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Waking Life: Chapter 1 - Dream is Destiny

Description: Script of the movie Waking Life, based on Tara Carreon's transcription, but with revisions based upon a viewing of the DVD version of the movie, which was watched with subtitles.

Notes: Special thanks to Andrew, Larry Redden, and Ed Sandberg for pointing out errors in Tara's transcription (numerous errors were fixed here, along with some scene information clarifications). Absolutely let me know if anything slipped by my look-over, especially in the quicker and the 'like, like, you know,' sections ;)

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[1 Dream is Destiny]

(Two kids -- a girl and a boy -- playing a game of "frog")

Waking Life: Chapter 1 - Dream is DestinyUm, pick a color.

Blue.

B-L-U-E. Pick a number.

Eight.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Pick one more number.

15.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. Pick another number.

Six.

Okay. "Dream is destiny."

***

(The Tosca Tango orchestra is rehearsing in a house)

Rock out. Rock and roll. Go strings. Begin. Sara, will you try that, the thing you asked me about?

Yeah.

Will you try it a little more subdued?

Okay.

Vibrato. Just try it and see what you think. But what I want - I mean, I want it to sound rich and maybe almost a little wavy due to being slightly out of tune.

Do you want it, um -

I think it should be slightly detached.

That's what I was wondering.

Yeah, yeah, you got it.

Okay, pick up to 20, please.

Erik, this is a pickup to 20.

Okay.

1, 2, 3.


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10/17/2006 6:19:51 AM #

James Skemp

A quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson's Experience:

"Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus. [...] Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem." (The Portable Emerson, 269)

I think keeping this quote in mind would do one good while watching Waking Life, and reading the transcript.

James Skemp United States

11/10/2007 5:44:40 PM #

melvin (monk)hardy

i have to commonicate to the person that created
this work it clearly over discribes me in the characters of this master piece its as if you put my mind inn movie form
i also have another masterpiece for you if you are interested it has to do with the end of time and the anti-christ what it really means.

melvin (monk)hardy United States

12/12/2007 2:28:07 AM #

Emerson

Please share it with us!

Emerson New Zealand

12/12/2007 9:28:00 PM #

James Skemp

If you'd be interested, I'd be more than happy to host it at this domain.

James Skemp United States

4/30/2008 7:00:23 PM #

James Skemp

Seemingly, kids from California have nothing better to do than insult each other.

My apologies to those that were subscribed to this thread and received those comments.

James Skemp United States

10/13/2009 10:08:28 AM #

Beverly Quitlong

On the level of persons, the “I” is authentic only in communion with a thou. A person’s identity is determined by his relation to other “thous”. This relation is not a juxtaposition of an autonomous I and an autonomous thou, for there is no really I apart from thou. The I and the thou remain distinct yet are, only in communion with each other. Let me give an example using this chapter, Sara,as part of the Tosca Tango orchestra (Chapter 1- Dream is Destiny). She plays her own score but her music is in and part of the music of the orchestra. In a way the essence of her music is to be more than itself. Or again the individual notes of a music piece, they find their identity only in relation to the other notes; each note cannot be autonomous.

Beverly Quitlong Republic of the Philippines

12/29/2009 12:28:12 PM #

Chris Gamble

I think the latter of these two pieces is about life. The music. "I want it to sound rich and maybe almost a little wavy due to being slightly out of tune...I think it should be slightly detached."

Chris Gamble United States

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