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Bladerunner comp
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Bladerunner comp // Roundtable
Post by jayr // Oct 25, 2007, 11:30pm
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spotted this yeaterday:
http://www.bladerunnercontest.com/
a competition where you can enter images, stories, films & animations inspired by bladerunner. the two down sides are that it's only open to us citizens and it ends in about 2 weeks |
Post by splinters // Oct 26, 2007, 12:15am
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Bummer...one of my favourite films of all time...:o
Still, I have the new 5 DVD set on order so that might help the pain...;) |
Post by Ambrose // Oct 26, 2007, 2:05am
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Reminds me of a piggie on the walls somewhere.
Don't think we've seen this one yes Splinters?
SeYa/Ambrose... |
Post by jayr // Oct 26, 2007, 3:05am
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Bummer...one of my favourite films of all time...:o
Still, I have the new 5 DVD set on order so that might help the pain...;)
I've had it ordered at hmv for the last month and it's not out till december!:(
Still i found out the Fact cinema in Liverpool is show the final cut next month, there are only a few showing it in the uk, i'm glad there's one so close. |
Post by RAYMAN // Oct 26, 2007, 3:09am
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Bladerunner was one of my all time favorites
too ! I love futuristicly looking cityscapes.
But if you make them highly detailed and
photorealisically looking its a ton of work !
Peter |
Post by jayr // Oct 26, 2007, 3:12am
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Incase anyone's intrested i found these at http://www.bladezone.com :
The following sites will be screening The Final Cut in the UK from 23rd Nov:
Ritzy in Brixton
Cameo in Edinburgh
Picturehouse in Cambridge
Picturehouse (The FACT) in Liverpool
Tyneside in Newcastle |
Post by Dragneye // Oct 26, 2007, 5:31am
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Thanx jayr
Now here's somtin to tax an individuals art abilities. It's got me thinkin. Hmm... |
Post by TomG // Oct 31, 2007, 3:05am
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If anyone enters this, I'd love to see the work. Blade Runner is a great movie (Ridley Scott being one of my favorite directors), and while it bears little resemblance to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick is one of my favorite authors (you'll find PKD inspired works hiding on my website). And Harrison Ford is one of my favorite actors too, so the film has a lot going for it.
Anyway, keep up us updated if you enter (which gives you a chance to enter the External Gallery contest too don't forget), or even if it just inspires some artwork that isn't for the contest.
Thanks!
Tom |
Post by opiejuan // Oct 31, 2007, 3:51am
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Well, this is really just a shameless plug....but I kinda sorta have a Bladerunner inspired animation on my website (http://www.opiejuan.com).
Go to the animations page and it's the first animation there on first page entitled '5 the movie' starring our favorite chrome female Robobabe.
Several fellow trueSpace users donated models and music for this one.
R G Hart and Shandor donated models, Mr Bones did the intro music (quite good I must say) plus the support of the fine folks on the #truespace IRC channel. It was created using a beta of tS5, btw. |
Post by jayr // Oct 31, 2007, 6:19am
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If anyone enters this, I'd love to see the work. Blade Runner is a great movie (Ridley Scott being one of my favorite directors), and while it bears little resemblance to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick is one of my favorite authors (you'll find PKD inspired works hiding on my website). And Harrison Ford is one of my favorite actors too, so the film has a lot going for it.
Which website? i'd love to see them. I found the film matched the book in some ways but the atmosphere was very different, in the book the city seem empty, just a few people left but in the film it's over crowded. they should have kept the mood organ though |
Post by TomG // Oct 31, 2007, 8:10am
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No electric sheep, opera signers, or Mercerism in the movie, yep, along with no mood organ :)
I did a set of images based on the idea of Ubik ("in the beginning was the brand name"), a couple of which can be seen here with Ubik Snoo-z sleeping tablets and Ubik coffee:
http://www.tmgcgart.com/html/web2.htm
I also made the Ubik corporate office waiting room:
http://www.tmgcgart.com/html/ubik_office.htm
I did try to have a Blade Runner like flying car outside the window but it never looked too good :) Oh I found it still on the web, that original:
http://www.philipkdickfans.com/artwork/ubik_office.htm
If I was to stop and think about it, could be a lot of inspiration from PKDs works for various images. I did like A Scanner Darkly as a movie, where a very artistic interpretation was given to things with the rotoscoping (though I think those are about the only two truly succesful PKD adaptations, Blade Runner and Scanner, for me at least; Total Recall is awful, as was Paycheck; Screamers I admit I haven't seen; I didn't like that other one where the person is a bomb, I forget the name now even; Minority Report came out quite good though). Course I long for Ubik, Martian Time Slip, Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch to be made into movies (though I fear what would happen to them in the process based on past experience!). Will have to see how The Golden Man came out in that new Nicholas Cage movie (again I forget the title).
Anyway, enough rambling for now ;)
Tom |
Post by Burnart // Oct 31, 2007, 11:39pm
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First DVD I ever bought, got it the same day day I got my first player - you guessed it .... Bladerunner!
Love the film but I also love the book which is quite different - for a start it has some outrageous humour in it. Most of Philip Dicks stuff does - seems to go missing in the screen adaptions for some reason. |
Post by TomG // Nov 1, 2007, 8:10am
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Not been keeping up with my PKD news it seems - Radio Free Albemuth is being filmed, just caught that from a news item that Alannis Morissette will be in it
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7071252.stm
Radio Free Albemuth is one of my favourite PKD books, should make a highly unusual film, and the low budget approach would seem to be perfectly fitting too so might in fact be an advantage. Will be fun to watch!
Anyone planning to enter into the Blade Runner contest then?
