Hebrew in Blade Runner

[lethargic_man]

Blade Runner is known for depicting an extremely cosmopolitan future L.A.: it looks, as one of the film's makers put it, like Hong Kong on a very bad day, though there's also other elements in too: Gaff's streetspeak apparently includes Hungarian. However, I'll bet you've never spotted the Hebrew in there too:

(The newspaper the person on the right of Deckard is reading is called Kol Bo, "everything is in it", the name of a late mediaeval law code, and also of a grocery chain in Israel.)

Actually, I cheated; there's a reason you won't have spotted the Hebrew: you never see the sushi bar from this angle in the film; most of the time you see it from the opposite side. I grabbed this shot from the making-of feature on the Blade Runner: The Final Cut DVD. Though that doesn't make it not worth pointing out. :o)

Comments

[grumpyolddog.livejournal.com]

The fun part is, unless you leave a comment the guy on thr right is cut off well before you see his newspaper.

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Huh? Not for me. What browser are you using?

[troo.livejournal.com]

It's not his browser - it's his LJ style. Some of them cut images, which is evil (and why it's generally better to cut images or post thumbnails linking to the bigger image).


Also, כלבו isn't a name of *a* chain. It's just the word that means a type of store with everything in it.
I can't remember the English name for those (typically enough), so I will name chains that are the type: John Lewis, Sears, משביר לצרכן, etc.

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

It's not his browser - it's his LJ style. Some of them cut images, which is evil (and why it's generally better to cut images or post thumbnails linking to the bigger image).

Ah, okay.

Also, כלבו isn't a name of *a* chain. It's just the word that means a type of store with everything in it. I can't remember the English name for those (typically enough), so I will name chains that are the type: John Lewis, Sears, משביר לצרכן, etc.

Department stores. I have a vague memory from my year in Israel (1991–2) that there were shops actually called כל־בו, but possibly I'm misremembering.

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

Same problem here. The guy dressed in white with a white hat is also cut off on my LJ.

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

grumpyolddog was referring to the guy reading the newspaper, not the sushi chef, who is only half in the frame. I've fixed the problem Dog was referring to.