53. Blade Runner’s Final Aerial Shots
Also Appears In: The Shining
Estimated Savings: $1,000-$2,000 per shot*
When Ridley Scott was working on the ending of Blade Runner, he borrowed a little bit from the infamous Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick’s The Shining was a definitive horror movie of the twentieth century, and Scott’s Blade Runner had that same significance, except for the dystopian thriller genre.
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Scott took outtakes that didn’t make it into the final cut of The Shining and used them for the final aerial shots in Blade Runner. They had shots of the same mountain, so they could be reused without anyone knowing the difference, as Kubrick cut them from his film. This saved Scott money, as he didn’t have to film new aerial scenes of the mountains.