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eXistenZ

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eXistenZ	type	TVTItem
eXistenZ	label	eXistenZ
eXistenZ	page	EXistenZ
eXistenZ	comment	eXistenZ is a 1999 David Cronenberg film starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm, Callum Keith Rennie, Don McKellar, and Christopher Eccleston that combines Body Horror with Mind Screw and Existential Horror. When you allow the Platonic Cave to mess with your emotional and mental state, how do you know who your friends really are? How do you know right from wrong, and whether you believe it...or just your character? What is real?It is described by some as the Canadian version of The Matrix, but it involves more Mind Screw and less leather-clad ass-kicking.
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eXistenZ	processingComment	Dropped link to LivingBattery: Not a Feature - ITEM
eXistenZ	processingComment	Dropped link to Scanners: Not a Feature - ITEM
eXistenZ	processingComment	Dropped link to TheThreeStigmataOfPalmerEldritch: Not a Feature - ITEM
eXistenZ	isPartOf	DBTropes
eXistenZ / int_12c65d9b	type	Abnormal Ammo
eXistenZ / int_12c65d9b	comment	Abnormal Ammo: One of the weapons featured in the movie is a bone gun that fires human teeth—using chunks of jawbone as magazines. It's been called Cronenberg's entire career summed up in a single prop.
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eXistenZ / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
eXistenZ / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The organic game pods are strangely phallic, and plug into a port on a person's lower back. After said ports are lubricated with saliva. The pods then must be touched like controllers, and the way the characters do this looks oddly erotic. Also, the controllers have nipples on them. Also, the whole theme of people fanatically trying to murder an artist is deliberately evocative of the life of Salman Rushdie, who is friends with Cronenberg. It's quite likely that the character of Allegra Geller (and later, Yevgeny Nourish) is a stand-in for Rushdie. The word "fatwa" is even used explicitly.
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eXistenZ / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
eXistenZ / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The most iconic object from the film, the pistol made out of bones and teeth, is not named in the film. Background material reveals it's actually called the "gristle gun."
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eXistenZ / int_1871eaca	type	Strangely Arousing
eXistenZ / int_1871eaca	comment	Strangely Arousing: The two main characters are in an advanced form of video game where their characters suddenly feel aroused and start making out; at first they are confused, but quickly figure out that the game's script calls for their characters to start a love affair, so they just go with it to advance the plot, all the while talking on a meta-level about the significance of the whole thing and their situation.
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eXistenZ / int_21d1512f	type	Reality Bleed
eXistenZ / int_21d1512f	comment	Reality Bleed: They call this a "reality bleed-through effect."
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eXistenZ / int_233647f6	type	Post-Cyberpunk
eXistenZ / int_233647f6	comment	Post Cyber Punk: One of the major undercurrents of the film is that, just like horror films and video games, although the game world is unreal, bizarre, and often gross, it's not really dangerous to anyone in the real world beyond the fiction, and censoring it is a bad idea; the real danger is ideological extremism.
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eXistenZ / int_275ca6e1	type	Ass Pull
eXistenZ / int_275ca6e1	comment	Ass Pull: invoked invoked In the climax, the male protagonist is suddenly revealed as another secret agent who was sent to kill his female partner all along, even though this contradicts most of what's been shown of the character. A rare case where it's justified, since it's soon revealed to be part of another layer of the VR game, and the programmed plot twists (extracted from the players' minds) were becoming increasingly random. invoked In the epilogue: After it turns out that eXistenZ doesn't exist and the whole movie actually was another VR game called "transCendenZ" that was being play-tested, Allegra and Pikul both act exactly like the rest of the fanatics that have appeared so far in the film, yank out pistols that they concealed beneath a flap of fake fur on the dog they brought with them, and blow away the transCendenZ developers. This is so out of left field and shocking In-Universe that an onlooker (as the film's final words) nervously asks them if the game is still going on.
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eXistenZ / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
eXistenZ / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: "Isten" (the word in between the "X" and the "Z") is Hungarian for "God." Deus ex Machina (of a sort), anyone? Robert Lantos, one of the film's producers, is Hungarian. It was probably a deliberate joke for him. transCendenZ: "trans" is 'beyond' in Latin and "enden" is 'to come to an end' in German. The later is hardly a bilingual, since the word "transcend" is already a portmanteau of two Latin words ("trans" + "scanners," meaning "to go beyond"). At best, the Xtreme Kool Letterz put emphasis on the letters "end."
