{"id":3978,"date":"2010-10-23T22:49:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T05:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=3978"},"modified":"2010-10-23T22:49:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T05:49:58","slug":"on-watching-blade-runner-again-for-the-first-time-in-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/10\/23\/on-watching-blade-runner-again-for-the-first-time-in-15-years\/","title":{"rendered":"On watching Blade Runner for the first time in 15 years."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had forgotten that Blade Runner is a movie about illegal aliens being hunted to death by a cop turned bounty hunter in a Los Angeles abandoned by anyone with means*, where Los Mimilocos Mazacote y Orquesta are the headliners at the Bradbury theater and noodle stands are the norm; a SoCal where the weather is inside out and the fugitives are runaway slaves, destined to die young.<\/p>\n<p>I had also forgotten just how economical the movie is in its story telling, both dialogue and plot. Not a great deal happens and what does happen has been done a dozen times before: a police interrogation, a cabaret, a foot chase, broken fingers, gun shots, a rooftop chase and the hero dangling over a tall ledge. <\/p>\n<p>Yet the disciplined chiaroscuro, the impeccable wardrobe, the tension crammed into almost every scene makes it grind forward towards The End: the inevitability of death that only romantic love makes tolerable.<\/p>\n<p><small>*As Ana puts it, when the plot begins with Leroy&#8217;s interrogation, he&#8217;s in Secondary Inspection.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had forgotten that Blade Runner is a movie about illegal aliens being hunted to death by a cop turned bounty hunter in a Los Angeles abandoned by anyone with means*, where Los Mimilocos Mazacote y Orquesta are the headliners at the Bradbury theater and noodle stands are the norm; a SoCal where the weather&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}