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INCEPTION Review Thread (SPOILERS!!)
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The film follows an agent named Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) who can drug up tycoons and enter their minds to find out their secrets and strategies. Cobb then uses the secrets to sell to the highest competing bidder. However, the mind is a volatile place, where places can rearrange and people can have power much stronger than in reality, and the complications of the mind can create dreamscapes that can end in mere seconds, trapping the agents with them. After a heist gone wrong, Dom and his team (Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page) become under attack by a CEO (Ken Watanabe) looking to use the technology for his own singular greed.
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How Much Do You Want to Know About Inception? Plot Details Are Leaking Out
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OK, the title should clue you in, but there are spoilers to follow for Christopher Nolan’s Inception.
It’s mostly first act stuff, and I expect a lot of these details are things you’ll be given by official marketing soon enough. But a few of the things might actually be spoilers. Other web writers are already *****ing on Twitter about the fact that these details are out in the wild, so here’s some advice that should really be obvious if you’re reading movie news on the web: if you don’t want to know anything about Inception, don’t read anything about Inception. I’ll agree that part of the movie’s charm at this point is the fact that we know so little about it, so consider yourself warned.
InContention posted a piece today that got the talk going about Inception’s plot, but in truth almost all of this info has been on the web since May, in a post on gaming message board NeoGAF. Some of this might not be quite right, and it seems like the info that InContention has came from the same place as the original GAF post. Anyway, here you go. The basic story info, which isn’t as spoilerish, first:
Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘CEO type’ character is a guy who can dive into people’s dreams to implant or extract information. The tool used isn’t a big machine, but something that can be injected, and is therefore portable. Ellen Page, Tom Hardy and Joseph Gordon Levitt play members of DiCaprio’s team. She’s a ‘dream architect’. The roles of the two guys are less certain, but the fact that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is fighting two guys in the trailer is interesting, if they are in fact working together.
OK, so that’s the setup. A full trailer will probably tell you most of that. So far I’m thinking less of The Matrix than of the film Dreamscape and prose fiction like Haruki Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. But I like it, and I love the idea that this ’sci-fi’ isn’t futuristic.
Now, here are the potential real spoilers:
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Cillian Murphy plays a businessman who is about to take over a company, and DiCaprio is charged with going into his head and inserting the idea of splitting that company into smaller parts. Meanwhile, DiCaprio’s character is being blackmailed by Ken Watanabe, and there may be something going on there with DiCaprio’s wife, played by Marion Cotillard. Trapped in a dream, Cotillard commits suicide to attempt to return to the ‘real’ world, where DiCaprio is charged with her murder.
Some of these details are less clear. (The orginal GAF post, for example, tagged Watanabe as the businessman that InContention says is played by Murphy.) But it’s an intriguing setup, and we still don’t know much about how the pieces fit together.
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Inception Character Names Revealed
As you probably know, the movie trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Inception is due in theaters this Friday attached to some prints of Inglourious Basterds. Until that trailer screens, we really haven’t been told much about Nolan’s sci-fi action film which has been described as “set within the architecture of the mind.”
The production has been shooting in Paris all week (see a set photo above thanks to ComingSoon), and a site called CloneWeb (found via NolanFans) has apparently gotten their hands on the call sheet. What does the call sheet tell us? Well… not much. But we do finally learn some of the names of the characters in the film.
Here are the character names:
Ellen Page is Ariadne, Joseph Gordon Levitt is Arthur, Tom Hardy is Eames, Ken Watanabe is Saito, Dileep Rao is Yusef, Cillian Murphy is Fischer, Tom Berenger is Browning. Leonardo DiCaprio’s name is missing from the list, but everyone assumes he might be named COBB, since this name appears above Page’s on the sheet, but without any actor listed. It is possible that CODD is just a code name for DiCaprio which may not even be used in the movie at all. Either that or COBB s a computer generated character.
