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Vanilla Sky

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Vanilla Sky is a 2001 film about a wealthy New York City publishing house heir playboy whose life takes a sudden turn for the bizarre, when he finds his face disfigured and was arrested for murder. But looks can be deceiving. Based on the 1997 Spanish film Abre los ojos.

Directed by Cameron Crowe. Written by Alejandro Amenábar and Mateo Gil (Abre Los Ojos); screenplay by Cameron Crowe.
Open Your Eyes(taglines)

David Aames

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  • Primer on David Aames Senior. My father wasn't built for the 21st century. He never went to McDonald's, not once. He never watched television, and yet... his biggest magazine is still the TV Digest. He and my mother threw the grandest parties of the literary world. Ballooned. Jumped out of airplanes. He sought adventure. His autobiography is the manual... for every cutthroat publisher in New York City.
  • I dug her completely. Some how I'd found the last semi-guy less girl in New York City.
  • Isn’t that what being young is about, believing secretly that you would be the one person in the history of man that would live forever?
  • My dreams are a cruel joke. They taunt me. Even in my dreams, I'm an idiot who knows he's about to wake up to reality. If I could only avoid sleep. But I can't. I try to tell myself what to dream. I try to dream that I am flying. Something free. It never works...
  • That smile's gonna be the end of me.
  • One kiss
  • The little things... there's nothing bigger, is there?
  • Good. Because for a minute there I thought we were talking about A FUCKING MASK!!!
  • I lost you when I got in that car. I'm sorry.
  • I remember. Somebody died. It was me.
  • Look at us. I'm frozen, and you're dead. And I love you.
  • Doc, once you've been driven off a bridge at 80 miles an hour, somehow you don't invite happiness in without a full body search.
  • These? These are more than headaches. These are steel plates slicing through my every thought.
  • I wanna wake up! Tech support! It's a nightmare! Tech support! Tech support!
  • I want to live a real life... I don't want to dream any longer.
  • You're not blind. You're drinking Jack Daniels, and when you drink Jack, you start in with that... Frank Sinatra, she shot me down, give me a cigarette, "King of Sad" thing.
  • A new form of me began to take shape. I planned my reemergence, like the Normandy invasion. (Sofia, Sofia...) I'll just say it - I did my homework. I read every memo. Thomas Tipp was right: People will read again.
  • You keep the relationship casual, until the absolute breaking point. And then one evening or afternoon or morning, it could be months from now. Well, you know how it works
  • I don't care if God calls, I'm very, very busy.
  • I am a pleasure delayer.

Sofía Serrano

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  • I'll tell you in another life when we are both cats.
  • I think she's the saddest girl to ever hold a martini.
  • Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
  • But I just think good things will happen, if you are a good person with a good attitude, don't you think?
  • Holy God. This is going to change my life in a zillion different ways. I must be nuts.
  • I meant that to be your forehead.
  • Come here... I want to tell you a secret.
  • I'll find you again.

Brian Shelby

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  • You can do whatever you want with your life, but one day you'll know what love truly is. It's the sour and the sweet. And I know sour, which allows me to appreciate the sweet.
  • You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy who goes home alone.
  • My own death was in front of me, and you know what happened? Your life flashed before my eyes.
  • Because I am Frank, and Frank must go. I good you bid evening.

Julie Gianni

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  • Don't you know that when you sleep with someone, your body makes a promise whether you do or not!
  • What's happiness to you, David?
  • We had sex four times. Four times! I swallowed your cum, it means something!
  • Happiness to me, is being here with you!

Rebecca Dearborn

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  • Its been a brilliant journey of self-awakening, now you simply have to ask yourself this... What is happiness to you David?
  • Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own. What is any life without the pursuit of a dream?

