Beautiful. For 30+ years I haunted used book stores hoping for unread PKD. I’m now 68. I feel like my take in his work has been validated. He is and was a revolutionary visionary for the ages. So many of his stories still live in my head; the tv repairman that saves the world, Perky Pat etc. etc. It’s just amazing. I was the same way with Bukowski. Just couldn’t get enough. His brain: an absolute treasure
That’s so cool he got to see the opening sequence and loved it. I think he would have enjoyed it as even though it deviated from his story, the essence of his themes were translated into a movie.
He knew long ago that the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s sweetness of life would someday change drastically… He understood the coming tragedies that would befall man as whole new paradigms and whole new cultures and systems. He knew because he saw it. In his mind. Whether he was witnessing a past that never came to pass; an alternate future timeline or he was peering backward to view what’s already occurred in past simulations, he knew. Bravo 👏 in his highly articulate manner to bring today’s colors and sounds to us, then.
PKD's resume of the impact of Blade runner from 22.00 onwards is particularly telling, and to hear this in his own words is wonderful. To paraphrase: the "information dump" into the human world of the very early 1980's, is immense, and cannot be underestimated. This was certainly my experience in1982
Thank you for uploading this... It's really sad how Phil's work wasn't really appreciated unit after he died... Sure he was able to live off his royalties, but just bearly... Back then everyone thought the future was going to be this gleaming pristine paradise, but Phil knew better
i know Im asking randomly but does any of you know of a method to log back into an Instagram account..? I was dumb lost the password. I would love any tips you can give me.
A story that had repeated before his death and will repeat after. Artists getting recognised for there genious after there death, almost like death is only the beginning. (also lol at the "people" above my comment. We should do the test on them.)
The PKD's words about androids are a little revelation ! The connexion with the preparatory of "The man in the hight Castle" give a new lighting at his work. Thanks for sharing. 👍
Thanks so much for this upload! It's an honor to hear from someone who was a real friend to him, and the interviews are fascinating. Listening to his emotional reactions to Hollywood, the film's production & Harrison Ford's capacity to portray Deckard is just riveting. His conviction that BR will be known in the future for being a historically massive information download was prescient as usual, and so eloquently put. So nice to hear his enthusiasm after all the understandable disillusionment for a film which has influenced movies, fashion & video games and continues to cause little aftershocks in culture all these years later.
There's always conflict when the writer sees his work translated through someone else's eyes, but comeon, he seemed to appreciate it, even if he didn't agree with every nuance from Scott.
He saw a rough cut (20min or so I think) of the movie that the producers hurriedly put together when he announced he's coming to visit the set ... to the producers' and Ridley Scott's relief, he was totally blown away by what he saw, he was in awe of what they showed him, and requested them to show the reel again right after it ended ..
So wish PKD had been able to see the Final Cut, Ridley took something awesome, and somehow endhanced it and the special effects on a 1979 production are crazy good. Great team work all around. Hopefully PKD saw it in the world he went off to
I know, I think it's the speed of the tape- would probably sound better if played at a slower speed, which you can do on here, if you click the gear symbol (settings) and then Playback Speed. I'm gonna try it now! Nice to see you comment on here- was just reading an interview with you in Divine Invasions, the Sutin bio. :)
Thanks for uploading. It is a great film, a little sad PHILIP didn’t get to see the whole thing in his lifetime but great to hear his enthusiasm towards it
@@StayFractalesque PKD was the author of the source novel, not the director of the movie ... he saw a rough cut of the movie before he died and was so blown away (extremely impressed) that he kept asking the production people "how did you guys do it ?
Very interesting conversation... for all Phil's enthusiasm specifically on the screening he saw, his observations about Ridley Scott make me nervous about re-watching Scott's films. I don't trust these big directors anymore... and after seeing Prometheus I just think these directors like Scott are just brainwashing people with trans-humanist notions. I'm even done with most of Kubrick, also. I'm just very sceptical that you can get a unique humane artist's vision onto the big screen with so many people involved, and usually with such large amounts of money involved.
But all the revisions that impressed PKD were ideas from Ridley Scott himself ... listening carefully the audio part where he said that David Peoples tried to tell him that all those great ideas actually were Ridley Scott's ideas, not Peoples's ... including the ending rooftop scene that moved PKD to tears..
