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Blade Runner's production design is beautiful and almost prefectly timeless in its depiction of a future. The only thing that dates the film for me is the catho
by amiramir 10y ago
Blade Runner's production design is beautiful and almost prefectly timeless in its depiction of a future. The only thing that dates the film for me is the cathode ray tubes. They are even in the flying cars I think.
Directors and designers could start using flat blue devices so that interfaces can be re-imagined, in 2-D, or 3-D, and composited in future re-masterings. I like the non-desript tri-fold devices in Westworld. Kudos to the 2001 team for getting imagining tablet interfaces although that did not sway the jury Samsung vs Apple iPad case[1][2].
[1] http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/23/samsung_cites_science_fiction_as_prior_art_in_us_ipad_patent_case.html http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/23/samsung_cites_scie...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electronics_Co https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electron....
- geon 10y agoIf Star Wars has taught us anything, it is that later remastered editions should keep to the original as closely as possible.
- gozur88 10y agoI love Blade Runner's design, too. The story goes there was an actor's strike that year, and they couldn't shoot any of the scenes. As a consequence the artists had far more time than usual and made the best of it. It's supposed to take place in 2019.
- usrusr 10y agoFlat blue compositing placeholders? The gods of advertisement seem to have anticipated your request: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement#Re-placement https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement#Re-placeme...
- DanBC 10y agoFor some reason this reminds me of Repo Man's use of blank product labels - everything has a white label with blue writing.