To paraphrase that freaky little girl in the TI TV commercials, "It's the replicants!"
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I agree with Vern's sentiment, although I didn't mind the emptiness of Deckard's character. To me it worked. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Kubrick made an entire career of filming actors as empty vessels that could be a canvass for his vision and by the end it got pretty goddam tiresome.
Anyway, what strikes me about his characterization of Deckard is that this character is like many the other Phillip K. Dick characters. Remember the incompetent character (and incompetent actor, but that's a different thing) in A Scanner Darkly? Dick is drawn to a certain passivity, and certain uselessness that characterizes a lot of what he writes.
I'm going to test this theory by getting some Dick and passively reading it. Ohbejuan I'll be in touch. |
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