> Can’t remember another adaptation with such a striking difference from the original. Are we talking in general, or just PKD? Next - with Nicholas Cage - was

> Can’t remember another adaptation with such a striking difference from the original. Are we talking in general, or just PKD? Next - with Nicholas Cage - was a film I actually enjoyed, but is a far cry from The Golden Man (short story). I read an anecdote after Ex Machina came out about the 'freaky alternative ending' that wasn't used, which felt like a nod to the Golden Man: "... So in that scene, what used to happen is you’d see her talking, and you wouldn’t hear, but all of a sudden it would cut to her point of view. And her point of view is completely alien to ours. There’s no actual sound; you’d just see pulses and recognitions, and all sorts of crazy stuff ..."