All Rights Belongs to Paramount Pictures. Directed By Cameron Crowe. 2001 Cast: Tom Cruise Cameron Diaz Penelope Cruz Jason Lee Based on Abre Los Ojos Written By Alexandro Amenabar and Mateo Gil
I’ve never seen this alternate ending, it’s beautiful. The way Nancy Wilson and Cameron Crowe picked the perfect music that evokes deep emotion at just the right times is amazing. My fav movie of all time and so deep on so many levels!!!
@@rivalry8103 Unfortunately, the remake overwrites the original's entire approach - the atmosphere, the cast, the performances, the script - to such an extent that the two are very different.
This movie was a destroyer. I remember sitting on my girlfriends couch senior year in high school and I had rented it from Blockbuster video. I remember being in some sort of trance until the very end and, when it ended, I felt as though I had lived a whole life. Incredible film.
Same here. I saw it theaters when it released, right after 9/11, with my girlfriend who I would go on to date for 7 more years before breaking up. This movie, particularly the ending, brings out the most intense nostalgia, joy, and sadness every time I see it. Incredible film.
@@DaddyDWALLY Yes. Interestingly enough, it’s not a film I would go out of my way to watch again. It was that much of a ride. When I see clips like this on RU-vid, it makes me want to watch it again. Cameron Crowe has always been one of my faves aside from we bought a zoo…😂 but hell yeah it’s great!
"I love you. And I can't settle for a dream. Because as great as I imagined you, *you* were even better." That line should have stayed in the final version.
Agreed. All the rest was rightly taken out. Way too much spelling things out and lecturing in this one... The impact of "consequences David... It's the little things" was powerful in the original
Should be sorry someone died or julie was hurt instead of the double standard of he wants nostrings attached onen minute then the pleasure delaye the next. Yes you will ruin your dinner by eating junk but these are people. Julie is a person too who will never find love, but she came close to learning that she should not have hooked up with him.lShe just did not take responsibilty for her actions.
My sister said to me “Matt, there is a movie you need to see” I watched late at night all alone. When it had ended, I found myself staring out the front window, for what seemed like an hour. An absolute masterpiece in my opinion….
That is why it's so re-watchable and this movie is everything, a comedy in cruises performance, a beautiful romantic drama, a thrilling psychological ride, actually fucking melancholy and tragic but also so fucking inspiring to live every moment of your life
This movie makes me want to enjoy life life as much as I can. First moments after the end I felt kinda disconnected but after some minutes thinking about my life I started feeling myself alive in a very deep way. I will never forget this movie.
I feel the exact the same way. I just finished watching this movie & it completely changed me, I'm not the same person I was 2 hours & 17 min ago. Phenomenal movie.
Yes, Crowe and the editor really improved it, show more and tell less, make it less of an acid trip and more introspective. But this is nice to get a little more insight into the story.
This ending hit me hard... i literally stumped my joint, poured my beer away and ran downstairs to my girl and baby who i've been neglecting recently. Life is precious, not the fake shit.
Like the OG ending better. Both work, but when Cruise says "I lost you when I got in that car". Very powerful. How one bad decision, can lose you everything and suffer a lifetime of consequences.
Really important moment of character growth and understanding how he ruined everything because he wanted to blow a load… however, even recognizing such a horrible mistake/failure he was ready to accept and move on.
Actually as a Spanish speaker, Penelope's voice is quite annoying in both languages. I guess every language is captivating when you don't know how to speak it. Penelope ,in my opinion acts better in Spanish movies than in American's ones ,but for example Antonio Banderas (also Spanish) has a beautiful voice no matter what language he speaks, and he acts great in any movie, but I like him specially in the Spanish movie "átame"
That's because if you really think 🤔 about it.... Most people when asked about anyone they knew that died, most always say something they remember of that person. Remembering someone isn't the same as actually missing them... That's why that line hits 🎯 home for them people that know whats what and whos who. 😉😎
David Aames the first man to live in cyberspace. Celebrated as pioneer in time travel and may live for 100 years, his company did not have such fortune as it became part of a fraud where David lost all his fortune. Life extension will remember him and continue his life support as honor of his bravery. The rest of the world is recovering after the 3rd world war and inflation spiked at 2000% making David having not much left in savings.
