Monday, March 16, 2020

Nick Tyrrell on Blade Runner

With the world self-isolating to prevent the spread of Coronavirus, it's safe to assume the release party for Skateboarders and the Movies They Love Pt. 2, which is supposed to happen next weekend, will almost surely be cancelled.
If you'd like to have a zine mailed to you, please slide into my Instagram (@robertjreed) dm's for more info.  I'm not sure what the deal with post offices being open is going to be though, so please be patient.  SO, in the interest of giving the people out there something to do while sitting around their homes, I'll slowly but surely be restocking the ol' photo blog with the FULL interviews with everyone from this issue (not the edited version in the zine) and possibly the previous issue as well.  Enjoy!  
And now, Nick Tyrrell on... Blade Runner... artwork by Holly Farrell, photos by me

Artwork by Holly Farrell
Why do you love this movie?
Philip K Dick

How many times have you seen it?

Countless

Do you remember where/how you first saw it?

No

If you could recast one role in this movie, which one and who would your replacement be?

None

Favorite scene in the movie?

Like tears in rain


Nick Tyrrell in New Haven, CT

Nominate this movie for a made-up Academy Award.
Cautionary tale

Is this peak Harrison Ford?

Yes

Anything about it you don’t like?

I wish they spelled the Tyrell corporation "Tyrrell"

Can you be friends with someone who doesn’t like this movie?

You probably hate this movie. So there's your answer

Did you know Doug Benson was in extra in this?

I hate Doug Benson

What is your affiliation with the Tyrell Corporation?
Heir

Blade Runner takes place in 2019… what’d they get right about the future?

That LA is an awful place

This movie was nominated for the Best Visual Effects Oscar and lost to E.T.  How does that sit with you?

It doesn't affect my life whatsoever

Ridley Scott has never won the Academy Award for Best Director. Which of his films should have won?

Most

Do any of your memories feel like they were implanted?

You bet

If you found out you were a robot would you tell me?

No

Nick in vacation mode.  Sea Ranch, CA

Let’s say Ridley Scott had directed Blade Runner 2049 instead of Denis Villeneuve.  Is that movie better or worse?

Better

Blade Runner: 2079... are you in or out?

100% in

Ever consider yourself a cyber punk?

No. But I loved Neuromancer

Sean Young or Daryl Hannah?

Sean Young

What's up with that unicorn?

Please.

Can replicants get drunk?

Can you?


Van inspection

Why is there an ostrich in that street market?

Commentary on the Asianification of the future United States

Who's the Harrison Ford of 2020?

Harrison Ford's son

What do you think of Harrison Ford’s acting when he pretends to be from the Confidential Committee on Moral Abuses as compared to, in Last Crusade, when he pretends to be a tapestry expert to sneak into the castle? 

Don't care.

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