‘They Said My Movie Was Stupid At The Time’: Ridley Scott Launches Missile At Blade Runner Detractors

With his upcoming Napoleon release, Ridley Scott has been entering the traditional promotional marathon that accompanies his film for some time now. But he’s not averse to looking in the rear-view mirror, especially when it comes to the movie—his favorite, in fact—Blade Runner.

Alien, The Eighth Passenger With its large budget ($500,000), its multiple demands, and the scheduling constraints it placed on its technical team on this film, Ridley Scott earned a very bad reputation…

who even followed him on the set Blade Runner. So much so that the technical team mocked the title of the film for a long time and became not Blade Runner, but bloody. He even wore t-shirts with this written on them “Yes Governor, my ass” About Scott. Atmosphere…

As wonderfully explained in the documentary Dangerous Days: The Making of Blade RunnerRelations between the director and the producers, as well as with the actors, were strained. We can also see Harrison Ford on set several times in the documentary, looking quite irritated and tired. He often mentions the dubbing of the film, which he was forced to do and hated…

“I had terrible partners…”

In an interview with Total Film (M Slashfilm), Scott already mentions screenwriter Hampton Fancher’s brilliant work on his SF classic: “He had this particular cadence to the rhythm of his style that I loved. But I brought the world to that point because he wrote a play set in an apartment where a hunter keeps his game and falls in love with it. I said, ‘But what’s going on in the outside world?’ It developed from that moment.”

And to focus on shooting: “It was a very bad experience for me. I had terrible partners. Financiers who killed me every day. I was running a very successful business and I knew I was doing something very, very special.

So I will never take no for an answer. But they did not understand what they had. You shoot, you edit and you mix. And halfway through, everyone says it’s too slow. You should know that as a director, you cannot listen to anyone. I knew I was doing something very, very special. And today, it’s one of the most important sci-fi films ever made, and everyone feeds off of it. Every damn movie!”

Scott says he recently watched the film for the first time in twenty years. And he fires a little missile at critics who think he’s too slow or stupid: “I hadn’t seen Blade Runner in 20 years. Really! I saw it again. And it’s not slow. The information, the elements that reach you, are so original and interesting, they talk about biological creatures and mines. Which at the time the critics thought was funny. I said: ” Get them out!”

We can certainly criticize Scott for this little humility in reflecting on his work. The fact remains that it is truly one of the greatest films in the history of cinema, as its contribution was immense and its influence decisive in the decades to come.