I have a weird sense of optimism/nostalgia (I don't know why) from this film, it reminds me of being at 13 year old watching this movie rented from blockbusters back in 2002/2003
@@fredpapa4928Even after 20 years people still don't realise that david was just a jerk before annd after the accident. Before he treated julia poorly and after the acciden he pushed everybody out of his life begining whit his best friend and accusing him of being a sellout to the dworfs and after that he is the one who left Sofia thinking she will reject him but she didn't and he even imagined here in a relation with his best friend and that too never happened. Even the movie show you the scene where the are kissing in black in white. Sofia was just sad because he remembered here that she was the reason of Julia suicide and was very aggressive to here in the bar.
I have repressed feels (due to trauma I will not allow myself to be vulnerable with intimate partners) therefore, that buildup with spiritualized ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space To then the beautiful composition of untitled #4 sigor Ros is absolute perfection and makes my heart ache every time.
i thank god they edited that stuff out of the movie.. and i thank god that they filmed it and im able to watch it now... this is my favorite movie of all time... and i love the fact that you uploaded this... thank you
I just watched this movie and OMG, it's a masterpiece. If they'd put all this footage in the original version it would actually look like a 90's movie with too many scenes unnecessary action. But without it, it became timeless. This director is a visionary.
I remember not liking the movie because of the ending. It's ironic now seeing this ending and realizing this would've been a #1 movie but they chose the wrong end.
This movie is a masterpiece to me. I've seen abre los ojos as well. I like both and Vanilla Sky was just as great. Makes you think about the choices you make in life and not take things for granted. That quote "Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around." Genius
I always liked Kurt Russell and he does a brilliant performance here as David's psychologist, but modelled after what David imagined to be a father figure, and Russell nailed that paternal aspect just as beautifully here. You can see just how much he does love David as if he were his own son, and how David says that he loves him and everyone there, too.
I was 8 when this movie came out and I watched in the winter of 2009 for the first time when I was 16 and I feel exactly the same way. Now every December 14th, to celebrate the theatrical release of the film I make sure to re-watch the film. I'm constantly discovering new things about it!
I was 8 as well when it was released saw it when I wan 9 . I had a falling out with the love of my life in January of 2016 and I’ve been dreaming ever since I want to wake up...
It was slow and weird. But for those of us that are also slow and weird, this is literally the perfect existential crisis movie. Hit hit just the right spot for me.
@@CalvinHikes It wasn't. Nothing slow or weird about it. Critics just have a habit of narcissistically going at movies that don't follow the current trend, especially movies that later turned out to be well designed, preferring the more basic ones with complex changes instead of entirely new or one of ideas. And to be direct, they are very entitled and tend to sh!t on movies they aren't paid to review. Even more back then.
Because most people didn't and still don't understand it. Even when you explain it to them in depth, you get a lot of folks who simply can't grasp the concept that life could simply be a dream, or a nightmare, depending on your perspective. I imagine many came in expecting a romance story with Tom Cruise playing his usual too cool for school role. It was refreshing to see him play someone disfigured and spiraling out of control. I mean it was gut wrenching, but refreshing.
Simple critics didn't understand it, and pretentious ones preferred the original before this remake. It was caught between the two. Luckily it doesn't really matter what these people think.
All these years later and this is the first time I’ve seen this deleted scene. This movie came out at a perfect time in my life when I was really beginning to understand and appreciate all forms of art. Before Vanilla Sky movies to me were action, horror, drama, or a comedy. This film moved me in a profound way back then. I recently rewatched it and the experience was incredibly different.
