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And it's just this mad rush to the finish line.
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I'm like, this is so cool. You don't remember
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the start of the dream. There's more power in
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a positive idea. Never be afraid to dream a little
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bigger, darling. Welcome back to the Conception
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Stand. I'm your host, Silvo Cusino, and today
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I have with me my good friend, Austin. How are
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you doing? I'm great. I'm enjoying life. I enjoyed
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Inception, and I'm excited. Cool. So that's the
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movie we're talking about today, right? Oh, yeah.
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Yes. Good stuff. First off, what were your initial
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impressions? And it gets like, what's your history
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with the movie? History with the movie. It's
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ironic that you asked that because I watched
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it for the first time in college. And that's,
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that's my history with you. Was that with me?
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I believe so. So I have distinct memory of watching
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it on probably. one of those strangest nights
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like there was something going on with like the
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light outside like i remember it was it was dark
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outside we were watching at night i remember
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after we got done watching it was like midnight
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we'd go out and there was like enough light around
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us where you could you like lit up the night
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sky where it almost looked like it was still
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night but you could clearly see the clouds even
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though it was midnight so i remember it being
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a very unique night but i watched it for the
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first time probably six or seven -ish years ago
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back in college. And if I remember right, I think
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it was with everyone. I think it was you were
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there and Chris and all them. Yes. It's crazy.
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I introduced you to something. Yay. You did.
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You opened my dreamscape. Yes. Yes. So a little
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bit of the history, or I guess for me. I first
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watched it because, interestingly enough, another
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guy called Chris told me about it. And it's like,
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oh, yeah, it's notoriously hard to follow. And
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I'm like, hmm. So I was curious, and I got from
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the library. And I'm just like, this isn't really
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hard to follow. You just got to, like, watch
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the movie. It's great. So watching it my first
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time, and I'm sure that this happened to everyone,
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but I remember I was just very confused those
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many years ago watching it. But I remember it
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being awesome. I'm like, this is so cool, like
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going into dreams. And I'm like, what is going
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on? Watching it last night, again, I put on my
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thinking glasses and I was really analyzing it.
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And I think I got probably 90 to 95 % of the
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story. like understood but there's a few still
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there's still a few parts i'm like okay what's
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going on there at the end kind of stuff you know
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that's that's honestly what makes chris bernal
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the movies so darn fun to me it's just like i
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i love it when a movie can't all be absorbed
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in a single viewing 100 % agree There has to
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be enough there to where it's satisfying. Or
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to keep being satisfying. That's what really
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intrigues me about this movie is it's just as
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exciting no matter how many times I watch it.
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The way he directs action is phenomenal. So suspenseful.
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Like, keeps you on your toes the whole time.
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Man. And I agree with you. Like, that is a movie.
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After I got done watching it, I just wanted to
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watch it again. Like, I started watching, like,
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videos on it. And, you know, as I started watching
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some videos, some of the videos were, like, explaining
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it and stuff like that. And my wife's sister,
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she actually stopped me. She's like, you know,
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maybe you shouldn't watch those just so you have
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questions and things to discuss. And I'm like,
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that's a good idea. So I turned it off. It's
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true. But yeah, I maybe just want to hop straight
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back in because it's so fascinating. You know,
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that's an interesting observation there. It's
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almost like we're limbo. yes we want to keep
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experiencing it we want to recapture that emotion
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um before we ramble um what did you think of
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the visuals so what i really liked about the
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visuals that the dream world in the dream world
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they had so many specific One of the biggest
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ones being slow motion. They use slow motion
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a lot. And one of the most mind -catching things
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is the bending of the world around them. One
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of the first things we see once the girl, I can't
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remember her name, but she's in an interview
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with Dom. Once she finds out that she's in the
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dream world, everything starts exploding and
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she learns that she has control and the whole
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world starts to flip onto itself. I think it's
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a classic trailer scene with that, too. But that
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is just a demonstration of power in a way of
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all the possibilities that you have in a dream.
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Yeah. And it's just so cool. Did you know that
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the cafe scene, all of those explosions were
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practical? Really? No CGI, just practical, practical
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pyrotechnics and composition and compositing.
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It's just like. That's so cool. So I imagine
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they must have had like a slow motion camera
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and just. Little explosions. To blow the stuff
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up in the air. That's how it looks so real too.
