The article does not mention Screamers, based on “Second Variety”. Pretty close to the original story, very bleak and hopeless, with no happy ending. One character actually mentions Perky Pat, from two Dick stories.
A Scanner Darkly was pretty good from a Dick point of view, the total paranoia was infectious.
Blade Runner was a loss. The original message in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was lost, gone, diluted.
Let’s pool resources and do a film on Three Stigmata!
They now have a screamers part 2 and a movie called “Next”which is a copy of The Golden Man one of my fav PKD short stories..
“Androids” was such a good story and I was greatly disappointed in Blade Runner...if you want to pool money, let’s make a movie from “The Man in the High Castle”...alt history !
Blade Runner is a very different movie if you hadn't read 'Sheep' first, I suggest.
I read 'Sheep' after seeing the movie and was deeply disappointed in the book.
I don't think the two stories have the same essence or point at all.
Screamers was indeed dreary, but the love story at the end sort of redeemed it.
“Blade Runner was a loss”
Oy, you can say that again.
I had heard of this movie so many, many, many times, so when hubby joined netflix I had him get it.
Totally boring, sorry.
I can see it was very stylish and maybe one had to watch it at the time, but I was very underwhelmed by it.
And Harrison Ford, what is with that guy, he can be good and at other times he can be sooooo wooden. In Blade Runner, and also in Presumed Innocent he was just awful.
I’d like to say it didn’t stand the test of time, but I also read “A Pilgrim’s Progress” because I realized that every character in every 19th c. novel I’d ever read had read it.
That religious polemic was written in the 1600s and it was still, 300 years later, a great read.