BLADE RUNNER artist Syd Mead (BBtv interview)
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2008
- The 1982 cyberpunk cinema classic Blade Runner remains one of the most influential science fiction movies of all time, and tops many a nerd's favorite films list.
Today on Boing Boing tv, Boing Boing Gadgets editor Joel Johnson visits the studio of artist and futurist Syd Mead, who designed the film's dystopian look and feel. We learn about the "erotic machine" he dreamed for the replicant Zhora (this breast-shaped dreampod was cut from the script when director Ridley Scott ran out of dough), the 1 2 3 4 alternate opening scenes designed by Syd (one of them, which involved shoveling dead bodies, was deemed "too Holocaust"), what really lights up those building facades, and many more secrets.
Syd explains he envisioned the world of Blade Runner as a place "you wouldn't want to be for too long," and describes the challenges of designing for "a love story with moralistic underpinnings... if we could actually make people, would we treat them like dishwashers? Just use them up and throw them away?"
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Rest Peacefully Syd Mead.
it takes a few exposures at his sketches to recognize the details, the realism and genius of Syd. All of his renders stood the test of time.
None of the pretentiousness of some bullshit artists.
Amazing. This guy is simply fantastic. Not only he managed a single masterpiece, he produced them one after the other, in a short period of time. So he can not have been just lucky. Consistently, producing such quality pieces. Amazing.
Whats cool is Ridley asked Rutger to come up with something for that part, he went away for five mins and came back with that. Amazing.
Vangelis made a beautiful soundtrack.
Overall amazing film.
freakish illustrator, absolute genius in both imagination and technical ability.
What he said about Ridley being a genius for putting your mind outside of the shot, and the feeling that there is universe outside of what you are seeing: that is so true. I had the same feeling with Alien as well as Blade Runner, two of the greatest sci-fi films ever made.
Thanks for this. Syd Mead was a true visionary in design and futurist visualizations. His work goes well beyond what he did for this one film. He was simply one of the very best.
Syd Mead visionary Genius ...........Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner, Tron, 2010, Short Circuit, Aliens, The Spirit of '76, Timecop, Johnny Mnemonic, Mission: Impossible III, Elysium, Tomorrowland RIP 12-30-2019
These immense talents are out there. Yet for some reason since the initial Star Wars trilogy decades ago they really haven't come up with any new ships or other designs that are memorable.
"Make it look like you wouldn't really want to be there very long."
I've wanted to move in for the last 30 years.
That marks the timelessness of the concept. That a nasty dystopian world could become so attractive to us even decades later.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-Beams glitter in the dark near the Tenhausser gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.
Perhaps one of the most poetic movie lines of all time. God I love Ridley Scott
"The book is better"
These guys, there is always at least one of them.
The book has almost nothing in common with the film. So people who claim the film "Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep?" is better than it's film adaptation "Blad Runner" do not know what they are talking about. The plot isn't even the same in them, and in fact, the Replicants are clearly not human.
@@fuzzywzhe lol I don't think we can say ''clearly'' to anything in PKD novels
That's the brilliance of Syd Mead, he created things that were so far into the future. Even if they didn't come around in the future, they felt like they were possible. His work still holds up because spun off objects and vehicles that existed to ground this in realism.
I am currently studying Industrial Design and I love the work of Syd Mead. He is a straight up amazing designer and engineer.
Syd Mead is a visual genius 👌
The idea he had to show the colours changing through the windows of the pyramid as you rise up and that these colours would denote tv channels and thus give us, the viewer, a visual representation of the societal class system that inhabits the Blade Runner universe, gives you a measure of the man's creative mind.
so sad this man died.........his art was amazing
Big fan of Syd Mead
That line was partially improvised, though. Especially towards the end. So give the actor Rutger Hauer some credit, please
STILL new information about one of my favourite films. Fascinating descriptions of the opening screen shots.
It's funny, although the city in Blade Runner is meant to be a horrible place, I think it would be fascinating to live in too!
I've always wanted to live in Deckard's dim, messy apartment.
Nice place to visit..
For me it's the most interesting point there.
Blade Runner's city has everything from rain to night and noises to make you feel good in your little nest (deckard's flat). Everything (added with vangelis music, and did you notice that soft reverb when deckard speaks?) create that deep introspective atmosphere, it's almost meditation.
All that actually matches really well with a thriller wondering what is "us"?
Isn't it Los Angeles? Depiction?
No it wouldn't.
Nice video, cool that the artist kept so much original concepts, proud of his work :)
I wasn't even born back then...
When I saw this movie, it just got me.
Best I ever watch.
2 best movies I ever saw
1: Blade Runner
2: Old boy (the original, not hollywood remake)
Wonderful stuff! Thanks for making this!
Thankyou Syd Mead and all the workers on the miniaturize sets , i dream of thy work
Can’t believed I just discovered this video , incredible absolutely incredible . Made my day.
The designs of Syd Mead and their presentation have particular qualities that make them feel as natural as an open fireplace even though they are technically thought out to the utmost detail. When I first saw a 72 Imperial passing by on the street as a child, the same kind of car that Syd Mead apparently owns, it left the same wondrous impression that his renderings have. A reality that seemed to be from another realm but made me want to know more about it. Highly romantic, maybe like a Rachmaninov piano concerto.
