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Originally Posted by sabredog
Philip K Dick's book "Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep" was made into "Blade Runner" by Ridley Scott in 1982.
A superb movie adaption of a rather dreary book. Sometimes Hollywood gets it right!
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Was it actually a Hollywood production? I read the book about the film production a few years ago and I seem to remember it was filmed in London. And Ridley Scott kept using so much money that one producer/investor left in the middle of it, I think. When you think of how well the film looks even today, it's well-spent money.
I was even lucky enough to see the digitally restored film in a movie theatre with a digital projector. A wonderful experience - also knowing that the rest of the audience were fans as well. Just sitting there in the dark, in complete silence, hearing the first chords of the intro and then that skyline...
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Originally Posted by cearbhallain
I *love* that movie, I hadn't read the book before it came out (heck I didn't even know it was Crichton when it came out) and boy was I surprised by how scary it is. I did eventually read the book, and I found it interesting that the story was a melding of actual historical documents and the legend of Beowulf.
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Ooh, another fan!
A lot of people don't think much of this film and I often have to defend why I like it. But come on, it got adventure! fantasy! vikings! mysterious evil! more vikings! Antonio Banderas as Ibn Fadlan!
I read the book long before being aware of the film and didn't realise the film was based on it until well after I'd seen t the first time. What I like especially about the film is that all our knowledge about those evil people is gained through the eyes of the viking warriors. We never know more than them -- and in the end, we really don't know much about that people. They are quite mysterious.
What I read into it, is that those people actually have a lot in common with the jotuns from Scandinavian mythology. Chaos powers that threaten civilisation. And that makes the film much more interesting, and more "believable" than the book - where that people just turns out to be surviving neanderthals. How boring.
But then I don't like the current trend of picking apart myths to get to "the man behind" like the Arthur film or the recent Robin Hood film. Myths and legends survive because that the story that contains the value - the possible reality behind is not as interesting.