Now this could be good. I've long thought A Scanner Darkly would make a good movie. Yeah, the interviews with these simpletons are laughable. Winona Ryder commenting on modern geo-politics is a hoot. However, the stills and the obvious interest that the director has towards the work make this sound like it may be the first real adaptation of PKD's work.
I watched Sin City (again) last night. Those techniques may have been even better than straight out animation, but the style they're doing here is akin to the old rotoscoping, so it should be kind of fun and may work extremely well.
Now, someone needs to get to work on Martian Time-Slip or Clans of the Alphane Moon or Valis or ...
You know, better still, I may have to start re-re-reading these books.
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
A Scanner Darkly
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I'm never happy when they movify a PDK book. Blade Runner was fairly good, but they completely missed the creepy part of the story where Becker can't resolve whether he's a synthetic or not.
I also dread some Hollywood type deciding to twist a story into a political statement about the present administration. Usually they distort the story so badly that the intent of the original story is completely wiped. PDK's stories are just too good to be vomited on like that.
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