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Fight Club


Some have seen similarities in Fight Club, and the relationship between Hurley and Dave i.e., Dave is a figment of Hurley's imagination, a part of his own personality that is trying to control him.

In Fight Club, the imaginary character is Tyler Durden, he is a split-personality construct that exists only in the narrator's head and the actions that Tyler undertakes are actions that the narrator himself is really performing; the narrator's perpetual state of insomnia is truly caused by the "Tyler" personality taking over during the night when the narrator thinks he's asleep, then leading a double life until the narrator "wakes up" in the morning.

The film climaxes with the narrator arguing with Tyler over control of his body. The narrator, in a violent act of desperation, shoots himself in the mouth. The audience sees the narrator slump in the chair, and Tyler fall, with a bullet hole in the back of his head. The injury to the narrator however, is not fatal.

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My Own Private Idaho

Hurley's imaginary friend talks to him of "his own private Idaho", which was a 1991 film with the same title.:


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DAVE: You're still at Santa Rosa, man. You never left the hospital. HURLEY: That's not possible. DAVE: It's hard, I know, but I mean -- all this? You, me, this island, that peanut butter -- none of it's real, man. None of it's happening. It's all in your head, my friend. The second you closed that window your brain popped a gasket. You went back into your little coma thing. That's where you are right this very second. In your own private Idaho, inside Santa Rosa.

My Own Private Idaho — derived from the B-52's song of the same name, the meaning of which is living in your own state of mind.  

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Star Wars

When Dave is confronted by Hurley about the photograph revealing that Dave is a figment of Hurley's imagination, Dave explains that the photograph was manipulated.
DAVE: Uh, Kinkos, Photoshop? What, you think they really blew up the Death Star?

The Death Star is the Emperor's giant battle station that Luke blows up in the first Star Wars (Episode IV).

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Vanilla Sky

Some have noted the similarity to Vanilla Sky and the plot of this episode wherein Dave tells Hurley the only way to awaken from the island "dream" is to jump off the cliff.


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Vanilla Sky is a 2001 film which has been variously characterized by published film critics as "an odd mixture of science fiction, romance and reality warp", "part Beautiful People fantasy, part New Age investigation of the Great Beyond" a "love story, a struggle for the soul, or an existential confrontation with the eternal", and an "erotic adventure, romance, comedy, mystery and psychological thriller, with a dose of science fiction". The film stars Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Penélope Cruz, Jason Lee, and Kurt Russell. It was directed by Cameron Crowe, who together with Cruise and Paula Wagner produced the film. It is a "very close remake" of the 1997 Spanish film Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes), which was written by Alejandro Amenábar and Mateo Gil. Penélope Cruz appeared in the original film in the same role. The title is a reference to depictions of skies in some of the paintings of Claude Monet; Crowe has noted that the presence of "vanilla skies" in the film is one clue to understanding turns that the plot takes.

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