Posted by Neil at 205.163.142.226 on January 18, 2000 at 18:26:33:
In Reply to: Re: DUNE and such posted by Flashman on January 18, 2000 at 16:42:15:
: I, and I suppose most everybody, was happy to see the voice-overs removed from the special edition (or whatever it's called) of BLADERUNNER, where they didn't work so well as they did in DUNE. I think serious students of film noir might have something to add to this observation, however.
I'm probably not a "serious" student of film noir, but as someone who likes to think he's seen a few. I didn't think the BLADE RUNNER VOs lived up to setting the mood. As I recall, no one was ever fully satisfied with any version of them, although I'd certainly be interested to read one of these drafts.
In fact, while various drafts of the screenplay had VOs that were intended to help set a noir mood. The ones that were ultimately used, however, were mandated by the studio to help move along parts of the story that they felt were too confusing.