Movies, Books & Soundtrack: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" SF Book by Philip K. Dick (1968) | "Blade Runner" SF Movie by Ridley Scott (1982) Vangelis Soundtrack

Philip K. Dick

"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

(1968)

Ridley Scott

"Blade Runner"

(1982)

Vangelis Soundtrack

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (retitled Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in some later printings) is a dystopian science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1968. The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco, where Earth's life has been greatly damaged by a nuclear global war, leaving most animal species endangered or extinct. The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who is tasked with "retiring" (i.e. killing) six escaped Nexus-6 model androids, while a secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of sub-par IQ who aids the fugitive androids.

The book served as the primary basis for the 1982 film Blade Runner and many elements and themes from it were used in the film's 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049.

Author Philip K. Dick

Country United States

Language English

Genre Science fiction, philosophical fiction, noir fiction

Publisher Doubleday

Publication date 1968

Media type Print (hardback & paperback)

Pages 210

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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Blade Runner 

(1982) 

Directed by Ridley Scott

Blade Runner is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, and adapted by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples. Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos, it is an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The film is set in a dystopian future Los Angeles of 2019, in which synthetic humans known as replicants are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work at space colonies. When a fugitive group of advanced replicants led by Roy Batty (Hauer) escapes back to Earth, burnt-out cop Rick Deckard (Ford) reluctantly agrees to hunt them down.

Blade Runner initially underperformed in North American theaters and polarized critics; some praised its thematic complexity and visuals, while others critiqued its slow pacing and lack of action. It later became an acclaimed cult film regarded as one of the all-time best science fiction films. Hailed for its production design depicting a decaying future, Blade Runner is a leading example of neo-noir cinema. The film's soundtrack, composed by Vangelis, was nominated in 1982 for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe as best original score.

The film has influenced many science fiction films, video games, anime, and television series. It brought the work of Philip K. Dick to the attention of Hollywood, and several later big-budget films were based on his work, such as Total Recall (1990), Minority Report (2002) and A Scanner Darkly (2006). In the year after its release, Blade Runner won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, and in 1993 it was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". A sequel, Blade Runner 2049, was released in October 2017.

Directed by Ridley Scott

Screenplay by

Hampton Fancher

David Peoples

Based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

Produced by Michael Deeley

Staring:

Harrison Ford

Rutger Hauer

Sean Young

Edward James Olmos

Cinematography Jordan Cronenweth

Edited by

Terry Rawlings

Marsha Nakashima

Music by Vangelis

Production Companies

The Ladd Company

Shaw Brothers

Blade Runner Partnership

Distributed by Warner Bros.

Release date

June 25, 1982

Running time 117 minutes

Countries United States

Hong Kong

Language English

Budget $30 million

Box office $41.5 million

Blade Runner The Director's Cut, Director's Cut

Seven different versions of Blade Runner exist as a result of controversial changes requested by studio executives. A director's cut was released in 1992 after a strong response to test screenings of a workprint. This, in conjunction with the film's popularity as a video rental, made it one of the earliest movies to be released on DVD. In 2007, Warner Bros. released The Final Cut, a 25th-anniversary digitally remastered version. This is the only version over which Scott retained artistic control.

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Movies and Music: "Halloween" (1978) * Soundtrack - Horror

"Halloween" (1978) 

Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with producer Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut. The plot centers around a mental patient Michael Myers who was committed to a sanitarium for murdering his babysitting teenage sister on Halloween night when he was six years old. Fifteen years later, he escapes and returns to his hometown, where he stalks a female babysitter and her friends, while under pursuit by his psychiatrist.

Filming took place in Southern California in May 1978, before premiering in October, where it grossed $70 million, becoming one of the most profitable independent films of all time. Primarily praised for Carpenter's direction and score, many critics credit the film as the first in a long line of slasher films inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and Bob Clark's Black Christmas (1974).

Halloween spawned a film franchise comprising eleven films which helped construct an extensive backstory for its antagonist Michael Myers, sometimes narratively diverging entirely from previous installments. A direct sequel of the film was released in 1981. A remake was released in 2007, which was followed by a sequel in 2009. An eleventh installment, which serves as a direct sequel to the original film that retcons all previous sequels, was released in 2018; this was followed by two direct sequels: Halloween Kills (2021) and the upcoming Halloween Ends (2022). Additionally, a novelization, a video game and comic book series have been based on the film. In 2006, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

Directed by John Carpenter

Screenplay by

John Carpenter

Debra Hill

Produced by Debra Hill

Starring

Donald Pleasence

Jamie Lee Curtis

P. J. Soles

Nancy Loomis

Cinematography Dean Cundey

Edited by

Tommy Wallace

Charles Bornstein

Music by John Carpenter

Production Companies

Compass International Pictures

Falcon International Productions

Distributed by

Compass International Pictures

Aquarius Releasing

Release date

October 25, 1978

Running time 91 minutes

Country United States

Language English

Budget $300,000–325,000

Box office $60–70 million

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