Blade Runner 2049 and the Desire to Be Somebody
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- čas přidán 19. 03. 2024
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Blade Runner 2049 is one of the best sci-fi movies of the 21st century and is personally one of my all time favorites. I thought I'd make this video to offer my own take on the masterpiece.
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My video is in no way a substitute to experiencing the original source material. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
I assumed Deckard is a replicant because the pollution in Las Vegas was too fierce for humans. I never even realised this was something to be debated tbh
For every example that supports Deckard being a replicant there is another example that supports him being a human. Just that fact Deckard is alive after 30 years for example doesn't really do much for the argument of him being a replicant. I think it's done on purpose so everyone is free to see the movie how they like 🙏
@@MansplainingMoviesi feel like this conversation doesn’t exist in rhe original - the point of his character is to contrast with the replicants and their budding humanity. it read very obviously deckard was in fact a human. but the first film has removed so much from the book, like Mercerism and the hyper focus on empathy. Animals are so much more symbolic, the replicants more human. Man I need to re-read
So, remember the bee hives. Beehives are utilized to test the level of radioactivity. Therefore, it indicates that there existed a safe level of radioactivity for humans to inhabit.
I watch this film every year on my birthday.
I love this film. Ryan Gosling says so much just through facial expressions and slight eye movements.
The algorithm has finally blessed me with this brilliant video.
Absolutely gorgeous movie and you do make great thumbnails
thanks algorithm for this gem
Blade Runner 2049 as well as the original Blade Runner for me were about trying to find beauty in a very monochrome world. I prefer the original because I just love that aesthetic and the characters / actors in it but was surprised how much I liked Blade Runner 2049 too also because of about the same reasons. I understand that the movie heavily touches upon the subject of what it means to be human and in essence what it is to have a soul but I always perceived the movies through my eyes first and then my brain so to speak, and in this sense I really love the first movie because it portrayed a dystopian world so well and showed us that yes indeed we can find at least some resemblance of beauty within be that through the characters who inhabit the world or the world itself in the sense how humanity still kind of thrived despite of the whole world being in a very bad state.
I particularly in this aesthetic sense love the buildings or the architecture of the world and always wonder who lives in all those tall buildings and how they look on the inside.
I still kind of remember Roy Batty's or Rutger Hauer's dialogue about having seen things we people wouldn't believe. As a matter of fact the whole movie, every frame so to speak and every sound is very memorable because the combination is very atmospheric and memorable.
For anyone who is interested there is an adventure point and click game called "Blade Runner", and it is one of the best games I think in this category which allows us to see a bit more of the world inside and out and experience some more story which like the original movie is also very emotional I think.
I love the blade runner aesthetic the dystopian high rises built on the layers of cramped overpopulated underbelly it's so visually stunning in every form it takes in media but I love the human aspect I'm glad I get a bit of what it feels like in cyberpunk 2077
2:20 literally me🤣
Thank you for the video. Really well thought out points and editing etc. I’m gonna check out other ones for sure.
Just discovered your channel, today. So happy that I found it. Great videos!
Beautiful video, especially the ending. I agree I think the movie is about a man's desire to be important or do something purposeful to feel real. Funnily enough, it also reminds me of the story of Pinocchio because he wants to be a real boy and K wants to be a real human or person and in the end, I think he achieves that in a way by sacrificing his life so another can live, which is considered to be one of the most human and noble things a person can do by many religions and beliefs
What a gem of a channel this is. Keep up the great work,. just coming here from your Taxi Driver video and you really capture exactly what has been seemingly on the tip of my tongue in terms of analyzing why I like both movies so much. Look forward to more.
Looking forward to more video from you of movies I haven't seen yet to watch myself later.
I dig your videos, keep it up dude.
This channel is a goldmine when it comes to reviewing movies that resonates with me.
But my N°1 favourite movie is one that doesn't get talked about often. Jim Sharidan's version of "Brothers". This movie is not perfect when it comes to dialogues and most of the characters can be seen as unlikeable to some viewers... but not to me. I think it's realistic, even the wife's personnality.
Toby Maguire's character depicts PTSD and loneliness very accurately. I don't think I have ever connected to a fictional character as much as him in that movie.
If you could make a Analysis video on this movie it could be a very interesting one.
Brothers is good, yes
Dude i needed this video.
Good content, will continue to watch. Keep up the good work
Great videos man !
im high watching ur videos just had to say ur awsome
Great video!
