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Post by Scott on Jan 7, 2018 6:48:12 GMT
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Post by Shane on Jan 7, 2018 16:23:16 GMT
I've seen that list before. Not sure that it would have been a very different film with some of those choices. I could easily picture Nick Nolte as the lead.
The one that really doesn't seem to fit is Peter Falk. Yes, Deckard's a detective but, since his job requires him to kill Replicants when he finds them, the role's far more physical than Columbo. Blade Runner had some pretty violent fight scenes. It's difficult to picture someone with Peter Falk's physique in the role.
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Post by Scott on Jan 7, 2018 17:32:52 GMT
Dustin Hoffman seems the most out of place to me, just a few years after Kramer vs Kramer and shortly before Tootsie. Maybe anybody can be an action star. He was in Marathon Man and Straw Dogs. He would definitely need a different haircut. I don't think I could take Al Pacino but I'm used to him in his current form with all the shouting.
To me, Burt Reynolds seems the most Harrison Ford-like of them.
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Post by Shane on Jan 7, 2018 20:28:55 GMT
Yeah, I don't think Hoffman would have fitted the role. Same problem as Falk - a physical mismatch. Can't really see him hunting down military grade Replicants. As I recall, the original writer had Robert Mitchum in mind. Not sure why. He was a bit long in the tooth to play Deckard.
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Post by Scott on Jan 12, 2018 5:58:57 GMT
Maybe he was just thinking of a Robert Mitchum type.
They could have adjusted the role, made it less athletic. Like the later Tarzan movies where Boy went away to college and Johnny Weissmuller walked around wearing shoes.
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Post by Scott on Jan 14, 2018 2:06:21 GMT
Harrison Ford looks young!  |
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Post by Shane on Jan 14, 2018 19:32:10 GMT
It was nice to see him reprise his role in Blade Runner 2049. That film was a pleasant surprise. I couldn't understand why, after 35 years, they would make a sequel to a cult classic that didn't exactly set the box office alight. I was expecting it to be a real letdown, but it worked.
I liked the fact that the protagonist, Officer K, was a replicant. Given that replicants are stronger and faster than humans, it makes sense to use other replicants to hunt them. The replicant retired in the opening scene, Sapper Morton, would probably have made brutally short work of any human blade runner sent to kill him.
Speaking of the opening, it's very close to the scene that the original screenwriter for Blade Runner initially wrote for Deckard's introduction. It made it to the screen after all.
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