12 Monkeys Cole and Jose Funny Moments

"...5 billion people volition die from a mortiferous virus in 1997... The survivors volition carelessness the surface of the planet... Once again the animals will rule the earth..."

— Excerpts from interview with clinically diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, April 12, 1990, Baltimore County Hospital

12 Monkeys is a 1995 science fiction pic directed by Terry Gilliam and written past David and Janet Peoples. It is based on the famous French experimental brusk moving-picture show La Jetée. It stars Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, and Brad Pitt, who won a Golden World Award for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for an University Award in the same category.

There is a adventure that aviary patient James Cole (Willis) is not insane. That he might really be a fourth dimension traveler from a post-apocalyptic future. That the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, and the deadly virus he claims they programme to release, are all existent. The only trouble is, if Dr. Kathryn Railly (Stowe) accepts this, she volition have to accept an even more terrifying truth: that The End of the World as We Know It is coming, and before long.

Beware of spoilers.

The film was adapted into a goggle box series for Syfy, which premiered in Jan 2015.

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This film provides examples of:

• Adaptation Expansion: Lots, when updating a 28-infinitesimal short to a 129-minute picture. Notably, the entire Army of the Twelve Monkeys plot is new to the movie.
• Adaptation Championship Change: AS mentioned in a higher place, the movie is an American remake of the 1962 French short film La Jetée.
• Air-Vent Passageway: The absurdity of this in real life is lampshaded when Cole vanishes from a locked room, the merely other get out from which is an air vent that has not been forced open and into which he could not possibly fit.
• Later the End: Cole'southward 'present'.
• All Just a Dream: Played with for the fundamental protagonist. There are some hints:
  • one. James believes he may exist delusional and his lack of social skills and ability to remember minute details are show. Also nosotros get no caption equally to where the phonation he hears is coming from and why people from his present proceed showing up at random times.
  • 2. At that place are a lot of similarities betwixt the present prison and the past infirmary, nearly notably the guards and console of doctors from each timeline. Plus, the time auto is strikingly like to the CT Scanner the camera focuses on for longer than seems necessary.
  • iii. We never get any caption as to how the few remaining survivors, who take no amnesty to the virus, managed to build an intricate undercover metropolis and have the adequacy of building a time machine simply have no apparent source of food, water, or even breathable air.
  • At the very finish of the story, it is subverted when James gets over his mental breakdown and tries to attack Peters, which ends with him dead and Peters still live to spread the virus, completing the Stable Time Loop.
• Cryptic Syntax: WE DID IT! They're not confessing to the virus, simply to the animals they released every bit a protest.
• Animal Motifs: Monkeys, which appear in the mysterious graffiti throughout the metropolis.
• Animal Wrongs Group: The Ground forces of the Twelve Monkeys is an creature rights group blamed for the spread of a mortiferous super-virus that killed nearly of humanity. They cease up having nothing to do with it.
• Apocalypse Cult: The film follows a time traveler from plague-devastated 2035 sent dorsum to 1996 to prevent an apocalyptic group known as the Regular army of the Twelve Monkeys from releasing the virus. The Army of the Twelve Monkeys didn't actually release the virus; their great human action of subversion was freeing animals from a zoo. The virus was actually released past an assistant at the lab where information technology was developed.
• Apocalypse How: Billions dice to a killer virus, released by a mad scientist named Dr. Peters.
• Arc Words: "The Keys are lovely this time of year."
• Dazzler Inversion: Brad Pitt manages to look convincingly homely and unkempt for the bulk of the moving picture.
