Arnold’s most under rated talent is recognition of talent. To be one of the greatest action movie stars, you can’t just star in schlock, you’ve got to get onto good properties. Arnold went above and beyond, testing his limits, but the properties he was was incredible in relied on more than just his star power. He would try his best to get the best of the best to do what they do best. Personally, that’s why I love him as an actor.
That clip you guys showed from, “The Twilight Zone” is the episode “Five Characters in Search of an Exit.” I watched that episode three days ago on Netflix. That episode has one of the greatest plot twist ever
I reccomend you watching "S02E26 - Shadow Play" and "S05E03 - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", there are others twilight zone episodes who deal with reality/dream/illusion, but these two are really nice.
Thats why I love Robocop and Total Recall they are the perfect blend of 80s schlock but taken seriously. Like they both are actually really thoughtful and heartfelt while also actually having a lot of commentary about society.
Something no one brings up when discussing how to interpret the movie is the scene immediately after Quaid goes Under. The one where he becomes uncontrollable and screams you blew my cover. After this we are told that the ego trip portion of his trip hadn’t been implanted, that Quaid had his memory of his trip to rekall erased and he awakens in a taxi. If Quaid had his memory erased and only found out about rekall because of his run in with Harry, then why are we shown him going stark raving mad? To me that one scene is proof that what Quaid experiences the rest of the film isn’t a dream. That and the fact that minority report was originally going to be adapted to make a sequel to total recall.
I think it's real, too. There are scenes in the movie where Quaid isn't even present. If it's a dream in Quaid's POV, how are we seeing things Quaid isn't seeing?
I actually rather liked the remake. It actually follows the book much better than the Arnold version. But I will say the original film is more entertaining.
Obviously the original is unbeatable. Any movie from the 80’s and 90’s is impossible to remake or reboot. You simply cannot get the feeling or the essence of that time today in a film. I actually thought the remake was ok, not amazing, but alright.
Complete garbage. It’s just a pointless series of CG heavy chase scenes. I remember sitting in the theater thinking, if just one of these million bullets they’ve been outrunning would land,, we could all go home.
I had a college course that was called Philosophy of Film, and we studied Total Recall at one point. One of the textbooks had Total Recall on the cover.
In all those years since i watched the movie, talked about and got to read about it on the internet its amazing how all the points used to say it was real or fake are valid and it can go both ways.The final point, i guess, is what the director says and, iirc, in the commentary track he said its all a dream, Quaid never left the chair, killing the doctor was the point of no return and the white light when he kisses Melina is the lobotomy happening. Even the excessive violence is explained as this is what happens if the dream is an action film but also a way to show how each kill is actual damage to his mind. And to this day the only thing i want to know is what exactly Coohagen meant when he said he would blow up the machine and get back home for breakfast. This may sound blasphemy but was also expecting a few lines on the remake. Yes, that film wasnt supposed to exist but we have a decent action thing if we forget its a remake.
The remake has a more plausible everyman, but a dumber plot about "The Fall". Why blow up an effective means of transporation? And once you start saying it's a dream (including things the protagonist is unaware of) who's to say ANY of it is "real" including the existence of Quaid/Recall? Could just be Verhoeven's dream, and same could be said of any non-documentary he makes.
I think you might be thinking of Blade Runner with that whole director-spoils-the-surprise thing. I even just checked right now and I can't find anybody from the movie saying one way or another if Total Recall is real.
He has 3 sets of memories in the movie. His self who went on the mission and Malena was contact found out the rebels were protected by psychs. As hes investigating he finds the machine and goes back deciding to not kill the rebels. Then his second memory is the construction worker the third was the spy memories from recall which activated a hybrid between his real self which had the skills to accomplish what he needed and the good guy attitude to fool the psychics.
What about Clueless as an adaption of Emma, the film is 25 years old Hollow Man is 20 years old and is an adaption of The invisible man, which just got updated Neverending Story 2 is 30 years old Battle Royale is also 20 years old 15 years ago King Kong (Peter Jackson's), Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Sin City and Chronicles of Narnia were all released 10 years ago Arriety (The Borrowers), The Last Airbender and RED were released I'll stop there
This movie has so many great scenes! One of my favorite is the shot of the midget chick shooting the machine gun while standing on the bar looking totally badass! It’s sooo cool and sooo funny at the same time. The x-Ray machine they walk through is really cool too, and still holds up with its special effects. I also love the robot taxi driver and when Quaid uses the guy as a human shield, it’s so over the top and entertaining, one of my favorite movies of all time!
1:51 - Dude! You skipped right over writer *Dan O'Bannon.* DAN (FREAKING) O'BANNON!!! He's the guy who dreamed up a cheap little indie film called *_"ALIEN"._* I don't know... maybe you've heard of it?
Every Philip K. Dick story is basically the same. Person doesn't understand what's real and what's not, hijinks ensue, we the reader are left\watcher are left to figure out what is real and not in the story.
@@richardarriaga6271 maybe something to do with the amount of acid and lsd he took, you can tell when his started a book high and when his finished a book not so high (or someone else for that matter)
A point someone made is that Quaid being played by Arnold Schwarzenegger by itself implies that the whole thing is real because there's no way a guy like Arnold is an "every man". On top of that, anything that takes place outside of the character's point of view wouldn't make sense as the result of an implanted memory.