Dialogue

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Dr. Curtis McCabe: [Interpreting David's dream of driving the ominously deserted streets of Manhattan in the morning and then out bursting in existential torment] Well, I suppose the empty street meant loneliness.
David Ames: You're a shrink. You gotta do better than that.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: I'm a doctor. Let's not stereotype each other. Not all rich kids are soul less and... not all psychologists care about dreams. The question is how you got here and why you've been charged.
David Ames: What do you want to know? I was about to turn 33. I ran three magazines and a world wide publishing house. Most days I fooled myself in to believing it would last forever. Isn't that what being young is about? Believing secretly that you would be... the one person in the history of man... who would live forever.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: Where you going so early?
David Ames: [Driving with Brian] Can't you get rid of that board?
Brian Shelby: The Seven Dwarfs? No.
David Ames: Those people drive you nuts. And that was the desire of my father who hired them.
Brian Shelby: You fucked Julie Gianni again, didn't you? I know someone was there when I called. You had that tone. "No, I got a cold. I'm hanging in tonight, you know."
David Ames: I had a cold. I was alone.
Brian Shelby: Fine. You do what you want with your life.
David Ames: Thanks.
Brian Shelby: But one day you'll know what love truly is. It's the sour and the sweet. I know sour, which allows me to appreciate the sweet.
David Ames: Julie Gianni is a friend. Sometimes we sleep together. What? What? What?
Brian Shelby: My dream girl... Julie Gianni... is your fuck buddy! [Mimics howling of a wounded dog]
David Ames: What do you wanna listen to?
Brian Shelby: Slow down, man.
David Ames: [Starts accelerating] What do we got here? Barcelona, Looper. Radiohead?
Brian Shelby: Look out! Look out! [David slams brakes and slides through intersection stopping narrowly adjacent in front of a dump truck] Fuck! We almost died.
David Ames: I know.
Pedestrians: Use your fuckin' head!
Brian Shelby: My own death was in front of me, and you know what happened? Your life flashed before my eyes.
David Ames: How was it?
Brian Shelby: Almost worth dying for.
Office assistant: David! Okay, they're all waiting for you.
Board Member: You changed your hair.
David Ames: Yes.
Board Member: And David... opinions are expected.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: [Voiceover] Do you dream about the board; the Seven Dwarfs as you call them? Sneezy, Bashful... Sleepy... Happy... Doc... Dopey... and of course, Grumpy.
Board Member: How was Aspen?
David Ames: Good. Now, I want answers and I want them now. How's it going? [Voice of thought] They still look at me as if I was 11 years old.
Office staffer: He's going to inherit everything. He gets it all.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: You're scared of your dreams, aren't you?
David Ames: It's a nightmare either way.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: Is that how you explain what's happened to you?
David Ames: What?
Dr. Curtis McCabe: What happened to your face?
David Ames: I'm not talking to you anymore.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: You don't wanna show me your face?
David Ames: No!
Dr. Curtis McCabe: Do you know why you're here? Conversation, the coffee... David, the part where we parry and just... and get to know each other bit by bit--
David Ames: No. No can do.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: We'll have to skip that because you've been charged with murder. In four weeks, a judge will determine your fate... based on what I write. So you will talk to me.
David Ames: There is no murder. There is no murder! It never happened! I don't have to talk to anybody!
Dr. Curtis McCabe: Want me to help?
David Ames: Get the fuck away from me.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: You take it easy, sunshine. Take it easy, Face.
David Ames: Your whole story's full of holes!
Dr. Curtis McCabe: [To security guard] Stop. Stop! Please leave right now. I'll take responsibility. Please leave right now.
Security guard: [To colleague] He's got control.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: I'm gonna get you, daddy's boy little freak.
David Ames: My parents are dead, you fuck!
Dr. Curtis McCabe: Enough! Is that true?
David Ames: Good cop, bad cop...
Dr. Curtis McCabe: That you're a daddy's boy?
David Ames: [At party in his residence] Hey, Tommy.
Thomas Tipp: No, no, don't blow me off. I'm all packed. I'm going back to London and I understand. You put me up for the other attorney's job so you didn't have to fire me. That's a classy move and your father would have done the same.
David Ames: It's okay, Tommy. I became incompetent. Is there anything more unbecoming than an aging mascot?
