811: Have You Considered More Voiceovers?
About this episode
The episode discusses the challenges of narrating visually dense films like 'Blade Runner' for mainstream audiences in the 1980s.
These movie producers really did a job on “Blade Runner.” They don’t advertise for narrations in the newspaper, every good writer knows that. But when you’re trying to sell a narratively dense piece of visual art to 1982 audiences who just want to see a Harrison Ford movie, that’s the sort of compromise you make. All we could do is sit there and watch it play....
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