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eXistenZ / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
eXistenZ / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: XE-60 is just a few letters and digits from WD-40.
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eXistenZ / int_2bde52a3	type	Fantastic Firearms
eXistenZ / int_2bde52a3	comment	Fantastic Firearms: The protagonist Pikul jerry-rigs an organitek "gristle-gun" out of the remains of his lunch (some kind of bioengineered giant frog). It uses jawbones as a magazine and fires the teeth.
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eXistenZ / int_2e5def99	type	Disobey This Message
eXistenZ / int_2e5def99	comment	Disobey This Message: Played much more intelligently than most applications of this trope, in a sort of Brechtian sense. The final scene of the movie essentially acknowledges that the whole thing is a work of fiction, and not objective truth. The real point of the film, much like Videodrome, is that we shouldn't blindly accept any messages.
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eXistenZ / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
eXistenZ / int_35022c20	comment	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup:
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eXistenZ / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
eXistenZ / int_352151a3	comment	Recursive Reality: This is the central point of the film - the protagonists are confused about how many levels of virtual reality Game Within A Game there are, and what they're supposed to do to win. And in the end, they still aren't sure if they're still in the game or not.
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eXistenZ / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
eXistenZ / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Allegra comments that Robert Silverman's Irish accent is not very convincing, and that he's a generally bland character. This is in contrast to the excitable nutjobs he usually plays in Cronenberg's films. More obviously, you can hear Jude Law's accent crack when he shouts.
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eXistenZ / int_39eb5a6e	type	Sex Starts, Story Stops
eXistenZ / int_39eb5a6e	comment	Sex Starts, Story Stops: Lampshaded. The two main characters suddenly start making out for no apparent reason. Allegra tells Pikul to just go with it, as it's just a scene written into the program in order to increase the emotional intensity between them. At the end it's revealed that the two were actually in a relationship to begin with, although that might have been a cover story. And they might still be in the game.
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eXistenZ / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
eXistenZ / int_469e3e2f	comment	invoked In the epilogue: After it turns out that eXistenZ doesn't exist and the whole movie actually was another VR game called "transCendenZ" that was being play-tested, Allegra and Pikul both act exactly like the rest of the fanatics that have appeared so far in the film, yank out pistols that they concealed beneath a flap of fake fur on the dog they brought with them, and blow away the transCendenZ developers. This is so out of left field and shocking In-Universe that an onlooker (as the film's final words) nervously asks them if the game is still going on.
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eXistenZ / int_48d39b24	type	Ballistic Bone
eXistenZ / int_48d39b24	comment	Ballistic Bone: There's a tooth-firing bio-gun.
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eXistenZ / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
eXistenZ / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: Christopher Eccleston's character.
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eXistenZ / int_504e271f	type	But Thou Must!
eXistenZ / int_504e271f	comment	But Thou Must!: Lampshaded a few times, where the characters play a virtual reality game. During the dinner scene where Pikul finds a bone gun in his dish. During a sex scene.
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eXistenZ / int_56725578	type	Driving a Desk
eXistenZ / int_56725578	comment	Driving a Desk: Used deliberately.
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eXistenZ / int_5874eb12	type	Organic Technology
eXistenZ / int_5874eb12	comment	Organic Technology: eXistenZ runs off of little flesh computers that plug into ports in your spine. Interestingly, transCendenZ, unlike eXistenZ, runs off of conventional electronics. The gristle gun, built out of bones and teeth, also works like this. Pikul assembles one out of his lunch special and a tooth bridge from his mouth.
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eXistenZ / int_68069489	type	Nipple and Dimed
eXistenZ / int_68069489	comment	Nipple and Dimed: Done with video game interfaces.
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eXistenZ / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
eXistenZ / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Darkly parodied. People are willing to kill each other over a video game. But, as Cronenberg's friend Salman Rushdie could tell you, that's not so far off from the truth...
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eXistenZ / int_6fd268f0	type	Win to Exit
eXistenZ / int_6fd268f0	comment	Win to Exit: Almost all of the film actually takes place in a virtual reality gameworld with assassins stalking the main characters. It's only after the heroine exposes her partner as an operative who was sent to kill her all along and kills him instead that the game slowly unravels and she wakes up for real.
