I could have sworn Ford was all for Deckard being a replicant. I would check the making of Blade Runner book, but it's in storage right now. Anyone else have a copy that would like to check?

Edit: If it turns out Ford really was against Deckard being a replicant, then kudos to him! :)

Are you talking about the one by Paul Sammon? If it is, I have it and (finally) started reading it just recently. Let me know what part of the book it might be in and I'll look.

Check the table of contents, there may be a section that specifically addresses the Deckard being a replicant issue.

I'll take a look at it tomorrow while I'm heading up to L.A. to the comic book convention. Rutger Hauer is gonna be there and I'm hoping he'll sign that book (it's already signed by the author and Joe Turkel).

;) Page 359.
I wonder if that is just Paul Sammon's opinion (like Suprmallet's). I guess I won't be convinced until someone who was intimately involved says for sure either way. Regardless, the fact that a movie can still have people arguing over such a central theme, and still be a fantastic film is a testiment to the makers.

Seriously? Damn, too bad I work. I would have hitched a ride :D
I'd love to have him sign my Flesh + Blood DVD.

There is no table of contents :(

Thanks! As I was looking through the book I found this chapter but didn't dig into it until just now. Here is the passage:

In point of fact, Ford actively resisted the idea-being revealed as a replicant at the end of the film was, in the actor's estimation, almost as wrong-headed a decision as Deckard's narration. "The biggest problem [I had with Blade Runner] was ... at the end, " Ford was quoted as saying in Lance Loud's October 1992 BR/Details magazine piece. "[Ridley] wanted the audience to find out that Deckard was a replicant. I fought that because I felt the audience needed somebody to cheer for."

Damn them for making you guys work weekends. There outta be a law.... :D I'm taking my Flesh + Blood DVD too just in case.

Well, for once, I'm glad to be proven wrong. I must have misread the chapter when I read it through the first time. I always thought it was particularly odd that Ford wanted Deckard to be a replicant. Now I can rest easier. :)

Edit: I edited my original post to reflect Ford's correct stance.

Well, we can take care of that. Simply swap me your signed copy for my pristine one. Then we can make all of those speeding tickets you're about to get go away.

:lol:

Leaning back (slightly) on topic: I was just thinking about Rutger Hauer. Without really thinking about it I just always sorta considered him one of my favorite actors. Mulling it over now I'm thinking there really isn't a lot of reason. I love Lady Hawk, Flesh + Blood, and the Hitcher. To a lesser extent I really dug Wanted: Dead or Alive and Blind Fury. But why? None of them are really great movies. I think it all stems from Blade Runner.
That was the first movie I ever saw him in and watched it repeatedly throughout the 80's. All of the Rutger Hauer movies I love came out within a few years of Blade Runner. I think he was simply so good in such a great movie, that its glow colored several of his films after that.

I also think that those final scenes (some of which he apparently ad-libbed) are the reason why I think he was so great in it. Its funny to think how I might feel about him and those movies that followed if I hadn’t seen a few minutes of film (or if they had been done differently).

I'm always amazed by how well this film has held up all these years. So many films in this genre don't age well.

Also, what's the store behind the title IE what's a "blade"?

-Gunshy

Blade Runner was the title of a completely unrelated book that Ridley Scott thought would work well as the title of his movie. It's not a phrase that Philip K. Dick came up with.

Yeah. Scott lifted it from Burroughs.

http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/blad...r_a_movie.html

Just recently I was wondering why in the world I didn't own this movie. I was hankering to see it again. (I had terminally burned myself out on it a while back.)

I'm stoked to hear that this new treatment is on the way.