[76] Three quarters of the film, until the van begins to fall from the bridge, are devoted to explaining its plot. [31] DiCaprio finally agreed because he was "intrigued by this concept—this dream-heist notion and how this character's going to unlock his dreamworld and ultimately affect his real life. The dining room was inspired by the historic Nijō Castle, built around 1603. The dream is always in a state of production, and shifts across the levels as the characters navigate it. Dominick "Dom" Cobb and Arthur are "extractors"; they perform corporate espionage using experimental military technology to infiltrate their targets' subconscious and extract information through a shared dream world. [9] He soon realized that a film like Inception needed a large budget because "as soon as you're talking about dreams, the potential of the human mind is infinite. Cobb tells Ariadne that he and Mal entered limbo while experimenting with the dream-sharing technology. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a professional thief who steals information by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets. Beyond the complex logistics of the dream architecture of the case and some unknowns concerning Fischer, the biggest obstacles in success for the team become worrying about one aspect of inception which Cobb fails to disclose to the other team members prior to the job, and Cobb's newest associate Ariadne's belief that Cobb's own subconscious, especially as it relates to Mal, may be taking over what happens in the dreams. [113][114] The film had its world premiere at Leicester Square in London, United Kingdom on July 8, 2010. 1, 'Sorcerer's Apprentice' to open in third", "Weekend Briefing: 'Inception' Breaks In, 'Apprentice' Lacks Magic", "Partying for a Cause at the "Inception" Premiere", "The Best Movies of the Decade (2010-19), According to Film Critics", "Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas Interview", "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Inception Interview", "Christopher Nolan Trades James Franco for Joseph Gordon-Levitt in 'Inception, "Inception's Tom Hardy Is The Forger, Darling", "Interview: Japanese Actor Ken Watanabe – Saito in Inception", "Hollywood golden boy Cillian Murphy talks about 'Inception, "Inside 'Inception': Could Christopher Nolan's Dream World Exist in Real Life? "And when they ask you to act, it's a bit of an ask," explained Cillian Murphy. Dom's associates are Miles' former students, who Dom requires as he has given up being the dream architect for reasons he won't disclose. The final phase of principal photography took place in Alberta in late November 2009. [65] The music was written simultaneously to filming,[64] and features a guitar sound reminiscent of Ennio Morricone, played by Johnny Marr, former guitarist of the Smiths. However, this theory has been disputed. On a 10 hour flight, Cobb (the extractor) and his team drug Fischer (the mark). "[179] The film won an informal poll by the Los Angeles Times as the most overrated movie of 2010. It is an essential part of his Main Charact… If you can't make those elements work, it's a sad day. As in the film's story, in a cinema one enters into the space of another's dream, in this case Nolan's, as with any work of art, one's reading of it is ultimately influenced by one's own subjective desires and subconscious. If you're searching for smart and nervy popular entertainment, this is what it looks like. But Inception’s plot is really just a lure for the film’s obsession with the psychological labyrinths we build for ourselves. "[139] TIME magazine's Richard Corliss wrote that the film's "noble intent is to implant one man's vision in the mind of a vast audience [...] The idea of moviegoing as communal dreaming is a century old. Inception is a 2010 science fiction action film[4][5][6] written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced the film with his wife, Emma Thomas. Movies. Cobb is hesitant to do it, but when the man offers to help Cobb go back to his children, Cobb agrees. "[39] He read the script and found it to be "very well written, comprehensive but you really had to have Chris in person, to try to articulate some of the things that have been swirling around his head for the last eight years. [62] Franklin and his team ended up with "something that looked like an iceberg version of Gotham City with water running through it. The latter captures "the peculiar malign intensity of actual dreams. He's looking at his kids. Saito is wounded, and Cobb reveals that while dying in the dream would normally waken dreamers, the sedatives will instead send them into "limbo": a world of infinite subconscious. [172] Many critics and media outlets included Inception in their rankings of the best films of the 2010s. "[70], Deirdre Barrett, a dream researcher at Harvard University, said that Nolan did not get every detail accurate regarding dreams, but their illogical, rambling, disjointed plots would not make for a great thriller anyway. [180], The film won many awards in technical categories, such as Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects,[68] and the British Academy Film Awards for Best Production Design, Best Special Visual Effects and Best Sound. "[129] Justin Chang of Variety praised the film as "a conceptual tour de force" and wrote, "applying a vivid sense