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eXistenZ / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
eXistenZ / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: The overarching plotline of a Realist hunt for Allegra's head was inspired by the controversy surrounding British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, which saw violent outcry from conservative Muslims for perceived blasphemous content and resulted in Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini issuing a fatwa calling for Rushdie's murder, still in effect to this daynote though the Iranian government has repeatedly flip-flopped on their support of the fatwa since 1998, they refuse to outright annul it on the basis that a fatwa can only be rescinded by the person who first ordered it— Khomeini died just over three months after his declaration. Director David Cronenberg decided to use the fatwa as the main basis for the film after interviewing Rushdie in 1995, and directly alluded to his inspiration in the script with Vinokur outright calling the bounty on Allegra a fatwa.
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eXistenZ / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
eXistenZ / int_7a12aabf	comment	New Media Are Evil: There's a whole cult which regards eXistenZ, a new virtual reality gaming platform made from Organic Technology, as evil incarnate and its inventor Allegra Gellar as a demoness who must be killed to prevent the game's dissemination. After it's revealed that most of the movie was itself a virtual game called tranCendenZ, it turns out that the two protagonists were members of such a group, with their emotions seeping into the plotline of the game.
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eXistenZ / int_7c4f6612	type	Comic-Book Adaptation
eXistenZ / int_7c4f6612	comment	Comic-Book Adaptation: Adapted as a graphic novel.
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eXistenZ / int_821839ea	type	Hollywood Game Design
eXistenZ / int_821839ea	comment	Hollywood Game Design: The film depicts Allegra Geller as the world's premiere game designer of the eponymous game. Aside from egregious playing straight of No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup, none of her associates even seem to have the slightest idea what eXistenZ is actually about. Justified, as none of the people playing transCendenZ are professional game designers.
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eXistenZ / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
eXistenZ / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Gas works at Country Gas Station. Within the game, workers at Trout Farm eat lunch at Chinese Restaurant.
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eXistenZ / int_8d9c8569	type	Deep-Immersion Gaming
eXistenZ / int_8d9c8569	comment	Deep-Immersion Gaming: The virtual reality game has so many layers that the characters are never quite sure if they're back in reality or not.
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eXistenZ / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
eXistenZ / int_8db4988a	comment	Unusual User Interface: Organic game pods that plug into bio-ports.
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eXistenZ / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
eXistenZ / int_90c018ac	comment	invoked In the climax, the male protagonist is suddenly revealed as another secret agent who was sent to kill his female partner all along, even though this contradicts most of what's been shown of the character. A rare case where it's justified, since it's soon revealed to be part of another layer of the VR game, and the programmed plot twists (extracted from the players' minds) were becoming increasingly random.
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eXistenZ / int_9637893b	type	Schrödinger's Butterfly
eXistenZ / int_9637893b	comment	Schrödinger's Butterfly: How many levels of this virtual reality are there? And how do you know when you're in real life?
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eXistenZ / int_96f6335d	type	Bodyguard Crush
eXistenZ / int_96f6335d	comment	Bodyguard Crush: Very subtly, the use of this trope is one of the first clues that the movie started inside a game.
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eXistenZ / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
eXistenZ / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The fact that the entire film takes place within the game is hinted at by the first assassin pulling out a gristle gun, Allegra telling Ted that they need to pull over to have an intimate moment like it's game script that their characters need to act out to grow closer, the gas station attendant's name being simply Gas, and Ted saying that "reality" still feels like a game after he and Allegra exit the "game" for the first time. The DVD Commentary points out that one particular scene early on where Allegra and Pikul are at the County Gas Station makes absolutely no sense on its own. The scene in question is when we see Allegra outside the gas station while Pikul and Gas are inside, kicking at the dust and looking at the general area with something close to wonder and then reacting to a strange two-headed lizard. According to the commentary, Allegra is in fact admiring the detail of the transCendenZ game-world and the scene was included for the sole purpose of foreshadowing the reveal that the characters are inside a game the entire time.
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eXistenZ / int_9d3b4703	type	This Is Reality
eXistenZ / int_9d3b4703	comment	This Is Reality: Inverted in the movie, which has several 'nested' realities thanks to people playing a virtual reality game that uses all of one's senses. Hence, the characters might be playing the game, then in the game start playing the game, then in that game start playing the game to further something in the 'earlier' level of the game. The Reveal of the final scene of the movie takes place in a level above where it started — less than five minutes out of a hundred — and things are still so confusing that the shock causes one minor character to comment, "Hey, tell me the truth. Are we still in the game?" No answer. Fade to Black.
