November 8, 2008

Wilmington's Northeast Regional Library
1241 Military Cutoff Road
Wilmington, North Carolina

http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/

2 p.m. Saturday in the library building next to Landfall Shopping Center.

Wilmington's Northeast Regional Library is launching a "Books to the
Big Screen" series this Autumn.

● Blade Runner (1982), Nov. 8: Directed by Ridley Scott (when he was
fresh off filming Alien), the film is adapted from Philip K. Dick's
novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? This one should spark
discussion on a number of levels, Beale thinks. For one thing, the
movie departs from the book in some significant ways. (Dick set his
tale just after a nuclear war, when the surviving males on Earth are
all wearing metal codpieces to head off genetic mutations.)

At the same time, though, as detective Harrison Ford hunts down
runaway androids, it still focuses on some of Dick's favorite
questions: What does it mean to be human? What, exactly, distinguishes
a person from a well-programmed machine? And how do we know that what
we think is real, is real?

Blade Runner is rated "R" for graphic violence and brief nudity.