Tom |
Post by jayr // Nov 1, 2007, 9:27am
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I would like a shot but i'm in the uk, i started a blade runner inspired pic in 6.6 a few years ago, might dig it out and finish it for fun
What did you make of 'screamers'? i thought that was fairly close to the story, apart from the bad guys being a corporation and not the russians |
Post by TomG // Nov 1, 2007, 10:02am
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That's one I haven't seen yet, I managed to keep missing it when it was on, and never have got round to renting it. Sounds like it might be one of the better adaptations though, and worth a watch?
Thanks!
Tom |
Post by splinters // Nov 1, 2007, 10:46am
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I thought screamers was a terrible movie. Feel free to hunt it down Tom but I was very disappointed by it...bit of a cheap B-movie. Most other Dick adaptations are pretty good with Blade Runner being just about the best. |
Post by ed_baker // Nov 1, 2007, 12:05pm
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This too is one of my top five favorite movies of all time. I am very excited to see that they are including in the new DVD release the original theatrical cut of the film. I always liked the film noire style voice over that the "Director's Cut" version that I have on DVD misses. Granted, the extended scenes are really cool - primarily in the form of the long city scape shots as far as I can tell - but I enjoyed the narative. Gave Deckard's character and thus the film a different dimension. Also, I think I found that it put some of the humor you guys mention missing from the movie back in.
Then again, it's been so long since I've seen that version, that now I'll probably not like it. . we'll see. The 4 or 5 disc version is definately on my christmas wish list.
Spekaing of which I need to get my disc back from a co-worker of mine. He loves Sci-fi but had never watched it. HUH?
I've always wanted to read Phillip K Dick. The original "When Androids Sleep. . ." and several others having liked the film adaptions. Seems like everytime I try and check them out at the library, they're not there. Maybe I'll just have to end up buying them. I have read the sequel that was written by KW Jeter, "Bladerunner 2: The Edge of Human", but this was a sequel written of the movie and not the original book. It was pretty good and presented the idea that Deckard might have himself been a replicant if I can remember right.
I'd love to see some images if anyone comes up with them.
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Post by TomG // Nov 1, 2007, 12:17pm
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I own almost all of PKDs books, the collection is probably short about 10 or so (not including numerous reprints that combine several novels and all that). I think there are about 5 of his books I haven't read, but haven't counted to be sure :)
Some I own are pretty valuable now, like "In Search of VALIS" and "Cosmogony and Cosmology" (I've seen the first one for sale for $250 on Ebay sometimes). I would recommend owning them, they stand up to repeated re-reads - personal faves that are a lot of fun are "Ubik", "Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch", "Time Out of Joint", "Now Wait for Last Year", "Martian Time Slip", "A Scanner Darkly", "'Flow My Tears', the Policeman Said" and for non-SF, "The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike" (wins my prize for his best title) and "Confessions of a Crap Artist"
DADOES was little dry to be in my favorite list, along with "Man in the High Castle" - good books, but they aren't as outright fun as those others so may not be as good as first books.
As for a B movie, I love B movies, so maybe Screamers will be ok heh.
Sadly my book collection is still in the UK, one day I will have to pay to have it shipped over here I guess.
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Post by splinters // Nov 1, 2007, 1:22pm
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Surely you did not think that classic movie would go by 'unporked'. And yes, this might contradict my removal of images yesterday but this is old now and will never be published or distributed without a makeover..which I am doing very soon...;) |
Post by TomG // Nov 1, 2007, 2:24pm
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What I like best about this one is the way the hairline really reminds me of Harrison Ford's hairstyle in the movie :)
Tom |
Post by jayr // Nov 1, 2007, 2:37pm
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b movie does sum screamers up well. i've always thought PKD's books have a hard time translating to film, the movie version of The golden Man' (i think it was called 'Next') just looked like it was nothing like the story, i've not seen it though so can't say manymore that that.
I thought the man in the high castle was a good book, but like you said tom a bit dry, i enjoyed the take on life after WW2. I bought 'now wait for last year' and 'flow my tears the policeman said' last year to read after an operation i had but haven't got round to reading them yet.
Nice pic splinters, is the background from the film or the game? |
Post by TomG // Nov 2, 2007, 3:09am
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That was the name, "Next" - yes, seems to bear no resemblance to the story at all, other than taking the premise of being able to see into the future. This is often the case with PKD books, the premise is taken, but the character and details are lost in the movie (and often a whole heap of special effects padding is adding in). Paycheck was a completely awesome story, but a completely terrible film!
They are very much stories that do better as books in general, as they are very focused on people and their thoughts, while movies are generally better at focusing on events.
I too quite like the film noir voice over in the first theatrical release. I didnt need it there to explain the film to me, but I did find it kind of fun, making this futuristic hunter of replicants into something like a 50s movie detective. It was a juxtaposition of elements from different times that somehow seemed quite Dickensian :)
You've got two good books to read there in Now Wait For Last Year and Flow My Tears. Now Wait is a lot of fun I always thought. Flow My Tears was a book PKD thought was important (there are articles available where he discusses his thinking that some parts of the book relate some parts from the Bible, particularly one part from Acts). That's always something I've found fun too - not only are the books good themselves, but PKD had a lot of ideas about what his books meant, and lots of things connect between them, and PKDs life was very interesting itself, so you end up with a kind of "meta book" that blurs the novels together with PKD's thoughts and even his life. Interviews and articles are very worth reading - "How to build a universe that doesn't fall apart two days later " is a great one for instance:
http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm
(indeed it is there he discusses Flow My Tears, as it turns out, I'd forgotten about that, I just remembered the Disneyland stuff from that article at first)
Thanks!
Tom |
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