Posts | Mr Ghost (@Hbomberguy@mastodon.social)

The new

video prompted a thought.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6OT77T7YlE

Maybe /Blade Runner/ would have been ... better with a voice-over? Not the one we got, which was clunky and blunt and ... bluntkey ... I can definitely --- do --- words! But the basic idea of a narrator in noir, that certainly fits. What if the actor were actually awake, and the writer wasn't filled with loathing? Take a movie like Aronofsky's π, where the narration fits with the visuals and forms a vital part of the organic whole. Words can heighten the subtlety, create contrast and irony where there was only imagery.

I guess I've found /Blade Runner/ to be a collection of great scenes and moments that somehow become less than the sum of their parts.

YouTube

Weighing the Value of Director's Cuts | Scanline

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