• Bedlam House: Averted. The protagonist is confined to a regular psychiatric infirmary, and not to some sort of Arkham Asylum.
• Big Bad: Dr. Peters is the 1 who releases the plague on humanity.
• Bilingual Bonus: The French soldiers in the WW1 scene are not subtitled.
• Bloodshot Ending: 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).
• Bookends: The picture begins and concludes with closeups of the main grapheme when he was a child.
• Can't Take Annihilation with You: Information technology seems the rule is you can't accept annihilation that is external to your body. Cole gets the spider he swallowed back to the hereafter merely fine and the bullet that gets lodged in his leg time travels with him likewise.
• Cassandra Truth:
  • Discussed. Cole tin't go people to believe that he's from the future and needs to find the virus sample to save humanity.
  • During Dr. Railly's lecture, her audience has a good chuckle when she talks of a doomsayer in the Middle Ages who foretold that the globe would be destroyed by a virus in the same yr the lecture is taking place in. It's implied this is another time traveller who got stranded in the wrong century.
• Chewing the Scenery: Brad Pitt goes somewhat over-the-height in his scenes in the madhouse, but it works.
• Chekhov's Gunman:
  • The medieval alarmist mentioned by Dr. Railly in her lecture appears later in 1996 Philadelphia equally an apocalypse evangelist, who reveals to Cole that he, like Cole, is a fourth dimension traveler. He turns out to be unimportant to the plot.
  • Dr. Peters is introduced as someone who attended Dr. Railly's lecture "Madness and Apocalyptic Visions" and turns out to be the guy who spread the virus.
  • Jose at kickoff seems merely like a guy to give Cole some exposition on forced volunteering. Then, he shows up on the WW1 battlefield to highlight the the multiple missions and dangers of time travel. Finally, he shows upwards at the end as the messenger to force Cole onto the suicide mission.
  • The iii animal rights protestors operating Freedom for Animals Association—Teddy, Fale, and Bee—initially seem to be unrelated to the Army of the Twelve Monkeys just after show up helping Jeffrey.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Jeffrey. It is implied that it is at least somewhat Obfuscating Insanity.
• Contagious Cassandra Truth: The moving picture has an interesting variation of this trope. Dr. Railly doesn't believe James Cole's claims that he's from the time to come, but when he disappears she investigates his claims and finds corroborating testify. When Cole returns Dr. Railly has difficulty convincing Cole of the truth, equally he has accepted her explanation that he is delusional.
• Convenient Photograph: Dr. Kathryn Railly is giving a lecture on the psychology of doomsday predictions, and pulls upwardly a photo of a febrile man in a World War One field infirmary who claimed to be a time traveler from the hereafter, trying to prevent an apocalypse. Then Dr. Railly meets James Cole, who similarly claims to exist from the hereafter, on a mission to prevent The End of the World as We Know Information technology. She initially dismisses this as a delusion, but the consequent details of Cole's story make her kickoff to call back he might be right. Eventually she reexamines the materials from her lecture—and recognizes Cole as a groundwork effigy in photograph of the Globe State of war One patient, convincing her that he really is a time traveller.
• Covers Always Lie: At first glance it certain looks similar a cyborg on the cover. It's non until you wait closer that you lot run across it'due south the symbol of the Regular army of the 12 Monkeys.
• Crapsack Globe: The future, what a plague has killed 99% of humanity and the residuum live in an underground Dystopia where prisoners are treated like animals.
• Crying Wolf: Part of what convinces Kathryn that Cole's telling the truth is he remembers hearing every bit a kid well-nigh a boy who pretended to be lost in a well, only to plow out to have been hiding in a befouled. The consequence plays out as he remembers, indicating he's probably telling the truth.
• Cuckoo Nest: Afterwards arriving to 1990 Baltimore, Cole quickly ends up in an asylum, whose doctors believe that his warnings of the virus are just delusions. Much afterward, after returning to the future from the twelvemonth of 1996, he finds himself in a hospital bed and comes to believe that he is still at the asylum.
