{"id":3059,"date":"2015-07-10T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T16:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2015-07-10T09:28:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T16:28:08","slug":"everything-ive-written-about-blade-runner-for-open-culture-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=3059","title":{"rendered":"Everything I&#8217;ve written about Blade Runner for Open Culture so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sciencefictionandthecity\/files\/2009\/01\/st_bladerunner_f1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"305\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you interpret the question &#8220;What&#8217;s your favorite movie?&#8221; as &#8220;What movie have you seen the greatest number of times?&#8221;, then\u00a0<em>Blade Runner\u00a0<\/em>is my favorite movie. (Actually,\u00a0<em>Sans Soleil\u00a0<\/em>remains a contender there \u2014 but in any case, my favorite movie surely has\u00a0<em>something<\/em> to do with Japan and the early 1980s.) And so I happen to have written a great deal about\u00a0<em>Blade Runner<\/em> over my years at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\">Open Culture<\/a>, a site for whom the film has provided <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/cse?cx=partner-pub-1184791463292965%3Anozemmzf6sn&amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;q=blade+runner&amp;sa=+#gsc.tab=0&amp;gsc.q=blade%20runner&amp;gsc.page=1\">rich subject matter in general<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And so I give you all my\u00a0<em>Blade Runner<\/em>-related Open Culture posts so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/07\/blade-runners-miniature-props-revealed-in-142-behind-the-scenes-photos.html\"><em>Blade Runner\u2019s<\/em> Miniature Props Revealed in 142 Behind-the-Scenes Photos<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/06\/blade-runner-recut-with-the-sci-fi-masterpieces-unused-original-footage.html\"><em>Blade Runner<\/em> Recut with the Sci-Fi Masterpiece\u2019s Unused Original Footage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/12\/the-art-of-making-blade-runner-see-the-sketchbook-storyboards-on-set-polaroids-more.html\">The Art of Making\u00a0<em>Blade Runner<\/em>: See the Original Sketchbook, Storyboards, On-Set Polaroids &amp; More<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/03\/iblade_runneri_the_pillar_of_sci-fi_cinema_that_siskel_ebert_and_studio_execs_originally_hated.html\"><em>Blade Runner<\/em>: The Pillar of Sci-Fi Cinema that Siskel, Ebert, and Studio Execs Originally Hated<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/03\/philip_k_dick_previews_blade_runner.html\">Philip K. Dick Previews\u00a0<em>Blade Runner<\/em>: \u201cThe Impact of the Film is Going to be Overwhelming\u201d (1981)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/12\/blade-runner-spoofed-in-three-japanese-commercials.html\"><em>Blade Runner<\/em> Spoofed in Three Japanese Commercials (and Generally Loved in Japan)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/10\/how-ridley-scott-turned-the-beginning-of-the-shining-into-the-end-of-blade-runner.html\">How Ridley Scott Turned Footage From the Beginning of <em>The Shining<\/em> Into the End of <em>Blade Runner<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See also my <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/channels\/thecityincinema\/115080030\">&#8220;Los Angeles, the City in Cinema&#8221; video essay on\u00a0<em>Blade Runner<\/em><\/a>, which has started up\u00a0something of a side career talking\u00a0about the movie here\u00a0and there. Just recently, I also <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/channels\/thecityincinema\/115080030\">appeared on the USC Price School of Public Policy&#8217;s Bedrosian Book Club Podcast<\/a> talking about its source material, Philip K. Dick&#8217;s novel\u00a0<em>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also rounded up <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2948\">everything I&#8217;ve written about Haruki Murakami for Open Culture<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2358\">my favorite Open Culture posts so far<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you interpret the question &#8220;What&#8217;s your favorite movie?&#8221; as &#8220;What movie have you seen the greatest number of times?&#8221;, then\u00a0Blade Runner\u00a0is my favorite movie. (Actually,\u00a0Sans Soleil\u00a0remains a contender there \u2014 but in any case, my favorite movie surely has\u00a0something to do with Japan and the early 1980s.) 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