The title of this blog is Hollywood2020 so it's interesting to look at some of the pix of the dystopian Los Angeles as depicted 25 years ago in "BLADE RUNNER" which is celebrating it's 25th anniversary. Here's a link to the story in POPULAR MECHANICS, blogged by Joyce Schwarz, www.hollywood2020.blogs.com.
POPULAR MECHANICS BLADE RUNNER 25th Anniversary tribute:
BLADE RUNNER concept painting ---by the ...
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Blade Runner's" bold look was a ...
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Syd Mead Blade Runner sketch
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Product placement FOLKLORE .....a quick look on wikipedia.com remindedme to put my advertising hat on and take a look at the urban folklore that says the film was a "CURSE" for companies whose logos were prominently displayed....market leaders at the time-- many went out of business including:
Atari, which dominated the home video game market when the film came out, The Atari of today is an entirely different firm, using the former company's name.
- The Bell System monopoly was broken up that same year, and all of the resulting Regional Bell operating companies have since changed their names and merged with each other or other companies.
- Pan Am suffered the terrorist bombing/destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 and went bankrupt in 1991, after a decade of mounting losses.
- Cuisinart similarly went bankrupt in 1989, though it lives on under new ownership.
Coca-Cola almost joined this list in the wake of its failed introduction of New Coke three years later, but has since experienced a thirtyfold increase in share price.[
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