Picked up my Blade Runner Voight-Kampff briefcase from the post office this morning on the way to work. So the VK test box thing is pretty cool looking.
It comes with a plastic origami unicorn that is kind of silly (I was somehow expecting actual origami) and a plastic spinner car which is neat. It’s a little bit bigger than a Hot Wheels car, but around that size, and pretty much all plastic, but that’s okay. I wouldn’t give it to a kid to play with or anything, but it certainly looks like a spinner. Pretty cool.
It also comes with a little folder of conceptual art which makes me appreciate Syd Mead a lot more. Damn, they did a fucking FINE job converting his drawings into reality in that movie. Wow. Impressed.
There’s also this chunk of plastic with one of those lenticular pictures in it, you know where, where you move your head to a different angle and the picture changes? Cool, I guess, but doesn’t really add much.
There’s also a little plastic sheet over the DVD box and spinner and unicorn that has a letter from Ridley Scott promising that the Final Cut is for reals his final version of the movie and that it’s really really the director’s cut this time. Really. He swears.
HOLY FUCK. I JUST WATCHED THE DELETED/ALTERNATES SCENES. THIS SHIT IS GOLD.
They explained things that have bothered me for years. And holy shit, ALTERNATE ENDINGS. My god, why didn’t they use the, “If it’s good enough for her, it’s good enough for me” ending?! It’s just perfectly ambiguous where he could be a replicant or not. Why on earth didn’t they use this ending? I can’t wait to watch the workprint. I wonder if it has a fourth ending.
Update: No new ending in the workprint. It just has the elevator doors closing. Damn. Well, Richter Route is my favorite ending that was actually filmed. The “Deckard shoots Rachel” ending is my favorite over all, but too bad it was never filmed.
The extras on this five disc set are positively sprawling, including a 3 hour documentary.
This is totally worth the 50-something dollars it cost to preorder on Amazon. There’s very few movies I would be willing to shell out 50 bucks for, but Blade Runner is one of them.
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