'But we've been through all this before, you know...'
We have. But it's the sort of film that's fun to return to and have good-natured debates over. As I said in the other comment, my ire is reserved for Scott, not for fellow fans whose reading is different from mine.
I'm also a contrarian by nature, so when 95% of the fans said 'Good, I hated the narration and I'm glad it's gone,' my response was 'But I liked the narration...' I know it was as tacked-on as the happy ending that at least everyone can agree sucked ass, but, as I've probably bored you with seven or eight times before, the narration pleases me as a tip of the hat to the film noir detective flicks the movie is partially modelled on. It also has some surprising little insights, as when Deckard shoots Zhora and says 'It didn't make me feel better about shooting a woman in the back.' Not a skin job, a woman. (Which might support the Deckard-as-replicant theory. Ah, well.)
You can at least take solace in the knowledge that I won't be holding forth on this again unless Scott pulls out an Ultimate Final Cut, Really, And We Mean It This Time in 2012 for the 30th anniversary. In which Gaff is revealed to be Rachael, since Scott always intended it that way.
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Date: 2007-12-25 06:42 pm (UTC)We have. But it's the sort of film that's fun to return to and have good-natured debates over. As I said in the other comment, my ire is reserved for Scott, not for fellow fans whose reading is different from mine.
I'm also a contrarian by nature, so when 95% of the fans said 'Good, I hated the narration and I'm glad it's gone,' my response was 'But I liked the narration...' I know it was as tacked-on as the happy ending that at least everyone can agree sucked ass, but, as I've probably bored you with seven or eight times before, the narration pleases me as a tip of the hat to the film noir detective flicks the movie is partially modelled on. It also has some surprising little insights, as when Deckard shoots Zhora and says 'It didn't make me feel better about shooting a woman in the back.' Not a skin job, a woman. (Which might support the Deckard-as-replicant theory. Ah, well.)
You can at least take solace in the knowledge that I won't be holding forth on this again unless Scott pulls out an Ultimate Final Cut, Really, And We Mean It This Time in 2012 for the 30th anniversary. In which Gaff is revealed to be Rachael, since Scott always intended it that way.