Rutger Hauer on Harrison Ford’s “dumb character”: “He gets a gun put to his head and then he fucks a dishwasher.”
Making Of
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007):
Film critic Mark Kermode‘s documentary On The Edge of Blade Runner (2000) also features the infamous moment Ridley Scott finally admitted his truth about Deckard (Rutger Hauer’s brutal takedown begins at 31:27):
In case the video above isn’t working, Cinema Tyler covers the interesting story of the film’s production:
The Various Cuts
“Director’s Cut”? “Final Cut”? “Cut and Paste”? For a detailed look at the different versions of the film, and exactly what work went into them, check out Blade Runner: All Our Variant Futures, From Workprint To Final Cut (via Oshan Ruiz):
VFX
Ridley Scott talks about lighting and other visual effects in the film:
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Given the film’s unique, even miraculous, production design, there are plenty of behind-the-scenes goodies out there – and A Good Start: Designing the Future is one to catch whenever it surfaces online (via Cyber Chaos Crew):
Building the Future from Junk is an hour-long deep dive into the visual effects of Blade Runner with Douglas Trumbull (via TIFF):
Behind the Scenes
Sean Young‘s polaroids from on the set of Blade Runner (via NeoGAF, ScreenRant, and Eyes on Cinema):
Further Viewing
Nerdwriter‘s video essay, Blade Runner: The Other Side of Modernity:
Three decades later, we have a sequel – and three sequel-prequel short films: