re : CitySpeak in _Blade Runner_ (was Conlangs in History)
| From: | Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 20, 2000, 20:53 |
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, BP Jonsson wrote:
> > With perhaps a side reference to Philip K. Dick, aka Horselover Fat.
>A real person?
Real person... Writer Philip K. Dick is a.k.a. "Horselover Fat" (he came
up with this himself)
> > Is this Cityspeak found in the original "Do Androids Dream of Electric
> >Sheep"?
>>I could almost have sworn that it *wasn't,* but it's been over a year
>>since I read it. I haven't actually seen Bladerunner <ducking>, but I'm
>>told the two do have significant differences (from those who know).
>Is it a good read? I like the movie, and IME if you like the film, don't
>read the book & vice_versa.
Book is great... movie is great... two seperate entities (yep, the movie
is _based_ on the book... but if the book was to be faithfully "transcribed"
to cinematic form one is talking "long epic" a la Fassbinder or Bertolucci...
or at worst, a TV mini-series...)
czHANg