Vanilla Sky
Vanilla Sky is a 2001 film starring Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz. The film was directed by Cameron Crowe and is a close remake of the 1997 Spanish film Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes), which was written by Alejandro Amenábar and Mateo Gil.Early in the film, the principal character mentions Monet's "vanilla sky" in a painting.
Throughout the movie, the skies are all "vanilla" just like in Monet's painting - in fact, a little too like the painting. That is the only giveaway that we're in a fantasy movie about simulated reality, because it plays it straight, about modern life, a successful womanizer who becomes the victim of a Fatal Attraction.
Various people have speculated that the picture depicted in the film is either Monet's "Falaises et Voiliers a Pourville", or even one of the series named variously "Wheat Field and Cypress Trees" / "Yellow Wheat and Cypress" / "Paysage avec Cypres" by Vincent Van Gogh.
See also: Life extension
