The main character is an editor for a newspaper, and it is his job to sort through poems coming into the paper. Let's look at the line, "tall white fountain". Now it has been a long time since I read Pale Fire, so some of my details may be off, but there is a crucial scene that plays directly into the motifs of Blade Runner 2049 that I remember quite vividly. On this page the actor explains his process in achieving such a hypnotic performance. On July 14th, Day 4 of principal photography, Ryan Gosling delivered and alternate Baseline script that lasted eight minutes. Gosling's text is prefaced by a note by author Tanya Lapointe: I was very grateful to Denis for incorporating it into the film, because it unlocked my understanding of K, but also provided insight into the state of mind of those who would force this burden upon him." I believed we could learn through a process of psychological erosion what his true emotional state was. I felt that if that technique were extrapolated into K's experience, it could be used to penetrate his psyche. The process is very long and repetitive, but it has a trance-inducing effect that can be very powerful and unsettling. She suggested a technique called 'Dropping In.' In this technique, you explore the meaning of each word of the text by exhausting every conceivable context in which the would could be used. In order to better understand the meaning of the passage and to give it a personal meaning, I enlisted the help of a wonderful vocal coach named Natsuko Ohama. In the script, the character was meant to read a small passage from Nabokov's Pale Fire, but there wasn't any insight as to why. I wasn't sure what that key was during the preparation period of the film.
The Baseline was always a scene to me that held the key to understanding K. Here is a quotation from the book (page 117) She's not even a replicant, she's one rung below them. K, in turn, owns an artificial life form in Joi.Ī flimsy analogy, perhaps, but it would explain why Joi hates the book-it reminds her that she's completely artificial, and has no real agency of her own. In Blade Runner 2049, real humans have created K (a replicant). Nabokov (real author) writes a novel about a fictional author (Charles Kinbote), who is writing about a poem (another creative work of fiction). However, there may be something to be said about the 'metafiction' of Pale Fire: I've only just started reading "Pale Fire," so I can't comment on the content and how it may relate to the themes of the film. When Joi asks if K wants to read, I understood him to reply "you hate that book." The original post seems to think it is K who dislikes the book, but I think that's a mistake. According to the same book, the Baseline Test, as we see it in the film, was largely developed by Gosling himself in his research for the character. In the book "The Art and Soul of Blade Runner 2049," actor Ryan Gosling says the script did not specify what the significance of the Nabokov quote in the Baseline Test was.
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Please provide answers based on statements by the movie cast or crew. Why did the director, scriptwriter, or producer include these references to Pale Fire? Does the choice of book have anything to do with its content or extremely unusual structure?
Knowing that the lines said during his psychological fitness test are in the book, it seems bizarre for Joi to offer to read that book to him. She offers to read Pale Fire to him, but (if I remember correctly) he declines saying he really doesn't like the book. In another scene, Officer K goes home to dinner with his holographic companion, Joi. In both scenes, he has to do the test after returning from a police job where he killed somebody.Ĭells interlinked within cells interlinkedĪgainst the dark, a tall white fountain played. He replies with specific words from the poem.
In two scenes, Officer K is being psychologically tested by a machine saying these lines from a poem to him. We put it in the production design budget.What is the significance of the book, Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov in the movie, Blade Runner 2049? J descends in a strobing lift and enters a magnificent hall, where he is greeted by L (Lindsay Lohan) and an OWL. J (Hayden Christensen) pilots a Spinner, a futuristic flying car over the miles and miles of cinematography, until he lands on the roof of a magnificent ziggurat. Hans Zimmer blows his electronic TUBA.Ĭinematography as far as the eye can see. So here it is.Įxtreme close up of an eye blinking. But we’ve managed to get a copy of the script after it leaked onto the internet. Chad Sternberger HOLLYWOOD – Someone just leaked the script for Blade Runner 2050 onto the internet.ĭid you love Blade Runner 2049? Do you want to see the sequel Blade Runner 2050? Well, there’s a good chance you never will.