Interesting facts about the movie "What Dreams May Come"

• Interesting facts about the movie "What Dreams May Come"

What are you ready for a loved one?

The world cinema there are movies that leave the viewer feeling after his gentle sadness and, at the same time, the firm conviction that everything that happens around is not devoid of a certain hidden meaning. One of these films is a picture of "What Dreams May Come". She came to the big screen back in 1998.

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The basis of the picture "What Dreams May Come" was put eponymous novel by Richard Matheson, which was released in one thousand nine hundred and seventy-eighth year. The book was a tremendous success (as, indeed, most of the other works of this writer), and dealing with matters of the afterlife. At the same time Richard Matheson himself has repeatedly pointed out that although all the characters of his novel are fictional, the theory of the existence of the other world they were taken "out of nowhere".

However, the plot of the book has been significantly modified for the needs of cinema. So, for example, certain characters are present in the film, absent in the original novel (in particular, a so-called wire-Carrier). Even the main characters have undergone a significant transformation, and their biography has undergone significant changes: literary Chris and Annie - this is not a pediatrician and a talented artist, a Hollywood screenwriter and woman to change a few jobs.

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Director of the film "What Dreams May Come" was Vincent Ward. Furthermore, this work was for him, in fact, the most famous - either before or after the movie Ward has not removed anything more successful and outstanding. According to the director, the film "What Dreams May Come" was supposed to be a very special visual appearance, because the bulk of the action takes place in the fantasy world beyond the grave. To this end, almost the entire movie was filmed by a film Fuji Velvia. This film is not so often used in the film, because a very high color saturation. However, given the characteristics of the visual embodiment of the script, that is what the quality was very important for the film creators.

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the summer of 1997 began shooting themselves year and lasted for a month. They were mostly in the United States of America and in particular in places like Marin County, Alameda County, Glacier National Park and a few others.

The situation of hell in the movie "What Dreams May Come" was reproduced in the run-down dilapidated and corroded by rust aircraft carrier Essex-class "Oriskany". A few years later (namely - in May two thousand and six), the ship was sunk in the thirty-eight kilometers off the coast of Pensacola (FL) to create a so-called artificial reef.

In addition, individual "hellish" landscapes were created in the indoor swimming pool located on the territory of the Naval Base Alameda. Pool was especially surrounded by a blue screen, so that later you can modify the frames of the film by means of computer graphics. In addition, for visual effects picture was drawn several major studios, among which were: Manex Visual Effects (MVFX), Pacific Ocean Post, ShadowCaster, CIS Hollywood, Digital Domain, Giant Killer Robots, POP Film and several others.

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The music for the film was originally commissioned to Ennio Morricone. However, later during the installation and voicing picture filmmakers decided to refuse the services of the renowned maestro. Any explanation of such action was not followed, and composer whose music was finally preferred, became Michael Kamen.

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The world premiere took place in September 1998. The picture produced on the audience is quite impressive, even though it failed to fully pay off at the box office - from spent on its creation of 85 million dollars to the producers of the film managed to recover a little more than half. Nevertheless, quite a modest box-office success of the film did not prevent to earn high marks from professional connoisseurs of cinema and become the recipient of several prestigious awards.

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In particular, "What Dreams May Come" it was nominated for an Oscar and received the highest award in the category "Best Visual Effects".

In addition, the Guild Art Directors also noted the picture of the award Art Directors Guild Award its Award for Excellence in kinodizayna. The majority of reputable critics reacted to the work of Vincent Ward extremely favorably. So, for example, Roger Ebert rated the film three and a half stars out of four and said that with all its imperfections, it is a shining example of how cinema can be implemented by means of the most incredible and fantastic images.

Also known writer particularly emphasized the professionalism of the actors involved in the lead roles picture, and called the game Robin Williams and Annabella Sciorra "heartbreaking". Similar rave reviews and were made by James Berardinelli at ReelViews pages. He noted that many of the films give an interpretation of heaven and hell, but never before this could not be done with such authenticity and originality.

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When Chris Nielsen enters the heavenly city, among the total number of people present there can be seen Peter Pan and Mary Poppins.

The name of the film by Vincent Ward received from Shakespeare's Hamlet phrase "What dreams may come", which translated into Russian sounds like "What will dream dreams in the sleep of death, when we cast off this mortal coil noise ...". Fictional tomb Chris Nielsen is located in Oakland, California, on Mount View Cemetery. The film has been specially used actually existing tombstone of a certain Anna Nielsen and her husband.

Among the people who are in the library of the heavenly city, there is a mother of director Vincent Ward.

Original movie "What Dreams May Come", provided by its creators in the video store, "Universal Studios" was lost in the summer of 2008 during a fire.

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In frames where Anne wrote in her diary, sitting on the bed, the painting hanging behind her. This painting - a reproduction of the triptych of the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, who lived at the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, called "The Garden of Earthly Delights". In this work, the artist has depicted the existence of mankind, as well as scenes from the life of paradise and life in hell.

The movie "What Dreams May Come" and have an alternate ending, which as a kind of bonus was offered the filmmakers with the release of a special version of DVD. According to him, Chris and Annie have undergone reincarnation. However, Annie, because of the need to redeem previously admitted her sin would have to die at an early age. Nevertheless, the two loving hearts reunited in heaven.

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Some quotes from the movie:

"I understand what prevents you not because I remind what -. That I'm just not be here, with you, I'll quit."

"Everyone has their own hell - it's not necessarily fire and resin Our hell - it is a life wasted!"

"People find it impossible to what happened before."

"You have long courted her. Kinship. Sometimes, though very rarely. Like Siamese twins. Always together." "I found you in Hell ... In New Jersey, I find even more so."

"Think of me, because we're always together. We were finishing each other's sentences, remember?"

"Good people end up in hell, because they can not forgive myself."

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The movie "What Dreams May Come", no doubt, can be considered as the most touching love movies. He awakens in a viewer only the most sincere feelings and, at the same time, makes one think - and what we are capable of in order to be together with your loved one?

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