8 Filmmakers Who RUINED Their Movies By Explaining Them
7. Ridley Scott - Blade Runner
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Ridley Scott's once reviled but now lauded sci-fi classic, Blade Runner, is one of the greatest films of all time. It also gave birth to one of the greatest audience debates of all time, with viewers split right down the middle in regards to whether or not protagonist Deckard (Harrison Ford) was a replicant or human.
Even the sequel, Blade Runner 2049, didn't come down definitively on either interpretation. It's just one of the great movie debates, right up there alongside Inception's "is Leo still in a dream?" and Pulp Fiction's elusive briefcase.
For all that the "is Deckard a replicant?" question has gone down as an immortal movie debate, it wasn't one that Scott himself fancied entertaining. The filmmaker has repeatedly gone on the record to say that the character isn't a human, which begs the question... why make it so ambiguous in the first place?
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
Josh has over 11 years of experience as a published writer, having worked nine of those years as a full-time content producer at WhatCulture. In that period he has created hundreds of articles, videos and podcast episodes for multiple WhatCulture channels, specialising in gaming, horror and film & TV. He now primarily works as a senior content producer and presenter on WhatCulture Gaming where he co-hosts the WhatCulture Gaming Podcast, a top 3 UK most listened to gaming podcast that he co-created in 2018. Over the years he has reviewed several high-profile gaming releases, covered industry events with on-site reporting, opined on breaking news, and even kicked off his interviewing career by chatting to childhood hero, Tommy Wiseau.
