Word: esper
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...Blade Runner,” Harrison Ford sits down on a couch with a glass of liquor and inserts a photograph into a machine that looks like the bastard child of a dishwasher and a used VCR. It’s called an “Esper.” Its purpose? To vividly zoom in on any given portion of a photo, revealing clues to those who seek them. If there’s a metaphor for the experience of watching “Blade Runner,” this scene...
...Enhance 224 to 176,” Ford mumbles to the machine, gazing unblinkingly at the screen that displays the photo. Like all the rusted machinery of Ridley Scott’s dystopian Los Angeles, the Esper clicks and whistles, zooming in on a shadow of someone’s arm. But our protagonist is not satisfied. “Enhance,” he says again...
...it’s back to the Esper. Deckard finds the clue he needs in his photograph, but we’ll never find exactly what we’re looking for. The true final cut, in which we can actually live inside Scott’s world, exists only in our mind?...
...vigor of these films is easy to spot; they move with such speed and confidence. They often begin in an efficient fury. Nosotros los pobres...! is a folk opera, a neorealist musical, opens with an elaborate production number, "Ni hablar, mujer," composed by Manuel Esperón, who wrote songs for 34 Infante films (and who, apparently, is still alive at 95). In a few mins., the film introduces us to two dozen characters with singing, strumming, speaking or whistling parts, as the camera glides, pans or swoops to keep up with them...
...leadoff single by Chris Esper put the potential tying run on base and a one-out single by Orrico moved Esper into scoring position. But Nyweide got Beasley—Yale’s leading top run-producer with 21 RBI entering the weekend—to ground into a 6-4-3 double play that stranded Esper and ended the game...