Tag: Philip K. Dick
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Planned Obsolescence
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It’s been reported that some kind of remake and/or prequel is in the works for Ridley Scott’s 1982 cyberpunk film Blade Runner. As a fan of both the film and the original novel I find this somewhat troubling but also rather amusing. It seems that no other story has had…
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No Time Like the Present: Memory and Self in Christopher Nolan’s “Memento”
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Apologies for the long hiatus without warning. Thesis Crunch. Let’s get back to the movies. I embarrassed myself yesterday in an event that will not be recounted here, but for a while I could not stop thinking about it. Even an hour after the fact I was chiding myself for…
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Information Dump, or Why “Inception” Lost Best Original Screenplay
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Okay, that’s unfair. Inception didn’t win Best Original Screenplay because the Academy preferred The King’s Speech, and with good reason. It was a great film built upon the foundation of a powerful script. (Why Hans Zimmer didn’t win Best Original Score is beyond me though…) The most common criticism I’ve…