Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by TA (A) on August 02, 2003 at 19:22:42

In Reply to: Blade Runner --What makes robots? posted by edta on August 02, 2003 at 14:14:17:

i love philip k. dick - he's such a mental trip. his lectures and essays have been collected in a book called "the shifting realities of philip k. dick".

> Electric Sheep is not, as in the film version, primarily an adventure story, nor is it primarily a dystopian view of future urban life, nor even a metaphor for man's ambivalent relationship with technology.

isn't it almost always the case that the book is better than the movie? the whole "meaning" of the story behind minority report is changed by the movie too, from what can remember.

i read electric sheep and saw the movie ages ago, but i don't think mercerism is touched in the bladerunner movie at all. the movie ends [SPOILER ALERT!] with the android showing the greatest act of empathy in the movie, which kind of twists the difference between man and machine if empathy is what distinguishes man from machine. i also seem to remember seeing an alternative cut somewhere that suggests deckert is an adroid at the end. :-)