Books vs Movies, Tuesday first period

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Jon nodded to the students as they arrived. "Right, so today you read 'We Can Remember it for you Wholesale'. The movie version is Total Recall. There are actually two versions; we'll be watching the more recent one, but I've got notes for you about the other one." He passed around handouts with a summary and bullet points on some of the differences.

"So, let's watch the film, and then we can discuss the differences and what they mean."



As always, at the end of class, next week's assignment was on the board: Clive Barker, Cabal.

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Questioning reality.

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Watch the movie!

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Read the handout. Notice differences.

Class activity

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"So, why do you think all three versions are so different, and how do you think the times in which they were written affected the milieu and antagonist of each? Do you think the question of reality in the movies leads to a different conclusion in each? And why do you think movies seem to love to give Dick's stories short, pithy titles instead of the original ones?"

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Seriously, PKD's stories have such glorious titles! LOL