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[johnnysuedejr]

BLADE RUNNER 2049 (2017): REVIEW

I am a huge fan of the original Blade Runner film (to clarify I mean the Final Cut anytime i refer to "the original"). I couldn't see this in theaters during its initial run and in some ways avoided the film because I didn't want to be potentially disappointed. The marketing at the time was (rightfully) vague and I wasn't sure if Denis Villeneuve had the chops to pull it off. But after seeing Dune in theaters in 2021 I knew I needed to finally give this one a shot but continued putting it off. My brother brought it up this week while I was visiting family and I agreed we should watch it while I was there... well, I am happy to say that I absolutely am impressed and floored by the sheer magnitude of this film and the only thing that would have made it better is to watch it on the IMAX screen it was clearly intended for.

For a film like Blade Runner to get a "legacy" sequel at all is honestly wild to me, but for it to work in the way it does is fucking insane. It pairs perfectly with the first film and doesn't try to recreate the magic of it but instead building upon what was already established while forging its own tone and pacing. Villeneuve's approach to capturing the visuals of that universe is so eloquently executed that it's hard to imagine anyone else (even Ridley Scott himself) being able to bring that universe back to life in a way that feels organic and real, especially 35 years after the fact.

The story is so fucking clever and it's inspiring to see a legacy sequel not rest on the laurels of the past but instead organically take it to an interesting place that doesn't feel forced or unwarranted. They also could have easily phoned it in, easily could have made Harrison Ford a focal point instead of letting Gosling lead the story, they could have easily just made a beat for beat remake of the original film. But they didn't. They took risks, they subverted expectation, and we got an incredibly inspired film because of that.

Gosling is phenomenal here. He's phenomenal in anything he does but his performance here is so grounded and real. He has the chops to have one on one scenes with a legend like Harrison Ford and seem comparable to him. The entire cast is brilliant and I'll even hand it to Jared Leto in that he was selling the sinister nature of his character without overselling it, which I feel can be more of a testament to Villeneuve's direction more than anything but still. Sylvia Hoeks... Ana de Armas... That is all.

My only gripe is the pacing of a few scenes just feeling a tad too slow in the moment of my first watch but I think I can chalk that up to pure anticipation with the story. Outside of that? This is a perfect sequel to a film I already love to death. Can't wait to watch them both back to back someday soon. Truly blown away and happy. Also happy that this film has somehow never been spoiled for me, I was genuinely taken aback at times and I would have been pissed if any of what I saw was spoiled for me before tonight. Bravo.

5/5

[calamiitywrites]

If I turned my Wallace imagine into a fanfic....would you guys read it? Do we like Wallace? Do I write him ok?

(Reply; let me know )

[theartofimagining13]

(October) Imagine:

You were Niander Wallace’s best creation. He was very proud of you. But when you started to have thoughts and aspirations of your own, he thought you were damaged because you had been bred to obey. You started to see and feel like a human, you even started to feel attracted to him. He realized this and took advantage. He started to court you, made you feel loved, all so he could easily destroy you and build you up again, heartless, like you were supposed to. 

[glitterysummerkitty]

Jared Leto

Source:  http://jesuisuneloveuse.tumblr.com/post/51065995888/64-quand-je-veux-jouer-la-bagarre-avec-mon

Taken from- Giphy.com

Jared Leto One Shot

Pairing- Jared Leto x Reader

Warnings- None

       An unmistakably loud cracking sound rupture through the dark and cold winter night and you feel your heart stop for a split second. The whole scenario seemed like a scene out of those movies that you always hated and you, sub- consciously, pulled yourself further into the alley, seeking refuge within the thick shadows that the tall buildings on either side casted. You hear another loud growl followed by a thud before everything turns silent. There had been two people, two strangers- one tried to mug you while the other tried to intervene and save you. You hope that the sound of cracking jaw you just heard belonged to the man who mugged you and not the other way around.

      A minute passes giving way to few more minutes as you sat huddled silently, afraid to even breathe. You couldn’t see anyone or hear anything in the dimly lit street, except for a dark silhouette of an unconscious man collapsed on the street. You didn’t know which one of them it was and didn’t have any intentions of risking your life to find out.

      In the stillness of the night, a dull noise accompanied with the vibration of your phone rattles you and before you can stop yourself, a small yelp breaks free and you slap your hand against your mouth. With the other hand you fish out the phone, knowing that as silent as it was, the sound of your phone vibrating could be easily heard by anyone who was nearby. You see that its your mother calling and find yourself torn between wanting to pick up her call and asking for help and not wanting to worry her. After all what could your mother do all the way from the other end of the Country?

      While you were still contemplating, you notice the shadow of a man walking towards you in quick strides. Before you could even react you find yourself staring at a bloodied face. You hear a loud scream and notice the frown on the face of the man who had just saved you. Suddenly you realise that the scream came from no one but you and look at him slightly embarrassed. You watch him curiously as his frown grows deeper, with a growing emotion which you identify as concern.

“Are you alright? Can you stand up?”, he asks and you look at him marvelled.

“Am I ok? Are you ok? You look like you took a lot of beating.”, you say, as you try to stand up on your wobbly legs. You lose your footing and are about to crash land on your butt on to the pavement when the handsome stranger rescues you once again by catching you just in time.

“Easy there, darling.”, he groans slightly in pain and you quickly try to stand straight again, taking support of the wall.

“I am so sorry.”, you say quickly. You hear the sound of sirens wailing from a distance and looked up the vacant street confused.

“I called for help. That guy is only unconscious. He might need a ride to the hospital before hauling his ass in prison.”, he muttered.

“You are hurt so much. I am so sorry.”, you mumble not knowing what to say.

“It’s not your fault. Stop saying sorry for something that isn’t even your fault.”, he replies as he hobbles onto the street. He waves his hand at the approaching patrol car with the ambulance right behind it.

“Officers. Good evening! I was the one who made the call. This man here was trying to mug this lovely lady and I happened to be passing by and when I saw what was happening I tried to stop him but it seems like he didn’t want to go without a fight.”, he explains to the officer, who took down everything that the stranger said, while the paramedics wheeled away the unconscious man on a gurney.

