I love the look of this movie. The whole night time look suits the whole movie, but it kinda makes you think how would it look in daylight. There's no daylight scenes at all.
shareBecause daytime would make the exterior sets look more fake. Somewhere along the way it went from a 'trick to conceal things' to an 'environmental issue'.
Alex
It also fits the film noir style. Shadows and lighting for dramatic effect, etc.
shareAs a film, it's a big part of film noir to have very dark and oppressive sets in an urban environment. And during the original age of film noirs like the 40's the darkness was used to cover up the cheap sets, but remained for stylistic reasons to this day.
Within the setting of Blade Runner, it could be the Replicants were intentionally always out at night to avoid being seen by the omnipresent police in broad daylight. Thus, Deckard hunting them would take place at night too.
It could be the extreme pollution or a possible nuclear war in the past kicked up a bunch of dirt and dust or whatever into the atmosphere so that the Earth is perpetually dark or almost dark, similar to Pittsburgh when the pollution from the mills would almost block out the sun.
There is also how the buildings are so oppressive and huge, so even if it were dusk, evening or whatever, Deckard is running around at ground level so pretty much no sunlight would reach him anyway.
Of course when Deckard visits Tyrell Corporation the first time there appears to be a sunset/sunrise, so it might not be night all the time.
Can't be too careful with all those weirdos running around.
Watch Dark City and find out.
shareWasn't it daytime at the end? Thought I remember them driving in a forest setting in the day light...maybe not.
shareJust watched the end...yup...bright daylight...forested hillside setting...driving...just as I remember.
shareThat's the crappy studio version of the film. Those driving scenes (and the awful voice over that actually tells a different story than the movie does) are not supposed to be there.
shareWell, weren't originally intended and weren't supposed to be are two different things. The original cut clocked in at over 4 hours and was by most involved considered to be a convoluted mess, so it was the studios obligation to intercede which lead to the ending you describe...but it was the ending released at the time and as of now the only version I have seen. Does the directors cut have an alternate ending?like Star Wars,is the original version no longer recognized as the definitive cut?
shareHey Feet-
They messed Star Wars up so much with the Lucas-virus i dont even wanna see another Star wars re-release
BUT i would love to see what was originally filmed for this...i would happily do BR 2 hours a night for 2 nights...tho maybe you guys are right...might be too much:/
Yeah the only SW re release I'd be down for at this point would be the original cut from my childhood...not that I hated the special editions but it's hard to fuck with the originals...so best to leave them be. I really do need to check out the directors cut of blade runner though...especially if there is an alternate ending!
shareI assumed the environment was ruined
Could be wrong though...maybe it was just monsoon season in Cali...
Yeah it was a bit of theme through the early 80's and 90's, take Highlander II: The Quickening from 1991 where they had an anti-ozone shield over the Earth which caused all sorts of humidity and darkness issues.
shareI think they messed up the environment so badly...Thats why thy they had no day...
When Deckard first visits the Tyrell Corp building, it's dusk so we do get a little bit of sunlight.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tyrell+corporation+building.&atb=v84-1&iax=1&ia=images
Because nighttime is when you touch yourself.
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