Blade Runner

Han Solo is probably a robot who lives in the future. The weather’s bloody awful, so he decides to go about and kill a bunch of other robots while wooshy synth music plays in the background. Sad bit at the end when one of the robots tells him about things he’s seen and so, to cheer himself up, Han Solo runs away with a robot lady to have a nice robot relationship.

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Trivia

Despite being set in 2019, Blade Runner was actually filmed in 1981

Harrison Ford’s love of mince began with this film after he was served some mince for lunch

Director Ridley Scott was playing bass in Dire Straits at the time of filming. He would direct the film during the day and then record Love Over Gold overnight

The Vangelis soundtrack was a last-minute replacement for the original Chas and Dave music recorded for the film

Bloopers

During an early street scene, R2-D2 and C3-P0 can be seen in the background. They were filming on Return of the Jedi and accidentally went to the wrong set one morning

Despite robots, the so-called ‘replicants’ all look like humans

Quotes

“I’ve seen things you won’t believe, a carrot that looks like a man’s part, Hull, the Star Wars prequels.”

Details

Full Name: Blade Runner

Duration: 117

Release: 1982

IMDB Link

Starring

Harrison Ford

Sean Young

Some robots

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