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anybody like the idea of this fantastic novel being animated?

I'm skeptical.....

After seeing those stills I'm a lot less skeptical.

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Looks to me like some of the models for the cartoons were Keanu Reeves, Brooke Shields, and Owen Wilson!

the woman is Winona Ryder

Woody Harrelson is in it

so is Robert Downey Jr.

and yes that is Keanu

One out of three ain't bad!

link to trailer

http://wip.warnerbros.com/trailerpla...s&speed=300000

Wow, the animation is awesome.

you get a prize if you can tell me what a 'scramble suit' is....neat idea btw....

Actually, it's being shot in live-action first, then animated. The director did the same thing in 2001's Waking Life.

Dunno if I'd call it a fantastic novel. "Major bummer" and "Big downer" are the descriptions I'd use. I read it the second time to see if I could figure out what I'd missed the first time around -- didn't see anything new.

I wonder if they will include the "Where are the missing three speeds?" segment?

Fred

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All of PKD's work is a major bummer, you are what you eat, and if you read enough of this stuff......

why strain your brain buffer and risk your psyche on this man's work, which is at best, neurotic...

I know that many of you will rant and rave about his "wonderful ideas" etc...but he gave me "indigestion" in the psychic sense.....

Dale in Ala

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Not "all." Dick certainly looked on the more morbid side of life, but several of his short stories, while not happy, cheerful, and full of fluffy bunnies, were not major bummers. I haven't read many of his novels.

But A Scanner Darkly is certainly a downer, like many novels of the time. [spoiler]The main character, after burning out his brain on drugs, winds up in a rehab camp as a total amnesiac.[/spoiler] Did he ever accomplish what he set out to do? I don't know.

Fred

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A lot of Bakshi's Lord of the Rings was also done that way.

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And so, in a way, is all the motion capture CGI stuff that's made these days.

I think one of the first times the technique was used was in Disney's Pinnochio, in the scene where a cage is hanging in a moving waggon, with the cage and the perch inside swinging independently.
They couldn't get the swinging to took right so they ended up animating over a shot of a real cage.

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That's a good point. Both Gollum in the Lord of the Rings movies and King Kong were done that way to a great extent (with Andy Serkis as the model in both cases).

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