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A Scanner Darkly (It had to be done)
logosmonkey:
It was a pretty decent flick. The rotoscope effect has been done in a way before, well a lot before actually.. Max Fleischer did it in 1914 and it's been done many times since. Linklater did it once before with Waking Life. Eitherway it looked great in this film.
Mister Rand McNally:
--- Quote from: sunniegreen ---I love PKD, and I hope that my Cinema 3 gets it sometime.
Meanwhile maybe I'll go re-read VALIS until they make the movie of it. It could be kickass. Or, a really horrible atrocity.
--- End quote ---
I know I'm new here, and my opinion probably means next to nothing, but I really hope that film producers never touch VALIS. VALIS is too close to Dick, in my opinion, and any book that is so close to the author is going to be tricky anyway, but VALIS is a special case, being an almost complete narrative of Dick's breakdown and detachment from reality. It is, I feel, a little too sad to show the complete breakdown of a man who worked so hard to craft so many beautiful, if not hopeful, futures.
I guess what I'm getting at is that VALIS is a little too raw, too emotional for film. I think maybe we owe Dick the respect of staying away from his work pointing at his most vulnerable time.
est:
Heya dude, welcome to the QC forumses.
I agree with you about VALIS. For one thing, although it worked pretty well as a book I am pretty sure they would have trouble adapting it into a movie without making it completely unattractive to most people. I mean, even his name would probably be the first thing to be either changed or made to seem like some kind of wacky zany thing to be played on.
Mister Rand McNally:
Thanks, est. It's nice to be here.
I think the take Hollywood would take on VALIS would be the outrageously silly one. Jack Black plays Horselover Fat, Drew Carrey plays the narrator, and Andy Richter plays Phillip K. Dick. Watch them slap each other.
öde:
I watched it a while ago, it was a pretty cool film.
If I get time I might read the book.
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