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When it comes to CGI. Our brains. I feel like
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there's always a part of our brains. That can
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detect it. And so. When there's something that
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should be CGI. But. It ends up being practical
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effects. That's just mind blowing. To me. I think
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Chris Nolan is. a master of graphical effects
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enhanced by computer graphics. And just a knowledge
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of how the world actually is going to the painstaking
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ends he went to to render the black hole in Interstellar.
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And it's like that's... as accurate as you're
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ever going to get in a movie. What do you think
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of the pacing and stuff like that? And I guess
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just the rhythm of the visuals, if that makes
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sense. So with the pacing, I felt like the movement
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of the movie was just a classic, just a slow,
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inclined buildup. There are some movies that
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are a rollercoaster of emotion. But this one,
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they're slowly revealing information. Things
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are slowly getting more intense. And you can
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sure feel it there at the end when things are
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going crazy. It is just like... And the music,
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the visuals, they're at the coolest setting.
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It is just a build -up pace. That's what I think.
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One of the topics I wanted to talk about is how
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Inception is like... It is a filmmaker's movie.
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And a storyteller's movie. That pace reminds
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me of the whole process. Like it's very slow
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and methodical at the start. You're planning,
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you're pre -production. And then you get into
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production and crap happens. Problems start happening.
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And it's just this mad rush to the finish line.
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It's true. So I like what you said about things
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just don't go perfectly. You know, like in the
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movie, they have a plan. Things are going good,
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but then something bad happens. Something does
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not go according to plan, and they have to pivot.
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They have to pivot, and something else bad happens.
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And just like the process of real -life filmmaking,
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that definitely happens. In my life, I've worked
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on some short films with friends, and boy, were
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there times when there were... The most unexpected
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problems come up. We were working on the final
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episode of a series called Agency. And we were
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very much on a time crunch. And my friend locked
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his keys in the car. We were losing daylight.
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And it was just the most unexpected thing. We
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were not expecting that to happen. But you have
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to pivot. And I feel like the movie reflects
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that very well. Yeah. Well, we kind of talked
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about action. But, with action, it is fascinating
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to me about Christopher Nolan's restraint. Because,
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like, of the 10 or 11 films that he's done, it's
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only,
like, the Batman movies. Dunkirk Inception
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that rely on action. I guess probably Memento.
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Haven't seen that yet. But he's so talented at
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it yet he doesn't lean on it like a crutch like,
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say, Michael Bay. The music. What are your thoughts
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there? So I think the music works with the pacing
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of the movie really well as well. There are many
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aspects of the movie that get much more darker
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and spookier, especially once you start getting
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into Dom's flashbacks with his ex. Well, I guess
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not ex, she died, so his deceased wife. And there
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are scenes that, Like, remind me of a horror
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film. Like, the music in the background. When
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she, when Maul sees Ariadne. She is straight
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up, like, a horror villain. Like, just the way
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she... They position her, the way that she moves,
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the change in the music or the sound even when
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she turns around and there's that boom or that
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sound. It is like she totally plays a villain
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role like a horror movie. And it's so cool. And
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I love it because it's so unique that she's not
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even alive. She's just memory, but she legit
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causes problems to the whole movie. And it is.
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is brilliant yeah it's also fun that she's called
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maul yep i have that in my notes every time they
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talk about her and they say like it's maul and
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i just can't think of like i'm just like i'm
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thinking of like the like the spanish word for
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evil and that kind of stuff oh yes that works
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too oh i went straight to star wars Speaking
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of Star Wars, it is interesting, bringing it
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back to the music, the differences in philosophy,
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I don't know if it's a difference in philosophy
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for Christopher Nolan or on Zimmer, but the way,
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the differences in the way they use music. Like
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George Lucas with Star Wars and John Williams
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they use the music as a character but Christopher
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Nolan and Hans Zimmer they use music more as
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a frame device like it goes really well with
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what is happening in the film more so than what
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characters on the screen, what their intentions
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are. It's more plot -based music. Yeah, I think
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it's... I guess you could say it's like an audience
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vehicle. Oh, yeah. And, like, the music, when
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it's most apparent, or at least when I was thinking
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about the music the most, was at the end, when,
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like, the van is falling and such. The music,
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I almost felt like it was looping in a way, which
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I think is done on purpose because like it's
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supposed to keep you just on the edge of like
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when music doesn't loop, it has an end. And,
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you know, OK, that's what we're supposed to feel.
