Comments on: Revisiting older works http://olivebarrel.com/blog/2007/08/23/revisiting-older-works/ Films about life Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:58:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: emre http://olivebarrel.com/blog/2007/08/23/revisiting-older-works/#comment-4510 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:46:27 +0000 http://olivebarrel.com/blog/2007/08/23/revisiting-older-works/#comment-4510 <a href="http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/15-10/ff_bladerunner">Wired Q&A with Ridley Scott</a>. Wired Q&A with Ridley Scott.

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]]> by: emre http://olivebarrel.com/blog/2007/08/23/revisiting-older-works/#comment-3739 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:09:45 +0000 http://olivebarrel.com/blog/2007/08/23/revisiting-older-works/#comment-3739 Great, new <a href="http://www.viddler.com/flash/publisher.swf?key=a5e1e62a&viewToken=d737a470">interview with Ridley Scott about Blade Runner</a> (<a href="http://www.craveonline.com/scifi/articles/04648530/ridley_scott_on_blade_runners_final_cut.html">transcript</a>). Great, new interview with Ridley Scott about Blade Runner (transcript).

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]]> by: Eugene http://olivebarrel.com/blog/2007/08/23/revisiting-older-works/#comment-3366 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:34:54 +0000 http://olivebarrel.com/blog/2007/08/23/revisiting-older-works/#comment-3366 I think the popular response to the news of RS introducing changes to the film has been too much along the lines of "oh my god this is my favorite film you can't just change it." People get emotionally attached to the film or the characters, and then protest against changes. This is silly of course. That said, I entirely agree with you about the equal silliness of RS' supposed motivation to change the hydroelectric sound effects to those of internal combustion. When one makes a film that represents a vision of a future, that vision always originates at a certain era, and one should understand that in a few decades the film may be become a valuable historical curiosity that shows us how we previously viewed our "present" future. I have a little hypothesis about all this: I believe (I may be wrong) that RS never originally intended to use hydroelectric sounds at all (feeling that the absence of combustion sounds would reduce his intended "grittiness" of the film), but eventually reluctantly caved in to whoever insisted in post-production that hydroelectrics are the future and that it is impossible not to show them. So now RS goes, "Aha, I told you we should have used combustion!" Personally, I find this quite interesting to discuss because I have been cutting out parts of my past from memory all the time, just like many other people. Just the fact that I went back to correct grammar in this comment and to add this very paragraph can tell you something about me. I think the popular response to the news of RS introducing changes to the film has been too much along the lines of “oh my god this is my favorite film you can’t just change it.” People get emotionally attached to the film or the characters, and then protest against changes. This is silly of course.

That said, I entirely agree with you about the equal silliness of RS’ supposed motivation to change the hydroelectric sound effects to those of internal combustion. When one makes a film that represents a vision of a future, that vision always originates at a certain era, and one should understand that in a few decades the film may be become a valuable historical curiosity that shows us how we previously viewed our “present” future.

I have a little hypothesis about all this: I believe (I may be wrong) that RS never originally intended to use hydroelectric sounds at all (feeling that the absence of combustion sounds would reduce his intended “grittiness” of the film), but eventually reluctantly caved in to whoever insisted in post-production that hydroelectrics are the future and that it is impossible not to show them. So now RS goes, “Aha, I told you we should have used combustion!”

Personally, I find this quite interesting to discuss because I have been cutting out parts of my past from memory all the time, just like many other people. Just the fact that I went back to correct grammar in this comment and to add this very paragraph can tell you something about me.

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