I dont see anything wrong with transhumanism. If something is broken one has to fix it. Creation itself is not only broken, it has deliberately been crafted as an entrapment for us. All these fancy fairy stories in these old books are lies. The early christians were right. Everything around us is a trap. So transcendenting limiting constructs like gender is not only a first step, it is the way to empower oneself against those that set up the trap. If someone is still so deep involved into the game that they are literally on the side of the enemy, and they are actively trying to maintain the trap, they are part of the problem and at some point, will have to face the consequences. HED
Just found a hardcover copy of "Our Friends From Frolix-8" in a junk shop. PKD's "Exegesis" seemed in part, an apologia for his Catholic church's part in Nazi atrocities. He couldn't see how Voltaire's quote, "Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities" would apply to the church. He was so jacked up on methamphetamine and religion, he had to combine them. He was a brilliant train wreck of a man. Disturbingly, you can hear Dick's vocal pitch, and speed increase over just the three year period of these interviews. He burned his candle at both ends, and in the middle.
@@TheUrantia001 Research. I read everything I could find about him. Watched the interviews. He had a serious meth habit, and indulged in polypharmacy on top of that. And you don't have to live with someone to know what they were about. Just read what they wrote, listen to what they said, and what his friends and enemies said. You get a pretty good picture of them after a few years. He was a religious crank who tried to use science fiction to reconcile his abusive church with his more decent impulses.
min 22:20 "Greatest 20 min I ever experienced..." BOY! Dennis Villenueve should have listened to this entire interview before shooting a single scene of BR 2049... :/
Denis Vill is lucky PKD is not around to watch his sequel .. how can anything he's done compare to the beauty of the first original Blade Runner ... nothing ... Once I watched the Director's Cut all those years back, I knew that was going to be the peak of film aesthetics for the next few decades at least, it made all the subsequent movies I watched up till today pale and disappointing ... all those pretenders like James Cameron, Spielberg etc will have to bow in the presence of BR, I won't even mention Denis Vill as he do not even belong to the same bracket as Cameron and Spielberg, he's just admired because the current generation is so deprived of any great sci fi that they've lost track of what great sci fi can be...
@@88feji 88feji ....I have to say BR 2049 was one of the biggest cinematic disappointments ever for me...I was SO bummed out after coming out of the IMAX. I wish we could get a do-over of BR 2049. Overhaul the entire thing...
@@k.t.5405 Me too, extremely disappointed with 2049.. I've seen great wonderful artistic illustrations prepared for the movie by top artists but sadly those wonderful artistic nuances did not translate at all visually into the film. The movie looks sterile and hollow compared to those original art ... And the dialogues feels too pompous like everytime the characters say something they are almost giving the impression of "hey, look here, I'm saying something deep and important" .. its all too unnatural and more suited for stage plays than a movie like this ... its very unlike the original movie's tone where everything feels very naturalistic, that sense of very atmospheric yet naturalistic all encompassing world building was quite simply amazing in the first movie...
Mentioning Harrison Ford being from a different tribe. Using the word “Kvetching”. Married to Anne Rubenstein while he wrote the book. Old Testament references throughout the novel such as Deckard being Noah-like, and Isidore being Lot-like. Lots of Masonic symbolism in the movie. Take from that what you will.
And what would be wrong about Masonic symbolism? Mozarts Zauberflöte is full of masonic symbolism and even shows a Ritual. So what? If someone is interested, they can apply and become a mason and learn for themselves about all the so called 'secrets'
24:54 This last bit is really interesting because PKD seems to be hinting that there is going to be some ambiguities regard Deckard ... its likely that he's referring to the big issue in the movie regarding Deckard's hidden real identity (whether he's a replicant or human). So good to hear how much he thought so highly of Harrison Ford's ability to inhabit the lead character of Rick Deckard ...
Yeah, that is explored in "Do Androids dream of electric sheep?" Deckard questions aloud his human status and even takes a voight kampff test on himself
+Ethan Fleischman I personally don't think Deckard can actually administer the VK test on himself in the movie version ... because you need another person to ask a series of questions to get an emotional response but there is no one else to ask the questions to Deckard and also he's so familiar with the questions and how it works that his response will no longer be accurate because the machine requires an instinctive response rather than a prepared response ... And finally in the movie, its mentioned that the VK machine is still in the testing stage for its workability on the latest advanced generation of Nexus 6 replicants, its invented by the police's own engineers, not by Tyrell, thats why they needed to bring it to Tyrell to test it, so there's actually no guarantee that it actually works ... so even if Deckard did try to test it on himself, he won't be able to know if the result is right or wrong ...