• Demoted Memories: Belatedly in the film, Cole starts to believe he actually is merely an escaped schizophrenic and non a time-traveler. He gets over information technology.
• The Canis familiaris Was the Mastermind: Who is the leader of the Army of the Twelve Monkeys? None other than Cole's fellow mental hospital inmate Jeffrey Goines. Ultimately subverted, since he and his Army had zippo to do with releasing the virus.
• Doomsayer: 1 of these people stops his ranting to address the main character whilst in '96. Information technology's unsaid that many doomsayers are actually time travelers scattered throughout history who have gone insane.
• Dramatic Irony: The human being who is really behind the release of the virus gets on the aeroplane 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."
• Dreaming of Things to Come: Kinda.
• Dull Surprise: Bruce Willis, which is very well justified by his character being either heavily sedated or emotionally traumatized for most of the pic. In improver, it provides a perfect contrast for Brad Pitt's maniacal bombast.
• Eco-Terrorist: Testify points to The Regular army of the 12 Monkeys being responsible for the release of the virus, but they're merely the Red Herring. The actual creator of the plague was Dr. Peters, an assistant at a virology lab — who had spoken before nigh the "lunacy" of mankind's ecology destruction.
• Eiffel Belfry Upshot: Philadelphia'southward skyline, especially Liberty Place, is seen quite a bit, information technology's also rather big. The Benjamin Franklin Span is inevitably featured besides.
• Escaped Beast Rampage: The final act shows the eponymous Animal Wrongs Group releasing the animals of the local zoo, causing all sorts of pandemonium and their "we did it!" bulletin spray-painted all over the city setting them up as the Cherry Herring for the crusade of The Cease of the Earth every bit Nosotros Know It.
• Foreshadowing:
  • In her lecture on doomsayers, Dr. Railly mentions that Jose disappeared from the WW1 hospital, which hints that he'll show up again.
  • Dr. Peters starting time appears at Dr. Railly'southward lecture and at the autograph session, tells Dr. Railly that the doomsayers have a signal since mankind is destroying the Globe with atomic bombs, pollution, etc. Subsequently, it is revealed that Peters is the assistant to Dr. Leland Goines, the virologist.
• Gaia'south Vengeance: The purpose of the virus is to restore the natural globe by eradicating flesh. The Army of the Twelve Monkeys, an Fauna Wrongs Grouping, are the culprits. Only they aren't. The real culprit is a creepy assistant in Christopher Plummer's virology lab.
• Gas Mask Mooks: The French soldiers when James is accidentally sent to 1917. It's mentioned subsequently that they were countering a mustard gas assail that killed thousands.
• Girl of My Dreams: Cole has repeating dreams of a adult female who resembles his psychiatrist, merely the recurring dream was acquired by a babyhood memory of seeing something horrible happen to his fourth dimension-traveling futurity cocky and his lover.
• Generic Graffiti: The Regular army of the 12 Monkeys tags the walls around their base with graffiti shaped like a band of 12 monkeys.
• Genetic Engineering science is the New Nuke: The nuclear war from La Jetée is replaced by a bioengineered virus every bit the cause of the finish of culture.
• Go Among Mad People: The protagonist (a man from the postal service-apocalyptic future sent back in time to try to foreclose an unprecedented disaster) can't function in modernistic society and is quickly institutionalized, where his claims of beingness a fourth dimension traveler from the hereafter don't really help. He spends much of the rest of the movie more than one-half convinced that his memories of time travel are just a fantasy.
• Got Volunteered: The movie opens with Cole beingness selected for Volunteer Duty, which involves him going up to the virus-infected surface in a Hazmat Arrange to gather samples. While ostensibly the prisoners are offered a reduction in sentence, those 'volunteered' either go insane or merely disappear — Cole finds out why when he's asked to join a special program.

