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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4372
EAN: 9780061053146
ISBN: 0061053147
Label: Harper Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: 1996-05-01
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date: 1996-05-01
Studio: Harper Paperbacks

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Summary: Good Book, good quality
Comment: The book is as new as new one, it is out of my imagination. I requested from the library and was absorbed by the book, so I ordered it from net. It is quite good condition, almost a new one without any dirt. Considering the price, what I should say? It is a good deal

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Summary: The Bladerunner Bible
Comment: It probably goes without saying that Paul Sammon's book on Bladerunner is perhaps the definitive book on the making of, exhibition, revival, reversioning and publicity of one of the most influential science fiction films of the 20th century. What started as a magazine article ended up becoming a love affair and tome that's now in its 2nd edition and released to coincide with the film's 25th anniversary. Handsomely bound in hardback, this is indeed The Bladerunner bible for all fans or anyone who wants to appreciate (a) Ridley Scott (b) Philip Dick and (c) the Movie's unsung heroes and arduous route to being made. Highly readable and thoroughly researched, you might have to be a slight Blade Runner junkie to appreciate this, and if you owned the first edition (as I did) - then this is a pretty worthy update. Fortunately, I gave my old copy away (to some regret at the time) and now have this in my collection. Even after finishing this book, one might feel that there's more to glean from the film and its participants. Sammon does the affecianado a favour by mentioning other publications about the movie. So, a good present for film critics, students and fans of the underappreciated and (once) overlooked sci-fi classic.

Why this is on an import release is beyond me - strange!

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Summary: You want detail!!!
Comment: Being a big fan of the film I found this book easy to read and full of extremely interesting detail. This book gave me a greater understanding of what Ridley was trying to acheive. I will never be able to look at the film the same way again. If your a fan. Buy it.

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Summary: Must have for a "hard core" Blade Runner fan
Comment: If you just appreciate Blade Runner like every other movie, this book is not for you. But if you are indeed hooked on it and want to confirm that what you've seen in the movie is for real, get this book!

I had the priviledge to watch Blade Runner in the movie theater when it first came out. I've bought the VHS and watched it over and over with increasing attention to detail, memorized lines, researched Philip K Dick and the whole nine yards. I've once thought of writing it all down so I would not forget.

More than a decade later, I saw this book at Amazon and gave it a shot! Everything that I've deemed interesting is in it: from the "mistakes" (we actually will never know if they were on purpose or not!) of a relatively inexpensive production (you can see wires that were not supposed to be seen, lips moving that do not match the lines, cheap wigs falling from stunts heads etc.

By the way, the Voigt-Kampff test is here!

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Summary: Tabloid Trash
Comment: At best, this book should be looked at if you're interested in the facts behind the production of the film and you're able to look past Sammon's masturbative narrative.

While the book is informative on what happened and the difficulties behind the making of the film, the author's writing ability is about the same as someone standing next to you with a bullhorn. Self-aware and bordering on narcistsic, Sammon's dirt-basic writing ability has a constant feel of "Hey! I was here to see all this!" attitude that really undermines his attempt at objective writing.

Frustrating and amatuerish, "Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner" is an unworthy footnote and a worthwhile coffee coaster.

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The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all along: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling SF novel Do Androids Dream ofElectric Sheep, still rules as the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential SF film ever made.

Future Noir is the story of that triumph.

The making of Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry.

A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and the art that is modern Hollywood, Future Noir is the intense, intimate, anything-but-glamerous inside account of how the work of SF's most uncompromising author was transformed into a critical sensation, a commercial success, and a cult classic.