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Inception is totally and purposefully written to reflect the way Nolan works and is in fact a metaphor of itself. Di Caprio (Who helped Nolan with the writing and pushing the idea forward) has even stated that Cobb was effectively based on Nolan himself.
In a movie the directors general idea is to capture the audience's imagination and take them on a journey that will change them, make them leave with new views and new ideas about what is possible. Inception has managed to do this for many of us, but it actually does it twice.
See Cobb as the director, he runs the show and makes sure everything is right for each scene before it happens. Inevitably as a director his influence on the production on the film will be somewhat affected by his personal ideals whether he likes it or not, so that explains Mal.
Arthur, the guy who does the research and who sets up the places to sleep, is the producer. Ariadne, the dream architect, is the screenwriter - she creates the world that will be entered. Eames is the actor (this is so obvious that the character sits at an old fashioned mirrored vanity, the type which stage actors would use). Yusuf is the technical guy; remember, the Oscar come from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and it requires a good number of technically minded people to get a movie off the ground. Nolan himself more or less explains this in the latest issue of Film Comment, saying 'There are a lot of striking similarities [between what the team does and the putting on of a major Hollywood movie]. When for instance the team is out on the street they've created, surveying it, that's really identical with what we do on tech scouts before we shoot.'
Saito is the corporate suit with money involved ensuring that the production goes the way he likes, and Fischer is the audience. The one taken on the emotional journey by the director.
In a lot of ways it's a bookend to Inglorious Basterds. In that film Quentin Tarantino celebrated the ways that cinema could change the world, while in Inception Nolan is examining the ways that cinema, the ultimate shared dream, can change an individual. The entire film is a dream, within the confines of the movie itself, but in a more meta sense it's Nolan's dream. He's dreaming Cobb, and finding his own moments of revelation and resolution, just as Cobb is dreaming Fischer and finding his own catharsis and change.
The whole film being a dream isn't a cop out or a waste of time, but an ultimate expression of the film's themes and meaning. It's all fake. But it's all very, very real. And that's something every single movie lover understands implicitly and completely.
In a movie the directors general idea is to capture the audience's imagination and take them on a journey that will change them, make them leave with new views and new ideas about what is possible. Inception has managed to do this for many of us, but it actually does it twice.
See Cobb as the director, he runs the show and makes sure everything is right for each scene before it happens. Inevitably as a director his influence on the production on the film will be somewhat affected by his personal ideals whether he likes it or not, so that explains Mal.
Arthur, the guy who does the research and who sets up the places to sleep, is the producer. Ariadne, the dream architect, is the screenwriter - she creates the world that will be entered. Eames is the actor (this is so obvious that the character sits at an old fashioned mirrored vanity, the type which stage actors would use). Yusuf is the technical guy; remember, the Oscar come from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and it requires a good number of technically minded people to get a movie off the ground. Nolan himself more or less explains this in the latest issue of Film Comment, saying 'There are a lot of striking similarities [between what the team does and the putting on of a major Hollywood movie]. When for instance the team is out on the street they've created, surveying it, that's really identical with what we do on tech scouts before we shoot.'
Saito is the corporate suit with money involved ensuring that the production goes the way he likes, and Fischer is the audience. The one taken on the emotional journey by the director.
In a lot of ways it's a bookend to Inglorious Basterds. In that film Quentin Tarantino celebrated the ways that cinema could change the world, while in Inception Nolan is examining the ways that cinema, the ultimate shared dream, can change an individual. The entire film is a dream, within the confines of the movie itself, but in a more meta sense it's Nolan's dream. He's dreaming Cobb, and finding his own moments of revelation and resolution, just as Cobb is dreaming Fischer and finding his own catharsis and change.
The whole film being a dream isn't a cop out or a waste of time, but an ultimate expression of the film's themes and meaning. It's all fake. But it's all very, very real. And that's something every single movie lover understands implicitly and completely.
Just noticed niky’s text in the spoiler tags that is almost identical to how I see it. It’s nice to see that I’m not alone on this view.
