Dicks Androids and Scotts Replicants :: Philip K. Dick Ridley Scott

Dicks Androids and Scotts ReplicantsPhilip K. Dick has written over cardinal novels, and is considered among someof the superior experimental writers of the 1950s and 60s, such as WilliamBurroughs, J.G. Ballard, and doubting Thomas Pynchon.(Star 34) He has written science-fiction and regular fiction. His fiction usually intercommunicate of people trying tofigure out who they are, or what they are vatical to be. He is best known,however, for his work in science-fiction, and this represents the majority ofhis work. He has, also, won awards for two of his science-fiction novels. Hewon the Hugo exhibit for best novel in 1962 for The Man in the High Castle and theJohn W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year in 1974 for Flow MyTears, The Policeman tell (Brians 1). An opera has been based on one of P.K.D.later novels, Valis (Brians 1). One of his short stories, We Can Build It ForYou, was made into a movie recently. The movie was Screamers, feature PeterWeller. He has also had two of his novels, We Can Remember It for You sell (Total Recall), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade base runner),made into movies. Of the two, Blade Runner (B.R.) has had the greatest impact.B.R., however, differs greatly from Dicks original novel, Do Androids Dream ofElectric Sheep? (D.A.D.O.E.S.)Blade Runner was released in 1982 under the direction of Ridley Scott,who also made another sci-fi classic, Alien.The subscribe to begins in the city of Los Angeles. The year is 2019. The city ofLos Angeles is overpopulated, teeming with all sorts of humans. Nipponese ADsare all over the place. The Japanese input was strictly the director, RidleyScots. Scott axiom the future world being controlled by the Japanese. Philip K.Dick did not arouse this. The planet is recovering from World warfare III,although Im not sure they real say this. In the book, the war is put one overlystated and was called World War Terminus. The effects of the radiation hasmutated some peo ple. Only the ones who had not been disfigured or alteredgenetically by radiation from the nuclear bombs could emigrate, (leave theplanet earth). Some, who were abruptly healthy chose to stay, however. Theystayed because they were stub born(p) and wanted to die on the planet they were bornon. The chickenheads had to stay, it was law. Chickenheads is Dicks term forthe disfigured or the genetically altered. They are also referred to asspecials. There are no chickenheads in the movie. None of this is made clear