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- "Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner" by Paul Sammon
A deep history of the making of the movie "Blade Runner". Very enjoyable if you liked the movie.
- Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner by Paul M. Sammon.
Well written, in depth history of the making of the movie Blade Runner. Very enjoyable so far!
- Editing based on the latest script, Including all unused cut, Complete reproduction of Sid Mead illustrations and more. Blade Runner White Dragon Cut is going to be ver5 ! Editing based on the latest script Editing based on the latest script
According to Poul Sammon’s book ‘Future Noir’, some changes were made at the editing stage of the film’s production. Among them are the following three points––where the flow of the movie was changed dramatically.
In “Blade Runner: White Dragon Cut version 4” (hereinafter referred to as “WDC 4”), 1 and 3 have been reworked as scripted. In “Blade Runner: White Dragon Cut version 5” (hereinafter referred to as “WDC 5”), 2 is further reworked as scripted––aiming for full reproduction of the script dated February 23, 1981.1 From Zhora’s retirement to Deckard and Rachel’s love scene 2 From Deckard and Rachel’s love scene to Sebastian’s apartment 3 Deckard and Roy’s chase scene - According to Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner by Paul M. Sammon, the actual words of Cityspeak were put together by Edward James Olmos, the actor who plays Gaff:
> [Second credited Blade Runner screenplay author David] Peoples did not, however, come up with the mishmash of languages that Olmos speaks in the film. "That was pretty much all Eddie's doing," Peoples recalls. "All I'd done was indicate that Gaff was speaking some funny language in the script and then translated that into English."
> According to Olmos, "Cityspeak was already a word being tossed around when I came onto the picture. I'm not sure who came up with the actual word -- I think it was David Peoples. But I guess I'm the guy who literalized it.
> "My first idea was to put a mixture of genuine Spanish, French, Chinese, German, Hungarian, and Japanese into Cityspeak. Then I went to the Berlitz School of Languages in Los Angeles, translated all these different bits and pieces of Gaff's original dialogue into fragments of foreign tongues, and learned to properly pronounce them. I also added some translated dialogue I'd made up myself. All that was a bitch and a half, but it really added to Gaff's character."