of procedural detail to a fiendishly intricate yarn set in the labyrinth of the unconscious mind, the writer-director has devised a heist thriller for surrealists, a Jungian's Rififi, that challenges viewers to sift through multiple layers of (un)reality. Upon revisiting his script, he decided that basing it in that genre did not work because the story "relies so heavily on the idea of the interior state, the idea of dream and memory. Dom's work is generally in corporate espionage. The visual effects department enhanced the sequence, adding more destruction and flying debris. By the time we get to Inception’s snow-fortress climax — inspired by the 1969 Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service — all the film’s pieces are in play. The historic medina is south west of the cited ". [173][174][175][176][177][178], In April 2014, The Daily Telegraph placed the title on its top ten list of the most overrated films. Cobb fled the U.S., leaving his children in Miles' care. [121] It was the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2010 in North America,[122] and the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2010, behind Toy Story 3, Alice in Wonderland and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1. Inception Summary. "[86] The studio also tried to maintain a campaign of secrecy—as reported by the Senior VP of Interactive Marketing, Michael Tritter, "You have this movie which is going to have a pretty big built in fanbase... but you also have a movie that you are trying to keep very secret. After Fischer dies, the team accompanies Robert on a flight where they sedate him into a shared dream. The hotel lobby was filmed at the CAA building in Century City. [103][104] Warner Bros. also made available in the United States a limited Blu-ray edition packaged in a metal replica of the PASIV briefcase, which included extras such as a metal replica of the spinning top totem. Saito promises to clear Cobb's criminal status, which prevents him from returning home to his children. A soundtrack album was released on July 11, 2010, by Reprise Records. Dom Cobb is a thief with the rare ability to enter people's dreams and steal their secrets from their subconsciouses. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Dream Experts Say 'Inception's' Conception of the Subconscious Isn't Far From Science", "Where was 'Inception' filmed? Credited as Ellen Page; he came out as transgender in 2020. "[9] After making The Dark Knight, Nolan decided to make Inception and spent six months completing the script. "[133] Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum gave the film a B+ grade and wrote, "It's a rolling explosion of images as hypnotizing and sharply angled as any in a drawing by M. C. Escher or a state-of-the-biz video game; the backwards splicing of Nolan's own Memento looks rudimentary by comparison. Movies about dreaming and hi-jacking other people's dreams usually feel corny. [51] This sequence was filmed on and off for months, with the van being shot out of a cannon, according to actor Dileep Rao. As the subjects don't want the information to get into the wrong hands, the clients have zero tolerance for failure. "[186] The film was also an influence for Ariana Grande's video for "No Tears Left to Cry. [48] Tangier was also used as the setting for filming an important riot scene during the initial foray into Saito's mind. Mr. Cobb, with some spe… This time we want to share a very contemporary film. Cobbs ability has made him the face of corporate spying, hence a wanted man too. "[38], Nolan had been trying to work with Leonardo DiCaprio for years and met him several times, but was unable to recruit him for any of his films until Inception. [170] The film was included in the Visual Effects Society's list of "The Most Influential Visual Effects Films of All Time". The first level is Yusuf's dream of Los Angeles. ", "Was 'Inception' inspired by Donald Duck? And the stunts are pretty good too. Synopsis Movies: Inception fanfiction archive with over 3,825 stories. Cobb makes peace with Mal's death. [69] At Bir-Hakeim bridge in Paris, Ariadne creates an illusion of infinity by adding facing mirrors underneath its struts, Stephanie Dreyfus in la Croix asked "Is this not a strong, beautiful metaphor for the cinema and its power of illusion? [169] In 2016, Inception was voted the 51st-best film of the 21st Century by BBC, as picked by 177 film critics from around the world. Mr. Cobb a unique con artist can enter anyone's dreams and extract the most valuable ideas and secrets of people with the help of \"inception\" (a dream sharing technology) when the state of mind is at its vulnerable best. Cobb finds an aged Saito and reminds him of their agreement. Cobb gets a chance at redemption when he is offered a seemingly impossible task: Plant an idea in someone's mind. Cobb's assignment is the "inception" (or birth, or wellspring) of a new idea in the mind of another young billionaire, Robert Fischer Jr. (Cillian Murphy), heir to his father's empire. [45], Filming moved to France, where they shot Cobb entering the college of architecture (the place used for the entrance was the Musée Galliera) and the pivotal scenes between Ariadne and Cobb, in a bistro (a fictional one set up at the corner of Rue César Franck and Rue Bouchut), and lastly on the Bir-Hakeim bridge. Plot