What's the Difference between We Can Remember It for You Wholesale the Book and Total Recall the Movie?
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Doug Quail
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Doug Quaid
Portrayed by: Arnold Schwartzeneger
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Kristen
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Lori
Portrayed by: Sharon Stone
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Interplan Agent
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Richter
Portrayed by: Michael Ironside
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This Character does not appear.
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Vilos Cohaagen
Portrayed by: Ronny Cox
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Total Recall Book vs Movie
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In the Movie |
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The protagonist is named Douglas Quail |
His name is Doug Quaid |
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Doug's wife is named Kristen. |
Her name is Lori.
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Doug works as a clerk at the West Coast immigration bureau. |
He operates a jack hammer at a construction site. |
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At Rekall he is laying in a bed waiting for the memory to be implanted. |
He sits in a chair that has a large head piece that attaches to either side of his head.
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The Receptionist at Rekall Inc. is bare chested. Her breasts are painted blue. |
She is clothed normally. |
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Doug sent a letter to Rekall explaining that he wants to remember going to Mars and being a member of Interplan, the government spy agency. |
Doug just goes to Rekall and wants to go to Mars. They offer Saturn, but he insists on Mars. The salesman sells him on the idea of becoming a secret agent in the memory.
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Rekall cannot find room to implant the memories and Doug calmly lays on the bed and informs them that they are blowing his cover. He relaxes and they go through the process again to reset his memories. |
Doug starts freaking out and tries to escape from the chair. He is sedated and they erase his memories and put him in a cab. |
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Doug remembers Rekall and returns to get a full refund. |
Doug exits the taxi and his coworker Harry is there. He pulls a gun and a bunch of goons grab him. Harry talks about blabbing about Mars. Doug eventually beats them all to death.
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Doug uses snuff. |
He doesn't. |
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Doug has a bug in his head that Interplan uses to read his thoughts. He leaves it in place to communicate with them. |
The bug in Doug's head is only used to track his location. He painfully removes it through his nostril.
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Doug remains on earth for the duration. |
Doug goes to Mars for the last two thirds of the film. |
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Doug had been an agent for Interplan, a government spy program. he was an assassin and killed someone on mars. |
Doug worked for Cohagen who is the corporate dictator on Mars. it was part of a plan to kill off the rebel forces on Mars.
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Doug is his real name. |
His real name is Hauser and Quaid is just a fake identity. |
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Doug disarms a police officer but doesn't hurt him. |
Doug kills lots and
ots of people.
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Doug had magic invisible destroying and healing rods. The destroying rod is what he used to assassinate the political leader on Mars. |
Doug has no magic rods. |
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Doug remembers stopping an invasion of mouse-sized aliens by befriending them. |
No mouse-sized aliens.
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