Vanilla Sky is an American science fiction thriller 2001 thriller directed, written and produced jointly by Cameron Crowe. This is an English adaptation of Alejandro AmenÃÆ'¡bar's 1997 Spanish film Open Your Eyes , written by AmenÃÆ'¡bar and Mateo Gil, with PenÃÆ' Â © lope Cruz repeating his role from the original film. The film is described as "a strange mixture of science fiction, romance, and reality".
Vanilla Sky starring Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, and Cameron Diaz with Jason Lee and Kurt Russell appearing in supporting roles. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song, as well as Screen Actors Guild and a Golden Globe Award nomination for Cameron Diaz appearance. Vanilla Sky was released on Blu-ray on June 30, 2015 in North America.
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Plot
From a prison cell where he was accused of murder, David Aames (Tom Cruise), with a prosthetic mask, told his life story to a court psychologist, Dr. Curtis McCabe (Kurt Russell).
In a flashback, David proved to be the rich owner of a major publishing company in New York City who inherited from his father, leaving his regular duties to his father's trusted colleagues. When David enjoyed a bachelor's lifestyle, he was introduced to Sofia Serrano (PenÃÆ'Â © lope Cruz) by his best friend, author Brian Shelby (Jason Lee) at a party. David and Sofia spent the night together talking and falling in love. When former lover David, Julianna "Julie" Gianni (Cameron Diaz), heard Sofia, he tried to kill himself and David in a car accident. Julie died but David survived, his face very ugly, guiding him in a mask to hide his wounds. With no hope of repairing the damage through plastic surgery, David could not cope with the idea of ​​wearing a mask for the rest of his life. One night with Sofia and Brian, David was really drunk and Sofia and Brian left him wallowing on the street outside.
David woke up the next day on the road by Sofia, who apologized for leaving her the night before, and took him home. The two continued to look at each other, and David had improved his face despite being told that it was not possible before. Despite his perfect-looking life, David discovers strangeness, like the brief vision of his distorted face, and a man in the bar (Noah Taylor) who tells him David can control the world and everyone in it, if he wants. One day, when he goes to Sofia's apartment, he finds Julie there; all the previous mementos from Sofia now show Julie's face. Enraged and confused by the alternating looks of Julie and Sophia, David chokes Julie (who is revealed by the shadow of dark hair being Sofia). He was then arrested and placed in a mental institution, discovering his face had returned to a previously broken state.
David finished telling his story to Curtis, who then went on to visit David for more sessions to try to help him recuperate. In one interview, Curtis told David, the staff reported he called "Ellie" in a nightmare and asked who he was. David then saw the nearest TV commercial for "Life Extension", a company specializing in cryonic holds, and realized that he actually called the letters "L" and "E". Under the supervision of Curtis and a police officer, David was taken to the Life Extension office, where Rebecca's salesclerk (Tilda Swinton) explained that they freeze people only after the death point until a cure for their disease is available in the future, keeping their brains active by placing them in a clear dream state. David became anxious and free from Curtis, realizing that he was in his own faulty dream, and asking for technical support.
David finds himself in an empty office lobby, and the man he sees in the bar appears, claiming to be David's technical support from Life Extension, now known as Project Oasis. They climbed into the elevator to the very top of the building, the height that triggered David's heavy acrophobia. The man explained that David had been krionik sleep for 150 years. David had chosen Life Counseling services after struggling with Sofia's breakup and his disability, and after securing the publishing company to his colleagues, began to commit suicide with an overdose; Life Extension preserves her body and, as David directs, puts it into a clear dream starting from a drunken night when Sofia leaves it, under the "vanilla sky" of Monet's painting. However, during his sleep, the dream became very wrong and attempted to incorporate elements from his subconscious, such as replacing Julie for Sofia and creating a father figure in Curtis. When they arrive at the top of the building, the man offers David a choice: whether to be put back into a clear, corrected dream, or return to the real world by taking a leap of faith from the roof that will wake him from his sleep.. David decided to wake up, ignoring Curtis's vision that his subconscious had turned on to get it out of it. David pictured Sofia and Brian to say goodbye to him. Conquering his last fear, David jumps out of the building, his life blinks before his eyes, and goes out before hitting the ground. The female voice instructs him to "open his eyes" (a recurring theme in the movie), and the movie ends with David opening his eyes.