Keywords [90] More pieces of viral marketing began to surface before Inception's release, such as a manual filled with bizarre images and text sent to Wired magazine,[91] and the online publication of posters, ads, phone applications, and strange websites all related to the film. "That's very much how real stimuli get incorporated, and you very often wake up right after that intrusion. Their latest target, Saito, reveals he arranged their mission to test Cobb for a seemingly impossible job: implanting an idea in a person's subconscious, or "inception". "[143] The New York Observer's Rex Reed explained that the film's development was "pretty much what we've come to expect from summer movies in general and Christopher Nolan movies in particular ... [it] doesn't seem like much of an accomplishment to me. However, according to one interpretation Nolan's world has more in common with the works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The dreamers all awaken on the plane, and Saito makes a phone call. [164] It was voted as the third-best sci-fi film of all time in the 2011 list Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time, based on a poll conducted by ABC and People. Nominated for over 15 awards for best original screenplay, and soaring away with the coveted WGA award for writing, Inception took the world like a storm. High-pressure nitrogen was used to create the effect of a series of explosions. Seeing his abilities, he is approached by Saito to carry out an almost impossible mission not to steal, but to plant the idea into the mind of the legal heir of a billion dollar enterprenauer. [42] Sequences in slow motion were filmed on a Photo-Sonics 35 mm camera at speeds of up to 1,000 frames per second. "[81] Also, Michael Caine explained his interpretation of the ending, saying, "If I'm there it's real, because I'm never in the dream. That's a tall order. Inception's Characters Explained The Extractor - The extractor is a master con man, a person who knows how to manipulate a dreaming mark into revealing their deepest mental secrets. The Inciting Incident of a story creates an inequity within the lives of the characters in the story. [75] DiCaprio praised Cotillard's performance saying that "she can be strong and vulnerable and hopeful and heartbreaking all in the same moment, which was perfect for all the contradictions of her character". [8][40], The production moved to the United Kingdom and shot in a converted airship hangar in Cardington, Bedfordshire, north of London. [66] The majority of the score was also included in high resolution 5.1 surround sound on the second disc of the two-disc Blu-ray release. They were based in the principles that the world around you might not be real. The real point of the scene—and this is what I tell people—is that Cobb isn't looking at the top. The light fixtures on the ceiling are coming around on the floor, and you have to choose the right time to cross through them, and if you don't, you're going to fall. Dominic Cobb is the foremost practitioner of the artistic science of extraction, inserting oneself into a subject's dreams to obtain hidden information without the subject knowing, a concept taught to him by his professor father-in-law, Dr. Stephen Miles. [51] The actors had to be underwater for four to five minutes while drawing air from scuba tanks; underwater buddy breathing is shown in this sequence.[51]. [46] For the explosion that takes place during the bistro scene, local authorities would not allow the use of real explosives. [41] There, the hotel bar set which tilted 30 degrees was built. "Once you remove the privacy, you've created an infinite number of alternative universes in which people can meaningfully interact, with validity, with weight, with dramatic consequences. [160] It was the second-most-mentioned film in both the top ten lists and number-one rankings, only behind The Social Network along with Toy Story 3, True Grit, The King's Speech, and Black Swan as the most critically acclaimed films of 2010. It's a breathtaking juggling act. And so the scale of the film has to feel infinite. [125], On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 87% based on 359 reviews, with an average rating of 8.10/10. I realized I needed to raise the emotional stakes." [116] Overall the film made US$62.7 million and debuted at No.1 on its opening weekend. [184], Numerous pop and hip hop songs reference the film, including Common's "Blue Sky," N.E.R.D. Out of the six times we shot with the Photo-Sonics camera and 35 mm running through it, every single shot was in the movie. [9] Nolan said that the key to completing the script was wondering what would happen if several people shared the same dream. [110] After Tenet was delayed again to August 12, the re-release was shifted to July 31,[111] before setting on the August release date following a third delay. A man named Dom Cobb wakes up on a shore and is dragged into a house belonging to a wealthy Japanese businessman named Mr. Saito. [53] The production had to wait for a huge snowstorm, which eventually arrived. Yusuf, pursued by Robert's projections in the first level, deliberately drives off a bridge, initiating his kick too soon. [41], Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who plays Arthur, spent several weeks learning to fight in a corridor that spun like "a giant