Inception being a film about theft, it seems rather appropriate that the director did some pilfering himself. Not least from his own work.
Think of DiCaprio’s Dom Cobb – his surname the same as the alias used by Alex Haw’s burglar in Following. Then there are the scenes in the shifting ‘corridors of the mind’ – rotating sets designed by FX master Chris Corbould – which recall the wire-work stunts of The Matrix.
“We thrashed Joseph [Gordon-Levitt] for weeks,” Nolan said of the ‘hamster wheel’ contraption. “But the footage looks unlike anything any of us has seen before.” Still, with Nolan eschewing CGI as much as possible in favour of in-camera effects, as he did on his Batman films, any feeling that this would be derivative was swiftly erased when the cast spoke.
“I think it will be something people won’t have expected,” said actor Cillian Murphy, who reunited with the director after playing the Scarecrow in Batman Begins and (very briefly) in The Dark Knight to become one of Cobb’s major target.
“In this day and age, where it’s very hard to be truly original, I think it will be. We’ve seen Chris’ imagination before, but with this one, he’s really gone for it. I just think it’s fantastic that a film like this gets made. Whatever the reason, it’s still really refreshing that films like this are getting made and he can assemble this sort of cast.”
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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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