Moving on.
While we are on Pris's stunt doubles, originally they brought in a female gymnast to do all of these flips around J F Sebastian's apartment. Problem was Ridley Scott is somewhat notorious for shooting a lot of takes, and I mean a lot.
By the time they were halfway through the day the poor woman was practically collapsed in the corner from exhaustion after somersaulting for hours on end. Gary Combs was able to get another gymnast to sub for the second half of the day, except it was a dude. And he had the physique you'd expect from a male gymnast, short and wide.
Pretty much the exact opposite of Daryl Hannah's build, not to mention the female gymnast. So you can spot when it's him flipping around in the film pretty easily. For the death scene here, it's a combination of Daryl Hannah and the gymnast dude. They had to put some thin rubber underneath the because they would have been covered in bruises without it on account of all that thrashing around. And I hope you have some thin rubber underneath you because, I just dropped another bonus thing on you.
Blade Runner predates computer generated imaging so there is exactly zero CG anything in the film. They had to rely on classic special effects techniques instead, like matte paintings and miniatures. We mentioned before that money, more specifically, not having enough of it was a huge problem for Blade Runner. And it was bad enough that they wound up having to borrow a lot of miniatures for sets from other movies. Pretty much whatever was laying around on the studio back lot was fair game.
In fact, they used a piece from another pretty famous movie.
Remember Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind? Well, they used the ceiling from the mothership interior. It's right here, repurposed as the top of the police station.
Next thing.
Dr. Elder Terrell's death scene is just one of many in Blade Runner, but it's easily the most gruesome. What you probably didn't know is they created a $20,000 prosthetic head of Torell for Benny to crush, and then they didn't even use it. No wonder this movie was so wildly over budget.
Instead they did the effect in a super low fi way, they ran some tubes up behind actor Joe Turkel's ears, so that when Rector Howard squeezed blood would come out.
Nearly everything you see here relies merely on strategic camera angles, special effects make-up, and performance.
Last thing.
Did you know that they cast Rutger Howard as Roy Baddie without ever having even met him? Obviously, he worked out great, but it seems a bit crazy, and he probably seemed extra crazy when, for his first ever meeting with Ridley Scott, Howard showed up with his hair already platinum blonde for the role. Wearing pink satin pants, a fox draped over his shoulder, and ruby red contacts, and crazy Elton John sunglasses.
It was Hauer take on futuristic apparel and how bad he might actually dress, but Scot was wondering what the hell he had gotten himself into. Then again, when you hear about the kind of crap the Jared Letos of the world are pulling on set nowadays, Rutger Hauer seems pretty god damn reasonable by comparison.