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The 2015 Blu-ray release offers options for watching movies with alternative endings. The end of this alternative greatly expands on the details at the end of the movie. Meanwhile, all lead to the same conclusion, there are additional scenes, alternative taking, and alternative dialogue.
After Rebecca explained the clear dream, David rushed out of the room but did not run to the elevator. He meets McCabe in the restroom trying to convince him that this is all a trick and a deceiver and that his case will be judged. David tells him that he's just in his imagination. Just like in the play piece, "Good Tremor" is played by The Beach Boys, but this version makes it clear that David heard the music and that he chose it; Meanwhile McCabe tried to convince him that there was no music.
At this point, David ran out of the toilets for the elevator as he did on theatrical pieces, but the view in the lobby expanded - David shot at the police officer who fired at him and then surrounded by the SWAT team that McCabe tried to speak, but the SWAT team shot both. They fainted and woke up in the empty lobby where McCabe continued to praise what he believed to be a show while David walked into the elevator with Ventura and told him what happened at the end of his real life.
As soon as they reach the roof, McCabe comes in again and pleads with David not to believe Ventura becomes ever more desperate until he falls to the ground in despair. David's interaction with Sofia was extended when he said that he loved her but could not be satisfied with the dream. He then jumps out of the building and shouts that he wants to wake up as a picture of his life flash in front of his eyes. She woke up in bed and a voice told her "Open your eyes You'll be all right."
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Cast
Production
Development
After the debut of American Spanish film Alejandro AmenÃÆ'¡bar in 1997 Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, Tom Cruise and his production partner Paula Wagner chose the re-creation rights. Hoping to attract the attention of director Cameron Crowe, who previously collaborated with Cruise at Jerry Maguire, Cruise invited Crowe to his home to watch a movie. Cruise has stated:
I was offered a lot of movies to buy and recreate, and I never had it because I felt it was too related to the culture of the place, from any country. But this is a universal story still open, which still feels like it needs another chapter to tell.
The title of the film is a reference to the depiction of the sky in certain paintings by Claude Monet. In addition to the Impetionistic Monet artwork, the tone of the film comes from "By Way of Sorrow" acoustic ballad by Julie Miller and a line from Elvis Presley's initial interview where he says, "I feel lonely, even in crowded rooms."
Filming
The main photography for Vanilla Sky began in late 2000 and lasted for six weeks. On November 12, 2000, filming for the lonely Times Square scene in New York took place in the early hours of the day. Most traffic was blocked around Times Square when the scene was taken. "There is a limit on how long the city will let us lock everything even on Sunday morning when many NYC's going to be slow getting up," said Steadicam operator Larry McConkey. "Several times we trained with Steadicam and Crane including a mockup from an insurmountable guardrail that we had to work on a tow arm around [Cruise] participated in this exercise as well so we shared a clear understanding of what my limitations and requirements were."
Filming took place over six weeks around the New York City area, which included scenes taken at Central Park, Upper West Side, SoHo, and Brooklyn. One of the prominent locations in the area is the Condà © Nast Building that serves as Aames Publishing and David's office. After filming finished in New York, production was moved to Los Angeles, where the rest of the interior shots were completed at Paramount Studios. Crowe deliberately left the shots of the World Trade Center after the September 11, 2001 attacks as a tribute.
Regardless of the distorted reality aspects of the film, the cinematographic style remains grounded for most films. "I do not do anything that is obviously clear, because the story revolves around the main character who does not know whether he is in a state of reality, a dream or a nightmare, so we want to make it a little ambiguous," says cinematographer John Toll. "We want the audience to make the discovery as a [Cruise] character, not in front of it." American Cinematographer magazine wrote a story about Lee Rose's lighting designer on the film.
Music
In addition to the opening sequence featuring the song 'Everything In Its Right Place' by Radiohead and the work selected by Icelandic group Sigur RÃÆ'³s, the musical score for Vanilla Sky was composed by Crowe's then wife, Nancy Wilson, Almost Famous . Wilson spent nine months working on film music, which was done through a vocal collage experiment. "We try to balance the weight of the story with the sweet pop-culture music," Wilson said. "We are making a collage of sounds of all kinds.We channel Brian Wilson for the most part.I record things through the hoses, round the corner, play guitar with cello bows, and with [music editor] Carl Kaller, we try all kinds of weird In scene scenes sex-killing, Cameron even uses Brian Wilson's voice from a mixed session of Pet Sound.
