Posted on 01/07/2016 7:13:51 PM PST by Perdogg
Bfl
“The movie was so much more profound than the book.”
Often the case with PDK stories. They’re good/deep as written, but clearly a product of their era (a time I’m respectfully losing respect for).
Book: Deckard is human, coming to grips with his preference for real over indistinguishable artificial copies.
Movie: Deckard is ... we’re not sure. He’s coming to grips with how human replicants are ... while the replicants he targets come to grip with how, ultimately, they’re not.
The book/movie difference really does come down to a “left vs right turn”, as Deckard returns to the police station about 1/3rd thru the story.
“...and that made all the difference.”
I rate the book as much more profound than the movie. The book is a meditation on how humans destroy their own humanity. In the book there’s no question that Deckard is human, but his humanity has been eaten away by his job, wife, and life on a dying world; so the replicants have a much higher level of humanity than him, even though they aren’t human. A big part of the book is him rediscovering his own humanity, but in the end it’s a lie he’s telling himself, his humanity is destroyed and he can’t get it back.
I’ve seen that. I like that part where if she’s hot but lower than 4 on the crazy scale, it’s a tranny.
LOL, that just about makes everyone spit out their drink!
I just love the way the guy presents the data, with the white shirt, striped tie, engineer look!
LOL, tires slashed, bunny in the oven, you end up in jail...
BTTT...
Thank you. That was good.
If you really liked it, here’s two more to try:
The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman.
The Boat of a Million Years, by Poul Anderson.
I read the forever war, but not the other.
Just ordered it.
the book, as PDF:
http://www.bbeesley.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/android.pdf
http://www.ciampini.info/file/ferrari/DO%2520ANDROIDS%2520DREAM%2520OF%2520ELECTRIC%2520SHEEP.pdf
Just noticed,
Another birthday,,,,
Valentines day,
2-14-2016
Pris.
The narration was dropped in every subsequent "Director's Cut" and the film is vastly improved as a result. And that final Roy scene is one of my favorites from any movie ever.
IIRC, Hauer re-wrote it one night and showed his work to Scott who liked it and let him use it.
Good thing, too, b/c this was the original monologue:
“I have known adventures, seen places you people will never see, I’ve been Offworld and back...frontiers! I’ve stood on the back deck of a blinker bound for the Plutition Camps with sweat in my eyes watching the stars fight on the shoulder of Orion. I’ve felt wind in my hair, riding test boats off the black galaxies and seen an attack fleet burn like a match and disappear. I’ve seen it...felt it!”
Egad!
Hauer’s rewrite then is far more eloquent.
I can see they were trying for it, but I’d call that original work a swing and a miss.
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