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March 10, 2005

Richard Linklater: Sci-Fi Savior?

There's a new trailer out for the latest effort from Richard Linklater (Waking Life), which employs his signature rotoscope animation. It's, surprisingly, a serious science fiction film based on a Philip K. Dick story: A Scanner Darkly, and it stars Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Wynona Ryder and a few other people you wouldn't expect. The animation looks like its used very, very well, and having an actual story will be a step up for Linklater. The effort has more potential than any science fiction film I've seen the past several years. Hopefully it will turn out well.

Posted by Ben at March 10, 2005 03:40 AM

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Linklater is fantastic. Did you get into Waking Life much? Or more specifically I guess what I'm wondering is did you ever get curious about lucid dreaming itself? I've discovered some rather interesting stuff about it and am considering weird possibilities that it might have for further learning if you're interested.

Also I started voraciously reading Philip K. Dick's books, especially once I got a hold of that Valis trilogy I was talking to you and Augusto about on your birthday. His mind works in fascinatingly unconventional ways, and it's great because after you read the book you can sort of pick up the things he picks up, or at least understand that sort of slant on reality. Whether or not he was onto something the stuff he wrote in those last three books will have your head spinning for some time.

I've been slowly following development of the Scanner Darkly movie, it all sounds great except for Keanu. I've also noticed movies based off of PKD's work tend to be dumbed down for the masses, which often seemed to lead to a degradation of the overall impact of the story and the ideas he was trying to have people toy with. Anyway, I'll talk to you more later, nice radio.blog thing you have there.

Posted by: Nathaniel at March 13, 2005 02:08 PM