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I always loved Alien and Blade Runner because of this shared aesthetic. It gave the sense that the doomed ship Nostromo departed Blade Runner earth.

by evo_9 11mo ago

ggm 11mo ago
Owners of Frank Lloyd Wright homes licked their lips with glee when Bladerunner fans made the bricks-and-mortar movie-famous. How Deckerd can afford to live in one post economic meltdown is a bit unclear. And those whisky glasses are worth a mint now too. "Enhance" indeed.
- sorokod 11mo ago
  Many go off-world to create real estate opportunities?
- balamatom 11mo ago
  >How Deckerd can afford to live in one post economic meltdown is a bit unclear. He's part of a precarious minority of semi-technical functionaries, armed bureaucrats afforded generous promotions and great inner leeway amidst the post-meltdown order of things, in return for their unquestioning allegiance to the same
  - ggm 11mo ago
    Retconning 2049 into that was.. Hard. Personally I prefer the PKD book. It was more nuanced. But the aesthetic of the first film was just wondeful. If somebody had sold cold cathode flouro umbrellas when the movie came out they would have cleaned up.
    - balamatom 11mo ago
      >Retconning 2049 into that was.. Hard. After Deckard did an exemplary job, everyone liked it so much that they they replaced his entire cadre with simulacra. >Personally I prefer the PKD book. It was more nuanced. Oh absolutely! Just recently bought a fake animal and pondered it. Love PKD for selling various angles on the same trip for decades; wonder if his OG exegesis can be read anywhere...
      - dboon 11mo ago
        I have a copy. Send me an email and I’ll upload it somewhere for you. It’s not a great read, but it’s interesting in places. You can use rob.crimedoer at gmail.
      - dboon 10mo ago
        Gosh, apologies. I hope you catch this -- my burner email was wrong. It's robcrimedoer, no period.
  - the_af 11mo ago
    In the "Deckard is a replicant" version that Scott has defended for years, I assume he's simply living in someone else's place (unaware that it's not his own).
    - ggm 11mo ago
      That certainly makes sense. Everyone else is mostly occupying leftover spaces.

I always loved Alien and Blade Runner because of this shared aesthetic. It gave the sense that the doomed ship Nostromo departed Blade Runner earth.

by evo_9 11mo ago

I always loved Alien and Blade Runner because of this shared aesthetic. It gave the sense that the doomed ship Nostromo departed Blade Runner earth.

ggm 11mo ago

Owners of Frank Lloyd Wright homes licked their lips with glee when Bladerunner fans made the bricks-and-mortar movie-famous. How Deckerd can afford to live in one post economic meltdown is a bit unclear. And those whisky glasses are worth a mint now too. "Enhance" indeed.

sorokod 11mo ago
Many go off-world to create real estate opportunities?
balamatom 11mo ago
>How Deckerd can afford to live in one post economic meltdown is a bit unclear. He's part of a precarious minority of semi-technical functionaries, armed bureaucrats afforded generous promotions and great inner leeway amidst the post-meltdown order of things, in return for their unquestioning allegiance to the same
- ggm 11mo ago
  Retconning 2049 into that was.. Hard. Personally I prefer the PKD book. It was more nuanced. But the aesthetic of the first film was just wondeful. If somebody had sold cold cathode flouro umbrellas when the movie came out they would have cleaned up.
  - balamatom 11mo ago
    >Retconning 2049 into that was.. Hard. After Deckard did an exemplary job, everyone liked it so much that they they replaced his entire cadre with simulacra. >Personally I prefer the PKD book. It was more nuanced. Oh absolutely! Just recently bought a fake animal and pondered it. Love PKD for selling various angles on the same trip for decades; wonder if his OG exegesis can be read anywhere...
    - dboon 11mo ago
      I have a copy. Send me an email and I’ll upload it somewhere for you. It’s not a great read, but it’s interesting in places. You can use rob.crimedoer at gmail.
    - dboon 10mo ago
      Gosh, apologies. I hope you catch this -- my burner email was wrong. It's robcrimedoer, no period.
- the_af 11mo ago
  In the "Deckard is a replicant" version that Scott has defended for years, I assume he's simply living in someone else's place (unaware that it's not his own).
  - ggm 11mo ago
    That certainly makes sense. Everyone else is mostly occupying leftover spaces.