Ridley Scott : The Film Director and the Film

Ridley Scott's dismissal at one point during the post production work on the film was down to contractual obligations and the financial set-up for the funding of the film. This enabled the financial gurantors (Bud Yorkin and Jerry Perenchio) to take control of the film away from Michael Deeley (producer) and Ridley Scott (director). This enabled Yorkin and Perenchio to "finally get this film the way we want it!" (Future Noir, p. 209) adding a last minute narration to explain the film to puzzled viewers, as well as a standard romantic ending	to the film. This constituted film taken from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980), with helicopter shots of mountain scenery, into which footage of a grinning Rick Deckard and Rachael has been edited during Rick’s narration, explaining that Rachael "did not have a built-in four year life-span, but she was special, no termination date. I didn't know how long we'd have together ... but, who does?". The 'Ride into the Sunset' climax ended up being a compromise between out-takes from The Shining and footage that Ridley Scott shot (Future Noir, p. 299-304).
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