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[Sweder]

Philip K Dick was a remarkable writer of Science Fiction, at least as far as successful conversion to celluloid is concerned.
Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report and now Scanner Darkly were all directly inspired by the late writers' works. He managed forty novels and five marriages, but it's his uncanny ability to predict our future that gives his work an eerily familiar feel. The recent Director's Cut of Blade Runner, screened for Dick just before his death, apparently had the writer in tears at the 'uncanny proximity to his vision' achieved by Scott. It remains in my own top five films of all time; prophetic (I've seen the city scapes of 'San Angeles' taking shape in China) and eminently quotable:

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams ... glitter in the dark near Tanhauser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost ... in time, like tears ... in rain.

An interesting contrast to, say, Stephen King, one of the most successful popular writers in modern times. With the exception of The Green Mile and Misery the essence of King's works are too often lost in translation, resulting in second-rate B-movie trash.