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Dick struggled to make a living during his lifetime, but his work has since served as a deep seam of ideas to be mined by filmmakers such as Ridley Scott, Paul Verhoeven, Steven Spielberg, John Woo, and Richard Linklater, resulting in some of the most successful and influential SF movies of all time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the still-unequalled future world of \u003ci\u003eBlade Runner\u003c\/i\u003e to the mind-bending \u003ci\u003eA Scanner Darkly\u003c\/i\u003e, via the blockbusting action\/adventure of \u003ci\u003eTotal Recall\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePaycheck\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMinority Report\u003c\/i\u003e—not to mention the debt of gratitude films like \u003ci\u003eThe Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Truman Show\u003c\/i\u003e owe to his work—the legacy of Philip K. 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