Line #28 Film/Slumberland


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5	[[caption-width-right:350:''[[TagLine Your dreams are waiting.]]'']]
6	->''"This is the world of dreams. Slumberland. Wish for whatever you want here. Jump from dream to dream to wherever we want to go."''
7	-->-- '''Flip'''
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9	''Slumberland'' is a fantasy adventure film directed by Creator/FrancisLawrence (''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire'', ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjay'') based upon Creator/WinsorMcCay’s ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'' comics. It was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} on November 18, 2022.
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11	The film follows a young girl called Nemo who finds a map to the magical dream world of Slumberland, and joins forces with a con artist named Flip (Creator/JasonMomoa) for a quest to see her late father one last time. Creator/IndiaDeBeaufort, Weruche Opa, Creator/ChrisODowd, and Creator/KyleChandler also star.
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13	'''Previews:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06SZPlPcYx0 Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBnkVJslRGo Trailer]].
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15	!!''Slumberland'' contains examples of:
16	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the original comics, Flip is overweight and green-skinned. In the movie, he's played by the more fit and attractive Jason Momoa, [[spoiler: due to being the dream self of Nemo's uncle Phillip]].
17	* AdvertisingByAssociation: The second trailer indicates the film is from the director of ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire'' and ''[[Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjay Mockingjay]]''.
18	* AfroAsskicker: Agent Carter certainly isn't idling in her task of tracking down Flip.
19	* AnAesop: Having dreams is good, lest anyone want to ends emotionally dry, and living in the real world has advantages. Phillip forgot the former while Flip the latter.
20	* AnimateInanimateObject: In Slumberland, Nemo's stuffed animal Pig is alive as her companion.
21	* BigBad: The closest the film has to one is the Nightmare cloud, which took Peter away from Nemo in the nightmare she had before being informed of his death.
22	* BrickJoke: Flip and Nemo meet a Latina woman (named as Graciela by the film credits) in Slumberland who's seductively dancing around to Latin music in a beautiful, revealing dress. He flirts with her before reluctantly moving on, and comments that a lot of people there are very different from their waking selves. Later, when she's seen briefly again before her dream self is forced to wake up due to the Nightmare cloud, she is shown to be a nun who'd been dreaming while at her prayers, confirming his statement in her case.
23	* ChekhovsGag: Pig spends the entire movie swallowing inedible things only to spit them back up shortly after. In the third act, Nemo exploits this to use him to retrieve a pearl, having him swallow one to cough back up into her hands.
24	* ChekhovsSkill: Phillip shows Nemo how to pick a lock in an attempt to bond with her. Later on, Nemo asks Phillip if she can borrow the lockpicks [[spoiler:so she can bring them into Slumberland and free Flip from the Bureau cell he was trapped in]].
25	* DreamLand: Flip confirms that, yes, Slumberland is still a land of dreams.
26	* DustbinSchool: the BOSC has a juvenile hall for young offenders.
27	* DyingDream:
28	** In a case of YourMindMakesItReal, Flip informs Nemo that while dying in your own dream just causes you to wake up, dying in someone else's dream means you can't wake up again.
29	** [[spoiler:Near the end of the film, Nemo is knocked out by a sailboat mast, and her trip into Slumberland eventually becomes this as her unconscious body in the real world falls into the water and she begins to drown. However, this becomes Subverted when through CPR, she recovers.]]
30	* FantasticalSocialServices: The Bureau of Subconscious Activities (BOSA) is tasked with protecting dreams and preventing trespass on these.
31	* FriendOrIdolDecision: At the climax, Nemo managed to acquire a pearl to make a wish for a dream of her choice, but Flip gets caught by her nightmare. Knowing that he's the dream self of her uncle Philip, she wishes on the pearl for Flip to wake up, restoring Philip's personality.
32	* GenderFlip: The little boy Nemo is changed to a young girl identified as Nemo. Justified since she is the daughter of the original Nemo from the comic, now known as Peter.
33	* HeroAntagonist: Agent Green of the Bureau of Subconscious Activity is in a sense this, even [[spoiler:managing to capture Flip and Nemo halfway through the film, imprisoning the former before giving the latter a talk about what they do]].
34	* HornedHumanoid: Flip is portrayed as having long, curling ram horns.
35	* InspectorJavert: Agent gReen is hunting down Flip since 30 years and it's her last case before the retirement she awaits since ''30 years''.
36	* LadyInAPowerSuit: Agent Carter wear a green houndstooth pantsuit, along with high heels, in the line of duty.
37	* LongerThanLifeSentence: When Flip is arrested by Agent Green, she tells him he's facing an ''eternity'' in a ceil for his numerous violation of others' dreams.
38	* LogoGag: The teaser has the lines of the Netflix logo coloured brown, which surround the full logo. The main trailer is the same as the teaser, but the lines are amber instead.
39	* MeaningfulName: Flip is [[spoiler:the dream version of Phillip, having been disconnected from him for a long time]].
40	* MoodyTrailerCoverSong: The backing track for the main trailer is a slow, instrumental version of "Clocks" by Music/{{Coldplay}}.
41	* NaughtyByNight: The scantily-clad salsa dancer Flip dances with is, in the real world, a nun who's having these dreams while she'd fallen asleep while praying inside a church.
42	* NaughtyNuns: Sister Graciela is, in her dreams, a scantily-clothed salsa dancer.
43	* OlderThanTheyLook: Agent Green is 160 and would have been retired 30 years ago had she caught Flip beforehand.
44	* SplitPersonalityMerge: Nemo wishes on a pearl to make Flip wake up, which combines him with his waking self, her Uncle Philip. Philip stops clinging to the mast of the Coast Guard ship and bravely dives into the ocean to rescue an unconscious Nemo. He's afterwards shown to be much bolder and outspoken than he initially was.
45	* SweetAndSourGrapes: Nemo is forced to use her pearl to save Flip, but finds out soon after that Pig actually acquired two.
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Context Film / Slumberland