Top 10 Philip K Dick Adaptations
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'The Truman Show' was an adaptation of 'Time out of Joint'... That was an impact that would lead to reality television becoming a thing.
Henri-Ansel Vallee kinda but not Really
Henri-Ansel Vallee I’ve read it and it’s also one of my favourite movies and I never knew that
I knew, when I was reading Dick in the early 70's and no-one else had heard of him, that this was the greatest modern writer, it's good to feel vindicated at last.
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was one of the most visionary and influential science fiction writers of all time. His work explored themes of identity, reality, and the nature of consciousness in ways that were both groundbreaking and thought-provoking.
Dick's novels and short stories have been adapted into numerous films and television shows, including "Blade Runner," "Total Recall," and "Minority Report." His work has also been praised by critics and academics alike, and he is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the history of science fiction.
Dick's work is particularly notable for its prescient insights into the future. He wrote about themes such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and surveillance long before they became mainstream. His work also explores the complex and often unsettling relationship between humans and technology.
In addition to his science fiction work, Dick was also a prolific writer of mystery and crime fiction. He published over 40 novels and over 120 short stories in his lifetime.
Dick's work has had a lasting impact on popular culture and continues to be relevant today. His stories explore timeless themes that resonate with readers of all ages. He is a true master of science fiction and his work will continue to be enjoyed for generations to come.
Here is a quote from Dick that I find particularly inspiring:
"Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what our senses, our experience, our culture, education, and our prejudices tell us. But reality is not always what it seems."
This quote speaks to the power of our own minds to shape our reality. It is a reminder that we should always be critical of what we perceive and be open to the possibility that there is more to the world than meets the eye.
Thank you, Philip K. Dick, for your visionary work. Your stories continue to inspire and challenge us to this day.
*LOVE FROM INDIA*
I feel like a biopic about Dicks life would be so interesting. The guy was a drug addict, who had such an incredibly visionary mind and the fact that he was never a successful writer, until after his death, would make for a great movie.
Don't forget schizophrenia. :)
I don't know what you categorize success as, but he has extremely successful. 44 published novels, approximately 121 short stories, 3 Hugo awards, 5 nebula awards and various other awards all before his death. Yes he wasn't a millionaire but if that's what you say is success.
the: no, psychosis. IMHO he had amphetamine psychosis from all the speed pills he did. He took speed to write more, and it worked, and also made him crazy, which affected what he wrote as well as how much. All the signs were there, the paranoia, persecution complex, delusions, manic grandiosity. And that is what showed up in his writing, which he was able to channel in a way that most mentally unstable people can not.
Can we get RDJ to play him?
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Guy Pierce would be my choice.
It's pretty clear that the people who made this list haven't READ any of PKD's works. "A Scanner Darkly" is hands-down the best adaption of any Dick story, and is maybe the most faithful film version of a novel in any genre that I've ever seen. Linklater's film perfectly conveys the disorientation and sheer weirdness of PKD's world, and follows the novel exactly.
Uh actually no it doesnt. It follows the story pretty well but it turned the novels paranoia into a stoner movie. Its really not all that great. Linklater tried to make a stoner movie. Nice try tho.
Its not about being faithful to the story but being a good movie in itself. The best pkd movies are minority report and blade runner. Easy. Most entertaining. Its impossible to be completely faithful for a novel
@@mattcunningham9235 Actually the film gets the paranoia spot on in my eyes, as someone who has read the novel twice and as a former addict.
@@rustledmyjimmiess it does but the story in the book isnt some stoner tale like the movie is.
@@mattcunningham9235 I don't consider it a stoner tale at all, Substance D bears no resemblance to weed at all, did you actually watch until the end? It has some comedic elements but they are intentionally very surreal in nature, something that is funny to watch but clearly not to experience.
9:47 - "We won't spoil the ending.
13:24 - spoils it.....
Not really dingus. The ending of total recall is complicated.
Glad this came up as top comment on my feed. Came here to say; won't spoil the ending, *plays ending of total recall*
Kai Raven lol
@@subsamadhi Watch the movie, pajeet. Spoiling doesn't necessarily mean narrating all interpretations.
you're telling me one man is responsible for all of the finest Sci fi on the planet wow
I think the same
Yep.
