"What Dreams May Come." Loss and popular

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In world cinema there are films that leave after viewing his feeling of sadness and, at the same time, the firm belief that everything that happens around is not without some hidden meaning. One of these films is a picture of "What Dreams May Come." She went out on the wide screen in the far 1998.





The basis of the painting "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 an incredible success (as, indeed, most of the other works of this writer) and raises issues afterlife. At the same time Richard Matheson himself has repeatedly pointed out that although all the characters of his novel are fictitious theory of the existence of the other world were drawn to them, "Do not scratch».

However, the plot of the book was significantly modified for the needs of the cinema. So, for example, the individual characters are present in the picture but missing in the original novel (in particular, the image of the 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 changed several jobs.



Director of the film "What Dreams May Come" was Vincent Ward. Furthermore, this work has become for him, in fact, the best known - neither before nor after this film Ward did not remove anything more successful and outstanding. According to the director, film "What Dreams May Come" was to have 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 film was shot using film Fuji Velvia. This film is not so often used in the film, as characterized by a very high color saturation. However, given the characteristics of visual embodiment scenario, it is its quality was extremely important to the filmmakers.

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



The decor of hell in the movie "What Dreams May Come" was reproduced on a decrepit dilapidated and corroded Essex-class aircraft carrier «Oriskany». A few years later (ie - in May two thousand and six), the ship was sunk in thirty-eight miles from the coast of Pensacola (Florida) to create a so-called artificial reef.

In addition, some "hell" landscapes were created in the indoor swimming pool, located in the territory of the Naval base in Alameda. The pool was surrounded by a special blue screen so that you can later modify the film footage through computer graphics. In this visual effects painting was drawn several major studios, which included: Manex Visual Effects (MVFX), Pacific Ocean Post, ShadowCaster, CIS Hollywood, Digital Domain, Giant Killer Robots, POP Film and several others.



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

The world premiere of the film took place in September 1998. Painting made on audiences pretty impressive, although not able to fully pay off at the box office - from its creation spent $ 85 million to the producers of the film managed to regain a little more than half.

However, the relatively modest box office success did not prevent the film earned high marks from professional connoisseurs of cinema art and become the recipient of several prestigious awards.



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

In addition, the Art Directors Guild USA also noted picture award its prize Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in kinodizayna. The majority of reputable critics reacted to the work of Vincent Ward's extremely favorably. So, for example, Roger Ebert praised the film three and a half stars out of four, and said that, for all its imperfections, it serves as a vivid example of how a film can be implemented by means of the most incredible and fabulous images.

Also known writer particularly emphasized the professionalism of the actors involved in the starring picture, and called the game Robin Williams and Annabella Sciorra "heartbreaking." Similar rave reviews and were heard from James Berardinelli pages ReelViews. 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.



When Chris Nielsen misses 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 the phrase of Shakespeare's Hamlet «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 ...».

Chris Nielsen fictional tomb is located in Oakland, California at the cemetery Mount View. The film was used specially actually existing tombstone 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", courtesy of its creators in the video vault "Universal Studios", was lost in summer 2008 during a fire.

In frames where Anne wrote in her diary, sitting on the bed behind her hangs a picture. 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 living in hell.

In the movie "What Dreams May Come" is the alternate ending and that as a kind of bonus was offered the filmmakers with the release of a special version of the DVD. According to him, Chris and Annie have undergone reincarnation. But Annie, because of the need to atone for the sin it has previously admitted, will have to die at an early age. Nevertheless, the two loving hearts reunited in heaven.



Some quotes from the movie:

"I understand what prevents you. Not because I remind you of what - something I'm just not be here with you, I left you ».

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

"People find it impossible to what happened before».

"You have long courted her. Kinship. Sometimes, though rarely. Like Siamese twins. Always together ».

"I found you in Hell ... In New Jersey, find a fortiori».

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

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



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