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By far my favorite movie! "There's only ONE instant, and it's right now. And it's eternity."
Are Hawke and Delpy playing the Before characters? Or just something similar.
Yes, afaik they are both in their characters from "before sunrise".
When Waking Life was released, they weren't yet a couple in the Before films. But maybe it's just out of continuity from the films.
They are canon.
Fun fact #10 is a pre-fame Alex Jones.
That is fun. He also has a cameo in A Scanner Darkly.
The title of the film comes from a line in Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "Dreams," which reads, "...were better than the cold reality / Of waking life..."
In a 2001 interview, Linklater estimated that the idea for the film came "before I was even interested in film, probably 20 years ago." For a while he felt the idea for the film "didn't quite work" calling it "too blunt, too realistic" stating that "I think to make a realistic film about an unreality the film had to be a realistic unreality". To create that visual effect, Linklater used an animation technique based on rotoscoping, in which animators overlaid the live-action footage shot by Linklater with animation that roughly approximates the images actually filmed. Linklater employed a variety of artists, so the movie's feel continually changes, producing a surreal, shifting dreamscape.
The animators used standard Apple Macintosh computers. The film was mostly produced using Rotoshop, a rotoscoping program that creates blends between key frame vector shapes, which also uses virtual "layers", designed specifically for the production by Bob Sabiston. Linklater used this animation method again for his 2006 film A Scanner Darkly.
Shot entirely on video cameras, mostly handheld, then rotoscope-animated on Mac G4 computers and later transferred to 35mm film.
The entire film was animated at 12 frames per second. The only portion that is truly 24 frames per second is the credits.
The movie took 3 weeks to shoot and another 3 weeks to edit using Final Cut Pro. It also took 15 months to animate.
It took up to 250 hours to make one minute of animation.
From both the film's Wikipedia article & iMDB Trivia page
Never heard of it before, but visually it looks similar to that 'A Scanner Darkly' film a while back
Same SFX software and director.
Well, that definitely explains it then!
Dr. Eamonn Healy was/is a professor at St Edwards University in Austin. Interesting guy.
This one of them movies my hippie friends touted as the end all beat all.
Is it good, chat?
Waking Life (2001) R
Dreams. What are they? An escape from reality or reality itself?
Animation | Drama | Fantasy
Director: Richard Linklater
Actors: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Wiley Wiggins
Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 75% with 836 votes
Runtime: 1:39
TMDB
Cinematographer: Richard Linklater