This channel is amazing and I hope you’ll keep uploading videos. This and other of your videos are masterpieces. Great work!
Thanks! I have a Fight Club video in the works, hopefully that does well like my Taxi Driver video did
@@MansplainingMovies Omg, I’m sure I’ll love a lot that video. Take your time and don’t stress yourself, you will do something great. You have a new subscriber and fellow supporter🖤🫂🤙🏻
@@MansplainingMovies Trust, keep putting out content like this and you will BLOW UP this year. These are some of the best shortform video essay's I've seen.
Too bad it's an AI voice reading it
Really dig your videos on this and on the original Blade Runner. I agree with most of your points and there are some really deep philosophical questions underneath the comic book surface of both movies. It is such a strong story that hits people when they are older and contemplating their own mortality, if they live long enought to think about it. Deckard if he is suggested to be the age of the actor playing him is around 40 years old. So having the realization of reaching the half century mark puts things in perspective The original film is my favorite movie of all time but I also have to be in a mood to watch it. For me it is a classic top level film. As good as Star Wars, Alien , Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Terminator. and The Thing for me. It is a must watch in my opinion and one of the last great analog vfx films of all time. My only suggestion on your videos is to mix up the music of change songs midway when ever you are discussing a different point in your analysis. The lofi track got a little grating after a bit as my lady and I were trying to hear what you were saying and a few of the beats landed on your words, killing the momentum. Otherwise, you have a really good format and look forward to seeing more. Cheers!
Thank you, I appreciate the comment and can tell you are a man of taste. My channel is still quite new so I'm still trying to figure out what works and what doesn't. Some like the music feeling like it is part of the video rather than being in the background, some think it's too loud and some have said they would prefer the video without anything in the background so I'm still trying to figure out a volume level that everyone can get on board with.
@@MansplainingMovies totally understandable! I’ve been meaning to do analysis of some of my favorite films but I keep running across impressive ones like this 😎if you ever have a chance lessons from the screenplay has pretty good audio mix. The Blade Runner video they produced is a good one. He uses the same music in a lot of videos but breaks it up into different sections. Keep making these! If you have a chance I’d be interested in hearing your take on RoboCop.
great stuff
Thanks algorithm for this channel
Loved this movie❤ Sad to hear it fails in Box office.
Love your channel. Got seriously worried when you explained the meaning in "taxi driver" too much similarities. Ever since my divorce. I've been doing the same. Nothing but working. Going to the gym alone and crazy ass suffering diet. Like the misery will bring me happiness. Can't explain why I do it. Wish it would stop. Especially the alienation. All the friends I have are with their families now and too busy and I just don't fit in at work or anywhere it seems. Really trying to find my place. Somewhere where I feel I belong. I jjst feel so lonely and out of place everywhere. God I hope this loneliness feeling goes away soon 😢
It will just put yourself out there be human
Same for me.
I have always thought the whole plot of the girl creating planted memories for the replicants to be a bit hollow. Memories are important, but because the girl does not have a life experience or any experience with the outside world, I dont see how she can create these memories. I was invested in the plotline where K tried searching for that memory, but felt likr a lot of the tension near the end was invalidated by the revelation that he wasnt the child. It all felt a bit forced upon the story, and the movie is great, but I could mever get over this feeling of mine about it.
2:19 hey that's me
me.
Literally me
You can interpret anything the way you want to, I have many times myself, but this is Ridley Scott's adaption of Electric Sheep and he says Deckard is a replicant in his vision. So that's pretty definitive for me.
I thought it was a very good film. The near future could be similar, with all of the moral battles it would bring i.e. human rights for artificial intelligence and such. Thanks for the presentation.🙂
awesome video
are you looking for video editor?
Maybe 1 day
@@MansplainingMovies ooh okay
But why not today ⭐️
FIRST ❤️
Have you watched after hours?
Yes. Love it. I'll do a video on it 1 day. Raging Bull will be the next Scorcese related video I do though.
@@MansplainingMovies nice I need to watch raging bull
I want to love 2049. But Leto's character is too cartoony and really ruined the film...
The original Bladerunner doesn't really have a plot in that stereotypical sense... it is more of an "immersion" "day in the life" of Deckard, a Bladerunner.
