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For me, it is the whole cinematic universe conjured that is fantastic. The music, the grit, the characters, the dark baroque feeling it conveys.

And that is, by the way, the hardest thing to accomplish on film. It is not in the cast, not in the size of the budget,... In the same sense how one can feel a B-movie 10 second in. (by B-movie I mean an author-less movie)

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I disagree. While challenging and a definite technical marvel these issues are relatively deterministic based around the amount of resources a movie has to throw at effects, cinematography and art direction.

I feel pacing is the hardest thing to accomplish, and a lot of times it's the luck of the draw.

Ridley scott in general, his movies have below average pacing. He got lucky one time with Gladiator.

Blade runner is great, I love it. But I can't deny, among all of cinema and among ridley scotts filmography, Blade runner has pretty horrible pacing.

I agree, the pacing is hard. I assume you are talking about the narrative pacing. A well implemented push and pull of narrative is not always needed for a movie to work. I was talking about the whole atmosphere of the movie; even the slow spots, the lacunae, the horrible staggering of the story;-- it works. And that cannot be achieved by "relatively deterministic" production strategy.

I accept that it can be "the luck of the draw". But that is exactly what it means for a work to have an author. With all of its fallibilities. (I dont presupose a single author either, maybe an _author structure_)

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