The deleted bathroom footage has Kurt Russell's strongest performance in the film. I wish Crowe had left some of that in, as well as the line where David tells Sophia he can't settle for a dream because she's better than he imagined. Otherwise, the original ending is perfect, especially when David is awakened by a voice that sounds uncannily similar to Sophia's voice--the same voice that opens the film. The voice used to wake up David in the alternate ending sounds like Julie Gianni. This is one of the most beautiful films ever made.
he met her twice in his actual life, just spent a night talking and a night at the disco ended laying alone in the street, abandoned by his best friend and Sophia. so, how does he know about her? in his dream he idealized her to the point she's virtually the perfect, flawless, woman for him but in reality he never went to know her deeply. at no point of his real life they are a couple, they only shared a night and one time she tried to help him recovering from his depression, eventually quitting.
@@wqsnsr8 Yes except for 1 thing: That final waking is just another dream. David cannot wake up because David is no more real than McCabe. David is Brian's fantasy of how his life could be better if he were rich and beautiful and oblivious, but reality always intrudes.
I believe that this was designed to be a low budget prequel. There are clues. Penelope was the owner of the hand that was touching him to wake him up from the street. I suppose that the same love triangle rebooted 150 years later?
My fav movie of all time. I rarely cry about anything, but this movie makes me cry every-time at the end, for layers of reasons. Beautiful movie from start to finish. Fantastic performances all around, but especially by Tom Cruise.
This film is extremely underrated. It got 6.9 on IMDB. Not everyone understands it. it's a quite complex and complicated story-line, but for those who pay attention (and understand life is a dream), all the pieces in the puzzle falls in place at the end. It really is a masterpiece, first class acting, full of unforgettable quotes and a very special interesting kind of mood. In my book this movie is a 9 ++
It's possible for people to understand it and not think it's a masterpiece. I thought this remake was a bit over the top and made for general audiences with short attention spans, which is why I would give it a lower rating than the original.
That was so beautiful, melancholic and sad at the same time. Have not seen this movie since it came out 22 years ago. Didn't fully get it then, but wow, this hit me like a ton of bricks today.
This film is very special to me, I heard many people say they had to watch it a few times to grasp it, but I was onto it immeidately, a very brilliant movie.
Synchronicity: I'm not completely sure where I'm getting this impression from but I'm thinking they gathered that info by attending his funeral and talking to Brian and maybe even Sofia on her way out. It could be apart of their service, gathering that kind of info for their customer.
Tech support was 150 years into the future so it wouldn't have been hard to have kept tabs on the people in David's life. Maybe the real Sofia had an unhappy life afterwards, maybe even tragic. It was probably best they didn't go too much into it, it would've put a dark spin into the ending...
Nah they just added that to the American version. In the original he never sees Sofia again and that’s it. Any memories outside of their initial meeting at his place and her place is just in his head. At the end it’s time for him to let go because he will never be satisfied with dreaming.
There's a saying in writing (novels, screenplays) "Show, don't tell." This is telling, it's explicative, and there's not the same mysterious sense of awe you take with you at the end of the original version of Vanilla Sky that makes you go think about it for a while in that particular mood it leaves you with. Also, hell of a soundtrack.
I liked this scene better than the one they used. I liked the extra bit of dialogue she says to him just before he takes the leap. She says, "in the way someone looks at you, the way the wind bows on a cool summer day, a laugh you hear somewhere, you'll remember our feeling, and that will be me... " He surrounded himself with all the people he loved, all the people who are now dead, to see him off... I sometimes wonder if he made the right choice. Couldn't they connect the frozen, sleeping, dreaming people together so they could experience (live?) a shared dream, a shared existence? Wouldn't that be just as real as the so-called real physical world? After all, when we impact other people's lives, the memory of that impact eventually lives on, only in what we remember of it...
That was a great line - made me tear up. But like he said, Sophia is dead now. She didn't sign up for LE and get frozen. Besides, in the real world who knows what happened? She was still very young, plenty of time to meet someone else and be married for 50 years.
