He certainly did make such a movie; a fact which this edition of the book proudly proclaims. Indeed, it proclaims that particular point so energetically that it neglects to mention that the book is in fact a collection of short stories, of which Paycheck is simply the first. Seriously, it says nothing about this, either on the cover or in the copy on the inside of the jacket. You just have to figure that out by noticing that the "novel"'s "chapters" don't, in fact, have anything whatsoever to do with one another.
When I started reading, I was rather perplexed at how quickly events from the movie were turning up. I thought to myself "Did he just leave a whole lot of the novel out? The movie's halfway done by this point, and I'm only twenty pages in!". As it turns out, I was just halfway through the story.
Weird.
Another case of turning a short story into a feature film, it would seem. In a lot of ways, it's really something of an improvement, as the resolution of the story is less satisfactory. Then again, I think the whole idea was to play with "how do you use your knowledge of the future to help your future self, when you know you won't have this knowledge later?", which is exactly what it does.
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Indeed, it proclaims that particular point so energetically that it neglects to mention that the book is in fact a collection of short stories, of which Paycheck is simply the first.
Seriously, it says nothing about this, either on the cover or in the copy on the inside of the jacket. You just have to figure that out by noticing that the "novel"'s "chapters" don't, in fact, have anything whatsoever to do with one another.
When I started reading, I was rather perplexed at how quickly events from the movie were turning up. I thought to myself "Did he just leave a whole lot of the novel out? The movie's halfway done by this point, and I'm only twenty pages in!".
As it turns out, I was just halfway through the story.
Weird.
Another case of turning a short story into a feature film, it would seem. In a lot of ways, it's really something of an improvement, as the resolution of the story is less satisfactory.
Then again, I think the whole idea was to play with "how do you use your knowledge of the future to help your future self, when you know you won't have this knowledge later?", which is exactly what it does.