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It's finally here the video, ISYS Inception for MindBlogger. It's almost like a dream...almost.

 

://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZhIHN9J7z0

 

By:

• Nabil Pala
• Grant Livett
• Omer Dursun
• Daniel Cecere
• Syed Mushfiq Hyder

Prisons of Memories

 

Creating dreams from memories is a complicated concept in Inception. It is first explained in the scene where Cobb showing Ariadne how to build a dream. Recreating places from memories makes the dreamer confuse which one is the real world, dreams or reality? To avoid this Cobb explains that “All ways imagining new places and just take small details like street lamps, phone booths etc. not entire places.” Is the best option. However, Cobb is not doing what he told her to do. He built a prison of his memories about the moments he regret. By keeping this prison he keeps her alive and things that this is the only way to continue to dream. In the movie he does not exactly dreams after inception that’s why we cannot be sure that is this reason that Cobb tells to himself about keeping her alive is true or not but we sure that she is dead at the end.

By Omer Dursun

Progress on Inception

Progress

 

We recently put together our Video for Assignment 2.

We tried to have fun with it, mainly just mocking the movie and things that weren't consistent throughout. After watching 'honest trailers' rendition of Inception on YouTube, we thought we would incorporate the idea of a Totem into our videos. In the movie inception, it is dangerous for another person to touch another person's Totem, as the Totem is the only reminder they have that they are still in a dream. They could essentially lose themselves in their own dream.

We used this idea in the video, using Omar's phone as the Totem, whilst Daniel explained how a Totem worked. The turnout was great in my opinion, however, due to lack of proper equipment the quality of the sound could've been improved.

However, we explained the concepts of inception quite thoroughly with our own little fun twist.

Until next time!

By Nabil Pala

Motif: Security

Security

 

Throughout the movie 'Inception' security or the sense is represented from start to finish of the film. The use of projections of the subconscious act as form of security in the movie. As the projections will remove people in the dream that it detects is foreign to the dreamer. These projections act to protect the dreamers from their mind being tampered with, without the dreamer knowing.

 

Another reoccurring motif is the use of safes. At the beginning of the film there is a safe in Saito's dream where Arthur(Joseph Gordon Levitt) and Cobb(Leonardo Di Caprio) try to open to obtain information. In Limbo, Mal (Cobb's Wife) hides her totem in a safe, making her unable to tell the difference between reality and a dream. Throughout the entire extraction Cobb and his team try find out the combination to Fishers father's safe. Also at the end of the film Fisher's opens a safe which has a memory of his father.

 

 Image from http://www.digitfreak.com/entertainment/movie/1228-still-confused-after-watching-inception-ending-explained

By Daniel Cecere

Did you know? - Inception Song Lyrics

A direct of translation of the lyrics for the song "Non, je ne regrette rien" (The song used to remind Arthur) as performed by Edith Piaf. The lyrics are:

• "I regret nothing/no, I have no regrets/I regret neither the good things that were done to me nor the bad things/ They are all the same to me/...The past is payed, swept away, forgotten/ I don't care of the past anymore/ I set my memories on fire? My agonies, and my pleasures/ I don't need them anymore/ Swept away in the agonies of love, Swept away for love, I'm restarting with nothing..."

Christopher Nolan made a point of saying that he chose the song specifically for the movie, which is heavily concerned with the effect of memories on the psyche, and specifically the disastrous effect that not letting go of memories of love-gone-wrong can have on the subconscious-exactly what the song discusses. Also of note: in the original French, "I regret neither the good things I've done nor the bad things" is

• "Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait ni le mal,"

and since Cobb's wife is named Mal, that gives the line a double meaning.

By Syed Mushfiq Hyder

Inception Memes

Inception Memes

 

        

 

  

 

 

 

 

Images from:

http://www.smosh.com/smosh-pit/photos/24-great-inception-memes

 

By Syed Mushfiq Hyder

Was the ending of Inception a cliff-hanger - Part 3

Another clue that they were in a dream when Mal killed herself: She trashes the hotel room to make it look like Cobb killed her so that he will eventually join her, but when he approaches the window, she’s across the road in another hotel room. If you look closely, it’s the same hotel room, plus it would make no sense for her to go to the other side. Cobb even proves that he doesn’t catch how that’s odd when he tells her to come inside and motions for her to come into the window he’s currently at, even though she’s across the street.

One of the characteristics of a dream is that weird things happen that we don’t catch. When the dream was happening, strange things happened that we didn’t realise were major “plot holes” or illogical until we woke up and actually thought about it.