I don't think PKD would've been very impressed by the ambiguity angle. He toys with that Idea in the novel, even sort of makes fun of It. Just shows how much was cut out of the novel. He may have been impressed by the stunning visual, but his original criticysm of the script still stands, regardless of the changes made later.
Thanks for this. Note that the andys didn't have a vagus nerve cutoff when they held their breath. Much later it was discovered that the vagus nerve is the primary way the brain sends signals to the highly complex nerve system, almost a second brain though much smaller, in the gut. So the andys might not have the _gut feelings_ that prevent many a sociopathic reaction.
Beautiful. For 30+ years I haunted used book stores hoping for unread PKD. I’m now 68. I feel like my take in his work has been validated. He is and was a revolutionary visionary for the ages. So many of his stories still live in my head; the tv repairman that saves the world, Perky Pat etc. etc. It’s just amazing. I was the same way with Bukowski. Just couldn’t get enough. His brain: an absolute treasure
and its refreshing hearing his utter contempt for hollywood.
That’s so cool he got to see the opening sequence and loved it. I think he would have enjoyed it as even though it deviated from his story, the essence of his themes were translated into a movie.
PKD and Ray Bradbury talking together. Wouldn't it be wonderful to overhear that?
He knew long ago that the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s sweetness of life would someday change drastically… He understood the coming tragedies that would befall man as whole new paradigms and whole new cultures and systems. He knew because he saw it. In his mind. Whether he was witnessing a past that never came to pass; an alternate future timeline or he was peering backward to view what’s already occurred in past simulations, he knew. Bravo 👏 in his highly articulate manner to bring today’s colors and sounds to us, then.
One of the most valuable conversation I've ever heard and thank you for that man.
What an open, truthful
AND graceful man.... RIP ❤️
PKD.....the man who saw tomorrow
PKD's resume of the impact of Blade runner from 22.00 onwards is particularly telling, and to hear this in his own words is wonderful. To paraphrase: the "information dump"
into the human world of the very early 1980's, is immense, and cannot be underestimated. This was certainly my experience in1982
Thank you for uploading this... It's really sad how Phil's work wasn't really appreciated unit after he died... Sure he was able to live off his royalties, but just bearly... Back then everyone thought the future was going to be this gleaming pristine paradise, but Phil knew better
i know Im asking randomly but does any of you know of a method to log back into an Instagram account..?
I was dumb lost the password. I would love any tips you can give me.
@Valentino Noah instablaster =)
A story that had repeated before his death and will repeat after. Artists getting recognised for there genious after there death, almost like death is only the beginning. (also lol at the "people" above my comment. We should do the test on them.)
Now we know, as well.
Go to sleep and dream about logging into your instagram account.
It's lovely how enthusiastic Phil is about the sequences that he was shown.
What a brilliant man; just a skyrocket
The PKD's words about androids are a little revelation !
The connexion with the preparatory of "The man in the hight Castle" give a new lighting at his work.
Thanks for sharing. 👍
What an honest, humble, intelligent dude
A historic Document. It should be ina Museum of Movie art for later Generations to remember.
This is great! What an interview. We must thank David Peoples for the re-writes to Blade Runner film.
A true visionary. Speaking too much truth…
Thanks so much for this upload! It's an honor to hear from someone who was a real friend to him, and the interviews are fascinating. Listening to his emotional reactions to Hollywood, the film's production & Harrison Ford's capacity to portray Deckard is just riveting. His conviction that BR will be known in the future for being a historically massive information download was prescient as usual, and so eloquently put. So nice to hear his enthusiasm after all the understandable disillusionment for a film which has influenced movies, fashion & video games and continues to cause little aftershocks in culture all these years later.
at 22:22 he says how much he loved what he saw of what he watched.
It’s so sad that he was actually excited about the film seeing the rough cut but died just months before the films release.
There's always conflict when the writer sees his work translated through someone else's eyes, but comeon, he seemed to appreciate it, even if he didn't agree with every nuance from Scott.
This is amazing, thank you for sharing this
Thankyou for sharing this piece of audiable treasure !
