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* MeanwhileInTheFuture: There are characters communicating with scientists in the future with a business's answering machine in the "present", which a team of scientists spend months and years recovering from the decayed magnetic tape. While the continuity is well-explained, the interaction between future and present, even with the time machine, is relatively sequential.
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* MeanwhileInTheFuture: There are characters communicating with scientists in the future [[WriteBackToTheFuture with a business's answering machine machine]] in the "present", which a team of scientists spend spends months and years recovering from the decayed magnetic tape. While Since the continuity movie is well-explained, based on a StableTimeloop, they should have all the interaction between future and present, even with messages from Cole in one batch, however, the time machine, is relatively sequential.narrative treats each message sent from the past as a new event in the future.
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* WriteBackToTheFuture: As Cole prepares to travel from the future, he is given the telephone number of an answering machine whose tape was found in archaeological research; the whole end-of-the-world problem ensured the tape was not erased for reuse.
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* WriteBackToTheFuture: As Cole prepares to travel from the future, he is given the telephone number of an answering machine whose tape was found in archaeological research; the whole end-of-the-world problem ensured the tape was not erased for reuse. Although a team of scientists spent months and years recovering from the decayed magnetic tape.
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misuse. Kathryn does not share Cole's delusion, she believes him which is covered under Contagious Cassandra Truth
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* MadnessSharedByTwo: Dr. Kathryn Railly fears this is happening to her when she gets involved with her psychiatric patient James Cole, who claims to be from the future when most of humanity has been wiped out by a man-made plague. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted when he recites a phone call she made he couldn't possibly have overheard; he's telling the truth, and the world is about to end.]]
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shoehorning. we don't know who the man was who appeared in the medieval age and Cole never assumed the role of a historical figure
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* JuliusBeethovenDaVinci: A psychiatric patient claims to be from the future, here to avert a disastrous, human-inflicted plague. She uses him as the basis of a mental illness called Cassandra syndrome, a disease she identified based on historical examples. What the viewer can tell and she can't is that all those historical examples are him, living in various times when his time machine malfunctioned (or other time travelers-we see one that gave the same warning to some English medieval peasants).
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misuse, Earth is not an agent in this
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* GaiasVengeance: The purpose of the virus is to restore the natural world by eradicating mankind. The Army of the Twelve Monkeys, an AnimalWrongsGroup, are the culprits. [[spoiler:[[RedHerring Only they aren't]]. The real culprit is a creepy assistant in ChristopherPlummer's virology lab.]]
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this trope doesn't apply since the viewer cannot make the connection between the two scenes until later in the movie
* DreamIntro: The movie starts with the pivotal scene at the airport which turns out to be a dream Cole was having in his prison cell.
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* HowWeGotHere: Cole's dream of seeing a man gunned down [[spoiler:is actually a childhood memory of seeing his future self die]].
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* AfterTheEnd: Cole's 'present'. He's sent back to pre-end times not to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong but just to collect information they need in their present.
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** 1. James believes he may be delusional and his lack of social skills and ability to remember minute details are evidence. Likewise we get no explanation as to where the voice he hears is coming from and why people from his present keep showing up at random times.
** 2. There are a lot of similarities between the present prison and the past hospital, most notably the guards and panel of doctors from each timeline. Plus, the time machine is strikingly similar to the CT Scanner the camera focuses on for longer than seems necessary.
** 3. We never get any explanation as to how the few remaining survivors, who have no immunity to the virus, managed to build an intricate underground city and have the capability of building a time machine but have no apparent source of food, water, or even breathable air.
** [[spoiler:At the very end of the story, it is [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when James gets over his [[HeroicBSOD mental breakdown]] and tries to attack Peters, which ends with him dead and Peters still alive to spread the virus, completing the StableTimeLoop.]]
** 2. There are a lot of similarities between the present prison and the past hospital, most notably the guards and panel of doctors from each timeline. Plus, the time machine is strikingly similar to the CT Scanner the camera focuses on for longer than seems necessary.
** 3. We never get any explanation as to how the few remaining survivors, who have no immunity to the virus, managed to build an intricate underground city and have the capability of building a time machine but have no apparent source of food, water, or even breathable air.