      There were more questions and each time the stranger answered the other officer kept scratching at his pad furiously. They ask you a few questions too but you couldn’t focus much on it, since, for one you were still shocked by the whole thing and secondly you couldn’t get over the fact that you recognised this man from somewhere. You couldn’t recollect when and where but you were sure you had seen the stranger who has rescued your life somewhere before.

“Thank you Mr Leto for your co-operation. You look like you could use a ride to the hospital. Hop in and we can take you to the nearest hospital.”, the officer suggests pointing at the wound on his forehead against which Mr Leto pressed a cloth that one of the paramedic had given, and all you can think of is how that last name sounded awfully familiar.

“I would like to accompany you.”, you speak up getting the men’s attention instantly.

“Ahh... That won’t be needed mam. Officer Chad here will drop you home. Make sure you reach home safely.”, he replies but you shake your head vigorously.

“He’s in this mess because of me. It’s the least I can do.”, you reply.

“For the love of God woman. Would you stop blaming yourself already? You didn’t get me into the mess. I chose to intervene. What sort of a person would I be if I ignored my duties as a citizen.”, Mr Leto says slightly smirking. You look between him and the officer adamantly and watch them both give up after a moment.

      Soon you find yourself in the back of the squad car riding towards the hospital along with Mr Leto. As you watch the slumbering city and its sleepy streets pass by you pick at your brain hard to try and remember why the man seated next to you seemed so familiar.

“Ms Y/L/N, you will be required to come down to the station first thing tomorrow morning to file a report.”, you hear the officer say and look ahead at him before humming in response.

      As you reach the hospital you hop out the car and wait by the curb as the officer finishes talking to Mr Leto.

“Oh by the way Mr Leto. I know this is totally inappropriate but I can’t help but ask if you could give me an autograph. It’s for my wife actually. She’s a huge fan. Watched every one of your damn movies.”, the officer grunts and that’s when it hits you.

“Oh my God! You are Jared Leto!”, you nearly screech catching other people’s attention. Jared simply shakes his head and laughs before obliging the officer and walking into the building with you following him with a thunderstruck expression on your face.

      You have never encountered a celebrity before and so you didn’t know exactly how to behave at the moment. As you walked into the ER, still reeling with the fact that the Jared Leto had come to your rescue, a nurse stops you but Jared puts out his hand and tell him, “She’s with me.”

“I know sir but no one is allowed into the ER. Sorry.”, he smiles apologetically. You catch Jared giving you an apologetic rigid smile and you just nod and say, “No problem. I will wait outside.”

“Are you sure? I mean I can ask Officer ‘I am not your fan but my wife is’ to come around and take you home.”, he says but you laugh and wave him off. You notice something similar to relief in his eyes before he turns and leaves.

      An hour later you see Jared exiting the ER with a different nurse, a young female and a beautiful one at that too, and notice her fawning and tripping on her own feet trying to cause an impression on the actor. You laugh inwardly as you walk towards him. He sees you and smiles warmly and you take note of the obvious tiredness.

“Hello there. How are you doing?”, he says, as you reach him.

“I am fine. How are you feeling now? What did the doctors have to say?”, you ask, eyeing the bandage around his head and the crepe band around his hand with concern. Besides that he also had a bruised cheek, which has turned bluish, and a busted lip

“Nothing to worry at all. He also gave me these ‘feel good’ pills.”, he smiles down at you.

“Exactly how many of these have you already popped.”, you ask him strongly suspecting that his languid state had something to do with these ‘feel good pills’ as he put it.

“Two or maybe three. I don’t know.”, he says. You shake your head slightly and take his arm in your hand.

“Come on let’s get you home.”, you mumble.

“No, no, no... I should be the one to take you home. I need to make sure you are safe.”, he objects but allows you to guide him out the hospital.

“I can get home Mr Leto. You have already done enough for me tonight.”, you say.

“No. Absolutely no. It’s my duty to get you home safe.”, he argues.

“Alright. We will go to my place... And maybe you can stay there.”, you say thinking only about his state.

      When he doesn’t answer you look up and see him smirking mischievously and you realise what you had said and try to retract.

“I meant you can take the couch.”, you say smiling slyly.

“Ouch! That’s really hurt me.”, he says. You laugh and hail a cab.

“By the way you know my name but I don’t know yours. It doesn’t seem fair.”, he says as you both get in the car.

      You give the driver your address before turning to Jared and answer, “I am Y/N. And thank you Mr Leto for saving me. I don’t know what would have happened if you hadn’t come when you did.”, you shiver as you recollect the traumatic event of the evening.

“Hey. It’s ok. Everything’s fine.”, he says as he wraps a hand around your shoulder and brings you closer to his side. “And you can call me Jared.”, he says before pressing a kiss on the top of your head.

“By the way, you can totally reward me for my heroic act by allowing me to take you out for dinner.”, he says after a while of silent contemplation.

[comingupforblair]

I hope that, when the Joker appears again, his performance and character is similar to Jared Leto’s performance in Blade Runner 2049 because he was fantastic in that.

[angelkurenai]

Imagine Jared letting it slip that you’ve been together for very long during an interview.

“Who is...” Conan laughed softly “I think I know the answer to this, myself. Who is (Y/n)'s favorite character?”

You laughed, your head hanging in shame as Ryan laughed next to you and you glanced to see Harrison chuckle softly to himself “Conan what did I ever do to you?!” you exclaimed as the host laughed.

“No, seriously nothing!” he raised his hands “I didn't choose this questions, I swear!” he laughed, leaning back in his chair and you bit your lip, glancing to your right to see your husband already scribbling his answer on his small white board with a wide adorable smile on.

Husband, well, in secret. The amount of people that knew about it, considering that you were both famous, was surprisingly small especially since you've been together for a good six years. But you loved keeping it low, just enjoying the privacy and being just the two of you without your relationship being all over the media. Not that all this quiet didn't have it's drawbacks, you couldn't go for a walk just holding hands like most couples.

“Why must I get all the embarrassing questions?” you asked, practically at nobody as you looked at the audience.

“Uh uh you must write your answer!” Ana said with a smirk and you tried to glare at her but you just couldn't keep your smiled off your face.

