Ridley Scott sat down with Mens Style to talk about Blade Runner and its many incarnations and had some interesting insights on what happened and why we even had a directors cut in the first place. Bad testing can do interesting things. Ridley tells Mens Style;
You know, it went off the rails, but not hugely. Frankly, I look back on it and think, Actually, it was pretty normal. The only two things about the film that were marred were the voice-over and the ending. When we finished, I really thought I nailed the motherfucker, and I did. But then somehow it didn’t test well, and then Harrison’s not happy, and if Harrison’s not happy I’m not happy, because I like my artistes to be happy about what they did, right?
Yet Harrison’s wife at the time, Melissa Mathison—she was the writer for E.T.—she was the one person who took my side and said "Fantastic movie. This will stand up the way it is." So she’s a smart lady and she got it, but the rest of them ... Everyone’s in the room with their opinions, including the financiers, and my problem, being a well-brought-up Northern English boy, is always being respectful of the money that’s been put into my expenditure. So I changed it.
Which did you like better? The original Blade Runner or the directors cut? I myself have still not watched the directors cut.
