RE: 'All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.'
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Bladerunner is maybe my favourite movie of all time. I remember watching it when I was a kid, which probably wasn't great as it's pretty intense, but it had a huge impact on me. Even back then, with the deep philosophical themes, it made me think. Pretty impressive achievement if you ask me, to make something so powerful that it even makes a little kid think about the nature of life, reality, humanity, death. Rutger Hauer actually rewrote the famous monologue at the end, adding the most powerful line himself "all those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain..." Just thinking about that scene makes me tear up a little. The scene and the monologue is beautiful and powerful and thought provoking, but it would only be half, maybe less, of what it is without the beautiful and delicate and mesmerizing score by Vangelis. The music is what takes it from powerful to absolutely epic.
There's definitely something about that Vangelis sound, something I also grew up with separately as actual tape/cd albums.
I never felt like the O.G. bladerunner was complicated which is probably one of the reasons it was so powerful, even to children. It's one of the main things making the sequel not as classic, since it was a bit of a drudge through muddy vision. But, the aesthetics were faithful and that just pulls at my heart strings whether I like it or not!
Philosophically, bladerunner has several parallels with the Japanese Ghost in the Shell, which is packed to the brim with difficult ideas in a dystopian future. Some people know how to do Sci-fi. Others do not ^__^
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Bro Ghost in the Shell is my second favourite anime, after Neon Genesis Evangelion. I did like Bladerunner 2049, but yeah it just didn't hit the same as the original.