“You already know it, what's the point?” you huffed as Ryan laughed more to your left. You hit him on the side with your elbow but he didn't stop, so you just tried to give him the meanest “I hate you” you could muster but he just brushed it off.

“I hate this game already.” you muttered, writing your own answer.

“Alright, ready?” Conan asked as you all gave him nods.

You were playing a game of questions to see how well you knew each other while promoting your new movie, Blade Runner 2049. You were very surprised when you first found out you would be getting to chance not only to work with such amazing actors and directors, not only your husband but also be his love interest in it. That alone made the number of people that shipped accelerate to a great amount, to the point that during the movie's premiere your shipping name was trending on twitter along with the title of the movie itself.

“Yep, I'll go first!” Ana said with an excited smile , she was included in the few people that knew about you and Jared, after she had walked in on the two of you in his trailer that is “Mr Neander Wallace.” she said with an accent, grinning as you laughed at her.

“Alright, Harrison?” Conan asked and with a smirk the man turned his own white board.

“Mr Wallace.” he said, glancing at Ryan.

“Neander.” the younger man said with a grin and you gave him a look, because he loved teasing the life out of you about it.

“Jared?” Conan asked and the moment your husband turn his board he broke into a wide childlike grin, closing his eyes.

“Me!” he exclaimed, glancing at you “I mean, yeah Neander as well but we all know-” he put a suggestive look on his face “It's all actually me!” and he gave you a playful wink that truth was he actually meant, but maybe it seem all comical.

You scoffed, laughing with a shake of your head at him as the crowd cheered at the two of you “Alright, yeah it's Neander.” you smiled shyly, shrugging as you turned your own board.

“Yes!” Jared cheered, raising his fist in the air and you giggled as the audience went on with encouraging you. Oh if only they knew.

“Yeah, I was gonna vote for that as well!” Conan chuckled, checking his next question as you whipped off the name from your board.

“I was going to say your lovely hubby, but that seemed too straightforward.” Jared leaned in to whisper in your ear and you chuckled, giving him a look.

Oh how many times you were going to see the photo or video of this moment on instagram in a few hours. It seemed like the smallest thing the two of you did would go either viral, like that first video of you two, or moments in interviews like this.

“And the next one is for Jared.” Conan said, gaining your attention “What is Jared's... favorite scene?”

“My favorite scene.” Jared mumbled as he thought about it.

“What could your favorite scene be?” Ryan asked, glancing at Jared.

“Does it have to include him or not?” Harrison asked and Conan shrugged.

“Anything, just his favorite scene. Whether he is in it or not.” he said and Harrison looked down at his board in thought.

“My favorite scene.” Jared mumbled again “My favorite. My fave-”

You were in deep thought as well, trying to think of something until it dawned on you, and probably him because he stopped. You looked up, your back straight and face already red “No!” you exclaimed, seeing the grin already spread on his face “No, hell no!”

“No, Conan!” you pointed at him with your marker “Stop, nope. Skip. Skip, we ain't answering that. No. Cut. Enough, nada. Nopity nope! Skip, skip!” your voice came out squeaky as somewhere in between Jared started laughing and you saw your costars smile knowingly.

“No, forget it! Skip, skip!” you shook your head stubbornly as even more people from the audience realized it was probably the heated bed scene you two had in the movie before you character ran away.

“He's not answering that, he's not-” you looked at your husband who had a mischievous smile on his face “Jared Joseph Leto I swear if you dare answer that question you are sleeping on the couch!” you had never used that threat, because you were nothing like most couples, but he always found it amusing to see you act like this.

The audience didn't get it, neither the host, but your costars did and everybody laughed. You husband almost to tears “That's-” he whipped away a tear as he looked at you with a wide grin before glancing at the crowd that calmed down.

“This-” he said with such pride “Is just why I married this woman!” he exclaimed, as he looked at you full of love and before you could even look fully surprised, he grabbed your face and kissed you; making the audience go wild.

[onxeuponanimagine]

Jared Imagine

Someone flirts with you You and your boyfriend Jared were at a party for a mutual friend of yours, Robert Downey Jr. he was having a party for his new movie that just came out so you both decided to go and support your friend. You were a screen writing and met both Robert and your boyfriend through your job. Your relationship with Jared was very new, you only been together for a few months and you were in the stage where it was loving and private. The only ones that knew you are even together were your families. And you both wanted it to stay that way, so you arrived separately. You arrived first and after saying hello to Robert you want to get a drink, when you ran, literally, into Sebastian Stan. Spilling his drink all over him. "oh crap I'm so sorry." You apologized. Sebastian just smiled at you. " it's all good.." " Y/n" " then it is all good y/n." "I'm really sorry Sebastian." He smiled again before saying, " if you want to make it up to me you can accompany me to get another one." You agreed and both walked over to the bar. You and Sebastian were both at the bar laughing and drinking when Jared arrived. You smiled and sent a wave his way before turning back to Sebastian. Jared could feel himself burning with jealousy as he watched you and Sebastian laugh together. He knew you would never cheat on him but he couldn't stand seeing someone else making you laugh and being so close to you. He just wanted to walk over to you and kiss you so everyone knew that you were his. " So Y/N are you seeing anyone?" Sebastian asked moving closer to you. You smiled nervously. " Um yeah I'm seeing this guy." "Oh that's too bad he is a very lucky man." He smiled at you and before you could responded you were grabbed around the waist and kissed passionately. You instantly knew who those lips belong to and kissed back. Jared pulled away. " Yes I am I really lucky guy to have the privilege to be with Y/N." You blushed before kissing his cheek. " Let's get Out of here N/N." you nodded and said goodbye to Sebastian as Jared walk you to his car and took you home reminding you that you were his and how much he loves you. Sorry the ending is crap hope you liked it

[samprestonbigbadabruce]

Film Premise Challenge: One Director, Two Actors, One Genre - Entry Seven.

This will be a semi-regular series, where someone has to nominate a Director, minimum of two Actors, and a Genre, preferably ones who have not worked together before. I will then come up with a premise / story based on those parameters. Some of these may be more detailed than others, but overall, it’s mainly a bit of fun. If anybody would like to submit an idea, then please do!

