19 Mind-Bending Facts From the Making of Inception

Some facts from within Nolan's masterpiece. 

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    Ceiling - Joseph Gordon-Levitt performed all but one of his own stunts during the fight scene in the spinning hallway @poppgremlins
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    Movie - popping emlins f you take the first letters of the main characters' names- Dom, Robert, Eames, Arthur, Mal and Saito they spell "Dreams" If you add Peter, Ariadne and Yusuf, the whole makes "Dreams Pay", which is what they do for a mind thief.
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    Text - INCEPTION @soppingremlins In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Christopher Nolan explained that he based roles of the Inception team similar to roles that are used in filmmaking Cobb is the Director, Arthuris the Producer, Ariadne is the Production Designer Eames is the Actor, Saito is the Studio, and Fischer is the Audience. "In trying to write a team-based creative process, I wrote the one I know," said Nolan.
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    Winter storm - While shooting the snowmobile chase there were intermittent wind gusts, In order to preserve continuity during the takes without natural wind the camera helicopter was used to blow snow into frame. @poppingremins
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    Photo caption - @poppingremlins According to Cinematographer Wally Pfister, Warner Brothers executives approached Christopher Nolan about making the film in 3-D, but he refused the idea, claiming "it will distract the storytelling experience of Inception"
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    Poster - @poppingramliths Joseph Gordon-Levitt went to his audition after a brief character summary, wearing a full suit Just in case, unknowingly matching his character's wardrobe perfectly
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    Conversation - Ariadne's hair is in a tight bun in the hotel sequence, so filmmakers didn't have to figure out how her hair should move in zero-gravity. @poppingremlins
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    Music - eoppingremins Just like Christopher Nolan's previous movie The Dark Knight (2008), no second unit team was hired for making the movie. All the shots were filmed by Nolan with Wally Pfister
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    Land vehicle - 2053 800 197-1222 2053 @poppingremlins In the city scene on the first level of the dream with Fischer, the state motto on the license plates of the cars reads "The Alternate State"
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    White-collar worker - @poppingremlins Not counting flashbacks, Cobb's wedding ring only appears in scenes where he is dreaming Many times in the film, the scene cuts away just as Cobb's left hand comes into view.
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    Photography - UDF mm 50 @poppingremlins During production, details of the film's plot were kept secret. Christopher Nolan, who wrote the script, cryptically described it as a contemporary science fiction action thriller "set within the architecture of the mind."
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    Movie - LE ON ARDO DICA P Christopher Nolan first pitched the film to Wamer Bros. after the completion of his third!feature, Insomnia (2002), and was met with approval from the studio. However it was not yet written at the time, and Nolan- determined that rather than writing it as an assignment it would be more suitable to his working style, if he wrote it as a speculation script, and then presented it to the studio whenever it was completed. So he went off to write it, thinking it would take a
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    Landmark - @poppingremins In spite of the film's extensive surreal effects sequences, the majorityof visual effects throughout the film such as the Penrose stairs, rotatinghallway, mountain avalanche, and zero-gravity sequences, were created through practical methods, not through the use of computerlgraphics imagery, The film only has around five hundred visual effects shots, as opposed to most other visual effects epics which can have upwards of 2000 visual effects shots.
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    Text - During an interview, Christopher Nolan addressed the ambiguous ending saying he believes Cobb makes it home to his children, although it is open to interpretation by the viewer. He further claimed that the point of not seeing whether or not the top stops spinning is that Cobb no longer obsesses over his dreams. @poppingremlins
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    Action-adventure game - The slow gloomy,blaring trombones in the main theme of the film score are actually based on an extremely slowed down version of the fast, high pitched trumpets in the beginningof the Edith Piaf song "Non, je ne regrette rien which is used asa plot device in the film. Furthermore, when music is heard by someone who is currently within a dream, the music is perceived as slowed down. Thus, the main theme of the film scoreis almost exactly what the beginning of "Non, je ne re
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    Text - When Cobb is on the plane, and is given his passport, the face seen in the photograph is actually that of Christopher Nolan. @poppingremlins
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    Finger - @poppingremlins When Cobb gave Ariadne the puzzle test, Ariadne's final solution was a diagram of King Minos' Labyrinth. Ariadne is the name of King Minos' daughter in the same mythology.
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    Headgear - @poppingremlins effort to combat confusion, television broadcasts in Japan include text in the upper left corner of the screen to remind viewers which level of the dream a specific scene takes place in.
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    Snow - @popaingrehtilla Christopher Nolan has said that the snow-based third-level dream was inspired by his favorite James Bond film On Her Majestys Secret Service (1969)
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