It achieved this honour by being a failure on its original release, thus attaining the valuable sheen of a true cult (something that could never be said about Star Wars, despite the rapacity of its followers). And it's this tentative, enigmatic relationship that drives the film.īlade Runner is possibly the most talked-about sci-fi movie ever made. As it is, Harrison Ford's apparent bemusement works perfectly within Ridley Scott's framework his former blade runner Rick Deckard, though expert at 'retiring' the almost-human androids known as replicants, spends most of the film bemused.Īs he tracks down four escaped replicants (a detective doing 'no detecting'?) in a darkly malevolent, incongrously rainy 2019 Los Angeles, he falls in love with femme fatale Rachel (Young), who is a replicant. The truth is, few actors come off well in sci-fi movies if they feel that it's them versus the sets or them versus the director's imagination. There was nothing for me to do but stand around and give some focus to Ridley's sets.' Ah well, he didn't much enjoy being in Star Wars either, and some - a lot - of people enjoyed that, too.
'I played a detective who did no detecting. 'I think some - a lot- of people enjoy it, and that's their prerogative,' a grumpy Harrison Ford told the Boston Globe in 1991.
