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by endoskeleton » Tue Aug 29, 2017 3:05 pm
Jeremy wrote:A certain kind of cyberpunk aesthetic has become so established that the relationship between style and content in formative cyberpunk stuff seems almost totally eclipsed. What distinguishes the subgenre from most SF is the implicit view that technological development really is not socially transformative, even if it offers radical surface-level changes. So you have this new metaphorical vocabulary and this technique of implying these hybridized cultures through little clusters of peripheral detail, but you graft them all over old spy and detective novel plots (with appropriately retrograde social relations driving them). Blade Runner does this so elegantly that it doesn't even seem intentional. So many staples from more optimistic or transformative SF styles exist in it as inverted versions of themselves, unremarked on in the background. It even takes flying cars, the like single thing people think of as emblematic of the Gernsback golden era thing, and identifies them with oppression rather than freedom. But this stuff isn't just not in the movie's writing, it probably couldn't be. The entire thing is to make visible things that we can't see because we're so used to them by making them strange to us but transparent to the characters.
You like can't create the thematic resonance that makes the movie's look so interesting and rewarding to pick apart by aiming at it; you have to get at it through the look itself. But you also can't get the look right justly trying to get the look right.
yeah
i think what you can't do in making a worthy sequel to blade runner - and ideally to anything - is defer to the kind of filmmaking that informs itself merely by proximity to that iconic thing. in other words, no fanservice. or at least no fanservice in place of doing anything else more interesting
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by endoskeleton » Tue Aug 29, 2017 3:39 pm
that's a really trite way to put it on my part, though. i don't know
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by feaxfang » Tue Aug 29, 2017 3:41 pm
blurst of times wrote:it's too bad this won't be good
but then again what is?
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by reversemigraine » Tue Aug 29, 2017 6:28 pm
This really is gonna be Tron: Legacy, huh.
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by Lucky » Tue Aug 29, 2017 7:09 pm
jared leto blows
katy perry pissing all over my diamond-encrusted crown as I sentence another peon to death
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by baleen » Tue Aug 29, 2017 8:35 pm
Lucky wrote:jared leto blows
how
intense do you figure his performance is
The answer is simple: artisanship.
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by deadbass » Tue Aug 29, 2017 8:48 pm
Leto is so devoted to this role that he actually got his "Damaged" tattoo removed from his forehead which was apparently very painful.
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by saranclaps ultra mode 9000 » Tue Aug 29, 2017 8:52 pm
reversemigraine wrote:This really is gonna be Tron: Legacy, huh.
No? Unlike Joseph Kosinski, Dennis V doesn't just make cinematic DeviantArt galleries.
delgriffith wrote:Quick Google search reveals that I have no idea what I'm talking about.
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by saranclaps ultra mode 9000 » Tue Aug 29, 2017 8:54 pm
spix et chicho wrote:trusting saranclaps opinions on Roger Deakins would be like citing a forest design post in a dissertation on David Lynch
I find this insulting tbh.
delgriffith wrote:Quick Google search reveals that I have no idea what I'm talking about.
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by Bananafish » Tue Aug 29, 2017 8:56 pm
Harrison Ford is wearing a t-shirt in this movie
And Arrival sucked
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by incoherent grunting » Tue Aug 29, 2017 9:09 pm
Bananafish wrote:Harrison Ford is wearing a t-shirt in this movie
Sums it up
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by delgriffith » Tue Aug 29, 2017 9:14 pm
"I'm used to trying on old clothes... happily they still fit."
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by Honk For Dracula » Tue Aug 29, 2017 9:15 pm
still somehow tricking myself into believing Leto plays a marginal role in this thing
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by spix et chicho » Tue Aug 29, 2017 9:20 pm
actually i'm pretty sure there's a line in the movie where Deckard is like
"I have boxes and boxes of these grey t-shirts. All size Medium. I never wear one twice. It's how I stay quick -- alert, on my toes. Ready to run."
CIARA IS DEFIANTLY A MAN AND ITS DISGUSTING MY CUZIN WAS THROWING UP FOR 2 WEEKSM YUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKK PLEASE SIGN THIS B/C THATS JSUT HERENDOUZ
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by delgriffith » Tue Aug 29, 2017 9:31 pm
Jared Leto plays Dov Charney.
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by Lowercase Tea » Tue Aug 29, 2017 9:39 pm
The other problem with this movie's existence is that it feels the need to answer the question "is Deckard a Replicant?" which is completely unnecessary and if anything the answer Ridley Scott has provided undermines the themes and meaning of the original Blade Runner.
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by Bride of Qualls » Tue Aug 29, 2017 9:40 pm
'so it's like horses. . . vs. technology'
i will see this dumb thing
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by walt whitman » Tue Aug 29, 2017 10:12 pm
Bride of Qualls wrote:'
i will download this dumb thing
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by walt whitman » Tue Aug 29, 2017 10:28 pm
i like the ill-fitting boxy suits preferred by neo-noir anti heroes
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by Swelling Itching Brain » Wed Aug 30, 2017 6:43 am
imagine how it feels to be one of the ugly 30 seconds to mars guys who lucked into this charlatan's millions
like being one of the ugly guys from the Killers only more extreme imposter syndrome I imagine
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by incoherent grunting » Wed Aug 30, 2017 9:12 am
Please keep to the main topic of this thread, how t-shirts wont exist in the future.
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by tgk » Wed Aug 30, 2017 9:22 am
spix et chicho wrote:actually i'm pretty sure there's a line in the movie where Deckard is like
"I ALREADY WORK AROUND THE CLOCK"
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by spix et chicho » Wed Aug 30, 2017 10:17 am
i got like 2 minutes in
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by walt whitman » Wed Aug 30, 2017 10:51 am
imagine the satisfaction of a replicant peeling off leto's tryhard face
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by Beautiful Jugdish » Wed Aug 30, 2017 10:57 am
Jared Leto could overact his face getting ripped off.
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