hamster wheel". [163] Producer Roger Corman cited Inception as an example of "great imagination and originality". Club, Empire magazine, and Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter. "[36], Others have argued that the film is itself a metaphor for filmmaking, and that the filmgoing experience itself, images flashing before one's eyes in a darkened room, is akin to a dream. Tangier, Morocco, doubled as Mombasa, where Cobb hires Eames and Yusuf. Saito (Ken Watanabe) – The person who needs the inception to be performed on Fischer. An amazing story stunningly described by Christopher Nolan, in which dreams within dreams can … Inception Story Inception is a sci-fi action thriller film. "[130] Jim Vejvoda of IGN rated the film as perfect, deeming it "a singular accomplishment from a filmmaker who has only gotten better with each film. [36] Nolan said of the device, "It was like some incredible torture device; we thrashed Joseph for weeks, but in the end we looked at the footage, and it looks unlike anything any of us has seen before. The whole point of cinematic imagery is it's three dimensional... You know 95% of our depth cues come from occlusion, resolution, color and so forth, so the idea of calling a 2D movie a '2D movie' is a little misleading. [117] Inception's opening weekend gross made it the second-highest-grossing debut for a science fiction film that was not a sequel, remake or adaptation, behind Avatar's US$77 million opening-weekend gross in 2009. Initially, Nolan wrote an 80-page treatment about dream-stealers. For the most part "Inception" is a handsome, clever and grindingly self-serious boy-movie, shorn of imagination, libido, spirituality or emotional depth. Not be bound by the scale of those IMAX cameras, even though I love the format dearly". "[137] BBC Radio 5 Live's Mark Kermode named Inception as the best film of 2010, stating that "Inception is proof that people are not stupid, that cinema is not trash, and that it is possible for blockbusters and art to be the same thing. This causes an avalanche in Eames' level, and removes gravity on Arthur's level, forcing Arthur to improvise a new kick synchronized with the van hitting the water. Eames impersonates Robert's godfather, Peter Browning, to suggest that Robert reconsider his father's will. "[55] Nolan also chose not to shoot any of the film in 3D as he prefers shooting on film[17] using prime lenses, which is not possible with 3D cameras. [17] When he first started thinking about making the film, Nolan was influenced by "that era of movies where you had The Matrix (1999), you had Dark City (1998), you had The Thirteenth Floor (1999) and, to a certain extent, you had Memento (2000), too. Ariadne, like her ancient namesake, creates the maze and guides the others through it, but also helps Cobb navigate his own subconscious, and as the sole student of dream sharing, helps the audience understand the concept of the plot. N Hope St. in Los Angeles was the primary filming location for 'limbo,' with green screen and CGI being used to create the dream landscape. The team abducts Robert, but are attacked by projections from his subconscious. [70] He criticized Nolan's "literal-minded" action level sequencing compared to Buñuel, who "silently pushed us into reveries and left us alone to enjoy our wonderment, but Nolan is working on so many levels of representation at once that he has to lay in pages of dialogue just to explain what's going on." He is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious. [160] Author Stephen King placed Inception at #3 in his list of top 10 best movies of the year. Each of the "extractors" carries a "totem", a personalized small object whose behavior is unpredictable to anyone except to the totem's owner, to determine if they are within another person's d… [94], The official trailer released on May 10, 2010, through Mind Game was extremely well received. [68], In Inception, Nolan wanted to explore "the idea of people sharing a dream space... That gives you the ability to access somebody's unconscious mind. "[132], In its August 2010 issue, Empire magazine gave the film a full five stars and wrote, "it feels like Stanley Kubrick adapting the work of the great sci-fi author William Gibson [...] Nolan delivers another true original: welcome to an undiscovered country. Dom is unable to control these projections of her, challenging his abilities as an extractor. [13][14] Inception grossed over $828 million worldwide, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2010. "[17] On February 11, 2009, it was announced that Warner Bros. purchased Inception, a spec script written by Nolan. Nolan took a long time re-writing the script in order "to make sure that the emotional journey of his [DiCaprio's] character was the driving force of the movie. had Inception-based artwork on two of his mixtapes. | "We didn't feel that we were going to be able to shoot in IMAX because of the size of the cameras because this film given that it deals with a potentially surreal area, the nature of dreams and so forth, I wanted it to be as realistic as possible. When Mal refused to return to reality, Cobb used a form of inception by reactivating her totem, an object dreamers use to distinguish dreams from reality. On or about June 9, 2010, the film was in Completed status. [42] A hotel corridor was also constructed