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eXistenZ / int_af6eda3d	type	Prelap
eXistenZ / int_af6eda3d	comment	Prelap: When the scene jumps from the forced make-out to Trout Farm, breathy make-out sounds continue as a dead amphibian dangles from Pikul's hand.
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eXistenZ / int_afd181c7	type	Xtreme Kool Letterz
eXistenZ / int_afd181c7	comment	Xtreme Kool Letterz: The title uses some interesting spelling.
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eXistenZ / int_afd71b8a	type	Inside a Computer System
eXistenZ / int_afd71b8a	comment	Inside a Computer System: The film centers around a virtual reality gaming system that people enter, and in some cases you can't tell whether they're in a game or in reality.
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eXistenZ / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
eXistenZ / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: "Pikul" is a rather distinctive surname, contrasting with the rest of characters.
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eXistenZ / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
eXistenZ / int_ba236071	comment	It Makes Sense in Context: The movie is so weird that several scenes would make no sense whatsoever to an uninformed viewer who started watching them out-of-context for the first time. Even if the viewer were to carefully watch the whole movie uninterrupted, all the events would barely follow a loose dreamlike internal logic, that is until the ending, which explains most of the weird stuff seen throughout the movie but raises new questions.
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eXistenZ / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
eXistenZ / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: The film is Philip K. Dick-like in the mind screw department. It features a VR game within a VR game within a VR game within a VR game, the characters openly question whether they're still in the game at every level (and for bonus points, compare real-life to VR), switch allegiances multiple times, and reference things that happened at other levels.
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eXistenZ / int_c00484eb	type	Accent Relapse
eXistenZ / int_c00484eb	comment	Accent Relapse: Everybody.
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eXistenZ / int_c45237fb	type	Dialogue Tree
eXistenZ / int_c45237fb	comment	Dialogue Tree: Made to look as awkward as they actually would in real life. Until you give a correct response, game characters just repeat the same fidgety actions. Rather than selecting the response text from a menu, player characters just "know" what the right options are.
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eXistenZ / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
eXistenZ / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch: the takeout Allegra and Ted eat early in the film is called "Perky Pat's." One of the eXistenZ games on the shelf is Hit By a Car, which is a reference to Cronenberg's previous film Crash.
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eXistenZ / int_ca39433f	type	The Game Never Stopped
eXistenZ / int_ca39433f	comment	The Game Never Stopped: Played with several times, with characters not knowing if they are still in the game. Including in the ending.
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eXistenZ / int_ca39433f	featureConfidence	1.0
eXistenZ	hasFeature	eXistenZ / int_ca39433f
eXistenZ / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
eXistenZ / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: In-Universe. After Pikul assembles a new Gristle Gun from his unusual food, he jokingly points the weapon at Allegra and repeats the line used by an assassin who previously tried to kill her. She's not amused, and he apologizes.
eXistenZ / int_cdd835ce	featureApplicability	1.0
eXistenZ / int_cdd835ce	featureConfidence	1.0
eXistenZ	hasFeature	eXistenZ / int_cdd835ce
eXistenZ / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
eXistenZ / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Willem Dafoe plays a gas station attendant, simply called "Gas."
eXistenZ / int_d7b34c31	featureApplicability	1.0
eXistenZ / int_d7b34c31	featureConfidence	1.0
eXistenZ	hasFeature	eXistenZ / int_d7b34c31
eXistenZ / int_da15842d	type	Brain/Computer Interface
eXistenZ / int_da15842d	comment	Brain/Computer Interface: There are biological computers which interface with you through plugging a very phallic tentacle into a port in the base of your spine. The movie plays this for all it's worth, even having characters lick the ports of other characters during sex scenes.
eXistenZ / int_da15842d	featureApplicability	1.0
eXistenZ / int_da15842d	featureConfidence	1.0
eXistenZ	hasFeature	eXistenZ / int_da15842d
eXistenZ / int_df24d8fa	type	Platonic Cave
eXistenZ / int_df24d8fa	comment	Platonic Cave: Subverted: transCendenZ is just as fake as eXistenZ. Maybe.
