As David drives his vintage Ferrari through the streets of New York, the first cracks in this illusion appear. He drives to Times Square, "The Crossroads of the World" with approximately 330,000 daily passersby. It's completely empty, not even the faintest hint of the usual hustle and bustle. David wakes, abruptly. It was all a dream, a false awakening, interpreted by his therapist as a metaphor for loneliness. At only 30 seconds of screentime, the scene provides a fundamental function in the narrative, questioning the nature of reality, and our relationship to dreams. Surprisingly, no CGI was used. Instead, writer and director Cameron Crowe struck a deal with the NYPD to close off the area between 5AM and 8AM on a Sunday in November 2000. The result was a spectacular sequence with a spectacular price tag: over $1 million for 30 seconds of footage.

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