Daisy has me blocked! Awww, sad now.
Let him do his thing, and then you get him out. No messing with him for laughs.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape
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Beverly - Oct 03, 2007 9:25:38 am PDT #1539 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Daisy Jane - Oct 03, 2007 9:31:45 am PDT #1540 of 10000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Nah. It just took me longer to get the link.
Beverly - Oct 03, 2007 9:35:42 am PDT #1541 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
's okay. That skit is pretty hysterical. I love the way their accents get harder and harder to decipher the longer the sketch goes on.
Polter-Cow - Oct 03, 2007 4:34:14 pm PDT #1542 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Volans - Oct 04, 2007 5:08:06 am PDT #1543 of 10000
move out and draw fire
Well, Harrison Ford said for years that Deckard wasn't a replicant, even though Ridley Scott said yes he was. (And according to the Wired article, Ford hasn't so much changed his mind as given up arguing about it.) So it's ambiguous on a pretty fundamental level from the start.
My take on this is that Scott never told Ford that Deckard was a replicant. In fact, he probably emphasized to his actor that the character WAS human, because Deckard doesn't know he's a replicant. Scott's too good a director, and Ford was pretty much a n00b actor.
Tom Scola - Oct 04, 2007 5:15:12 am PDT #1544 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Ford was pretty much a n00b actor.
Ford was in the business for 15 years at that point.
Volans - Oct 04, 2007 5:24:36 am PDT #1545 of 10000
move out and draw fire
Yes, but uncredited bits or tiny TV roles. Not much along the lines of a big movie lead. He hadn't had to really carry a movie before, not even Star Wars or American Graffiti.
Cashmere - Oct 04, 2007 5:28:31 am PDT #1546 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Indiana Jones was before Blade Runner, I think. Don't get me wrong, I don't think he had reached Presumed Innocent skill levels, but he had really practiced his chops by then.
Miracleman - Oct 04, 2007 5:36:03 am PDT #1547 of 10000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
*coughJohnnyMnemoniccough*
What a stoopid movie. I loved the original story and the movie was...not it. It was a stoopid action movie with borrowed names from the story.
And yes, I know that Gibson was in on the screenplay and may have even written it. Doesn't change the fact that it was not the story.
Also saw a neat version of "New Rose Hotel" with Christopher Walken and Willem Dafoe which was really true to the source material and great...until the end, where they reiterate the "scam", like, ten times. It was like "We GET it, they were double-crossed!" (hopefully won't have to whitefont that...it's a Gibson story after all).
Worse than the fourteen endings to "The Lord of The Ring: The Return of The King."
In re: DADoES: From the book I never got the feeling that Deckard was a replicant...in fact, I got the exact opposite feeling, that he was human. (See the end of the book with his wife Iran). The point of the book was questioning what defines human v. non-human, but I think the point was emphasized and made more poignant by Deckard being human but still unable to answer the question.
§ ita § - Oct 04, 2007 5:44:11 am PDT #1548 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If the first two Star Wars movies, American Graffiti, and Raiders only get you to n00b, there's not much hope out there for a lot of actors. And that's before you get to the 20-odd other entries on his cv. I think he was grown up enough for the director to tell the truth to. Not that that would stop the misdirection--just that Ford being a tyro doesn't strike me as a likely reason.