His name originates from the comic book Blek le Roc, using 'rat' as an anagram for 'art'. He described the rat as 'the only free animal in the city', and one which 'spreads the plague everywhere, just like street art'. Xavier Prou was born on 15 November 1952 in Boulogne-Billancourt in the western suburbs of Paris.īlek began his artwork in 1981, painting stencils of rats on the walls of Paris streets. He was one of the first graffiti artists in Paris, and has been described as the 'Father of stencil graffiti'. This is my favourite movie of all time for all the reasons above and many more i could effortlessly type all day and night.Blek le Rat (pronounced born Xavier Prou, 1952) is a French graffiti artist. From the chase scene with Zora to the flybys over the city capturing a stunning skyline,chimneys and skyscrapers in one shot. It captured the raw smells and light of a brutal future scarily depicted in films or even so well. No other sci-fi futuristic film has ever made the grade before or since in my humble opinion. The finest moment with this narration has to be the moments described by Batty in his dying eyes and the summing up by Ford of this man/machines passion and love for life. I preferred the audience friendly screening which had the wonderful narration. For me,the directors cut is simply too cut. Its a mixed review depending on what version you have seen. This film also sees Ford in perfect casting.Theirs a rye charm that Ford has that no other actor could fake or fill quite as effortlessly. We have a true smelting pot of nationalities.The heavy eastern references within china town like inner cities is particularly poignant. Its a grimy,violent world inhabited by the sick,lower class,villainous second citizens who haven't quite made the grade for the off world colonies. It really does feel like a science fiction novel brought to life,but not so much as its derivative penned by Phillip K Dick(do androids dream of electric sheep?).

What Ridley Scott achieved with this film,is an entirely possible scenario. Films which crudely grope into a possible time ahead,when perhaps a post apocalyptic era is scattered with cliché upon cliché and often miss the whole point.

There are a sheer plethora of futuristic films with vision.

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