Re: Why the Blade Runner Voice Over Sucks

I disagree.  I can follow the film now that I know everything, but when my
daughter and I watched it without the voiceover (her first time) she admitted to
not totally following what was going on.
 
I think the voiceovers could have been avoided with better exposition within the
film.  And maybe a lesser more subtle voiceover would have been a good
compromise.
 
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Johne Cook
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 9:45 AM
To: DADL (off topic)
Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Why the Blade Runner Voice Over Sucks
 
I think it comes down to trusting the audience to follow along, at least in gist
mode, with a complex story. Inception didn't need explanatory voiceover to hold
our hands - it was a good call to go back and resurrect the film without the
clunky voiceover. (Whether you think Ford sandbagged the voiceovers as a
mechanism to try to prompt the study in the right direction or not, he does
rather make the point self-evident - there is a place for Noir voiceover ala
Philip Marlowe but this wasn't it.)

Great find, Paul.

Johne Cook
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On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:36 AM, pcg <[email protected]> wrote:
I've been working my way through my new Blade Runner blu-ray set,
re-watching all the extras for this stupendous, breathtaking film. I
was reminded of the following, which most perfectly describes
everything that's wrong with the ill-advised, tacked-on voice-overs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_nsSxblpoI

Gotta love Darabont for putting it bluntly.  :)

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