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Waking Life

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e-n

07:41 / 08.08.02

linklaters next: (From dark horizons)

Not long ago rumours swirled that Richard Linklater ("Waking Life") was tapped by Soderbergh and Clooney at Section Eight to direct an animated version Philip K. Dick's seminal SF/drug novel "A Scanner Darkly". Now its been learned that Bob Sabiston, Linklater's director of animation on "Waking Life", is also attached to the project currently in development. This is the final nail in the coffin for talk of a live-action, Terry Gilliam-helmed adaptation of 'Scanner'. Thanks to 'Calico Jack'.

So would this be straight up animation or rotoscoping.
Fro the record I enjoyed waking life immesely.The train station did make me feel a little sea sick though.

Murray Hamhandler

19:40 / 08.08.02

That was a lovely interpretation, Jack. Lends much evidence to Wiley being dead (and to there actually being a plot, after all), it does.

I love the movie, and have watched it many times since I bought it, but it's still too densely packed w/info for me to devote the mental energy needed attempt an interpretation. Oh, how I hope this accursed brain-atrophy reverses itself once I'm back in school...

XXII:X:II = XXX

23:26 / 08.08.02

Well, the train station is the dreamer's arrival into the dream. He's disoriented, and so then are we. While he stays disoriented until the avatar of his friend comes along to sort of clue him in to what he needs to do to "wake up" within the dream, we can't very well keep feeling that nauseous, so it levels out.

To weigh in, Waking Life is one of my favorite movies ever. I ranted for hours on end when I heard that it didn't even get nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars this year when it so soundly kicked the arses of the three typically juvenile pieces that the Academy did feel necessary to brand that award with right out of the gate. I saw it once straight and once with a slight buzz, and it's just beautiful in so many, many ways.

Chuckling Duck

16:03 / 09.08.02

Oh, sure, Wiggins’ character is dead, experiencing that near-lifetime of awareness that one of the other characters speculates we might pass through during the fleeting seconds of brain activity before brain death.

Something I find interesting is the suggestion that the characters he meets are not death fantasies but telepathic contacts with other minds, living and dead.

The ascension in the end could also be taken as final dissolution.

Murray Hamhandler

17:08 / 14.08.02

It occurred to me not long after reading Jack's interpretation that Waking Life and Mulholland Drive have essentially the same "plot". It all seems so obvious now...

cusm

17:31 / 14.08.02

I found it inspiring, overall. True, Videodrome may have heard it all in his intro to Psyche class. The ideas were certainly not new to me. However, I find it rare that the contents of an intro to psych class can be covered in the scope of a single film. Its good brain candy. Its not a dissertation. And I really enjoyed his use of the musical performance.

Its comes off a bit as intellectual sound-bytes. But I don't think it was intended to do more than inspire people to think about these topics. Certainly, I'd rather be inspired to think about existentialism than the nuances of romantic comedy.

PatrickMM

03:55 / 18.11.03

Sort of unrelated, but does anyone know what version of "The Passenger" by Michael Hutchence is playing on the Waking Life trailer on the DVD? Is it by Hutchence, and if so, off what album?

Jack Fear

11:39 / 18.11.03

You can find Michael Hutchence's version of "The Passenger" on the soundtrack to Batman Forever, believe it or not.

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