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As a RADICAL fan of this movie, because it reaches down to feelings and experiences in a way that few other movies have ever recached, I feel so honored to see this alternate footage while they were obviously experimenting and following their guts on what was right for this movie
@@kjk7611 I’m sorry you’re so shallow. The movie is full symbolism… about loss, irrevocable choices that change the course of our lives, infatuation versus meaningful love, the cost of self-gratification, and most importantly, the death of oneself leading to one’s own rebirth and redemption… and how those death and rebirth really happen in the mind and heart just as much as it does in the body.
@@jimherold7827 why the fuck are you here, asshole? Maybe I was drunk and on my last limb when I wrote that shit originally. Maybe you don’t fuckin know me. Maybe youre as shallow and retarded as the last guy I replied to who still watches cartoons for his entertainment. Go kick rocks you idiot.
This movie helped me face reality. There's plenty we can do to escape reality through well, movies... but also drugs, alcohol and pharmaceuticals. We can hide away because of pain in our own lives. But in the end, the fog isn't worth the price. Even if reality is painful, that's still The sweet spot of existence. The sweet spot of my existence.
I think the fog is finally clearing. I realize now that the pharmaceauticals I've been taking, have been in excess. It's caused me a lot of grief, running out of my medication early. It took having to be without it for several days, and even taking a lower dose for weeks to truly understand the cycle of pain I've caused myself. Yes, you're right. That brief moment of being high, of feeling that bliss, is not worth the weeks of agony. I'm finally exercising again, eating right, and getting more sleep. I never realized how much it put me in a fog until it finally lifted, and all the anxiety came crashing down on me. What I've been avoiding all this time.
@@blub_655 thanks man. It's a journey! Still kind of struggling to stay within a lower dose, but overall I'm doing a bit better. My ass got lazy again lol. Still, at least I'm not running out anymore. I've learned to only take much higher doses when I absolutely need to, not everyday. Ha ha, well, I'd say at the very least taper down to a slightly lower dose first, you don't wanna be like me and go from 60 to 0 in one sitting 😂 Shit sucks lol. Maybe try it for a few days and see how you feel. Just don't go overboard bro. Don't want you feeling panicky or depressed.
I mean some people really need them. Varies from person to person. So I don't want to give any bad medical advice. Best advice I could offer is try a little bit of a lower dose for a few days, or stagger it and do your regular dose one day, lower the next, regular next, for about a week, and then see if you can handle a lower dose a few days in a row. Most people who are trying to quit take this route. It's definitely safer than going full dose to none at all. I don't know what your anxiety level is and what you're taking, or how much you need it, so I don't want to tell you how you should treat yourself. But if you feel like you don't need them as much anymore, or they're a hinderance, then it's okay to take a step back and see how you adapt to less.
The young kid in the lobby is David as a kid. Amazing movie but in my opinion it was a good choice not to have the shooting scene in the final cut of the movie. One of my favorites
this movie... reminds me of a time... when everything had value, taste, and meaning, why do I feel like this upon remembering it? Am I losing grip over my own life? did life become boring and tasteless all over a sudden? everything now feels and sounds like a nightmare within a dream. I wanna taste life again, I wanna be alive... I want to wake up now.
one day at a time. slow progress. it's the only answer. not satisfying like a movie conclusion. but that's what we've got you can do it. there will be trial and error, but you can do it.
One of my very favorite movies!!! So original. Never could predict what was going to happen from one scene to the next. Heartfelt urgent performances. And a great soundtrack.
There is so much great music in this film. I was introduced to Freur (Doot Doot), Spiritualized (Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space) and Sigur Ros (The nothing song) because of this. I bought it on VHS and remember watching the music credits roll at the end over and over and wrote down the artists and songs, then went out and bought the CD's. Beautifully crafted movie and very well edited too. Thanks for posting...
