Dicks Androids and Scotts Replicants :: Philip K. Dick Ridley Scott

Dicks Androids and Scotts ReplicantsPhilip K. Dick has written over fifty novels, and is considered among someof the greatest experimental writers of the 1950s and 60s, such as WilliamBurroughs, J.G. Ballard, and Thomas Pynchon.(Star 34) He has written science-fiction and regular fiction. His fiction usually spoke of people trying tofigure out who they atomic number 18, or what they are mantic to be. He is best known,however, for his work in science-fiction, and this represents the majority ofhis work. He has, excessively, won awards for two of his science-fiction novels. Hewon the Hugo Award for best novel in 1962 for The man in the High Castle and theJohn W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year in 1974 for Flow MyTears, The Policeman Said (Brians 1). An opera has been ground on one of P.K.D.later novels, Valis (Brians 1). One of his short stories, We Can Build It ForYou, was made into a movie recently. The movie was Screamers, starring PeterWeller. He has also h ad two of his novels, We Can Remember It for YouWholesale (Total Recall), Do Androids conceive of of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner),made into movies. Of the two, Blade Runner (B.R.) has had the greatest impact.B.R., however, differs greatly from Dicks original novel, Do Androids Dream ofElectric Sheep? (D.A.D.O.E.S.)Blade Runner was released in 1982 under the direction of Ridley Scott,who also made another sci-fi classic, Alien.The film begins in the city of Los Angeles. The year is 2019. The city ofLos Angeles is overpopulated, rich with all sorts of humans. Japanese ADsare all over the place. The Japanese input was strictly the director, RidleyScots. Scott saw the future world being controlled by the Japanese. Philip K.Dick did not mention this. The planet is recovering from World warfare III,although Im not sure they actually say this. In the book, the war is clearlystated and was called World War Terminus. The effects of the radiation hasmutated some people. Only the ones who had not been disfigured or alteredgenetically by radiation from the nuclear bombs could emigrate, (leave theplanet earth). Some, who were perfectly estimable chose to stay, however. Theystayed because they were stubborn and wanted to die on the planet they were bornon. The chickenheads had to stay, it was law. Chickenheads is Dicks term forthe disfigured or the genetically altered. They are also referred to asspecials. There are no chickenheads in the movie. None of this is made clear