{"id":9095,"date":"2010-09-13T04:19:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T03:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=9095"},"modified":"2010-09-13T04:27:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T03:27:51","slug":"douglas-trumbull-on-the-opening-of-blade-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/09\/13\/douglas-trumbull-on-the-opening-of-blade-runner\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglas Trumbull on Blade Runner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/douglastrumbull.com\/key-fx-sequences-blade-runner-hades-landscape\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9096\" title=\"Douglas Trumbull on Blade Runner\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Douglass-Trumbull-on-Blade-Runner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Special effects guru <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Douglas_Trumbull\">Douglas Trumbull<\/a><\/strong> has <a href=\"http:\/\/douglastrumbull.com\/key-fx-sequences-blade-runner-hades-landscape\">posted a video on his official site<\/a> about the visual effects behind the famous opening of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0083658\/\">Blade Runner<\/a> (1982).<\/p>\n<p>The first of a three part series, he talks about\u00a0the &#8220;Hades Landscape&#8221;, the use of brass miniatures lit from below, the Tyrell Pyramid,\u00a0how\u00a0the explosions were created and the connection with Michelangelo Antonioni&#8217;s film\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zabriskie_Point_(film)\">Zabriskie Point<\/a> (1970).<\/p>\n<p>It makes for fascinating viewing and some of the craftsmanship that went into this sequence is mind-boggling.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video by <a href=\"http:\/\/douglastrumbull.com\/key-fx-sequences-blade-runner-hades-landscape\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: There are other videos on the SFX in Blade Runner <a href=\"http:\/\/douglastrumbull.com\/videos\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/douglastrumbull.com\/key-fx-sequences-blade-runner-hades-landscape\"><\/a>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/douglastrumbull.com\/\">Douglas Trumbull<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blade_Runner\">Blade Runner<\/a> at Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special effects guru Douglass Trumbull has posted a video on his official site about the visual effects behind the famous opening of Blade Runner (1982).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[173,1550],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}