Blade Runner

>Blade Runner
>Total Recall
>The Adjustment Bureau
>Minority Report
>Impostor
>Screamers
>Man in the High Castle
>Paycheck
>Next
>A Scanner Darkly
All of these films were adapted from stories written by Philip K. Dick. Which is the most faithful? Which is the best?

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A scanner darkly is inarguably the most faithful

True, but which one is best?

Blade Runner

scanner darkly is the best adaptation but blade runner is my favorite film
we should really get some adaptations of the more crazy side of PKD

Next? like the mtv show or what?

The Nic Cage movie where he plays an eagle.

A Scanner Darkly and you see how weird that shit was. In Next Nic Cage was supposed to be a bald Golden child, but instead he was Nice Cage.

I think Blade Runner and Minority Report made people think that any hack director could adapt PKD, despite two of the GOATs being behind those movies.

isn't there a Valdis movie too?

You might be onto something. I bet Total Recall exists because some studio executive wanted to recreate the success of Blade Runner, and the same relationship probably exists between Paycheck and Minority Report.

Not really. You can't have a faithful k dick novel until the lead actor is played by an out of shape ugly middle aged guy.

Bob Arctor was never described that way in the novel.

>recreate the success of Blade Runner
Blade Runner bombed in theaters. Total Recall got made because of Arnold. He convinced a studio to buy the rights, wanted Verhoven to direct (Arnold liked Robocop), and had an unheard of amount of control over its production/marketing.

Arnold liked reading PKD?

Yes he was. Reread the chapter where he tries to come on to Donna when they are driving.

Can't comment on that but virign nerds aren't the only people who read scifi

He liked the script the had been floating around but the company wouldn't give him the part. Said company collapsed and that's when Arnold got Carolco to buy it.

I assume you mean the chapter where he says he loves her in her apartment. She says he's ugly when he asks to put his arm around her, but that's only because she can't fuck him because she's her boss.

No when he's dropping her off. He's described as fat and bald. He even starts wheezing at one point.

Screamers gets my faithful vote, not being contrarian. It has the eerie lonely thin dread that cuts through PKD's work like an invisible fishing line, but also understands his ironic stoner humor. It really nails the existential monotony of off-Earth mining operations, which is exactly how it will be irl future. Peter Weller is a more befitting PKD protag in physique and irreverence than Arnold, Ford or Keanu. Cruise would have been better for Scanner than Keanu, more tragic and he's less associated with drugs so it'd be harrowing.

In terms of quality, Total Recall is underrated of late by millennials, and BR is overrated. TR actually gets PDK's stoned kooky doom right, while BR is really a style exercise separate from DADoES.

Adjustment Bureau is pretty cool and unique, not very PKD at all, but I've never understood the hate. It's classical Holllywood but with a fun smart script. I know people who think this movie is gay af, never understood that. Blunt is prime too.

I dislike how Charlie Brooker has ripped so much PKD off wholesale and critics don't call him out because they don't read. Especially his Netflix Christmas Special with Hamm.

My dream PKD project would be Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch directed by John Carpenter circa 1979-82. My current choice is Alex Garland or the director of Super Dark Times.

Still can't find it. You got a chapter number?

OP should also address the paradox of no PKD adaptation truly being faithful to his work, yet he's the most adapted sci-fi writer. Very few movies have ever come close to the madness of PKD in general. Jacob's Ladder is similar in tone. Carpenter's Thing in dread/paranoia.

That indie released last year with Alanis Morisette is actually the most faithful adaptation, but the production values and director hindered it. Not a fully wasted effort. They understood the faithfulness crisis as applied to his works.

i would buy a Phillip K Dick collection of movies. I really do enjoy all of the movies based on his works even if they aren't hardcore faithful

A Scanner Darkly is faithful

>Best
Total recall
>Worst
A scanner darkly

True story, I read A Scanner Darkly after I saw the movie to try and get a better understanding.

Nope. The movie was literally lifted from the pages of the book.

It's faithful but the rotoscoping is redundant to the story's surreality. The challenge of adapting PKD is translating his warped interior to live action. I felt like Screamers visually understands his obsessionwith dystopic monotony and human smallness, while Total Recall understands his schizo-identity and manic madness. But the definitive PKD film has not been made. I'm surprised the Japanese haven't tried.

Fucking let me look. I had it in print years ago and just got in audiobook

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