Thomas Tipp: I cared for your father. I lived and breathed for him. These guys, the Seven Dwarfs... they think you're stupid... a corporate hazard, a rogue. They are gonna find a way to get you out, David. They're lined up for your office, your life... your position. They're working day and night... to cheat you out of your 51% vote. And they're gonna sell this tradition of words... so they can eat in a better cafeteria. But what they don't know is this; [raises voice and a hand] people will read again! [Party attendees cheer and applaud]
David Ames: I got it.
Thomas Tipp: They even got a nickname for you behind your back. Citizen Dildo. You got great instincts... but I say this with complete love. Claim your life... learn to be an asshole. Two's enough. Forgive me. I still believe in this family, David... even if it's only you.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: Why are you scared of heights? Many people are scared of heights.
David Ames: It's not the height that bothers me. It's the impact that terrifies me.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: I won't stay long.
David Ames: [Greeted by dog at Sofia's residence] Hey, Paolo.
Sofia Serrano: [To David] Hello. [To dog] I have to take you for a walk.
David Ames: I'm glad he protects you. He's a lethal canine.
Sofia Serrano: I love living here, [throws towel to floor in lighthearted humor] and I refuse to clean up!
David Ames: No problem.
Sofia Serrano: I have to work around the clock to keep this place.
David Ames: You really are a dancer.
Sofia Serrano: For 14 years. But I don't dance like you dance. Do you want something to drink?
David Ames: Sure.
Sofia Serrano: Hey, beautiful, beautiful boy. What do you want for dinner tonight? Do you want fried chicken? I like your life.
David Ames: Well, it's mine and you can't have it. [Observing bedside photo] I don't wanna know the story behind this photo. Who's Sergio?
Sofia Serrano: It's a nickname.
David Ames: Your nickname is Sergio?
Sofia Serrano: It's a long story. And we don't know each other.
David Ames: So many secrets.
Sofia Serrano: That's because I'm an arms dealer.
David Ames: I've never known an arms dealer.
Sofia Serrano: You do now. What about you? What's your nickname?
David Ames: Citizen Dildo.
Sofia Serrano: You are not staying over. Never run a company. Stay an artist. Stay an arms dealer.
David Ames: Oh, please.
Sofia Serrano: Somehow I can't play the violin for you. Although, it must be difficult controlling all those people's lives. Everyone at that party is connected to you for survival in some way. It seems. Ever been married? Did you ever accept any of your 12,000 proposals?
David Ames: Twelve thousand and eight.
Sofia Serrano: No.
David Ames: And you moved to New York to dance, paint, act and deal arms?
Sofia Serrano: Right.
Sofia Serrano: [Holds up CD albums] Do you wanna hear Jeff Buckley or Vicki Carr?
David Ames: Jeff Buckley or Vicki Carr? Both simultaneously.
Sofia Serrano: Everyone said, "Don't go to New York." I just think good things will happen... if you're a good person with a good attitude. Don't you think?
David Ames: You think I'm naive?
Sofia Serrano: No. I really don't. I have to get to sleep. Truthfully, I also work mornings as a dental assistant.
David Ames: Boy, am I going to the wrong dentist.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: And you didn't immediately wanna sleep with her?
David Ames: Well, you know, I'm a pleasure delayer.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: How does that work? Pleasure delayer?
David Ames: You don't know? You keep a relationship casual... until the absolute breaking point. And then one evening or afternoon or morning, it could be months from now. You know how it works.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: No, actually I don't. I've been married for 22 years.
David Ames: You've got dinner with your daughters.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: That's right, I do.
David Ames: Back then I had intricate systems with women... you wouldn't believe.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: Like what?
David Ames: Hey, Doc, don't get melancholy over the 30 seconds you were single... a long time ago.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: That's what you think I'm doing?
David Ames: Oh, yes.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: You might be right. Let's continue. Time is not our friend.
David Ames: [He and Sofia are drawing caricatures of each others simultaneously] Just our shortcomings, that's all we're allowed to draw.
Sofia Serrano: I've never drawn such a true likeness before. Mine's finished.
David Ames: Already?
Sofia Serrano: Done. [Shows David his caricature á la Carnival-esque with exaggerated smile and teeth]
Julianna Gianni: [Calls from vehicle] Hey, handsome.
David Ames: You're following me.
Julianna Gianni: Just a little bit. I wanted to finish what we were talking about.
David Ames: And?
Julianna Gianni: How did it go with our moth girl? She turn into a butterfly for you?
David Ames: Yes, she did. She did.
Julianna Gianni: I can tell by the way you were walking you didn't sleep with her. Let me guess. You haven't slept with her because... it's more fun when you can draw it out. Sex just isn't as good if a woman hasn't told her friends... she'd never sleep with you.
David Ames: Right on the money, Julie.
