NEON ATARI sign spotted in BLADE RUNNER

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Hello,

In the scifi classic blade runner a neon atari sign can be seen right around 57:04 on the dvd timer.
 
Yeah, Blade Runner is well known for having alot of corporate logos for companies that ended up going out of business.
Atari,
Pan Am
and a few others I forget at the moment.
 
Ya know...I watched Blade Runner about 2 weeks ago. I had heard about the Atari logo long ago and every time I watch the movie I look and I'd never seen it. I've seen it probably 30 times. This time I forgot to look. And whadya know? That logo popped up 3 times. At least 3 times, right in the middle, can't miss it, obvious. Maybe this was the Director's Special Atari Cut? (I love Ridley)
 
this is my favorite movie of all time. saw it in the theater. yes, for the most part, companies that had their logo in this movie went out of business. Those mentioned above, also TDK. How did you see this movie 20 times and miss the Atari neon?

- M1A
 
You tell me how I missed it! I was *looking* for it and missed it. Repeatedly. It's such a dense movie visually, and as mentioned there are *so* many corporate signs that maybe I had started filtering them by the time it appeared? I dunno. Plus there's the conditioning thing. Have you ever stared at something so long that you can no longer see the details? Like staring at code? Or prose? Or trying to fit the latest cab into the living room? You get locked into a certain thought pattern and the solution can never come. It really takes a 2nd set of eyes to catch mistakes sometimes. I've seen the film so many times, without catching the Fuji, that I was probably programmed to miss it. Plus I probably saw it 15 times in '82/83. Atari was so ubiquitous then, that you just assumed the Atari logo would show up every place you looked. It wasn't a big deal. Just kinda faded into the background. Given all of that, I think for me the stranger thing is how it really jumped out at me this last time.
 
Hello,

In the scifi classic blade runner a neon atari sign can be seen right around 57:04 on the dvd timer.

Did it look anything like this?
atari-neon-on.jpg
 
In one of the chase scenes when hes running through the streets theres a huge Atari sign .
 
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