Absolutely
@Dale Thomas - People like you, (and those who replied the same,) who don't read, and rely solely on TV and movies to inform and program you, are the utmost problem in this world.
used be able to find his books in flea markets....nearly all snapped up now.
Discovered Phi last year. Plowed through every book the library had and purchased the ones they didn't. One of my favorite writers now.
Did you like VALIS and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer?
I can't believe that Ubik hasn't been adapted yet
Sort of. ExistenZ is kind like Ubik.
Michael Gordon was going to adapt it but said that it was too hard
That would be extremely hard to adapt.
It has inspired some movies indeed, e.g. Abre los ojos/Vanilla Sky.
Probably my favourite but it would have to be a series, way too much for a movie.
Philip K Dick is a genius, just look at all the amazing stories he created.
Phillip K dick is the SciFi GOD nobody even comes close He didn't have to go to space to take us to the future
This man inspired me to be a writer, Im so happy to see him get the recognition he deserves
Ya'll did PKD a disservice by never even showing a picture of him
maybee mystery was his secret.
If A Scanner Darkly isn't number one, this list is wrong. You may like other adaptations more but that is the best adaptation. It's also one of the most faithful book to film adaptions of all time.
I read the book after watching the movie, it felt kind of pointless. Linklater basically copied the script!
you're so damn right
In the film positive it missis out couple of parts which should've stayed in like few pages in where he's believing the rosicrucians are sending telepathic messages-that am sure pk dick would have wanted remained as gives further depth from the word go-still love the film though good choice of actors
the rosicrucian/telepatic messages stuff is quite irrelevant not in pk dicks life but in this novel. Becomes prominent in "VALIS/radio free albemuth".
Braulio Panseco yes indeed regarding valis etc-though he wrote it for a reason In a scanner darkly if only once -was replying to remarks about how some thought book and film were word for word-personally thought it should have been left in maybe others feel the same as it's In the story to begin with - excuse if reply seems short just off to bed-valis is favourite of his books still love scanner darkly film with or without rosicrucians cheers man
Amazon also made "electric dreams" which is several if his lesser known short stories using fantastic actors and although every episode isn't a home run, several and very close!
I can't stop watching each story has an effect on me every time I rewatch beautifully made series
The movie a scanner Darkly is underrated and needs more attention.
Rutger Hauer is magnificent. When I found out he came up with the "Tears in the Rain" line my admiration of him jumped a hundred fold.
No, he did not come up with the full speech though, he trimmed the speech down to a few lines and added the "tears in rain" part ... yeah he's amazing, what a magical moment, its prime candidate for the most beautiful movie scene ever shot ...
My personal view is that 'Imposter' is greatly underappreciated. It's a solid movie with grit and a deep philosophy about identity.
The only one that captures the cold paranoid fucked upness of the characters and the society from his books is A scanner darkly. The rest just borrowed the basic premise of the book they were supposedly adapting and changed it into something totally different. I'm betting most of these movies would have drove him to stop writing but also sure he would have been glad of the money, given that he spent most of his life in poverty, even resorting to eating dog food at times. This is how society seems to treat the best of us. Whilst all the fuckers with nothing to offer seem to get everything they want.... Yes I'm a bitter old man!
I’d only disagree slightly as I think that man in the high castle was done pretty well
You´re right when it comes to artists. Many of the best artists died in poverty and were only discovered by broad audiences after their deaths. PKD, Vincent van Gogh, H.P.Lovecraft to name only a few...
He wrote too many short stories... :)
The 3 Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch needs doing, tho...
pete; he wrote a lot of novels, too.
scw: PKD was a friend of my family, my parents knew him well. Yes, he spent time in poverty. In truth, much of his writing was done just to pay the bills. He had, um, issues, He had serious drug problems. He had a tendency to meet women, fall in love, marry them if they were willing, then get sick of them. Some were pretty crazy. He himself was generally quite crazy. He took a lot of speed. He was paranoid. He really did start to think that an alien intelligence was talking to him. When was robbed by some junkies he let stay with him, he thought Nixon was behind it. His politics leaned left, he hated Nixon, though his views of women were pretty negative. All that said, he was a genius, and while his writing was not especially good, the ideas it contained were great and lived long after he did, and no doubt will keep doing so for a long time. His final wife and his children did ok, financially speaking.
