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Waking Life
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Waking Life is a 2001 semi-animated film by Richard Linklater. The plot follows a young man walking through a lucid dream where he observes and enters into dialogue about lofty philosophical concepts and theories. The film itself was initially shot on digital video, and then drawn over by a team of animators. The resulting look is fairly unique, and manages to evoke dream-like imagery on a shoestring budget.Despite lacking a traditional plot, visuals, or even trained actorsnote excluding Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Wiley Wiggins..., the film won a great deal of praise for its innovation and unique look. Roger Ebert added it to his list of Great Movies in 2009. | |
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Creator Cameo | |
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Creator Cameo: Linklater, twice. Lampshaded by The Dreamer. | |
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Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate | |
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Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate: One of the topics covered. When David Sosa brings up quantum mechanics, and how particles seem random, he proclaims, "Should our freedom just be a matter of probabilities, just some random swerving in a chaotic system? That just seems like it's worse. I'd rather be a gear in a big deterministic, physical machine than just some random swerving!" | |
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Dead All Along | |
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Dead All Along: One interpretation, but by no means the only one. The Dreamer frets about it near the end, telling his fears to the pinball playing man. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy play their characters from Before Sunrise and Before Sunset in one scene, also written and directed by Linklater. As mentioned above, Alex Jones, the fringe political radio host, basically plays himself for one scene. Two Creator Cameos; Linklater is the other hitcher on the boatship at the beginning and the pinball player that speaks with the main character near the end. The woman who talks about her life in the past tense played Wiggins' mother in Dazed and Confused. Steven Prince appears as the man with the gun talking to the bartender, best known for his associate with Martin Scorsese, and whose stories were "borrowed" by Quentin Tarantino for scenes in Pulp Fiction. | |
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Ambiguously Brown | |
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Ambiguously Brown: The Dreamer, played by Wiggins. | |
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Speech-Centric Work | |
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Speech-Centric Work: Various characters talking - indeed, in some cases ranting - for the duration of the running time. That's it. | |
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Seinfeldian Conversation | |
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Seinfeldian Conversation: Averted with great prejudice. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The beginning and end of the movie take place at the same house and the same car. Only in the end, the Dreamer is unable to hold onto the car door. | |
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You Look Familiar | |
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You Look Familiar: In-universe. Everyone from the first scene (in the "Boat Car") reappear again as different characters. | |
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Theseus' Ship Paradox | |
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Theseus' Ship Paradox: One segment with two women taking about being in their fifties, and that how people have to make up stories about who they were when they were younger. They note that the human body is constantly regenerating cells, so they're both completely new people several times over since they were infants. | |
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Author Appeal | |
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Author Appeal: Richard Linklater is very passionate about philosophy. He's also admitted that his lucid dreaming played a part in the writing. His last scene has him discussing Philip K. Dick's Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said. He went on to adapt Dick's A Scanner Darkly, using the same rotoscoped animation. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: "Dream is destiny." | |
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Armor-Piercing Question | |
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Armor-Piercing Question: | |
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Nameless Narrative | |
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Nameless Narrative: Nobody in the film has a name, and everything is so random that you can't even give most of the people a nickname. The credits have to use pictures of the characters for identifying the actors. It's even a minor plot point that the main character can't remember his name (which is also pretty hard to do in your real dreams). Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The main character is called "The Dreamer." Steven Soderbergh plays himself and is listed as such in the credits. | |
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Contemplate Our Navels | |
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Contemplate Our Navels: Pretty much the whole point. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: One character says that to say "yes" to one instant is to say "yes" to eternity. According to the pinball player, saying "yes" is death. | |
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Stealth Parody | |
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Stealth Parody: Possibly used against Alex Jones. While he is yelling one of his monologues over a car loudspeaker, the animation slowly increases his skin hue to brighter, darker shades of red. This could just be a simple exaggeration used in many pieces of animation, or a reference to the imprisoned psychopath who is shown in the same way earlier in the movie. However, it may just be because he is behind a windshield which has a severe glare; only the general features of Jones could be seen in the original Mini-DV video. | |
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face | |
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: Steven Prince accidentally shoots the bartender to see if his gun's still loaded, complete with Written Sound Effect. The bartender gets him back. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: All of the place. You go from Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in bed dreamily discussing reincarnation to a red-bodied prisoner screaming about revenge to David Sosa calmly discussing free will to Alex Jones yelling about corporate slavery through a car bullhorn, for instance. | |
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Red Eyes, Take Warning | |
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Red Body Take Warning: The prisoner's entire body is red, an external representation of his rage. | |
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Rotoscoping | |
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Rotoscoping: How the style was created. Mini DV footage was shot and a team of animators animated over it to give the feeling that you're dreaming along with the protagonist. | |
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Transhuman Aliens | |
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Transhuman Alien: Implied by the Creepy Monotone speaker. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: Much of the film, though one scene in particular is notable. The protagonist is discussing a woman's plan for a "real-life" soap opera when he realizes he's dreaming again. He then asks her what it's like being a dream, inflicting this on the woman (her dialogue becomes much less composed). She still challenges The Dreamer: Then, when he says that he'd been passive (in the first half of the movie), just listening to other characters orate: | |
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Cloudcuckoolander | |
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Cloudcuckoolander: The old man on the telephone pole. Deconstructed by a group of characters who muse they're no better than the old man: Speed Levitch isn't acting in the film - he's as off-kilter in person as in the film. In fact, several hours were shot of Speed's rambling, and edited to make sense. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The prisoner fantasizes about this in very violent detail. | |
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Dream Within a Dream | |
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Dream Within a Dream: The entire film. | |
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The Dead Can Dance | |
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The Dead Can Dance: The waltzers near the end of the film seem to be engaged in a danse macabre. | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The main character is called "The Dreamer." | |
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The Singularity | |
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The Singularity: Early in the film, the protagonist listens to a man give a lengthy rant on this topic. | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
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Despair Event Horizon: When The Dreamer wakes up from a dream to find himself in another dream once too often, he despairs and starts to think he's already dead. | |
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Empathic Environment | |
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Empathic Environment: As The Dreamer grows depressed, and the subject starts to broach the subject of death, the world similarly becomes darker and more forboding, as the soundtrack starts to become more dissonant and threatening. | |
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Creepy Monotone | |
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Creepy Monotone: "I remember where I came from and how I became a human. Why I hung around. And now my final departure is scheduled. This way out. Escaping velocity. Not just eternity, but infinity." | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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All Just a Dream: Inverted. It's the point of the plot, not a plot point. Played with by Speed Levitch: | |
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