[nrp]

It’s worth reading the source material “Roadside Picnic” if you haven’t yet. It’s very different from the film in a way that I think lets you appreciate what Tarkovsky did with it even more.

Roadside Picnic is also the incredibly rare example of the book, the movie (Stalker), and the video game (S.T.A.L.K.E.R.) each being able to stand on their own merits. This is probably in part because they are so different thematically.

[omnimus]

As far as i know Tarkovsky wasnt really scifi fan. Maybe thats why Stalker is so unlike the book.

He made Solaris as answer to Kubrics Space Oddesay and after that he got big budget for another scifi.

Sadly the Stalker was disaster. Very unsafe poisonous conditions where many got sick. Movie almost didnt happen. Its suspected Stalker is reason why Tarkovsky died early.

[trhway]

>It’s worth reading the source material “Roadside Picnic” if you haven’t yet. It’s very different from the film

add to that the original movie script by the Strugatski brothers which stands on its own and is different from the book as well as from the movie.

[clSTophEjUdRanu]

I'm down that rabbit hole right now. The HBO series Chernobyl made me start up S.T.A.L.K.E.R. that's been sitting in my steam library for years. That game made me check out the film Stalker just last week and that made me pick up Roadside Picnic just the other day.