Research On Philip K.Dick’s Science Fiction And Cinematic Adaptation

In the last century,the international political situation changed,social movements came and went,and changes in the times brought about emancipation of mind.Philip K.Dick,born in the United States in the 1920 s,became the epitome of that era.Dick was unmotivated during his lifetime,both in life and creation.He has been ill,and his mental illness makes him unable to distinguish reality from illusory.Taking the drug for a long time resulted in dependence on the drug,and at the same time,the side effects of the drug caused him pain.His family and life have become victims of the turmoil of the times.His compatriot sister died,his parents divorced,his marriage was frustrated,and his career was not smooth.Facing this miserable life,he could only write novels,and science fiction became a way to vent depression.Writers of this era are expressing their expectations for the new world through literary creation.For a time,the sci-fi genre works were favored by writers and readers and showed vitality.The influx of new wave movements and cyberpunk waves have also made science fiction shine,and Dick has also become a tide of this science fiction literary movement.In addition to expressing the writer’s ideas like mainstream literature,Dick’s science fiction also connects science fiction and philosophy,and asks the future of human ultimate questions.What is reality?What is human? When Dick explored these two themes,he began to create in the form of science fiction,showing the forward-looking and inclusive nature of the work.At the same time,science fiction replaced the real environment,and used this kind of alternation Construct an unfamiliar world environment and produce novel effects.Eventually formed his own science fiction style.Dick’s novel combines his own philosophical thoughts and seeks answers in the world of words.His works are profound and alert,but his works did not become popular in his lifetime.After his death,many novels were translated into multiple languages and published.At the same time,the film and television session discovered this science fiction genius,and adapted his work into games,movies,and television.In particular,there have been fifteen film adaptations in the past forty years,of which fourteen are science fiction works.Dick’s adaptation of the film also became the inheritor of Dick’s science fiction ideas.After researching the film adaptation of Dick’s science fiction novels,it is found that there are common points between the adapted science fiction novels.Starting from the three aspects of creative theme,female character construction and body culture,the adaptation of the film’s inheritance of Dick’s science fiction ideas,The second creation in response to the development of the times.Most of the adapted films have mastered the two major themes of the original works.Thinking about reality and fantasy,the film works explore the boundaries from the perspective of memory change and schizophrenia.The film works retain the original works.The shape design and inner spirit of the female characters in the middle ensure that the spiritual core of Dick’s sci-fi creation does not change greatly,and deeply displays the three female relationships that Dick has experienced.These three types of women are black girls represented by fellow sisters,schizophrenic women represented by wives,and mechanical women represented by mothers.The latter two images have a fusion phenomenon.The other theme,"what is human",is expressed in film and television from the issue of physical changes and biological boundaries.As a pioneer of cyberpunk style,Dick was attracted by the mysterious oriental culture,and his understanding of the body began to turn.In science fiction works,he naturally showed his(impersonal)impulse beyond the present,so "it provides This is a fictional space that is always safe,in which people can release their desire and anxiety to become post-human." The "human" in Dick’s novel is no longer limited by the duality of gender,mind-body duality,the organism and the machine,but on a vague boundary,forming a fluid,combined possibility model.From the perspective of the elements of film adaptation,to analyze the difficulty of film adaptation of Dick’s science fiction novels,first of all,it is necessary to deal with the different expressions between different texts.Among them,the media differences in the aspects of creation,narrative and expression are most worthy of attention.Dick’s science fiction has certain characteristics of pure fiction.There will be no major deviation in readers’ reading comprehension.However,after the work is moved to the screen,the disadvantages will appear.This will become a test for film directors and screenwriters.,Testing its choice of adapted novels and its ability to recreate,which also became one of the difficulties in adapting Dick’s science fiction novels.In addition,through the audience evaluation survey of the adapted films,the audience acceptance degree between the adapted films is compared to realize the cross-text creation,work presentation,and audience acceptance of Philip K.Dick’s science fiction adapted films.