Like Tears In Rain 10 BehindTheScenes Facts About Blade Runner

Like Tears In Rain: 10 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Blade Runner

Ridley Scott made a sci-fi, neo-noir masterpiece with Blade Runner. We share the making-of story of this classic film starring Harrison Ford.

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In adapting Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ridley Scott took the visual language of the film noir and transplanted it into a futuristic setting. With meditations on the ethics of artificial intelligence through the lens of sleek cityscapes and brutal violence, Scott defined the neo-noir with his masterfully crafted sci-fi detective story Blade Runner.

Rick Deckard is a classic hard-boiled noir antihero in the mold of Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade, and Harrison Ford was the perfect actor to bring him to life. So, here are 10 fascinating behind-the-scenes details from the making of Blade Runner.

10 Philip K. Dick Loved What He Saw Of The Film Before His Death

Philip K. Dick passed away before he saw the finished version of Ridley Scott’s film adaptation of his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, but he loved what he saw of it. After seeing Harrison Ford in character on the set of the film, Dick felt that he’d really embodied the character he created. He also felt that Rutger Hauer had the perfect “Aryan” look to play Roy Batty.

Dick only saw the first 20 minutes of the film, but he thought that the world in his head had been successfully translated to the screen despite the fact that neither director Ridley Scott nor screenwriter David Webb Peoples actually read the source novel.

9 Deckard And Batty’s Final Confrontation Was Originally A Fight In An Old Gym

The final scene of Blade Runner was shot mere hours before the producers were planning to usurp Ridley Scott and assume creative control of the film. According to Rutger Hauer’s biography, Rick Deckard and Roy Batty’s final confrontation was originally a martial arts fight in an old gym.

Hauer felt that a Bruce Lee-style fight sequence didn’t fit the tone of the rest of the movie, and instead suggested Batty pursuing Deckard, which Scott utilized in the finished film.

8 The Term “Replicant” Was Thought Up By The Screenwriter’s Daughter

The term “replicant” isn’t featured in Philip K. Dick’s original novel. Instead, the androids are referred to simply as “androids” or “andies,” but screenwriter David Webb Peoples worried that these terms would sound silly when they were spoken and not just written, so he decided to use a new term.

He got “replicant” from his daughter, Risa, who was studying microbiology and biochemistry at the time. She told her dad about the theory of replication: the process by which cells are duplicated for the purposes of cloning.

7 Ridley Scott’s Initial Cut Was Four Hours Long

Ridley Scott’s initial cut of Blade Runner clocked in at a whopping four hours. Everyone who saw it believed that it was a beautiful work of cinema, but also felt that it was practically incomprehensible, despite having all that extra time to explain everything.

So, Scott had to go back into the cutting room and shorten the movie to a reasonable length while also adding a voiceover narration to provide exposition.

6 E.T. Killed Blade Runner’s Chances At The Box Office

Although it received positive reviews, Blade Runner bombed at the box office when it first hit theaters in 1982. This is because it was released at around the same time as Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which was such a hit that it became the highest grossing movie ever made at the time.

The same fate was suffered by John Carpenter’s The Thing. Word of mouth got out that Blade Runner and The Thing had really bleak themes, so moviegoers were swayed toward watching the more feelgood E.T. instead. Both Blade Runner and The Thing went on to become cult classics.

5 Harrison Ford Took Extreme Measures To Avoid Wearing Hats

Having just finished shooting Raiders of the Lost Ark, which required him to wear a fedora in almost every scene, Harrison Ford really didn’t want to wear a hat in Blade Runner.

So, right before he started shooting, he went to a barber and got a contemporary haircut that wouldn’t allow Ridley Scott to cover it up with a hat.

4 The Iconic “Shining Eyes” Effect Was Pioneered By Fritz Lang

Director Ridley Scott and cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth achieved the iconic “shining eyes” effect by borrowing an old technique from Fritz Lang.

The method is known as the “Schüfftan Process,” by which a piece of half-mirrored glass is mounted onto the camera at a 45-degree angle in order to bounce light into the actors’ eyes.

3 Rutger Hauer Came Up With A Lot Of Ideas For His Character

After enjoying Rutger Hauer’s performances in the movies Turkish Delight, Katie Tippel, and Soldier of Orange, Ridley Scott felt confident in casting him as Roy Batty before even meeting him.

Hauer brought a bunch of ideas to the table to develop his character. For example, it was his idea for Batty to hold a dove. He also tweaked his iconic “like tears in rain” speech. Hauer felt that the monologue as written was too technical and not poetic enough, so he added the final stinger: “All those moments will be lost in time…like tears in rain.”

2 Stanley Kubrick Gifted Some Unused Footage From The Shining To Be Used In Blade Runner

Studio executives weren’t happy with Ridley Scott’s ending for Blade Runner, which sees Rick Deckard looking at a piece of origami, and deciding to replace it, with his voiceover about Rachael playing over helicopter shots of the countryside. In order to acquire this footage, the studio contacted Stanley Kubrick and asked for his coverage from the unnerving opening of The Shining.

As a fan of Scott’s previous film, Alien, Kubrick was happy to help with the completion of Scott’s next film, but asked that they only use footage that hadn’t been used in The Shining.

1 Ridley Scott And Harrison Ford Butted Heads Constantly On The Set

Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford had constant disagreements on the set of Blade Runner. Even before shooting began, they butted heads over the script. For example, Ford hated the voiceover narration, feeling that a lot of the things Deckard explained could be shown visually to feature some actual detective work in the film noir homage they were creating. Ford was also frustrated with Scott’s impersonal directing style.

But the main disagreement between the two was about the film’s greatest mystery: whether or not Deckard is a replicant. Apparently, Scott and Ford agreed before filming that Deckard wasn’t a replicant, so Ford felt betrayed that Scott edited the film to make it more ambiguous. Rutger Hauer was also disappointed by this, as he felt that the film’s conflict boiled down to man versus machine, and making Deckard a replicant worked against that.

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