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Blade Runner Intro Re-Cut to Use Actual Los Angeles, November 2019, and It Still Works

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By Rain Noe - November 5, 2019

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The opening scene to Blade Runner, kicked off with a card indicating it's set in November 2019, depicts a hellish Los Angeles dominated by industrial structures belching flame.

Well, now that it's actually November 2019, BoingBoing's Rob Beschizza re-cut the intro with footage of actual present-day L.A.--and it still works, perfectly.

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I was hoping that would have been better.

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