Killspeak

I’ve not liked much of what Scott has made, excepting Alien and Blade Runner. To me, his earlier films are worlds better than his latest ones. This new cut of Blade Runner has been a long time coming, and I’ve worried that it’ll end up bloated and distracted like Coppola’s Apocalypse Now: Redux (which would make Kingdom of Heaven Scott’s Jack, I guess). Ridley Scott is messing with something I really like. Sure, the Star Wars Special Editions are unforgivable, but Blade Runner is much closer to my nerdy heart.

So it was reassuring to find the following quote in a (somewhat misinformed) article in the New York Times:

“My original concept,” he said, “was almost operatic: the cadences, the deliberate pacing. I mean that in the sense of the best comic strips, the ones that adults read, which are very operatic. Batman—you can’t get more operatic than that.”

Batman? Yes. Fuck yes.
I’m all over those new DVDs.