The entire movie is like this. The fast (and sloppy) editing, the one-dimensional characters all revolving around Cobb, the walls closing in on Cobb for no reason during the chase scene in Mombasa, bodyguards coming out of nowhere to attack him, Saito showing up just in time to save Cobb, and so many more examples all lead the diligent audience to believe that this is really just a dream.

By Grant Livett

Escaping from Limbo

There is so many confusing structures in the Inception. One of these structure's is about the concept called Limbo. There is different theories about this concept in some believing systems but Inception looks to this idea in different way. In the movie, the term limbo explained as 'Unstructured dream space' which means raw infinite subconscious.

In the movie, Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) lives in limbo with his wife Mal for a long time and he goes back to limbo to save Robert Fischer and stays there to save Saito. The confusing part is they do not explain how Cobb and Saito escape from Limbo. There is some theories that they did not manage to escape the ending of the movie there were still in the limbo but I am going to choose the other theory.

Cobb did got out of limbo before with his wife and he knows so many thing about limbo because he lived there for a long time. The problem in limbo is the world in limbo feels so real so you think that it is the real world. If you can get that idea out from you and kill yourself in limbo you can manage to escape and wake up to real life when the effects of the drug finished. Cobb has been and escape from limbo before and when he was with Saito in limbo he did not stay there for a long time like Saito so he knew that limbo is not the real life. He just needed to remind this to Saito and they would be able to escape. By using his totem Cobb reminded Saito and they escaped from limbo.

By Omer Dursun

Motif: 528-491

528-491

 

The number 528-491 is reoccurring number throughout the entirety of Inception. The numbers are first brought up when Cobb asks Fisher for the combination of his dad's vault. Even though he doesn't know the combination he answers 528-491.

In the next dream a blonde woman hands her phone number to Fisher with only 528-491 written on it. Then later in that same dream the hotel room they enter where they initiate the next dream is room number 528 and the room below it is 491. Finally Fisher opens his father safe in his dream with the combination 528-491.

By Daniel Cecere

Behind the Scenes - The Japanese Castle Flooding Scene

According to Nolan the flood in the Japanese castle in the beginning of the film, was a challenge for Cobold ( Special Effects Supervisor) to put on film. Putting the performers in the middle of a very real and powerful event. Corbould had a plan to use big metal shipping containers full of water, using a dump tank method to do the scene.But it became immediately apparent that they wouldn’t be able to have the actors anywhere near it, let alone the stunt performers.

What the Effect Supervisor and his people came up with was “an extremely clever method of using air cans.” Corbould explained that the flooding was achieved by using underground pressurized containers which were hit sequentially (forcing water out of containers up over the set). Because the water was coming from about 20 feet above, it created the impression of a wave coming towards camera. They wanted an atomized look, rather than a big dump of water and as Corbould explained, it’s a shot you have to get right the first time.

 

By Syed Mushfiq Hyder

Was the ending of Inception a cliff-hanger? - Part 2

If you were not already convinced that the whole movie was a dream, here are more clues:

- The basis for the “It’s a dream” theory is based on how limbo works. When the “kick” happens, namely suicide here, you go one level up in the multi-level dreams.
- Cobb explains to Ariadne that he and Mal, his wife, ended up in their world-building limbo because they were experimenting with multi-dreams and Cobb pushed them too deep. He says they grew “old” together and eventually committed suicide on the train tracks to go back to reality. But here’s the thing…that would have sent them only one level up.- Cobb believes inception is the reason Mal went insane and killed herself, but it was actually true. If they died in limbo, it would be impossible for them to return to reality again unless they died again and again. Totems mean nothing here because the totem Cobb used was Mal’s, and he even broke the rules and explained how it works to Ariadne, compromising its purpose.

By Grant Livett

Insane Theories - Part 1

Let’s do a quick analysis of Inception’s ending shall we? It was really left up in the air and up to the audience’s own interpretation. My next few posts are going to discuss (in detail) the different interpretations found around the internet, as well as an interpretation of my own when it is all said and done. One lovely internet user suggested that the whole thing is still a dream:

“I think he’s still dreaming; think about it, Nolan made it a big deal to tell us, that no one is allowed to touch each other’s Totem. Well when Cobb goes into limbo to find Saito, he is brought in by guards, and they tell Saito he was found with this, and this; and they laid out a pistol and cobb’s totem Saito picked it up, which if the whole thing is true, he would have ruined its purpose.”

In the end I’m going to compile all these posts together to come up with an insane fan theory, because who really knows what Christopher Nolan’s intentions were, apart from himself.

