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Old Posted Apr 16, 2011, 11:58 PM
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Great posts everyone! All your lists of 'noirs' are amazing. I haven't even heard of "The Indestructible Man'.
Since you guys have covered most of the L.A. connected 'noirs', I thought I would think outside the box.

What came to mind was Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner'. The setting of the movie is Los Angeles 2019, population 109 million.

The production designer Lawrence Paull immediately saw the script as 'film noir'. "I started to think of those late 1940s, early 1950s movies which always took place in a dark, brooding city and then extended that look 40 years past our time." Briefly in this thread we discussed several locations used in the film / Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House, the Bradbury Building and Union Station. Blade Runner was released in 1982, the year I moved to Los Angeles.


Here is a link to a brief scene from 'Blade Runner' (remember, this is before CGI).
The short video ends with a brief shot of the interior of Union Station.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XcGSJ6Of9g

Be sure to watch it full screen and with the sound turned up. Enjoy!

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