** [[spoiler:At the very end of the story, it is [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when James gets over his [[HeroicBSOD mental breakdown]] and tries to attack Peters, which ends with him dead and Peters still alive to spread the virus, completing the StableTimeLoop.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Cole is killed and 99% of humanity is about to go with him, but he did successfully locate the pure sample of the virus, and one of the scientists was able to collect it (although only through contaminating herself with it, and she could well die from it if it takes more than a few weeks to create a cure).]]
* {{Bowdlerise}}: One edit has a handful of silly-sounding dubbed lines, but they seem to opt for just eliding swears with pauses whenever it'd still make sense. This actually may make the ending of the scene where [[ItMakesSenseInContext James and Kathryn fight a pimp, then James is pulling out his own teeth in front of him]] a bit funnier:
-->'''Wallace:''' Hey! Is that the cops? I'm an innocent victim here! I was attacked by a coked-up whore and a...a... crazy dentist!
-->'''Wallace:''' Hey! Is that the cops? I'm an innocent victim here! I was attacked by a coked-up whore and a...a... crazy dentist!
* DepopulationBomb: A man-made virus is released that is so deadly that it kills 5 billion people and, 30 years later, the survivors still have to live underground and can only go outside in environmental suits.
* DoomedFellowPrisoner: Zigzagged. Cole is introduced sharing a cell with Jose, speculating about being subjected to the time travel experiment. Cole is the one who gets taken and subjected to this, but then he encounters Jose, also having been sent through time and in a far more precarious situation than Cole himself is. ''Then'' it turns out that Jose survived that though, and he ultimately makes it to the end of the movie, [[spoiler:unlike Cole himself]].
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: [[StableTimeLoop Kinda.]]
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Done in a very unique way. The protagonist has a recurring nightmare about a traumatic experience he had as a kid where he saw a man get shot by police after pulling a gun in an airport. It is only at the end that it becomes clear it is both a memory of his past and [[spoiler:a vision of his future; [[StableTimeLoop Kinda.the man that got shot is his older self from the future]].]]
* {{Futureshadowing}}: We see a man being shot in an airport, long before we find out who the man is, what he's doing in the airport, and why he got shot.
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* HospitalHottie: Dr. Kathryn Railly.
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* HowWeGotHere: Cole's dream of seeing a man gunned down [[spoiler:is actually a childhood memory of seeing his future self die]].
* InfectiousInsanity: "Telephone call? Telephone call? That's communication with the outside world. ''Doctor's discretion.'' Nuh-uh. Look, hey - all of these nuts could just make phone calls, they could spread insanity, oozing through telephone cables, oozing into the ears of all these poor sane people, infecting them. Wackos everywhere, plague of madness."
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* JustBeforeTheEnd: 1996 is the year the killer virus was released, so Cole's trips to it are just before the end.
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* JuliusBeethovenDaVinci: A psychiatric patient claims to be from the future, here to avert a disastrous, human-inflicted plague. She uses him as the basis of a mental illness called Cassandra syndrome, a disease she identified based on historical examples. What the viewer can tell and she can't is that all those historical examples are him, living in various times when his time machine malfunctioned (or other time travelers-we see one that gave the same warning to some English medieval peasants).
* JustBeforeTheEnd:1996 The entire film is [[spoiler:a StableTimeLoop that has one of the year main characters seeing the killer virus was released, so Cole's trips to it are just before first few minutes of a viral infection that will cull mankind in the end.flesh, and see his older self being assassinated by airport security in a futile attempt at stopping it. The only true change he brings with his time travel is providing information to the scientists that did it so they can maybe create a vaccine many years later.]]
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* NoMereWindmill: An understandable instance occurs. WindmillCrusader James Cole has to try and prevent the near-extinction of mankind by lethal virus; however, the reason nobody listens to his warnings is that he claims to be from the future, and even [[UnreliableNarrator Cole himself begins to question if people are right about him being insane.]]
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: James Cole, a habitual criminal in the future, is '[[GotVolunteered volunteered]]' by the scientists to go back to the past to investigate the virus that now forces what's left of humanity to live underground.
