Inception
Inception is a 2010 science fiction action film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with Emma Thomas, his wife. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a professional thief who steals information by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets. He is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious. The ensemble cast includes Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Elliot Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Dileep Rao, and Michael Caine. After the 2002 completion of Insomnia, Nolan presented to Warner Bros. a written 80-page treatment for a horror film envisioning "dream stealers," based on lucid dreaming. Deciding he needed more experience before tackling a production of this magnitude and complexity, Nolan shelved the project and instead worked on 2005's Batman Begins, 2006's The Prestige, and 2008's The Dark Knight. The treatment was revised over six months and was purchased by Warner in February 2009. Inception was filmed in six countries, beginning in Tokyo on June 19 and ending in Canada on November 22. Its official budget was $160 million, split between Warner Bros. and Legendary. Nolan's reputation and success with The Dark Knight helped secure the film's US$100 million in advertising expenditure. Inception's premiere was held in London on July 8, 2010; it was released in both conventional and IMAX theaters beginning on July 16, 2010. Inception grossed over $837 million worldwide, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2010. Considered one of the best films of the 2010s, Inception won four Oscars (Best Cinematography, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects) and was nominated for four more (Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Original Score) at the 83rd Academy Awards.
Extradition between France and the United States... Is a bureaucratic nightmare you know that. I think they might find a way to make it work in your case. Look, I, uh, brought these for you to give to the kids when you have a chance. It'll take more than the occasional stuffed animal to convince those children they still have a father. I'm just doing what I know. I'm doing what you taught me I never taught you to be a thief No, you taught me to navigate people's minds. But after what happened there weren't a whole lot of legitimate ways for me to use that skill.
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But I need your help You're here to corrupt one of my brightest and best You know what I'm offering. Let them decide for themselves Money. Not just money You remember it's the chance to build cathedrals entire cities... Things that never existed things that couldn�t exist in the real world. So you want me to let someone else follow you into your fantasy? They don't actually come into the dream They just design the levels and teach them to the dreamers. That's all Design it yourself Mal won�t let me Come back to reality, Dom Please. Reality Those kids, your grandchildren they're waiting for their father to come back home. That's their reality. And this job, this last job that's how I get there.
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I'd like you to meet Mr. Cobb Pleased to meet you If you have a few moments, Mr. Cobb has a job offer he'd like to discuss with you. A work placement? Not exactly I have a test for you You're not gonna tell me anything first? Before I describe the job, I have to know you can do it - why? - it's not, strictly speaking, legal You have two minutes to design a maze that it takes one minute to solve.
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Stop Again Stop You're gonna have to do better than that That's more like it COBB: They say we only use a fraction of our brain's true potential. Now, that's when we're awake When we're asleep, our mind can do almost anything Such as? Imagine you're designing a building You consciously create each aspect. But sometimes, it feels like it's almost creating itself, if you know what I mean Yeah, like I'm discovering it Genuine inspiration, right? Now, in a dream, our mind continuously does this We create and perceive our world simultaneously And our mind does this so well that we don't even know it's happening That allows us to get right in the middle of that process How? By taking over the creating part Now, this is where I need you You create the world of the dream We bring the subject into that dream, and they fill it with their subconscious How could I ever acquire enough detail to make them think that it's reality? Well, dreams, they feel real while we're in them, right? It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.
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Let me ask you a question You never really remember the beginning of a dream, do you? You always wind up right in the middle of what's going on I guess, yeah So how did we end up here? Well, we just came from the, uh Think about it, Ariadne. How did you get here? Where are you right now? We're dreaming? You're in the middle of the workshop, sleeping This is your first lesson in shared dreaming. Stay calm [CUP RATTLING]
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If it's just a dream, then why are you-? ["NON, JE NE REGRETTE RIEN" PLAYING] COBB: Because it's never just a dream, is it? And a face full of glass hurts like hell When you're in it, it feels real. ARTHUR: That's why the military developed dream sharing. It was a training program for soldiers to shoot, stab and strangle each other. And then wake up ARIADNE: How did architects become involved? COBB: Well, someone had to design the dreams, right?
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Why don't you give us another five minutes? Five minutes? [MUSIC STOPS] What-? We were talking for, like, at least an hour In a dream, your mind functions more quickly. Therefore time seems to feel more slow. Five minutes in the real world gives you an hour in the dream Why don't you see what you can get up to in five minutes?
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COBB: You've got the basic layout Bookstore, caf�. Almost everything else is here too ARIADNE: Who are the people? - Projections of my subconscious - Yours? - Yes. Remember, you are the dreamer You build this world. I am the subject. My mind populates it You can literally talk to my subconscious. That's one of the ways we extract information from the subject. How else do you do it? By creating something secure like a bank vault or a jail. The mind automatically fills it with information it's trying to protect - You understand? - Then you break in and steal it? Well I guess I thought that the dream space would be all about the visual... But it's more about the feel of it My question is what happens when you start messing with the physics of it all?
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Mal! Cobb! Wake me up! - Wake me up! Wake me up! - No! - Mal, no! No! - Wake me up! [GASPING] Hey, hey, hey. Look at me You're okay. You're okay. - Hey. - Why wouldn't I wake up? There was still time on the clock You can't wake up from within the dream unless you die - She'll need a totem ARIADNE: What? A totem, it's a small personal That's some subconscious you've got on you, Cobb! She's a real charmer Oh. I see you met Mrs. Cobb She's his wife? Yeah. So a totem. You need a small object, potentially heavy Something you can have on you that no one else knows. ARIADNE: Like a coin? ARTHUR: No. It needs to be more unique than that Like, this is a loaded die. No, I can't let you touch it. That would defeat the purpose See, only I know the balance and the weight of this particular loaded die That way, when you look at your totem ...you know beyond a doubt that you're not in someone else's dream I don't know if you can't see what's going on, or if you just don't want to. But Cobb has some serious problems that he's tried to bury down there. And I'm not about to just open my mind to someone like that.
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