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HAPPY END

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Watch HAPPY END on YouTube

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Video editing: 

Montag

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Music:

Instra:Mental - End Credits

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Movie:

Blade Runner (1982) - Happy Ending - Directed by Ridley Scott

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It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?

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The producers of Blade Runner (1982) insisted that the film should have a voice-over narration by the character Rick Deckard explaining the story, along with a happy ending.

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At the time, director Ridley Scott didn’t have final cut rights so he just accepted it, then Harrison Ford recorded the voice-over sounding like a drunk Brazilian Globo TV dub voice-actor out of sheer reluctance, and in the end the android hunter became an android marrying another android, and they live happily ever after — as long as their batteries last.

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But it gets worse: the producers also wanted an ending with the couple driving toward the sun, far away from the dark, rainy Los Angeles of the plot, so Ridley called Stanley Kubrick and asked for leftover footage from the sunny opening of The Shining movie.

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Stanley, being who he was, sent 17 hours of footage, Ridley used just under a minute and that was it — the sad, rainy movie now had a happy, sunny ending and was ready to flop at the box office, and to make it even worse, it premiered in the middle of the North American summer competing against The Thing, Conan, Star Trek II, and E.T.

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Fortunately, this version only showed up in Brazil around 2007 in some commemorative edition, and it was so bizarre that it became my favorite movie ending credits ever.

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That’s why I combined it with the track “End Credits” by the duo Instra:Mental — and the ending became even happier, so I obviously called it Happy End.

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There is no copyright infringement intended, the material used in this is purely for entertainment purposes, and it will be removed by request.

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