-->'''Scientist:''' For a man in your position, an opportunity not to volunteer would be a mistake...
-->'''Scientist:''' For a man in your position, an opportunity not to volunteer would be a mistake...
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* RuinsOfTheModernAge: James' trip into the ruins of Philadelphia.
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* RuinsOfTheModernAge: James' trip into At the start, James Cole GotVolunteered to leave the UndergroundCity in a HazmatSuit to collect samples from the ruins of Philadelphia.Philadelphia. This serves to establish the post-pandemic world he lives in before he time-travels to the past.
* ShackleSeatTrap: When James Cole is brought in to meet the panel of scientists, his guards caution them about how dangerous he is. A scientist assures them that Cole isn't going to do them harm, and asks him to take a seat. Cole sits in the only chair available, whereupon metal clamps close over his wrists and the seat elevates halfway up the wall.
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* TemporalSickness: The process of time travel seems to cause psychological harm. Cole shares rumors with Jose that the other inmates who GotVolunteered for the trip wound up in the psych ward. His own trips through time seem to strain Cole's mind.
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* TattooedCrook: Cole has two barcodes tattooed on his neck that reveal that he was convicted for violent crimes.
* TemporalSickness: The process of time travel seems to cause psychological harm. This is explained early, as Coleshares relays rumors with Jose that the other inmates who GotVolunteered for the trip wound up in the psych ward. His own trips through ward.
** The scientists responsible for the project tell Cole that he possesses a mental resilience that makes him a good candidate for timeseem travel: an ability to strain Cole's mind.remember facts and details. He is not unscathed though, as he can GoAmongMadPeople and fit in perfectly.
** Dr. Railly's research draws attention to the phenomenon of {{Doomsayer}} prophets: strange people spouting half-coherent CassandraTruth about an incoming plague and the end of the world. It is suggested (but not confirmed) that every such MadOracle in history is like Cole: flung into the past, driven mad, and doomed to babble about a half-remembered reckoning.
* TemporalSickness: The process of time travel seems to cause psychological harm. This is explained early, as Cole
** The scientists responsible for the project tell Cole that he possesses a mental resilience that makes him a good candidate for time
** Dr. Railly's research draws attention to the phenomenon of {{Doomsayer}} prophets: strange people spouting half-coherent CassandraTruth about an incoming plague and the end of the world. It is suggested (but not confirmed) that every such MadOracle in history is like Cole: flung into the past, driven mad, and doomed to babble about a half-remembered reckoning.
* TrustPassword: Cole can't figure out if he's actually from the future or if he's just crazy. He figures it out when [[spoiler:he tells Kathryn to make a phone call for him to a phone he knows will be monitored in the future. Kathryn leaves the message Cole had been told about in the future, which confirms he's from the future]].
* WastelandElder: After TheVirus kills most of humanity, the survivors live in underground shelters controlled by a council of a half-dozen middle-aged scientists who are using TimeTravel to FindTheCure.
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* YouCantFightFate: {{Played straight}}.Time-travelling protagonist Cole [[spoiler:recognizes a scientist and concludes he is directly involved with the virus that wiped out most of humanity. Cole runs trying to stop him, and is shot down by airport security. Said death is witnessed by young Cole, [[YouAlreadyChangedThePast becoming one of his most vivid memories, played over and over in his dreams]] - it was already set that he couldn't change the future]].
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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: James Cole finally figures out who the Army of the Twelve Monkeys are: Relatively harmless pranksters. Convinced that the BadFuture was just a figment of his imagination, he books a flight to the tropics with Kathryn. But before he can board the plane he receives another message from the future: TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt is at hand and he can still stop it.
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* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Cole hooks up with Kathryn, who he kidnapped when he was sent to 1996. Although they fall in love long after the kidnapping, during which Kathryn is nothing but terrified of him and tries everything to escape.
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* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Cole hooks up with Kathryn, who whom he kidnapped when he was sent to 1996. Although they fall in love long after the kidnapping, during which Kathryn is nothing but terrified of him and tries everything to escape.
