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Philip K. Dick's short story Adjustment Team becomes a member of the PKD adaptation team this weekend. Other members of this illustrious group include Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly, but unlike those darker, dystopic films, The Adjustment Bureau is more romantic -- on a date with destiny, where the date is more important than the actual destiny. Politician David Norris (played by Matt Damon) has a chance to be President, but he'd give it all up for love with a saucy ballerina (played by Emily Blunt). Too bad for the would-be couple that the Adjustment Bureau has a different plan for them, and will do anything to keep them apart. Writer/director George Nolfi (who wrote Ocean's Twelve and co-wrote The Bourne Ultimatum) explains how he made the story different than any Dick adaptation before.
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David Norris is the youngest Congressman elected to the House of Representatives. He's running for a seat in the Senate when an embarassing incident from his college days surfaces (thanks to the New York Post), damaging his chances. While he's preparing his concession speech, he meets a woman -- they talk, they kiss, and they fall in love. That moment changes him -- and so changed, he gives a very different speech than the one prepared. The ripple effects are huge, and now David (played by Matt Damon) seems fated for a road to the White House, which is right where the agents of the Adjustment Bureau want him to be -- too bad for them, he'd rather have the girl. Damon talks about fighting the agents of fate in The Adjustment Bureau, and what kind of role fate has had in his own career.
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Harry Mitchell is a case officer, and his biggest case at the moment is David Norris. He's been with David since he was born, orchestrating all the big and small moments in his life, so that he'll live up to his potential. So that he'll become the youngest Congressman ever elected to the House of Representatives, and eventually, hopefully, the President. So if that means David needs to crave public approval, Harry (played by Anthony Mackie) is in charge of killing off David's family members, to help create that emptiness and need for love and approval. Only problem is, Harry's had a change of heart. Mackie talks about being an agent of fate in The Adjustment Bureau, and what he thinks about fate versus free will in the real world.
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Richardson decides when you spill your coffee. When you miss a bus. When your phone is out of service range. All the seemingly small events in your life that become more important due to their ripple effects (needing to go grab another shirt, being late for work, missing an appointment). And as an agent of fate in The Adjustment Bureau, Richardson (played by John Slattery) has an assignment to keep apart two would-be lovers, played by Matt Damon and Emily Blunt, even if a series of chances keeps throwing them back together. Slattery weighs fate against free will, and questions whether he should dye his distinctive silver hair.
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Elise Sellas is a contemporary ballet dancer who meets a politician under rather odd circumstances -- she's hiding out from security in a hotel bathroom, he's ducked in the same bathroom to prepare a concession speech. In the space of a few minutes, they talk, they kiss -- and they fall in love. A chance meeting? In their world, there's no such thing as chance. A shadowy organization has a plan which controls everyone's fates, but something goes askew once Elise (played by Emily Blunt) and David (played by Matt Damon) fall for each other -- which definitely wasn't according to plan. Blunt talks about the love story at the heart of The Adjustment Bureau, and what it took to make the relationship work.
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After a lifetime’s worth of literature from Philip K. Dick that explored the future, the farthest regions of space and the afterlife, a posthumous work will take readers to a different alien terrain: the inside of the author’s mind.
Mr. Dick, who died in 1982 at 53, was best known for existential science-fiction novels like “The Man in the High Castle,” “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch” and “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” He also spent years wrestling with what he considered to be religious visions, which he began experiencing in the 1970s.
He recorded his reactions to and attempts at deciphering these spiritual visions in a work he called the “Exegesis,” reputed to be 8,000 pages — or longer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/books/30author.html?hpwAfter a lifetime’s worth of literature from Philip K. Dick that explored the... more
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Ok, so maybe 'Surrogates' isn't that bad, (it's actually an Ok B movie!); But it is another in the list of pics adapted or ripped from Philip K. Dick such as:
BLADE RUNNER
MINORITY REPORT
THE MATRIX
DARK CITY
TOTAL RECALL
CYPHER
EXISTENZ
NEXT
COLD SOULS
HALF THE EPISODES OF THE NEW OUTER LIMITS
THROUGH A SCANNER DARKLY
PAYCHECK
SCREAMERS
THE TERMINATOR PICTURES
ETC., ETC.Ok, so maybe 'Surrogates' isn't that bad, (it's actually an Ok B... more
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In the hands of Boom! Studios, Philip K. Dick’s classic novel is undergoing a graphic transformation that, in the words of editor Ian Brill, lacks definition: “We can’t settle on a term yet because nothing like this has been done in comics,” said Brill. “It is an experiment to combine text and pictures this way.”
The new adaptation will include the full text of the novel, as stipulated by Dick’s daughters who own the right to their fathers work through their company, Electric Shepherd Productions.
Excerpts from article:
“Famously adapted into the movie Blade Runner in 1982, Dick’s novel is fundamentally different in many ways. Brill said that they wanted to create a world unlike that of Blade Runner, which he describes as an ‘old future that has gone to seed,’ while Boom!'s Electric Sheep adaptation is ‘our world, decayed horribly.’ He added that there are no cool conveniences in their adaptation.
“The first issue of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? came out in July […]. Brill said the periodical series would likely be collected into hardcover volumes, four issues at a time. The series will be approximately 24 issues long.”
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Booked Wants to Know:
It seems classic literature has been coming under the artist's brush/pen/palette lately. Graphic novels are growing in popularity. Comic books are having resurgence. Books are being adapted to movies more often than ever before. But as the line between "reading" and "viewing" becomes more and more blurred, we must consider the following -- Is this hybridization of artistic styles a beneficial thing? And to whom? Few would argue that innovation is bad, but are there unforeseen downfalls to this blending of genres and Medias. Or, perhaps, unforeseen benefits?In the hands of Boom! Studios, Philip K. Dick’s classic novel is undergoing a... more
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In addition to picking up the Terminator rights, The Halcyon Co. also bought the entire Philip K. Dick estate in 2007, meaning they can develop any adaptation of any of his work they want. Announced today at Cannes, co-founders and co-CEOs Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson will next adapt PKD's 1974 novel "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said." Set in a futuristic, dystopian America following a second civil war that left the country in a police state, "Tears" is the story of a celebrity who wakes up after an assassination attempt to find no one has ever heard of him. No word on who will write or direct this yet.In addition to picking up the Terminator rights, The Halcyon Co. also bought the... more
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by beedee
the camera is my lover
it's clarity is my vision
it haunts my dreams
it holds me back
the camera needs me
my constant attention
it scorns my affection
but never looks away
but for all its sway
the camera doesn't know
my heart
my mind
the truth
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This poem was inspired by David Brin's prescient book "The Transparent Society" and dedicated to all of the cameras I see in every grocery store and every building lobby. To those two luscious jugs that hang below the NYPD Security Boxes on every other street light on every major street.
Please feel free to comment below with your own love letters to the cameras that are springing up in your hometown. You know where they are, don't you?
by beedee
the camera is my lover
it's clarity is my vision
it haunts my... more
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