Julianna Gianni: She must be exhausted from trying to be witty for you all night.
David Ames: Hey, Julie. Sorry. It's okay.
Julianna Gianni: You never seem to be there for your friends until they've given up on you.
David Ames: I'm not blowing you off. I just... I wanna be alone for a little bit. Trust me. I have a lot of things I have to take care of. And if we're friends, which we are... okay, then you'll understand that.
Julianna Gianni: I'm sorry. I got weird. I missed an audition and... it just made me feel bad you didn't invite me to your party. You wanna make it up to me? I won't tell a soul. Would you do a story on me if I made a CD?
David Ames: Sure, I would.
Julianna Gianni: Do you like my music?
David Ames: It's vivid.
Julianna Gianni: Well, if I weren't me, I would buy a CD by me. Well, you know, if you can reach one person. Wow. What's happiness to you, David?
David Ames: What's happiness to me?
Julianna Gianni: What is happiness, 'cause for me... this is happiness-- just being with you. There's one thing that bothers me. Why did you tell Brian that I was your... fuck buddy?
David Ames: I didn't tell him that. I didn't say that.
Julianna Gianni: When did you stop caring, David?
David Ames: Caring about what?
Julianna Gianni: About the consequences of the promises that you've made.
David Ames: Promises?
Julianna Gianni: Yeah, the promises.
David Ames: I thought... get the fuck... what are you talking about?
Julianna Gianni: Do you understand how hard it is to pretend to be your buddy? [Jerks forward, covers face with hands and swerves erratically into traffic] David, I love you. I fucking love you! I fucking love you! [Starts accelerating]
David Ames: Fuck! Whoa, whoa, whoa! Don't do this. Don't do this.
Julianna Gianni: You fucked me four times the other night. You've been inside me. I swallowed your cum! That means something.
David Ames: Slow down.
Julianna Gianni: [Veers into oncoming lane] Four times... it means something, David. Four times.
David Ames: Stop the car!
Julianna Gianni: Twenty-four hours a day, I live with this aching possibility... that you might call me to do something. Let's go to your house. I wanna see where you live.
David Ames: Just slow down. I want you to stop the car!
Julianna Gianni: Don't you know when you sleep with someone... your body makes a promise whether you do or not? Tell me something, David. Do you believe in God? [Starts accelerating]
David Ames: What are you doing? Okay, I love you. I love you. Don't do it! [He and Julie start fighting control of steering wheel and she drives off a bridge with vehicle slamming into retaining wall]
Sofia Serrano: You're amazing. Did you get to work all right?
David Ames: No, actually, I had a horrible dream.
Sofia Serrano: You dreamed you'd never see me again.
David Ames: I left your apartment, I went downstairs to the car... and my friend, the stalker, had followed me there.
Sofia Serrano: Yes.
David Ames: And she wanted to talk to me. And I remember I had this buzz, you know... that buzz from you and me. I think my mind was still on that terrible drawing of me. But she was upset... about... I don't know. I got in the car and... she drove off a bridge... and committed suicide with me in the car.
Sofia Serrano: I thought you were going straight to work.
David Ames: But I survived... with my arm and my face... reconstructed. And what's worse... is that I can't wake up.
Sofia Serrano: And how was your house after the party?
David Ames: Party? What party?
Sofia Serrano: The party. Remember? Red dress, strappy shoes. I spilled something on your shirt. Sweet and sour. And the saddest girl to ever hold a martini.
David Ames: My dreams are a cruel joke. They taunt me. Even in my dreams, I'm an idiot... who know she's about to wake up to reality. If I could only avoid sleep. But I can't. I try to tell myself what to dream. I try to dream that I'm flying. Something free. It never works.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: Is that the only thing you dream?
David Ames: I don't-- I don't remember.
David Ames: [Approaches bar wearing his medical mask] Give me a Budweiser and a shot of tequila.
Nightclub bartender: What kind of tequila?
David Ames: What did you say to me?
Nightclub bartender: I said, what kind of tequila?
David Ames: Why don't you ask me to my face, bitch? Patron, if you have it.
Nightclub bartender: [Pours drink] Another shot, another Bud. [Serves David] This is on the house.
David Ames: Why?
Nightclub bartender: It just is... bitch.
[David is knocked fiercely over the head with frying pan. He wakes up later. He is puzzled by the presence of Julie]
David Ames: Who are you?
Julie: I'm Sofia.
David Ames: You are not Sofia.
Julie: I'm Sofia.
David Ames: Whatever.
David Ames: I wasn't hitting on Sofia.
Brian Shelby: Oh, fine. Whatever you say. I'm crazy. I'm blind.
David Ames Ames: You're not blind, you're drinking Jack Daniels, and when you drink Jack you start in with that, "Frank Sinatra, she shot me down, give me a cigarette, King of Sad" thing.
Brian Shelby: That I do. Give me a cigarette.
David Ames: I'll find one.
