There was also Cobb’s late wife Mal (Marion Cotillard), an “extremely complicated individual” according to Nolan, who holds the key to unlocking Inception’s box of secrets.
Ironically, this recalls DiCaprio’s other 2010 film, the Martin Scorsese-directed Shutter Island, in which Michelle Williams played his deceased spouse in flashback.
Similarly full of dreams, did DiCaprio see the two films as comparable? “There are similar themes, just in the dream-like scenario,” he admitted. “It’s four different plots happening literally simultaneously in Inception. Again, you don’t know where you are, whether it’s reality or dream-state for a lot of the script.”
Still, compared to Scorsese’s fever dream, Nolan’s world – one of cities, of architecture, lines and angles – was entirely different. “It’s a different set of circumstances,” said DiCaprio. “But certainly the nature of one accessing one’s own dreams to learn about where they are in reality is a similar theme.”
It begs the question: does Leo dream a lot? “No,” he smiled. “Unless I take a little nap, and then they’re really hardcore. You wake up and are like ‘Woah!’ But I usually just have months of never remembering my dreams. Ironically having done two movies about dreams, I have no idea what I dream about.”
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FBJJohnson
Jan 31st 2012, 12:40
I'm pretty sure Marion Cotillard's character name was Mal, not Lisa.
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MattMaytum
Jan 31st 2012, 13:56
^ Well-spotted, that has been amended now.
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SiMan
Jan 31st 2012, 14:57
This is what i want from a summer blockbuster. Amazing visuals, engaging story but enough intelligence to make you feel like you're being spoken to as an adult rather than just having things explode for no reason. What are the chances that this will become the norm though? Have there been any other truly intelligent blockbusters since Inception?
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Ali1748
Jan 31st 2012, 17:27
I still can't believe Hans Zimmer didn't win an Oscar for his score work on Inception.
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nkutzler
Jan 31st 2012, 18:21
I can't say I know why this feature was just made, but I love it nonetheless. Especially because I was talking about Inception when I opened Totalfilm.
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aleks989
Jan 31st 2012, 21:20
I am in love with the architecture of the mind of Chris Nolan.
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drbond1978
Feb 1st 2012, 9:59
Would like to know the inspiration for the empty city/tower blocks and decaying cliffs - def have a Ballardian edge
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Hadouken76
Feb 2nd 2012, 12:20
Surely it should have been a 'best adapted screenplay' nom, seeing how Memento was adapted from his brothers' short story 'Memento Mori'. But how can you take the Oscars seriously, when they give one to Akiva 'Batman and Robin' Goldmans for a fabricated and bowdlerised version of John Nash' life and Diablo Cody for a screenplay where everyone talks in sound bites?
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