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Watched Blade Runner : The Final Cut on Netflix today. I have only ever seen the original theatrical cut of this s-f classic, not any of the subsequent attempts at fixing/improving it (which were not needed, IMHO, even the theatrical is a classic). Missed the voiceover to be honest, though that is one of the things Ridley Scott himself was apparently unhappy with in the theatrical print, since it was added over his disapproval. The story seems to flow better, though, than I remember with parallel plots about Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) and Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) with his group of rogue replicants intercut fairly well. Or maybe the original was like that, too, and I just forget?
Had to chuckle at the title card that shows the date as November, 2019. It is definitely a mid-twentieth century idea of what the 21st would look like and misses some details of our actual reality, e.g. Deckard uses a pay videophone to make a call from a bar whereas in the real November, 2019 you would make a video call using your phone running Skype or WeChat or something. OTOH, it is such an impressively drawn and developed 21st century you kind of don't care. Those off-details makes sense in their version of 2019. At the same time, the contrast between the gaudy, advertising screens (often carried on airships of some kind) and the glamourous world of the wealthy, and the crowded, dingy world Deckard inhabits definitely has its parallels in the real 2019.
And the questions about humanity and at one point does something like a replicant become "human" definitely still need asking as we get further and further along in the development of AI.
Had to chuckle at the title card that shows the date as November, 2019. It is definitely a mid-twentieth century idea of what the 21st would look like and misses some details of our actual reality, e.g. Deckard uses a pay videophone to make a call from a bar whereas in the real November, 2019 you would make a video call using your phone running Skype or WeChat or something. OTOH, it is such an impressively drawn and developed 21st century you kind of don't care. Those off-details makes sense in their version of 2019. At the same time, the contrast between the gaudy, advertising screens (often carried on airships of some kind) and the glamourous world of the wealthy, and the crowded, dingy world Deckard inhabits definitely has its parallels in the real 2019.
And the questions about humanity and at one point does something like a replicant become "human" definitely still need asking as we get further and further along in the development of AI.
