TELEVISION MUSIC ‘BLADE RUNNER 20149 NOT A HERO’S JOURNEY’

Actor Ryan Gosling (right) says his next movie Blade Runner 20149 is in no way a story that glorifies the protagonist, reported Entertainment Weekly. The 36-year-old actor, who plays a new Blade Runner called Officer K in the sequel to the 1982 cult movie, says, “[Blade Runner] was one of the first films that I saw that I didn’t know how to feel when it was over. The line between heroes and villains was so blurred. It’s not a hero’s journey in any way. When I was a kid that was the storyline I had seen. Thematically, there’s just so much there — it was rich, it was melancholy, it was romantic. It’s so special. So many other things have stolen ideas from it, but they could never steal its soul. I felt lucky to enter that world.”

In the film, Officer K manages to track down Deckard (played by actor Harrison Ford) after his disappearance 30 years ago.

About his experience of working with Ford, Gosling says, “The best part is that you hang out with him and you realise that all those iconic moments from his films that you love are his — like ‘I love you,’ ‘I know’ from Star Wars, or shooting the guy in Indiana Jones. He’s just like that all the time. Normally, I’d say there are hundreds of ways to play any scene. Unless you work with Harrison and you realise there’s only one great way and he has already figured it out.”

The film hits the screen on October 7.