Want to know what the film might be about? Here is what we knew already: Leonardo DiCaprio plays the lead, a CEO-type, Marion Cotillard (La Vie en rose, Public Enemies) is his wife, Ellen Page (Juno) is a young college grad student and DiCaprio’s sidekick, Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays an associate working for DiCaprio. Ken Watanabe will play the film’s villain, a man who is blackmailing Leonardo DiCaprio’s character. Tom Hardy (Bronson) is a member of DiCaprio’s team. Cillian Murphy (Batman Begins, Sunshine) and Michael Caine are also signed on, but no details are known about their characters.
Inception is scheduled to hit theaters on July 16th 2010.
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Report From Set of Inception: Leonardo DiCaprio and the Bridge of Mirrors
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We know next to nothing about the story behind Inception, the new film from Christopher Nolan which is filming around the world. Now that People has reported with a description of a scene from a location in Paris, we still know next to nothing. That hasn’t stopped a little bit of speculating from taking place, however, and Movieline has a crazy thought that, while almost definitely totally wrong, would put Inception squarely in Charlie Kaufman territory. But since we’re all speculating anyway, let’s indulge this notion.
First, there’s People’s description of the scene, which took place on the Pont de Bir-Hakeim, a bridge that crosses the Seine. Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page we working in the scene, and Marion Cotillard was on hand, too. The article describes the action:
Monday’s scene on the closed set utilized two giant mirrors, each the size of a storefront and slowly rotating and reflecting each other. The leading man – dressed in a grey-green Armani jacket, black trousers and looking very tanned and blond – stood between them, creating a funhouse-mirror effect of a thousand reflections before the mirrors pulled away to reveal him walking the bridge with Ellen Page amid a sea of extras.
DiCaprio and Page argue, and she violently shoves him, knocking him to the ground. Other shots focused on the many extras, “standing as still as statues, as though they were frozen in time.” The article reports that DiCaprio and Page worked in the morning and that Cotillard arrived on set just before the other two actors wrapped, but does not describe her scene.
Then there’s Movieline’s take on the scene, which is wild enough to be intriguing, if as unsubstantiated as those rumors of Brad Pitt appearing in Sherlock Holmes. Essentially, the site speculates that DiCaprio might be playing some analog of Christopher Nolan. The conclusion is drawn primarily from the People photo of the star on set, and the connection between his appearance and Nolan’s general style. And since the film is set within “the architecture of the mind” it’s an idea that sounds good, at least, though it’s totally at odds with what few details we’ve heard. (And can’t print, sadly.)
Finally, JustJared has a bunch of photos from the set, so head there to check ‘em out. We might know a tiny bit more soon, as the Inception teaser trailer will debut this Friday. Until then, discuss!
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And it will be shooting in Canada:
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Not that this is a shocking amount, as The Dark Knight had a budget of $185 million, but it's great to hear nonetheless, especially since a few people might've thought that Nolan's latest wouldn't be a big action movie. The Calgary Sun (via SlashFilm) has an article about Christopher Nolan's Inception shooting up in Canada later this year. Not only do they mention some details about where it'll be shooting and its size and scope, but that the budget will be around $200 million - or closer to $176.5 million if that first amount is actually Canadian dollars. What I love the most is that we still don't know anything about this movie at all.
The Calgary Sun reports that Inception will be filming in five different countries, although a "significant portion" of it will be shot in Kananaskis, outside of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. "Nolan scouted nearby foothills and mountainous areas by helicopter and is said to have chosen Fortress Mountain as the main Alberta location." To give you an idea of what that place looks like, I've used a photo of Fortress Mountain above (via Flickr). The shoot will employ "hundreds, if not thousands, of local film workers starting this summer when construction on the elaborate set is due to begin." Shooting is set to start in November.
All that we know is that Inception is "a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind." What that means, exactly, no one knows. And I absolute love how Nolan is about to shoot this enormous production and we still know nothing about it. If only it could stay that way until we see a trailer. This goes back to the idea of how J.J. Abrams loves mysteries and how exciting is to see a production this big that remains a mystery. I'm sure eventually details on the plot will leak out, but until then, it's exhilarating just writing about this with so little details. Hopefully this little update is enough to keep everyone excited.
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Last edited by Diesel; 07-04-2010 at 06:44 AM.
Reason: Added trailer links
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