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BLADE RUNNER AND THE FILMS OF PHILIP K. DICK ReviewFor the price and the fact that it is a hardcover, what you get inside are photocopied pages and photocopied pictures in poor resolution black and white. In fact I am not sure this is a legal copy! If you like material covering PKD and different films made based on his many writings it's OK, but it's hard to get past the photocopied pages. It seriously looks like someone took this to Kinkos and copied the entire book and slapped it between two nice hardback covers. If you can find an earlier edition it may have color photos and higher quality? I may return for the paperback and would suggest that edition to others considering to purchase. I will try to post some photos if I can. Poor Griffth Park!BLADE RUNNER AND THE FILMS OF PHILIP K. DICK OverviewBLADE RUNNER AND THE FILMS OF PHILIP K. DICK This book is about the films made from the fiction of Philip K. Dick, not a study of Dick's fiction, or Dick himself, or the relations between Dick's fiction and science fiction, or world literature. Philip Kindred Dick (1928-1982) was a key figure in 20th century science fiction, famous for embracing drugs and the counter-culture in his work. Dick's fiction includes The Man In the High Castle, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, A Scanner Darkly, The Game Players of Titan, Clan of the Alphane Moon, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Valis, The Divine Invasion, Martian Time-Slip, The Minority Report, and We Can Remember It For You Wholesale. Dick's themes included perception and reality, drugs, state control, global capitalism, surveillance, and paranoia. Four films are studied here: Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report and A Scanner Darkly (in a chapter by Thomas Christie). The other films based on Phil Dick's fiction include Confessions d'un Barjo (a French movie based on Confessions of a Crap Artist), a Canadian film, Screamers, based on Dick's Second Variety story, Paycheck, directed by John Woo, Next (Lee Tamahori, 2007), based on The Golden Man, and Impostor (Gary Fleder, 2002). The more recent cycle of Philip Kindred Dick movies began with Minority Report and Impostor in 2002 - Paycheck and Next followed in 2003 and 2007, and The Owl In Daylight, a film about Dick (2009), and Radio Free Alemuth (2008). A sequel to Screamers was in production in 2008, again shooting in Canada, with Peter Weller starring. A striking aspect of the films made from the fiction of Philip K. Dick is how many are very high budget movies (Paycheck, Minority Report, Blade Runner, Next and Total Recall), and just how many high profile filmmakers have been attracted to Dick's stories: Ridley Scott, Paul Verhoeven, John Woo and the most successful film director of recent times, Steven Spielberg. Those four directors together have generated billions globally.

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