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Re:Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (1975) by pmoriarty on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @06:36PM (#17350841)
"Since he died, the imaginative powers of Dick have been tapped and retapped by Hollywood, (Bladerunner, Blade Runner 2049, The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Total Recall, The Adjustment Bureau, Screamers) ...and sometimes the results are even pretty good (despite the esoteric nature of his writing)."

Don't forget The Matrix -- though it wasn't directly based on any of PKD's work, his influence on it is pretty clear. The Truman Show was obviously inspired by Dick's Time Ouf of Joint (though Dick's book was a lot darker than the lighthearted Jim Carrey comedy). Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is yet another PKD-lite (featuring Jim Carrey yet again). PKD's influence on Hollywood is vast.

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Re:Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (1975) by mirceal on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @06:53PM (#17350925)
PKD was such a visionary that I can pretty much take whatever SF book/movie/etc from the last 40 years and link it directly to his work.

Although his books are hard to read sometimes, the ideas expressed in them more than makes up for the fuzzy/bad form in the which they are conveyed.

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Re:Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (1975) by hotwire on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @07:33PM (#17351170)
He was such a visionary that I can pretty much take whatever news headline from the last 10 years and link it directly to his work...

It hasn't been updated in a few years, but this site used to regularly take recent news articles and link them to story elements in Dick's stories: http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/philip_k_dick/

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Re:Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (1975) by mirceal on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @01:12AM (#17352745)
hah. this goes to prove that no matter what idea you have someone probably though about it before.
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Re:Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (1975) by Finnucane on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @08:33PM (#17351454)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was written by Charlie Kaufman, who is definitely a Dickhead. He wrote a screenplay of Scanner Darkly that went unproduced after the Linklater version came out. And of course, he wrote my favorite PKD movie not based on a PKD book, Being John Malkovich.
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