The music played a HUGE part in the success of the movie. Without it, you'd never feel so fully engulfed by the world it had created.

This was perhaps the best thing I've seen on the making of "Bladerunner" to date. Really excellent. I actually worked on the project as a utility stuntman, and it was one of the most arduous films to work on for many reasons. First, the HOURS. I came to work and 6am every morning and left every night at 6pm. Second, the CONDITIONS. Everyone was wet and miserable for the entire two-week shoot, with Ridley having erected three gigantic circular sprinkler heads that continuously rained down millions of gallons of cold water on the entire set. I even heard that some poor older extra actually died from pneumonia during the ordeal. We shot it in the middle of winter, in the old "New York Street" location on the Columbia lot, miraculously transformed into a futuristic 23rd century Los Angeles. Ridley was a past master at this, as he began his career as a set decorator. The guy was a difficult and demanding director, and I've never seen anyone so attached to detail as this man. But it is this same attention to detail that makes his films all masterpieces of the filmmakers art. I think that working on this movie was made so much easier by the incredible world he had created for his actors. I know that many of the cast and crew were suffering from sleep deprivation, but I also believe that this actually had a positive effect on the actors' final performances. This was after all a very dark vision, and I recall being zoned-out much of the time. I was routinely used to drive the futuristic vehicles, which were mainly just fiberglass shells simply attached to a Volkwagen chassis. The beautiful police vehicle driven by Edward James Olmos was totally non operational, just a full-sized prop lifted into the sky by a large crane, most of the apparatus concealed by smoke. That's another thing I remember, lots of smoke. I also vividly recall the climatic scene where Joanna's stunt double, looking absolutely NOTHING like her, performed the gag of crashing through the sugar glass store window, then everybody enthusiastically applauding her effort, for if she goofed in any way the time required to reset everything would have been extremely difficult, another reason for everyone's heartfelt appreciation. I always thought that her stunt woman was such an obvious double that it did distract from the scene for me, so watching these incredible specialists re-create it with with Joanna Cassidy a full 25-year later was a complete miracle, and I can't wait to see the final cut. When the film was first released, I was extremely disappointed in it's relatively low box office and tepid reviews, but thrilled to see how it ultimately became a cult classic in the many years since it's release.

Joanna Cassidy is SO awesome for coming back to do that!!!

I saw Blade Runner in the primary in 1982 and to this day it is one of the best films ever for me. I always calculated how old I would be in 2017. Today in 2023 and 41 years later, I tell myself I was 20 years old when I saw Blade Runner and think how time has passed and I saw C-beams, glittering in the dark, near the Tannhäuser Gate. All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. But not Blade Runner...

Greatest movie ever made!

7:00 - All I can say is thank goodness the producers were lazy enough not to give the final order to junk the original negative in 1988. It is due to the incompetence and shortsightedness of people like them that we still had all this gold to gleam off, when the DVDs and Blu-rays were in development. Bravo!

Makes you really appreciate all the hard work that went into the Final Cut.

I kind of liked the dove flying into a blue sky. I thought it was appropriate that there'd be sort of a miraculous clearing at that moment.

The BEST Sci Fi movie EVER to ever come out!!

You can't say "Blade Runner" without thinking Vangelis. Then you must hunt down all 5+ hrs worth.

For someone who had to live in his father's shadow, Benjamin Ford seems like such a cool, well-grounded guy.

The thought of all that extra footage about to be junked NO! OMG. Thank goodness it was saved at the last minute.

The hole „restoration” is about darkening the highlights, deepening the shadows and reducing contrast - a typical wedding photography workflow - I prefer the original tonality, it is more vibrant and dynamic.

Word has it, Ridley Scott is a replicant.

See George? This is how you make a special edition

This movie was put together real well! It's so unique and the soundtrack is supurb. This movie cannot be improved because it is already a masterpiece and my favorite science fiction movie of all time! Every time I watch this movie I like it more than the previous time I watched it. It's a complex movie with so much to offer and discover. I did not care for this movie the first time I saw it and let me tell you that reversed later on. I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!! I consider this movie to be one of the greatest science fiction movies of all time!!!!

Act now, don't delay...get the Final, Final Cut.

Final Cut is the Best thank you Charlie..

"You can't just go through film with your bare hands" ROOM FULL OF PEOPLE GOING THROUGH THE FILM WITH BARE HANDS! 🤠

happy to say I was at the directors cut premier in LA back in 92. amazing to be there and see scott speak before the movie started.

I love this film so much, the best film I ever saw in my whole life...

I hope they found the person who couldn't put their name on a document junking BladeRunner and thanked them. Thank you, to that person. Thank you very much.

