18 Mind-Blowing Facts About Blade Runner
8. What The Geisha Was Really Guzzling
According to Blade Runner’s special photographic effects
supervisor David Dryer, the beautiful Geisha lady that appears on a giant
digital advertisement isn’t chomping on candy as most people believe but
popping birth control pills.
The idea arose from a chat Dryer had with director Ridley Scott in which he wanted “a bunch of phony oriental commercials where geisha girls are doing unhealthy things. Smoking, taking drugs or whatever. To kind of continue with the oppressive feeling throughout the landscape.”
Dryer thought that omnipresent ads plugging birth control would fit in with perfectly with the problems of overpopulation Blade Runner’s world faces.