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* MadnessSharedByTwo: Dr. Katherine Railly fears this is happening to her when she gets involved with her psychiatric patient James Cole, who claims to be from the future when most of humanity has been wiped out by a man-made plague. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted when he recites a phone call she made he couldn't possibly have overheard; he's telling the truth, and the world is about to end.]]
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* MadnessSharedByTwo: Dr. Katherine Kathryn Railly fears this is happening to her when she gets involved with her psychiatric patient James Cole, who claims to be from the future when most of humanity has been wiped out by a man-made plague. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted when he recites a phone call she made he couldn't possibly have overheard; he's telling the truth, and the world is about to end.]]
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* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Cole hooks up with Kathryn, who he kidnapped when he was sent to 1996. Although they fall in love long after the kidnapping, during which Kathryn is nothing but terrified of him and tries everything to escape.
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* EndIsNighEnding: {{Downplayed|trope}}. The pandemic's aftermath is amply depicted in scenes of the future, and the movie ends with the post-apocalyptic time traveler [[YouCantFightFate failing to change events in the slightest]], although his boss appears at the end to collect a viral sample and thus, make the more ''distant'' future less grim. The person carrying the deadly virus is then forced to open the canister by airport security, which is the exact moment that dooms mankind. We never get to see the virus spread, but we already know that it's inevitable.
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* CrapsackWorld: The future, what a plague has killed 99% of humanity and the rest live in an underground {{Dystopia}} where prisoners are treated like animals.
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* MickeyMousing: When he's introduced, Jeffrey Goines pops his head out of the collar of his shirt synchronized to a ''[[WackySoundEffect BOING]]'' sound effect from a cartoon playing on TV.
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* EcoTerrorist: Evidence points to [[AnimalWrongsGroup The Army of the 12 Monkeys]] being responsible for the release of the virus, [[spoiler:but they're just the RedHerring. The actual creator of the plague was Dr. Peters, an assistant at a virology lab — who had spoken before about the "lunacy" of mankind's environmental destruction]].
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* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Who is the leader of the Army of the Twelve Monkeys? None other than [[spoiler:Cole's fellow mental hospital inmate Jeffrey Goines.]] [[spoiler:Ultimately {{subverted}}, since he and his Army had nothing to do with releasing the virus.]]
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* DullSurprise: Bruce Willis, which is very well {{justified}} by his character being either heavily sedated or emotionally traumatized for most of the movie. In addition, it provides a perfect contrast for Creator/BradPitt's [[LargeHam maniacal bombast]].
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* DullSurprise: Bruce Willis, which is very well {{justified}} {{justified|Trope}} by his character being either heavily sedated or emotionally traumatized for most of the movie. In addition, it provides a perfect contrast for Creator/BradPitt's [[LargeHam maniacal bombast]].
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* ShoutOut: Cole and Railly attend an Creator/AlfredHitchcock movie marathon just before they go to the airport and catch a viewing of ''Film/{{Vertigo}}''. Said Hitchcock movie gives Railly the idea to [[spoiler:dye her hair blonde.]]
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* ShoutOut: Cole and Railly attend an Creator/AlfredHitchcock movie marathon just before they go to the airport and catch a viewing of ''Film/{{Vertigo}}''. Said Hitchcock movie It gives Railly the idea to [[spoiler:dye her hair blonde.]]
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Society Marches On has been renamed; cleaning out misuse and moving examples
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* SocietyMarchesOn: The depiction of 1990s airport security is accurate. Today, [[spoiler:Dr. Peters]] would never have gotten the vials past them. Likewise, in a post-9/11 and PATRIOT Act world, a virologist with top level clearance suddenly taking a trip around the globe to many of the world's major ports would've raised flags to the FBI, Homeland Security, and numerous other agencies. And Railly's accusations about him at the airport would've been investigated no matter ''how'' crazy she seemed. Likewise, Railly bought airplane tickets in cash twenty minutes before boarding, which would raise massive red flags today. And they would need photo [=IDs=] to even get near the security line post 9/11, so the disguises would be useless.