2049 tries to run all these parallel story arcs. K wanting to be the chosen one. K and his weird love affair with Joi. Deckard the renegade fugitive father figure. Luv as "Wallace's henchman" and their perverse preoccupation with Rachel and Deckard's baby. Wallace's every scene tail spinning into a diatribe propagandic soliloquy. It's just too many corny elements strung together with this "searching for the chosen one" theme. You lose that noir sensibility and you don't really feel immersed into the world. [And in the same way Harrison Ford's narration ruined the mainstream release... 2049's dialogue is exposition overload and as a viewer I feel like I am constantly being slapped over the face with what they're TELLING me this film is about. Instead of showing me or letting me see it for myself.
Perfect example. Luv is getting her nails done. She drops a bunch of bombs around K. (Her interface is also a reference to Deckard's original photo scanning tool in the original - cheesy nostalgia regurgitation) and she says "get up. do your job."
Now RIGHT THERE is where the scene should cut back to K. But no no no... they had to include "FIND THE CHILD." I mean writing 101 is show not tell am I right? There's too much telling in this film.
Joi "telling" K he is special.
Doctor what's her face "telling" K his memory was lived by someone.
The replicant revolutionary lady telling K "oh we all had that memory. you're not unique."
With the "FIND THE CHILD" line the viewer already knows that is what he is there for.
But no no no gotta slap that line right across the face of the viewer. It's disgusting hackneyed writing. You take away the cyber punk backdrop and special FX, and you have a pretty boring cliché film that has very little to do with Philip K. Dick anymore that also tries to cram too much into itself. K chasing Deckard around the holographic Elvis' scene was too long. It was paced and modeled after the Rutger Hauer chase scene with Deckard. However in that original chase / fight scene you have this climactic finale of Roy saving Deckard's life.
Instead you get Deckard in a t shirt who wants to drink whiskey with his dog.
Who was in charge of this stuff?
Finally I want anyone out there reading this to get a really high quality pair of headphones and watch BladeRunner 2019 the Final Cut version.
You're going to hear Vangelis heart and soul all over that film he should have won an Academy Award for it.
Not just in the mega epic soundscapes and brassy pad textures during the scenic fly-by's etc..
Like Vangelis truly scored that film no moment is untouched even if just with the most basic sounds he's ON TOP of the action at all times.
And then you get Hans Zimmer. Who just copy pastes some of the more trademark Vangelis sounds. The brassy pads that end in long slow pitch slide down... but that's it.
Hans doesn't really punctuate the tense moments between the actors the way Vangelis did.
Perfect counterpoint example.
Watch Deckard and Rachel's intense controversial scene where Deckard forces himself on Rachel. Listen to how Vangelis builds and sells that drama.
Now take a similar scene in 2049. This time it is K but it is his boss the female police chief flirting with him and kind of hoping he will take her bait... Hans doesn't do anything there at all.
His soundtrack is mainly this awful muffler sound effect that kinda comes between location changes in the script. It is nowhere NEAR the level of intricacy of Vangelis.
The two films do not even compare. Period.
One is like an original mustang.
The other like a mustang from 2006 . You can appreciate both but don't call the 2006 a 65 Shelby!
I do think the original is a lot better in almost every technical way but i can understand why people would favour this or at least put it close to the original. Both are ranked highly on my list of favourite movies but the original being in my top 10 favourites of all time is a special place.
I don't agree with everything you said as 2049 is a very different movie that came out way too late after the original and has a completely different vision behind it, so to me I see the quality in the expansion of the world rather than a direct follow up to what is already established. Some of the call back lines and exposition flashbacks are definitely my 1 issue, but the movie is so long and drawn out that I feel these things get buried in an otherwise very visual movie.
I don't think a movie really has to be flawless to be considered perfect as the experience of watching the film can feel perfect despite knowing there are flaws, like how the execution of Deckard and Rachel's scene was inconsistent and lacked any major significance in the film by the end, but I still don't hold this against the original as by the time the film fades to black I feel I have watched something perfect.
LOVED this movie, but oh good lord did Jared Leto almost ruin it for me. He’s so “method” and just overacts the crap out of every scene. The rest of the cast were awesome, though, and Denis Villeneuve is one of the best directors alive. So good, but flawed, sequel to one of the best scifi movies ever made.
I think both movies are very slightly flawed yet I consider both masterpieces and will rate them 10/10 anyway. Jared Leto I can understand seeing it as overreacting but I always thought some of the actors in the original were quite over the top.
Great video. Could you do one on donnie darkko?
Thanks! A Donnie Darko video is definitely possible, I love that movie