CHER@WASHINGTON.ARPA (02/01/84)
From: Cher Gunby <CHER@WASHINGTON.ARPA> Over the past few days, Ridley Scott's name has been tossed about concerning the Apple MacIntosh ad...and yes, he did direct "Alien" however, he did not direct "Blade Runner". His brother, Tony Scott directed it. Both are quite talented and seem to have a geniune "feel" for the sf genre. Credit where credit is due, please.... cher gunby univ. of washington (cher@washington) -------
NICHOLSON@SU-SCORE.ARPA (02/02/84)
From: Buster Nicholson <NICHOLSON@SU-SCORE.ARPA> Saul, Could you please remove me from the SF-LOVERS mailing list. I have not been able to digest the material efficiently and it is taking up disk space at an incredible rate. It would be easier for me to FTP the literature at my leisure. Thanks, Buster Nicholson. -------
EHL%MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP (02/02/84)
From: Edward H. Lay <EHL @ MIT-MC>
I saw an SF film on TV once that I thought was okay. The only scene
I remember is one in where the protagonists were standing in some kind
of huge underground cave with a line of bodies on slabs stretching off
into the distance. One of the protagonists was some kind of guardian,
and the bodies were all of the past guardians, or something like that.
Strange how one evocative scene can make a movie (or score, for that
matter. Would SW have won without such a damn good theme?).
Anyone know the title? I thought I'd throw it into the film
discussion.
-- Scott R. Turner
v.srt@ucla-locus
The film you are thinking of is called the QUESTOR TAPES. The
guardian was the last of a series of androids whose mission was to
guide the human race into maturity (I forget who sent them or why).
Each android would eventually wear out (after 100-200 yrs.) and then
build his replacement. The problem with Questor (I think that was his
name) was that the govt, in trying to find out what he was, accidently
erased part of his initial programming tape. He then spent the rest
of the movie trying to understand what his original purpose was. In
this search, he was accompanied by a human who was on the engineering
team that helped the previous android create him.
I think that the movie was meant to be the pilot for a TV series in
which Questor and his human companion would travel around the
world--helping out the human race in subtle and obscure ways.
Some (trivia) questions about the Apple commercial or someone out
there with a VCR and freeze frame:
(1) What is on the girl's T-shirt?
It appears to have a picture (very abstract) of a MacIntosh with an
apple to the left of it.
(2) What is written on the back wall of the large
auditorium?
You got me...eich@uiuccsb.UUCP (02/06/84)
#R:sri-arpa:-1622800:uiuccsb:15500017:000:353 uiuccsb!eich Feb 5 03:10:00 1984 Ridley Scott did so direct Blade Runner. Tony Scott directed only one film, The Hunger. They both started directing commercials. Ridley Scott did the highly-stylized, effects-laden Channel no. #xxfoo ad with the airplane shadow ascending the Transamerica Pyramid, accompanied by "I don't want to set the world on fire". Brendan Eich uiucdcs!eich