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**Blolover11** · 08-28-2009, 04:41 AM

I find it very amusing that anyone would call Dick-derivative films cyberpunk. He was basically doing character studies in alternative universes/realities. The man died in '82, right about when cyberpunk was starting.

That said, he did a lot of "one small man in a big weird world" settings, which have come to be pretty standard cyberpunk milieu... And it's also true that film versions of Dick's work stray pretty far from his narrative lines.

08-28-2009, 04:41 AM	#21
Blolover11 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 516 Senior Member	I find it very amusing that anyone would call Dick-derivative films cyberpunk. He was basically doing character studies in alternative universes/realities. The man died in '82, right about when cyberpunk was starting. That said, he did a lot of "one small man in a big weird world" settings, which have come to be pretty standard cyberpunk milieu... And it's also true that film versions of Dick's work stray pretty far from his narrative lines.
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