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From: bllklly@uwmacc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Movies in general (and BLADERUNNER)
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Date: Wed, 18-Jul-84 14:26:55 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 18 14:26:55 1984
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Missed the original message, so I hope I'm not repeating.
Whether Blade Runner was a good movie or not, it's a
typically bad adaptation of a book, Do Androids Dream
of Electric Sheep.  It's as if someone reduced the plot
to 3 sentences, then handed it to someone else to expand
back into a full length script.  Not only did they leave
out some of the nice things in the book, but the elements
they left in had no relevance to the movie plot.  Example:
the empathy test that involves showing photos to the
suspected android.  The whole point in the book was that
all the pictures showed death or mistreatment of animals,
and with nearly all animals on the verge of extinction,
any human would have great empathy for the animals.  In the
movie, the picture of the nude woman is emphasized, but
not because she's lying on a bearskin rug, as in the book.
If you didn't read the book, the whole scene doesn't make
any sense.

Let's see what they manage to do to Dune.
-- 

Bill Kelly
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