Do Androids Dream of Purloined Unicorns?
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ECGORDON,
Story and screenplay, not the same thing. The story for a movie is written first, and shows general flow, few specifics. Screenplay is the blow by blow, it's derived from the screenplay.
I read some time ago that Dick intentionally wanted to change it. I think he wasn't happy with the book's conclusion, or wanted to try something new. The book's ending is somewhat of a let down compared to the height that it reaches. Same could be said for the movie, but less so.
Basically I agree, I haven't seen the Final Cut, but "Father?" Please. What is this? A touchy feely moment where I poke your eyes out?
I like the *is* theory because it changes this from a story about cop kills "bad" guys, with the twist that the villains are sympathetic, and the hero is less so. But the ambiguity is better. Questions give you many possibilities, answers only one.
No one has yet mentioned the very early chinese american hybrid civilization. And on a Firefly forum. I suppose it doesn't touch on version. Unless there's a really dumb version I haven't seen. Bladerunner, the animated holiday special :)
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ECGORDON,
Story and screenplay, not the same thing. The story for a movie is written first, and shows general flow, few specifics. Screenplay is the blow by blow, it's derived from the screenplay.
I read some time ago that Dick intentionally wanted to change it. I think he wasn't happy with the book's conclusion, or wanted to try something new. The book's ending is somewhat of a let down compared to the height that it reaches. Same could be said for the movie, but less so.
Basically I agree, I haven't seen the Final Cut, but "Father?" Please. What is this? A touchy feely moment where I poke your eyes out?
I like the *is* theory because it changes this from a story about cop kills "bad" guys, with the twist that the villains are sympathetic, and the hero is less so. But the ambiguity is better. Questions give you many possibilities, answers only one.
No one has yet mentioned the very early chinese american hybrid civilization. And on a Firefly forum. I suppose it doesn't touch on version. Unless there's a really dumb version I haven't seen. Bladerunner, the animated holiday special :)
[edit] There are so many differences between the book and the movie that it's not even the same story.
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Originally posted by dreamtrove:There are so many differences between the book and the movie that it's not even the same story.
Doesn't matter. The tensions created from all our wild grasps at deriving meaning in Dick's stories merely provide the fuel that sustains his existence in the afterlife. Y'know, as in: we believe he was writing profound stories, and Dick gets the last laugh on all of us stooges. The very absurdity inherent in actually attempting to resolve the ambiguities in his stories is exactly what Dick was counting upon to make them interesting to generations of future readers. Thus he cleverly created a franchise that's made money for the owners of his copyrited works, based upon nothing more than generating speculative examinations about his contradictory and amphetamine fueled plot lines.
For a hack, Dick was a helluva writer. Too bad he didn't live long enough to write a Firelfly teleplay or two. Dick could have gone to town on a River arc, leaving all of us FF fans perpetually confuzzled, and perpetuating a nearly infinite stream of internet forum analyses.
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Cozen, an excellent comment!
The Darkly scanning Chrisisall
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