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Inception
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^Amen.
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Does anyone know who designed the suits? I've never seen a movie (not even Bond) where the audience noticed the suits this much.
Was it Armani? Tom Ford? Seriously, every guy should go out and buy a bamf suit. Increases sexiness level exponentially.
Was it Armani? Tom Ford? Seriously, every guy should go out and buy a bamf suit. Increases sexiness level exponentially.
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I loved Mal's costumes. That coat she is wearing when we first meet her looked like something out of Dracula.
The only problem I had with the film was the score being too loud - so many scenes I couldn't make out the dialogue. Did anyone else have this problem?
The only problem I had with the film was the score being too loud - so many scenes I couldn't make out the dialogue. Did anyone else have this problem?
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brb, lusting.
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^It was truly frightening 
I think my entire (Full) theater jumped out of their seats!
I think my entire (Full) theater jumped out of their seats!eternitygoddess
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I literally jumped in my seat and said "Oh sh*t!". Mal was MENACING and spooky. I was surprised she could pull of the crazy b*tch so well, since she seems like such a sweet person and her character roles up to now have not been anything like Mal.
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I watched it hours ago and still can't get out of it. I'm making plans to watch it again tomorrow.
I can't think of a single negative point about that movie. In other times I'd have a lukewarm feeling regarding LDC but he acts so well I forgot my initial dislike.
And JGL...Strong, confident and action hero! I want more!!
I can't think of a single negative point about that movie. In other times I'd have a lukewarm feeling regarding LDC but he acts so well I forgot my initial dislike.
And JGL...Strong, confident and action hero! I want more!!
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I just got home from the theater after seeing it and all I think I could say for a good half and hour after it ended was "OMG! That was brilliant!" The acting was amazing, the whole cast is a talented lot. I had a thing for JGL before this movie but after seeing the film, well that crush just increased by a lot (he looked so sexy in his suits). I really want to see the film again, I feel like their was so much to take in that I might have missed a few things but I like when this happens, thats how I know a movie got to me, when I have to think about it.
Regarding the ending, I couldn't have said it better myself:
Nolan would never take the "eeet was aaaaalll a dreeeeaaaammmmm" cliche way out. But the fact that he cut the film before the top falls over does have a meaning. He is planting a seed of doubt in your mind. He uses inception on the audience to have them question the ending. The concept of the movie thus becomes reality to the viewer, a heavy thing to think about and something that hasn't been done before.
But all the evidence points to reality.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/board/flat/167257495
Nolan would never take the "eeet was aaaaalll a dreeeeaaaammmmm" cliche way out. But the fact that he cut the film before the top falls over does have a meaning. He is planting a seed of doubt in your mind. He uses inception on the audience to have them question the ending. The concept of the movie thus becomes reality to the viewer, a heavy thing to think about and something that hasn't been done before.
But all the evidence points to reality.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/board/flat/167257495
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This imdb quote is a great way to think of the ending, its along the lines of what I was thinking it was, except for they put it into the words which I couldn't.
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Here're some great quotes analyzing Inception - each support different sides of how one may perceive the movie (Highlight to read
"The solution to Inception is the impossible staircase....Every theory (it's a dream, it's not a dream) can be eventually contradicted by some other element of the film. This isn't just "ambiguity", it's literally impossible to construct a theory for the movie that accounts for all the evidence in the film because the evidence is contradictory. Interpreting the plot of Inception is like climbing the Penrose stairs; you think you are always climbing up or climbing down, but you never get anywhere."
via IMDB
"Everyone's so concerned about whether the top falls or not, but no one seems to care that Leo walked away without caring. The moment he sees their face, he can walk away. That's testimony to the fact that he's gained that faith."
via Dileep Rao's interview
"The heist team quite neatly maps to major players in a film production. Cobb is the director while Arthur, the guy who does the research and who sets up the places to sleep, is the producer. Ariadne, the dream architect, is the screenwriter - she creates the world that will be entered. Eames is the actor (this is so obvious that the character sits at an old fashioned mirrored vanity, the type which stage actors would use). Yusuf is the technical guy; remember, the Oscar come from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and it requires a good number of technically minded people to get a movie off the ground. That leaves two key figures. Saito is the money guy, the big corporate suit who fancies himself a part of the game. And Fischer, the mark, is the audience. Cobb, as a director, takes Fischer through an engaging, stimulating and exciting journey, one that leads him to an understanding about himself. Cobb is the big time movie director (or rather the best version of that - certainly not a Michael Bay) who brings the action, who brings the spectacle, but who also brings the meaning and the humanity and the emotion."
