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Post by Popeye Doyle on Feb 11, 2019 18:37:46 GMT
Shooting again in Panavision but with Jordan Cronenweth now behind the lens, Ridley Scott's follow up to Alien belongs on the short list of greatest looking movies. Oddly, the film scored no Oscar nomination for its photography. I want to watch this again but not until I snag a 4K copy.
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Post by vegalyra on Feb 11, 2019 18:40:08 GMT
One of my favorite shots:  Looks like a distant future or the very distant past, almost Egyptian. |
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Feb 11, 2019 19:58:25 GMT
The cinematography in Blade Runner (1982)...
...is fucking brilliant. BRILLIANT! In fact I would argue that it MAKES the movie. If that movie wasn't so visually sumptuous I don't think it would be as much of a cult hit.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Feb 12, 2019 13:21:23 GMT
The cinematography in Blade Runner (1982)...
...is fucking brilliant. BRILLIANT! In fact I would argue that it MAKES the movie. If that movie wasn't so visually sumptuous I don't think it would be as much of a cult hit.
You're probably right. The cinematography, production design, and visual effects are so gorgeous, the story almost becomes secondary. |
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Feb 12, 2019 19:00:14 GMT
The cinematography in Blade Runner (1982)...
...is fucking brilliant. BRILLIANT! In fact I would argue that it MAKES the movie. If that movie wasn't so visually sumptuous I don't think it would be as much of a cult hit.
You're probably right. The cinematography, production design, and visual effects are so gorgeous, the story almost becomes secondary. That's actually right IMO. Think about it. What happens in the story...? Not much. Guy is assigned to kill some robots. He find them one by one and does. Storywise its kinda slim. There are some very powerful moments in the story, but they are not the main focus of the movie.
The main focus is the visual splendor and decay of the world it all takes place in. We'd never seen anything like it before, and that it was so sumptuously shot makes it all the more memorable.
Its really is one of the great sins that the movie didn't win best cinematography that year. Think about this... here we are decades later still talking about it. Do we know off the top of heads what actually won the Oscar that year? No cheating! (P.S. the Baftas were smarter!)
Examples of brilliance in cinematography in this movie...
One is a practical set, the other is all scaled models. But don't they both look like they're in the same world? Look a the depth of each shot. Look at the dance of light and shadow. To be sure, this is also a triumph of production and set design, but that they are both shot so as to make them seamless is quite the achievement.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Feb 12, 2019 20:15:29 GMT
Flawless for me. The deliberate pacing of the film actually enables fully & completely washing over me its tech achievements. Every single shot is infinitely rewarding.
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Post by petrolino on Feb 16, 2019 1:27:30 GMT
Big shout-out to Dan O'Bannon. Check out his comic book panels and storyboarding, he definitely influenced the look of this movie, but Ridley Scott applied the perfect hypergloss and advertising sheen. Walter Hill influenced the choreography, doesn't get enough credit. Scott produced a beautiful sleepwalk through classic sci-fi walk-through that stripped away the philosophy but amplified the psychology. Good movie, in my opinion.
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