They literally shut down Times Square for 3 hours on a Sunday morning. They have not allowed another film to do that since. The Radiohead opening is beautiful!
Reminds me of how, to accommodate filming of the movie Breakfast At Tiffany's, Tiffany's Jewelry Store closed down on a Sunday for the first time in about 200 years.
I watched this film in the summertime and didn't know what to think. But for some reason, I couldn't stop thinking about this movie for almost 6 months after my first viewing. After much thought, I decided to watch this movie again and I can safely say that I love it. No film has been able to impact me this much in a long long time. Wonderful movie!
@@pepejulianonzeima.whosaysi9747 Just to clarify, the director of Abre los Ojos is actually the spanish/chilean Alejandro Amenábar, who also directed "The Others"
@@pepejulianonzeima.whosaysi9747 No problem at all :) Glad you've enjoyed Abre los Ojos, which, in my book, is superior to Vanilla Sky by several orders of magnitude-
Absolutely 100 percent right bro! This is perhaps the greatest movie ever made! Sheer genius of cameron crowe for this masterpiece! Man, what a brilliant movie!!!!!!
Probably one of the best opening scenes ever! Definitely preps you for what you're in for, the sense of quiet dread established through the whistling over the shots of New York and the eeriness of an empty NYC, the fact that Crowe actually got Times Square shut down to shoot this sequence makes me appreciate it even more!
I was asleep on the couch in the living room we had downstairs when my brother put this movie on. I still remember when she first said open your eyes, instantly being drawn to the voice whispering to me in my slumber and opening my eyes only to behold this wonderful movie. Still can't imagine a better way too wake up quite honestly
As a Native New Yorker this was really cool to witness (I was there) but also incredibly very frightening. Because New York is always the first to get invaded by the aliens, blown up, blown away by tornadoes and of course King Kong is in love with our tall buildings😂🤣😂
The film on David's TV before he wakes up, about 40 seconds in, is the 1954 Billy Wilder classic, Sabrina. Starring Audrey Hepburn. Writer/Director Cameron Crowe has said that right off the bat they wanted to show what David wants and what he is seeking: a dream of true romantic love like he has seen in pop culture. And Crowe decided to use the image of Hepburn dancing in Sabrina to represent that. Also, David is hearing Sofia's voice even though he hasn't met her yet. Even if it's subconscious, he's already looking for Sofia and for that love that will change his life. This is all established in the first minute of screen time. Impressive. David removing the grey hair could shows his desire of staying young forever or his vanity. And of course Radiohead sets the tone for the film perfectly and even establishes some of the themes of the film. "Sucking a lemon" referring to the "sweet and sour." And the amazing Times Square scene. Set perfectly to the song From Rusholme With Love by Mint Royale. Crowe has said that many of the images on the screens in The Square and the subliminal flashes that David sees represents a quick fix for what's missing out of his life. This is one of the best openings to a film I've ever seen.
Either he's psychic or Sofia's voice in his dream before he meets her indicates that the entire film is a dream, even the part we're supposed to believe is his real life before he was frozen. It's a dream within a dream. And of course the voice that says "open your eyes, David" at the end sounds likes Julianna's.
@@coreyc3571 Doubtful on the frozen part. I don't believe the Life Extension is actually real, rather, I'm keen to believe everything we see is a result of his comatose state following the car crash. That would explain why he hears Sofia's voice at the end when he wakes up. She's likely his visitor at the hospital. That's just about the most optimistic ending for this movie.
One of my favourite movies as a kid… I had no idea this song was even in it… I didn’t start listening to Radiohead until way later on and this is literally my favourite song…
Finished rewatching it for the 4th time right now. I appreciate this opening so much; the artistic visualization is superb. Every little detail compacted in those 3 minutes has more vision then most full length movies 🤯
Never seen this movie but when I was kid I fell asleep and left it on HBO. The "open your eyes" woke me up and I heard this. Fell in love with this song ever since. I think I was 7.
During Covid lockdowns I was going for walks in my cities downtown during the day and it was like I was in a fallout game. Ghost town everywhere barely any cars or people it was a trip
3:17 Twilight Zone episode "SHADOW PLAY" playing on the screen in the center...Dennis Weaver plays a man who relives the same dream over and over again.