I would argue that the fact that Schwarzenegger doesn't look like a "everyman" would actually be a strike against the idea of everything being real. The reason why is that real spies generally try to avoid standing out from a crowd which Schwarzenegger most certainly does not. I mean its possible that Quaid is just a construction worker who does bodybuilding during his spare time, that he once had greater aspirations of becoming famous like the actor who plays him but instead ended up failing in those aspirations & now he's stuck in a dead-end job as some random schlub dreaming of all the things he could have become instead of what he is now.
@@travisjordan3853 Ah, but then if he doesn't look like an average spy he's less likely to be detected as one! Unless the resistance realizes that and starts looking for someone who doesn't look like a spy, in which case your best bet is to double down and give them too obvious a target! Unless they know that too... Joking (and revolving argument) aside, Quaid isn't a spy per se, he's only on the one mission. Since the whole reason he had to undergo the mind-wipe was because Quato could read his thoughts and know if he's a spy or not just by being in proximity, his physical appearance doesn't really count as a strike either for or against him. What I wanna know is how Rekall could have gotten away with such an unambiguous ending if it was all a dream. Wouldn't Quaid's first action upon waking up be to go watch the news and find out, oops Mars is still red? Not much of a vacation if it can easily be disproven within minutes of waking.
Per wiki Dan O'Bannon wrote the screenplay for Alien, adapted from a story he wrote with Ronald Shusett. THIS masterpiece screenplay is credited to that pair and Gary Goldman. Screen magic, and thanks for the endless toiling on rewrites, guys. Bravo. Perfect example of hard work paying off. (IMO Alien - the first one, and only that one - is in the select group of the finest S.F. films ever. Yet I can in a nontwisted sense envision Arnold as the title character there as well! Seriously. Like the Terminator. Insane idea, but he's never let me down yet, on anything whatsoever.)
Please do a what’s the difference on the frank abagnale biography catch me if you can and the movie of the same name starring leonardo dicaprio, it’d be fantastic
1:07 anyone notice how much Ron Shusett (Dan O’Bannon’s partner on ALIEN) looks like Brian Cox’s brother? 2:26 it could also be a nice nod to DREAMSCAPE, which starred Dennis _Quaid_ as a man who could consciously enter into other people’s dreams and interact with them. 2:56 Mr. _McClane?_ Is the movie already giving us a hint to what will happen next? A lone “asshole with a heart of gold” will fight against villains who use manipulation to steal something important (the main character’s mind/soul), while dealing with a corrupt/inept government/police force? Though I’m still wondering how the mutant stomach Chucky plays into things... 5:55 is that Ron Cobb?
Probably the only thing that keeps it from being pure 100% ambiguous in the "was it all a dream" debate are the handful of scenes where Quaid isn't there. I mean, if it were a fantasy in his mind how and why would he know about the stuff he wasn't there for?
I can definitively say that the situations were real. I say this...because they happened to me. It is a sensitive subject though, so I don't feel comfortable going into it in any more detail than that.
@CineFix The storyline has to be real, because we see scenes that are outside of Quaid's perspective. If it were an implant, his trip as a secret agent would only deal in those scenes which he would personally experience. Just a detail I realized in the the theatre as a teenager...
I don’t buy it, I can have a much easier time believing that the reason we see that is it’s all part of the in-depth memory they’ve created. The movie isn’t in first person we are already getting a different perspective than Quaid and we’re already talking about implanted memories so it’s not hard to believe that they are that in-depth. What’s hard to believe are all of the insane coincidences you have to believe if you believe it’s real
I own the book and the movie .Even when this version of Total Recall came out at the time ,Which I say back in the day on the big screen in the summer of ninteeen ninety ,Which was cool at that time ,That it rocked in so many ways .But again I know the book will be different then the first movie and like the tv show ,And who really cares about the reboot one from a few years aga .
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And why can't the scenes that Arnold's not in just be his imagination filling in the gaps to explain to him after the fact why things have happened? Just because we're seeing it all in a linear timeline to suit the narrative of the film it doesn't mean that he's experiencing/imagining it that way....
"What's the difference?" The remake was shot with greasy lenses in which the dimmest light source will cause lens flares so distracting as to make it almost impossible to notice how unimpressive it was.
Loved this movie and saw it in the theater when it came out knowing it was based on a story by PKD. Liked this breakdown and it gave me some food for thought. Nice job!
Yay! Been waiting on you guys to upload another what's the difference. Could you please do The Green Mile? I rewatch your videos pretty regularly and I feel like that's a big one you're missing, with The Shawshank Redemption and It.
The director himself said it was a dream/rekall implant. He chose not to leave his fantasy, fade to white. Mystery solved. That being said, loved the video!!!!
I believe verhoeven confirmed it was all a dream/memory. And that the whole "but we see characters when Quaid isnt present" logic doesnt disprove it. Memories from recall are probably like dreams, wherein you can be disembodied and viewing others
I recently found the book at one of those "take a book leave a book" things and had no idea it was an adaptation. Such a dope movie can't wait to read it.
There is no ambiguity, in the movie the events are real and not a dream, delusion, or any other kind of make believe. As you yourselves point out at 5:10, we see scenes that are completely separate from Quaid; those scenes wouldn't exist if it was all some kind of dream sequence, because nothing exists in a dream without the dreamer.
You’ve never dreamt about things happening that don’t involve you? Or that you were not yourself? Or behaved differently from how you would in real life?
I found it odd you highlighted how the film added scenes not from the protagonist's perspective without ever acknowledging that these CANNOT be the delusion/dream/implanted memory of said protagonist.
this is the last what's the difference they made ? so the can talk about Dune new movie or maybe westword or the le Cinquiéme element book if they exist. i just found dune book.