I thought bladerunner to be a very nice score, not superb but nice. I normally don't like synthersizer music that's why I don't think Hans Zimmer to be a grand composer. But as in some works of Zimmer I think this score is quite interesting
There's been some mixup over the years because of that Ladd Logo. A few scores have been credited to Williams because of the logo. I even remember John Barry saying something about it in an interview a few years ago (About Body Heat).
There was one Williams track used in the temp score. I don't know which one but it's on one of the countless bootlegs (15-20 different ones!) of Blade Runner. Also the theme logo of the Ladd Company is included on most bootlegs. For many BR fanatics the Ladd Company logo is a part of the complete BR movie experience just like Star Wars fanatics embrace the 20th Century Fox logo as a part of Star Wars.
When I ran into that webpage mentioning a Williams track in Blade Runner, two-three months ago, I thought I should post about it. It was really news to me that the BR temp track contained some Williams. But I didn't post it because I was sure nobody over here cares about these things. And now I can't seem to find it anymore.
It seems to me that anytime someone doesn't know who composed a famous movie score, they say John Williams did it. I've seen Gettysburg, Robin Hood, Independence Day, Stargate, Chariots of Fire, the list the goes on...
"At the point where Deckard drives up to the Bradbury Building to battle Pris and Roy in the WP [workprint], Vangelis' score is dropped altogether from this version of the film. Instead, various Jerry-Goldsmith [sic] music cues from Planet of the Apes, Freud, and Alien were inserted on the WP soundtrack by editor Terry Rawlings; these different cues now run on as the film's musical score until almost the very end of the Workprint."
Sure, Meine Fuhrer, it might very well be a fraud. But when 500 pressed (manufactured) CDs are made, claiming that track 26 by John Williams was used in the temp score of Blade Runner, I can't mention it here? Btw, I've said from the start it was on a boot. (a $1000 boot, BTW!) I didn't post this 2-3 months ago but given the topic of this thread (Williams supposedly scoring Blade Runner) I thought I'll do it anyway.