How can it be Sofia's voice that says "open your eyes" if David hasn't met her yet? And at the end, when we hear a woman say "open your eyes" after he jumps off the building, the voice sounds like Julianna's. This introduces the possibility that at no point did we see David's real life in the film. Even the part we're led to believe was his real life before he was frozen is a dream. It's a dream within a dream. And it makes sense, if you think about it. His life before the accident is totally ideal, so perfect it's almost too perfect. He's a young and handsome playboy who is heir to a fortune? It sounds like a scenario you might select from a menu when you purchase a lucid dream plan from a cryo-sleep company.
such an iconic opening scene, i watched this movie but started watching far after this mark, wish i couldve found out they used radiohead for this movie while watching this
Brilliant film! Why the hell does anyone not like it? It reveals itself as a film that is going to descend into dystopian confusion, and then resolve itself in the last five minutes. It's going to be confusing as hell, and then reveal what was happening the whole time. Kick back and enjoy it, people.
@@agathajadwiszczok3503 DID YOU WATCH THE MOVIE? It's a nightmare that happens before he dies. He hasn't even entered the Lucid Dream yet. IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE.
You drive a car like that....live in a place like that...look as good as you do... and have a paperclip for a wallet. This is the real trip of this movie.
@@Dpboom1 Yeah, that takes some real power and connections. That was crazy that they pulled that off. I wonder if it would be done today, and if it would be approved.
The fact that David lives at the Dakota Makes it all the more eerie -as it brings to mind shades of Polanski's brilliant film, Rosemary's Baby. BTW The license plate on one of my cars reads VNLA SKY. A true Masterpiece
Apparently Cameron Crowe was due to make a live action adaption with Burton as the screenwriter hence his trademark connection of having a link to his next proposed projection in his current film.
They literally shut down Times Square for 3 hours on a Sunday morning. They have not allowed another film to do that since. The Radiohead opening is beautiful!
Reminds me of how, to accommodate filming of the movie Breakfast At Tiffany's, Tiffany's Jewelry Store closed down on a Sunday for the first time in about 200 years.
Before or after 9/11?
Covid hours got this beat in April 2020
@@jculver1674 200 years? damn when did it first open??
I am legend came damn close to shutting down TS fully for the scene where he’s driving through
This song is in it's right place for the intro of this great movie
What is it called ?
@@mo3tz3zet65 everything is in its right place by Radiohead
Such perfect use of Radiohead in this scene
I watched this film in the summertime and didn't know what to think. But for some reason, I couldn't stop thinking about this movie for almost 6 months after my first viewing. After much thought, I decided to watch this movie again and I can safely say that I love it. No film has been able to impact me this much in a long long time. Wonderful movie!
BrandoCritic watch the original version, from the Spanish Director Almodóvar, it’s called Abre Los Ojos, like Penelope is saying at the start.
@@pepejulianonzeima.whosaysi9747 Just to clarify, the director of Abre los Ojos is actually the spanish/chilean Alejandro Amenábar, who also directed "The Others"
Zé Fontainhas Oops, thanks for pointing it out, it seems I committed a mistake... the names are similar, hehe!
@@pepejulianonzeima.whosaysi9747 No problem at all :) Glad you've enjoyed Abre los Ojos, which, in my book, is superior to Vanilla Sky by several orders of magnitude-
Absolutely 100 percent right bro!
This is perhaps the greatest movie ever made! Sheer genius of cameron crowe for this masterpiece! Man, what a brilliant movie!!!!!!
Probably one of the best opening scenes ever! Definitely preps you for what you're in for, the sense of quiet dread established through the whistling over the shots of New York and the eeriness of an empty NYC, the fact that Crowe actually got Times Square shut down to shoot this sequence makes me appreciate it even more!
The symbolism of every man being truly alone in the world and realizing that truth when you least expect it.
Don't act like you don't have a choice regarding whether or not you want to be alone.
@@glenwicks4976 idiot.
Underrated comment!
@@glenwicks4976 dont act like youre a fucking man
What matters if you're rich, beatiful an charming but there's no one to see you in this world, except you?
Oh! Great and deep coment!!
