the cinema, you can’t begin to count the masterpieces and from where would you start, that’s the thing. Let it be Gladiator, Alien or The Martian, he has every time chosen projects that stand out and are executed brilliantly, giving off artistic brilliance and amazing direction with cinematography as strong as they come.
There’s one Ridley Scott film that just completed 40 years since its initial release and that is none other than Blade Runner. Released in 1982, if you saw Blade Runner today you would not believe the film you just saw. That film excels in everything, the story comes from a visionary writer Philip K. Dick upon whose work the film is based titled “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”.
The Cast is phenomenal having Harrison Ford playing Rick Deckard, an ex-policeman who becomes a special agent to terminate a group of violent robots or androids. The deeper he gets into the mission, the more he starts to question everything around him. The film is set in a dystopian Los Angeles in 2019.
Other cast members include Sean Young (No Way Out, Dune 1984), Rutger Hauer (The Hitcher, Blind Fury), Edward James Olmos (American Me, Stand & Deliver), and other talents.
Blade Runner’s release date was arbitrarily chosen as well, to be on June 25 because the Producer Alan Ladd Jr’s previous films were also released on the 25th of a month so he wanted the film to release on his lucky day, the 25th. Being released with other Sci-Fi films at that time like E.T, the affected its commercial success.
The film was a success, both critically and at the box office. It was lauded for its cinematography and direction along with the acting. It still, to this day remains one of the best Sci-Fi films ever made with a cult following. The film holds a very good rating of 8.1 on IMDB and 89% RottenTomatoes.
If you still haven’t watched this masterpiece, we request you to watch it!