Entry Seven, the director nominated is...Rian Johnson. The nominated actors, of which there were two, are...David Bowie, and Aubrey Plaza. The chosen genre is...Noir.

I admit, this was originally suggested back in 2019, but I like to imagine it occurred between 2012 and 2016 (when Bowie passed away), after Looper was released in 2012.

Brick-inspired spiritual sequel but in black and white ala scenes from Legion.  David Bowie is tracking down a con man who turns out to be Aubrey Plaza, who begins to steal Bowie's identity. This is complicated when a hitman ends up on both their trails, an identity shattering psychotic noir.

I’d imagine Plaza in a style similar to her character in the first season of Legion, I thought Bowie copying Plaza would be both more obvious & blander, whereas Bowie as a noir detective would have been amazing & Plaza could push the boundaries copying him, especially the androgynous style of both. 

With Bowie’s unfortunate passing, I’d love to hear suggestions of who people would have in the Bowie role, but not Jared Leto like in Blade Runner 2049, please?

[wazafam]

As the saying goes, if at first you don’t succeed, sign on to a Marvel property. After the backlash Jared Leto received for his portrayal of the Joker in Suicide Squad, the actor jumped the DC ship, and he’s now playing Morbius, the living vampire from the Marvel Universe.

RELATED: Venom And 9 Previous Movie Villains Who Should Return For MCU’s Spider-Man 3

It isn’t technically part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but there some strange links between them that are yet to be cleared up, which is one of the reasons to be excited about the movie. However, given the strange premise, as it’s about a doctor who inadvertently becomes a vampire after trying to cure himself of his rare blood disease, it’s a hard sell. Regardless, these are movies that will get any cinephile in the mood to see the upcoming dark flick.

10 Venom (2018) - Available On Spectrum TV

Sony has confirmed that both the Venom series and Morbius are set in the same universe, which doesn’t exactly come as a surprise considering that they are both villains of Spider-Man and everything is always tied to a bigger universe these days.

A crossover between the two antagonists seems inevitable, whether it’s going up against each other or teaming up to go against a larger force. And as Venom is an ugly beast that literally bites heads off people, and Morbius is a vampire with a rare blood disease, a team-up would be gruesomely exciting.

9 Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) - Available On FX

Given that Morbius is originally Spider-Man’s villain in the comic-books, it’s worth watching the first movie of the reboot, if only to see who Morbius could potentially be facing off against in the future.

RELATED: MCU: 10 Spider-Man Scenes That Prove He’s The Best

Not only that but Michael Keaton, who played Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming, will also feature in the vampire movie. And though it hasn’t been announced what Keaton’s role will be, it’s heavily rumored that it’s the same role he played in Homecoming, especially considering that his character name hasn’t even been revealed yet.

8 Suicide Squad (2016) - Available On HBO Max

The DCEU's Suicide Squad might have been a critical miss, but the aesthetics of the film are so appealing. The movie has colorful cinematography, a stacked soundtrack, and the first live-action portrayal of Harley Quinn. But the most talked-about part of the movie is the Joker, who is unlike any Joker that had come before.

Leto plays the character as a flashy gangster. He drives a pink Lamborghini, hangs out in nightclubs, and is covered in tattoos. Though it was polarizing, it was at least unlike any Joker that came before.

7 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) - Available On HBO Max

After so many years of playing Roman Pierce in the Fast & Furious franchise, Tyrese Gibson has finally gotten a role in a different property, and it seems like it’s going to be an important part of the movie. The actor plays FBI agent Simon Stroud, who is trying to hunt down Morbius. It’s hard to imagine Gibson in a serious role, as he’s such a hype man and somewhat of a joker based on his work in the Fast & Furious series.

But viewers can’t help but smile whenever he’s on-screen, and the best example of that is in his breakthrough movie, 2 Fast 2 Furious, as things immediately become something much bigger when he’s first introduced. Gibson is responsible for many of the best scenes, whether it’s antagonizing gangsters or busting Brian’s chops at every chance he gets. Bringing that kind of energy to Morbius, which looks pretty gloomy, is exactly what the movie needs.

6 Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021) - Available On HBO Max

Though Suicide Squad was financially successful, it was universally panned and fans of the series were split on Leto’s gangster-like portrayal of the most famous movie villain of all time.

However, with the newly released Zack Snyder’s Justice League, a four-hour version of the 2017 movie with tons of new footage, the epilogue actually redeems Jared Leto’s Joker. The gangster attitude is dropped and it’s a brilliant philosophical conversation that goes back and forth between the Joker and Batman. And it’s the chief example of how great Morbius can be, being led by Leto.

5 Dallas Buyers Club (2013) - Available On Peacock

After getting so much flack for some of his more recent movie choices, it’s easy for viewers to forget that Jared Leto is actually an Academy Award-winning actor. In 2013, Leto won Best Supporting Actor for his role as Rayon, a transgender AIDS patient in Dallas Buyers Club.

Having swept up most of the acting categories at the Oscars, the movie is so powerful due to the performances, and there's a reason why most audiences, even its stars, love it so much.

4 Blade Runner 2049 (2017) - Available On HBO Max

Being the long-awaited sequel to arguably the biggest cult movie of all time, Blade Runner 2049 is one of Ryan Gosling’s best movies, but Gosling isn’t the only actor who pulls in a great performance.

RELATED: 15 Gorgeous Sci-Fi Movies To Watch If You Loved Blade Runner 2049

In the movie, Jared Leto plays the evil CEO of Wallace Corporation, Niander Wallace, and just like most of Leto’s roles, the character is typically strange, as he spends a lot of time sitting in a chamber surrounded by water. Given the dark tone of Morbius and how the character is a villain, 2049 is the perfect movie to watch to see how Leto could portray the vampire.

3 Lost River (2014) - Available To Rent On Vudu

After shooting two movies with visceral filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, Ryan Gosling directed a movie of his own in a very similar style to Drive and Only God Forgives. Lost River is visually stunning and completely ambiguous, just like the work of Refn.

