Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep)

Our next movie is Blade Runner. There are 7 different versions of this movie! We will watch "The Director's Cut." Here are some useful links:

Read about Blade Runner at Wikipedia
The Plot and Themes sections are especially useful.

Read about the Philip K. Dick book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Click on the 日本語 button to read the Japanese Wikipedia article!

Transcript which includes voice-over narration (not in Director's Cut).

1981 Fancher/Peoples script with some differences and Gaff-in-pursuit ending.

Earlier 1980 Fancher script with very unhappy ending:-(

Multi-script and ILLUSTRATED transcript (PDF) are available from here.
http://www.brmovie.com/Downloads/Docs/BR_Scripts.htm
The illustrated transcript is especially highly recommended!!!

For Learning English (site by Duncan Grey)
http://www.putlearningfirst.com/br/
Commentary
Characters
You can watch clips and read some questions there, too!
http://www.putlearningfirst.com/br/clips.html

How was the Philip K. Dick book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep different from the Blade Runner movie?
http://www.putlearningfirst.com/br/book.html

Excellent fan site
http://www.brmovie.com/What_is_BR.htm

Clips
http://home.cogeco.ca/~blade2019/

AllMovie.com
http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:5994

Italian Blade Runner site. Select the British flag for English info.
http://www.blade-runner.it/

Movie Preview



Deleted Hospital Scene

Westworld previews

The original theatrical trailer:

"Each resort is maintained by reliable computer technology, and peopled by lifelike robot men and women."



The beginning of the film:(looks like an advertisement)




In the saloon!




Something is wrong!




A model 404, maybe a 406!




The Making of WESTWORLD

Class Notes for May 8

Today I picked up your worksheets for 2001: A Space Odyssey. These include Predictions, Conspiracy Theories, and Differences between the Film and the 1965 Script. Please complete your Movie Journal writing for each film soon after seeing the film. Most of you will find it easier to write this than to write a research report.

Today we began the screening of Colossus: The Forbin Project. We were able to watch over half of the film, up to the scene where Dr Forbin is having his pretend dinner-date with his pretend-lover, Cleo Markham. Next week we will watch the last 25 minutes.

Both 2001: A Space Odyssey and Colossus: The Forbin Project represent paleo-futures. Paleo-future is a word made from paleo, meaning old, and future. These are imagined futures, possible futures, which are now already past and which never happened. Paleofutures can be very interesting to examine for their assumptions about future developments.

If you need to do further reading about the film, please remember that there are 7 links to further information on this blog.

Colossus: The Forbin Project

The trailer!



The first 10 minutes!


Read about the plot here:
Wikipedia for Colossus:The Forbin Project

More at answers.com

A nice, short summary at UMich
http://www.umich.edu/~umfandsf/film/films/colossus.html

This is good, too: http://www.scifimoviepage.com/colossus.html

Review at scifi.com

This is a little bit longer
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/06/06/133903.php

Class Notes for April 24-May 1

On April 24 we started watching 2001: A Space Odyssey. We got up to about Chapter 15 or 16 on the DVD, where Frank is losing a game of chess and Dave is showing HAL his sketches. Today, May 1, we finished watching it. I handed out some worksheets for the film.There are word puzzles and questions about the world in 2001 as predicted in 1968 when the film was made. The reality of 2001 was very different from what was imagined in 1968. There are other questions about conspiracy theories in the film and the differences between the 1965 screenplay and the final cut of the film. I am collecting the film overview worksheets and have also assigned you to write your first Movie Journal entry. This should be (at least) 100 to 150 words of your comments and thoughts about the film, script, characters, setting, plot, or any aspect of the film. If you do not do the Movie Journal you should prepare a written research paper looking into an AI topic which is happening now. (That could be exciting, too.)
The next film is Colossus: The Forbin Project.