The newer mini series "Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams " Should be updated to this list if anyone is looking for more PKD :)
BLADE RUNNER is a far superior movie, but A SCANNER DARKLY best captures PKDick's style and themes. The best balance between giving a viewer the PKD experience, and just being a good movie, is MINORITY REPORT. TOTAL RECALL? Meh.
But the book of the blade runner is farrrr better than the movie.
10 Paycheck
9 Imposter
8 Screamers
7 The Man In The High Castle
6 Next
5 The Adjustment Bureau
4 A Scanner Darkly
3 Total Recall
2 Minority Report
Honorable Mentions:
Barjo
Radio Free Albemuth
1 Blade Runner
Despite all its negative reviews I actually loved Impostor. I know it could've been better but I consider it a great story and had a terrifyingly original premise. One of Dick's best stories in my opinion. I proudly own the movie on dvd.
Saw it in theater, I agree 100%
Watched the first season of The Man In The High Castle....EXCELLENT. Need to get up to speed. Good list.
First season was OK, but I found the second one a bit dull. Did you check Electric Dreams? It's also amazon's, each chapter adapts one of his stories. Some of them are no big deals, but others are very good (I guess it's out to catch Black Mirror's fandom)
Do Top 10 Asimov novels/books, if they didnt do this alredy. If P.K.D got a list (at least ,from adatptation), the other master of Sci Fi deserve their own
So so many Asimov books to choose from.
Don't forget the awful Bicentennial man
PKD is the no.1 mindfuck sci fi writer ! Love his work.
Man In The High Castle is #7? Are you kidding...? Quite possibly one of the truly darker and faithful adaptations, brilliantly executed, and it brings the scifi surrealism in its final seasons. Top 3.
Can't believe Next made the list. One of PKD's best short stories totally shat on. Nothing like the story at all.
Blade Runner is a staggeringly fantastic-looking movie -- one of the best ever, with some sweet nods to the novel, but for true-to-Dick adaptations in plot elements and in spirit, Scanner Darkly is the best.
Blade Runner is my favorite movie of all time!
love it so much
A Scanner Darkly really Underrated!!!
A Scanner Darkly should have been #1. It is an actual adaptation, whereas Blade Runner changed many things. Both are my favorite movies BTW
the basic plot of blade runner is the same as do Androids Dream Electric Sheep.
Have not seen many of the adaptations, but I love Minority Report and Adjustment Bureau
channel 4 in the UK recently did a few shorts of PKD called Electric Dreams. Well worth a watch
I strognely recommend "A Day In The Afterlife", a documentary on Phillip's life. It can be found on youtube.
A Scanner Darkly is my favorite WatchMoJo.com
I wish I was alive in 1982 to appreciate the 1st blade runner.
The final cut was the best tho.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is easily the best book he'd ever written. I finished it crying.
Can we get a top ten letters of the alphabet next?
A B C D E F G H I Z
youre welcome :P
"P" is SO underrated. I can't believe they didn't even mentionned "B". Unreal.
Thank you for mentioning _Barjo,_ the most accurate adaptation.
There are plenty of uncredited quotes of PKD including _Dark Star._
"What's even trickier is the ending, but we won't spoil it here". Yep, better do it at the end of the video.
I M so envious for those who will watch BLAde RUNNER for the first time ......
I'd be really curious to watch an adaptation of 'The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch' sometime in the future, knowing it's quite impossible tho and it will remain in the world of our imagination forever, as Dick wanted
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A Scanner Darkly was perfect!
A scanner darkly should be number 1
Scanner Darkly may not be the best movie among these, but its the best Dick adaptation, cos it was really close to the original while also been beautifully crafted.