The highlight of the whole movie is Matt Smith, who plays Bully, a man who lives up to his name and who runs the criminal underbelly of the small town. He’s psychotic in the way he deals with problems head on, and it’s quite a departure from the actor’s role as the Doctor in Doctor Who. In Morbius, Smith plays a friend of the titular character who suffers from the same blood disease, and it could be that he has a much bigger role than fans actually know.

2 Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows (2011) - Available On HBO Max

Jared Harris is one of those actors who pops up in so many films and can be found all over TV, even if he isn’t immediately known by general audiences. In Morbius, Harris plays the titular character’s mentor, which is the type of role he has become known for playing.

Having been a character actor for decades, he’s given so many great performances, but he’s most well known for playing the iconic James Moriarty in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows. After the first movie, A Game of Shadows pulled a Dark Knight, by having Holmes go up against his toughest foe, and outside of BBC’s Sherlock, it’s the best on-screen depiction of Moriarty.

1 Blade (1998) - Available On HBO Max

So many studios seem wary to make an R-rated movie, as they fear they won’t make any money. However, the 1990s was a very different time and studios hadn’t quite realized what was possible with the Marvel properties. Due to that, fans were treated to an R-rated Blade movie. The film follows the character who has vampire strengths and uses them to hunt down vampires.

Though it’s unlikely that it’ll happen, Blade is one of the characters fans want to see in a cameo. But as the character of Blade has been cast for an upcoming MCU movie, it just got a little more likely, as Mahershala Ali will be portraying the vampire hunter in the reboot.

NEXT: MCU: 10 Storylines Spider-Man Can Have In The Third Movie

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[calamiitywrites]

Imagine:

That you’re a new replicant created by niander wallace, and given the name; Dream. 

[theartofimagining13]

(October) Imagine:

After Niander Wallace made you, he became obsessed with you because you were his most perfect creation yet. But he did terrible things to you to test you, and you lived in constant fear that he’d just end your life at the slightest mistake.

[la-leto]

The road up to Jared Leto’s house in Los Angeles is steep and winding. Let’s be clear: this isn’t some faux-Spanish mansion bolted onto the Hollywood Hills like a monstrous totem of temporary fame and wealth. Neither is it like those LA shag pads, all nonreflective glass, lap pools and hammered zinc, the sort you see on Scott Disick’s social-media feed, the ones with the three supercars parked out front in various shades of matt black.

No, this is anything but ostentatious. Whoever lives here wants to work undisturbed. For one, it’s an old Air Force base. An enclave. A sprawling, expansive, many layered building. A cross between Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater house and a candle factory, which was once used by the US military to develop a means to photograph the detonation of government-built nuclear weapons. A place of espionage and secrets and cameras to capture and measure badass mushroom clouds. This is a hub. This is a bunker. A hideout. A lair.

I buzz in and I’m met by Leto’s assistant. She is very polite. I’m offered refreshments. My water arrives in a jam jar. I sit for ten minutes in a whitewashed room. It’s empty save for a little mid-century furniture. I’m summoned and the very polite assistant takes me through more rooms to a door which leads to a courtyard where I am told Leto will meet me shortly.

I’m left alone. It’s absurdly tranquil and much cooler than the Sunset Strip, with its hustlers and hustled, wannabes and gonnabes. There’s a pool that looks like a pond. A large tree throws shade over a royal blue set of metal garden furniture. The floor is covered in small stones. Ants dash silently like an army of workers beneath my feet.

“I came to Los Angeles in 1991, which sounds like ancient times.”

Jared Leto, GQ’s Actor Of The Year, is here with me now and is conducting this interview standing up wearing what looks like pyjama bottoms and a flannel shirt. He doesn’t want to sit down as he has a bad back, something that happened on a film set, and it hurts less if he’s upright. I am, however, sitting, which feels slightly odd, but he’s cool with it so this is how we’re going to roll.

“This was pre-mobiles and pre-internet, if you can imagine such a thing. I was a film student and an art student and I thought acting would get me on the path to directing. I remember I was supposed to come out with a friend and he cancelled on me two weeks beforehand. I remember thinking, ‘Fuck it, I’m going alone.’”

That first trip, Leto found himself at the beach staring at a homeless man urinating in the sand. “There he was with his pecker out. It was not what I was expecting, the LA of all the movies and posters. But it was actually great. It was honest. It made this imagined place more real. It made it attainable. I realised that California brings a lot of people together looking for a lot of different things.”

Did Leto get work straight away? “Hardly. I actually had to go back to New York. But on my second trip I ended up renting a room from a woman in an apartment. Like, a tiny apartment, one-and-a-half rooms. It was her, me and her roommate. The roommate was a man dying of Aids. My mum was a hippie, so I knew how to make all these nutritious green smoothies with fresh vegetables and so on. We were just trying to keep him alive. Strange how things like that happen to you only to then inform your life at a later point.”

Leto is, of course, talking about the impact that early harrowing experience had on his role as Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club, a part which saw him win an Oscar three years ago.

“When that role came along I had been retired for almost six years from acting. I had my band, Thirty Seconds To Mars, which was and still is my main creative outlet. I didn’t think I wanted to go back. But then I read that script and…” Well, you know the rest. Since then, the parts Leto has taken on have been, from where we’re sitting at least, fully immersive experiences for the actor: The Joker, in last year's Suicide Squad, was as unhinged and cartoonishly menacing as fans all hoped. Leto also plays Neander Wallace, the seemingly God-like replicant creator in Blade Runner 2049, alongside Harrison Fordand Ryan Gosling.

“What can I tell you? Neander Wallace is powerful. He’s also blind.”

I’d heard his character is based on his tech-titan friend Elon Musk. “Yeah. I used a little of Elon and actually quite a few of my friends who are very successful founders of companies. I was interested in how billions of dollars can change a man and how he is perceived. Money is freedom. You can take more risks. But it can also enslave, you know? Like Howard Hughes.”

What else can he tell us? “Well, I can tell you Harrison Ford is a stud - even in a cream suit. Man, he’s 75 and he’s a solid dude. And Ryan Gosling? I didn’t have any scenes with him, but he’s exactly what I want my movie stars to be like. Exactly.”

