20 Things You Somehow Missed In Blade Runner

7. Nosferatu

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While Ridley Scott has spoken at length about where a lot of the inspiration for Blade Runner's visuals came from - specifically his hometown of Middlesbrough sparking the idea for cloudy, polluted skyline - the look of Pris perhaps is perhaps the most unusual.

When creating the look for her final scenes, where she's clad in starkly contrasting white face makeup with deep black eyes, the 1922 movie Nosferatu was apparently the basis. The now-iconic Count Orlok, who admittedly doesn't have the hair on show, provided the look that Scott wanted for the charachter.

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