Brian Shelby: But wait. You're rich and women love you, and I'm from Ohio and I'm drunk. Can I tell you the truth?
David Ames: Everybody does.
Brian Shelby:: I dig her. And I've never said this to you before about any girl, but she could be - could be, could be, could be - the girl of my fucking dreams.
David Ames: You're not from Ohio.
Brian Shelby: I know. But if she fucks up our friendship, she can go to hell. I won't allow it. We are bros.
David Ames: I feel the same way.
Brian Shelby: Sure you do.
David Ames: How 'bout if you help me, unless I'm horning in here.
Sofia Serrano: You are, but the food's good.
David Ames: See, I've got this little problem. I've got a stalker.
Sofia Serrano: It doesn't sound life-threatening.
David Ames: But I need a cover. I need for you to pretend we're having a scintillating conversation, and you are wildly entertained. I know it's tough.
Sofia Serrano: I'll improvise.
David Ames: She's across the room and burning a hole in my back now, isn't she?
Sofia Serrano: Red dress, strappy shoes? Wow. She's really staring at you.
David Ames: Shit.
Sofia Serrano: And she seems to be growing.. less happy. I think she's the saddest girl to ever hold a martini.
Thomas Tipp: Right now I want you to look at these photos, then I'm gonna destroy them. Sofia's testimony is also in here. It won't exist. She's not gonna press charges.
David Ames: Press charges against me?
Thomas Tipp: David, wake up. Now, as a friend... I think you should see what you did to Sofia. The press won't get hold of this if you get away quickly.
David Ames: [Points to photo] Tommy, this is Julie. This is not Sofia. This is Julie Gianni. I didn't do this to her. Tommy, someone's setting me up.
Thomas Tipp: David, the board and I have taken care of everything. Okay, they've been really great, really great, actually. All this is gonna disappear. We're all behind you, even the board. Get out of here. This is a revolution of the mind.
Brian Shelby: [Confronts David] You're in fuckin' sad shape! Don't fucking ever hit a girl. Hit me, but don't fucking ever hit a girl!
David Ames: Listen to me. It wasn't Sofia. It was Julie. It was Julie. It was Julie Gianni.
Brian Shelby: Yes. So Sofia was abducted by Julie... and now Julie is posing as Sofia. You're in O.J. land, man!
David Ames: Julie Gianni is fucking dead!
Brian Shelby: I don't care what they told you, I can assure you Julie Gianni is alive. She is alive.
David Ames: I didn't talk to them. I talked to Sofia. Where is she?
Brian Shelby: I just dropped Sofia off. I saw everything you did to her.
David Ames: Let me tell you something. I did not do that to her.
Brian Shelby: Look at me. Look me in the eye. You tell me that's the girl you brought to the party. You tell me that that's your dream girl... your proximity infatuation.
David Ames: Yes!
Brian Shelby: And you stole her from me. The one girl I really wanted, and you took her from me. You're insane. You're losin' it, man. You have revealed yourself.
David Ames: Oh, yeah.
Brian Shelby: I'm with them.
David Ames: Where'd you get the coat, Brian? Where'd you get the camera? How much did they pay you?
Brian Shelby: Listen to me, 'cause this is the last time we're ever gonna speak. I was your only friend. You have revealed yourself to me.
Edmund Ventura: [Approaches David at bar] Problems?
David Ames: I'm in no mood to be fucked with, so do yourself a favor.
Edmund Ventura: There's an explanation for all this, David. You and I know each other. You found me on the Internet. I'm here to help you, David.
David Ames: Who the fuck are you? Why are you following me?
Edmund Ventura: First of all, it's very important that you calm down.
David Ames: Calm down?
Edmund Ventura: Calm down. You must overcome your fears and regain control. Take ahold of your life again, David. It's as easy as holding that glass. What if I were to tell you that you can take control... of all of this, everything? Even me.
David Ames: Look, I'm straight. Okay?
Edmund Ventura: David, look at all these people. Seems as though they're just all chatting away, doesn't it?
David Ames: Yeah.
Edmund Ventura: Nothing to do with you.
David Ames: No.
Edmund Ventura: And yet... maybe they're only here because you wanted them to be here. You are their god. Not only that, but you can make them obey you or even destroy you.
David Ames: Well, what I'd love for them to do is shut the fuck up. Especially you. [All bar patrons go silent and staring at David]
Edmund Ventura: You see? You and I signed a contract, David.
David: Look at us. I'm frozen and you are dead. And I love you.
Sofia: It's a problem.
David: I lost you when I got in that car. I'm sorry. Do you remember what you told me once? "Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around"...
Sofia: I'll find you again.
David: I'll see you in another life... when we are both cats.

Taglines

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  • Open Your Eyes
  • LoveHateDreamsLifeWorkPlayFriendshipSex
  • Looks Can Be Deceiving!
  • Forget everything you know about life, and just open your eyes…
  • This is a revolution of the mind
  • When did the dream become a nightmare?

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