This is an incredible doc, but even though now we can chose which B.R. do we feel watching, personally I like with the voice over because it was given so much inside of the characters mind and soul that would be unfair to disregard their inner feelings and soul searching throughout the film ! Regardless of the arrival but the journey is so fantastic ! Thank you

i saw it in a matinee at a crummy mall outside Mesquite, Tx that had a surprisingly good theater with great sound. it was pretty much empty. i really didn't know what to expect as the advert was so limited. blown away from my perfect central seat! of course got the soundtrack. love the first theatrical version the best. much better than the director's cut. the crashing through windows scene was and is perfect for me.

Thank-you for posting this video.

Wow, excellent vid indeed. Blade Runner is the best movie I've ever seen.

Thank you for this video

I liked the narration, it brought the movie to life.

Great doco, thanks for the upload.

Thanks for sharing this!

My favorite movie of all time!!!

Thank you (10x) for this video

Like Guinness, This film is pure Magic.

Oh I loved this, thanks for sharing. What a treat to see Joanna Cassidy again, such grace and beauty

And now Vangelis is gone and we will never have the one true complete Soundtrack 😟

Thanks, this is possibly my all time ❤

I love this film so much

The tremendous value of Vangelis magic voices , music, sounds , is particularly evident when you avidly go to see the sequel 2049 and get bored after half an hour ☹️

A perfect perfect film.

Honestly, one thing I would have fixed was the slight wobble on the unicorn's horn. That moment always jars.

The art of true film making, will die out with people like Ridley Scott

My favourite film of all time.

There was also the lost San Diego Sneak Preview Version, which was the US theatrical cut but with three additional scenes not on any version before or after it. And there are two different TV cuts: the US broadcast cut and the HBO Asia cut. The only differences are that the latter is 16:9 HD with 5.1 surround sound, and no not-Deckard narration reading out the opening crawl.

if they re-released the final cut in the theater, would you watch it? I was thinking a good time to release it would be November, 2019

Excellent

There is no other film that does what Blade Runner does to me. It's like nicotine. You see someone smoking in a film, while warm on your sofa, and suddenly you just need to smoke even though it's freaking cold or wet outside. With blade runner,.if I cannot re-watch the film, then the perfect dose is one or two shots of "Tears in the rain".

They did a GREAT job, FANTASTIC, the Final Cut is the best cut, thanks!

Goddamn, that shot they did with Ford's son is some of the coolest shit. I didn't even know about that.

Legend is underrated

I wish the Donner Cut of Superman II had received this sort of care, attention and effort.

BL 2049? Didn`t even come close to atmosphere, mood, ambiance, depth, presence.

I saw this on first release and watched it last night (final cut) and i picked out details I've missed on other viewings

And the moral of this story? Let Directors direct and not worry about having to rush scenes and post-production because they may have gone over budget.

Lol, I love the "Halloween edition" (Headless horse woman?) Love this film and all the care and effort folks put in to it. At the top of my favorites. Thank you!

Top movie of all time

I saw this movie when I was 13, I knew the movie with the voice over. It was a part of it. I never had a problem with it. It was a part neo noir to begin with. I just don't understand people's hate for it.

The best film ever made...IMHO, of course.

All any of this goes to prove is that next time around maybe the director, or someone, should decide what the film is about and how it should be presented BEFORE the final shoot.

Did you notice the horn on the Unicorn wobbled as it ran around? Is the Unicorn a replicant?

Cool, movie.

I like the voice overs it brings to me what they are thinking and more personal into their lives and what Decker is thinking

I wish someone would put out all the scenes with the full score!

Good job, but as a fan I never cared about the "mistakes". They were part of the original magic. The film was so good we didn't care.

Thia is what working in Hollywood is really like: endless boring meetings.

But to stream it 4k now on my Sony 75 4k and stand about 5 or 6 feet from those visuals. And that music. You just drink it in - like a chocolate malt.

its always funny to hear Ridley's take on it, like he doesn't see the movie the way people love it because it was his project and seems to minimize its status as a highly regarded film.

there's enough material to make a mini-series

YES November 2019

I luv the part where they used the mouth of Harrison's son to do that scene.

Wow, imagine if they 'JUNKED' it.

Joanna Cassidy ❤️

A great film. Final director's cut is great. One of my top 10. Godfather 1 and 2 and 12 monkeys and citizen kane and many others are all excellent.

. .. ... *Like the game* ... there are different versions of the end play too ... .. .

All those moments will be lost in time, ....like tears in rain. Time to die." Je wordt gemist Hauer!!

Bootleg of a bootleg of an outtake with Roy saying, "All those moments will be lost in time . . . like farts in wind." I know a guy who knows a guy who says he has it.

I always thought the blue sky/dove shot was metaphorical - not literal - so the blue sky never bothered me. I always thought it was intentional.

Im a big purist about the risk of tampering, but honestly Final Cut is brilliant. There’s a lot of rubbish said about the different cuts by fans. It feels like it’s become an excuse to make YT videos about the many cuts to get views and have an opinion for the sake of it. Usually it would be crossing a line correcting ‘mistakes’ from the original movie but they handled it so tastefully and seemlessly here, with all the original team, it may as well have always been there. I watched the Final Cut first and was shocked to learn the shot of the dove used to be just a lame back of a studio. Very rare that a movie recut ever gets this care and stays true to the vision. I wish the FC hadn’t had the teal colour treatment but the 4K release really improves this.

