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Post by account_disabled on Dec 14, 2023 0:30:09 GMT -5
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? A title that might perhaps be surprising (in the original it is identical: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ), but once you have read it you understand its meaning. It's a novel by the writer Philip K. Dick, who I didn't appreciate in Ubik and who instead won me over with this work. But do androids dream of electric sheep? takes us to a dystopian future, which I honestly wouldn't want to experience. The world is populated by automatons, the Earth has undergone changes and everything is described so well and with so few words that the reader immediately enters that atmosphere, thanks also to an incipit that works. Blade Runner is a film directed by Ridley Scott, released in 1982, with the actors Harrison Ford, in the part of Rick Deckard (the protagonist of the novel and the film) and Rutger Hauer, in the part of Roy Batty, in the part of an Phone Number Data automaton. Blade Runner from book to film does not fully represent the themes addressed by Dick, but the film is only loosely based on the writer's novel. But it is a good science fiction film that I remember with pleasure and that I will see again, dynamic, with well-made scenography and good actors. The film focuses on androids, while the novel shines the light on the whole of society, touching on its various aspects, the religious one, that of domestic life, and also the environmental one. In Blade Runner, however, we are in a dark future world, which manages to involve the viewer, but which lacks the completeness that only the novel has been able to provide. I recommend reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? In my opinion, you will find very little about the film. Reading the novel I was only able to grasp some elements of the film. Two works, however, unsurpassable. Have you read this novel? How many have seen the film Blade Runner.
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