1. INCEPTION( )
Director and Writer : Christopher
Nolan
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
2. INCEPTION
8 nomination for Oscar :
Best Achievement in Cinematography (Oscar)
Best Achievement in Sound Editing (Oscar)
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing (Oscar)
Best Achievement in Visual Effects (Oscar)
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Best Achievement in Art Direction
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures,
Original Score
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Best Writing, Original Screenplay
3. SUMMARY
In a world where technology exists to enter the
human mind through dream invasion, a highly
skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption
which involves executing his toughest job to date:
Inception.
5. DIRECTOR
Christopher Nolan
( 1970 in London, England, UK)
B.A. English Literature
Nominated for 3 Oscar
Inception 2011 (2 times)
Memento 2002
Nominated for 3 Golden Globe
(Same Movie)
Next Movie : The Dark Night
Rises
6. DIRECTOR
The Dark Knight Rises (post-production)
Inception 2010 - 13th IMDB (Won 2 Oscar, Nominated for 8 Oscar)
The Dark Knight 2008 – 8th IMDB (Won 2 Oscar, Nominated for 8 Oscar)
The Prestige 2006 – 69th IMDB (Nominated for 2 Oscar)
Batman Begins 2005 -115th IMDB (Nominated for Oscar)
Insomnia 2002
Memento 2000 - 32th IMDB (Nominated for 2 Oscar)
Following 1998
(Larry Holden 3 movies)
(Micheal Caine 4 movies)
7. CHARACTER
Leonardo DiCaprio as Dominic "Dom" Cobb, a
professional thief who specializes in conning secrets
from his victims by infiltrating their dreams. DiCaprio
was the first actor to be cast in the film.[13] Nolan had
been trying to work with the actor for years and met him
several times, but was unable to convince him to appear
in any of his films until Inception.[14] According
to Hollywood Reporter, both Brad Pitt andWill
Smith were offered the role.[15]
8. CAST
Leonardo DiCaprio (1974, Hollywood,
Los Angeles, California, USA)
Nominated for 3 Oscar
1. Best Performance by an Actor in a
Leading Role
for: Blood Diamond (2006).
2. Best Performance by an Actor in a
Leading Role
for: The Aviator (2004).
3. Best Actor in a Supporting Role
for: What's Eating Gilbert
Grape (1993).
Nominated for 7 Golden Globe and
Won 1 Golden Globe (The
Aviator (2004))
9. CHARACTER
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Arthur, Cobb's partner who
manages and researches the missions. Gordon-Levitt
compared Arthur to the producer of Cobb's art, "the one
saying, 'Okay, you have your vision; now I'm going to
figure out how to make all the nuts and bolts work so you
can do your thing'".[18] The actor did all of his stunts but
one scene and said the preparation "was a challenge
and it would have to be for it to look real".[19]
10. CAST
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (1981, Los
Angeles, California, USA)
Nominated for 2 Golden Globe
1. Best Performance by an Actor in a
Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
for: 50/50 (2011).
2. Best Performance by an Actor in a
Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
for: (500) Days of Summer (2009).
11. CHARACTER
Ellen Page as Ariadne, a graduate student of architecture who
is recruited to construct the various dreamscapes, which are
described as mazes. The name Ariadne alludes to a princess
of Greek myth, daughter of King Minos, who aided the
hero Theseus by giving him a sword and a ball of string to help
him navigate the labyrinth which was the prison of
the Minotaur. Nolan said that Page was chosen for being a
"perfect combination of freshness and savvy and maturity
beyond her years".[16] Page said her character acts as a proxy
to the audience, as "she's just learning about these ideas and,
in essence, assists the audience in learning about dream
sharing".[17]
12. CAST
Ellen Page (1987, Halifax,
Nova Scotia, Canada)
Nominated for Oscar:
Best Performance by an
Actress in a Leading Role
for: Juno (2007).
