Initially, it seemed incredible to me that a second guitar-maker would enter the market with a guitar named after the film Blade Runner; which, as great a film as it is, features neither a guitar nor any guitar-music for its duration. What could explain this seemingly totally unnecessary redundancy in the guitar marketplace? Perhaps the answer is more complex than we have yet realized. Perhaps the ‘licensed’ GUILD-brand Blade Runner Guitar was all too content to align itself with the orthodoxy imposed by the film’s producers (the same producers, naturally, that insisted on the inclusion of the humanizing ‘voice-over’ in the film’s theatrical release). Perhaps the ARIA-brand Blade Runner guitar was part of an alternate explanation of events, one that perhaps comes closer to the truth?
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Above: at left, Daryl Hannah as the character Pris in the film Blade Runner. At right: Some Model as Some Future Lady in the Aria Pro advert. The similarities beg the question: Is the man holding the guitar a surrogate for Roy Batty, the character with whom Pris was aligned in the film? Or is the man-with-guitar intended to represent Deckard, the protagonist of the film?
In the so-named ‘Aria Thesis,’ Deckard is the 6th Nexus replicant; here he is shown, before the crash landing, with Pris; Batty was in fact an interloper who usurped Pris’ affections after attempting to kill Deckard prior to the crash, in fact causing the crash. Batty attempted this murder by his indicated choice of killing technique: crushing the eyeballs into the brain. The Aria corporation signals this violation by covering Deckard’s violated eyes with their branded eyewear, eyewear that appears nowhere in the filmed narrative. In the Aria Thesis, the police force discover Deckard’s near-dead body; re-suit him with replacement eyes and unicorn dreams, and then set him to the task of capturing his former associates.
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No one played this crap on a real stage unless they were getting paid to do so. A lot.
Most people prefer to forget this crap ever happened....pawnshops are still packed with this stuff.
It is said that Isabella Rosselini's role in Blue Velvet was originally inspired by and intended for Deborah Harry. If that's so, maybe Ridley Scott wanted Stevie Nicks for Pris....
If that’s so, maybe Ridley Scott wanted Stevie Nicks for Pris….
A, it isn't and B, Stevie Nicks is no actress.
Harry is but she would have been too old for the part, and in 1982 she was not anywhere near established enough. Since then, events have shown it would have been a bad idea. She's a box office jinx.
Deb's never had a big hit onscreen, but then almost everything she's done has been pretty anticommercial. Did you think The Fluffer was going over in Peoria?
Joan Jett is arguably the bigger jinx. Or Britney Spears for that matter.