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In Reply to: RE: Anyone seen an advance screening of True Grit? posted by Postal Grunt on December 19, 2010 at 19:45:30
...it was better than the first movie but not better than the book.
What movie is?
Looks like fun.
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A Simple Plan
it's not a hard and fast rule that the book is always better, just usually the case when Hollywood is involved.
" Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination." -Michael McClure
end dooms them all.
IMO much better than 'Do Androids...'
J.B.
agreed. The movie is more accessible than the novel.
I recently read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by P.K.Dick. In some ways it seemed to add clarity to watching the film. The novel gave explanation for the Earth/city environment and conditions that the movie does not, but rather presumes we already know.....or doesn't care if we know.
For instance, in the Movie you see the robotic (Replicant) Owl fly across the room in the dimly lit Tyrell Corp. In the novel we learn that there has been a dying out of almost all animal life on the planet, hence the yearning for "Replicant" versions of animals as pets. These become status symbols for their owners. And it is the Tyrell Corp that produces the Replicants. But the movie fails to mention this precondition. It merely shows a replicant owl flying across the room. Then Deckard asks Rachel if it is real. That's an early clue, I guess.
Roy Baty in the movie is a much more fearsome replicant than in the novel. And so on.
In the end I felt that the novel, interesting as it was in its concepts, is not exactly a page burner. I attribute this to Dick's narrative skills.
Still. There was enough content in both the movie and the novel to interest me.
-Steve
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NT
...also the Star Wars films.
Which were made before the books.
where Kubrick's dazzling visual style and pre-punk vision was not taken from the book, but was his own invention.
Arguably, Double Indemnity, one of my favorite quick reads from James M. Cain, yet the movie screenplay was written by the equally great Raymond Chandler and was at least as good.
And as far as books written after the movie, 2001 was a visionary and ambiguous trip as a movie and a very flat sci-fi novel, which I believe came after the movie.
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