{"id":831,"date":"2012-08-02T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/08\/02\/if-you-like-total-recall-philip-k-dick-on-screen\/"},"modified":"2012-08-02T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T14:25:00","slug":"if-you-like-total-recall-philip-k-dick-on-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/08\/02\/if-you-like-total-recall-philip-k-dick-on-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"If you like Total Recall&#8230; Philip K. Dick on screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-DgrGUo5qQEM\/UBqNUH_1FqI\/AAAAAAAAACw\/ISp5tMExEaw\/s1600\/pkd.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"221\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-DgrGUo5qQEM\/UBqNUH_1FqI\/AAAAAAAAACw\/ISp5tMExEaw\/s320\/pkd.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The remake of the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger hit <i>Total Recall<\/i> opens in theaters tomorrow, but it&#8217;s not just a redux of a schlocky movie \u2013 it&#8217;s also a readaptation of the original short story, &#8220;We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,&#8221; by science fiction visionary Philip K. Dick.<\/p>\n<p>Even though he saw rousing success in his lifetime with his dozens of short stories and novels, Dick&#8217;s lasting legacy might be the film versions of his works. Philip K. Dick&#8217;s stories have inspired some of Hollywood&#8217;s most famous pictures. Before you get your memory wiped, make sure to experience these P.K.D.-inspired classics in our collection:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0083658\/\">Blade Runner<\/a> \u2013 HU DVD 1064*<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0181689\/\">Minority Report<\/a> \u2013 HU DVD 1969<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0100802\/\">Total Recall<\/a> \u2013 HU DVD 2040<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0405296\/\">A Scanner Darkly<\/a> \u2013 HU DVD 2416\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The remake of the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger hit Total Recall opens in theaters tomorrow, but it&#8217;s not just a redux of a schlocky movie \u2013 it&#8217;s also a readaptation of the original short story, &#8220;We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,&#8221; by science fiction visionary Philip K. Dick. Even though he saw rousing success in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[355,398],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommendations","tag-timely-things","tag-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}