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Trivia

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Robert Downey Jr. wrote most of his lines down on post-it notes and scattered them around the set so he could read off them while filming a scene. The rotoscoping team simply animated over the notes to remove them from the film during post-production.

According to director Richard Linklater, filming was completed in 23 days; the animation process took 18 months.

(at around 55 mins) When Freck goes to the liquor store to buy wine, one of the brand names being advertised is St. Ubik. This is a reference to Philip K. Dick's novel "Ubik".

Philip K. Dick's daughters gave director Richard Linklater their father's personal copy of the novel "A Scanner Darkly" when he completed this movie.

When Arctor sits on the stage waiting to give his speech to the Brown Bear Lodge, one of the images his scramble suit displays is Philip K. Dick. This is a clever reference to the novel, in which the scramble suit is said to show the likeness of its creator once in every several million permutations.

After the movie was shot, it was then edited and picture was locked before it arrived to the animators. Animators were in post-production for roughly a year and a half.

This is the highest-grossing digitally rotoscoped animated feature, grossing $7,659,918. However, being also the most-expensive rotoscoped feature ever made, that figure is lower than the film's cost of $8.7 million.

Based on Philip K. Dick's personal drug experiences.

The filmmakers looked at 60 houses before settling on the one used for Arctor's home.

In 1976, an interview with Philip K. Dick was recorded for California radio station KPFK-FM in which he read a passage from A Scanner Darkly, the scene in which Charles Freck unsuccessfully attempts suicide. Director Richard Linklater remarked in an interview that he wanted to use this recording in the film during this scene, but that it was in such poor condition as to be deemed unusable. The passage, nearly word for word from Dick's novel, is read instead during the scene by Leif Anders.

The title is an appropriation of 1 Corinthians 13:12, which reads, in part: "For now we see through a glass darkly; but then, face to face: now I know in part; but then I shall know even as I am known."

(at around 1h 5 mins) When Arctor and Connie are about to have sex, there is a brief view of the clock/radio next to the bed. The clock shows the time as 4:20, a classic drug reference, fitting in with the theme of the film.

(at around 30 mins) In one scene, Barris unsuccessfully attempts to create a pistol silencer, disturbing the people around him with loud gunshots while testing it. Sherlock Holmes (2009) also features a character played by Robert Downey Jr. doing this.

A theme of bears can be noticed in the film - the meeting at the start is of the Brown Bear Lodge; a California state flag (with a bear on it) is seen in Arctor's house; Arctor's name appears to be derived from 'Ursus arctos', the scientific name for the Brown Bear and from the star, Arcturus (located in the Bootes constellation which is also known as the 'bear keeper/ herder').

"Clerodendron Ugandens", the source of the organic component of Substance D is apparently based on a real species of flower - "Clerodendrum ugandense", the blue glorybower. However, it has been reclassified and is now known under the correct name "Rotheca myricoides". Like the movie asserts, the plant is highly poisonous to humans and livestock.

Terry Gilliam originally wanted to make a motion picture version of the novel in the early 1990s.

(at around 1h 5 mins) When Arctor is going through the second phase of testing with the medical deputies, the laptop-like machine on which he is being tested is branded as V K mk1. V K stands for Voight Kampff, the test used in "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" (a.k.a. "Blade Runner") by Philip K. Dick, where the test is used to measure the response time and the involuntary reaction of the pupil of the eye, in short, an emotional reaction to determine whether they are humans or androids.

In Arctor's kitchen there is a drawing of a head in a box next to the phrase "Time to thaw Walt out!". This is a reference to the urban legend that animator Walt Disney had himself cryogenically frozen.

The Red Pills known as Substance Death, a drug that alters a user's reality, bear a striking resemblance to the Red Pills given to the character Douglas Quaid in the film Total Recall (1990) that, in this instance, are used to bring Quaid out of the Rekall Memory Implant-induced reality.

Charlie Kaufman wrote a screenplay adaptation of the novel with Australian director Emma-Kate Croghan. He couldn't produce a usable script and when his profile swelled with the success of Dans la peau de John Malkovich (1999), he lost interest in the film. When the project changed hands, Kaufman's script was no longer involved.

Alex Jones is a real political radio host/filmmaker, who performed a cameo role in this movie as the "Street Prophet".

Second film to feature Winona Ryder playing the love interest of Keanu Reeves. The first was Dracula (1992).

Director Richard Linklater intended to film the Philip K. Dick novel "Ubik," but decided to film Dick's "A Scanner Darkly" instead after Wiley Wiggins, who played the main character in Linklater's film Waking Life (2001), suggested it to him.

The brand on the earphone of the woman in the surveillance room reads »Phil D.«.

The brand on James' wrist calculator reads »Philip«.

Both the lodge number and Arctor's house address are "709". This is a reference to the famed Austin satirical rock band "Uranium Savages", who use 709 as a "secret" number. All Uranium Savages fans are familiar with this and the director likely inserted the number as homage to the band.

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Distinctions

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Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA 2007

Nominated
Saturn Award Best Animated Film

Austin Film Critics Association 2007

Won
Austin Film Award Richard Linklater

Chlotrudis Awards 2007

Nominated
Chlotrudis Award Best Adapted Screenplay
Richard Linklater

Best Supporting Actor
Robert Downey Jr.

Golden Trailer Awards 2006

Nominated
Golden Trailer Best Animation/Family

Hugo Awards 2007

Nominated
Hugo Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form
Richard Linklater (screenplay/director)
Philip K. Dick (based on the novel by)

International Cinephile Society Awards 2007

Won
ICS Award Best Animated Film

2nd place
ICS Award Best Supporting Actor
Robert Downey Jr.

New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2006

2nd place
NYFCC Award Best Animated Film

Online Film Critics Society Awards 2007

Won
OFCS Award Best Animation

Prism Awards 2007

Nominated
Prism Award Feature Film - Limited Release

Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2006

Nominated
TFCA Award Best Animated Film

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