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Can you see this? ==Hey, did you get this? Makeba30 (talk) 00:18, 22 September 2015 (UTC) yes, I see you, can you still see me on my page? Blade Runner (1982) Through the lens of Lens 11 years

By JANET MASLIN Published: June 25, 1982

Janet Maslin called Blade Runner a movie that was:”Ridley Scott's muddled yet mesmerizing Blade Runner is as intricately detailed as anything a science-fiction film has yet envisioned.” According to Maslin, the film “lurches along awkwardly,” Harrison Ford as Decker is: “an old-fashioned detective cruising his way through the space age.”

According to Critic Chris Rodley, Ridley Scott explains in the Director’s Cut of Blade Runner that Harrison Ford was never intended to be the star of the movie. What was meant to be the star was the chilling view of the city. Rodley theorized that Blade Runner changed the discourse of journalists. “the film has attained benchmark status, influencing the look of subsequent movies such as Mad Max - its indelible vision having passed into our image repertoire, prompting us to describe certain other futuristic visions as ‘like Blade Runner.”

Earth has become a planet where presumably; “anyone with the wherewithal has presumably gone away. Only the dregs remain.” Maslin found the film to be: “crammed to the gills with much more information than it can hold.”

Chris Rodley, Frieze online Magazine Issue 8, 1993

Ridley finds that: ‘Claims of “‘prophecy’”on behalf of its makers a decade later are inevitable” He stated that : ”being ahead of your time is the perfect panacea for wider audience neglect “ As movie was considered a box office failure on its original release.”

Rodley speaks of the narrative as being minimal, but the story is told not just by the characters but through the architecture. “Old buildings have been ‘retro-fitted’ for new use; new buildings echo ancient pyramids or antique Oriental…You can sense the global warming. New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Milan and Piccadilly Circus co-habit the screen to startling, and prophetic, effect. Electricity crackles in the constant downpour of rain. The result feels like Bangkok in Downtown LA…”

Rodley hailed the directors cut as a triumph for Ridley Scott calling it much more satisfying but more infuriating

Blade Runner:The Final Cut By Nick Schager, September 25, 2007

Critic Nick Schrager feels that poring over the legacy of Blade Runner at this point is redundant. “striking to me this time around, though, is the pervasive, haunting eye motif.” Ridley Scott’s vision presages our time periods, video phones, constant, inescapable advertisements and issues of humanity’s dwindling empathy. Ultimately, Schrager believes that: “The film thrills with its startling vision of the future but throbs with old-school despondency, its tale infused with a marrow-deep belief that you’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t.”