  Scientist: For a human being in your position, an opportunity not to volunteer would be a mistake...

  Scientist 2: Definitely a mistake...

• Graffiti of the Resistance: The Ground forces of the Twelve Monkeys is a terrorist organization blamed for spreading a deadly super-virus that caused the destruction of well-nigh of humanity. When James Cole is sent back in fourth dimension for intelligence and attempts to stop them confronting orders, he uses the Army'southward graffiti depicting twelve monkeys in a ring to locate them. In the end this trope gets subverted, since the Army is really merely an animal rights group that had nix to do with the virus.
• The Hero Dies: Cole is killed before he can end the virus from being unleashed on the world.
• Infirmary Hottie: Dr. Kathryn Railly.
• Idiot Ball: The drome security guard. When a scientist has a specially sealed case and tells you the vials inside contain "biological samples", what in the name of sanity would make you want him to open information technology, peculiarly if 1 can come across that there is nix but colorless gas within.
• Irony: "I've washed my job, I did what you lot wanted. Skilful luck. I'yard not coming back."
• Just Before the Finish: 1996 is the year the killer virus was released, so Cole's trips to information technology are just earlier the end.
• Large Ham: Brad Pitt's acting is gloriously over-the-meridian.
• The Constabulary of Conservation of Detail: During Dr. Railly's speech she briefly shows an carving of a man from the 1100s proclaiming the finish of the world in 1995. After on when James arrives in 1996 you see that man preaching on the side of a street corner. Also another case is a phone message heard by Cole in the 'present' is later found out to be fabricated by Dr. Railly.
• Madness Shared by Two: Dr. Katherine Railly fears this is happening to her when she gets involved with her psychiatric patient James Cole, who claims to exist from the future when nearly of humanity has been wiped out past a man-made plague. Ultimately subverted when he recites a phone call she made he couldn't possibly have overheard; he's telling the truth, and the earth is about to finish.
• Mad Oracle: It'southward implied that at to the lowest degree ane such oracle is actually a fourth dimension traveler who landed in the wrong era, since he sees James and says: "Yous! You are one of us!"
• Meanwhile, in the Future…: There are characters communicating with scientists in the future with a business concern's answering auto in the "present", which a team of scientists spend months and years recovering from the decayed magnetic record. While the continuity is well-explained, the interaction between future and present, fifty-fifty with the fourth dimension machine, is relatively sequential.
• Messianic Classic: James Cole'southward initials are no coincidence. He gives his life trying (and failing) to stop The End of the Globe as We Know Information technology, only his work provides a complete sample of the virus so the scientists of the time to come tin create a vaccine. The Cassandra Truth and True Companions elements of this trope are also played completely straight.
• Mickey Mousing: When he's introduced, Jeffrey Goines pops his head out of the collar of his shirt synchronized to a BOING sound effect from a cartoon playing on TV.
• Mind Screw: For the viewer, although by the end information technology becomes comprehensible. Also, for James, who starts to think he really is insane and that he imagined traveling from the future. It'southward mentioned that this happens to all time travelers. Finally, for Katherine, first as she starts to realize that James must have come from the future, and afterwards when she starts to "recall" things that never actually happened (when they put on the disguises and she says he looks familiar.)
• Misanthrope Supreme: The villains, who engineer a lethal virus.
• Misplaced Wildlife: Cole encounters a bear in the city while collecting samples in the future. Releasing zoo animals was the Ground forces Of The Twelve Monkeys' real plan.
• Mobstacle Course: The climax takes identify in such a scene at the airport.
• Mooning: Jeffrey Goines does this to the security staff at a mental institution while acting upward.
• Musical Spoiler: The first inkling of Brad Pitt'due south involvement with the Army of the 12 Monkeys is when the "12 Monkeys" leitmotif plays during one of his rants.
• Never My Error: Cole has no control over what year the machine sends him to, but when he ends up in 1990 instead of 1996, the scientists blame that fault on him.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Cole delivers one to an aggressive pimp for threatening Reilly, which horrifies her even more.
• Not-Indicative Proper name: The film isn't virtually twelve monkeys, nor is it virtually the Ground forces of the Twelve Monkeys that the title alludes to. The organization and the title itself are ruby-red herrings.
• No-Tell Motel: Cole and Railly visit an hourly hotel to work out just what the hell is going on with their lives in privacy. The clerk assumes that she's a prostitute and that they're role playing some sort of doctor/patient fetish. Later, a pimp arrives and accuses her of turning tricks in his territory.
• Oh, Crap!: Well-nigh the end of the film, Railly calls the phone number Cole gave her. She comes back and starts reciting the message she left...simply for Cole to remember it as the tape recording in the time to come, reciting it with her. This causes both of them to realize that he was telling the truth and that the world is most to end.
• Ominous Multiple Screens
  • Cole is questioned and briefed by the console of scientists while strapped to a Shackle Seat Trap equally a sinister globe holding a disruptive array of cameras, microphones and video screens is held in front of his face.

  Terry Gilliam: You endeavour to see the faces on the screens in front of you, only the real faces and voices are down there and yous accept these tiny voices in your ear. To me that'south the world we live in, the fashion we communicate these days, through technical devices that pretend to be about communication but may not be.

