What if you could steal someone’s dreams?
One film I think is safe to say we’re all looking forward to is Christopher Nolan’s INCEPTION. Not only does the flick rock an awesome A-list ensemble, there’s more than a few of us interested to see how the man will follow up his mammoth, paradigm shifting superhero movie THE DARK KNIGHT. Moreover, INCEPTION is due in a mere three months, and still, the movie seems shrouded in secrecy. That is, until now. You see, Chris Nolan recently shed some light on his new cerebral thriller to the L.A. Times. It’s good stuff gang, take a look at it below!
But before we get that, let’s take a look at a more extended synopsis for the film:
The film star Leonardo DiCaprio as a specialist in the new branch of corporate espionage — he’s a dream thief who plucks secrets from the minds of tycoons after pumping them full of drugs and hooking them up to a mysterious contraption. The problem, though, is the land of nod can be volatile — as can Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, Dom Cobb, who is a wounded dreamer after the loss of his beloved wife.
About how INCEPTION came about, Nolan states:
“I wanted to do this for a very long time, it’s something I’ve thought about off and on since I was about 16. I wrote the first draft of this script seven or eight years ago, but it goes back much further, this idea of approaching dream and the dream life as another state of reality.” “You can look around and examine the details and pick up a handful of sand on the beach,” Nolan said. “I never particularly found a limit to that; that is to say, that while in that state your brain can fill in all that reality. 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.”
Regarding the initial approach Nolan looked to take on INCEPTION:
“I originally wrote it as a heist movie, and heist movies traditionally are very deliberately superficial in emotional terms,” Nolan said. “They’re frivolous and glamorous, and there’s a sort of gloss and fun to it. I originally tried to write it that way, but when I came back to it I realized that — to me — that didn’t work for a film that 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. What we found in working on ‘Batman’ is that it’s the emotionalism that best connects the audience with the material. The character issues, those are the things that pull the audience through it and amplify the experience no matter how strange things get.”
And when quizzed about whether or not INCEPTION falls under the current technological umbrella, i.e. 3D, Nolan was quick to negate:
“I think ours is of an older school, ours is more of ‘The Matrix’ variety and the concepts of different levels of reality,” Nolan said. “The whole concept of avatars and living life as someone else, there’s a relationship to what we’re doing, but I think when I first started trying to make this film happen it was very much pulled from 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.”
Sweet-tits! THE MATRIX meets DARK CITY with a bit of MINORITY REPORT thrown in for good measure…what else do you need?!?
INCEPTION goes wide July 7th!
The adorable Marion Cotillard, star of INCEPTION!