Useless Movie Trivia For
The Cell
Memorable Movie Quotes
Catharine Deane: Do you believe there is a part of yourself, deep inside in your mind, with things you don't want other people to see? During a session when I'm inside, I get to see those things.
Trivia
The cartoon that Catherine watches on her TV is Plančte sauvage, La.
In the scene where Catherine talks with Carl while he is "cleaning" his first victim, the scenery resembles the music video "Losing My Religion" by R.E.M; that video was directed by this film's director, Tarsem Singh.
The scene where Peter Novak first enters the mind of Carl Stargher, and is confronted by three females with open mouths to the sky is based on the painting "Dawn" by Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum.
The scene in which the horse is cut into segments suspended in glass cases is inspired by the work of British artist Damien Hirst (e.g., the installation "Some Comfort Gained from the Acceptance of the Inherent Lies in Everything").
The last scene of the film in the desert was originally an earlier scene in the film depicting another one of Catherine's therapy sessions with Edward. Later when director Tarsem Singh decided the film needed closure on Edward's story he had digital snow and cherry blossoms added to the scene to make it look like it was part of "Catherine's world".
The scene when Catherine Deane is chasing Carl through a stone hallway, right before she enters the room with the horse, is based on a painting by swiss surrealist HR Giger called "Schacht".
Goofs
Carl Starger's pulse in his neck is visible when Catherine looks at him while he is supposed to be dead.
Just before water pours on Julie, the monitors around the room show her eating (at least, holding food). But when the camera cuts straight to her, she isn't holding anything (error caused by deleted material).
When Catherine is at home, the TV in the background is playing Plančte sauvage, La (1973). Scenes from the movie are shown out of order and the soundtrack does not match what is being shown.
Though "Whalen's Infraction," a brain disorder which is said to have accelerated Stargher's schizophrenia was made up for the movie, an infraction actually refers to an incomplete bone fraction and affects bony tissues, not the brain. Cerebral infarction {"infarct" instead of "infract"), or tissue death due to lack of blood flow, does occur in the brain, but this is said to cause schizophrenia-like symptoms and would not cause or affect schizophrenia itself.
The dog is not actually an albino, but simply a white haired German Shepherd. An albino has a defective gene for manufacturing melanin or pigment in tissue and hair, as such, if the dog were truly an albino it would have a milky or white skin pigment, which would be considerably noticeable around the nose and muzzle. As well, it would have pink or red pupils that would have been apparent in direct shots on the dog. White Shepherds are not common, but not rare, they are simply the result of a homozygous recessive gene, that both mother and father must carry in order to pass along to the pup.
When the girl is kidnapped in the parking garage and after she and Stargher have hit the ground, the dog is heard barking at the struggle. However, we can clearly see the dog in the shot and he is simply lying there calmly, not barking.
Box Office Info In USA
Budget $33,000,000
Opening Weekend $17,515,050
Gross $61,280,963
Weekend Gross $49,114
Filming Locations
Bakersfield, California, USA
Diamond Ranch High School, Pomona, California, USA
La Jolla, California, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
Namib Desert, Namibia
Taft, California, USA