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homages/nods/similarities to other movies?

posted 7 years ago by bozo_500 (12286)
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remember BR influenced a whole bunch of other SF movies after but what movies seem to have influenced BR2049?

The Shining - The Vegas hotel was kind of like a futuristic version of the Overlook hotel (Shining has a special connection to BR)

Star Trek II - the end shot of Fords hand on the glass was abit similar to Kirk/Spock end (STII was out the same year as BR)

Revenge of the Sith - 'AHHH' opera noise (that noise in that Star Wars III Opera scene pervaded the movie in certain parts)

The Matrix - Deckard / Wallace sitting like Neo /Morpheous

Tron Legacy - long awaited sequel to 1982 original charting a younger guy (son) searching for original character hiding in cyberpunk world. similar procreating AI plot

Force Awakens - similar searching for main character in hiding plot

Total Recall 2012/Ghost in Shell - ok they were heavily influenced by original BR but couldn't help but think of those recent rip offs watching BR2 - Total Recall did look abit BR2049 in the first half in the cyberpunk colony (before they go to New Britain where it turns into Minority Report). And there was a bunch of other BR 'steals' - the piano scene, the BR style handguns, Quaids big collar coat (film critic Mark Kermode mentioned there is one bit where Farrel runs in a trench coat holding a gun and recreates the exact same pose as Deckard in the Blade Runner silhouette). when saw TR2012 in the cinema I remember thinking wow forgetting all the cheesy action, boring remake plot, questionable acting, shampoo advert flowing hair/pouting this is what Blade Runner 2 will look like (it was announced BR2 was going to happen back in 2011)

[–] particles (37) 7 years ago

her, children of men, babylon ad, minority report, valerian

[–] bozo_500 (12286) 7 years ago

yep absolutely those too

[–] DracTarashV2 (4475) 7 years ago

The statue head laying on the ground in Vegas. What about it? That seems to be a Ridley Scott thing lately. For example, there’s some similar looking big heads in Prometheus and Exodus: Gods and Kings. The Geisha woman seen in the huge futuristic billboard of the original Blade Runner *probably* has some relation to this as well.

[–] Renovatio (2990) 7 years ago

Somehow that reminded me of the Statue of Liberty Scene from the original Planet of The Apes

[–] DracTarashV2 (4475) 7 years ago

Yeah, I definitely see that. While I get the feeling they also wanted to give a nod to Ridley in that scene, it’s likely they intended to pay homage to Planet of The Apes more than anything.

[–] bozo_500 (12286) 7 years ago

Anyone catch any nods to 'Soldier'?

[–] bozo_500 (12286) 7 years ago

Read that one of the spaceships from Solider is in the junkyard (which would obviously be a fun homage to the blade runner spinner in the Soldier junkyard). Might not be true though. Also that the Sulaco from Aliens is in the junkyard... will have to check out the junkyard scene in detail on blu as theres no doubt more stuff in there

[–] bozo_500 (12286) 6 years ago

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[–] bozo_500 (12286) 6 years ago

Soldier is now on the IMDB trivia

The image of garbage transports dropping their loads into the junkyard of San Diego echoes the setting of Soldier (1998), written by Blade Runner (1982) co-screenwriter David Webb Peoples. In that film, the protagonist is a space soldier deemed obsolete and dumped on a junkyard planet, and is a veteran of battles described by Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) in Blade Runner.

Soldier (1998) was written by David Webb Peoples, who also wrote the screenplay to Blade Runner (1982). He has always maintained that "Soldier" is set in the same universe as "Blade Runner," and "2049" contains at least one subtle nod to "Soldier:" The garbage scows that K sees in the metal wasteland on his way to the sweatshop are nearly identical to the one that deposited Todd (the protagonist of "Soldier," played by Kurt Russell (I)) onto the off-world colony Arcadia, the primary setting of the 1998 film. Since "2049" happens over a decade after "Soldier," the scows have minor modifications--though they are immediately recognizable to the eagle-eyed viewer.

[–] kaleidoscope0_0 (479) 6 years ago

The Neverending Story

[–] jlam888 (576) 6 years ago

The hooker's line "So you don't like real girls" to Gosling who starred in Lars and the real girl.

[–] bozo_500 (12286) 6 years ago

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[–] bozo_500 (12286) 6 years ago

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[–] bozo_500 (12286) 6 years ago

another movie that had a sort of BR2049 feel prior to BR2049 would be Dredd – the look of the megastructure and the trippy/eerie/spaced out vibe and some of the score was similar (if I remember correctly)

[–] bozo_500 (12286) 6 years ago

any more?

[–] bozo_500 (12286) 5 years ago

[–] bozo_500 (12286) 3 years ago

just remembered when K goes to visit Deckards kooky daughter was abit similar to Minority Report when Cruise goes to the kooky inventor of precrime - similar garden etc (MR was kind of Spielbergs attempt to do 'his Blade Runner' - he even had a similar forced happy ending to the theatrical BR)