So can Leto finally draw a line under the 35-year-long dispute between Ford and Ridley Scott, the original film’s director, about whether or not Ford’s character is in fact a replicant? “I can.” Really? “Yes.” As I hear this I can almost hear the late Philip K Dick, along with every other nerd worth his Grays Sports Almanac (1950-2000) stop counting electric sheep, sit up and cock an ear.

“You see, my character in this film is the only person in the entire Blade Runneruniverse who puts a machine inside…” Caution suddenly gets the better of his natural candour. “Put it this way, my character gets a bit of information that no one else sees. So I know who is and who isn’t a machine. I can decide.” And the answer? “Nope.” What? “No, no, no. It’ll be on my gravestone - 'I know the answer’ - and I do.”

A mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a Gucci flannel shirt. Oh, and a real prick-tease. And we say that with humour. And a lot of love. There hasn’t been, nor ever will there be anyone quite like Jared Leto in this town. Hollywood’s leading man who fell to earth.

Blade Runner 2049 is out now

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via GQ // 10/6/17

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Replicant.

In the fortnight since its release, Blade Runner 2049 has retained its 4.2+ rating on Letterboxd. Denis Villeneuve’s sequel is generally drawing high praise, with some caveats, and a lot of love for Roger Deakins. (We’ve tried to keep this round-up spoiler-free, but one person’s mild spoiler is another’s setting-the-context. You have been forewarned.)

5-star thoughts

“The most haunting and moving science fiction film I’ve ever seen. Probably the most beautiful too!” writes Alex Hill, who was not the first to say “Deakins deserves an Oscar for this”. So overwhelmed was she by the film’s “utter brilliance and devastating beauty”, Jennifer wanted to “print out and frame every single shot in this film and hang them in my house”. We agree.

Also writing at the 5-star end of the scale is Tristan Parillo: “The perfect anti-blockbuster, 2049 features all the visual spectacle and visceral imagery you’d expect from a sequel to Blade Runner, but sacrifices none of the intellectual depth.”

“Blade Runner 2049 hit me like 2,049 Harrison Ford punches to the face. What a fantastic film with a beautiful message, and just all-around cinematic treat. It’s possibly the slowest movie I’ve ever seen but it rewards you with its mood and atmosphere. Every set piece is beautiful and each performance is moving. Fantastic theatre experience.” (Cody)

Many of you have praise for the way in which 2049 sits as a sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 original. “This feels so different to Scott’s film, but they have that sense of secrets and hidden meanings in common. They are both also, crucially, still detective noir at heart.” (David Nolan)

“Blade Runner 2049 bewegt sich auf dem selben philosophischen niveau des vorgängers, verbindet dabei gekonnt alte denkansätze und bringt in manchen szenen dann schöne ‘gespiegelte’ ideen mit ein.” (Burning)

Translation: “Blade Runner 2049 moves on the same philosophical plane as its predecessor, skillfully combining old approaches to thinking and introducing some beautiful ‘mirrored’ ideas.”

Blade Runner 2049 lovers have their criticisms, too: that the marketing sucked, that Jared Leto’s character wasn’t particularly memorable despite all the build-up, that it lacked the quotable dialog that peppered the original, and that the female characters were marginalized.

Harvey goes further on this last point in a mixed review: “The treatment of women in this film is especially rough. The female characters are either prostitutes, pure evil, kept behind glass, disfigured or killed. After Sicario, I’m sensing a pattern.”

But overall, the positive reviewers agree that it is a film worth putting on your pants for.

1-star pans

At the other end of the scale—aside from near-universal agreement about Deakins’ Oscar-worthy cinematography—reviewers have issues with the plot, the character development, the need for a sequel at all, and, again, the treatment of females. Anette found 2049 “pretty, but without purpose” and “shockingly sexist”. Others found the film “a misogynistic, dystopian mess” that “treats its women as disposable”.

Another common theme amongst 2049’s detractors: whether the film’s central question was worth making an entire movie to ask. Not according to Knut-Arne Heggen: “Ultimately it feels contrived, bleak and without charm, almost devoid of ideas and not confident in the few it does play around with, leaving absolutely nothing to the imagination. The lazy script leaves the existentialism of the first in favor of an essentialist outlook which is completely uninteresting and oddly dated in a time when AI is a very hot topic.”

CourtJester concurs: “2049 tried to ride the line between cerebral visual poem and action blockbuster, and it failed in both respects. In part, this is because the original Blade Runner concept is not as unique or interesting as it once was. ‘Do clones have souls?’ was never a sound philosophical question, at least not as much as the oft-confused ‘do computers have souls?’. It was fun in the ’80s, but we know better now.”

About that run-time

Some of you are unimpressed (“what’s meant to seem patient seems ponderous”) but for most, the 163-minute run time is “a non-issue”. The shoot may have felt long to Roger Deakins, but “the almost-three-hours of this wasn't nearly enough for me, frankly, for both the ways in which it very much is Blade Runner and very much isn't,” writes Matt Lynch. “So immersive and impressive that the run time did not bother me one bit!” Films and Faith agrees.

On Deakins

This write-up on Deakins’ lighting and cinematography is a worthwhile read, collecting material from many of his recent interviews and breaking down his lighting set-ups. And, like most of you, IndieWire isn’t holding back on its Oscar recommendation.

What did you think? Let us know by posting a review or replying via the usual channels.

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Protector

You were having hard time with your parents. After telling them you quit your job, so you can move to another city with your boyfriend. They weren’t pleased, because actors and rockstars change their partners every week, and yours was both.

You went on set and manage to find Jared, already crying. But it wasn’t actually Jared you found, he was gone, there was Mr. Wallace instead. He was blind to the world and deeply uninterested in you. So his assistant suggested you wait for him in the trailer till he is done.

Later when he arrived, he was helped in. Impossible to see, he sat on the chair, while you were in bed, half asleep. He didn’t say a word. Rather signaled you to get up and stand in front of him. He cherished your cheek, stood up and gently brushed his lips against yours, playing with your long hair, that was Jared’s hidden way of saying “you are safe” even if it wasn’t him there with you.

-         You are my perfect love, aren’t you Angel!