By Nabil Pala

Totems

Totems in Inception
 

http://dijinn.deviantart.com/art/The-Totems-Of-Inception-173870318

 

A totem in Inception is an object that test's oneself is in a dream or reality. A totem has to be unique to the individual and thus only the owner of the totem should handle it. To protect the integrity and reliability of indicating if that person is in a dream or reality.

 

Most characters throughout the movie have an Totem (as shown with the image above) however the logic in a totem in dream is very questionable. As the characters describe that totem has to be unique characteristics or features to distinguish if you are in a dream or reality.

 

However a more logical way to distinguish if you are in a dream than features of a totem, is to simply not take the totem into the dream and have it in reality. Thus the only way of checking to see if you are in dream would be to check if had the totem.

 

By Daniel Cecere





Christopher Nolaning a Movie

Christopher Nolan used a different filming technique in Inception. The movie has a strange layout. It starts from nearly end of the movie than wents back to some point in the chracters lives and then returns to the beginning of the the movie. Why did Christopher Nolan done something like this?
I think the idea behind this is to make us confuse more and get deeper in the movie. If you have the movie started from begineng and ended as in a normal timeline then there will not be any complication in the movie. 

The movies that Christopher Nolan directed always have a complicate story line and this makes us think about the movie more and makes us brainstorm in to the movie. Christopher Nolan includes us to the movie with his consept of filming. We are not only watching the movie we are also actievly brainstorming about the movie and trying to understand it. By including the audience to the movie he is making us think that we are in the movie and that makes the movie more enjoyable. Christopher Nolan used both of these technuiqes in the Inception and made us go in to the movie as in deeper and deeper like our dreams...

By Omer Dursun

Was the ending of Inception a cliff-hanger? - Part 1

Nolan provides countless subtle clues that indicate the entire movie was a dream and that the audience were supposed to arrive at this conclusion.

- There is a line in the movie when Cobb points out that our dreams always start in the middle of something, but never the beginning. We never think about “how we got there” as he would put it.

- Inception begins in the middle of Cobb’s story, as well as the middle of a dream heist. We aren’t introduced to Cobb, Arthur, or Saito. We are given a brief look at the end of the story, and then the movie just shifts seamlessly into the dream heist.

By Grant Livett

Did you Know - Part 2

Inception was an idea that took 8 years to create and process.

Many well renown actresses were tipped to play the role of Ariadne before Ellen Page was finally casted. The list includes Carey Mulligan, Rachel McAdams, Emily Blunt, Emma Roberts and even Taylor Swift?

When Cobbs 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.

And finally, did you know that Will Smith and Brad Pitt were both offered the role of Cobb before he was casted. I wonder how different that would’ve made the movie.

By Nabil Pala

Did you Know? - Part 1

I thought I would discuss the random little tidbits and facts about the movie that not everybody knows. Some of these will blow your mind, others you may already know!

So here’s something that was most likely done on purpose, but it’s more fun if you think of it as a coincidence. The first letter of each of the main character’s names: Dom, Robert, Eames, Arthur/Ariadne, Mal and Sato, spells the word DREAMS. Coincidence?... I’d like to think so.

James Franco was meant to play the role of Arthur. Do you think his usually goofy demeanor would have had an overall affect on the way the character was portrayed? I guess we’ll never know, but it’s always fun to imagine.

My next post will include some more interesting random facts about the movie.

Stay tuned!

By Nabil Pala

Character Bio - Eames

Eames 'aka' The great Tom Hardy

Image from http://thmdb.tumblr.com/post/49703787828/inception-the-movie-where-tom-hardy-makes-bad

 

After his breakthrough performances as 'Eames' in Christopher Nolan's science fiction thriller Inception, Tom Hardy has been brought to the attention of mainstream audiences worldwide.

Eames has the ability to project the image of anyone, essentially forging an identity as a literal physical manifestation which is why Eames is an essential part of the secrecy and deceit within the dream world. Adding us with that is his ability to mirror other people's mannerisms and behaviours. This skill comes in handy and can help convince another person that whomever teams needs him to be in order to aid their deception.

Eames' personality is similar to that of James Bond, coming off as quite the charming, smooth talking flirt with an English accent. He is also somewhat of a prankster and has a strong inclination for humour.

Eames' most valuable ability is the ability to project within the dream world the image of other humans. Combined with his ability to mirror other people's mannerisms and behaviours, he is very capable doppelganger. He is more than capable of physically defending himself and other members of the group.

By Syed Mushfiq Hyder