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Blade Runner Noir

Just discovered this. Bladerunner is of course an influential film and my all time favourite movie. No wonder I love the Tex Murphy games. Check out this You Tube, it's wonderfully dark and evocative and will certainly remind of you of our favourite noir detective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXFqPzAFv8o
To be honest, I dislike it. It is a good idea but in filtering out the colour a substantial part of what made Ridley Scott's Los Angeles so compelling almost literally fades. However, I could definitely see them doing a Sin City type approach where maybe the protagonists are in black and white while the neon lighting and certain aspects of the environment are coloured. That would be cool.
Last edited by Chandler on June 13, 2014 • 6:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I have to agree with Joel. I don't think this mashup adds anything to BR. 'Course, that could partly be because I don't believe noir has to be B&W.

There is another issue with too. Because BR was shot in colour, you can't simply bleed out the colour and get a truly noir look. It's because of the lighting. Lighting for colour and B&W is very, very different. This goes for both still photography and movies. Without proper lighting, BR in B&W would never look truly noir.
I have often described Blade Runner as Ridley Scott's love-letter to fogs, lights and shadows.

-Fred
Pirates, vampires, zombies, ninjas, ghouls, aliens, goblins, monsters, robots, sorcerers, undead, werewolves, demons, mutated dinosaur-cyborgs and those pesky phone salesmen! The shotgun is a one-size-fits-all solution!
Fred Buer wrote:I have often described Blade Runner as Ridley Scott's love-letter to fogs, lights and shadows.

-Fred
Perhaps, but it's still one of my favourite movies :)
You make it sound like fog, light and shadow done well is a bad thing :lol:

-Fred
Pirates, vampires, zombies, ninjas, ghouls, aliens, goblins, monsters, robots, sorcerers, undead, werewolves, demons, mutated dinosaur-cyborgs and those pesky phone salesmen! The shotgun is a one-size-fits-all solution!
Fred Buer wrote:You make it sound like fog, light and shadow done well is a bad thing :lol:

-Fred
It is not a bad thing right?
Bladerunner rules - but are you a fan of the original with voiceover or the director's cut without...
"When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas." Jean Harlow
I like both. They each have their own special 'feel'.