@diyunho @rhina988 @nikkitasevoli @auntiemama1 @wolfgirl1074 @sookieblack12 @spillinginkwithlove @jayded-reality @lady-grinning-soul-k @lylabell2013

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Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Seen on October 6th 2017 in a 2D cinema.

A beautiful film, powerful story, and immersive experience. It left me feeling like its protagonist– exhausted, confused, and yet somehow at peace.

I am certain there was symbolism that went way over my head, but I thoroughly appreciated what I was able to register. The theological parallels with the figures of the savior, the holy virgin, and the immaculate conception pushed my expectations along subtly but surely. I was as devastated as K / Joe (Ryan Gosling) when I found out that I would not get to follow the path of the hero after all. The question seemed to become: if you are not the hero of the larger narrative, what is your role?

K, much like the audience, becomes a witness to a miracle. When it becomes clear that he himself is not the miracle, he must choose either to fight to preserve it or to sink into indifference/nihilism. Either choice would be understandable in his circumstances, and both would make for relatable stories, but Blade Runner 2049 takes us down the path of fighting for a larger cause– a path shared by many characters in the film. Sapper Morton (Dave Bautista) fights to keep hidden the story of the Replicant birth; Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) leaves his loved ones to protect the miracle they'd created; Lt. Joshi (Robin Wright) desperately fights for social order; Niander Wallace (Jared Leto) is keen to transform civilization. They are all driven by a grand vision larger than themselves.

Therefore, the climactic fight between K and Luv (Sylvia Hoeks) is significant not only in the lives of those involved but also as a conflict between self-preservation and self-sacrifice. By this point, K's motivation is mostly devoid of ego, while Luv's main concern remains to be "the best of the angels". Somehow, Luv's shameless egotism made me sympathize with her– there is some of that in all of us. Perhaps by fighting her to the death, K completely kills what remains of his own ego. Perhaps by watching it, we experience part of that too, and this may explain why I was on the edge of my seat during this fight, unable to pick a side, and dreading either outcome. The encounter is visceral and genuinely tense, with the water pulling everyone closer to their death, relentless and impersonal. The blue and yellow hues from the fallen vehicle were a creative way to light this crucial scene, making the struggle all the more ethereal.

The cinematography (Roger Deakins) and visual effects were stunning throughout the film. In retrospect, the range of landscapes presented to us is remarkable, but during the film, they flowed naturally. Every moment was filled with marvelous detail, but worldbuilding never overshadowed storytelling. The vast cityscapes, mind-bending architecture, deep colors, and the wondrous reflections that lit so much of this film all seemed but backdrops to a powerful central narrative. In between being utterly lost in the emotional and personal, I would suddenly become aware of the amazing world underneath.

I have yet to research the extent to which Ridley Scott was involved, but it is obvious the film owes a lot to Denis Villeneuve's clear vision as a director, and to a good script by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green. The mojo is consistent, the structure is creative, and it's clear these filmmakers didn't take us for fools.

The acting was excellent. Mackenzie Davis as Mariette had a magical significance about her, and the overlaid performance with Ana de Armas as Joi was visually striking as well as emotionally potent. Armas completely sells the character of Joi, a disembodied entity that is totally genuine in its desire to be, to have a body, and to please K. The fact that Joi is a mass-produced product does not change the sincerity she projects, nor how easily we and K buy it.

Robin Wright as Lt. Joshi was very much human, with her arrogance and sensitivity blatantly exposed. Her final moments with Luv were painful to watch, and for a moment Wright embodied all of us in the face of the unyielding machine. When she downed that glass of whiskey, she knew what was coming, and so did we. In contrast, Jared Leto as Wallace was somewhat opaque and obscure, but I suspect this is how the character was intended to be. We get a glimpse of an overwhelming ambition and idealism driving him, but it felt distant and cold to me– human, but not in a way I liked. This should not be surprising, as after all there are very few Niander Wallaces in the world, and their calculated vision must be alien to most.

Harrison Ford, returning as Deckard, appears fairly late in the film and adds a reluctant charm, grounding the film at a point when it could have easily gone off the rails. He plays someone who has made tough choices and has long since learned to live with them. I wonder what a day in the life of Deckard would have looked like, drinking whiskey with his dog and tending to his bees amidst the surreal ruins of Las Vegas. One particular scene especially owed its poignancy to Ford's powerful performance: when Wallace throws into question Deckard's life and love as pre-determined and devoid of meaning, we get a long close-up of Ford's face and witness a sequence of subtle transformations. The terror that flickers across his eyes, and the weight that sets down upon him, and the inexplicable strength that he somehow musters to speak the words, "I know what's real," were thrilling to watch and a perfect vessel for my own experience of those same emotions.

The soundtrack (Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch) and overall sound design worked wonders, completing the feel of the universe and driving home the dread and hope. I felt some kind of rage writhing beneath the music, subtle and powerful, and it hinted at the unimaginable inner experience of K and the Replicants in general. Who is to say what it is like to be an artificially intelligent bioengineered being? I have no idea, but rage is a primal experience I find easy to imagine in others.

Ryan Gosling's task of portraying K's utter fury and desperation cannot have been easy. Like Pinnochio, K is tossed between the lures of pleasure, dreams of family, and a quest for the truth. His relationship with Joi is fragile, touching, and tragic. His anger and hope in finding a father figure, Deckard, is ultimately baseless and heartbreaking.

On the one hand, his character is ultimately an alien– something entirely non-human; at the same time, his struggles mirror an experience that humans have utterly monopolized: the journey of defining oneself and one's path. The only reason this film works at all is that we can relate to K, but the main reason it works so well is due to the uneasy reminders that, in the end, he is not one of us.

There was a sense in me that his experience cannot possibly be authentic – a feeling clearly shared by K himself, who is constantly reminded that he "has no soul"– and yet I was convinced that those same feelings in me would be as valid as can be. As his doubt slowly seeped into me as well, I began to wonder about my own human experience: what makes it authentic?

In some sense, Blade Runner 2049 explored not so much what it is like to be an AI, but what it is like to be human. Perhaps the writers hid a jewel in an inconspicuous joke quipped by Deckard in the casino– when K asks him if the dog he lives with is real, Deckard smirks and says, "Why don't you ask him?"

