Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007) (V)

Director:

Charles de Lauzirika

Release Date:

18 diciembre 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

The definitive three-and-a-half hour documentary about the troubled creation and enduring legacy of the science fiction classic "Blade Runner," culled from 80 interviews and hours of never-before-seen outtakes and lost footage. |

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Longer than the film, Dangerous Days is best left to the fans.

Cast

Nina Axelrod	...	Herself - Audition
Joanna Cassidy	...	Herself
Gary Combs	...	Himself
Jeff Cronenweth	...	Himself
Stephen Dane	...	Himself
Frank Darabont	...	Himself
Michael Deeley	...	Himself
Charles de Lauzirika	...	Himself
Isa Dick Hackett	...	Herself
David Dryer	...	Himself
Kevin Eastman	...	Himself
Hampton Fancher	...	Himself
Mike Fenton	...	Himself
Harrison Ford	...	Himself
Michael Genne	...	Himself (as Mike Genne)
Bill George	...	Himself
Rocco Gioffre	...	Himself
Ron Gress	...	Himself
Cary Griffith	...	Himself
Katherine Haber	...	Herself
Daryl Hannah	...	Herself
Richard Hart	...	Himself (as Dick Hart)
Rutger Hauer	...	Himself
Ernest Holzman	...	Himself
James Hong	...	Himself
Joseph Kahn	...	Himself
Alan Ladd Jr.	...	Himself
Syd Mead	...	Himself
Virgil Mirano	...	Himself
Michele Moen	...	Herself
Ronald D. Moore	...	Himself
Dennis Muren	...	Himself
Stacey Nelkin	...	Herself
Edward James Olmos	...	Himself
Lawrence G. Paull	...	Himself
Morgan Paull	...	Himself
David Webb Peoples	...	Himself (as David Peoples)
Jerry Perenchio	...	Himself
Steven B. Poster	...	Himself
Ivor Powell	...	Himself
Tim Powers	...	Himself
Ana Maria Quintana	...	Herself
Terry Rawlings	...	Himself
Mark Romanek	...	Himself
Paul Sammon	...	Himself (as Paul M. Sammon)
Jake Scott	...	Himself
Jordan Scott	...	Herself
Luke Scott	...	Himself
Ridley Scott	...	Himself
Tony Scott	...	Himself
David L. Snyder	...	Himself
Tom Southwell	...	Himself
Mark Stetson	...	Himself
Guillermo del Toro	...	Himself
Douglas Trumbull	...	Himself
Kenneth Turan	...	Himself
Joe Turkel	...	Himself
Jeffrey Walker	...	Himself (as Jeff Walker)
M. Emmet Walsh	...	Himself
Marvin G. Westmore	...	Himself
Bud Yorkin	...	Himself
Sean Young	...	Herself
Richard Yuricich	...	Himself

También conocida como:

Dangerous Days (USA) (short title)

Duración:

USA:214 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Blade Runner Partnership

Trivialidades:

This feature-length documentary is featured on the Two-Disc Special Edition, Four-Disc Collector's Edition, and Five-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition (for DVD, HD DVD & Blu-Ray) DVDs for Blade Runner (1982), all released in December 2007.

Quotes:

Harrison Ford: It was a bitch.

Movie Connections:

References The Beastmaster (1982)

Longer than the film, Dangerous Days is best left to the fans.

The "Making Of" featurettes we see with DVDs sometimes grow into feature-length proportion. "Dangerous Days" takes its name from an early title for the "Blade Runner" movie, and it's beyond feature-length on its own.

This is a decent production, and a must-see for fans of the film. However, compared to other Making Of... featurettes, Dangerous Days is over long and might be dull for those who don't fully appreciate the source material.

To my mind, "Hearts of Darkness", the Making Of... documentary for "Apocalypse Now" is about the best Making Of... documentary there is. I would also include the full-length Making Of The Abyss as must-see viewing for science-fiction film buffs. Dangerous Days falls short of these.

Both "Apocalypse Now" and "The Abyss" featured film-making that went past the edge of human physical endurance. People were risking their lives and sanity to get the films made, and it shows as superior documentary-style drama. "Dangerous Days" mostly shows film-making that goes past the edge of endurance of the film crew for director Ridley Scott, and past the patience of the producers. Yes, it's dramatic, but not nearly as much as Martin Sheen about to get eaten by a ravenous tiger (Hearts Of Darkness) or Mary Elizabeth Mastrantionio nearly drowning at the bottom of a man-made water pit (Making Of The Abyss).

I would put Dangerous Days in roughly the same category as the Making Of... featurettes you get with the Star Wars DVDs, except that it is very long.

The pieces I found the most interesting were the features with Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, who were rival writers for the Blade Runner script, and the special visual effects segment which shows some of the thought process behind the particular model-making and lighting events in Blade Runner, without being all George-Lucasey in terms of the granularity of explanatory detail. Alternate screen tests also make for interesting viewing.