** On the other hand [[spoiler: Dr. Peters is strongly implied to have already released the virus in Philadelphia and at the airport when he was getting checked by airport security so the plague would start regardless maybe a bit slowed down but probably not by much.His trip seemed more designed to ensure that the plague trully becomes a pandemic but with it already released at the Philadelphia airport its unlikely it could have been stopped completely even with extra security in a post-9/11 world.]].
** On the other hand [[spoiler: Dr. Peters is strongly implied to have already released the virus in Philadelphia and at the airport when he was getting checked by airport security so the plague would start regardless maybe a bit slowed down but probably not by much.His trip seemed more designed to ensure that the plague trully becomes a pandemic but with it already released at the Philadelphia airport its unlikely it could have been stopped completely even with extra security in a post-9/11 world.]].
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* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler:The man who is really behind the release of the virus gets on the airplane and is seated next to a woman who, decades later, will send Cole on his mission into the past. When the man asks what she does for a living, she replies, "I'm in insurance.""]]
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* ConvenientPhotograph: Dr. Kathryn Railly is giving a lecture on the psychology of doomsday predictions, and pulls up a photograph of a delirious man in a World War One field hospital who claimed to be a time traveler from the future, trying to prevent an apocalypse. Then Dr. Railly meets James Cole, who similarly claims to be from the future, on a mission to prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. She initially dismisses this as a delusion, but the consistent details of Cole's story make her start to think he might be right. Eventually she reexamines the materials from her lecture--and recognizes Cole as a background figure in photograph of the World War One patient, convincing her that he really is a time traveller.
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** [[spoiler:Dr. Peters]] first appears at Dr. Railly's lecture and at the autograph session, tells Dr. Railly that the doomsayers have a point since mankind is destroying the Earth with atomic bombs, pollution etc. Subsequently, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Peters]] is the assistant to Dr. Leland Goines, the virologist.
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** [[spoiler:Dr. Peters]] first appears at Dr. Railly's lecture and at the autograph session, tells Dr. Railly that the doomsayers have a point since mankind is destroying the Earth with atomic bombs, pollution pollution, etc. Subsequently, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Peters]] is the assistant to Dr. Leland Goines, the virologist.
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* SpoiledByTheFormat: Some versions of the movie have subtitles that label the voice on the recording [[spoiler:"Kathryn's voice"]], despite Cole specifically saying the voice was unidentifiable later in the movie.
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''12 Monkeys'' is a 1995 science fiction film directed by Creator/TerryGilliam and written by [[Creator/DavidWebbPeoples David and Janet Peoples]]. It is based on the famous French experimental short film "Film/LaJetee." It stars Creator/BruceWillis, Creator/MadeleineStowe, and Creator/BradPitt, who won a UsefulNotes/GoldenGlobeAward for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward in the same category.
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''12 Monkeys'' is a 1995 science fiction film directed by Creator/TerryGilliam and written by [[Creator/DavidWebbPeoples David and Janet Peoples]]. It is based on the famous French experimental short film "Film/LaJetee." ''Film/LaJetee''. It stars Creator/BruceWillis, Creator/MadeleineStowe, and Creator/BradPitt, who won a UsefulNotes/GoldenGlobeAward for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward in the same category.
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* AdaptationTitleChange: The film is an American remake of the 1962 French short film ''Film/LaJetee''.
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* ShoutOut: Cole and Railly attend a Creator/AlfredHitchcock movie marathon just before they go to the airport and catch a viewing of ''Film/{{Vertigo}}''. Said Hitchcock movie gives Railly the idea to [[spoiler:dye her hair blonde.]]
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* ShoutOut: Cole and Railly attend a an Creator/AlfredHitchcock movie marathon just before they go to the airport and catch a viewing of ''Film/{{Vertigo}}''. Said Hitchcock movie gives Railly the idea to [[spoiler:dye her hair blonde.]]
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* ShoutOut: Cole and Railly attend a Hitchcock movie marathon just before they go to the airport and catch a viewing of ''Film/{{Vertigo}}''. The Hitchcock movie's PlotTwist gives Railly the idea to [[spoiler:dye her hair blonde.]]