Valis should be a movie
i just read that book a week ago...and i seriously think its the best book i own(and yes im a total skitzo)
No, a Mini series. Movie would cut tom much story line out. But they do need to leave out the relation ship between Horselover & Philip at the beginning to make it a total mind fuck until the meet the 7th savior
valis is a rewrite of an earlier story that earlier story has a movie version called Radio free albemuth
vast: Radio free Albion is closely based on it.
kelsa: Radio was based on Valis, but valis was not based on a short story. It was probably the most personal book PKD ever wrote.
My mom, who was once close friends with PKD, called it "My nervouse breakdown as written about by a genius."
R.I.P P.K.D
To get into DicK's head look up, Philip K Dick speech (interpreter edited out) in Metz, France, 1977, on youtube.
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Top 10 Charles Bukowski short stories. Or top 10 Leonard Cohen songs. Those might only appeal to a small minority but I'd enjoy them haha.
Me too. I'm a weirdo. I embrace it though. I'm interested in anything thought-provoking. Whether it's sci-fi or Bukowski ect. I'm here for it.
I am shocked :) literally, I've seen most of these movies and did not know who wrote them. Also a very good anthology tv show from P.K.D. is Electric dreams. Made in 2017-8 so this is why missing from this video.
Blade Runner is number one in my books. Number 2 is Scanner Darkly is one of my all time favourite movies. Schwarzenegger Total Recall is 3rd. The remake with Colin Farrel was bullshit. The rest of these adaptations are mediocre at best. There really aren't enough PKD adaptations that are good to justify a top ten list. Paycheck and Next are forgettable rubbish.
My favorite Philip K. Dick novel is "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch". It would make an amazing movie.
It's my all time favorite sci fi novel. Just mind blowing. I think inception is kind of like 3 Stigmata.
+Jim Tao agreed :)
+Alexander Lovmand I have never liked Colin Farrell as an actor. And SF remakes are awful. RoboCop was the same as TR. Watered down, PG tosh with none of Paul Verhovens visual flair or grit and gore. The recent Total Recall may be more faithful to PKD novel, but as a film it's bland and forgettable.
I hope to live enough to see one day "Flow my tears, said the policeman" turned into a movie on the big screen. Because I believe it would make a great movie, especially in this age and day where reality TV shows run amok in the channels.
+Marco Túlio Todeschini Coelho agreed, that would be awesome
i call blade runner as number 1
shit. really?
Giuseppe Brancato before i watch the video
motor4X4kombat Ya, ik. But it was obvious from before you clicked on it
It is. Most entertaining and fun to watch. Scanner wasnt that great
"you got a lotta nerve, showing your face around here, Heisenberg"
"Look who's talking."
I saw most of them and Minority report is number one whith Blade Runner. And i don't understand why this author is so underrated in North America. I mean by readers not viewers...An american genius as Asimov , Edgar Allan Poe , H. P. Lovecraft and Georges .R. R. Martin. They construct their own universe in reaction whith our poor reality. We all deserve a better life.
Where's the Electric Dreams series, those were amazing
"Next" was a by the numbers time waster, "Radio Free Albemuth" definitely deserves that spot.
Every time I see an image from Blade Runner, I get the chills.
I love Screamers, especially because just enough different from the original story to still surprise you by the end. And I don't remember whether it's specifically said in the movie that it's a different planet, but the original is set on Earth and I always thought it's the same with the movie.
If they had waited a year and a half to make this list, _Blade Runner 2049_ would've been on the list. Whether it would be number one or not is entirely up to you.
dreadful snooze
I love Jon's World and Upon the Full Earth. I have read and reread every short story of his I can find. To me he was the greatest sci fi author ever.
"Different experiences"? Thats an understatement. Literally the only thing they have in common is that the main character's name is deckard and the number of targets is 6. The movie, while good in its own right, is missing everything that made the book so great. The fake police station, mercerism, mood organs, the electric frog....reading the book for the first time just before watching the film for the first time will ruin the experience of enjoying the film like eating asuna's sandwich after she makes that perfectly-ultimate S-class dish with maxed out cooking. The movie is good, but the book is so exponentially great, that it makes the movie feel like a shitty follow-up of an experience
'explored thoroughly though Dicks body of work'... I-Chuckle'd.
