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   Sentinel to Eberhard Schefold   
   Re: Deckard Spat at Batty   
   02 Feb 08 17:22:16   
   
   From: lukas.mariman@REMOVETHISdommel.be   
      
   Eberhard Schefold wrote:   
   > wwhamer wrote:   
   >   
   >> I just finished watching the BRFC HD-DVD with the Ridley Scott   
   >> commentary and was startled to hear the Deckard spat at Batty while   
   >> hanging from the girder in their final scene. Sure enough if you look   
   >> for it he does spit! How many times have I watched that movie and not   
   >> caught the spit. Of course its a tad easier to pick up in HD.   
   >   
   > That took me many times, too! I guess I had always fixated the hand.   
   >   
   > Somebody even suggested that it was this “warrior” attitude of   
   > Deckard’s that prompted Roy into sparing his live. If the spitting   
   > was that major a plot point, it’s been missed on me.   
   >   
   > Reminds me of that moment in “Aliens”, when Bishop (who is supposed to   
   > be only a torso at that point) grabs for Newt who is about to being   
   > sucked into the vacuum. Everybody looks at his hand, and nobody   
   > notices that Lance Henriksen stretches way out of his hole in the   
   > floor. James Cameron says in the audio commentary something to the   
   > effect that even he and the editing crew noticed only late in the   
   > process, which both shocked and relieved them.  He knew that they   
   > hadn’t to bother about the audience.   
      
   I have to admit that it is kind of subtle to an extent that I never even   
   thought about it much until recently. One of those things yuo could watch a   
   hundred times and not notice.   
      
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