Vanilla Sky

Vanilla Sky is a 2001 film about a wealthy playboy whose life takes a sudden turn for the bizarre, when he finds his face disfigured and arrested for murder. But looks can be deceiving. Based on the 1997 film Abre los ojos.

Directed by Cameron Crowe. Written by Alejandro Amenábar and Mateo Gil (Abre Los Ojos); screenplay by Cameron Crowe.

Open Your Eyes taglines

David Aames

• Isn’t that what being young is about, believing secretly that you would be the one person in the history of man that would live forever?
• My dreams are a cruel joke. They taunt me. Even in my dreams, I'm an idiot who knows he's about to wake up to reality. If I could only avoid sleep. But I can't. I try to tell myself what to dream. I try to dream that I am flying. Something free. It never works...
• That smile's gonna be the end of me.
• The little things... there's nothing bigger, is there?
• Good. Because for a minute there I thought we were talking about A FUCKING MASK!!
• I lost you when I got in that car.
• I remember. Somebody died. It was me.
• Look at us. I'm frozen, and you're dead. And I love you.
• Doc, once you've been driven off a bridge at 80 miles an hour, somehow you don't invite happiness in without a full body search.
• These? These are more than headaches. These are steel plates slicing through my every thought.
• I wanna wake up! Tech support! It's a nightmare! Tech support! Tech support!
• I want to live a real life... I don't want to dream any longer.
• You're not blind. You're drinking Jack Daniels, and when you drink Jack, you start in with that... Frank Sinatra, she shot me down, give me a cigarette, "King of Sad" thing.
• A new form of me began to take shape. I planned my reemergence like the Normandy invasion. (Sofia, Sofia...) I'll just say it - I did my homework. I read every memo. Thomas Tipp was right: People will read again.
• You keep the relationship casual...until the absolute breaking point, and then one evening or afternoon or morning...it could be months from now....well, you know how it works
• I don't care if God calls, I'm very, very busy.

Sofía Serrano

• I think she's the saddest girl ever to hold a martini.
• I'll tell you in another life, when we are both cats.
• Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
• But I just think good things will happen, if you are a good person with a good attitude, don't you think?
• Holy God. This is going to change my life in a zillion different ways. I must be nuts.
• I meant that to be your forehead.
• Come here... I want to tell you a secret.

Brian Shelby

• You can do whatever you want with your life, but one day you'll know what love truly is. It's the sour and the sweet. And I know sour, which allows me to appreciate the sweet.
• I good you bid evening.
• You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy, who goes home alone.
• My own death was in front of me, and you know what happened? Your life flashed before my eyes.
• Because without the bitter, baby, the sweet ain't as sweet.
• Because I am Frank, and Frank must go. I good you bid evening.

Julie Gianni

• Don't you know that when you sleep with someone, your body makes a promise whether you do or not!
• What's happiness to you, David?

Rebecca Dearborn

• Its been a brilliant journey of self-awakening, now you simply have to ask yourself this... What is happiness to you David?
• Most of us live our whole lives, without having an adventure to call our own. What is any life without the pursuit of a dream?

Dialogue

[David is knocked fiercely over the head with frying pan. He wakes up later. He is puzzled by the presence of Julie.]

David: Who are you?

Julie: I'm Sofia.

David: You are not Sofia.

Julie: I'm Sofia.

David: Whatever.

David:: I wasn't hitting on Sofia.

Brian:: Oh, fine. Whatever you say. I'm crazy. I'm blind.

David:: You're not blind, you're drinking Jack Daniels, and when you drink Jack you start in with that, "Frank Sinatra, she shot me down, give me a cigarette, King of Sad" thing.

Brian:: That I do. Give me a cigarette.

David:: I'll find one.

Brian:: But wait. You're rich and women love you, and I'm from Ohio and I'm drunk. Can I tell you the truth?

David:: Everybody does.

Brian:: I dig her. And I've never said this to you before about any girl, but she could be - could be, could be, could be - the girl of my fucking dreams.

David:: You're not from Ohio.

Brian:: I know. But if she fucks up our friendship, she can go to hell. I won't allow it. We are bros.

David:: I feel the same way.

Brian:: Sure you do.

David: How 'bout if you help me, unless i'm horning in here.

Sofia: You are, but the food's good.

David: See, I've got this little problem. I've got a stalker.

Sofia: It doesn't sound life threatening.

David: But I need a cover. I need for you to pretend we're having a scintillating conversation, and you are wildly entertained. I know it's tough.

Sofia: I'll improvise.

David: She's across the room and burning a hole in my back now, isn't she?

Sofia: Red dress, strappy shoes? Wow. She's really staring at you.

David: Shit.

Sofia: And she seems to be crying. Less happy. I think she's the saddest girl to ever hold a martini.

Taglines

• Open Your Eyes
• LoveHateDreamsLifeWorkPlayFriendshipSex
• Looks Can Be Deceiving!
• Forget everything you know about life, and just open your eyes…
• This is a revolution of the mind
• When did the dream become a nightmare?

Major cast

• Tom Cruise — David Aames
• Penélope Cruz — Sofia Serrano
• Cameron Diaz — Julianna "Julie" Gianni
• Jason Lee — Brian Shelby
• Kurt Russell — Dr. Curtis McCabe