Made and released in 1981/82 (as was Spielberg's E.T.), at about the time when the Internet itself began to come alive, the movie Blade Runner has remained one of the Net's most popular and controversial films.

The style of this futuristic film noir, masterminded by noted director Ridley Scott and also designer Syd Mead, is now recognized to have influenced numerous movies and TV shows made thereafter. Thanks to Philip K. Dick's imagination, this movie was also amazingly prescient in its exploration of biotechnological manipulations. Blade Runner's undiminishing cult status may yet result in a Hollywood sequel.

Distilling the years of e-discussions about Blade Runner into a unified document, this browsable version of the Blade Runner FAQ is presented for the enjoyment of movie buffs and webheads everywhere by kind permission of dedicated author and maintainer Murray Chapman from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

A few other Fun Places

1. What is Blade Runner?
   
2. What book is it based on?
   
3. Is the sound track available?
   
4. What are replicants?
   
5. Who or what is [so-and-so]?
   
6. I don't like the voice-overs/ending.
   
7. What different versions of Blade Runner are there?
   
8. Memorable Quotes
   
9. What is the significance of the unicorn?
   
10. What is the significance of the chess game?
    
11. Problems in Blade Runner
    
12. Trivia or What makes Blade Runner popular/special?
    
13. More questions/answers
    
14. Is Deckard a replicant?
    
15. Notes
    

This FAQ contains spoilers!

THIS VERSION: Vangelis' Original Soundtrack Released!

This list will be posted monthly to: rec.arts.movies, alt.cult-movies, rec.arts.sf.movies, rec.answers, and news.answers.

The follow-up field is set to rec.arts.movies.

This, and MANY other FAQs are available for anonymous FTP wherever news.answers is archived, for example:

rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/movies/bladerunner-faq

Sites in Europe include:
nic.switch.ch
ftp.win.tue.nl

also:
ftp.u.washington.edu:/public/cinema/faq/bladerunner-faq
nic.funet.fi:/pub/culture/tv+film/BladeRunner

Marcos Contreras M. is translating this file into Spanish. Stay tuned for details.

Kazushi Kimura has translated this file into Japanese. Contact him (kimura@mri.co.jp) for details.

Marc-Berco Fuhr has volunteered to translate this file into German and Danish. Contact him (fury@daimi.aau.dk) for details.

Suggestions welcome for all areas, especially those marked with [?]s.

This document is compiled by Murray Chapman (muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au), from sources too numerous to mention. Thank-you one and all!

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Other fun places to browse:

1. Music and Video from Blade Runner (Austria)
2. The Off-World Page (U.S.A.)
3. The Philip K. Dick FAQ (U.S.A.)
4. Gorm Eriksen's Blade Runner pages (Norway)

5. David Gaxiola's Animé Resources
6. David Augsburger's Cinema Sites
7. Stewart Clamen's Info Collection
8. Screenwriters' & Playwrights' Page

9. Reviews from EYE Weekly
10. Groupe de Recherche sur l'Avènement et la Formation des Institutions Cinématographique et Scénique.
11. Yahoo! Entertainment: Movies & Films
12. U.S. Server for Cardiff's Movie Database

13. Bob Niland's Laserdisc Info
14. Video Disc International

15. Science-Fiction Lovers' Resources Guide by Gareth Rees [65k] (U.K.)
16. The Isaac Asimov FAQ
17. STAR TREK Generations
18. Virtual Library: Genetics

19. Download the original ascii version of this FAQ [38k zip]

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