*Guess the Movie Title*

Snarky · Fri 06/10/2017 08:35:08

Nope, but you're circling around the answer, so let me just post this last one before someone gets it:

Quintaros · Fri 06/10/2017 11:10:21

Boy that looks like the old version of the dove leaving Rutger Hauer's hand at the end of Blade Runner. And the theatrical cut contained some leftover footage from The Shining. But I didn't recognize the clock. Is it also a shot that's specific to the theatrical cut?

Snarky · Fri 06/10/2017 12:32:57

You got it dude!

With what's probably the most-often-guessed movie on this thread, that almost everyone has seen, and that is especially relevant this week with the release of the sequel, I felt I had to pick some tricky caps if it wasn't going to be immediately obvious.

The mountains are from the theatrical version (as you say, unused footage shot for The Shining).

The dove shot is used, I think, in all the old versions: workprint, theatrical cut and Director's Cut (but there exists a deleted scene of a different one – I'm curious why it wasn't used). I personally think they went a bit too far dystopin' it up for the Final Cut: I would have liked to keep a hint of blue sky to better maintain the symbolism of the shot. (This is my number one complaint about that version of the movie, to the point where I almost want to redo it myself so that I can splice it into the film at that point.)

The forest is from the unicorn scene, of course (which has been — incorrectly — rumored to be footage from Legend), specifically the shot used in the Final Cut. I wasn't sure whether the version from the Director's Cut or Final Cut would be harder to recognize, but personally it's the DC version that I visualize when I think of the scene.

The cuckoo clock is from JF Sebastian's apartment (it's right when Pris spraypaints herself with raccoon eyes). The screencap is taken from the Final Cut, but I'm pretty sure it is present in other versions as well (there's a whole bit where it goes off and she glances over at it). I thought this was the one shot that is arguably least misleading about the contents of the movie, and the one shot that anyone who has seen any version of Blade Runner was guaranteed to have seen, so it's funny that it's the one you couldn't recognize.

Spoiler

BTW, as I was taking the screencaps I came across a version of the ending I don't remember seeing before (though I must have, since it's from an extra in the box set and I watched all of those), where Rachael and Deckard actually have a whole conversation in the car as they're driving away (in this version they're just driving along a road in California, not swooping through snow-peaked mountains):

"You know what else I think? You and I were made for each other."

[close]

Edit: Oh, and also BTW, the accidental/spurious link with the last one was that in Blade Runner there actually is a special effects shot of a photo that comes to life for a brief second (Rachael's photo of what she thinks is herself as a child with her mother).

Quintaros · Fri 06/10/2017 12:59:43

Yes, I always thought the blue sky in the original dove scene was a choice until I read later that the dove simply wouldn't fly with the rain machines running. I'm at peace with them modifying that for the Final Cut. The blue sky was perhaps a little too on the nose.

Spoiler

I've watched all the different versions and do recall that line. It's a definite groaner. One of the most common criticisms of Blade Runner is that there is no chemistry between Deckard and Rachel. I think that makes the movie more interesting. It's not romantic. But that line in addition to being a wink at the ambiguity of Deckard also implies a romantic chemistry that is not there.

[close]

I don't know how I feel about the Blade Runner sequel. I was never clamouring for one. And Harrison Ford's track record for resurrecting old characters has not been good. But it seems to be getting good reviews so now I'm starting to get interested.

Mandle · Fri 06/10/2017 16:08:04

Well done indeed Snarky on piecing together such an amazing puzzle for Blade Runner fans out of all the different cuts from different versions!!!

I had no idea, and I'm quite a fan of the movie! Haven't seen it in a while though...

Excited about the sequel though!