Mixed Views for AI

**Roy Baty** · December 17th, 2001, 09:42 PM

The thing with Blade Runner in my opinion is that went through too many script writers and didn't come out the other ends the same as the book. PKD himself loved what Scott was doing with the film, but never saw the end result. I doubt that he would have noticed his original ideas from his novel. But saying that BR is a siminal piece of film making. If the main charaters had been renamed and no referance to PKDs book made you wouldn't have known that it started off as DADOES.

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**thepreacher_naric** · December 17th, 2001, 10:06 PM

If you hadn't read the book before seeing Blade Runner, then what you'd you have thought ?

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**Roy Baty** · December 17th, 2001, 10:17 PM

I did read the book after I saw the film, and all the main charaters were unrecognisable fro the text. The point I'm making is that the film and the book are two separate thigns and should be judges so.

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**Davis** · December 18th, 2001, 01:56 AM

I'll agree, but I just wish they would have changed Deckard's name. That way, it could have been the same universe, he could be a blade runner, but if they were going to change it so much then they should have just changed his name and set it in the universe of Electric Sheep. Then I would have been happy.

Like I said, if I had seen it first, I bet I would have liked it. There's parts in the movie graphically that still impress today, like the visual style and the flying cop cars. But I was just so... let down that all the elements I loved from the book and the character of Deckard I loved from the book wasn't there.

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**Roy Baty** · December 18th, 2001, 02:01 PM

In the book Deckard is basically a civil servant, how would that go over in Hollywood film? No the changes made during the initial script writing moved to story so far from the source that it became a stand alone story. Both are v.good.

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**Matt J Heaton** · December 18th, 2001, 05:22 PM

AI had a disapointing ending? Are you sure Kubrick didn't make it himself?

Too many people dismiss Speilberg; Kubrick respected him, so should you.

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**Bowfinger** · December 18th, 2001, 07:39 PM

AI was a truly moving version of Pinocchio. But not without flaws -- in what was Spielberg's first screenplay since Poltegiest. All the scenes up until David was left behind in the woods impressed me the most.

Someone mentioned those were aliens at the end. They were an extremely advanced form of artificial intelligence!!!

One big fault I don't like was that N0 structure could stand so long in all that salt water!! Other than that though I was really moved by AI. Twice was enough to see it in the cinema at the time but I can't wait to see it again. Not so sure the ending was happy or sad. A marvellous film.

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**deanl** · December 19th, 2001, 09:22 AM

Hey there.

If they were "an extremely advanced form of artificial intelligence!!!" why would they need David to tell them about the humans and mankind if they were around when they were.

Despin out.

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