Straight Line Relationships

So, everyone has a fav movie, right? 

Blade Runner is mine.

Why?  Maybe because I was an impressionable 10-years-old when I first saw it.  Maybe because I already loved flying cars and science fiction.  Maybe because I’d just read Neuromancer, and the opening 10 seconds perfectly visualize the dystopian ruined-industrial vision of LA that I’d imagined while reading that book. (and I didn’t even know the word dystopian yet).  Maybe because I was already secretly in love with Han Solo, and so I easily fell in love with Pris and Rachel and Roy and Sebastian.  Maybe because that movie is so -quotable-.  (Try using this line randomly in a meeting at work: “So we’re stupid, and we’ll die”.  Or this one: “We share a similar problem - accelerated decrepitude”.  Or this one: “We’re so glad you found us — you’re our best and only friend!”)

Maybe it’s the music, maybe it’s the art.  Maybe it’s that the hero isn’t perfect, and isn’t even particularly capable in spots.  Maybe it’s the story about the spider.  Maybe it’s the psycho-analyzing machine (”We call it Voight-Kampf for short”), or maybe it’s the owl.

The 1984 Apple ad hadn’t come out yet.  But Ridley Scott had already made the first Alien movie.

Anyway, in today’s world, I can see my favorite movie anytime (at home, on DVD).  But it’s still pretty special to see it in the large.  It’s playing at the Egyptian this weekend, the midnight show on Friday and Saturday nights.

I’m going on Friday.

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