Blog Set #7

I can easily say that the short story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick was an awesome read. The idea that this man was imagining this type of furture to me is complelty amazing. I don't really think that the idea of artificially transplanted memories will be invented anytime time soon but then again, who really knows? If we were to easily implant memories into us as easy as getting cosmetic surgery, i think we would lose our humanistic element. I feel as if we won't be human anymore because you have artificial memory in you, which makes us sound a little bit like robots. I don't like the idea of having a memory implanted in me, even though I will be extremely convinced it has happend, a part of me deep, deep down in my brain will know it is false. We will all be living a lie.
I'm sort of torn with the whole casting thing. I do like that Arnold Schwarzenegger was cast because he sort of embodied a "hero" type physique but I also do wish they cast some one with an under-dog element. I could really have seen Matthew Broderick play this role because physique wise he isn't very big but I feel like that would've added a sense of vulnurability and under-dogness (I know that isn't a word) because he is somewhat small but yet he is tackling this huge feat of saving the universe. I think that would've been cool to see someone of average size to save the whole world; more men probably could have related if Matthew Broderick was cast. Remember this is all opinion based! hahaha
I think maybe movies being based off of movies impacts the story in every sense. Maybe some people haven't read the story and go see the movie and then read the story; but they already have a sense of what is going to happen since they saw the movie already and don't have the space to imagine it in their heads as they read. To me that takes away the whole purpose of reading. I love reading because you see it in your head and it exercises your imagination. Movie adaptations of stories in a way destroy that.