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Harrison Ford<\/a> is now established as one of the more charming members of the Hollywood elite, but his position hasn\u2019t always been guaranteed. <\/p>\n The actor, famed for his roles in Star Wars<\/a> and Indiana Jones, hasn\u2019t always been the family-friendly ragamuffin he has come across as in his latter years. For some time, he operated with a far more caustic tongue, an organ he unleashed not just on the work of others but even his own movies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Ridley Scott\u2019s 1982 picture Blade Runner, the movie adaptation of Phillip K Dick\u2019s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is often cited as the perfect rainy day film<\/a>, one of the greatest movies of all time, let alone one of the pioneering moments of science fiction. The film starred Ford as the titular Blade Runner, Rick Deckard and Rutger Hauer, as the android replicant Roy Batty. <\/p>\n However, despite the film\u2019s undoubted excellence, Harrison Ford expressed his regrets over Blade Runner last year when he presented the Academy Award for \u2018Best Editing\u2019. He pulled out a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket and reeled off several \u201ceditorial suggestions\u201d about the film he had written after watching an early screening of it.<\/p>\n \u201cOpening too choppy,\u201d Ford said<\/a>. \u201cWhy is this voiceover track so terrible? He sounds drugged. Were they all on drugs? Dekker at the piano is interminable. The flashback dialogue is confusing. Is he listening to a tape? Why do we need the third cut to the eggs? The synagogue music is awful on the street. We\u2019ve got to use Vangelis. Up to Zora\u2019s death, the movie is deadly dull\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThis movie gets worse every screening\u201d.<\/p>\n Harrison Ford<\/p>\n Ford was particularly annoyed about the voiceover recording. He said he \u201cwas obliged by my contract to record that narration, which [he] found awkward and uninspired\u201d. In fairness to Ford, Scott also felt that the voiceover was poor and removed it from the film\u2019s 2007 director\u2019s cut version.<\/p>\n What\u2019s often forgotten is that Blade Runner wasn\u2019t greeted with universal acclaim when it first arrived in British cinemas. While some critics recognised its ambition, many others found it slow, confusing and visually overwhelming. Audiences expecting another Harrison Ford adventure in the mould of Star Wars or Raiders of the Lost Ark instead found themselves confronted with a bleak, rain-soaked future where the questions mattered more than the action. In that context, Ford\u2019s frustrations with the narration and pacing reflected concerns that were being voiced far beyond the editing suite.<\/p>\n Further reading: Cutting Room Floor<\/p>\n Discussing the complicated nature of editing a film, Ford added: \u201cThe possibilities may seem endless, but the editor will work tirelessly, often in isolation, to make thousands of choices, placing the right piece of the right length in the right order to arrive at the best version of what the movie wants to be. It\u2019s an extremely difficult process, not for the impatient, not for the faint of heart.\u201d<\/p>\n Confirming the actor\u2019s position as one of the more difficult contributors to any production, Scott once claimed that Ford was the \u201cbiggest pain in the ass\u201d he had ever worked with. \u201cHe\u2019ll forgive me because now I get on with him,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n \u201cNow he\u2019s become charming. But he knows a lot, that\u2019s the problem. When we worked together, it was my first film up, and I was the new kid on the block. But we made a good movie.<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n Time has been kind to both men\u2019s positions. Scott ultimately got the version of Blade Runner he always wanted, while Ford\u2019s complaints have become part of the film\u2019s legend rather than a dodgy black mark against it. In fact, many fans now regard the removal of the narration as one of the key improvements that helped transform the picture from an admired cult classic into a contender for the greatest film ever made<\/a> \u2013 and who could argue with that?<\/p>\n Blade Runner is regarded as one of the most enduring works of the 20th century. It would shape science fiction as we know it and further push Harrison Ford\u2019s career into the stratosphere. With this one role, Ford would establish himself not only as a family-forward favourite, built on charm and snappy one-liners, but also situate himself among the more serious actors in Hollywood. He may not like it, but Deckard would round out the humanity of Ford<\/a> and make him a legend in yet one more way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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