Conclusion

The characters in Philip K. Dick's novels are full of pathos mixed with the ludicrous, sometimes having sex without a great deal of pleasure or enjoyment. His style of writing tends to be capricious with ideas and alternatives, near-surrealistic scenes that sometimes seem objectifications of neurosis. The novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was written in the late sixties at a time of an emerging consciousness to many new themes hitherto not given exposure: hallucinatory drugs and schizoid-type states. Other themes such as political intrigues within the utopian quest of the disciples of an eccentric messiah, runs through his novel as an important subsidiary theme. A second important subsidiary theme is that of confusion of humans and simulated biologically engineered beings. His writing has many outobiographical elements. Most of his fictional characters are illustrations of close friends and relatives. He was involved in the drug subculture, and wanted to describe his personal memories of those people he had known or met during this	experience. The subject and his fascination with Nazi Germany, in particular the Gestapo, had a profound effect on him. The social climate that he was experiencing, notable American society in the late sixties: the conflict in Vietnam, the Kennedy assination, pop/hippy music and the 'love era', also had a fundamental influence on his work. He not only represents a general theme of man's inhumanity and confusion, but a specific social background representing the very same state of affairs. Most of the problems encountered during the making of a film can be tracked back to difficulties left unresolved within the original screenplay, and Blade Runner is no exception. It often takes longer to produce a screenplay that everyone in the production is satisified with - including the actors - than it does to shoot the actual film. Work began on the adaptation of Dick's novel to the screen almost ten years before the finished film was released. The original screenplays were disliked by Philip K. Dick, and even the director Ridley

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