Amazing! Thanks so much for the uploads!
fantastic. Thank you
I'm glad he got to see the movie before he died.
He saw a rough cut (20min or so I think) of the movie that the producers hurriedly put together when he announced he's coming to visit the set ... to the producers' and Ridley Scott's relief, he was totally blown away by what he saw, he was in awe of what they showed him, and requested them to show the reel again right after it ended ..
This os gold! Thanks mate.
So wish PKD had been able to see the Final Cut, Ridley took something awesome, and somehow endhanced it and the special effects on a 1979 production are crazy good. Great team work all around. Hopefully PKD saw it in the world he went off to
thank you for bringing Phil's own voice to us (parts of it don't sound like Phil, but I guess it's just poor recording equipment)
I know, I think it's the speed of the tape- would probably sound better if played at a slower speed, which you can do on here, if you click the gear symbol (settings) and then Playback Speed. I'm gonna try it now! Nice to see you comment on here- was just reading an interview with you in Divine Invasions, the Sutin bio. :)
Thanks for uploading. It is a great film, a little sad PHILIP didn’t get to see the whole thing in his lifetime but great to hear his enthusiasm towards it
didn't see the film that he made?
@@StayFractalesque
PKD was the author of the source novel, not the director of the movie ... he saw a rough cut of the movie before he died and was so blown away (extremely impressed) that he kept asking the production people "how did you guys do it ?
Phil K D remains elusiv
Very interesting conversation... for all Phil's enthusiasm specifically on the screening he saw, his observations about Ridley Scott make me nervous about re-watching Scott's films. I don't trust these big directors anymore... and after seeing Prometheus I just think these directors like Scott are just brainwashing people with trans-humanist notions. I'm even done with most of Kubrick, also. I'm just very sceptical that you can get a unique humane artist's vision onto the big screen with so many people involved, and usually with such large amounts of money involved.
don't be nervous. have courage
But all the revisions that impressed PKD were ideas from Ridley Scott himself ... listening carefully the audio part where he said that David Peoples tried to tell him that all those great ideas actually were Ridley Scott's ideas, not Peoples's ... including the ending rooftop scene that moved PKD to tears..
This is good discernment.
I just watched “the creator” very much promoting trans humanism. Why do you think non gender is being shoved down our throats right now? Transition
I dont see anything wrong with transhumanism. If something is broken one has to fix it. Creation itself is not only broken, it has deliberately been crafted as an entrapment for us. All these fancy fairy stories in these old books are lies. The early christians were right. Everything around us is a trap. So transcendenting limiting constructs like gender is not only a first step, it is the way to empower oneself against those that set up the trap. If someone is still so deep involved into the game that they are literally on the side of the enemy, and they are actively trying to maintain the trap, they are part of the problem and at some point, will have to face the consequences. HED
Amaing!!!!
Just found a hardcover copy of "Our Friends From Frolix-8" in a junk shop.
PKD's "Exegesis" seemed in part, an apologia for his Catholic church's part in Nazi atrocities. He couldn't see how Voltaire's quote, "Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities" would apply to the church.
He was so jacked up on methamphetamine and religion, he had to combine them. He was a brilliant train wreck of a man.
Disturbingly, you can hear Dick's vocal pitch, and speed increase over just the three year period of these interviews. He burned his candle at both ends, and in the middle.
Were you living with him...how do you know?..
@@TheUrantia001 Research. I read everything I could find about him. Watched the interviews. He had a serious meth habit, and indulged in polypharmacy on top of that.
And you don't have to live with someone to know what they were about. Just read what they wrote, listen to what they said, and what his friends and enemies said. You get a pretty good picture of them after a few years. He was a religious crank who tried to use science fiction to reconcile his abusive church with his more decent impulses.
Higher pitch and speed are technical artifacts. EOS.
@@Theodore_Twombly based on what? Evidence, or gut feeling?
my man definitely sounds like M. Emmet Walsh: Bryant from the movie
min 22:20 "Greatest 20 min I ever experienced..." BOY! Dennis Villenueve should have listened to this entire interview before shooting a single scene of BR 2049... :/
Denis Vill is lucky PKD is not around to watch his sequel .. how can anything he's done compare to the beauty of the first original Blade Runner ... nothing ...
