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Tod69 Talamasca
The Human Tripod ;)
Join date: 20 Sep 2005
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06-11-2009 14:24
From: Ceka Cianci a lot may not care for this version.but it did reach a lot of people that i never thought would get into it..my sister for one.. she said at first she was lost but then when she sat and really fell into it she could understand completely what was being said.. that is something i would not expect her to like but she actually bought the movie and the version of Hamlet with Mel Gibson  I loved it!!  "modern" without being "too modern".
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Tod69 Talamasca
The Human Tripod ;)
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06-11-2009 14:26
From: Lexxi Gynoid I liked "Romeo and Juliet" more than "West Side Story".
Just something about gangs in modern times singing, dancing, and snapping their fingers in beat and harmony.
Warriors was much better than West Side Story. Warrrrrrrriorrrrrrsss! Come out tooo Plaaaa-ay!!! 
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Govindira Galatea
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06-14-2009 11:05
From: Lexxi Gynoid I liked "Romeo and Juliet" more than "West Side Story".
Just something about gangs in modern times singing, dancing, and snapping their fingers in beat and harmony.
Warriors was much better than West Side Story. Both Zefferelli's Romeo & Juliet and West Side Story leave me in tears during the closing credits. Same, when I've seen stage version of Romeo & Juliet (I've not seen West Side Story on stage, yet). P.K. Dick's non-scifi is as mind bending as is his scifi. Things fall apart, certainly, and that seems to be the main topic of his stories. But in the background, the forces that are making things fall apart in the foreground are pulling things together in the background. Of course, the background may not be pretty, a dystopia. Like life and our world. And it's that similarity, vibrantly written, that made Dick's writing so amazing for me. I think scifi often uses the mechanism of "if this goes on" to tell us what's happening now.
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Tarina Sewell
Just Browsing Thank you
Join date: 20 Jul 2007
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06-14-2009 19:48
From: Govindira Galatea I disagree strongly with this statement, since history and our modern culture are full of things that have passed their time yet lived on. I would find more truth in it if Dick had said instead something along the lines that before the new things can wax full the old things must be waning. Even then, it would not encompass reality. Exactly just look, hammer pants are back in.... |
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Seven Okelli
last days of pompeii
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06-18-2009 14:10
This is classic PKD: he starts out interesting and funny, takes off for crazy town, and goes back to being interesting and funny, but carrying something he picked up in crazy town.
He usually leaves me not with a sense of the unreality of things, but with a feeling that sanity is a fragile state.
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Lewis Luminos
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06-18-2009 14:46
I think PKD is right, but only to a point. Birth, growth, change, progress, death, decay - these are all natural processes, and are necessary.; But some stability is necessary too. If there is nothing but chaos we would all go insane.
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