Like the Wachowski brothers’ groundbreaking sci-fi, Inception was deliberately kept under wraps on Nolan’s orders.
“I really believe that for me the most gratifying cinematic experiences as a viewer have always been films that I didn’t know what to expect,” he said, “right from when I first saw Star Wars when I was a kid in 1977. My uncle had told me to go see it. He said, ‘You’d probably get a kick out of it.’ But I didn’t really know anything about it.”
Yet even he gets desperate for spoilers. “I got to meet the Wachowskis, who are working on the sequels to The Matrix – of which they would tell me nothing!” he once remarked. Usually so calm and reserved, you could sense the fanboy frustration in him.
Try This...
Latest Reviews
The Hangover Part III
Epic
The Company You Keep
Comments
FBJJohnson
Jan 31st 2012, 12:40
I'm pretty sure Marion Cotillard's character name was Mal, not Lisa.
Alert a moderator
MattMaytum
Jan 31st 2012, 13:56
^ Well-spotted, that has been amended now.
Alert a moderator
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?
Alert a moderator
Ali1748
Jan 31st 2012, 17:27
I still can't believe Hans Zimmer didn't win an Oscar for his score work on Inception.
Alert a moderator
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.
Alert a moderator
aleks989
Jan 31st 2012, 21:20
I am in love with the architecture of the mind of Chris Nolan.
Alert a moderator
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
Alert a moderator
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?
Alert a moderator