The Story: The first short-story Dick ever sold is told from the point of view of Boris, a dog who confuses his owner’s trash cans as stores of food. Naturally, when the bin men turn up, Boris is outraged, and starts yapping his head off. However, since all his master can hear is “ROOG, ROOG, ROOG!”, he merely interprets Boris’ howls as over-excitement. Boris ends up fairly distressed by proceedings, as indeed he might.
Directed By: Lasseter again. This could be the animated short that precedes Pixar’s main feature. Granted, its not as cheery as their usual fare…
Starring: Nice old Hugh Grant can voice the owner, whilst Jason Flemyng and Dexter Fletcher play the dastardly bin-men.
Key Scene: The final scene, where Boris stands bemused, uncertain of whether the bond between man and beast (or indeed, any two creatures) can ever be fully bridged. Understand all that kiddies?
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Hadouken76
Mar 2nd 2011, 13:04
What about The Man in the High Castle or that one about the President who fools his people into thinking that the world outside is unsafe (it isnt)? I forgotten the title.
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ChrisWootton
Mar 2nd 2011, 14:33
The Penultimate Truth?
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Hadouken76
Mar 2nd 2011, 15:03
YES! Thank you ! :D
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playsatan13
Mar 2nd 2011, 16:21
do your research FILM! 2nd variety is already a film called 'Screamers' starring Peter Weller (robocop), it's s**t but the story is near enough the same. What about 'Flow my tears the police man said', 'the three stigmata of palmer edlrich', 'martain time slip' or 'time out of joint' Someone should really do a better job of Paycheck too
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gwales
Mar 2nd 2011, 16:53
@playsatan13 I've said that in the copy. Thought it was worth including as although Screamers was a bit of a dud, the original plot is worth revisiting.
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ChrisWootton
Mar 3rd 2011, 9:28
Ha, in your face playsatan :-)
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playsatan13
Mar 3rd 2011, 13:44
Fair enough i missed that bit, but all the Dick films end up c**p anyway, blade runner and total recall are only from fractions of the stories their based on. so you cant count them as d***s true work (especially seeing the writer hated do androids dream.....). Paycheck was bad as hell. But for some strange reason a Scanner Darkly worked ??????
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oatkinson1
Mar 10th 2011, 2:06
Most of the ones listed are short stories, I sense a cop out here. It would be very difficult to do but I would love to see VALIS done.
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silverturnsgrey
Apr 2nd 2011, 0:26
I love that you've taken the trouble to write this article, brilliant! Roog, Beyond Lies The Wub and Ubik would be great on screen. I also think Time Out Of Joint could be pretty amazing. I don't see how they could make a film of VALIS. If the book doesn't really make sense, how could a film version?
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