eXistenZ / int_df24d8fa	featureApplicability	-0.3
eXistenZ / int_df24d8fa	featureConfidence	1.0
eXistenZ	hasFeature	eXistenZ / int_df24d8fa
eXistenZ / int_e256a235	type	Creepy Gas-Station Attendant
eXistenZ / int_e256a235	comment	Creepy Gas-Station Attendant: A black marketeer is a gas station owner named... Gas. He tries to kill the main character for the bounty on her head, after installing a faulty bio-port in her companion. He's also Willem Dafoe, in a cameo. When the whole movie turns out to be All Just a Videogame, the guy who played Gas bemoans his part in the game as clichéd.
eXistenZ / int_e256a235	featureApplicability	1.0
eXistenZ / int_e256a235	featureConfidence	1.0
eXistenZ	hasFeature	eXistenZ / int_e256a235
eXistenZ / int_e70127	type	The Mole
eXistenZ / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Oh, just about everybody.
eXistenZ / int_e70127	featureApplicability	1.0
eXistenZ / int_e70127	featureConfidence	1.0
eXistenZ	hasFeature	eXistenZ / int_e70127
eXistenZ / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
eXistenZ / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: And possibly a Dream Within a Dream. Within A Dream.
eXistenZ / int_ea85d6ea	featureApplicability	1.0
eXistenZ / int_ea85d6ea	featureConfidence	1.0
eXistenZ	hasFeature	eXistenZ / int_ea85d6ea
eXistenZ / int_f4ade120	type	Scaramanga Special
eXistenZ / int_f4ade120	comment	Scaramanga Special: The pistol made of bones from the Chinese Restaurant meal, which happened to literally be the Special of the Day.
eXistenZ / int_f4ade120	featureApplicability	1.0
eXistenZ / int_f4ade120	featureConfidence	1.0
eXistenZ	hasFeature	eXistenZ / int_f4ade120
eXistenZ / int_ff9e9596	type	DVD Commentary
eXistenZ / int_ff9e9596	comment	The DVD Commentary points out that one particular scene early on where Allegra and Pikul are at the County Gas Station makes absolutely no sense on its own. The scene in question is when we see Allegra outside the gas station while Pikul and Gas are inside, kicking at the dust and looking at the general area with something close to wonder and then reacting to a strange two-headed lizard. According to the commentary, Allegra is in fact admiring the detail of the transCendenZ game-world and the scene was included for the sole purpose of foreshadowing the reveal that the characters are inside a game the entire time.
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eXistenZ / int_name	comment
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eXistenZ / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
eXistenZ	hasFeature	eXistenZ / int_name
eXistenZ / int_name	itemName	eXistenZ

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Existenz	sameAs	eXistenZ
eXistenZ	sameAs	eXistenZ
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Ballistic Bone / int_42ad7fd4
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Bio Punk / int_42ad7fd4
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Brain/Computer Interface / int_42ad7fd4
eXistenZ	hasFeature	But Thou Must! / int_42ad7fd4
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Canadian Movies / int_42ad7fd4
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Creepy Gas-Station Attendant / int_df74e814
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Deep-Immersion Gaming / int_42ad7fd4
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Dude, Not Funny! / int_42ad7fd4
E Xisten Z	seeAlso	eXistenZ
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Existential Horror / int_42ad7fd4
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Fantastic Firearms / int_42ad7fd4
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Fictional Video Game / int_42ad7fd4
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Films of 1995â€“1999 / int_42ad7fd4
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Inside a Computer System / int_42ad7fd4
JenniferJasonLeigh	seeAlso	eXistenZ
eXistenZ	hasFeature	New Media Are Evil / int_42ad7fd4
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Organic Technology / int_42ad7fd4
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Platonic Cave / int_42ad7fd4
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Prelap / int_42ad7fd4
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Recursive Reality / int_42ad7fd4
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Scaramanga Special / int_42ad7fd4
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Schrödinger's Butterfly / int_42ad7fd4
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Sci-Fi Horror / int_42ad7fd4
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Strangely Arousing / int_42ad7fd4
eXistenZ	hasFeature	The Game Never Stopped / int_42ad7fd4
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Theremin / int_42ad7fd4
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Welcome to Corneria / int_42ad7fd4
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Win to Exit / int_df74e814
eXistenZ	hasFeature	Xtreme Kool Letterz / int_42ad7fd4
existenz	sameAs	eXistenZ

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