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From: howes@unc.UUCP (Byron Howes )
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Subject: Re: re: BLADE RUNNER - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 4-Aug-84 00:50:16 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  4 00:50:16 1984
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I have always viewed films based on books as separate treatements of the same
theme.  "Blade Runner" took the basic premise of "Do Androids Dream of 
Electric Sheep" and chose to emphasize certain of its themes.  That is the
directors right and should be expected.  To do that, the screenwriter moved
away from the specifics of the original plot.  No matter.  The film is really
a separate work and should be judged on its own merits.

This is certainly in the grand tradition of good filmmaking.  I have seldom,
if ever, seen a film treatment of a book where major alterations in specifics
haven't been made for cinematic reasons.  In the case of some books, (M*A*S*H
comes to mind) the alterations resulted in a significantly superior work.  For
others it doesn't work out so well.  Still, judge the film on its own merits
and not by attempting to compare it to the book, which is an entirely 
different medium.
-- 


					   Byron Howes
					UNC - Chapel Hill
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