Then I realized I was being too literal about appearance and relationships; Aura maps to Columbia, but *Prince Barin* is actually Riff-Raff, because they’re both plotting against Ming/Frankie.
That means Brian Blessed is Meatloaf, as is logical here. I mean trying to figure out how Flash Gordon relates to RHPS isn’t gonna be a direct correlation anyway.
Uh, what does it say about me that my choice of listening in the car is the Flash Gordon soundtrack, and The Cure?
Bladerunner maps even less well to RHPS, ‘cause Roy is obviously Rocky, Tyrell is Frank, Deckard is Brad, but then is Leon Riff-Raff? Is Rachel Janet or Columbia or both? And since the narrator would be the criminologist, they aren’t even in most cuts of the movie.
Though I guess having a portmanteau Brad/Rocky character is common since that’s Paul in Dune. Assuming Vladimir Harkonen is Frankie makes Sting the Columbia character (or maybe Columbia/Rocky) since Shaddam IV is Riff-Raff and The Beast Rabban is Eddy.
