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Film Courage: Can you name a movie that is absolutely incredible (not Star Wars) that you’ve seen over a dozen times?
Chris Gore, Founder/Owner of FilmThreat/Author/Filmmaker: A movie that I’ve seen over a dozen times that is a movie that also I come back to kind of renew my faith in movies is Blade Runner by Ridley Scott. The world building in Blade Runner, the sci-fi, film noir, Harrison Ford’s performance very unlike how we knew Harrison Ford when he played Han Solo and I think that film has been incredibly influential, not just with other movies (other dystopian films) because dystopian films of that era didn’t necessarily take themselves too seriously, they were borderline like sci-fi adventure comedies but Blade Runner is a classic and it’s influential today not just in movies but also in video games and in design. It’s funny looking at how forward thinking Blade Runner is in the sense that okay we don’t have flying cars but we do have many of the things that are in Blade Runner. Los Angeles has become very multicultural, much more than the time in which it was made, so that’s a movie I can just put on anytime and watch.
Film Courage: I think Philip K. Dick talked about envisioning a world where the higher social strata would live up top and as people’s income dropped, their place in society literally dropped, they would be living more toward the bottom.
Chris: Blade Runner in a way kind of predicted the economic divide that we’re currently experiencing with more and more people being pushed from the middle class to lower middle class or worse and a huge divide between the elites and everybody else. It’s unfortunate but that’s an element of Blade Runner.
Film Courage: Can you tell us about the movies that we want to watch over and over again versus the movies we just want to see one time…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Chris Gore is a writer, comedian, author and television personality who has built a solid reputation as a hilariously outspoken voice in the entertainment world. As a teenager, Chris founded the brutally honest magazine Film Threat, which began as a fanzine while he was a college student in Detroit. As Film Threat evolved into a respected national magazine, he relocated to Los Angeles. The print magazine was retired in 1997 when it was re-launched as a web site. FilmThreat.com found a huge audience online and was named one of the top five movie web sites by the Wall Street Journal. Chris has appeared as a film expert on MSNBC, E!, CNN, Travel Channel, and Reelz Channel. Chis has also hosted shows on FX, Starz, IFC and G4TV’s Attack of the Show as the show’s film expert. His weekly movie review segment DVDuesday was among the most popular on G4. Chris is also an author, having written The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made and The Complete DVD Book. His book The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide is considered the bible of the industry and is required reading at film school.
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