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Bonus video! Blade Runner secrets uncovered by Lance Loud (Patreon)

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2024-11-24 18:59:28
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2024-12-12 21:26:13
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2026-06
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Hello there!

I have a video coming for you next week (fingers crossed) about An American Family, the invention of reality television, and about the first gay reality star Lance Loud. For this week's bonus video, I want to take a look at Lance's later career as a pop culture journalist, and in particular a FASCINATING oral history that he wrote about the making of Blade Runner. He was able to get some fantastic stories on the record from the creative figures behind the film -- flubbed lines, legal squabbles, a drag fight that I find a little hard to believe, and why the movie made author William Gibson absolutely miserable.

You can read Lance's full article here: https://videoverite.tv/pages/llwritingbladerunner.html

And I invite you to argue with me about who are history's most important sci-fi writers over on Discord.

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Bonus video! Blade Runner secrets uncovered by Lance Loud

Hello there! I have a video coming for you next week (fingers crossed) about An American Family, the invention of reality television, and about he first gay reality star Lance Loud. For this week's bonus video, I want to take a look at Lance's later career as a pop culture journalist, and in particular a FASCINATING oral history that he wrote about the making of Blade Runner. He was able to get some fantastic stories on the record from the creative figures behind the film -- flubbed lines, legal squabbles, a drag fight that I find a little hard to believe, and why the movie made author William Gibson absolutely miserable. You can read Lance's full article here: https://videoverite.tv/pages/llwritingbladerunner.html And I invite you to argue with me about who are history's most important sci-fi writers over on Discord.

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Trevor MacIsaac

I love that scene in Indiana Jones. It's one of those scenes that never fails to make me laugh, not matter how many times I've seen it. The fact that it's due to Harrison Ford having really bad diarrhea, makes it funnier still. I never really got into Blade Runner. I saw it the same year that Strange Days (1995) came out, and with them both being futuristic movies, i couldn't help comparing them. As a young teenager, Strange Days was by far the more enjoyable and accessible film to me, so it's the one that I tend to took back with fonder eyes, and recommend to others. It would be interesting to see them both now as a double feature, and see how they would compare today. Speaking of comparing movies, and of Ridley Scott in particular, I had a chance to see his new film this weekend. Like the Barbenheimer of last year, his Gladiator 2 was able to be a part of a pretty epic double feature opportunity: The Glicked, where one sits through Gladiator 2 followed by Wicked Part 1. Or Wicked Part 1 followed by Gladiator 2 (although, I guess that would be Wadiator – which just sounds stupid….). Also, while Barbenheimer could be a bit of a slog (the second movie in that duology really made you feel every minute of this running length), this year’s edition just seemed to fly by. Although, you really couldn’t have found a better double feature suited to a Queer dude, with one being a film featuring one of the most successful (and utterly Queer-coded) musicals of all time, followed immediately by 2.5 hours of Pedro Pascal and Paul Mescal facing off with swords while wearing increasingly skimpier clothing. As was true with the epic double feature of last year, this year’s edition did contain some pretty unexpected similarities. Both are extensions of very celebrated earlier incarnations, and thus, have much to live up to. Both are movies about a hero, who is hiding pretty huge things about themselves, thrust into a vast, glitzy and entirely corrupt environment, with people who are looking to manipulate them for their own ends. Both heroes make alliances, and both are crossed and double crossed several times, to the point that you never know exactly who is actually on their side until the end. Both of these films were also truly epic, huge in scope and lush in execution, and both contain one unexpected MVP of the movie, who give an absolutely magnificent performance, with a complex and fascinating character arc that frankly overshadows that of the hero. In the case of Gladiator, that performance is Denzel Washington’s. The fact that Denzil gives a great performance is not a surprise, but that this supporting role was epic enough to completely push the nominal leads of Pedro Pascal and Paul Mescal to the fringe of the movie, that did indeed surprise me. Denzel plays Macrinus, the impresario of the Gladiators, similar to Oliver Reed’s Proximo in the original film. In this role, Denzel channels all of his charm and sneer that he brought to his Oscar winning villain in Training Day in 2001. His Macrinus is duplicitous, cruel and utterly amoral, while simultaneously being charismatic, beguiling and utterly magnetic. He is every bit the wheel on which all the action of the story turns, and all the other characters are merely puppets within his machinations. It truly is a performance for the ages. In the case of Wicked, that performance is Ariana Grande’s. Typically, I don’t have high hopes for singers turned actors, add to that, the role of Glinda is probably the most complex in the whole movie (and one of the most complex in musical theater as a whole). Ariana absolutely nails it. Glinda begins the story as someone utterly vapid, you’re typical blond, mean-girl type. Over the course of the film though, all of Glinda’s hidden layers seep through, like her determination, her frustrations, her fears, and ultimately her compassion. These layers often war with her persona as she goes through the story, and the difference between the play and the film, is that in the film, you see all of these different sides of her playing on her face, often simultaneously. It’s mesmerising, and plus, she sounds absolutely fantastic on the songs. She’s the perfect accompaniment to Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba (who also gives an absolutely fantastic performance in her own right). While I’m not going to start going out and buying all her albums, I would be very interested to see where she chooses to go with acting, because she has real talent there as well. These movies were not without their flaws, big and small. Given that, I don’t know if either of them will crack my top 10 list at the end of the year. What I do know, is that even with their flaws, they added up to a great day at the movie theater for me. I look forward to whatever epically strange double feature that 2025 will come up with.

Leotha Boyd

Love Willam Gibson, his books are fantastic, but before Gibson you have Philip k Dick, the guy who's book is the basic for blade runner, even if that tititle doesn't appear anywhere in the novel. Still like do androids dream of electorate sheep better than blade Runner. Also PK Dick is one of the top 10 science fiction writers ever, and I'll fight you on this one. Just above Harlan Ellison, ( who's possibly the king of late 20th century short story writing. Fight you on that one too) btw.. game time. Everyone who puts up a post list their top 5 or ten science fiction writer. I will add my list later. It's mostly older writers ( one of them is queer ) guess which one

Leotha Boyd

My list of the top ten science fiction writers. Some of these will surprise some of you. 1. Mary Shelley, for the last man. I added the novel because few people knows she wrote more than one book 2.Jules Verne 3 HG Wells 4.Edgar Allen Poe 5 Isaac Asimov 6 Authur Clark 7 Alfred Bestet 8 Robert Heinlein 9 Ursula k LeGuin 10 David Gerrold 11 Jack Willamson 12 Harlan Ellison 13 Phillips k Dick 14 E.E. Smith.( if not for this guy no green lantern ) 15 Nancy Kress My top ten turned into a top fifteen, fight me. It could easily have been a top 20. Couldn't leave the ladies out. After all they started the whole thing.

Zardogs! Zardogs!

You just outed Syd Mead to me! I never knew he was gay. Absolutely incredible artist.

Dee Chatterton

I assume you know that Lance Loud had a bit part as one of the "Class A Gays" in the first episode of Tales of the City

Darren Simon

If you like WG, watch "No Maps for These Territories". Really had an impact on me when it came out.