There is nothing harder than being rich, beautiful charming and the world going wrong for you. Ugly people will never understand
Vanilla Sky was oddly a Beautiful movie I wish they could rerelease,in IMAX.
It’s like in this corona-days. You know...
Lockdown starts today in my country. I woke up and it looks exactly like this
@@adude8424 empty Time Square. They closed 40 blocks for this scene. Tom said on Letterman in 2001.
@@snappycruise its VFX..dont spread lies
@@SunilSharma-jj1ch what is VFX? Lies? I don't understand what you mean.
@@snappycruise plz Google .VFX
I was asleep on the couch in the living room we had downstairs when my brother put this movie on. I still remember when she first said open your eyes, instantly being drawn to the voice whispering to me in my slumber and opening my eyes only to behold this wonderful movie. Still can't imagine a better way too wake up quite honestly
As a Native New Yorker this was really cool to witness (I was there) but also incredibly very frightening. Because New York is always the first to get invaded by the aliens, blown up, blown away by tornadoes and of course King Kong is in love with our tall buildings😂🤣😂
One of the few films to have literally changed my life 🖤
how did it? intrigued
Romance, Drama or action movies, Tom Cruise will always do atleast one scene of insane running 🏃
Except in tropic thunder 😂
Corona virus
Not in Eyes Wide Shut. Or Magnolia.
Not in Jack Reacher.
And screaming. 😜
The film on David's TV before he wakes up, about 40 seconds in, is the 1954 Billy Wilder classic, Sabrina. Starring Audrey Hepburn. Writer/Director Cameron Crowe has said that right off the bat they wanted to show what David wants and what he is seeking: a dream of true romantic love like he has seen in pop culture. And Crowe decided to use the image of Hepburn dancing in Sabrina to represent that. Also, David is hearing Sofia's voice even though he hasn't met her yet. Even if it's subconscious, he's already looking for Sofia and for that love that will change his life. This is all established in the first minute of screen time. Impressive. David removing the grey hair could shows his desire of staying young forever or his vanity. And of course Radiohead sets the tone for the film perfectly and even establishes some of the themes of the film. "Sucking a lemon" referring to the "sweet and sour." And the amazing Times Square scene. Set perfectly to the song From Rusholme With Love by Mint Royale. Crowe has said that many of the images on the screens in The Square and the subliminal flashes that David sees represents a quick fix for what's missing out of his life. This is one of the best openings to a film I've ever seen.
Either he's psychic or Sofia's voice in his dream before he meets her indicates that the entire film is a dream, even the part we're supposed to believe is his real life before he was frozen. It's a dream within a dream. And of course the voice that says "open your eyes, David" at the end sounds likes Julianna's.
@@GlynDwr-d4h Entire movie is a dream while frozen
Thank you!!! I’ve been trying for the longest to figure out what movie is playing on the TV when this movie starts!
@@coreyc3571 Doubtful on the frozen part. I don't believe the Life Extension is actually real, rather, I'm keen to believe everything we see is a result of his comatose state following the car crash. That would explain why he hears Sofia's voice at the end when he wakes up. She's likely his visitor at the hospital. That's just about the most optimistic ending for this movie.
One of my favourite movies as a kid… I had no idea this song was even in it… I didn’t start listening to Radiohead until way later on and this is literally my favourite song…
Finished rewatching it for the 4th time right now. I appreciate this opening so much; the artistic visualization is superb. Every little detail compacted in those 3 minutes has more vision then most full length movies 🤯
For me this is one of THE most perfect movie scenes
Dude I got goosebumps all over
This movie change my life forever
how did it? intrigued
this is the best movie scene ever created...
Radiohead, antique Ferrari , empty Manhattan, and Tom Cruise running fast AF!! Epic intro to a mindbender of film. 🎥
I can't explain the feeling i got after i watched this movie...
This movie had stuck with me since I first watched it as a kid
The empty times square scene is 2020 corona virus reality. Life imitates art once again
This aged well.
Every introverts' dream
Idk, might be everyone’s nightmare tbh. Introverts are still social, just a lot less so than people who arent.
Introverts a lot of the time wish they could talk to people but are too afraid or have bad social skills.
