What does Indiana Jones & Rick Deckard have in common? Okay, I know you’re already saying, both are played by the same actor. Which is true. And also true, one of my favorite actors (just give me one second to stop blushing from all the Harrison Ford hotness). Also, both movies came out in the 1980s, with one coming out in my birth year (I’ll let you guess which one). So all of the above is true BUT not what I’m getting at. Both have two leading ladies in the films that I’m currently pining over their style.
Let me introduce you to Rachael, one of four replicants in the movie Blade Runner, and Dr. Elsa Schneider, Indy’s fellow artifact-finder turned Nazi-sympathizer in the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I bet you weren’t expecting that. I’ve seen both these movies individually many times. Blade Runner is such a beautiful film and oddly enough, takes place in 2019 Los Angeles. Which is kind of strange considering we’re just a few years away from the year the movie takes place. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade takes place during the late 1930s, just as the Nazi regime was starting.
Interestingly, in both films, the leading female characters wear similar styles. However, taking place about 80 years apart. I’d like to think about the decade we are in now that we’ve evolved back to a 1940s film noir style. But, this is not necessarily reality. Although, I’m no stranger to not caring what the current trend is and just wearing what ever the hell I want. Blade Runner does futuristic well. I have always disliked films made in the 1960s, mostly 1970s and some in the 1980s that are set in the future or past. The reason is the costumes are never done well. The 1970s version of the Great Gatsby is a prime example for me. It still looks like the 1970s rather than the Jazz Age it’s suppose to represent. So when I initially watched Blade Runner many years ago, I had to give this film credit. Sure, some of the electronics are no where near what we have today. And the film does advertise Atari which has gone the way of the Buffalo. But overall, it does the early 21st century well.
Okay, now back to Rachael. Maybe I’m weird but I love her style in the movie. Except for that odd fur coat thing she wears when she saves Deckard from the not-so-cool replicant, Leon.
Not only do I want that black suit she wears as Deckard plays “20 questions” with her to determine if she is a replicant or not, but I am also digging her sheik red lipstick and ode to the forties hair style.
The black suit is my number one favorite but I’d rock the grey striped suit as well.
And I love the dialogue between Deckard & Rachael as he’s asking her questions and slowly figuring out her true existence.
So there you have it, my current style obsession. Rachael and Elsa are the two leading ladies that have currently won my style-obsessed heart. Now excuse me while I master the perfect forties coiffure.
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Believe it or not, I think Alison Doody is *in* Blade Runner!
She appears in the back seat of a cab for a split second, as Deckard chases Zhora.
Wow! I never knew that! Now I want to re-watch the film to see if I can catch that 😀
I agree about Sean Young and that she was so alluring in Blade Runner but unfortunately that ended with Ace Ventura 🙂 I shamelessly have not read the novel but plan to. Thanks for the tip about Rachael in the book!
So Sean Young was one of my greatest crushes when I was younger…and of course it was 100% due to Blade Runner (and ended at Ace Ventura!). Her wonderful dispassion coupled with her strict restrained style was almost too hot for my 12 year old mind. Earlier this year I finally read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and was a bit disappointed. Rachel, however, was even sexier and more alluring in the novel.