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marky
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what's a "C-beam"?
BR is of course the best Dick film. Scanner is arguably D's best work, but the movie is hella lame
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Chiloe
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Lee, NH
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Festus, I just read that oral history ... interesting stuff, I didn't know the film's making had been such an epic.
From the comments by author Phillip K Dick's daughter:
"Dad used to say that reality is that which, when you stop believing it, still doesn't go away."
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jstan
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Deep stuff on here of late.
Several questions, like “tears in the rain”, keep resurfacing. Do we leave anything behind? So on. A hypothesis: we want to feel something has been left behind because such an answer might nelp us deal with the concept of death, something we are not yet able to handle.
Let me turn the question around. How will death handle us? Violent death, often for the young, must be simply “fast”. Hardly time to worry.
How about old age? If conscious, I suspect it is often just painful and lonely. All your childhood friends are already gone. And you are so disabled you know you will be “doing’ nothing more here.
During the last moments all of the things we talk about here, in all probability, are roughly handled by the realities.
Or so it would seem.
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jstan
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Ack! This is getting grim. Try this:
"Morgan. Can I tell you a secret? I think you are a much stronger player than I was at your age."
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davidji
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CA
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wiclimber, thanks for the bump. Missed it the first time. Love that movie!
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xkyczar
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denver
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Had forgotten about this thread.
Another vote of the original. Saw it twice on the big screen. Felt as though I could walk into the city through the screen during the opening scene.
"My mother? Let me tell you about my mother."
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marky
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Just saw "The Final Cut" in the theater. It was good, but anticlimactic. A few thoughts:
1. Like others, I liked the ambiguity in the original release about whether Dekkard is human or replicant, as well as Dekkard's shakable conviction that he is human. In the Final Cut, it's pretty clear that Dekkard is a replicant, and the final scene seemingly shows that he at last realizes this.
2. "I want more life, f*#ker!" strikes me as a line as classic as any in cinema. Changing it to "father" strikes me as lame and weak.
3. I kind of liked the noirish voiceover. Sue me.
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Tarbuster
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right here, right now
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The construct really benefits from the voice over; more texture, more signposting.
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plund
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OD, MN
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Did someone say "Film noir"?
"I hope they don't hang you, precious, by that sweet neck. Yes, angel, I'm gonna send you over. The chances are you'll get off with life. That means if you're a good girl, you'll be out in 20 years. I'll be waiting for you. If they hang you, I'll always remember you."
Couldn't let Gary's post slide by....Bogey to Mary Astor in The Maltese Falcon...so much great stuff in that flick... the look on Bogey's face as he advances on Peter Lorre, prior to cold-cocking him..."the stuff that dreams are made of"...
Any Ren & Stimpy fans out there? Peter Lorre ranting at Sidney Greenstreet as the prototypical Ren spaz-out...
Blade Runner is awesome sci-fi...I guess I fall into the scenic drive & voiceover fan category...Rutger's intonation in his dying speech really conveys his wonder & regret....great factoid that it was improv!
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Gary
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Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Peter Lorre ranting at Sidney Greenstreet as the prototypical Ren spaz-out...
"You... you bungled it. You and your stupid attempt to buy it. Kemedov found out how valuable it was, no wonder we had such an easy time stealing it. You... you imbecile. You bloated idiot. You stupid fat-head you."
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plund
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OD, MN
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I also LOVE how Bogey keeps needling Wilmar, the 17-year-old-looking "enforcer"....
Anyone considering writing a screenplay should be required to study Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon & The Big Sleep...brilliant brevity, lines as crystalline as diamonds....
Peter Lorre was also f'ing brilliant....so many great characters, nearly all of whom elevated obsequious snivelling to a high art...
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