RIP Syd Mead, amazing artist
What a cool video. Seeing his incredible imaginative view when creating this art is great. You can tell how excited he gets talking about these worlds. His art is absolutely incredible. RIP
Just bought his art book. An outstanding visioneer ahead of his time.
RIP syd mead =( all the good people are dropping like flies.
Syd Mead is more important as a social and orgazational marker of where we are now than where we might go in the future. Syd Mead is a sort of mid sixties last gasp of the post WWII era view that "wow, the future's really going to be great!" attitude which up to about '65 or '66 was generalized in American society. Sure, sci-fi heads and escapists and just those who rightly savored the quality of his work celebrated his efforts, but with the late 60's the disillusionment set in and few people afterward believed we were heading into any kind of a great and grand future. So while the work and engineering is still valid and we could have this future, the general consensus is that with the forces of the last four or five decades now closing in on everyone, no positive future like this is believable
Take your head out of your ass.
The most obvious thing that pops out is having a story in your ideas. Building and thinking about your own world. Hearing about world building and interactions going on within the art is very motivating and fascinating. The talent for making you feel like there's a bigger world outside the frame is helped by details connected to other stories you're not being shown or that maybe you'll never see. I'm sure there's a term for that.
Such a visual master. I would pay to work in his studio.
Yeah pretty much syd mead set the tone for sci fi there are others but I love this guy.
11 years went by since I saw this. Time does fly.
14 now. Are you still with us?
@@maxmaxneolit Reporting in. someone stops the clock!
Rest in Peace Syd Mead.
Greatest movie I have ever seen, eventhough it is not perfect.
Most influential artist in my life.
Lovely Apple Cinema Display and PowerMac G4! And a great movie!
GREAT artist.
I hope someone showed him various scenes from StarCitizen, we all owe much to the vision of this man.
You're damn right. So much science fiction today owes its design to this man.
the concept art G.O.A.T.
That was cool. Five stars.
Rest in peace.
Very cool.
i wonder if they usec some kind of computer technolohy for the illustration to render them?
also the female voice alert system 'Approaching..', "Over Threshold" was a then new feature in aircraft:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitching_Betty
Voice warning systems included in cars of the late 1970s to early 1980s, such as the Datsun Z-Car series, found in the 280ZX, were also known as Bitching Betty. The Datsun system issued commands such as "lights are on," or "Left door is open." Datsun's original name for the feature was "Talking Lady."
0:59 "add things that make it look like you wouldn't want to really be there too long." It's kinda scary how the original intent is the opposite of how many percieve dystopian/noir cyberpunk.
Iconic.
Rest in Peace..
RIP Syd Mead.
Where can I buy this artwork????
RIP Syd
RIP Syd Mead
@Beadbud5000 To be perfectly honest, when I finished reading the book, the only thing that was going through my mind was 'what the fuck is this?!'
genius alert ! genius alert !
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You look today and all the car manufacturers are trying to get to Syd Meads designs as the tech tries to catch up with his drawings. He wrote the actual future.
Doesn't follow the book terribly close, but unlike a lot of movies made from books it stands up on its own pretty well.
The first and second beginning of movie ideas would have been more interesting
He could of been a great designer also. Cars especially
RIP
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Strange for bbtv and those associated with it too make something as good and interesting as this and then just disappear
thought Jim Burns designed the spinner
He did do a few early sketch proposals but he wasn't involved with the film for very long before Syd came along.
rip
L@Beadbud5000 Sorry. I replied to the wrong post.
I was referring to "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?"
which this film was originally based on.
So the Voight-Kampff was a plot device....had to do those long interviews rather than have some scanner that could identify a replicant on a second.
totally misunderstood what he was saying about the different TVs changing colour at the same time.
He was just saying that the TVs would all change colour simultaneously, and so the models would have to do the same thing: Every window that was coloured blue-ish, would change colours simultaneously, because everyone is watching the same channel.
The train beginning would of been good.
2:48 what was he thinking...smh
None of my co-workers have come back in a sack and we spend so much time in Iraq; we could apply for dual citizenship.
"And I was thinking about... of how this would look at this scale. When You have a whole block of people, behind glass, looking at one channel, it would all change to that color... You know..? ... for that instant..." :) #sydmead #bladerunner #media
Information filtering in a *Broad-Caste-System* ..? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_India
Toxic visions of the future
Possible future is c9ol movies, sadly with bad ending
ballsack
this camera movement is giving me a headache
Agree.....worse than a Jason Bourne movie..😂
Give me 1 year or 3 years I will beat this old man and Sir Feng Zhu hahahahahahaha
I'm just joking haha
I'm joking
People, read the description. If you are watching this in 2020. the yt algorithm has identified you as a gigantic nerd.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
blade runner is a slave movie.
thats why movie designs look like shit today. " oh i thought you just added that because it looked cool" "no, there was a thought behind it" designers today just do "cool shit" designers of the past had real world experience, so its much more grounded and believable. today is all about the superficial. Syd Mead and Mcquarrie and the other designers of that era used their real world experience to design amazing things, todays instagram designers just look at what they think looks "cool" use the superficial style of those guys and add more superficiality to it. Its not memorable and its all derivative.
Puhleeze stop calling Blade Runner "cyberpunk." Besides William Gibson is a hack.
blade runner had such a cool visual concept, too bad it was such a crappy movie
meh. i didnt really like this movie. i've seen it a few times hoping that maybe i would like it but It just doesn't do it for me
RIP