  • When Cole and Dr. Railly see a news program identifying them every bit wanted fugitives, they have an Oh, Crap! moment on realising a camera in a nearby video equipment shop is projecting their faces on a huge multiple screen.
• One time More, with Clarity!:
  • The damaged phone recording is cryptic and eerily distorted, only later we sentinel it being made, revealing who recorded it and why.
  • The ending is a echo of the beginning, cluing the audience in that the moving picture is a Stable Time Loop.
• Person as Verb: Cole is referred to every bit having "pulled a Houdini." He was a time traveler, and got pulled dorsum out of impossible-to-escape restraints.
• Photographic Memory: Or something like information technology. Cole is selected for the expeditions because, although mentally disturbed, he possesses an extremely authentic retention for details and data, and at one point is able to recite a distorted message word-for-discussion after hearing it one time, days earlier.
• The Plague: The virus, which is virulent enough to force the remaining survivors underground.
• Plague Principal: The adversary released a mortiferous plague in multiple cities beyond the world which ended up causing the man survivors to live hole-and-corner.
• Poke the Poodle: It is revealed that the horrifyingly evil plot of The Army of the Twelve Monkeys amounts to releasing some animals from a zoo, which stops traffic, but no more.
• Population Control: Suggested past the fact that Cole lives in an Underground City with limited resources, and his rap canvass lists "anti-social sex" as an offense.
• Punctuated! For! Accent!: NO! More! MONKEY! Business organization!!!
• "Ray of Hope" Ending: Protagonist James Cole, a time traveler from Afterwards the End, dies trying (and failing) to terminate the villain from releasing the virus that triggers The End of the World every bit We Know It. But in the next scene, another time traveler appears in disguise to speak with the villain — implying that, thanks to Cole'south work, the scientists of the future volition finally get a pure sample of the virus so they can make a vaccine. The past can't be changed, but the future tin can even so exist saved.
• Ruby Herring: The Army of the Twelve Monkeys didn't release the virus.
• Reluctant Psycho: Cole'southward mostly relatively at-home, if confused, but he has some tearing outbursts that advise that he might exist a prisoner for skillful reason.
• Ruins of the Mod Age: James' trip into the ruins of Philadelphia.
• The Schizophrenia Conspiracy: Jeffrey Goines is a paranoid schizophrenic, while James Cole is a man sent dorsum in time to salve the Future from a viral plague just everyone assumes he's a paranoid schizophrenic because he claims he was sent dorsum in fourth dimension to relieve the Future from a viral plague. Additionally, nearly of the other patients at the hospital Cole was at were quite paranoid or delusional.
• "Shaggy Canis familiaris" Story: Subverted. James does not stop the virus and dies in front of his child self; however, the ending hints that his actions might accept fabricated all the difference for the future development of the cure.
• Shout-Out: Cole and Railly attend an Alfred Hitchcock picture marathon just earlier they become to the drome and grab a viewing of Vertigo. It gives Railly the idea to dye her pilus blonde.
• Significant Monogram: James Cole.
• Sinister Tango Music: The title theme is besides the leitmotif of the Army of the 12 Monkeys, the Animal Wrongs Group believed responsible for causing the apocalypse. Information technology's written and performed by legendary tango musician Astor Piazzolla.
• Sole Surviving Scientist: Averted as there'due south a committee of them that 'volunteers' Cole for the time travel program. Though not all of them may be scientists, as Jones after identifies herself every bit working in the insurance business.
• Soundtrack Dissonance: Ane of the most glorious examples.
• Stable Time Loop: As a child, Cole witnessed his own decease, showing that everything that he does was already going to happen.
• Stockholm Syndrome: Someone suggests to Kathryn Railly that she is suffering from Stockholm Syndrome after she puts James Cole's multiple killings in context by maxim that the victims were thugs who had tried to kill them both.
• Temporal Sickness: The process of time travel seems to cause psychological harm. Cole shares rumors with Jose that the other inmates who Got Volunteered for the trip wound up in the psych ward. His own trips through time seem to strain Cole'south mind.
• This Is My Chair: Candidate for Trope Namer is the mentally insane Jeffrey Goines, who reacts like the loon he is when he sees another patient seated in his favorite chair.
• Through the Eyes of Madness: The longer Cole stays in one timeline, the more than he begins to doubt his memories of the other one.
• Tracking Chip: Cole is told by a Crazy Homeless Person that he has a tracking chip in his teeth. He removes them just in instance this is truthful, but Jose is later able to rails him down without difficulty, and asks why he took his teeth out.
• The Unreveal: Who, or what, the vocalism who keep addressing Cole every bit "Bob" are is never revealed.
• Unreliable Narrator: Cole's retentivity of what happened at the airport is hazy because he was a boy at the fourth dimension.
• Unstuck in Time: Happens with Cole getting lost in the past because the time machine used is very unreliable and unpredictable.
• The Virus: Cole'due south mission is to get an original sample of the virus that wiped out nearly all of humanity and then that the people of the future tin can cure it and return to the surface.
• What Year Is This?: Cole gets sent to the wrong yr several times, so he has to figure out when he is a few times.
• Whole Plot Reference: To La Jetée, a French New Wave film fabricated upwardly entirely of still images.
• Wig, Clothes, Accent: Used at the end, when the protagonists use shop bought disguises (a glued on mustache for the human being and a blonde wig for the adult female) to get through aerodrome security and escape to Florida.
• With Not bad Ability Comes Dandy Insanity: All the time travelers go insane from the stresses involved in time travel; hence government use of expendable prisoners for this task.
• Write Back to the Future: Equally Cole prepares to travel from the future, he is given the telephone number of an answering machine whose record was constitute in archaeological enquiry; the whole end-of-the-world trouble ensured the tape was not erased for reuse.
• You Can't Fight Fate: Played straight.
• You Are Besides Late: Even if Cole hadn't been shot down by airport security and had succeeded in taking down the rogue scientist, the virus had already been released to the Airdrome Security Guard.

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