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Blade Runner 2049: No hope in this dystopia

by Ron Burnett

Editor’s note: This article contains spoilers.

I went to see Blade Runner 2049, directed by Denis Villeneuve, with great anticipation. The original was so unique and although I was ambivalent about the film’s story and politics, many of its images have stayed in my mind for over 35 years. I have even used Blade Runner in my film studies classes. Yet, I left the theatre severely disappointed. Blade Runner 2049 represents a failure of the imagination. The film is a series of vignettes strung together and is the definition of solipsism — steeped in narcissism, excessive self-absorption, isolation and regressive politics.

The set up for the original film was brilliantly articulated by critic, Pauline Kael in a 1982 New Yorker review. She wrote that Ridley Scott, director of Blade Runner, “sets up the action with a crawl announcing the time is early in the twenty-first century and that a blade runner is a police officer who ‛retires’ — i.e., kills — ‛replicants,’ the powerful humanoids manufactured by genetic engineers.”

To varying degrees, the original Blade Runner anticipated numerous contemporary debates about artificial intelligence and robots. Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, on which so much of the original film was based, is a profoundly dystopian yet ultimately hopeful novel about human engagement with artificial life.

The dystopia cityscape from Blade Runner 1982. (Handout)

Dick’s book can be despairing and hopeful at the same time, and it is this tension that actually turned the novel into a rich piece of science fiction. Because in spite of the many challenges they face, the characters actually learn both from each other and from the replicants. They learn that power corrupts and it doesn’t matter whether you are human or robot, but feeling emotions of varying sorts makes the difference between a meaningful life and one that has no meaning.

While the original Blade Runner provides some insight into artificial life, and the book makes profound comments on power and human relationships, Blade Runner 2049 has none of that. Crucially missing from both the new and the original film, is some history and context. Why are we in such a mess? Why has society degenerated to such a degree?

As if the back story doesn’t matter, Blade Runner 2049 is not really set up at all. Audiences are shown that replicants are everywhere, integrated into society, that blade runner police are ubiquitous and that some of the older versions of the replicants are, as before, still unruly and therefore need to be killed. Society is dominated by a seemingly endless horde of people going nowhere in particular and buildings are rotting in the rain.

The story is strung together

As the film opens, K, played by Ryan Gosling, a programmed blade runner, is asleep at the wheel of a vehicle he later calls a car, that is flying through the darkness towards an unknown destination. All of this is covered in the one of most expensive fog-and-mist scenes ever produced for a film (the production rings in at just over $150 million).

The wasteland is interrupted when K reaches his destination and encounters a replicant who is targeted for death and who says before he is killed, “you don’t know what a miracle is.” The miracle he is referring to is clarified a bit later on in the film as the birth of a human child, which he witnessed.

The entire film then circles around the search for the miracle child with K discovering that he himself might be human, then watching his hopes dashed but not before he meets his supposed father, Deckard, played by Harrison Ford who reprises his original role from 1982.

Deckard and K develop a relationship and Deckard, of course, becomes a paternal figure to K. Deckard has apparently been living alone for an untold number of years in the remains of Las Vegas. In the portrayal of Vegas lies an implied critique of the reasons for the decay of humanity with Las Vegas representing all that is superficial and wrong about humans. The film does not explain this, it just alludes to the fall of humans as if, because of our past hedonism, we deserve to live in misery, a common theme in dystopian films.

In this vision of the future, we repeat all the clichés of voyeurism that dominated the previous century. (Handout)

Like the original, the story is unimportant and the approach is also derivative relying on the clichés of dystopias drawn from dozens of similar films. Blade Runner 2049 also suffers from a bad script and some odd stylistic filmmaking choices. It is essentially a series of events, strung together within a special effects universe, that Villeneuve thinks represents another world or another phase of history. Do we care about flying cars and exploding buildings and robots who fight each other shattering into pieces that fly off into the dark landscape? The fetish for special effects is killing the storytelling in Hollywood.

The opportunity for social commentary is lost. How does industrialist Niander Wallace (Jared Leto), maker of replicants, come to have such enormous power? He determines whether real humans should be killed — to preserve, what exactly, his business? His supremacy? The corporate entity over which Wallace rules is so sophisticated that it knows everything about everybody — a not so subtle variation on the original film and a banal reiteration of endless variations on the themes of absolute power and the human response to fascism. Niander Wallace’s actions may lead us to hate him but we don’t understand his motivations and even if his lack of motivation is a shallow critique of industrial capitalism - is it enough to make us care?

All life leads to death

All the characters, even the holographic ones, live in isolated circumstances with no social encounters of any value. If we accept that it is 2049, then why are women portrayed as sex objects? Why do their nude bodies appear everywhere? In Villeneuve’s dystopia, sex is provided through an illusory construction of desires that are mechanical and mechanized. Yet, even if this were seen as a critique of the society Wallace and his fellow industrialists have invented, it remains a fact that we have screwed ourselves and our planet and how we decide to survive is to repeat all the clichés of voyeurism that dominated the previous century.

Blade Runner 2049 has successfully created a solipsistic universe - where humans are isolated from real feelings, celebrate selfishness with gusto and are completely involved with their own needs, so self-centred that it matters little whether reality or illusion are the guideposts. Either will do because both will lead you nowhere. The overarching principle behind this film is that life is ultimately going to lead to death and all people and robots have to do is survive all the crap in between.

Here K, the male hero, suffers for the good of others as a consequence of a semi-religious conversion, which means he must make the ultimate sacrifice - his own life. Sound familiar? K’s death solves nothing - and brings no hope - unless the hope is hinting at a sequel. Perhaps Harrison Ford will play God in the next film. Kael suggests that the original Blade Runner was a victim of its own depiction of decay suggesting that it has “nothing to give to audiences,” and this, Villeneuve has succeeded in replicating.

“Every civilization was built off the back of a disposable workforce.” Blade Runner 2049 Trailer (Warner Bros. 2017)

Ron Burnett, President and Vice-Chancellor, Emily Carr University

This article was originally published on The Conversation.