Posted: 8/19/2017 2:09:38 PM EDT
| In the movie Quade goes to recalland buys the spy vacation plan. When they do the implant everything goes bananas and people start to try to kill him. Is he actually on the recall vacation during the rest of the movie or is that stuff really happening? |
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Blue sky on Mars it what recall chick said before the implant process began. End of movie, blue sky on Mars. He was living the recall implant memory |
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In the movie Quade goes to recalland buys the spy vacation plan. When they do the implant everything goes bananas and people start to try to kill him. Is he actually on the recall vacation during the rest of the movie or is that stuff really happening? sorry, thought this was a sig thread. 
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| If you really want to spend time contemplating it, read "we can remember it for you wholesale" by Philip K. Dick. He wrote the stories that a bunch of sci-fi action movies are based on. Only all his main characters are kind of schulmpy, awkward dudes who have no action skills what so ever. |
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Paul Verhoeven cleared this up years ago:
“Total Recall doesn’t say whether it’s reality or it is a dream, you know? It’s really saying there’s this reality and there’s that reality, and both exist at the same time,” Paul Verhoeven explained in a Canadian hotel room, the day after the film screened at TIFF. “Because you look at Total Recall there is never a preference, let’s say, taken by me or the scriptwriter, to say this is really what he dreams about and this is the truth.”“I wanted it to be that way,” Verhoeven clarifies. “Because I felt that it was – if you want to use a very big word – post-modern. I felt that basically I should not say ‘This is true, and this not true.’ I wanted – and we worked with Gary Goldman on that, not the original writers – [and we] worked very hard to make both consistent, and that both would be true. And I think we succeeded very well. So I think of course there is no solution. Hey, it’s both true. So I thought, two realities; that it was innovative in movie language at least, to a certain degree, that there would be two realities and there is no choice.” Read more at http://www.craveonline.com/entertainment/1162415-exclusive-paul-verhoeven-finally-explains-ending-total-recall#QH5rDu5BX37I76YI.99 |
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But he had his mind wiped before being sent to Earth. He knew what the reactor on Mars was supposed to do, including turn the sky blue. It was that intrusive memory that made him think of a blue sky on Marsh when he was planning the Rekall Trip. Quoted:
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Blue sky on Mars it what recall chick said before the implant process began. End of movie, blue sky on Mars. He was living the recall implant memory Wasn't there a red pill in TR before the Matrix? "On earth you'll be lobotomized!" |
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I know what the director stated about there "not being an actual answer" but what always made it seem to be real for me, is when the techs in the lab at Recall had stated they hadn't actually implanted the memory yet when the guy was asking WTF happened; and that was out of earshot of Arnold.
If they said it right beside him before he was knocked out, then it would lead me more to the "could be recall memory" side. |
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This is the correct answer. Also Paul Verhoeven needs to make more movies. Quoted:
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Yes. Also Paul Verhoeven needs to make more movies. After that hot boiling explosive diarrhea that was Starship Troopers, dear God, no. I read that book when I was a kid. He completely fucked it up. As he does all his movies. |