BLADE RUNNER(1982)
Kind of a cross between Star Wars and Casablanca! A very dark
movie - by that I mean it was shot dark, even in the daytime!
Harrison Ford is Rick Deckard, a blade hunter. His job
is to hunt down and de-activate artificially created humans
called replecants. This film brings up a moral issue: is a
cyborg(clone {artificially created human}) alive! It's a very
deep and dark sci-fi/mystery movie that takes more than one
watching to understand all that the movie is trying to say!
From Amazon.com:
When Ridley Scott's cut of Blade Runner was finally released
in 1993, one had to wonder why the studio hadn't done it
right the first time--11 years earlier. This version is so much
better, mostly because of what's been eliminated (the ludicrous
and redundant voice-over narration and the phony happy ending)
rather than what's been added (a bit more character development
and a brief unicorn dream). Star Harrison Ford originally recorded
the narration under duress at the insistence of Warner Bros.
executives who thought the story needed further "explanation";
he later confessed that he thought if he did it badly they wouldn't
use it. (Moral: Never overestimate the taste of movie executives.)
The movie's spectacular futuristic vision of Los Angeles--a perpetually
dark and rainy metropolis that's the nightmare antithesis of "Sunny
Southern California"--is still its most seductive feature, an otherworldly
atmosphere in which you can immerse yourself. The movie's shadowy
visual style, along with its classic private-detective/murder-mystery
plot line (with Ford on the trail of a murderous android, or "replicant"),
makes Blade Runner one of the few science fiction pictures to legitimately
claim a place in the film noir tradition. And, as in the best noir, the
sleuth discovers a whole lot more (about himself and the people
he encounters) than he anticipates.... With Sean Young, Edward
James Olmos, Daryl Hannah, Rutger Hauer, and M. Emmet
Walsh. --Jim Emerson