Waking Life

Titolo originale: Waking Life
Regia: Richard Linklater |
Anno: 2001
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Animazione Dramma Fantasy
Tag: dreams | philosophy | parallel world | existence | adult animation |
Cast: Ethan Hawke | Julie Delpy | Wiley Wiggins | Bill Wise | Alex E. Jones | Steven Soderbergh | Ken Webster | Charles Gunning | Lorelei Linklater | Trevor Jack Brooks | Glover Gill | Lara Hicks | Ames Asbell | Leigh Mahoney | Sara Nelson | Jeanine Attaway | Erik Grostick | Robert C. Solomon | Kim Krizan | Eamonn Healy | J.C. Shakespeare | David Sosa | Otto Hofmann | Aklilu Gebrewold | Carol Dawson | Lisa Moore | Steve Fitch | Louis Mackey | Alex Nixon | Kelly Rebecca Nichols | Steven Prince | Mary McBay | Kregg A. Foote | Jason T. Hodge | Guy Forsyth | John Christensen | Caveh Zahedi | David Jewell | Adam Goldberg | Nicky Katt | Jason Liebrecht | Brent Green | RC Whittaker | Hymie Samuelson | David Martinez | Ryan Power | Tiana Hux | Timothy "Speed" Levitch | Steve Brudniak | Marta Banda | Charles Murdock | Mona Lee Fultz | Edith Mannix | Bess Cox | Louis Black | Richard Linklater | Kierstin Cunnington |

Waking life tratta la storia di un ragazzo che non riesce più a svegliarsi dallo stato di sogno. L'intero film, dunque, è un susseguirsi di sogni fatti dal protagonista, inizialmente ignaro di sognare con dialoghi di carattere principalmente filosofico. La pellicola inizia : "Il sogno è il destino". Il protagonista sale su di un taxi a forma di barca, dove incontra un autista che gli spiega che nella vita ognuno ha una scatola di colori e occorre utilizzarli sul foglio e, se capita, fuori dai bordi. Successivamente viene investito e, risvegliandosi, entra in un altro sogno. Sogna di andare all'università ed ascoltare il discorso di un professore intorno all'esistenzialismo e al pensiero di Sartre.

Approfondimenti

The pinball machine in the last scene is a Bally Fireball from 1971. In the film, the brand name "Ba [...] D
Some of the names of candy bars in a store toward the film's end were changed in animation. Hershey' [...] D
The title of the film comes from a line in Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "Dreams," which reads, "...were b [...] D
A section of a Hubert Selby (author of Requiem for a Dream, Last Exit to Brooklyn) book entitled The [...] D
This film was shot primarily in Austin, Texas. D
The shot of the building immediately before the Julie Delpy/Ethan Hawke scene is actually a portion [...] D
This was the first digitally rotoscoped animated feature film. D
Several scenes (e.g., the automobile with the loudspeakers on top) are similar to those in Slacker ( [...] D
Another clip from the Monkey's lecture film shows Kurt Cobain in concert spinning his guitar over hi [...] D
The pinball machine that Richard Linklater plays at the end of the movie is the same one that Kevin [...] D
The film described in the story that Steven Soderbergh tells about Louis Malle and Billy Wilder is L [...] D
The film was based on real reports of LSD trips. D
The location where Boat Car Guy drops off Main Character is the same location where the taxi driver [...] D
It took up to 250 hours to make one minute of animation. D
The poem quoted by Timothy Levitch on the bridge is "Sleepless City (Brooklyn Bridge Nocturne)" by F [...] D
When the main character gets off the train at the beginning of the movie, the name of the railroad s [...] D
The film is included on Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list. D
When this movie was released in theaters it was preceded by the controversial music video "Pagan Poe [...] D
The story told by Steven Prince at the bar about shooting a tire thief was also told by him in Marti [...] D
During the lecture by the monkey, a clip from Akira Kurosawa's Sogni (1990) is shown of a man runnin [...] D
The subway scene took Wiley Wiggins 2 months to animate. The character in the scene had to be redraw [...] D
A man is seen wearing a "Slacker" t-shirt. Slacker (1990) was director Richard Linklater's second fi [...] D
The final scene took Bob Sabiston 3 weeks to complete. One of the reasons for this is that all of th [...] D
Shot entirely on video cameras, mostly handheld, then rotoscope-animated on Mac G4 computers and lat [...] D
The Philip K. Dick essay being discussed is "How to Build a Universe that Doesn't Fall Apart Two Day [...] D
The whole film was shot and edited into a complete live-action version before animation began. D
The basic plot of the film is based on a physiological phenomenon known as "lucid dreaming". Lucid d [...] D
The entire film was animated at 12 frames per second. The only portion that is truly 24 frames per s [...] D
The movie took 3 weeks to shoot and another 3 weeks to edit using Final Cut Pro. It also took 15 mon [...] D
Dismissed in a Jonathon Ross review as "young people indulging themselves". D
Shooting took 22 days, using a PC1 and TVR900 Sony consumer-level cameras. D
The man in the car shouting through the loudspeaker is Alex Jones who has a public television and ra [...] D