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Vanilla Sky
Character: Sofia Serrano
Year: 2001
Director: Cameron Crowe
Screenwriter: Alejandro Amenábar, Mateo Gil
Genre: Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Mystery
MPAA Rating: R for sexuality and strong language
Other Cast: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell
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David Aames, a tycoon's son who, in the eyes of many, is a spoiled child who has no realization of his wealth or luck. Inhereting his fathers company after both parents were killed in a road accident some years prior, David meets a girl whom his friend brings to a lavish house party one night and instantly falls in love with her.
Desperate to find out more about this mystery girl, he gets chatting to her, unfortunately a jilted lover is watching David at all times and plans her final plot. After surviving a car crash and having his face reconstructed courtesy of his 'jilted lover', David struggles to find out the truth when his dreams turn into reality, and what he thinks is reality, turns into nightmares.
He knows he wants the Mystery girl he met at the party that night, but where is she? who is she? Everything seems muddled slightly, until a doctor manages to repair his face, and life is back to the way it should be, together with his mystery girl, or is it? Questions need to be answered, but who is to be asked and who has the answers.
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Penélope Cruz also starred in Abre los ojos (1997), of which this film is a remake.
Cameron Crowe says that there are 428 references to pop culture made in the film - 429 if you include one made in error.
Kurt Russell agreed to do the film without reading the script.
In David's bedroom, there is a poster for Jules et Jim (1962), a French movie in which the climactic scene involves the female star driving a car with her and her lover off a bridge. Other connections to Jules et Jim (1962) in the movie include the brief freeze-frames interspersed in the love scene between Penélope Cruz and Tom Cruise (a technique made famous by François Truffaut's direction of Jules et Jim (1962)) and the fact that the plot centers around two men in love with the same woman. David also has a poster for À bout de souffle (1960), for which Truffaut wrote the story.
Sofia's line, "I'll tell you in another life, when we are both cats" was a phrase actually uttered spontaneously in a moment of frustration by Penélope Cruz to Cameron Crowe.
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