#1982 films

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One Dress a Day Challenge

Evil Under the Sun / Maggie Smith as Daphne Castle

For an evening party that's she's hosting at her hotel on a Greek island, Mrs. Castle wears this fun bejeweled jacket over a horizontally striped blouse and vertically striped skirt. It's accompanied by a necklace, bracelet, and flower pin.

Anthony Powell designed the costumes for this movie. According to Wikipedia, other noted costume designer Sandy Powell is his cousin!

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the place to myself… a big bowl of popcorn… steven lisberger’s 1982 classic TRON… what an amazing saturday night 🥰

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Happy Birthday Christopher Atkins. The star in one of my all-time favourite musicals, The Pirate Movie. 1982. Yeah, 8-year-old me knew I wasn’t like other boys after watching him in this. hehehe.

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Blade Runner

As I begin this post I took a deep breath to center myself. When I think about Blade Runner I cannot help but be slightly overwhelmed. As a film, Blade Runner represents so much. Not just to me. Any movie lover worth their salt has something to say about this film, and rightfully so! There are a lot of themes to unpack in it. It is considered the genesis of the Cyber Punk genre while simultaneously being a Noir. It asks a lot of questions and asks us to consider a lot of themes, some of them problematic, but all of them deep and worthy of exploration. It is a film that has always been in my life. I find myself watching it when I am in the deep throws of depression because it reminds me that it is okay to ask these big questions about what it means to be human, be alive, and exist in this world where no one is nice and nothing is easy. It was the first film I saw that told me it was okay to question my existence and my relationship to being alive, even when I was too young and ignorant to truly understand what depression was, that I have it, or even what the real words for it were. In my young, angry, confused teenaged life, Blade Runner was a life buoy thrown to me in a confusing storm that had been going on for a long, long time. The world in Blade Runner is cynical. When we start the story, the Utopia (an idea with a problematic origin) has been met and exceeded, leaving a planet asking "now what?" Replicants were working to colonize Mars and fight wars. People had to undergo intelligence tests to determine whether they were worthy of going off-world. There's a deep seeded classism here. Deckard (played by Harrison Ford), is no longer a Blade Runner but called back to find six Replicants that had escaped the colonies and come back to Earth for unknown reasons. Recognized as potentially deadly and seen as nothing more than property, these Replicants needed to be "retired" before they caused more deaths. And it is here, when we meet the Replicants early in the film that the major theme reveals itself: What does it really mean to be human? As the story unfolds, we meet the head of the Tyrell Corporation. He says "More Human Than Human. That's our goal here, Mr. Deckard." When Roy (played my Rutger Hauer) kills his way to the top to meet his god, is that not human? To want to know your maker? To seek answers from them? Roy kills Tyrell, a build up after defeating him and chess and essentially defeating all of his generals. Here, the creation exceeds their creator achieving what the human race can only dream of: exceeding his god.

There is a neat visual trick that is done through out the film any time we see a Replicant on screen, which is often. Their eyes are made to look more like camera lenses than eyes. In any scene with a character that has an exchange with the Replicants, we see their eyes as well. This allows us to directly compare what a Replicants eyes look like versus those of a Human. And in the scene where Roy kills Tyrell, his eyes look like a Humans eyes. In the scene where Roy is asking questions of JF Sebastien, his eyes look more human. I can't help but thing of that old saying that the eyes are the window to the soul. These recurring visuals that show a difference in the eyes of these two types of living creatures, asking us to question the difference, and question why that difference matters. In addition to this, there is a real tangible sense of nostalgia that the film gets into. There are photographs everywhere; photographs represent a memory in physical form. We also know that Rachel's (played by Sean Young) memories are implants generated from Tyrell's niece. Memories guide us. They form who we are, the decisions we make and the actions we take. In this sense, are memories in a Replicant not a form of control? But no one can control what a Replicant sees with their eyes, nor what a Replicant thinks. We can only control people so much with memories before they start making their own. Then who is control?

Rutger Hauer's performance in this film is nothing short of a masterpiece. By the end of the film, Roy is seen acting like an animal as he is being hunted like an animal and actively dying. This final sequence in the film is what Ridley Scott has been building to and is my favorite sequence in the film. What is a human but an animal? Roy has embraced his humanity by embracing his animalistic instincts, but has also solidified his humanity here. He does not kill Deckard even though he has the upper hand in that exchange. We see him display the many emotions that a human would have. He expresses remorse over Pris' death, anger over Tyrell's lack of answers and action, and fear in the face of death. While I cannot think of other Ridley Scortt vehicles off the top of my head that I particularly enjoy, Blade Runner is one of those movies I genuinely consider one of the greatest films ever made. Even this short essay does not adequately unpack all of the themes Blade Runner has to offer: consent, power dynamics, slavery, capitalism, the list goes on. I could literally have an hours long conversation about this film and still never be finished talking about it. In short, it's beautiful.

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 The making of “Poltergeist” (1982). There’s always been controversy about who directed this film. This makes it look like Steven Spielberg did without a doubt.

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Rachel 

Blade Runner di Ridley Scott (1982) 

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Blade Runner (1982)

Cast: Harrison Ford (Rick Deckard), Sean Young (Rachael), Rutger Hauer (Roy Batty), Edward James Olmos (Gaff), M. Emmet Walsh (Bryant), Daryl Hannah (Pris)

Cinematography: Jordan Cronenwenth

Director: Ridley Scott

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