Waking Life
Dreams. What are they? An escape from reality or reality itself?
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Country
Production
Budget
$2 000 000
Box office
$3 176 880
Director
Actors
Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Wiley Wiggins, Bill Wise, Alex Jones, Steven Soderbergh, Ken Webster, Charles Gunning, Lorelei Linklater, Trevor Jack Brooks
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Anne Walker-McBay, Palmer West, Jonah Smith, Tommy Pallotta, John Sloss, Jonathan Sehring, Caroline Kaplan
Camera operator
Composer
Glover Gill
Artist
Audition
Lizzie Curry Martinez
Editing
Sandra Adair
Whole Team (82)
Whole Team (82)
Short description
Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.
What's left behind the scenes
- Timothy reads the poem 'City in Sleeplessness (Nocturne of the Brooklyn Bridge)' by Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca (1898-1936).
- In the scene where a monkey gives a lecture, a short clip from the film 'Akira Kurosawa's Dreams' is shown.
- The film's title is taken from the poem 'A Dream' (1827-1828) by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), which contains the following line: 'All better than the cold torture of existence'.
- A short scene from Akira Kurosawa's 'Dreams' is shown in the scene where a monkey is giving a lecture.
- 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.
- Jesse and Celine – 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.
- In the bar, Steven Prince tells the same story that is featured in Martin Scorsese's documentary 'American Boy' (1978).
- In one of the scenes, Jesse and Celine—characters from the film 'Before Sunrise'—appear.
- In the bar, Steven Prince tells the same story featured in Martin Scorsese's documentary 'American Boy' (1978).
- The entire film is presented at 12 frames per second. Only the credits are shown at 24 frames per second.
- 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."
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