@@BuddySpike101 it also has to do with our tendency to be naturally reserved among other things
Until its reality
It's bs that people actually pray to be alone until they actually are
Never seen this movie but when I was kid I fell asleep and left it on HBO. The "open your eyes" woke me up and I heard this. Fell in love with this song ever since. I think I was 7.
So...his lucid dream starts from the beginning of the movie.
OH MY GOD I SAW THE MOVIE 3 YEARS AGO AND I FINALLY UNDERSTAND IT'S ENDING BECAUSE OF YOUR COMMENT
He's Basically In Purgatory An Endless Loop From Buddha 🙏
@@MichaelErnest666 this comment was good
@@leonardoturco1707 In The Words Of Buddha "Welcome To Paradise" 🙃
@@MichaelErnest666 Why does it have the number 666 on it? Are you luciferian?
Coronavirus: the dream came true.
Probably one of my worst nightmares is waking up in a big city with no one left but me.
Fred RM Welcome to your nightmares.
Sounds ok to me
During Covid lockdowns I was going for walks in my cities downtown during the day and it was like I was in a fallout game. Ghost town everywhere barely any cars or people it was a trip
ok. who else came here because the COVID-19-caused emptiness of Times Square made them think of this scene?
Me!
Me too (;
Dont make me laugh
me
Same here
3:17
Twilight Zone episode "SHADOW PLAY" playing on the screen in the center...Dennis Weaver plays a man who relives the same dream over and over again.
This scene remembers me the first episode of twilight zone "where is everybody?".
one of my favorite movie scenes ever, so dreamy
This scene is not computer enhanced the production was given unprecedented permission to shut down Times Square for one sunday.
2:35-2:58 If you're hear closely(or have headphones), you can hear the sounds of the chamber.
3:30 katie holmes being there isn’t confused Tom running is pure gold
One of the best movies ever!
Watch more movies
@@Jefcostello-1 I've seen almost 3500 movies in my life. It's still one of the best.
@Tomasz k.
@eating sugar no papa
I guess you both have shit taste in movie's
Agree!!
Even though this is a remake, i agree with you guys
This is one of the Best Movies Ever Period
How can it be Sofia's voice that says "open your eyes" if David hasn't met her yet? And at the end, when we hear a woman say "open your eyes" after he jumps off the building, the voice sounds like Julianna's. This introduces the possibility that at no point did we see David's real life in the film. Even the part we're led to believe was his real life before he was frozen is a dream. It's a dream within a dream. And it makes sense, if you think about it. His life before the accident is totally ideal, so perfect it's almost too perfect. He's a young and handsome playboy who is heir to a fortune? It sounds like a scenario you might select from a menu when you purchase a lucid dream plan from a cryo-sleep company.
I thought the same thing when I watched this
and then his best friend at the beginning says Julie is his dream girl...then at the party he says Sofia could be the girl of his dreams
First Song: Everything In it's Right Place - Radiohead
Second Song: From Rusholme with Love - Mint Royale
Running at empty times square amazing
A fascinating scene, not only will you never see this in a movie again, nobody has ever or will ever see Times Square empty like this again!!!
I still think it's crazy that they were able to shut down and completely empty Time Square for this sequence. Would they be able to do that nowadays?
They may have done it through time lapse: you can edit out moving objects and then superimpose the video screen films after.
Adelaide hula hoopers nah they actually paid like millions to shut it down for a day
Yes.
@@Endeavour30 guess they don't have to; Covid did it for them!
Covid
Radiohead - everything in its right place
🙏😁
And Mint Royale - From Rusholme With Love
This is what was looking for thank you lol@@OzeeManDias
This is probably the best romantic movie ever made ❤
All shot for real which makes this sequence so epic!
When this movie was released I was living on the top floor of the Dakota & had same a similar vintage car. You can see my old apartment at 0:30
crazy man, how's life nowadays?
such an iconic opening scene, i watched this movie but started watching far after this mark, wish i couldve found out they used radiohead for this movie while watching this
Iconic.
It looks as if it were this morning in New York City 2020 March 26th.
Didn’t get the memo that NYC is back in COVID lockdown
Brilliant film! Why the hell does anyone not like it? It reveals itself as a film that is going to descend into dystopian confusion, and then resolve itself in the last five minutes. It's going to be confusing as hell, and then reveal what was happening the whole time. Kick back and enjoy it, people.
