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“Do you like our owl?”
Yeah, this owl, the Official Kerr Family Owl:
Brian and I saw Blade Runner on the big screen the other day, and it was glorious, much like Rachael’s hair when it’s freed from those tight rolls. I don’t know if the book described really ugly clothes as Ubik did (now there’s a paperdoll I haven’t done yet that cries for a yellow houndstooth poncho and green leather boots!), but if it did the movie was ever so faithful to it. I just about cried whenever there was a closeup on Deckard’s shirt, that thing was perfectly hideous. But this outfit that Rachael wears in the beginning I liked, even if I can’t quite add the achingly noir cigarette smoke, and even if it did turn out a shade more “grey” then “black,” and even if the shoulder pads aren’t quite padded enough…
(Yes, incidentally, Brian is a graduate of the Calvin School of Art…)
“Blade Runner” is one of my all time favorite movies since the week it was released. Yup, I am a long time fan. I thought that most of Rachel’s clothes were wonderfully constructed. Granted, you can’t run in them, but they were impecably tailored.
I didn’t get into Blade Runner until meeting Brian, since he kept quoting it. I didn’t notice until he pointed it out that there were so many animal touches — the snakeskin, the piles of fur — on Rachael’s clothes…