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A Boy and His Dog is a 1975 American black comedy science fiction film directed by actor L. Q. Jones, from a screenplay by Jones based on the 1969 novella of the same title by fantasy author Harlan Ellison. The film stars Don Johnson, Susanne Benton, Alvy Moore, and Jason Robards. It was independently produced and distributed by Jones' company LQ/Jaf Productions. The film's storyline concerns a teenage boy, Vic, and his telepathic dog, Blood, who work together as a team in order to survive in the dangerous post-apocalyptic wasteland of the Southwestern United States. Shout! Factory released the film on DVD and Blu-ray in August 2013.[2]

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Harlan Ellison wrote the original novella A Boy and His Dog and began an adaptation for film. However, after encountering writer's block, actor/director L. Q. Jones came onboard to write the script. Jones' own company, LQ/Jaf Productions (L.Q. Jones & Friends), independently produced the film. Distributors initially were reluctant to finance the production, so Jones raised $400,000 through family and business associates.[3] The film was shot at Pacific Ocean Park in Venice, California, and on location around Barstow, California[1] and Coyote Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2.5 stars out of a possible 4, writing that Ellison's novella "seemed almost to defy filming" but nonetheless Jones managed to offer "a sort of wacky success".[6] Richard Eder of The New York Times wrote that the realistic world set up in the beginning and the underground community introduced later "don't really work together; their contrast, and a ridiculous ending, shatter the picture. And the talking dog chews up the pieces".[7] Variety called the film "a turkey" and "an amateurish blend of redneck humor, chaotic fight scenes, and dimwitted philosophizing".[8] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film 1.5 stars out of 4 and wrote: "Rather than illuminate the present through a glance at a possible future, 'A Boy and His Dog' is simply a dim-witted collection of tired sex gags and anti-American imagery".[9] Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times praised the film as "an offbeat delight" with performances that "have that comfortable naturalness often detectable when an actor is directing other actors".[10] Gary Arnold of The Washington Post panned the film as a "shoddy, puerile science-fiction parable" that "mistakes juvenile facetiousness for wit and glorifies a juvenile concept of freedom, which means making it in the wild, away from such unmanly encumbrances as civilization and girls".[11]

A Boy and His Dog is a cycle of narratives by author Harlan Ellison. The cycle tells the story of an amoral boy (Vic) and his telepathic dog (Blood), who work together as a team to survive in the post-apocalyptic world after a nuclear war. The original 1969 novella was adapted into the 1975 film A Boy and His Dog directed by L.Q. Jones.[1] Both the story and the film were well-received by critics and science fiction fans, but the film was not successful commercially. The original novella was followed by short stories and a graphic novel.

Ellison began the cycle with the 1969 short story of the same title, published in New Worlds, and expanded and revised the tale to novella length for his story collection The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World the same year. He subsequently bookended the original story with two others in the same world: "Eggsucker" (The Ariel Book of Fantasy Volume Two, 1977), and "Run, Spot, Run" (Amazing Stories, 1980).

Ellison suggested as late as 2003 that he would combine the three stories (possibly with additional material) to create a novel with the proposed title of Blood's a Rover (not to be confused with the Chad Oliver story or the James Ellroy novel Blood's a Rover). In January 2018, Subterranean Press announced the publication of Blood's a Rover, combining materials from the author's files, versions of the novella and short stories that have been expanded and revised, material from Corben's graphic novel, and previously unpublished material from the unproduced 1977 NBC television series Blood's a Rover.[4]

The novella and the film adaptation have the same alternate timeline setting, diverging with the failed assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Instead of concentrating on the Space Race, technological advancements in robotics, animal intelligence, and telepathy take place. A more heated Cold War takes place, culminating in a conventional World War III. A truce is signed, lasting another 25 years, though mounting tensions lead to World War IV in 2007, this time involving massive nuclear warfare and only lasting five days. Civilization is almost entirely obliterated, leaving the surface of Earth reduced to a desolate, irradiated wasteland.

Years later, in 2024, foragers who remain above ground must fight for the remaining resources. Most survivors in the former United States are male, as women were usually in the bombed cities while many men were out fighting in the war. In the novella, nuclear fallout had created horrific mutations, such as the feared burnpit screamers, known for their noise and deadliness (in the film, they appear in only one scene, though they are only heard).

On the surface, Vic and Quilla June discover that Blood is starving and near death, having been attacked by radioactive insects and other "things". Quilla June tries to get Vic to leave Blood and take off with her. Knowing he will never survive without Blood's guidance and, more importantly, that Blood will not survive without care and food, Vic faces a difficult situation. It is implied that he kills his new love and cooks her flesh to save Blood's life. The novella ends with Vic remembering her question as Blood eats: "Do you know what love is?" and he concludes, "Sure I know. A boy loves his dog."

The original story was so successful, it won the 1970 Hugo Award, became a 1975 film starring Don Johnson, and was continued with short stories and a graphic novel; Vic and Blood: The Continuing Adventures of a Boy and His Dog. Just before the author's passing in 2018, he published the complete adventures of Vic and Blood in the Fix Up Novel Blood's a Rover.