Once I watched the Director's Cut all those years back, I knew that was going to be the peak of film aesthetics for the next few decades at least, it made all the subsequent movies I watched up till today pale and disappointing ... all those pretenders like James Cameron, Spielberg etc will have to bow in the presence of BR, I won't even mention Denis Vill as he do not even belong to the same bracket as Cameron and Spielberg, he's just admired because the current generation is so deprived of any great sci fi that they've lost track of what great sci fi can be...
@@88feji 88feji ....I have to say BR 2049 was one of the biggest cinematic disappointments ever for me...I was SO bummed out after coming out of the IMAX. I wish we could get a do-over of BR 2049. Overhaul the entire thing...
Or at least read the book-
Y'all dumb
@@k.t.5405
Me too, extremely disappointed with 2049.. I've seen great wonderful artistic illustrations prepared for the movie by top artists but sadly those wonderful artistic nuances did not translate at all visually into the film. The movie looks sterile and hollow compared to those original art ... And the dialogues feels too pompous like everytime the characters say something they are almost giving the impression of "hey, look here, I'm saying something deep and important" .. its all too unnatural and more suited for stage plays than a movie like this ... its very unlike the original movie's tone where everything feels very naturalistic, that sense of very atmospheric yet naturalistic all encompassing world building was quite simply amazing in the first movie...
When was this interview recorded? If mentioned I missed it.
1980-1982
'Hamton!'
Mentioning Harrison Ford being from a different tribe. Using the word “Kvetching”. Married to Anne Rubenstein while he wrote the book. Old Testament references throughout the novel such as Deckard being Noah-like, and Isidore being Lot-like.
Lots of Masonic symbolism in the movie.
Take from that what you will.
Curious what you'd identify as Masonic symbolism in the film.
And what would be wrong about Masonic symbolism? Mozarts Zauberflöte is full of masonic symbolism and even shows a Ritual. So what? If someone is interested, they can apply and become a mason and learn for themselves about all the so called 'secrets'
17:00 Yikes! PKDs thought on Alien.
Lol, he's talking about NPC's.
24:54
This last bit is really interesting because PKD seems to be hinting that there is going to be some ambiguities regard Deckard ... its likely that he's referring to the big issue in the movie regarding Deckard's hidden real identity (whether he's a replicant or human).
So good to hear how much he thought so highly of Harrison Ford's ability to inhabit the lead character of Rick Deckard ...
Yeah, that is explored in "Do Androids dream of electric sheep?" Deckard questions aloud his human status and even takes a voight kampff test on himself
+Ethan Fleischman
I personally don't think Deckard can actually administer the VK test on himself in the movie version ... because you need another person to ask a series of questions to get an emotional response but there is no one else to ask the questions to Deckard and also he's so familiar with the questions and how it works that his response will no longer be accurate because the machine requires an instinctive response rather than a prepared response ... And finally in the movie, its mentioned that the VK machine is still in the testing stage for its workability on the latest advanced generation of Nexus 6 replicants, its invented by the police's own engineers, not by Tyrell, thats why they needed to bring it to Tyrell to test it, so there's actually no guarantee that it actually works ... so even if Deckard did try to test it on himself, he won't be able to know if the result is right or wrong ...
I don't think PKD would've been very impressed by the ambiguity angle. He toys with that Idea in the novel, even sort of makes fun of It. Just shows how much was cut out of the novel. He may have been impressed by the stunning visual, but his original criticysm of the script still stands, regardless of the changes made later.
Who is giving the interview here?
Thanks for this. Note that the andys didn't have a vagus nerve cutoff when they held their breath. Much later it was discovered that the vagus nerve is the primary way the brain sends signals to the highly complex nerve system, almost a second brain though much smaller, in the gut. So the andys might not have the _gut feelings_ that prevent many a sociopathic reaction.
I AM UBIK.
Can I buy some?
@lcbryant78 Only in half-life! Special offer ends soon!
REALITY: he is talking about the nephilim fallen gods, - "the seed of the serpent" Cain. Genesis 3:15.
the children of fallen angels & humans?
is that one of phil's story?
@@StayFractalesque lmao its a Hebrew story, gen 6
19:00
LMAO thanks to psychopathic Nazis, we have Blade Runner.
Thanks for swastika
film far superior to the book in every way shape and form
Mercerism.
@@mickeyacornmusic UBIK
No definitely not. Book is much better
@@thegeeeeeeeeee granted book is his more readable of books...but the film has magic and tears in the rain...