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A Scanner Darkly Sneak-Peek
An anonymous reader writes "Some images for the upcoming film 'A Scanner Darkly' have been posted on aintitcool.com. Looks like it's going to look alot like one of Richard Linklater's previous films, Waking Life."
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I want to see a great movie, not a great special effect.
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Either you lack imagination or you're just lazy. Not trolling btw, just stickin' up for Miyazaki and for unrealistic animation in general. I've never once understood why people would go to the movies to see reality, or why they'd complain when they don't. Then again, I'm a boy, and I watch my niece play pretend that she's a mom/teenager all day and I don't understand that.
Anyway, back on topic, what makes Miyazaki great is that it isn't real, it's better than real. When you're being real, you're limited by what's believable. When you don't bother with reality, you're only limited by consistency (i.e. stuff shouldn't come out of nowhere, and it doesn't in a Miyazaki film). It's easier, and more fun, to suspend disbelief when reality isn't smacking you in the face every couple of minutes....
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this isn't a more realistic style of cartooning, this is rotoscoping, and as such can't even be considered animation. It's a more tedious process of color correction. If you apply a brush stroke photoshop filter to a photograph, it isn't called a painting, so doing the same to a live action segment (even if it's manually traced over instead of completely automated) can't be considered animation.
Don't trust a bull's horn, a doberman's tooth, a runaway horse or me.
I enjoyed Waking Life, and I'm a certified Dick nut. A Scanner Darkly is one of the greatest pieces of "short" fiction of our century, and it's a shame that society regards Dick primarly as a scifi writer, when he was one of the most astute social commentators of our time. He just happened to be good at expressing his fears and thoughts through a captivating medium.
For the unitiated, A Scanner Darkly is at the front of the reality-bending/drug/psychological thriller genre. Before there was Thomas Harris or Hunter S. Thompson, there was Dick. God, I have shivers already.
I would imagine that it would be extremely difficult to adapt the theme of a split personality to film.
How about "Fight Club"? Or "Me, Myself and Irene"? And those are just the first two that come to mind.... It's not as if split personalities are a new plot device where Hollywood is concerned, but it does require some uncommonly good acting and directing talent.
I hated Waking Life, too. But then the bong made it around to me, and a few minutes later, I realized why everyone liked it so much.
But then I tried to show it to someone else. There was no bong this time. I quickly apologized for ever suggesting the movie, and we both agreed to watch the Disney Channel because it's more mentally stimulating.
It's sort of a common-sense thing. The internet being what it is a reasonable person ought to assume that the copyright is being infringed, since in 99.99% of the cases that's what is happening when you stumble across a poorly-formatted plaintext of a currently copyrighted work. A legit copy of a popular work that is legally available for free distribution will probably have been lovingly prepared by a Project Gutenberg volunteer or in rare cases by the publisher, and will look a lot better than a simple OCR rip deal.
If you actually give a shit you can email the guy who owns this page:
http://paulwilliams.com/pkds.html
Not only was he the literary executor of Dick's estate, he ran the pkds which was mentioned on the title page of the book, so he's obviously got some credibility. I'm sure he'll be happy to state the obvious for you.
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