The indexes have outpaced the United States’ S&P 500 and Europe’s Stoxx 600 benchmark indexes, which have both risen 8% in that time. (N225), which tracks Japan’s blue-chip companies, has leapt nearly 17%. So far this year, the benchmark Topix has jumped almost 14%, and the Nikkei 225 The country’s major stock indexes are trading at highs not seen since 1990, when its infamous asset bubble of the late 1980s was just deflating. You can read our spoiler-free review of The Man in the High Castle here.Japan’s stock market has waited more than three decades for its moment in the sun. Like you’re getting a little tiny taste as you go.” “Frank has been very particular about seeing this as a marathon, not a spirit. “It builds these pieces in from the book slowly,” Davalos told us back in July, when production was halfway complete. Actress Alexa Davalos, who plays Juliana, says it takes time for the themes PKD presents in the novel to be fully realized. Lost in that, as The Atlantic suggested after the pilot dropped, is Dick’s conflicted message and the internal struggle of characters to cope with a world that’s more often colored gray than black and white. It all makes for a visually jarring period piece. “There are so many issues to explore and it is science fiction so the reason to tell the story is to reflect back on the world we live in right now.”īorrowing characters from the novel and creating new ones, Amazon’s High Castle is part espionage thriller, part sci-fi exploration, and wholey a trippy reality of the Axis powers winning World War II. “There are glimpses of what’s going on with the rest of the planet in the first season,” Spotnitz said.
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“I can go anywhere, if they give me the money.” He added that he already knows where series ends and what’s going to happen to Juliana. “I think when I originally started it was 3-5 years at the most, but now I find I’m thinking the more you think about this show, it’s the whole world,” Spotnitz told us in October at New York Comic Con. Spotnitz is using the seeds planted by the character-driven nature of Dick’s novel to grow his take on the material outward. While most reviews remained positive and some were mixed (almost all were based on the first six of the 10 season one episodes), there’s a clear curiosity, from an optical and contextual place, to explore how the new world order changed life around the planet. “My fear was that I couldn’t do that without doing damage to the narrative, so I tried very hard to do it in a way that was respectful to the novel and just kind of gave more space to the themes and ideas that he had established.” “I think my biggest difficulty was at the very beginning, recognizing that I would have to add characters and plot that wasn’t in the novel in order to turn it into a television series,” Spotnitz told Den of Geek. Turning a novel rich on ideas but short on action into a fully fleshed out 10 hours was the biggest barrier to entry when Spotnitz sat down to pen the pilot, but ultimately it could be the creative gift that opens High Castle to a new world of storytelling potential. Its own kind of cool idea… But to suggest that that’s an outgrowth of the novel feels disingenuous.Įssentially, the framework is borrowed, but what sits inside is a story that stands on its own. In this, the American Dream has been subverted - so what we’re going to see in the show is like an American Revolution where they rise against their Nazi oppressors. There’s this subtle notion in the novel that the Nazi victory has completely paralyzed the American dream and these people are all struggling to find a new moral compass to guide their lives by. Dick expert, about the similarities and differences between Dick’s work and the television adaptation from Frank Spotnitz ( The X-Files, Hunted) and Ridley Scott’s production company, and for Gill there is one key fundamental difference: Salon interviewed David Gill, a literature professor and Phillip K. Adaptation-wise, the television version is a big departure from the original text. Entertainment-wise, Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle is living up to the promise, even for PDK diehards.
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