I saw Blade Runner as soon as it was released on June 25, 1982. I can't count how many times I have seen it since. It is one of my favorite films. Here is some interesting trivia concerning Blade Runner: While the film is loosely based on Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", the title comes from a book by Alan Nourse called "The Bladerunner". William S. Burroughs wrote a screenplay based on the Nourse book, and a novella entitled "Blade Runner: A Movie." Ridley Scott bought the rights to the title but not the screenplay or the book. The Burroughs composition defines a blade runner as a person who sells illegal surgical instruments.
Check out this:
Day to Day, June 25, 2007 · Monday marks the 25th anniversary of the release of the movie Blade Runner. The film's neo-noir production is cited as having influenced building design. Some argue that its dystopic setting of Los Angeles in 2019 is not far removed from life on the streets of downtown Los Angeles today.http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11354581
This is a great article from a Scholar:
Dreams of Postmodernism and Thoughts of Mortality:A Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Retrospective of Blade Runner
by David C. Ryan
by David C. Ryan
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