Vanilla Sky
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Vanilla Sky |
| Original title | Vanilla Sky |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 136 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Cameron Crowe |
| script |
Cameron Crowe , Alejandro Amenábar , Mateo Gil |
| production |
Tom Cruise , Paula Wagner , Cameron Crowe |
| music | Nancy Wilson |
| camera | John great |
| cut |
Joe Hutshing , Mark Livolsi |
| occupation | |
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Vanilla Sky is an American film drama by Cameron Crowe from the year 2001 . It is a remake of Alejandro Amenábar's 1997 film Abre los ojos . The film opened in German cinemas on January 24, 2002.
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The narcissistic David Aames is enjoying his enviable life: he owns a publishing empire worth millions, he is popular and sleeps with the blonde, attractive model Julie Gianni. But despite everything, he feels empty inside.
Only when he meets the enchanting Sofia at a party does his happiness seem to be complete and he falls in love with her. His relationship with Julie is a problem and when she reveals her love to him while driving a car, it is the tragic beginning of the end.
Out of jealousy and desperation, she races down with David from a bridge parapet. David survived this car accident seriously injured. Julie, however, dies and with her his perfect world, because after this devastating accident he loses everything: he loses his only love Sofia, his only friend Brian, the ability to use his right arm and his face, which has been disfigured since the accident. Sofia cannot deal with David, who is completely overwhelmed by the new situation and is therefore unbearable, and turns away from him. But one day later everything is different: Sofia declares her love for him, the doctors have found a way to save his face and arm.
Gradually, his life is returning to normal. Until one day he sees Julie again and he no longer knows what is reality and what is fiction . In a panic he supposedly suffocates Julie with a pillow, but realizes that he actually killed Sofia. Shortly afterwards he is arrested by the police. In prison, he meets the psychologist Curtis McCabe, who, at his urging, takes him to the company "Life Extension" (LE), whose advertising has been persecuting him.
In the LE office, David learns the truth from a technician that he is one of their customers and that his body has been kept in cryostasis (frozen) in the company for 150 years. After Sofia rejected him, he signed the contract with LE and then committed suicide by swallowing an overdose of his pain medication. After he died, he was reanimated by LE staff before being frozen and the memory of his suicide erased. Everything that has happened since was part of a dream, the memory of his broken body and Julie's murder due to a technical flaw in the system.
On the roof of the company, he is finally given the choice of continuing his “frozen existence” with an improved program, or ending it and waking up again in the future. For the latter, however, he would have to symbolically die again by throwing himself off the roof. He chose this scenario himself in order to finally overcome his fear of heights, which is a topic several times. After that, it would be thawed, and then finally to live on again in reality. His face can also be restored thanks to technological advances.
David opts for the latter. During his fall, he once again saw his life go by as if in a movie. Just before he hits the ground, the picture turns white and a voice tells him to open his eyes. The last setting is to be openable eye.
Reviews
The film received mixed reviews. The film review portal Rotten Tomatoes gives 42% positive reviews for the film and it has a Metascore of 45 out of 100 at Metacritic .
“The remake of the brilliant Spanish film 'Virtual Nightmare - Open Your Eyes' ('Abre los Ojos') puts too much emphasis on the interpersonal component and neglects the fantastic and the thriller elements. As a result, the film loses its disturbing component and fails due to the adaptation of the far more complex original script. "
Awards
Paul McCartney was nominated for an Oscar in 2002 for the song Vanilla Sky . He was also nominated for the Golden Globe , and Cameron Diaz received another nomination for this award . In 2003 Paul McCartney was nominated for a Grammy Award . Paul McCartney for the song Vanilla Sky and Nancy Wilson and Cameron Diaz aka Julianna Gianni for the song I Fall Apart were nominated for the Golden Satellite Award in 2002.
Tom Cruise won the Saturn Award in 2002 . The film received four other nominations for the award, including Cameron Diaz and Best Science Fiction Film . Cameron Diaz won the Boston Society of Film Critics Award in 2001 and the Chicago Film Critics Association Award in 2002, and was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award in 2002.
In 2002 Penélope Cruz received a nomination for the negative award Golden Raspberry .
Trivia
Vanilla Sky received moderate reviews. Even so, he grossed over $ 100 million in the United States alone.
The title of the film is derived from the "vanilla-colored sky" in the painting The Seine near Argenteuil (1873) by the French painter Claude Monet . This allusion is explicitly taken up in the film. Also, the working title of Cameron Crowe's film and rock 'n' roll ode Almost Famous was also Vanilla Sky.
Steven Spielberg , who was preparing his own film Minority Report at the time , has a cameo appearance in the film's party scene . Cameron Crowe and Cameron Diaz had a brief appearance in the film Minority Report, which Tom Cruise began filming as soon as Vanilla Sky was completed .
British rapper Scarlxrd used the car scene in a sample for his song 'Heart Attack'.
As in the original, Penélope Cruz plays the role of Sofia Serrano.
dramaturgy
The film tells its plot through the dramatic means of unreliable narration . The real world and the imagined world are not narrated clearly separated from each other; the viewer must actively try to identify the narrated real world through - sometimes deliberately misdirected - conclusions.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack includes songs by Peter Gabriel , Radiohead , REM , Sigur Rós , The Chemical Brothers . Paul McCartney composed a song of the same name for Vanilla Sky. Even Nancy Wilson contributed a song. The song "I Fall Apart" by Cameron Diaz is published under Julianna Gianni , her role in the film.
Web links
- Vanilla Sky in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Vanilla Sky atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vanilla Sky at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- ↑ Vanilla Sky at Metacritic (English)
- ^ Vanilla Sky (2001). Box Office Mojo . Retrieved March 24, 2012 .