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Vanilla Sky (film)
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CastTom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell, Jason Lee, Noah Taylor, Timothy Spall, Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, Delaina Mitchell
Year released2001
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Psychologist Dr. Curtis McCabe tells his publishing company owner patient David Aames, "Well, I suppose the empty street meant loneliness."
David: ”You’re a shrink.”
McCabe: ”...not all psychologists care about dreams.” (0:04)
David’s friend Brian Shelby tells David, referring to the board, "Those people drive you nuts." (0:07)
McCabe: "Do you dream about the board...?"
”You’re scared of your dreams, aren’t you? It’s a nightmare either way.” (0:10)
David tells McCabe, "... I’m absolutely terrified of heights... he and my mother were run over by a drunken teenager... 10 years ago."
”If I talk, you’ll just think I’m crazy.”
McCabe: ”There are five basic emotions in life...” (0:13)
David tells Brian, "Living the dream, baby, living the dream." (0:16)
Business associate Thomas Tipp tells David, "Now you’ve got great instincts..." (0:18)
Poster for Jules et Jim (0:19)
His lover Julianna “Julie” Gianni tells David, "Sometimes I worry about you..." (0:20)
David tells partier Sofia Serrano, "I’ve got a stalker." (0:22)
David answers Sofia, referring to paintings, "This is Joni Mitchell..." (0:23)
Brian tells David, "Your friends are fun, and I’m drunk."
David: ”Julie Gianni’s stalking me.”
Brian: ”Nobody stalks me...”
Sofia: ”Don’t worry.”
Brian: ”I’m crazy...”
”... I’m drunk.”
Referring to Sofia: ”She could be the girl of my... dreams.” (0:24)
Sofia asks David, "Why are you scared of heights?"
David: ”There’s a lot of people who are scared of heights.” (0:27)
David tells McCabe, "... don’t get all melancholy..." (0:31)
Sofia tells David, "Your career is the one I worry about." (0:)34
Julie deliberately wrecks her car, killing herself... (0:43)
David tells Sofia, "Actually, I had a horrible dream."
Sofia: ”You dreamed you’d never see me again.”
David, referring to Julie: ”... my friend, the stalker, had followed me... drove off a bridge and committed suicide with me in the car.” (0:44)
David: "My dreams are a cruel joke... Even in my dreams I’m an idiot... I try to tell myself what to dream. I try to dream that I’m flying."
McCabe: ”Is that the only thing that you dream?”
”Do you dream about the car accident?”
David: ”Here’s what you remember from a coma.”
”No surgery could be performed because of the coma.” (0:46)
Timothy:"David... I don’t want to worry you... The bylaws of the board protect your 51% vote only if you’re mentally acute... the last time we were together you were in a coma..." (0:49)
Surgeon Doctor Pomeranz, talking to David: "Unfortunately, because you were in a coma..."
”... comatose patient...”
Pomeranz: ”We can increase your medication.”
David: ”Medication.”
Pomeranz: ”... emotionally...” (0:51)
Host Conan O’Brien tells his guest, "I’m worried about the dog." (0:58)
Brian tells David, "I’m in the mood for... lemon coke."
Referring to David’s mask: ”It’s freaking me out.”
”Talk to a shrink.”
David: ”How about no sympathy?” (0:59)
David tells Sofia, "I’ve got a stalker." (1:04)
Brian tells David, "You’re drunk."
David: ”I may be an idiot, but I’m not drunk.” (1:07)
Sofia tells David, "This is a cheap ploy for sympathy."
”I must be nuts.” (1:11)
McCabe tells David, "You had a nightmare."
David: ”Everything’s a nightmare.”
”... they shot me full of drugs I’d never heard of...” (1:14)
Sofia asks David, "Is this a dream?"
Poster for Breathless on wall (1:22)
Sofia tells David, "I’m dreaming about you." (1:25)
David tells Sofia, who looks to him like Julie, "I’m freaked out." (1:28)
David tells Brian, "You tell me that’s your dream girl."
Brian: ”You’re insane.” (1:32)
David tells a strange man, Edmund Ventura, "... I’m in no mood..." (1:33)
McCabe asks David, "Can you tell the difference between dreams and reality?" (1:35)
Julie strikes David in the head with an object. (1:37)
McCabe tells David, "Sometimes the mind behaves as if it were in a dream... The subconscious is a powerful thing... Do you know what derangement is?"
”Temporary derangement... I’m just a psychologist.” (1:43)
Talk show guest: "Seventy-two cryonized patients are currently held..." (1:46)
Sales brochure: "LUCID DREAM"
David: ”What’s the Lucid Dream option?”
Executive Rebecca Dearborn: ”The Lucid Dream is Life Extension’s newest option.”
Video sales presentation: ”Your death will be wiped from your memory... with no memory of how it all occurred... a living dream...”
Dearborn: ”A living dream...”
McCabe: ”Your death will be wiped from your memory.”
David: ”A dream... What if the dream became a nightmare?”
Dearborn: ”Of course your subconscious can always play tricks on you. The subconscious is a very powerful thing.”
”The lucid dream is worth the risk: The dream of peace, the dream of achievement, the dream of hearing someone say these words...” (1:49)
David: "It’s a nightmare." (1:53)
David tells Edmund from Tech Support, "You sold me the Lucid Dream."
”When did the Lucid Dream begin?”
Edmund: ”The end of your real life and the beginning of LE’s Lucid Dream... while frozen and dreaming... Your Lucid Dream is monitored by Life Extension.”
David: ”I’m not a big fan of heights.”
Edmund: ”We erased what really happened from your memory.”
”... you sculpted your Lucid Dream out of the iconography of your youth...”
Clip from To Kill a Mockingbird
Clip from Jules and Jim
Referring to Sofia: ”In your Lucid Dream she was your savior..”
"The morning after the nightclub, you woke up on that street hungover and alone." (1:55)
David’s pills spilled from prescription bottles. He swallows a handful.
Edmund: ”Your friend Brian Shelby threw a three-day memorial in your old home... ”
"It was Sofia who never fully recovered."
”Your subconscious did create problems. Your dream turned into a nightmare.”
”... you’re about to return to your Lucid Dream. You won’t remember any of this... You can return to your Lucid Dream...”
”Yes, to face your last remaining fear of heights.”
David: ”I don’t want to dream any longer.” (1:59)