A lot of minutia here, but the key component to have BR make sense from a continuity standpoint is reintegration of the hospital scene. The key error that needed fixing was the poorly cast stunt double for Zora's execution. Fixing the lightening skies when the dove is released is an example of fixing something that didn't need fixing. The sky brightening counters the overall noir darkness of the movie. The pros did some nice tweaks, but fanedits like the one done by ADigitalMan which has selectable voice over are superior overall.

Did they take out the dove leaving Roy's hands when "it's time to die"?

I kindly doubt the alternative version was sent to the LA film festival in 1990 'by mistake'. My hunch is the cut without the voice over was sent out of mischief by a fan of the film. Heck, it may well have been Scott himself doing it without informing anyone!

in the future it will finally be recognised as the greatest movie ever made. SPOILER ALERT: Its not a film about shooting robots.

I much prefer the overdubbed theatrical release orig to any other and think the Unicorn scene seems contrived.

Gosh I would love to see a full cut How was it a failed at the critics box office and sold out in release later on

You didn't need to go through all this fuss. It's always been a masterpiece

Now you can't buy any other verison

Interesting. There are SO many films made in the last 20 years with a WEALTH of unseen material available on the cutting room floor. It would be great to see these movies reimagined like this cut of Blade Runner ~ into new versions. A way for the IP owners of these films ~ to generate new revenue streams ~ out of media resources and archived acquisitions 'that they already own' ~ that are already in the can ~ that have been seen by no one. The technology available in 2023 makes this 'reworking process' cheaper and easier than ever. The re-release of Justice League to its original vision for HBO Max is one such example.

But does the San Diego Cut really exist?

what version has the phrase "brown nosing" at the start?

The brief replacement sequence at 24:57 is questionable; the brightness is too bright for what's just happened (a milky white which doesn't match with the rest of the sequence) and the addition of the building on the left gives the impression it's the location where Deckard and Batty are; making us think we're below their building looking up. How would the dove suddenly be below the building? That's the unfortunate impression it gives as both buildings are far too similar in design. It also looks like a computer sequence so we're taken out of the 'reality' of the film yet again! The 2nd version of this brief sequence, designed years ago, is, in my opinion, the better version! Reply

Is there still one with the voice overs ?

the real work print is on a blue ray that has 5 dvds and every cut made and a art mini book very hard to find

I didn't think the brown eyes/blue eyes was a flaw. I assumed his eyes were augmented and were revealed in certain light.

I have written a novel Uncorrected Proof - part of the irony is there are always mistakes in every work of art. Guess what, we rarely see them. So what is this all about: Technological exceptionalism?? After film school I began my film life as a filmmaker, shooting on an Eclair ACL cutting on a Steenbeck 6, sound going from a Nagra to Sondor 16mm sound tape - state of the art at the time. Someone said. BS, then and now of course. It's what you cut from the original shot stock that counts. How you cut it is part of the deal but if it aint on the set it aint on the screen. Blade Runner looked great to me when it first showed and it's still great. Not sure what the 'Re-Post cut narrative story is really all about - reselling? Hollywood wizardry? You don't need to sell me. Ridley did that in round 1. It was and still is magnificent - the total effort is one fine, fine print of a film. At the time. Don't get me wrong - all this is interesting, up to a point. But do we want to retouch a Van Gogh. In one town cafe night scene he piled on the white yellow paint. Piled it on. Did he make a mistake? No. Last point. If Deckard is a replicant or even the Tyrell boss who is killed brutally by one of the best of his own creations, what were 'their' time-out points? Deckard and Tyrell's. Or were they the ones without any programmed life-spans? Does it matter? Who really understands the Big Bang? Of course we might one day and one day we might know if Deckard was or wasn't. I prefer the lingering doubt.

Hope it's not my screen, but was a lot of this in darkness?

Of course he's a replicant the unicorn sequence confirms it they know his implanted dreams

Was the 1999 Director's Cut DVD made from the Laserdisc version?

This is what it looks like when dove flys.

Ridley Scott just went to far with the story line in the final cut... anyone who is familiar with his other movies would know the unicorn clips are left overs from legend...the only thing i liked about this version was that the flying dove seen towards the end was refilmed with a proper CGI back ground , not like the original were it was obviously a after thought...the greatest thing about blade runner was the ambiguity in the story line...it was up to you to interpret it as you thought!!.😎

love the movie and what they do with the final cut EXCEPT filming the actress and putting her head avobe the stuntwomans, what the hell were they thinking?

Buena Película en 1982 Ahora muy oscura Escenas remasterizado solo más oscuro 🌝🌗🌘🌚