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   "Omixochitl"  wrote in message   
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   > jeff peterson  wrote in news:c20d93$1n7dio$1@ID-   
   > 204733.news.uni-berlin.de:   
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   > > William Maddler wrote:   
   > >> on Tuesday 02 March 2004 15:59 Arolas was babbling of...   
   > >>   
   > >>>else think? Ironic though, I'd say Blade Runner is one of the   
   definitive   
   > >>>cyberpunk movies out there today, to me at least. And the year after   
   his   
   > >>   
   > >> hmmm... sorry... can't follow you... 'Do Androids   
   > >> Dream of Electric Sheep' =~ Blade Runner   
   > >>   
   > >> how can you say the book is not CP... and then assert the movie is the   
   > >> definitive CP movie?   
   > >>   
   > >> sorry... but I can't follow your mind... :)   
   > >   
   > > its been nearly 10 years since i last read 'do androids dream of   
   > > electric sheep' but i seem to recall that the novel was significantly   
   > > different to the film, and therefore although the movie was CP the book   
   > > might not have been. IIRC the protagonist was quite CP, but the setting   
   > > wasn't.   
   >   
   > Yeah, that's the impression I got too - and I both read the book and sawe   
   > the movie a while ago.   
      
   The book and the movie are barely similar. Character names remain the same,   
   and the general "settings" (kipple?). But the entire religious subtext of   
   the novel (which, was actually most of the novel) disappeared. Ridley Scott   
   crafted a masterpiece movie based on the barebones idea behind the novel,   
   rather than the novel itself I think. The novel *is* great... much better   
   than some of PKDs other work.   
      
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