Philip.K. Dick - "Arena" 3/6

[bjgrace1]

television allows us to become the human zombies

[bjgrace1]

maybe he was seeing the world as it is

[bjgrace1]

has anyone thought so far that philip was seeing outside of the box or as they are calling it know that he saw free of the matrix

[Abismabagrandatimaba]

An extraordinary man. Dick deserves the nomination of being one of the most exceptional and distinguish author of all the times.

[SDIB]

I don't like Anne very much...

[nephildevil]

Got the first chapter of Valis behind me, if the rest is like that, it's gonna be good.

[edisonoside]

Man is the ANTI/nATURE..

[jorgesantoine24]

I just read, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' in three sittings - that's fast for me. Huxley's Brave New World took me ten times as long. I was really impressed with Androids and will read more of Dick. In fact he has sparked my interest in SF, which I haven't been into yet. I just got four SF books from the library as a result: PKD's The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, Ray Bradbury's, 'Fahrenheit 451', Alfred Bester's, 'The Stars My Destination', & Jack Finney's, 'The Body Snathchers'.

[danozzuz]

@TranshumanCyborg for me it has been the opposite :)

[vespacurry]

Matrix is based on a Book called Neuromancer by William Gibson ... the book in many ways has a more fluent story. Its not a direct copy but its pretty much the integrity of the story... part one of the film trilogy Matrix was great... the second and third parts were noise...

[terrycharnley]

Great documentary, could someone tell me what the music is that plays at 0.30. I've heard it before, but I do like it.

[Gibson889]

alot of these guys are pseudo intellectual fucktards who are whacking themselves off with their own words

[death2utubenow]

When I was younger and very optimistic about the future, I didnt like his books but now that I'm older and have a more realistic view of the world, I think his works are pure genius.

[BRussellspouts]

@Theoppositesex, well you can't have been looking very hard

[Theoppositesex]

God, this documentary is one of the only things of any quality on Youtube that I've seen.

[noklarok]

@Theoppositesex , you should watch other BBC 'Arena' documentaries,, like the william Burroughs one and the frank zappa one

[Ashloomis]

Maybe I should do alot of drugs so I can be creative as well.

[Newfie777777]

@Ashloomis You're a retarded conservative backward knuckle dragging dick-head(no pun intended)

[Ashloomis]

@Newfie777777 And you have no sense of humor silly.

[churzz21]

the narrorator sounds like a snot nosed faggot!

[cheekymonkey1979]

Nice spelling, douche.

[iaresloth]

@churzz21 so, did you get a good pay for being the narrator?

[mychannelisgone]

saw Total recall when i was 8. funny that the short story is about 5 pages and is a fraction of what the movie is. WOW i became a PKD fan because of Arnold. Whoa!

[tiberias111]

This man's theory on our very reality being fabricated could have been the inspiration for the Matrix who wrote the plot for that anyway where did it come from?

[pisces2099]

Where indeed. Phillip K. Dick is the source shall we say of most modern fantasy and science fiction. He is to modern -=fiction=-, not just science fiction, what H.P. Lovecraft is to modern horror

[tsallen10]

Not at all. The real source is Plato.

He's one of those dead,ancient,Greek philosopher guys. See his "Allegory of the Cave".

[iscream22]

I agree, Lovecraft was huge on the horror world as Dick is to sci fi. You can read Stephen King or Clive Barker or any horror author out these days and you can tell theyre fans of Lovecraft. Not that Stephen King and Barker aren't original, i love the majority of their work but you have to admit Lovecraft was and is a big influence.

[sc00ny]

A lot of 'The Matrix' was borrowed from Grant Morrison's cult comic 'The Invisibles'

Kind of punk, anarchist, metaphisical supernatural fiction, instesd of bullet time.

Recommended

[fietsvriend]

@sc00ny And also the book Symulacron 3 from writer and US Navy-instructor and test pilot, Daniel F. Galouye,Rainer Werner Fassbinder made a movie of it in 1973 which is now on DVD titled Welt am Draht

[rheem654]

look into quantam physics i.e. thought create reality.

[iscream22]

The Wachowski brothers wrote it. And yes, Philip K Dick definately influenced them and many other filmmakers/authors/artists in the sci-fi industry. The Wachowski brothers openly admit Dick as a influence on their work and lives.

[subsamadhi]

PKD didn't write the Matrix. The Matrix doesn't really stack up in quality compared to any PKD book really.

[danozzuz]

@subsamadhi yep but theres plenty of action in matrix /

very few in pkd. action scenes in dicks are like underwater. 

[subsamadhi]

@danozzuz wow.....simply by making that statement I can only assume you haven't read any of his books. Or seen any movies that have been adapted from his books. Perhaps you are so inept at assessing his works that you shouldn't even bother making comments about them? That works for me.

[subsamadhi]

@danozzuz I'm just going to throw this out there because you haven't responded: have you ever seen Total Recall? Totall Recall makes the action in the Matrix look like fucking West Side Story. It's not a very accurate adaptation of his original story but the action is there. Then you have Minority Report, which by itself is a better movie than all three of the Matrix movies. The Matrix is fucking comic book bullshit. Phillip K. Dick is the real sci-fi standard.

[jmm1233]

@subsamadhi most of the ideas in matrix were hacked from PKD though they really made an over simplified generalization with an ending that PKD would have been a shamed of , he wasn't really into the messiah type endings

[subsamadhi]

@jmm1233 The thing that's funny about that is he had this huge complex with understanding religious ideas and he definitely put them in his books. "The Divine Invasion" is a great example of this. Hollywood tends to cater to the lowest commmon denominator so I really hope that they never get their hands on this book of his. That's what sucked about some of his other books that were made into movies. Hollywood doesn't understand what he's doing half the time, nor do many people who read him.

[libertarianjury]

Poor limited human intelligence. Another 100 IQ points and everything would just flow smoothly, like it will once we're all replaced by a free market and free minds. All conflict will have to be manufactured for entertainment, so we don't forget how to make war, (should we ever need it again). Dick was an interesting cat. Deep...

[elfchaser]

Dick HATED free-market economics, and openly proclaimed himself a "liberal."

[YoungNubb]

wtf scary....