by Guy Hendrix Dyas, the production designer, Chris Corbould, the special effects supervisor, and Wally Pfister, the director of photography; it rotated a full 360 degrees to create the effect of alternate directions of gravity for scenes set during the second level of dreaming, where dream-sector physics become chaotic. He's left it behind. "[62] They created a basic model of a glacier and then designers created a program that added elements like roads, intersections and ravines until they had a complex, yet organic-looking, cityscape. In July of 2012 Nolan crafted a movie that’s beyond brilliant and layered both narratively and thematically. Wally Pfister tested shooting some of these sequences using a high speed digital camera, but found the format to be too unreliable due to technical glitches. [69], David Denby in The New Yorker compared Nolan's cinematic treatment of dreams to Luis Buñuel's in Belle de Jour (1967) and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972). The characters' relationships are created by their respective skills and roles. [127] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale. Inception can fundamentally alter that person as a being. [67] Hans Zimmer's music was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Original Score category in 2011, losing to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of The Social Network. Mal's projection emerges in Eames' level and kills Robert; Cobb kills Mal, and Saito succumbs to his wounds. "[73], Nolan combined elements from several different film genres into the film, notably science fiction, heist film, and film noir. Is inception possible?Answering this question thus becomes the main thrust of the Overall Story throughline. "[126] Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 74 out of 100, based on 42 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". They all wake up on the plane in reality and … [166] In 2014, Empire ranked Inception the tenth-greatest film ever made on their list of "The 301 Greatest Movies Of All Time" as voted by the magazine's readers,[167] while Rolling Stone magazine named it the second-best science fiction film since the turn of the century. 'Limbo' was made on location in Los Angeles and Morocco, with the beach scene filmed at Palos Verdes beach with CGI buildings. "[54], The film was shot primarily in the anamorphic format on 35 mm film, with key sequences filmed on 65 mm, and aerial sequences in VistaVision. An air hostess connects the group to a machine which administers a heavy sedative and puts them all to sleep inside Yusuf (the chemist's) dream. His skill has made him a hot commodity in the world of corporate espionage, but has also cost him everything he loves. [181] In most of its artistic nominations, such as Film, Director, and Screenplay at the Oscars, BAFTAs and Golden Globes, the film was defeated by The Social Network or The King's Speech. 's "Hypnotize U," XV's "The Kick," Black Eyed Peas' "Just Can't Get Enough," Lil Wayne's "6 Foot 7 Foot," Jennifer Lopez's "On the Floor," and B.o.B's "Strange Clouds," while T.I. [10] Inception was filmed in six countries, beginning in Tokyo on June 19 and ending in Canada on November 22. For the Paris-folding sequence, Franklin had artists producing concept sketches and then they created rough computer animations to give them an idea of what the sequence looked like while in motion. [120], Inception grossed US$292 million in the United States and Canada, US$56 million in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Malta and US$475 million in other countries for a total of US$823 million worldwide. This is why the Story Goal of Inceptioncannot simply be Cobb returning home to his family. Cobb uses Mal's totem – a top that spins indefinitely in a dream – to test if he is indeed in the real world, but chooses not to observe the result and instead joins his children. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) perform illegal corporate espionage by entering the subconscious minds of their targets, using two-level "dream within a dream" strategies to "extract" valuable information. "[61] To this end, visual effects supervisor Paul Franklin built a miniature of the mountain fortress set and then blew it up for the film. I realized I needed to raise the emotional stakes. While Cobb searches for Saito in limbo, the others ride the kicks back to reality. After the revelation of the first teaser trailer, in August 2009, the film's official website featured only an animation of Cobb's spinning top. For the "Paris folding" sequence and when Ariadne "creates" the bridges, green screen and CGI were used on location.[46]. "[144] A. O. Scott of The New York Times commented "there is a lot to see in Inception, there is nothing that counts as genuine vision. [43] The filmmakers originally planned to make the hallway only 40 feet (12 m) long, but as the action sequence became more elaborate, the hallway's length was increased to 100 feet (30 m). And the only outlandish idea that the film presents, really, is the existence of a technology that allows you to enter and share the same dream as someone else. [107], In a November 2010 interview, Nolan expressed his intention to develop a video game set in the Inception world, working with a team of collaborators. 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