Waking Life

Waking Life (2001)

Timing: 1:39 (99 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2001-10-19

Country

United States

Production

Fox Searchlight Pictures, Line Research, Thousand Words, Flat Black Films, Detour Filmproduction, Independent Film Channel

Genre

Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Budget

$0

Revenue

$3 176 880

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Director

Richard Linklater

Actors

Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Wiley Wiggins, Bill Wise, Alex Jones, Steven Soderbergh, Ken Webster, Charles Gunning, Lorelei Linklater, Trevor Jack Brooks
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Scenario

Producer

Anne Walker-McBay, Palmer West, Jonah Smith, Tommy Pallotta, John Sloss, Jonathan Sehring, Caroline Kaplan

Operator

Richard Linklater

Composer

Glover Gill

Artist

Audition

Lizzie Curry Martinez

Editing

Sandra Adair
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• Jesse and Céline, characters from the film 'Before Sunrise,' appear in one of the scenes.
• The film is based on stories from people who used LSD and on so-called lucid dreaming – an altered state of consciousness in which a person realizes they are dreaming and can control the course of the dream. This term was coined and introduced by Dutch psychiatrist and writer Frederick van Eeden (1860-1932). Various characteristics of lucid dreams, as depicted in the film, are described in the works of psychophysiologist Stephen LaBerge, who founded the Lucidity Institute in 1987.
• The film's title is taken from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "(1809-1849) "Dreams" (1827-1828), which contains the line: "All better than the cold agony of being."
• The entire film is presented at 12 frames per second. Only the credits are shown at 24 frames per second.
• It took up to 250 hours of work to create one minute of animation.
• It took programmer and computer animation specialist Bob Sabiston 3 weeks to create the final scene of the film. Each tree and plant in this scene was worked on separately.
• The scene where a monkey delivers a lecture features a small clip from the film "Dreams of Akira Kurosawa".
• Timothy reads the poem "City in Sleeplessness (Nocturne of the Brooklyn Bridge)" by Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca (1898-1936).
• At the bar, Stephen Prince tells the same story featured in Martin Scorsese's documentary, "American Boy" (1978).
• Jesse and Celine – characters from the film 'Before Sunrise' – appear in one of the scenes.
• A short scene from Akira Kurosawa's 'Dreams' is shown in the scene where a monkey is giving a lecture.
• Timothy reads the poem 'City in Sleeplessness (Nocturne of the Brooklyn Bridge)' by Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca (1898-1936).
• In the bar, Steven Prince tells the same story that is featured in Martin Scorsese's documentary 'American Boy' (1978).