This proves that this is one of the greatest films ever made, imagine Cameron left any of this footage in, it would have ruined the whole illusion. Damn did he get us on his side, the way it was meant to be.
So, so glad it was edited to become one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. This version did not have the seriousness or the sentiment of the final version. Still, it's cool to see the creative process!
Cameron Crowe is one of the greatest minds in film! As much as there are probably one or two sentences that I would like to keep for the final version of the film, I wouldn't change a thing of the final film, it's just perfection. Comes to show how good he is for film, even when it comes to cutting out stuff from his movie.
Vanilla Sky is a remake of the spanish film "Abre los ojos" of 1997 where Penelope Cruz acted also indeed. Its so funny how people from Spain said that Cameron Crowe its a fake and failed director, and you american guys quite the opposite. From my perspective, Vanilla Sky is tons better than Abre los Ojos (spanish accent sucks).
I watched this movie in College while I was so sick with flu, and watched it on and off with fever dreams... the movie and my reality was like intertwined with the story.. was kind of an amazing experience. It made me think how much good and better things were coming for me, great warm feeling of hope and joy in exploring the world/experiences. Blessed with health and opportunity like most North Americans.
Thanks for uploading this! I finally watched the original, Abre los Ojos. This alternate ending must've been their attempt to reenact it perfectly, the bathroom scene, shooting scene and all. I'm glad they decided against it for the final version. Although I must say, I like how David clarifies "I paid for this music", because I always thought Good Vibrations was a weird choice of music for that scene without that given dialogue.
***** Valid questions. I think they wanted you to come up with your own conclusion. I personally like sticking to the movie's plot: David trapped in LE's nightmare, trying to explain to McCabe where it all went wrong, eventually given a chance to awake a new life in the future.
Thanks for posting. I love this movie and the original Spanish version, also. I'm one of the few who liked Vanilla Sky better than the original film. It was wonderful seeing all this footage that the director could have used. If ever a movie was SAVED IN THE EDIT, this is one of them. He made perfect choices about which lines/dialogue/action to use. General Note: I prefer for the director to explain everything. I don't like "Leave it up to each person to decide for themselves." If you're a director, tell the audience your idea. I want to know the meaning you intended! We're not children - you can tell us and we will STILL make up our minds for ourselves. Again, thanks for showing all this footage because I can appreciate the finished film even more!
The Spanish version is terrific as well. The story underscores how fragile the future is for all of us, how short our time is, lost love connections. Every moment enjoy it you never know if and when your life will change in a different direction.
I’ve never seen this alternate ending, it’s beautiful. The way Nancy Wilson and Cameron Crowe picked the perfect music that evokes deep emotion at just the right times is amazing. My fav movie of all time and so deep on so many levels!!!
This movie touched me so deeply at some point through it, I became David. I was suffering what he was suffering, I smiled, I cried. What a brilliant movie. At the end of it, I exclaimed “Oscar”!
In some ways, we are all David. Sometimes life feels like some strange dream that suddenly appeared. I mean, think about it. No one really remembers when they were born. It's like, boom, suddenly you're conscious and have memories. You don't know exactly how you got here, when you were a child. You just came to be. The only reference we have is what other people tell us about our birth, and maybe a few childhood memories that took shape in our formative years. And yes, more than loving others, we want to be loved. Genuinely, truly loved. And for the words "I love you" to truly matter.
@@Chalo-ng3nv thanks man! I felt compelled to respond, as I liked what you had to say about Vanilla Sky, quite poignantly put if I may add. They're my thoughts exactly. I did feel his pain, his sorrow. It gives you major feels my dude.
Wow, 23 minutes of something else. I can't say that I like it, but it's interesting. The movie is amazing, and scares the shit out of my girlfriend. I can't get her to watch it again. I've watched it at least a dozen times. Thanks for posting this!
Fantastic! Thank you for uploading, to be able to experience new parts of this movie for the first time was amazing! Brought back some of those feelings I had when I saw the movie for the very first time. Great movie, great actors, great message.
i like both endings, but there's some thing i like a lot of the alternate ending, and is the voices and the sound when he is falling and remembering the moments of his life, and he yells, "i wanna wake up"!!!
