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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 04:25:11 EST
Subject: re #18168--- Vanilla Sky spoiler...contains possible spoilers

Message #18168
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 11:09:57 -0600
From: 
Subject: Vanilla Sky

>I saw this yesterday, and while I thought it might scare viewers away from 
>Cryonics (a 150 year long nightmare would be pretty horriffic), if you 
>subscribe to the "there's no such thing as bad publicity" philosophy, this 
>can only help.

>One thing that can't be debated is this will get us in the national 
>discussion a little more.

>Personally, I though the movie was pretty bad until they revealed the 
>"secret" then of course it all made sense, and was pretty cool.  But the 
>audience was not as captivated, unfortunately.

Ah... the one day after film spoiler.  thanks.  sigh.  Well, Vanilla Sky is 
either an "homage" er, ahem, to Larry Niven's short story about the frozen 
astronaut on Pluto, or possibly closer to "Freezing Down" a cryonics sci fi 
novel (I think by a russian author, I have an english language translation 
somewhere in the garage....) that was published in the 70's... and has an 
incredibly well, SLAVIC ending!

And the plot structure of the film sounds odd... like you're watching Room 
with a View and at the end Freddy Krueger suddenly shows up with an axe... 
unless you somehow reference the cryonics theme at the beginning, the 
"surprise" at the end is not a plot twist, its, well, bad structure.  Ever 
wonder why Based on a True Life stories and films are branded as such?  Its 
so you'll believe it.  If you watched most true life stories & movies, 
thinking them fiction, you would probably think, "this would never really 
happen!"

 So the solution to the Vanilla Sky marketing catchphrase would obviously be, 
"Based on what we hope will be a true story"  with small print at the bottom, 
"Nightmare sequence added for dramatic impact."

Mike Donahue  :-]

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