I’m a huge ‘Blade Runner’ fan and have just finished reading Phillip K.Dick’s ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ for the first time. There are about five mentions of snuff in it’s pages, on several occasions both Deckard and Bryant take pinches of snuff. I was so surprised to see the references and find it really funny to think of a futuristic android-hunting bounty hunter taking a pinch of snuff! LOL ‘Temporarily he pushed away the specs on the Nexus-6 brain unit, took a pinch of Mrs Siddon’s No 3 & 4 snuff and cogitated’ ‘…Rick inhaled a pinch of D.Johnson snuff; the menthol in it tasted foul, so early in the morning. He rolled down the car window and tossed the little yellow tin out into the rubble’ ‘Trembling, he got a fresh new tin of snuff from the glove compartment of the car, pulling off the protective band of tape he took a massive pinch, rested sitting half in the car and half out’
well some people claim Dick was prescient.
Ha, I forgot about that. And guess what, google reveals that Mr. Dick was quite the snuffer! “He is taller than me, older, greying, bearded (I think), stoutish, wearing T-shirt and crumpled corduroy trousers, caught in the act of taking a pinch of snuff from one of twenty or thirty small round tins contained in an upturned cardboard box lid balanced on his knees.”
I’ve just picked up a small collection of his novels purely based on this thread. “The Man In The High Castle” “The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch” “Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?” “Ubik” I was also pleasantly surprised to find out he had written “The Minority Report”, along with the novel that “Total Recall” was based off of. I am now sitting down to watch “A Scanner Darkly”. I’ve yet to read it, but strangely enough downloaded it about 2 weeks ago, on the recommendation of my woman. Weird how stuff comes together like that, no? ~Snuffy
Pretty off topic but I just wanted to bring up something that I’ve always found funny/weird. Whats with movies that have people smoking on spaceships. I’m sorry but I just don’t think that would ever happen. THERES NO SMOKING IN SPACE! I’m not saying its not possible just that it probably wouldnt happen.
If you can find a spaceship, they will probably let you smoke on it.
My question is, is snuff ever presented in any movies? I don’t recall seeing snuff shown or used in any movie. And I am a big British film fan, watching the classic Hammer and Amicus titles all the time. So what films show any use of snuff, or a snuff advert, or a snuff box on a table etc? Now this is a challenge. Kinda reminds me of the “Spot the J&B Bottle” game we Euro-cult film fans play, as that is in nearly every film.
Let see there is a discussion about movies with snuff somewhere in here on this list.
http://snuffhouse.org/discussion/446/1/movies/ Oh here it is
I just made a thread titled Snuff In Novels and my inspiration was this book, both for the thread and my recent adventure in snuffing. Nice to see someone else knew about it as well. Great book!
Pretty off topic but I just wanted to bring up something that I’ve always found funny/weird. Whats with movies that have people smoking on spaceships. I’m sorry but I just don’t think that would ever happen. THERES NO SMOKING IN SPACE! I’m not saying its not possible just that it probably wouldnt happen.
Those movies were made in the late 40s and early 50s when every HE-man was a smoker! Since computers were pretty much fantasy, they didn’t know that cigarette smoke gummed up the works in your hardware.
Isaac Asimov has a lot of tobacco use in his novels. I recently started re-reading the foundation series and there’s a fair bit of snuff use in that but usually by foppish characters. Cigar’s were clearly his preference and it may have been a bit of a snip at Phillip K Dick. Both great writers though.
Dick has had more of his stories made into movies than Asimov, if that says anything. :-? I think Dick’s works tends more towards the near future and Asimov to the distant future, which really takes two separate trains of thought. Surely, Asimov was smarter and wiser and I think his books are more allegory (more about the here and now than the time frames they take place in) whereas Dick was indeed extrapolating on current trends and speculating on them 50-100 years in the future. Both brilliant writers of course and each had a lot to say about society. Dick, I think though, worked snuff into his stories simply because he liked it, and I think was a snufftaker himself. Too bad he suffered from paranoia and anxiety, though those may have strengthened his writings.
Phillip K Dick is one of my all time favorite writers and he must have been a fascinating individual. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is one of his most unerving stories (If you ever wanna know what a bad trip is like without having to actually suffer through one, I can’t think of any other book that takes you there like that one). He was a madman, no doubt, but I think he made the best of it and his stories are a gift to us all. Cool to hear that he was into snuff. Pretty sad that he diied shortly before he started to get some real recognition.
Phil was a pretty interesting guy. He did enjoy snuff, and cigars. A couple of fun memories; Ever notice there was no Blade Runner merchandise? No t-shirts, action figures or lunch boxes? Part of the contract was that they couldn’t sell any. Phil wouldn’t allow it. And there was never a “movie version” of the novel. Just a new cover on Do Androids. Best memory was a very confused Phil walking in plopping down in a chair and saying that Disney had just bought one of his short stories. DISNEY? What could THEY possibly want with one of HIS stories? At the time there was no Touchstone yet, and Disney just made G rated movies. They had bought the short story “We Can Remember it for You Wholesale” and it became Touchstone’s “Total Recall”. Anyway, he used mostly Dean Swift snuff (remember this was over 30 years ago, not much was available here) and one of his favorites was Dr.Johnson
@java You were friends with Phillip k dick!?!
We were acquaintances. He was a friend of a friend, part of a small group that met once a week to drink scotch, smoke cigars, and solve the worlds problems.
Speechless. I love PKD, Scanner Darkly is my favorite(the movie is faithful). His other works are great too. His friend said Phil only took LSD twice, but it must have really influenced him as LSD is referenced a lot in his works.