After the End: The story is set in 2024, after two world wars. World War III was a conventional war, while IV was a massive nuclear exchange that lasted five days and more or less destroyed civilization, aside from isolated enclaves. Survivors, at least the ones we're shown, consist of the scavening roverpacks and solos on the surface, and the borderline cultish stepford smilers in the Down Under. Asshole Victim: The ending would be much more tragic if Quilla June hadn't been, in the author's words, "meaner than a Drano milkshake". She throws her parents away without a second thought and mows down her neighbors in way that even disturbs Vic. Black Comedy: "In the 1980s, politicians finally discovered the solution to urban blight." Cue nuclear explosion. "Well, I'd certainly say she had marvelous judgment, Albert, if not particularly good taste." A Boy and His X: Natch. This dog goes really above and beyond the norm, being sentient and telepathic, and helping his master find food and women. Bros Before Hoes: When Blood is dying from thirst and starvation, Quilla tries to convince Vic to abandon him. Instead Vic kills and cooks Quilla for Blood's lunch; it doesn't get any more bros before hoes than that. Crapsack World: The world above ground is a wasteland populated by sex-hungry barbarians, Vic included; "Down Under" is a Dystopian, creepy, oligarchical pastiche of The Deep South where everyone is in whiteface. Deadpan Snarker: Blood loves to get his little digs in at Vic and his constant need for sex. Death Seeker: Vic becomes one in further stories, implied to be out of guilt for killing Quilla. Desert Punk: Burned Out Earth style. Eat the Dog: The Twist Ending inverts this magnificently. As Vic and Quilla escape with nothing but the clothes on their back, they find Blood has been waiting outside the entrance to the bunker for Vic for days without food. Quilla wants them to keep running and leave Blood. Blood needs something to eat. What does Vic do to resolve the crisis? He kills Quilla and feeds her to Blood. Embarrassing Nick Name: Blood often refers to Vic as "Albert", which Vic hates. Femme Fatale: Quilla. Wants to be in charge and openly admits she was using Vic. A Friend in Need: Blood can't hunt for himself (although he fights fine and can scent track like radar), a side effect of his gaining the ability to speak somehow. Grey-and-Gray Morality: Is a wasteland dweller, whose only thought at the start is getting to rape a woman before some other ones finish with her and shoot her, more or less sympathetic than an oppressive Eagleland society that offhandedly kills people for a bad attitude? You decide. Hidden Elf Village: The Down Under sees itself as this, but it's actually a subversion; according to Vic's monologue in the theater, the Down Under is already well known amongst the surface survivors, and none of them show any particular interest in finding it, aside from being a fresh source of women. I'm a Humanitarian: The underground society has shades of this, with the unspoken implication that "the farm" is both their disposal of dissidents and a source of food. Intellectual Animal: Blood is far smarter and more educated than Vic, teaching him history, keeping him out of trouble and planning tactics in a classic Brains and Brawn pairing. Mecha-Mooks: Implied. "Go and get another Michael from the warehouse." Mood Whiplash: The movie has a pretty solid and consistent tone/premise...for the first hour. After Vic enters Topeka, it undergoes a Genre Shift, and turns into a bizarre combination of The Twilight Zone (1959) and Nineteen Eighty-Four. There's also the Sudden Downer Ending in the original story, that the movie treats as a Black Comedy. The Movie Buff: The story starts with Vic and Blood going to the movies, which they do as often as they can due to the scarcity of film reels and working projectors. New Wave Science Fiction: Based on a New Wave story by one of the most prominent New Wave writers, the story was a typical rejection/subversion of classic "golden age" SF tropes. The Nose Knows: Like all dogs, Blood has an excellent sense of smell. Unlike our dogs, he can count foes, pinpoint their direction and distance to the nearest metre and point this out to his partner Vic. Only You Can Repopulate My Race: The underground society requires healthy sperm from surface dwellers to impregnate their women. Vic thinks he's found his dream job. It subverts this by forcibly extracting it. Our Zombies Are Different: "Screamers", glow-in-the-dark, wailing zombies who only need to touch you to make you one of them. Post-Apocalyptic Dog: Blood, who's one of the main characters, but it's shown in the early part of the story that dogs are common companions for the survivors, especially the wandering Solos like Vic. The Promised Land: The main characters are searching for a place called Over The Hill. Scavenger World: Everyone who lives on the surface survives either by hunting mutated wildlife or by scavenging pre-war canned goods and equipment from the ruins. Smart Animal, Average Human: In the film, as well as the original novella, Vic, a semi-literate teenage scavenger living After the End is aided by his super-intelligent dog, Blood, who is telepathic and well-read. Stepford Smiler: An entire underground town of them, due to their use of clown makeup. Michael also has this effect, implied to be a malfunction of this particular Michael unit. Take That!: The final version of Blood's a Rover positions Donald Trump's presidency as the last before the apocalypse. Truce Zone: Movie theaters are neutral ground, and any fighting is harshly dealt with, as movies are too precious and rare to risk losing. Vic is even angry when he recalls how another theater was burned down due to a big fight breaking out, and several film reels were lost, since there's no way to replace them. Undying Loyalty: To the degree that Vic chooses his dog over procreation with a cute girl. Uplifted Animal: Blood is the descendant of a pair of dogs produced through two separate breeding experiments in the days prior to World War 3, one of which involved injecting the dogs with cerebral fluid taken from dolphins. The result was a breed of highly intelligent dogs with psychic abilities, Blood being the end result of that genetic line. ff782bc1db