According to Philip K. Dick, his 1968 SF novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - and subsequently Blade Runner (1982) - was inspired by real-life American black slave Nat Turner's rebellion in 1831.
Makes sense. The replicants/slaves were seen as discardable machines with no self-awareness and emotions until they rebelled as a bid for independence and freedom. And all paid the price for rebelling. Roy Batty fared better than Nat Turner, though.
I'm guessing Dick read William Styron's 1967 novel that later won a Pulitzer, The Confessions of Nat Turner, which was in turn based on lawyer Thomas Ruffin Gray's 1831 memoir, The Confessions of Nat Turner: the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia.
According to Philip K. Dick, his 1968 SF novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - and subsequently Blade Runner (1982) - was inspired by real-life American black slave Nat Turner's rebellion in 1831.
Makes sense. The replicants/slaves were seen as discardable machines with no self-awareness and emotions until they rebelled as a bid for independence and freedom. And all paid the price for rebelling. Roy Batty fared better than Nat Turner, though.
I'm guessing Dick read William Styron's 1967 novel that later won a Pulitzer, The Confessions of Nat Turner, which was in turn based on lawyer Thomas Ruffin Gray's 1831 memoir, The Confessions of Nat Turner: the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia.
Genuinely interesting. Being an owner of a hardback edition of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, I'm embarrassed that I didn't know that!!
Genuinely interesting. Being an owner of a hardback edition of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, I'm embarrassed that I didn't know that!!
Aw. I must credit Brian Robb, author of Counterfeit Worlds: Philip K. Dick on Film, for that. I actually haven't read this book, but a SF-mad friend read out bits from it. That's how I learnt the Nat Turner connection.
Paulette Goddard met the 46 yr old Charlie Chaplin and he put her in
... Modern Times.... a silent movie made 8 yrs after sound had come in !
Incredibly Modern Times became the the 2nd biggest grossing movie that
year and Paulette went on to become a big star at Columbia .
Paulette (who became a big star at Paramount, not Columbia) was also the hot favourite to play Scarlet in Gone With the Wind, her test was certainly the best out of all those that I have seen. What stopped her getting the most coveted role in the history of the movies was that she and Chaplin were not married.
Ironically, Vivien Leigh who eventually won the role was living with her lover Laurence Olivier, who was still married with a child, as was Vivien.
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Makes sense. The replicants/slaves were seen as discardable machines with no self-awareness and emotions until they rebelled as a bid for independence and freedom. And all paid the price for rebelling. Roy Batty fared better than Nat Turner, though.
I'm guessing Dick read William Styron's 1967 novel that later won a Pulitzer, The Confessions of Nat Turner, which was in turn based on lawyer Thomas Ruffin Gray's 1831 memoir, The Confessions of Nat Turner: the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia.
celluloid film
1891 Edison demos the kinetoscope in New Jersey
using the Eastman celluloid film 35 mm wide
each frame bordered by 4 perforations
12 became big moneymakers
Aw. I must credit Brian Robb, author of Counterfeit Worlds: Philip K. Dick on Film, for that. I actually haven't read this book, but a SF-mad friend read out bits from it. That's how I learnt the Nat Turner connection.
Now Murdoch is in control !
... Modern Times.... a silent movie made 8 yrs after sound had come in !
Incredibly Modern Times became the the 2nd biggest grossing movie that
year and Paulette went on to become a big star at Columbia .
Paulette (who became a big star at Paramount, not Columbia) was also the hot favourite to play Scarlet in Gone With the Wind, her test was certainly the best out of all those that I have seen. What stopped her getting the most coveted role in the history of the movies was that she and Chaplin were not married.
Ironically, Vivien Leigh who eventually won the role was living with her lover Laurence Olivier, who was still married with a child, as was Vivien.
After the war they left America and went to live in Switzerland