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"A Scanner Darkly"?
#5478577 - 04/04/06 10:09 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405296/
is it out yet? this looks VERY promising!! excelent cast too...
i'm officially a richard linklater fan
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Re: "A Scanner Darkly"? [Re: Simisu]
#5478585 - 04/04/06 10:12 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Me too, Waking Life was incredibly good. It's interesting that A Scanner Darkly is based on a novel by Philip K. Dick; he's mentioned towards the end of Waking Life as well.
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Re: "A Scanner Darkly"? [Re: Simisu]
#5478588 - 04/04/06 10:12 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Release Date - July 7, 2006
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Re: "A Scanner Darkly"? [Re: Simisu]
#5478590 - 04/04/06 10:13 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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damn that does look good.
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Re: "A Scanner Darkly"? [Re: Simisu]
#5478594 - 04/04/06 10:14 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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You should read the novel, really. Dick is a shitty writer who writes great books if that makes any sense. When I say he's a shitty writer it's because he has no consistency. He was on such a cocktail of methamphetamines and psychedelics that the feel, the tempo of his writing varies sometimes from paragraph to paragraph.
Makes for an interesting read though. I'd also suggest Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
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Do you know which is the book that he wrote that's described in Waking Life? That apparently is strikingly similar to the Book of Acts?
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Re: "A Scanner Darkly"? [Re: dblaney]
#5478614 - 04/04/06 10:19 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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That's "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said."
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Re: "A Scanner Darkly"? [Re: dblaney]
#5478616 - 04/04/06 10:20 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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dblaney said: Do you know which is the book that he wrote that's described in Waking Life? That apparently is strikingly similar to the Book of Acts?
Actually, I just checked the script, and it's Flow My Tears the Policeman Said which Robot mentioned just a moment ago per chance...
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Sweet, I think I'll check that book out, I was intrigued by the description in the movie.
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Re: "A Scanner Darkly"? [Re: dblaney]
#5478639 - 04/04/06 10:28 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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dblaney said: Do you know which is the book that he wrote that's described in Waking Life? That apparently is strikingly similar to the Book of Acts?
you should also read this attachment... (How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later - by Philip K. Dick 1978) it's what linklater talks about in the movie ( he mentiones reading an artical which made him dream...) i wonder what to make of it though! kinda freaked me out a little
i should read some of his books i know... i have to find some good book store first (used)
also i've seen "befor sunset" a few weeks ago and just now realized it's a sequel to another movie he made... he also used both those actors in "waking life" and that scean is probably what made him want to make a sequal to the movie! (excelent movie by the way)
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OneMoreRobot3021 said: Makes for an interesting read though. I'd also suggest Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
basically anything by Philip K Dick is pretty golden. He, Vonnegut, and Robert Anton Wilson all wrote what i like to refer to as 'psychedelic sci-fi'
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Re: "A Scanner Darkly"? [Re: Krishna] 1
#5478693 - 04/04/06 10:49 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Psychedelic sci-fi is the best sci-fi.
One area Dick absolutely excels in is the genre that is my favorite - the sci-fi short story.
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Re: "A Scanner Darkly"? [Re: Simisu]
#5478905 - 04/04/06 12:14 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I've seen Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. Really great movies. Especially the huge time difference between the two, the actors and charecters have really aged. Waking life is just a trip. Too bad Keanu Reeves is in Scanner Darkly. Oh well, maybe he'll do OK.
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Re: "A Scanner Darkly"? [Re: cybrbeast]
#5478924 - 04/04/06 12:21 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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That movie does look good. I like Philip K Dick as well, he has some good readings on www.deoxy.org.
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Re: "A Scanner Darkly"? [Re: cybrbeast]
#5478927 - 04/04/06 12:23 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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On a more serious note.A scanner darkly looks like it should be good.I loved Waking life.I have not read any of the books mentioned in this thread,so tha gives me some new ones for my book and author list.Thanks
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Re: "A Scanner Darkly"? [Re: Simisu]
#5478929 - 04/04/06 12:24 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Radiohead is going to do the score. I think it's supposed to be mostly songs that have already been released, with at least one new one.
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PinballWizard said: Radiohead is going to do the score. I think it's supposed to be mostly songs that have already been released, with at least one new one.
that makes it uberly more interesting  i just hope the message about drug use or drugs in generall will be sane...
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Re: "A Scanner Darkly"? [Re: Simisu]
#5478981 - 04/04/06 12:40 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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If it is to be true to Dick, it will be sane.
He was a heavy user of both LSD and meth.
His meth use got so bad he reported visitations from God.
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Flow my tears was such a great book... I love this man's work and I hope the movie is well made.
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Re: "A Scanner Darkly"? [Re: danamine]
#5479379 - 04/04/06 02:17 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I saw the trailer for this movie yesterday when I went to see "Thank you for Smoking" It looks good, keanu has another one of those "I know Kung Fu lines" but its something like "So the left and right hemispheres of my brain are destroying each other?" Some shit like that.
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Re: "A Scanner Darkly"? [Re: Animals]
#5479960 - 04/04/06 05:50 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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you can watch the trailer on IMDB... it's also in a similer style to Waking Life but i bet they added allot!
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Re: "A Scanner Darkly"? [Re: Simisu]
#5760649 - 06/17/06 01:31 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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well... i'm giving this a bump cuz it's coming out soon and i haven't been excited about any movie for years now!
i'm actualy waiting for this!!!
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