Interpretation
According to Cameron Crowe's comments, there are five different interpretations about the end:
- "Technical support" tells the truth: 150 years have passed since Aames committed suicide and subsequent events form a clear dream.
- The whole movie is a dream, evidenced by a sticker on the Aames car that says "2/30/01" (February 30 does not happen in the Gregorian calendar).
- Events after the accident occurred a dream that occurred when Aames was in a coma.
- The whole movie is a plot of books written by Brian.
- The entire film after the accident was a hallucination caused by medicines administered during the Aames reconstruction operation.
Crowe has noted that the presence of "Vanilla Sky" marks the first clear lucid dream scene (reunion morning after the club scene) - all that follows is a dream.
Release
box office
Vanilla Sky opened at # 1 at the box office in the United States when it was first introduced on December 14, 2001. The opening weekend took a gross of $ 25,015,518 (24.9%). The final gross domestic income was $ 100.61 million while foreign gross income was slightly higher at $ 102.76 million for world gross revenue of $ 203,388,341.
Critical reception
Vanilla Sky holds a 42% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 166 reviews. Metacritic reported, based on 33 reviews, "Mixed" rating of 45 out of 100.
Roger Ebert's printed review of Vanilla Sky was given three of four stars:
Think of all the ways, and Cameron Crowe Vanilla Sky is a meticulous morality. It tells the story of a man who has almost everything, thinks he can have it all, is given the means to have whatever he wants, and loses it because - well, maybe because he has a conscience. Or maybe not. Maybe just because life sucks. Or maybe he just thinks so. This is the kind of movie you do not want to analyze until you see it twice.
Ebert interprets the end as an explanation for our "confusion mechanism", rather than a device that says "we're sure what's really going on."
Film critic Richard Roeper identified the film as the second best film of 2001.
The New York Times at the beginning of Vanilla Sky call "very entertaining, erotic fiction science fiction that brought Mr. Crowe into Steven Spielberg territory", but then he said:
When leaving the real world and beginning to explore life as a waking dream (the most popular theme of the year in Hollywood movies with noble ideas), Vanilla Sky loosens his emotional grip and becomes irregular and abstract if still an interesting meditation on parallel themes. The first is the search for eternal life and eternal youth; the other is the uncontrolled guilt and power of the unconscious mind to undermine the utopian discoveries of science. The atonement of David ultimately consists of his coming to overcome his own death, but the atonement has no conviction.
Salon.com calls Vanilla Sky an "aggressively plotted puzzle image, which grips many of the alleged themes in its raised chest without opening the onion skin layer from view to one of them." Reviews rhetorically ask:
Who would have thought Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? This is a punishing picture, a betrayal of everything that Crowe has proved that he knows how to do right.... But the sad truth is that we can see Crowe taking all the right steps, most steps like Crowe, as he climbs a spectacle that goes beyond courage and ambition and privilege and headed right for arrogance and pretense - and the latter two are attributes that we never thought we should regard as Crowe.
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian and Gareth Von Kallenbach from the Threats Movie publications Vanilla Sky is not good for Open Your Eyes . Bradshaw says Open Your Eyes is "certainly more different from" Vanilla Sky , which he describes as "a highly narcissistic high-concept concept project for star-producer Tom Cruise." Another reviewer extrapolated from the knowledge that Cruise had bought the rights to do a movie version of AmenÃÆ'¡bar. A Village Voice reviewer marks Vanilla Sky as "very honest about being a manifestation of his star's cosmic narcissism."
The Los Angeles Times film critic who calls Cameron Diaz "appeals as a manifestation of crazy sensuality" and The New York Times reviewer said he gave "a very emotional performance". Edward Guthmann of the San Francisco Chronicle also said of the film, "The most impressive is Cameron Diaz, whose fatal stalker is fascinating and frightening." For his performance, Diaz won numerous critics groups, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Critical Choice Film Awards, Saturn Awards, and AFI Awards. PenÃÆ'Ã… © lope Cruz's performance, however, earned him the Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actress (in addition to his role in Punch and Captain Corelli's Mandolin ).
See also
- Simulation of reality in fiction
References
External links
- Eyes and Ears for Vanilla Sky on Cameron Crowe's official website
- Vanilla Sky on IMDb
- Vanilla Sky in AllMovie
- Vanilla Sky in Mojo Box Office
- Vanilla Sky at Rotten Tomatoes
- Vanilla Sky in Metacritic
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