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| Philip K Dick's Short Stories What do you think of his short stories? Does he work in short story format for you? Which ones have you read? Favs? Worst short story? How about the short stories that have famous movies? Are they better or worse than the movie? |
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| Re: Philip K Dick's Short Stories I read The Philip K. Dick Reader straight through, something I usually don't do with short stories and I enjoyed it tremendously. Favorites from the book were The Hanging Stranger, Strange Eden, Null-O, To Serve The Master, Sales Pitch, Upon The Dull Earth, The Chromium Fence and Second Variety. Quote:
The film title Blade Runner - (haven't read the book, but a great movie) Screamers - short story was better. Impostor - (haven't read the short story, but not a great movie) Minority Report - both good. Total Recall - both good. Next - (haven't read the story, but a lousy movie) A Scanner Darkly - (haven't read the book, but movie was not very good) Paycheck - short story was better. | |
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| Re: Philip K Dick's Short Stories For me its impossible to compare PKD stories to his movies. Not even one of them is close the idea,story of their novel or short story versions. Blade Runner is good for hollywood movie but not a PKD story. The Minority Report i enjoyed, thought it was a good movie even if it was a bit too flashy. Still not dark,paranoid,emotional enough. Thats why i try to act his movies even the good ones dont have anything to do with PKD. His stories are too thoughtprovoking,dark,depressing for the happy ending simplistic view of hollywood sf movies. Just compare what happens with Anderton in the end of short and the movie Minority Report. You dont have to read it to know there is no way he will beat "the bad guy" in the end.... A Scanner Darkly i havent read the book yet but the movie was in some ways typical PKD in characters,dialouge. Having read other similar books and short stories to Scanner Darkly. |
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| Re: Philip K Dick's Short Stories The only film I've ever seen that captures the essence of PKD is a film not based on one of his works, but it is instead an homage to the author, and that is Southland Tales. The best straight adaptation I've seen is easily A Scanner Darkly. It's among my favorite books - I read it often - and I had high expectations. Linklater handled the material with respect, and it being animated perfectly captured the surreal feeling of the narrative. Linklater conjured the spirit of PKD in his similar film Waking Life, and did PKD proud in ASD. |
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