Substance D
Finally got around to renting “A Scanner Darkly“. Philip K. Dick stories sure do make for entertaining movies. I think this movie is more entertaining then Licklater’s earlier work, “Walking Life“. Which also was done in rotoscope. But in “Walking Life” the rotoscope was used to a better effect. It actually added something to the scenes where in ”A Scanner Darkly” it gave the movie a comic book feel to what was originally a novel.
On one of the DVD bonus features (which I get to watch now that Sherry is not around) had some interesting footage from an interview Dick gave in the ’70s. He complained how because he was a science fiction author he was not considered a serious author. Science fiction was instead meant for kids and could contain little sex or violence. That science fiction limited itself to “Westerns in Space” instead. I haven’t read much science fiction since I was a kid. (Except for the odd Lethem.) I call that my Heinlein phase.