This sci-fi movie with Harrison Ford on HBO Max has a cinema-changing ending

Probably the last century saw some of the biggest and most important book adaptations for the big screen in the science fiction genre, there is ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, ‘Dune’ or even ‘Jurassic Park’. However, there was a sci-fi movie starring Harrison Ford, now available on HBO Max, that changed the way cinema is perceived forever.

After starring in two of the most important Disney franchises such as ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Indiana Jones’, Harrison Ford was looking for a more “serious” role to play not only in blockbusters. On the recommendation of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott considered Ford for a new science fiction film what I had in mind.

So it was in 1982 Harrison Ford starred ‘Blade Runner’, a science fiction film that adapted the story of’ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ‘ by Phillip K. Dick. The story of the film was a combination of the neo-noir style (something like dark yellow), with cyberpunk, a current in the genre that had been promoted by works like William Gibson’s “Akira” or “Neuromancer”.

Despite having Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard, ‘Blade Runner’ it was a box office flopattendees said it was too “confusing” and “boring”, forcing the producer, Warner Bros. Pictures, to release an edition after its release, which changed the ending, added a rumor explaining some aspects, but that has done nothing but continue to fail.

The cuts, the new ending and the monologue of ‘Blade Runner’

Critics and audiences have responded negatively to the premiere of Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner”, which tells the story of Rick Deckard, an agent tasked with “removing” some androids that have come to Earth, and are much more strong and more agile than any human being. In 1997 an edition was released which was dubbed “Director’s Cut”, making it one of the first films in DVD format and which added some new features.

Since its premiere, seven versions of “Blade Runner” have been released, each with a montage that adds or removes things, it was until 2007 that Ridley Scott released “Final Cut”, the final cut and the best way to see this. tape, which is the one on HBO Max. There is a lot of debate surrounding this film, but one of the aspects that sparked the most discussion was Rutger Hauer’s monologue.

There are many reasons why ‘Blade Runner’ changed cinema, from its aesthetics, its complex narrative, its existential themes and what it meant for modern science fiction, but undoubtedly one of the most fundamental aspects is the monologue of ‘ Blade Runner ‘, the one in which, without giving too many spoilers, Rutger Hauer, who played Roy Batty, improvised some of the most stimulating and melancholy dialogues in the history of art in general.