tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post1513127978179591117..comments2024-02-24T18:30:26.749-07:00Comments on prairiemary: BLADE RUNNER IN WHEAT COUNTRYUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-13754873042709621432009-06-28T11:07:19.166-06:002009-06-28T11:07:19.166-06:00The confirmation below is thanks to Dave Lull, who...The confirmation below is thanks to Dave Lull, who comes through so faithfully.<br /><br />http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/archive/2003_01_17_archive.asp#90199532<br /><br /><br />OH WELL, WHILE I’M HERE: BLADERUNNER<br /><br />BLADERUNNER came out while I was still writing Neuromancer. I was about a third of the way into the manuscript. When I saw (the first twenty minutes of) BLADERUNNER, I figured my unfinished first novel was sunk, done for. Everyone would assume I’d copped my visual texture from this astonishingly fine-looking film. But that didn’t happen. Mainly I think because BLADERUNNER seriously bombed in theatrical release, and films didn’t pop right back out on DVD in those days. The general audience didn’t seem to get it, relatively few people saw it, and it simply vanished, leaving nary a ripple. Where it went, though, was straight through the collective membrane to Memetown, where it silently went nova, irradiating everything from clothing-design to serious architecture. What other movie has left actual office-buildings in its stylistic wake? Some of this was alrteady starting to happen in the gap between my submission of the manuscript and the novel’s eventual publication; I noted with interest, for instance, the fact of a London club called Replicants.<br /><br />Years later I had lunch with Ridley Scott at The Ivy and we discussed mutual influences. French comics, bigtime! METAL HURLANT.Mary Strachan Scriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00538160009129822362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-19604374952945721042009-06-28T05:46:18.929-06:002009-06-28T05:46:18.929-06:00William Gibson has sometimes claimed he fled the t...<b>William Gibson</b> has sometimes claimed he fled the theatre after the first 10 minutes of <i>Blade Runner</i> when he first saw it because it was too much like what he was trying to get down on paper. His <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer" rel="nofollow">Neuromancer</a> pretty much singlehandedly got the whole cyberpunk thing going.Whisky Prajerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076228013022881173noreply@blogger.com