Inception

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Inception is a 2010 sci-fi action thriller film written, produced and directed by Christopher Nolan. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, with a supporting cast that includes Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy, Tom Berenger, Dileep Rao and Michael Caine. Inception is scheduled to be released in both conventional and IMAX theaters on July 16, 2010.

• Leonardo DiCaprio as Dom Cobb, the Extractor - a man who specializes in subconscious security, but steals his clients' ideas^[4]
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Arthur, the Point Man - the person responsible for researching the team's targets.^{[5] [6]}
• Ellen Page as Ariadne, the Architect - a college graduate student who constructs the world of the dream.^{[4] [5]}
• Tom Hardy as Eames, the Forger - a team member who impersonates the target within the dream world.^[7]
• Marion Cotillard as Mallorie "Mal" Cobb, the Shade - Cobb's deceased wife, who manifests in the dreamscape beyond Cobb's control.^[4]
• Cillian Murphy as Robert Fischer, Jr., the Mark - the heir to a business empire and Dom's latest client and target.^{[4] [5]}
• Ken Watanabe as Saito, the Tourist - a businessman who employs Cobb.^{[7] [5]}
• Tom Berenger as Browning, Robert's godfather.^{[1] [5]}
• Dileep Rao as Yusuf, the Chemist - the team member who formulates the drugs needed to enter the dream world.^[5]
• Pete Postlethwaite as Maurice Fischer, Robert's dying father.
• Lukas Haas as Nash^[8]
• Michael Caine as Miles, Cobb's mentor, teacher, and father-in-law, and Ariadne's college professor. Miles is also the guardian of Cobb's children.^[9]
• Josh McFarland as Paulson
• Tim Kelleher as Thin Man
• Talulah Riley as Blonde^[10]

Inception was first developed by Christopher Nolan, based on the notion of "exploring the idea of people sharing a dream space - entering a dream space and sharing a dream. That gives you the ability to access somebody’s unconscious mind. What would that be used and abused for?"^[11] Furthermore, he thought "being able to extract information from somebody’s brain would be the obvious use of that because obviously any other system where it’s computers or physical media, whatever – things that exist outside the mind – they can all be stolen ... up until this point, or up until this movie I should say, the idea that you could actually steal something from somebody’s head was impossible. So that, to me, seemed a fascinating abuse or misuse of that kind of technology".^[11] He had thought about these ideas on and off since he was 16 years old, intrigued by how he would wake up and then, while falling back into a lighter sleep, hold on to the awareness that he was dreaming, a lucid dream. He also became aware of the feeling that he could study the place and alter the events of the dream.^[12] He said, "I tried to work that idea of manipulation and management of a conscious dream being a skill that these people have. Really the script is based on those common, very basic experiences and concepts, and where can those take you? 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".^[12]

Originally, he had envisioned Inception as a horror film^[13] but eventually wrote it as a heist film even though he found that "traditionally [they] are very deliberately superficial in emotional terms".^[12] Initially, Nolan wrote an 80-page treatment about dream-stealers.^[13] 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. I realized I needed to raise the emotional stakes".^[12] Nolan worked on the script for nine to ten years.^[11] When he first started thinking about making the film, the director was influenced by "that era of movies where you had The Matrix , you had Dark City , you had The Thirteenth Floor and, to a certain extent, you had Memento , too. They were based in the principles that the world around you might not be real".^[12] He first pitched the film to Warner Brothers in 2001 but in retrospect felt that he needed more experience making large scale films like Batman Begins and The Dark Knight .^[14] 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. And so the scale of the film has to feel infinite. It has to feel like you could go absolutely anywhere by the end of the film. And it has to work on a massive scale".^[14] After making The Dark Knight, Nolan decided to make Inception and spent six months completing the script.^[14] For the director, the key to completing the script was wondering what would happen if several people shared the same dream. He said, "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".^[15]

Leonardo DiCaprio was the first actor to be cast in the film.^[11] 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".^[14] He and Nolan spent months talking about the screenplay. Nolan took a long time re-writing the script in order "to make sure that the emotional journey of his character was the driving force of the movie".^[11]