Tom Cruise the MI action hero is amazing, but man if he didn't make some incredible dramatic movies as well. Vanilla Sky is one of the most unique and interesting movies ever made. What a head-trip. Incredible film.
rented this movie in 2001, my best friend and I watched it late at night. movie totally blew our minds, great great film. will remember that feeling forever.
I belive McCabe was real, as a part of David's soul or some guardian angel. He was incredibly real. He helps David throughout the story and comes to the horrific realization that David is indeed dreaming. "I'm mortality as home entertainment?!" That line cuts me deep, and it's heartbreaking when he calmly accepts what is and says good-bye.
Imagine your entire life you’ve lived is a fake manifestation someone created and everything you know is a lie.. I wouldn’t know how to feel but I guess all you can do is accept the situation
Imagine your entire life you’ve lived is a fake manifestation someone created and everything you know is a lie.. I wouldn’t know how to feel but I guess all you can do is accept the situation
They all lived it. David was basing his version of a father and what he thought love was from movies, and images. David was also mortality as home entertainment, that's why he got in that car, he didn't respect the realness of life, life was just entertainment for him.
This is REALITY NOW WHEN YOU CEASE TO EXIST ON THIS Reality plane you will wake up somewhere else everything you ever known will cease to exist however the energy your loved ones and closest to your heart will exist in a new format what survives after death is only speculated only those who have seen TRUELY KNOW. @ TECH SUPPORT 😎
Allow me to indulge you all in a little story. In 2016 I had a very lovely girlfriend. She was an exquisite specimen. One day I was going to work and I gave her my Vanilla Sky DVD to watch while I was away. When I got home from work some 10-12 hours later she was having a full on existential crisis. Brilliant movie... capable of making psychologically sound individuals question their reality/existence. Before that, in 2002, I was at my first year of college. I had no friends or acquaintances in the area. The only thing I was were the two dvds that I owned. One was The Boondock Saints and the other was Vanilla Sky. I used to leave it at the title screen for days at a time just so I had the illusion of people in my living area. It got me through thay very lonely year. Might have to do that again soon now that I'm turning 40 and have no family or friends within my domicile.
You will. Dude if even someone like me, who lives with his mother and has a shit job at the age of 35 can find love, you can too. I mean, when I met her at 33, and I had never even had a very serious relationship before that. I didn't get my first kiss until I met her. So basically, I married my first serious girlfriend. Life is strange, and can take a 180 in an instant. You seem like a decent fellow, I think you'll meet someone special. People meet their significant other at varying degrees of their lifespan. You could meet them at 18, 30, 40, hell even 50s and 60s. You'll be aight dude. We're all gonna make it
Kurt Russell is one of the few good actors who is a genuinely decent fellow. He's kind, funny, charismatic, has a wonderful functional relationship, works well with others. Hard to believe this is the same man who played McCready in The Thing, a character so ice cold that he was willing to murder someone just so he and his colleagues could survive.
The dialog seems much weaker in this version. glad they didn't use this. Interesting though. This version goes a little too far explaining each aspect in dialog.
J Perr completely agree. Also the McCabe character gets a little too desperate in this version which seems inconsistent with his character in the rest of the movie.
Preposterous Rhinocerous it’s hard to tell how an individual would react when being told their entire existence is a lie, even despite their background being a psychologist.. so although it’s unlike his character in the past, he had never had any reason to believe that his reality wasn’t real.. which would break anyone I think.
Preposterous Rhinocerous although both endings portrayed the character well I think, in this form his distress from struggling with his reality and the original ending from his acceptance through his goodbye
This is also one of Kurt Russell's most underrated performances! My personal favorite Cameron Crowe film and what a stacked cast. Michael Shannon, Jason Lee and of course Tom Cruise.
