How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later (1978)

Re:How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days ... by tempguy9999 on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @06:37AM (#20211482)

I dunno about PKD. His books are often lifeless to me, and I have other reservations but about blade runner, I read the book (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) many years ago and IIRC there was virtually naff all in the films that related to the book.

So has anyone read the book and can say I misremeber, that the film and the book were at all similar? Honestly curious.

I watched the original again recently and it stood up rather well. The one thing that really dated it wasn't the curved CRTs which I can overlook but when Deckard had Rachael in his flat, and pushed her hard against a wall when she apparently wanted to leave. Such an action and attitude wouldn't be acceptable these days.

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Re:How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days ... by qazpot on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @07:11AM (#20211695)

The book and the movie are very different but share the same philosophical underpinnings.

> pushed her hard against a wall when she apparently wanted to leave. Such an action and attitude wouldn't be acceptable these days.

I am tired of reading such comments where the current moral standards are being used to judge works of fiction written 50 years ago.

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Re:How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days ... by afthonos on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @10:24AM (#20213340)

Of all the possible defenses of that scene (Deckard is a villain; Deckard literally does not consider her a person at this point in the story; Deckard is trying to break her association with being the rich niece of the inventor of replicants; others), this is the absolute worst.

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