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A Scanner Darkly - Kenji - 03-09-2005
Philip K. Dick's novel, "A Scanner Darkly". A long time ago, I read this book. It was very complex to me. I hope it's easy to understand that story in this movie version......but, it's animation!
When is this movie's release ?
http://www.apple.com/trailers/warner_independent_pictures/a_scanner_darkly.html
A Scanner Darkly - Marc - 03-09-2005
I saw this preview a few weeks ago. Looks like Linklater is advancing his Waking Life technique. Don't know of an exact release date but I'll be in line for this one. Looks amazing.
A Scanner Darkly - Keith the Elder - 03-09-2005
Marc B. Wrote:I saw this preview a few weeks ago. Looks like Linklater is advancing his Waking Life technique. Don't know of an exact release date but I'll be in line for this one. Looks amazing.
I have never seen such animation, Waking life? , huh?
Interesting, I'll be watching for this and Loreli too
A Scanner Darkly - law dawg - 03-09-2005
Kenji Wrote:Philip K. Dick's novel, "A Scanner Darkly". A long time ago, I read this book. It was very complex to me. I hope it's easy to understand that story in this movie version......but, it's animation!
When is this movie's release ?
http://www.apple.com/trailers/warner_independent_pictures/a_scanner_darkly.html
Just remember that the main character is slowly becoming shizophrenic. He is becoming two people. One of the persons is a undercover cop. The other person is a junkie, and eventually he starts investigating himself.
A Scanner Darkly - Annice Burdeos - 03-09-2005
law dawg Wrote:Just remember that the main character is slowly becoming shizophrenic. He is becoming two people. One of the persons is a undercover cop. The other person is a junkie, and eventually he starts investigating himself.
Keanu Reeves is coming soon to a theatre near you in September of this year !
A Scanner Darkly - Maggers - 03-09-2005
law dawg Wrote:Just remember that the main character is slowly becoming shizophrenic. He is becoming two people. One of the persons is a undercover cop. The other person is a junkie, and eventually he starts investigating himself.
Are you pulling our legs here or did you just give away the entire movie? I know nothing about this film nor did I read the book, and I'll be disappointed if what you've written is, in essence, a spoiler.
Hope it's not that.
A Scanner Darkly - law dawg - 03-11-2005
Maggers Wrote:Are you pulling our legs here or did you just give away the entire movie? I know nothing about this film nor did I read the book, and I'll be disappointed if what you've written is, in essence, a spoiler.
Hope it's not that.
No, that is pretty much discussed on the back jacket of the book. The real gist of the book is you KNOW what is going on, you just can't believe how ridiculous it gets. The back of the book reads:
Cops and criminals have always been interdependent, but no novel has explored that perverse symbiosis more powerfully than A Scanner Darkly. Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug called Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, he has taken on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Sunstance D - which Arctor takes in mammoth doses - gradually splits the user's brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn't realize that he is narcing on himself.
See? No spoiler.
A Scanner Darkly - Maggers - 03-11-2005
law dawg Wrote:No, that is pretty much discussed on the back jacket of the book. The real gist of the book is you KNOW what is going on, you just can't believe how ridiculous it gets. The back of the book reads:
Cops and criminals have always been interdependent, but no novel has explored that perverse symbiosis more powerfully than A Scanner Darkly. Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug called Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, he has taken on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Sunstance D - which Arctor takes in mammoth doses - gradually splits the user's brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn't realize that he is narcing on himself.
See? No spoiler.
Thanks, Law Dawg!
A Scanner Darkly - fpw - 03-11-2005
law dawg Wrote:Just remember that the main character is slowly becoming shizophrenic. He is becoming two people. One of the persons is a undercover cop. The other person is a junkie, and eventually he starts investigating himself.
Sounds like Phil Dick's life at the time. Psychedelics up the wazoo and slowly losing his mind.
A Scanner Darkly - law dawg - 03-11-2005
Maggers Wrote:Thanks, Law Dawg!
No problem. Sorry for the mix-up.