On February 11, 2009, it was announced that Warner Bros. purchased Inception, a spec script written by Nolan.^[16] Production began in Tokyo on June 19, 2009. Other locations included Los Angeles, London, Paris, Tangier and Calgary.^[13] Principal photography for the film began on July 13, 2009.^[17] On July 15, 2009, filming took place at University College London library. The signage of the library was altered to French to imitate a bibliothèque.^[13] On August 17, 2009, filming took place around the Pont de Bir-Hakeim, a bridge that crosses the Seine River in Paris, France.^{[18] [19]} Filming also took place in Morocco on Monday, August 24, 2009.^[20] Filming in Los Angeles started September 27, 2009. Filming near Calgary at Fortress Mountain Resort began in late November 2009 on an elaborate set on top of a mountain. The production had to wait for a huge snowstorm, which eventually arrived.^[13]

The film was shot on anamorphic 35mm with key sequences filmed on 65mm, and certain other sequences with VistaVision but Nolan did not shoot any footage with IMAX cameras as he had with The Dark Knight . "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. Not be bound by the scale of those IMAX cameras, even though I love the format dearly."^[11] Nolan also chose not to shoot any of the film in 3-D as he believes that shooting on digital video does not offer a high enough quality image.^[11] Special effects expert Chris Corbould and his team built giant rotating hallways and a massive tilting nightclub for scenes where dream-sector physics become chaotic. One of the film's actors, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, spent several weeks learning to fight in a corridor that spun like "a giant hamster wheel".^[12] 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 rhythm of it is unique, and when you watch it, even if you know how it was done, it confuses your perceptions. It's unsettling in a wonderful way".^[12] Gordon-Levitt remembered, "it was six-day weeks of just, like, coming home at night fuckin' battered ... 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.^[21]

Nolan has said that the film "deals with levels of reality, and perceptions of reality which is something I'm very interested in. It's an action film set in a contemporary world, but with a slight science-fiction bent to it", while also describing it as "very much an ensemble film structured somewhat as a heist movie. It's an action adventure that spans the globe".^[22]

The film has a reported budget of 200ドル million and will run for approximately 148 minutes.^[23]

Hans Zimmer scored the film, marking his third collaboration with Nolan. According to Zimmer, it's a "a very electronic score."^[24] Johnny Marr also plays guitar throughout the score. An album containing some of Zimmer's music for the film will be released on Tuesday, July 13. The tracks are listed below:

1. "Half Remembered Dream" (1:12)
2. "We Built Our Own World" (1:55)
3. "Dream Is Collapsing" (2:28)
4. "Radical Notion" (3:43)
5. "Old Souls" (7:44)
6. "528491" (2:23)
7. "Mombasa" (4:54)
8. "One Simple Idea" (2:28)
9. "Dream Within a Dream" (5:04)
10. "Waiting for a Train" (9:30)
11. "Paradox" (3:25)
12. "Time" (4:35)

Inception will be released in both conventional and IMAX theaters on July 16, 2010.^{[25] [26]} A teaser trailer for the film was attached to Inglourious Basterds , following its release in August 2009. A theatrical trailer was attached to Sherlock Holmes , premiering in December 2009. The third and final trailer debuted with regular and IMAX screenings of Iron Man 2 in May 2010.^[27] The film had its world premiere at Leicester Square in London, England on July 8. 2010.^[28]

In early reviews, the film has received universal acclaim. Review aggregate Metacritic has given it a score of an 100, the highest possible score. In addition, review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 100% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 15 reviews, with an average score of 9.0/10.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).

In his review for Variety , Justin Chang 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 subconscious, 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".^[29] Jim Vejvoda of IGN rated the film perfect, deeming it "a singular accomplishment from a filmmaker who has only gotten better with each film".^[30] Empire magazine rated it five stars in the August 2010 issue 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." .^[31]

In the spring of 2010 a viral marketing campaign was started for the film. On June 2, 2010 a manual was sent out to various companies. The manual was filled with bizarre images and text all relating to Inception. No one was really able to make out what it all meant and how it ties into the film. As the month went on, more and more viral marketing began to surface including, posters, ads and strange websites all related to the film.^{[32] [33]}

On June 7, 2010 a behind the scenes featurette on the film was released in HD on Yahoo! Movies.^[34]

On June 21, 2010 a character featurette was released detailing the characters and providing some more information on the plot.^[35]

A press release detailing each character and giving in depth details about him/her was released on June 24, 2010.^[36]

Twenty-six new photos were released on June 24, 2010.^[37]

4 clips and The HBO First Look were released on July 6, 2010.

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