Vincent Freeman

Vincent Anton Freeman is the main protagonist of the 1997 science-fiction film, Gattaca. He is a defected "in-valid" man turned elite of the space exploration company Gattaca Inc. 
He was played by actor Ethan Hawke, who also portrayed Todd Anderson in Dead Poets Society, Jack Conroy in White Fang and White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf, Prince Hamlet in the 2000 film adaptation of Hamlet, Jake Hoyt in Training Day, Jack Valentine in Lord of War, James Sandin in The Purge, and Brent Magna in Getaway, while impersonating Jerome, Chad Christ when being himself, and Mason Gamble as a child 
==Appearance== 
As a child, Vincent was very short with spiky blond hair and spectacle glasses. As an adult he still possesses the same spiky hair and glasses, but he is much more muscular and taller, now reaching the same height as his brother. When posing as Jerome, he replaces many of his appearances with that of Jerome's, replacing his glasses with contact lenses and cutting and dying his hair from long, spiky and blond, to combed over, short, and brown. 
==Biography== 
A less than perfect man, he was born in a generation where children would be genetically modified before their birth, thus creating "the perfect children." Unlike Most parents of the time, Vincent's parents refused to modify their child. As a result, he was born with a heart defect, and was expected to live only 30 years. A couple years later, Vincent's parents would have a second child which they did modify, and named him Anton. Vincent was consistently shut in, and his brother was the clear favorite of the two, immediately excelling in everything that Vincent could not. This included swimming, during which the two brothers would play a game to see who could swim out to sea the farthest before chickening out. Anton would win every time, except for one day when Anton became weak and nearly drowned. Vincent saved him and swam him to shore. Following this, he left home. 
=="Gattaca"==
As his genes were not "ideal" he was labeled as in-valid, and assigned a job as a janitor in the science agency Gattaca Inc. While there, Vincent dreams of venturing out to space (More specifically, Saturn's largest moon, Titan) but as he has a heart condition, he is denied. While ending his shift, he runs into former athlete and employee Jerome Morrow, a man who was internationally recognized for his perfect genes, but won silver medal in the Olympics and was paralyzed in a car crash the next day. After a discussion between the two, Jerome offers to help Vincent achieve his dream by having him pose as Jerome using samples of his hair, skin, nails, blood, and urine in exchange for money. Vincent agrees and starts posing as Jerome Morrow. He takes the samples and takes daily showers and cleansing to get rid of his own features. His plan pays off, and he is immediately listed into the Titan mission crew. However, the administrator of the titan mission begins to suspect something off about "Jerome" and initially calls off the mission for inspection. However, hours before the administrator are about to announce the cancelation of the mission, he is murdered by the mission director, Josef Vonel. One of Vincent's eyelashes is found at the crime scene as a result of his carelessness, and he is identified as the main suspect. The mission is officially called off as a special investigation commences to find him, causing Vincent to now consistently disguise as Jerome. The leader of the investigation is Anton, who found a job at Gattaca in search for his brother. While at a dinner party with his co-worker and love interest Irene, a surprise search is launched on all attendants. Realizing that he has none of Jerome's blood samples he attempts to escape, but is intercepted by Anton. The two fight each other, and Anton, with the superior genes, overpowers him. Vincent makes a run for the exit with Irene, and hides in the sewers with her. Anton searches outside but is unable to find him, and leave. Later that night, Vincent sleeps with Irene, and the two go to work. Following many more tests on Vincent, all of which were proved fruitless for Gattaca in finding his true identity, Anton takes maters into his own hands. One day, Vincent fakes an illness as an excuse to spy on the investigation to discover the true murderer. Anton takes this moment to strike, and finds Irene. He asks her to take him to Jerome's residence. As Vincent is not there, he calls Jerome and asks him to pose as himself while he dashes home. Anton and Irene arrive to find the real Jerome sitting in a chair. Vincent soon arrives at Jerome's house in the basement and hides. As the real Jerome was never at Gattaca, he acts different from Vincent's "Jerome" and assumes that Irene is his girlfriend. He also doesn't recognize Anton at all, which prompts him to search further throughout the house, As Anton is about to discover Vincent, he receives a call that his crew has caught Josef Vonel. He leaves the home and Vincent comes out of hiding. The next day however, Anton figures out that Vincent was disguising as Jerome anyway, and confronts him. He reveals that both of their parents have died, and threatens to arrest Vincent for fraud, to which Vincent challenges him to one last game of chicken. Anton reluctantly agrees, and the two meet up on the beach. As they swim further from the shore, Anton voices his concern that they are too far out, to which Vincent replies that he does not care if he dies, and that he will keep going. Knowing this, Anton begins to drown again and, once again, is saved by Vincent. 
Defeated, Anton agrees to let Vincent go of any charges and the two embrace before Vincent leaves for Jerome's house. Once there, Jerome reveals that he has stored up two lifetimes worth of his DNA, allowing Vincent to pose as him for a while longer. Vincent points out that there is no hair present in the collection, meaning that he can't pose as Jerome forever, to which Jerome only replies by handing him a single envelope. Jerome thanks Vincent for helping him have a purpose in his life and offers to sacrifice himself to help Vincent keep the guise of Jerome without risk of being caught. Vincent refuses, but Jerome insists, telling Vincent that he already wanted to die beforehand, thus his paralysis. The two embrace and Vincent leaves for the mission. As Vincent readies to board the space shuttle, he is subjected to another DNA test. As Vincent has no samples of Jerome's blood, he is identified as Vincent. However, Dr. Lamar (the doctor doing the testing) tells Vincent that his in-valid son admires him for his bravery and achievements. Because of this, he switches the sample summary to Jerome's and allows Vincent to board the shuttle. As he is about to depart, Vincent opens the envelope that the now deceased Jerome gave him. It contains a lock of Jerome's hair, thus allowing him to continue being Jerome for his whole life. As he exits the earth's atmosphere, he muses that, "For someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess, I'm suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Of course, they say every atom in our bodies was once a part of a star. Maybe I'm not leaving; maybe I'm going home."
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