Blade Runner's history is insane.

This is just… such good analysis oh my god 😭 . This is why i love blade runner so much. It is so gorgeous and so awful and so human, and learning about the production of it adds a whole new layer of humanity to the story. The fact that there was even conflict from BEHIND the camera about what it all meant??? It makes it feel like its more than a movie. Both the production and the audience are drawn together trying to figure out truly what is Blade Runner. This is such such such a good video

I didn't like it when it first came out. Watching it on VHS was almost nostalgic. But then ... there was the internet, chat rooms, Blade Runner talk. I fell into the rabbit hole. To this day, I've watched it so many times. I know all the lines by memory. I truly love this movie. I would say, IF ANYTHING, the audio needs to be redone. More depth, more surround sound, more immersive. The opening scene with Deckard reading the paper, you should hear the crowd all around you. The cook calling him from the right speakers. The advertising blimp sound sweeping from the right side to the left side. That's my only suggestion to really spruce up a wonderful movie.

BAHAHA the cut to Mr Plinkett killed me 😂😂

These movies encapsulated the meaning of humanity. Sentience is to doubt your own existence yet needing to be special.

bro wake up Johnny Marks made a new vid- wait its HALF AN HOUR?!?!? BRO WAKE UP NOW

I am an original fan from 82.I had read the novel and the Marvel comic adaption before seeing the movie. As a young teen, I snuck into a showing Blade Runner and was tossed out by the theater staff. Eventually able to watch it on VHS. I always loved the voice over. I am also a believer that Decker was not a replicant. Without the Unicorn dream the interpretation was simple. Gaff did the matchstick showing he knew Deckard was a dick. Then when Deckard fond the origami unicorn we see two things. The first is Gaff had been there. The second, is that Gaff knew that Rachel was a one of kind unicorn.

HE'S BACK holy hell. half an hour. Johnny Marks has finally entered into long-form media commentary. another perfect essay from our boy and buddy Johnny Marks!

Oh he was COOKIN, wow I loved this video, loved the set and editing, and you taught me a few things about a movie I love, what more can you ask for?

I am someone who did not like blade runner the first time I saw it. This was a super interesting dive (with your usual insanely good production value) and makes me want to give the movie another shot!

Watched a few videos great stuff man really appreciate the work thank you 👍

Holy cow! Was excited to see your community post about a longer video and you delivered the goods. Incredible storytelling as always!

This is amazing. Great job!!!

Bladerunner 2049 is one of my favorite movies of all time.

Incredible video — this feels like the culmination of every other video you’ve made to date

Your videos are such exquisite joy!

I loved this video!!! Blade Runner is one of my all time favorite movies. I remember my dad and I watching it for the first time together a few years ago and going through this exact same arc. ASS is the best way to experience ambiguous media.

I'm very glad this showed up in my feed — I think it's a terrific exploration of Blade Runner (and to some extent its sequel). Thank you! PS - As a drama, isn't the story far more tragic if Deckard is not a replicant but he's so attached to someone who isn't "real" (and who may die soon)? I prefer to think of Deckard as human (non-replicant) and the unicorn as a symbol of the fabricated replicants — a symbol that haunts his dreams, a symbol that has a beautiful innocence untethered to the natural world. Ridley Scott is brilliant, but he's ultimately flawed regarding this film. Making Deckard a replicant is like Michelangelo sticking a rubber clown nose on his sculpture of David. But then, Michelangelo was also said to have been a bit of a dick.

I hit Subscribe when you said, "I love ASS." Seriously though, I appreciate how self-reflective you are about the stories you love. Cheers!

First, on the overall hate/love point, my contribution would be that initial boredom or ennui with the movies is precisely what leads to enduring love. If you read the film as straight copaganda (as many "fans" did early on, you put it aside as an actually forgetable action flick and don't think about it again until you're enraged that K isn't really the chosen one of his own story. On the other hand, an initially cool reception to a film you don't understand the reason for keeps your mind turning over it and growing into a realization of the great depth and nuance. I don't hate the unicorn. I don't love it, but I don't actually feel it collapses Deckard into a replicant. First of all, the relationship between Deckard and Gaff is incredibly murky. Most fan theory focuses on Deckard as replicant with Gaff being replaced by Deckard, even with Deckard being implanted with Gaff's memory, but why couldn't it actually be reversed? In this scenario, Deckard got out of Blade Running when he could afford to make a replicant with his skill. That replicant would age premarurely and upon meeting would emphasize to Deckard what his potential future had been. While I like both directions of uncanny valley antipathy, the human antipathy created by capitalism and its structures of violence are more compelling to me. I retain ambiguity supporting Deckard as human by looking to the idea of Jungian collective subconscious. Deckard's abstraction which first points to his own unique thoughts being his alone (and this loneliness being what makes him human) gives way to the realization that all human consciousnesses are generating memes from the same ether, that finding connection is the true mark of humanity. My only problem with 2049 was the growing rebellion trope. It just felt a bit shoved in and star wars-y in an otherwise concise movie. I know there was thought that this would generate a cash cow franchise, but the result would have been to turn blade runner into terminator without time travel if this was the line.

What a journey this video is!😂 And I totally agree. More please!