The movies-as-dreams aspect is part of why Inception keeps the dreams so grounded. In the film it's explained that playing with the dream too much alerts the dreamer to the falseness around him; this is just another version of the suspension of disbelief upon which all films hinge. As soon as the audience is pulled out of the movie by some element - an implausible scene, a ludicrous line, a poor performance - it's possible that the cinematic dream spell is broken completely, and they're lost.
As a great director, Cobb is also a great artist, which means that even when he's creating a dream about snowmobile chases, he's bringing something of himself into it. That's Mal. It's the auterist impulse, the need to bring your own interests, obsessions and issues into a movie. It's what the best directors do. It's very telling that Nolan sees this as kind of a problem; I suspect another filmmaker might have cast Mal as the special element that makes Cobb so successful.
Inception is such a big deal because it's what great movies strive to do. You walk out of a great film changed, with new ideas planted in your head, with your neural networks subtly rewired by what you've just seen. On a meta level Inception itself does this, with audiences leaving the theater buzzing about the way it made them feel and perceive. New ideas, new thoughts, new points of view are more lasting a souvenir of a great movie than a ticket stub."
via this great essay
I also personally believe that Nolan meant for everything - particularly the ending - to be ambiguous, just so the audience would analyze it to death. It's his own inception into our consciousnesses
But on a completely different note: modern cinema really does need more three-piece suits.
"The solution to Inception is the impossible staircase....Every theory (it's a dream, it's not a dream) can be eventually contradicted by some other element of the film. This isn't just "ambiguity", it's literally impossible to construct a theory for the movie that accounts for all the evidence in the film because the evidence is contradictory. Interpreting the plot of Inception is like climbing the Penrose stairs; you think you are always climbing up or climbing down, but you never get anywhere."
via IMDB
"Everyone's so concerned about whether the top falls or not, but no one seems to care that Leo walked away without caring. The moment he sees their face, he can walk away. That's testimony to the fact that he's gained that faith."
via Dileep Rao's interview
"The heist team quite neatly maps to major players in a film production. Cobb is the director while Arthur, the guy who does the research and who sets up the places to sleep, is the producer. Ariadne, the dream architect, is the screenwriter - she creates the world that will be entered. Eames is the actor (this is so obvious that the character sits at an old fashioned mirrored vanity, the type which stage actors would use). Yusuf is the technical guy; remember, the Oscar come from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and it requires a good number of technically minded people to get a movie off the ground. That leaves two key figures. Saito is the money guy, the big corporate suit who fancies himself a part of the game. And Fischer, the mark, is the audience. Cobb, as a director, takes Fischer through an engaging, stimulating and exciting journey, one that leads him to an understanding about himself. Cobb is the big time movie director (or rather the best version of that - certainly not a Michael Bay) who brings the action, who brings the spectacle, but who also brings the meaning and the humanity and the emotion."
The movies-as-dreams aspect is part of why Inception keeps the dreams so grounded. In the film it's explained that playing with the dream too much alerts the dreamer to the falseness around him; this is just another version of the suspension of disbelief upon which all films hinge. As soon as the audience is pulled out of the movie by some element - an implausible scene, a ludicrous line, a poor performance - it's possible that the cinematic dream spell is broken completely, and they're lost.
As a great director, Cobb is also a great artist, which means that even when he's creating a dream about snowmobile chases, he's bringing something of himself into it. That's Mal. It's the auterist impulse, the need to bring your own interests, obsessions and issues into a movie. It's what the best directors do. It's very telling that Nolan sees this as kind of a problem; I suspect another filmmaker might have cast Mal as the special element that makes Cobb so successful.
Inception is such a big deal because it's what great movies strive to do. You walk out of a great film changed, with new ideas planted in your head, with your neural networks subtly rewired by what you've just seen. On a meta level Inception itself does this, with audiences leaving the theater buzzing about the way it made them feel and perceive. New ideas, new thoughts, new points of view are more lasting a souvenir of a great movie than a ticket stub."
via this great essay
I also personally believe that Nolan meant for everything - particularly the ending - to be ambiguous, just so the audience would analyze it to death. It's his own inception into our consciousnesses
But on a completely different note: modern cinema really does need more three-piece suits.
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