Actually, this part makes no sense!
Why would being in a fake reality make Times Square empty?!
Especially since this happens BEFORE the car crash ?!
@@agathajadwiszczok3503 DID YOU WATCH THE MOVIE? It's a nightmare that happens before he dies. He hasn't even entered the Lucid Dream yet. IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE.
@@agathajadwiszczok3503 SO SHUT UP!!!
You can experience the same empty New York if you come here now
You drive a car like that....live in a place like that...look as good as you do... and have a paperclip for a wallet. This is the real trip of this movie.
It actually looks like it's a sterling silver money clip.
To this day I do not carry a wallet because of this movie
2:59 I listened to this when I was high . Man I would wanna do it again, I felt enlightenment.
How on earth you get a deserted times square ?
Artun Öğütman a lot of funds
Was recorded on a Sunday at 6 am
Although it was filmed on a Sunday, Time Square is still very busy around 6 AM. They paid to have it shut down for ONE Sunday
@@Dpboom1 Yeah, that takes some real power and connections. That was crazy that they pulled that off. I wonder if it would be done today, and if it would be approved.
Corona virus
Best movie ever made x 1 trillion.
At first when I was younger I didn’t care for this movie now that I’m older I think you might be right this movie is criminally underrated
You've got to be Tom Cruise to shut down Times Square on a Sunday morning. Woah!
Songs are Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place, and Mint Royale - From Rusholme With Love
3:05, Love the song at the end!!!
What song is it
Legend Forever Vanilla Sky ❤
Every day im woke up feels im David Aames
At 1:51 of this video play in another window "This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now" from U2, this song was totally made for this moment in my opinion...
(it's COVID season) Underrated movie.
I LOVE this movie
I live in Belfast and went I woke up this morning this was pretty much what it looked like all empty
every day i drove downtown to get my cancer radiation during the corona19 and it looked like this. sureal
I'm now in Florence, Italy. And seems to be in Times Square
If you put the video on the slowest setting while he is running, you can the green bridge railing from the car crash.
I loved watching this film.
cruise's reaction getting out of the car in times square was probably real. like wtf happened here? it's just me and a cameraman?
1:12 there’s something effortlessly cool about how he turns the TV off
Those flat TVs were very expensive back then.
I’m sure the guy in the apartment below didn’t appreciate it.
Yesss, very Graceful
Beautiful
VERY UNDERRATED MOVIE.
2020 Quarantine
Waking up on March 21, 2020
Wonderful movie.....
Only a legendary actor like Tom Cruise has the pull to shut down Times Square!
07/02/24
This is Tom in the Covid crisis
When you wake up early in new year...
They could shut down Times square but they couldnt get a real Ferrari 250 GTO for the scene.
Go lookup their value
The fact that David lives at the Dakota Makes it all the more eerie -as it brings to mind shades of Polanski's brilliant film, Rosemary's Baby. BTW The license plate on one of my cars reads VNLA SKY. A true Masterpiece
Great times back in 2001
This was filmed at 6pm actually, they really dont use any cgi (s)
Oh, how I wish I could 8 yrs old again 😢
New Year 2021 celebrations!
Deja Vu
This kinda reminded me when the lockdown began.
Plot twist: The film takes place in a dream version of 2020.
I love this comment.
Folks are catching on to the predictive programming 👊
The perfect intro scene in a movie: Tom Cruise, Radiohead, IWC and a Ferrari, I love it!
Funny how at minute 3:30 there’s a frame with Katie Holmes on the cover of a magazine..
Very memorable movie Title, Opening and Plot
😮😮😮 3:12 beautiful😍
let's get out of a perfectly good Ferrari to run down the street
3:10 Cat Power's "Cross Bones Style" playing in the background
Watching it in the year 2023. 😄
3:11 in the Background the poster from the Movie ''Rugrats in Paris'' (2000)
Apparently Cameron Crowe was due to make a live action adaption with Burton as the screenwriter hence his trademark connection of having a link to his next proposed projection in his current film.
Open your Eyes
Coronavirus scene 😂
City of GTA 4
Living a dream
Good one😂
Does anyone know the model of this TV?
It's funny reading the comments people made about this scene pre-2020 and then during and after.