Often underrated, as designs go, and likely for its minimal use and application in the film from which it was born, Blade Runner (1982), is the ever beautiful design features of the police Spinner.
Several models were made for the Ridley Scott classic, but it was the full-on mock-up of a large hero Spinner, as it was referred to by cast and crew, that appeared in sequences throughout the film that captured our imaginations and lifted us away to travel through Ridley's Inferno or Hades Landscape as the location shots were called.
Future Los Angeles 2019 is nothing short of a stunning realization of Scott's imagination and remains unforgettable forever influencing sci-fi cinema to this very day. The artists and effects people involved are many and all delivered big on mattes, miniatures and lighting layering shot after shot for a final result that would make most filmmakers blush with envy today. In fact, heads would spin!
Law enforcement is indeed under funded and we need to see a future like this one. We need to refund them more than ever. We have a future to realize here.
The Spinner cost a whopping 50,000 dollars to create, about the cost of a British-made Land Rover. It certainly wasn't chump change in 1982. Think about that price tag. And yet, it wasn't built to actually transport anyone to and from work for a decade, but for a few shots in a single, remarkable, beloved and heralded classic called Blade Runner.
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