Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!mcnc!unc!howes From: howes@unc.UUCP (Byron Howes ) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: re: BLADE RUNNER - (nf) Message-ID: <7475@unc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 4-Aug-84 00:50:16 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.7475 Posted: Sat Aug 4 00:50:16 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Jul-84 01:16:52 EDT References: <37@ism780b.UUCP> Organization: University of North Carolina Comp. Center Lines: 20 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 ({decvax,akgua}!mcnc!unc!howes)