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I bought the book on Friday and it's very short. I'm very surprised on how short it is, as I read in about 2 or 3 hours. It was €10.99 in HMV.
Anyway it's very different from the film. Dick never gives much of a description of the surroundings so it's hard to imagine what his vision was like. From seeing the film first it made this even harder, especially with a mental picture of Cruise and Farrell for the main characters.
It's a very gritty vision and a much older Anderton compared to the film. The book started off very well, with strong similarities to Total Recall. Fast pace to it, which made it an exciting read. I loved the idea of the flying ships that the Police used. I felt the second half of the book slowed up a tad.
It was a war torn city of New York that was prevalent throughout the book and the strong possibility of a civil war. There was no specific time set for it though. Got a little convoluted with the various reports conflicting each other, but Anderton killed Kaplan just so the PreCrime division would survive was pretty clever. Showed how much faith Anderton had in the system.
I think they made a great job on the film from this short story, wouldn't have been easy for them. Quite a different story and different ideas about the precogs (calling them monkeys in the book). In the book Anderton's name was printed on a card, where as in the film it was engraved into a wooden ball. In the film Anderton killed Crow by accident, but he had same faith in the system as the character in the book.
The book was well written with a gritty atmosphere to it that's not all shown in the film. Although it ended rather abruptly with a paradox. In one way I'm glad the film is different even though it has plot holes.
The Minority Report book has other stories:
Imposter
Second Variety
War Game
What the Dead Men Say
Oh, to be a Blobel!
The Electric Aunt
Faith of our Fathers
We Can Remember for you Wholesale
I'm pretty sure I read the Total Recall book (We Can Remember for you Wholesale), which was a good read also.
Yes Minority Report short story has a better ending, and better thought out with 3 minority reports, though some of the futuristic ideas contained in the movie are excellent.
Philip K. Dick :notworthy
I hope Imposter is better than the film version. It had Gary Sinese and Madeline Stowe. It was straight to VHS/DVD and was awful.
I usually like Philips K Dick films including Bladerunner, Total Recall and Minority Report. I don't want to watch Imposter again.
You forgot to mention Screamers which was ok but with a predictable twist at the end.
Note that only Ridley Scott has attempted to make a film from a full novel, the rest have taken short stories as they are easier to rewrite to suit themselves. Most of the leading characters in Dick novels could generally considered to be past their youth, overworked desperate characters thrown into deeply confusing situations and generally the transaltions to film involve younger or at least more assertive characters. The latest adaptation is called Paycheck by John Woo with Ben Affleck as the lead. I reckon the chances of a proper adaptation of a Philip K Dick Novel as being low as it would only appeal to the arthouse audience being slightly more comprehensible than your average David Lynch film, though I believe Terry Gilliam was planning to make a film of A Scanner Darkly at one point.
Originally posted by ian turner
The latest adaptation is called Paycheck by John Woo with Ben Affleck as the lead.
John Woo directing Paycheck :clap:
Ben Affleck in the lead role :oh-hum:
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said would make an excellent film without too much tinkering. Along withBester’s The Demolished Man and The Stars, My Destination it‘s one of the great unfilmed novels although all the above have been plundered for ideas by other movies.
i was in a bookshop the other day and saw a novel called Scanner Darkly.
now that would make a good movie !!
also the one about the alternate WW2.
i really need to start reading some of his novels, but books are so god damn expensive these days !!
I'm pretty sure there was talk of making a film based on The Man in the High Castle some years ago, but haven't heard anything since.
i was in a bookshop the other day and saw a novel called Scanner Darkly.
now that would make a good movie
if that opinion comes from a synopsis of a few lines it certainly isn't borne out in the book itself (although i have heard rumours of a film being made...)
as for the film itself (minority report) - typically offensive spielberg ****
saw the film last week, utterly superb.
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I bought the book on Friday and it's very short. I'm very surprised on how short it is, as I read in about 2 or 3 hours. It was €10.99 in HMV.
Anyway it's very different from the film. Dick never gives much of a description of the surroundings so it's hard to imagine what his vision was like. From seeing the film first it made this even harder, especially with a mental picture of Cruise and Farrell for the main characters.
It's a very gritty vision and a much older Anderton compared to the film. The book started off very well, with strong similarities to Total Recall. Fast pace to it, which made it an exciting read. I loved the idea of the flying ships that the Police used. I felt the second half of the book slowed up a tad.
It was a war torn city of New York that was prevalent throughout the book and the strong possibility of a civil war. There was no specific time set for it though. Got a little convoluted with the various reports conflicting each other, but Anderton killed Kaplan just so the PreCrime division would survive was pretty clever. Showed how much faith Anderton had in the system.
I think they made a great job on the film from this short story, wouldn't have been easy for them. Quite a different story and different ideas about the precogs (calling them monkeys in the book). In the book Anderton's name was printed on a card, where as in the film it was engraved into a wooden ball. In the film Anderton killed Crow by accident, but he had same faith in the system as the character in the book.
The book was well written with a gritty atmosphere to it that's not all shown in the film. Although it ended rather abruptly with a paradox. In one way I'm glad the film is different even though it has plot holes.
The Minority Report book has other stories:
Imposter
Second Variety
War Game
What the Dead Men Say
Oh, to be a Blobel!
The Electric Aunt
Faith of our Fathers
We Can Remember for you Wholesale
I'm pretty sure I read the Total Recall book (We Can Remember for you Wholesale), which was a good read also.
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Yes Minority Report short story has a better ending, and better thought out with 3 minority reports, though some of the futuristic ideas contained in the movie are excellent.
Philip K. Dick :notworthy
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I hope Imposter is better than the film version. It had Gary Sinese and Madeline Stowe. It was straight to VHS/DVD and was awful.
I usually like Philips K Dick films including Bladerunner, Total Recall and Minority Report. I don't want to watch Imposter again.
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You forgot to mention Screamers which was ok but with a predictable twist at the end.
Note that only Ridley Scott has attempted to make a film from a full novel, the rest have taken short stories as they are easier to rewrite to suit themselves. Most of the leading characters in Dick novels could generally considered to be past their youth, overworked desperate characters thrown into deeply confusing situations and generally the transaltions to film involve younger or at least more assertive characters. The latest adaptation is called Paycheck by John Woo with Ben Affleck as the lead. I reckon the chances of a proper adaptation of a Philip K Dick Novel as being low as it would only appeal to the arthouse audience being slightly more comprehensible than your average David Lynch film, though I believe Terry Gilliam was planning to make a film of A Scanner Darkly at one point.
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Originally posted by ian turner
The latest adaptation is called Paycheck by John Woo with Ben Affleck as the lead.
John Woo directing Paycheck :clap:
Ben Affleck in the lead role :oh-hum:
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Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said would make an excellent film without too much tinkering. Along withBester’s The Demolished Man and The Stars, My Destination it‘s one of the great unfilmed novels although all the above have been plundered for ideas by other movies.
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i was in a bookshop the other day and saw a novel called Scanner Darkly.
now that would make a good movie !!
also the one about the alternate WW2.
i really need to start reading some of his novels, but books are so god damn expensive these days !!
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I'm pretty sure there was talk of making a film based on The Man in the High Castle some years ago, but haven't heard anything since.
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i was in a bookshop the other day and saw a novel called Scanner Darkly.
now that would make a good movie
if that opinion comes from a synopsis of a few lines it certainly isn't borne out in the book itself (although i have heard rumours of a film being made...)
as for the film itself (minority report) - typically offensive spielberg ****
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saw the film last week, utterly superb.
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