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Post by Shep on Aug 10, 2005 9:51:38 GMT -5
Thanks! I had forgotten about how 6 left the colony and he only hunts 4. But I'm not sure it all plays out if he's the 5th. Did he forget? How long has he worked for the cops? Does the chief know he's a replicant? Is he working off of implanted memories from some dead cop? Interestingly enough, I remember there's an early scene where the chief gives him kind've a really long, weird look while Deckard's in his office. Could be interpreted as evidence, I suppose. It should also be pointed out, however, in the original script there was a scene when Deckard went to visit the cop-friend in the hospital who got shot at the start. The two men share some warm words. Why would the wounded cop (who's in a lot of pain and whose career is over) care about playing along with a robot? I'm not entirely buying Deckard's a robot, especially as his character seems a lot more normal and vulnerable than all the other replicants.
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Post by donmac on Aug 10, 2005 20:35:19 GMT -5
Anyone else read Dick's novel? Very different beast. I don't really know how the movie came from that book. But Dick actually had a hand in it. I read the book before I saw the movie. And I was really surprised when the movie was completely different, but I still liked it anyway. But as for Philip K Dick - there have now been a lot of movies based on his stories, but not a single faithful adaptation yet. Wasn't there a scene in the book when Deckard stumbled across a police station in which all of the cops were Andys (aka Androids - Replicants is a term from the movie)? I wonder if that's where the whole Deckard=Replicant idea originated?
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Aug 10, 2005 21:00:05 GMT -5
Anyone else read Dick's novel? Very different beast. I don't really know how the movie came from that book. But Dick actually had a hand in it. I read the book before I saw the movie. And I was really surprised when the movie was completely different, but I still liked it anyway. But as for Philip K Dick - there have now been a lot of movies based on his stories, but not a single faithful adaptation yet. Wasn't there a scene in the book when Deckard stumbled across a police station in which all of the cops were Andys (aka Androids - Replicants is a term from the movie)? I wonder if that's where the whole Deckard=Replicant idea originated? That scene's a good candidate for the source. Dunno, though. Supposedly, the new adaptation of A Scanner Darkly is supposed to be true to the book. Directed by Slackers guy...Linkletter? And there's a French movie of one of Dick's non-sf books, Confessions of a Crap Artist that I hear is pretty faithful.
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Post by donmac on Aug 12, 2005 19:31:25 GMT -5
Supposedly, the new adaptation of A Scanner Darkly is supposed to be true to the book. Directed by Slackers guy...Linkletter? And there's a French movie of one of Dick's non-sf books, Confessions of a Crap Artist that I hear is pretty faithful. I saw the trailer for A Scanner Darkly with the computer-traced animation, like Linklater's Waking Life. It looked pretty out-there, but I've heard that's a very trippy book.
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Post by donmac on Aug 23, 2005 22:30:08 GMT -5
I ran across the Wikipedia article on Philip K. Dick's original novel ("Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?") and the differences from the movie Blade Runner. An excellent, concise write-up well worth a read for fans of the movie!
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