Was Dark City considered an adaptation of the Adjustment Team or a ripoff? I saw it back in the theaters but couldn't remember anything being said about the story and it sounds a lot like The Adjustment Bureau.
Definitely Dark City and even Matrix are heavily based on PKD's novels
Hey I've got a question, Do androids dream of electric sheep?
I'll do you one better, can you remember it for me wholesale?
man in the high castle is good but not a good adaptation. the world isn't fleshed out enough.but the book is one of his best
David Lynch should film "VALIS".
not the worst idea i read today! If somebody can, Lynch can!
I like adjustment bureau it's good romantic movie
This needs to be updated
I've been looking for that movie screamers for ages, saw it one late night in the 90s
Blade runner total recall and minority report
Minority Report is my favorite
I'm a big fan of Blade Runner. Well done for making it #1 on this list, Watchmojo. Well done, indeed.
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Too few people acknowledge Vangelis' music in Blade Runner really tied the whole movie together.
Just like *the Dude's* rug... ayy there "Hunter?" 😉
Everyone I've ever heard talk about the movie in any kind of detail has mentioned the amazing music 🤔
Today is March 2, 2022. Philip K. Dick died today 40 years ago on March 2, 1982
I'd like to see an adaptation of ubik. I loved that novel.
Ubik. Safe when taken as directed.
Maniac - the Netflix limited series is the closest thing I've found. I highly recommend it. It explores the more "world inside your mind" aspect that the second half of the book delves into. My favourite PKD book and probably my favourite Netflix original.
Nailed the top 4. I say that with particular emphasis on A Scanner Darkly, one of my all time top 20 favourite films.
To be fair there's something beyond the lines in the books of Philip K. Dick as usually the best adaptations of his works are those which take a few central themes, characters or plot turns from the movies, as "Total Recall" and "Blade Runner" deed. "Screamers" was one of the most direct of the popular ones and the main problem of the movie is that it can't decide whether it's serious or a b-movie. Still a great list, with every film in it worth the watch. Especially in cinema - I've been to a local retrospective of Dick's adaptations in Donetsk and seen "Blade Runner", "Total Recall", "The Adjustment Bureau", "Screamers" and "A Scanner Darkly" and all of them look great on big screen.
It's March 2, 2022 in North America and today is Philip K. Dick's 40th death anniversary. He died just 4 months before Blade Runner was released and that film was dedicated to his death.
The most influential sci fi writer of all time
Shit, this Dick guy wrote a lot of badass sci-fi stories.
BLADERUNNER best sci-fi movie ever made. One of the BEST movies ever made
Blade Runner is one of my all time favorite movies
haha we watched blade runner at school! >.
Actually, the so-called SF-writer Philip K. Dick was a robot, PKD2011, built by Hanson Robotics, and send to the past, to write about androids, which will be created in the future. After these books were written by the PKD-android the AI Singularity created Hanson Robotics to develop androids that could be send to the past to erase anomalies, that had developed since then...
To think that the greatest sci-fi stories came from one man I believe it....just like stephen king and horror.
The Minority Report was in turn inspired by Alfred Bester's work 'The Demolished Man'
Last time i was early scarce was still at 1 million subs
this is a pretty good list here. I was expecting them to not put blade runner on here or having the total call remake on here so glad they went with the original.
These are the stories that make us ask "Are we ourselves? And if not, who (or what) are we?"
Love it!! List was on point in my opinion.
I honestly didn’t know if all his short stories and novellas so I am quite surprised about how much he has influenced sic fi for the future like I knew about The Man in High Castle and Blade Runner but I honestly had no idea about Total Recall
The Total Recall remake with Colin Farrel was unnecessarily terrible
They just remade the original movie without all the violence
Nelson Templar the tv show was ok.
It should be call blade runner the series it feel like it
Next ending was that the whole movie was just a premonition.
A Scanner Darkly should have been Number 2.
Imposter was a great book, and an intriguing premise. Love Madeline Stowe, Gary Sinise pretty good
PKD was a visonary. Like a prophet