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Subject: Re: re: BLADE RUNNER - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 27-Jul-84 00:20:52 EDT
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ism780b!paul    Jul 26 01:52:00 1984

***** ism780b:net.sf-lovers / decwrl!boyajian / 12:09 pm  Jul 25, 1984
Re: "Blade Runner" and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

> It certainly *does* make sense if you haven't read the book,
> because *I* haven't read it (I tried, but I found the first three
> pages unreadable, so I gave up), but I understood perfectly what
> was going on in the movie.

Sure, how could you *not* understand "what was going on" when they tacked
on that stupid voice-over telling you exactly that (I've seen conflicting
stories on whether the voice-over was really a last-minute addition, but
it sure *felt* like one).  It's actually a pretty good movie, but
it is a very different story than the one in the book.  If you found
the book "unreadable" after 3 pages, that just means that it's
different from what you're accustomed to reading (Phil Dick was a
very *unusual* writer).

>        There are some who think that what an author puts into a
> book is sacred, and that it is sacrilege for a filmmaker to
> change anything. I don't. As long as the central point is
> preserved, and major details, I have no objections.

I'll go along with that.  But in "Blade Runner",
they changed *everything* except the basic idea of what an
android was, and the character's names.  Examples?  In the book,
Deckard guns down the last android, it doesn't save his life and
then expire.  Also, Deckard is married, and his affair with
Rachael ends with her killing his pet goat (she got his goat, ha
ha).  In the movie, of course they live happily ever after
together.

Paul Perkins    --      INTERACTIVE Systems
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