Great Movie Music

**Perianne** · 07-05-2014, 02:35 PM

**The Sage of Main Street** · 07-05-2014, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by Perianne

I love Blade Runner and the love theme.

Where does the name "blade runner" come from? I vaguely remember that it might mean that the machine Harrison Ford used to detect robots was called a "blade." Or it may have been that his job was so dangerous it was like running on a razor blade.

Second, it was set in 2019, thirty-seven years from when the picture was made. Like all of these wishful-thinking scifi deceptions, its prediction about the future was totally inaccurate.

Third, the sick short story by Philip K. Dick that this movie came from depressingly wallowed in dreary pessimism because that's what establishes a literary reputation in this sick age. Sean Young's wonderful and sensitive character was a nasty sicko in the original story.

**Perianne** · 07-05-2014, 04:24 PM

Originally Posted by The Sage of Main Street

Where does the name "blade runner" come from? I vaguely remember that it might mean that the machine Harrison Ford used to detect robots was called a "blade." Or it may have been that his job was so dangerous it was like running on a razor blade.

Second, it was set in 2019, thirty-seven years from when the picture was made. Like all of these wishful-thinking scifi deceptions, its prediction about the future was totally inaccurate.

Third, the sick short story by Philip K. Dick that this movie came from depressingly wallowed in dreary pessimism because that's what establishes a literary reputation in this sick age. Sean Young's wonderful and sensitive character was a nasty sicko in the original story.

Sean Young was beautiful when she was sitting at the piano.

Sage, do you recommend reading the book?