13. CHARACTER
Tom Hardy as Eames, a sharp-tongued associate of
Cobb's. Eames uses his ability to impersonate
others inside the dream world in order to manipulate
Fischer. Hardy described his character as "an
old, Graham Greene-type diplomat; sort of faded,
shabby, grandeur - the old Shakespeare lovey mixed with
somebody from Her Majesty's Special Forces", who
wears "campy, old money" costumes.[23]
14. CAST
Tom Hardy (1977, Hammersmith,
London, England, UK)
Inception
Warrior (Suggest to watch)
144th IMDB
The Dark knight rises (Bane)
15. CHARACTER
Dileep Rao as Yusuf, the team's chemist. Rao
describes Yusuf as "an avant-garde
pharmacologist, who is a resource for people, like
Cobb, who want to do this work unsupervised,
unregistered and unapproved of by anyone". Co-
producer Jordan Goldberg said the role of the
chemist was "particularly tough because you don't
want him to seem like some kind of drug dealer",
and that Rao was cast for being "funny, interesting
and obviously smart".[25]
16. CAST
Dileep Rao( 1973, Los Angeles,
California, USA)
Inception
Avatar
17. CHARACTER
Ken Watanabe as Mr. Saito, a businessman who employs
Cobb for the team's mission. Nolan wrote the role with
Watanabe in mind, as he wanted to work with him again after
Batman Begins.[20] Inception is Watanabe's first work in a
contemporary setting where his primary language is English.
Watanabe tried to emphasize a different characteristic of
Saito in every dream level – "First chapter in my castle, I pick
up some hidden feelings of the cycle. It's magical, powerful
and then the first dream. And back to the second chapter, in
the old hotel, I pick up [being] sharp and more calm and smart
and it's a little bit [of a] different process to make up the
character of any movie".[21]
18. CAST
Ken Watanabe(1959, Uonuma,
Japan)
Nominated for Oscar
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
for: The Last Samurai (2003).
Memories of Geisha
Batman Begins
19. CHARCTER
Cillian Murphy as Robert Michael Fischer, the heir to a
business empire and the team's target.[20] Murphy said
Fischer was portrayed as "a petulant child who's in need
of a lot of attention from his father, he has everything he
could ever want materially, but he's deeply lacking
emotionally". The actor also researched the sons
of Rupert Murdoch, "to add to that the idea of living in the
shadow of someone so immensely powerful".[24]
20. CAST
Cillian Murphy (1976, Douglas,
Cork, Ireland)
Nominated for Golden Globe
Best Performance by an Actor in a
Motion Picture - Comedy or
Musical
for: Breakfast on Pluto (2005).
3 movies with Nolan
21. CHARACTER
Marion Cotillard as Mallorie "Mal" Cobb. As the
film's main antagonist, she is a manifestation of
Dom's guilt about the real Mal's suicide. He is
unable to control these projections of her,
challenging his abilities as an extractor.[14] Nolan
described Mal as "the essence of the femme
fatale," and 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".[22]
22. CAST
Marion Cotillard (1975, Paris,
France)
Won Oscar :
Best Performance by an Actress in a
Leading Role
for: La vie en rose (2007).
Big Fish
Nine (Nominated for Golden Globe)
23. CAST
Pete Postlethwaite (1946–2011)
Born: 1946 in Warrington,
Lancashire, England, UK
Died: January 2, 2011 (age 64)
in Shrewsbury, Shropshire,
England, UK
Nominated for Oscar
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
for: In the Name of the
Father (1993).
* R.I.P Pete Postlethwaite
24. CAST
Michael Caine
(1933, Rotherhithe, London,
England, UK)
6 times nomination for Oscar
and Won 2 Oscar :
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
for: The Cider House
Rules (1999).
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
for: Hannah and Her
Sisters (1986).
25. VISUAL EFFECTS
For dream sequences in Inception, Nolan used little computer-generated imagery,
preferring practical effects whenever possible. Nolan said, "It's always very
important to me to do as much as possible in-camera, and then, if necessary,
computer graphics are very useful to build on or enhance what you have
achieved physically."[49] To this end, visual effects supervisor Paul Franklin built
a miniature of the mountain fortress set and then blew it up for the film. For the
fight scene that takes place in zero gravity, he used CG-based effects to "subtly
bend elements like physics, space and time."[50]
The most challenging effect was the "limbo" city level at the end of the film
because it continually developed during production. Franklin had artists build
concepts while Nolan gave his ideal vision: "Something glacial, with clear
modernist architecture, but with chunks of it breaking off into the sea like
icebergs".[50] Franklin and his team ended up with "something that looked like an
iceberg version of Gotham City with water running through it."[50] 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. 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. Later during
principal photography, Nolan was able to direct Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen
Page based on this rough computer animation Franklin had
created. Inception had close to 500 visual effects shots (in comparison, Batman
Begins had approximately 620) which is considered minor in comparison to
contemporary visual effects epics that can have around 1,500 or 2,000 special
effects images.[50]
