Ridley Scott

An important scene involving a large 3D hologram star map called the Orrery was inspired by the 1776 Joseph Wright painting A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery in which a scientist shows a mechanical planetarium by candlelight. The scene is reported to have been shot to a playback of Pink Floyd’s landmark “Dark Side of the Moon.”

think more films in the mainstream should provoke discussion and not be simply entertainment.”

When you start with his thoughts and longings, you start inside the man and then you see his shell. It becomes the metaphor for the whole film.2

The finale is total artistic license

1492 is much more than just a very good period film; it is a movie that allows the viewer to experience the world as Columbus knew it

learned how hard and barbaric life was in Columbus’s time and that the political powers were the manipulators behind his career and eventual downfall

Alex von Tunzelmann’s ultimate insult was calling the film a “15th century Fight Club with Moxica as Columbus’s Tyler Durden.”1

Women who are completely free from all the shackles that restrain them have no place in this world. The world is not big enough to support them. They will be brought down if they stay here. They weren’t going to be brought down. So let them go. I loved that ending and I loved the imagery. After all they went through I didn’t want anybody to be able to touch them.4

Some believe that Blade Runner inspired the creation of the cyberpunk genre and movement

In the Hollywood Reporter Robert Osborne said, “Blade Runner is not an easy film to watch comfortably or categorize smoothly.