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* ShoutOut: Cole and Railly attend a Hitchcock Creator/AlfredHitchcock movie marathon just before they go to the airport and catch a viewing of ''Film/{{Vertigo}}''. The Said Hitchcock movie's PlotTwist movie gives Railly the idea to [[spoiler:dye her hair blonde.]]
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''12 Monkeys'' is a 1995 science fiction film directed by Creator/TerryGilliam and written by [[Creator/DavidWebbPeoples David and Janet Peoples]]. It is based on the famous French experimental short film "Film/LaJetee." It stars Creator/BruceWillis, Creator/MadeleineStowe, and Creator/BradPitt, who won a UsefulNotes/GoldenGlobeAward for Best Supporting Actor; Pitt was also nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward in the same category.
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''12 Monkeys'' is a 1995 science fiction film directed by Creator/TerryGilliam and written by [[Creator/DavidWebbPeoples David and Janet Peoples]]. It is based on the famous French experimental short film "Film/LaJetee." It stars Creator/BruceWillis, Creator/MadeleineStowe, and Creator/BradPitt, who won a UsefulNotes/GoldenGlobeAward for Best Supporting Actor; Pitt Actor and was also nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward in the same category.
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->''"...5 billion people will die from a deadly virus in 1997... The survivors will abandon the surface of the planet... Once again the animals will rule the world..."''
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''12 Monkeys'' is a 1995 science fiction film directed by Creator/TerryGilliam and written by [[Creator/DavidWebbPeoples David and Janet Peoples]]. It is based on the famous French experimental short film "Film/LaJetee." It stars Creator/BruceWillis, Madeleine Stowe, and Creator/BradPitt, who won a Golden Globe for best supporting actor; Pitt was also nominated for an Academy Award in the same category.
There is a chance that asylum patient James Cole is not insane. That he might really be a time traveler from a post-apocalyptic future. That the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, and the deadly virus he claims they plan to release, are all real. The only trouble is, if Dr. Kathryn Railly accepts this, she will have to accept an even more terrifying truth: that TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt is coming, and ''soon.''
There is a chance that asylum patient James Cole is not insane. That he might really be a time traveler from a post-apocalyptic future. That the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, and the deadly virus he claims they plan to release, are all real. The only trouble is, if Dr. Kathryn Railly accepts this, she will have to accept an even more terrifying truth: that TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt is coming, and ''soon.''
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''12 Monkeys'' is a 1995 science fiction film directed by Creator/TerryGilliam and written by [[Creator/DavidWebbPeoples David and Janet Peoples]]. It is based on the famous French experimental short film "Film/LaJetee." It stars Creator/BruceWillis, Madeleine Stowe, Creator/MadeleineStowe, and Creator/BradPitt, who won a Golden Globe UsefulNotes/GoldenGlobeAward for best supporting actor; Best Supporting Actor; Pitt was also nominated for an Academy Award UsefulNotes/AcademyAward in the same category.
There is a chance that asylum patient James Cole (Willis) is not insane. That he might really be a time traveler from a post-apocalyptic future. That the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, and the deadly virus he claims they plan to release, are all real. The only trouble is, if Dr. Kathryn Railly (Stowe) accepts this, she will have to accept an even more terrifying truth: that TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt is coming, and ''soon.''
There is a chance that asylum patient James Cole (Willis) is not insane. That he might really be a time traveler from a post-apocalyptic future. That the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, and the deadly virus he claims they plan to release, are all real. The only trouble is, if Dr. Kathryn Railly (Stowe) accepts this, she will have to accept an even more terrifying truth: that TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt is coming, and ''soon.''
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** In her lecture on doomsayers, Dr. Railly mentions that Jose disappeared from the [[=WW1=] hospital, which hints that [[spoiler:he’ll show up again.]]
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** In her lecture on doomsayers, Dr. Railly mentions that Jose disappeared from the [[=WW1=] [=WW1=] hospital, which hints that [[spoiler:he’ll show up again.]]
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** The medieval alarmist mentioned by Dr. Railly in her lecture appears later in 1996 Philadelphia as an apocalypse evangelist, who reveals to Cole that he, like Cole, is a time traveler. [[spoiler:He turns out to be [[DownplayedTrope unimportant to the plot]].]]