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But the dramatic nature of the music was in a
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loop like fashion that was always keeping you.
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wondering are they going to get out are they
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going to successfully get kicked out of a dream
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and and yeah it was it was it was very much just
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keeping on the edge well Christopher Nolan has
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faced a lot of criticism by how he handles exposition
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I don't get the criticism I really don't like
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the entire The first half of the movie is exposition
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and planning and, like, these story meetings.
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And it's so engaging. And things like this, when
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someone, when you trust the audience enough to
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just drop them in a scene, which could be a thematic
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thing about, um, like... they were talking about
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in the cafe. Like, you don't remember the start
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of the dream. You're only placed where the important
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stuff happens and the fun stuff happens. And
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that's what happens in a movie. Like, there's
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transitional scenes, but for the most part, you're
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just dropped in. Yeah, go ahead. What I found
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so cool, and I recognize this. So Dom references
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that. He's like, you don't remember the beginning
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of the dream. You're always dropped in. And they
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kept true to that throughout the whole film.
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When you were in a dream sequence, you were thrown
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in the
middle. I kept on noticing that when they
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got even deeper and deeper in the gentleman's
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dream that they were trying to perform Inception
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on cameras. Now I want you to like Georgia. Fisher,
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that's it. Yeah, like, especially in the level
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three of Fisher's dream, you just are plopped
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in the middle of a snow place. And I love that
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they, throughout the film, they kept that as
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a common theme. And it made you feel like you
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were in a dream. But at the same time, it feels
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so real. The crazy thing, they had 10 years of
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time. in the third level, so you don't know how
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long they spent. I didn't even think about that.
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Well, I mean, I guess Sidon's dying, so I guess
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it couldn't have been that long. Yeah, that's
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a good point, because he was dying in the previous
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stream, but you're right, his time does move
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much slower when you're progressing into the
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next. phases of the dreams or even you're going
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deeper into dream yeah um which led me to questions
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um like exactly how does that how does the limbo
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work you know like because if you die because
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they see died but more about um he was able to
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get the guy out um Let's see, Dom was able to
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get the guy out who died out of limbo, but the
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guy was really old at the end, so he was in limbo
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for a long time. And so, yeah, I guess that whole
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pacing just still makes me scratch my head. Like,
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next time I watch it, I'm like, what is going
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on there? Did you have any additional insight
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of, like, the structure and how that was working?
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Well, I think... I think the camera's lying to
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us. Hmm. In the end, I don't think Don was a
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young man. I think he was just as old as Saito
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when he finally found him. Oh, I see. But, because,
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like, they have that old mantra of, like, Yuri
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from a half -remembered dream. We were young
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men then, but now we're old men. Builder of regret.
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Waiting to die alone. The writing there is so...
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Chef's kiss. You could tell Christopher Nolan
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was working on this for seven years. And that
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leads me to something, another thing I noticed
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about the movie. I realized that movie is a,
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I'll have to make sure I'm saying this right,
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a chiasmus. Have you heard of that before? Yeah.
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So where you start off in the beginning of the
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same theme and then you basically. The whole
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thing goes, if you were to label storyboards
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with letters, it'd be like A, B, C, D, C, B,
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A. And each letter reflecting itself. So I kept
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on noticing common themes. And the most noticeable
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one is A, which is it begins in that limbo state.
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And then it ends in that same spot too. And it
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just is a beautiful circle in story. So, of course,
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you've probably heard about the theories that
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the entire movie was a dream. I think I've heard
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that maybe a while ago, but I haven't thought
00:21:33.950 --> 00:21:38.210
about that recently. Which makes sense, doesn't
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it? In a little bit. With just the way the story
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is structured. Because you're dropped right in
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the middle of scenes. You're dropped right in
00:21:50.430 --> 00:21:55.950
the action. And he always has the totem on him.
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And he just periodically spins that thing. But
00:22:02.829 --> 00:22:07.069
there is a clue to show when he's in the dream
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and when he's not. Because remember, the top
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wasn't his totem. You know what his totem was?
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His totem was his wedding ring. Oh. He has the
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ring on whenever he's in the dream. But when
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he's not, there isn't a ring. Yeah, I never noticed
00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:43.680
that. Yeah, so it's a whole misdirection. Blown
00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:52.420
my own mind. The totem, her totem, we think is
00:22:52.420 --> 00:22:55.779
him figuring, trying to figure out what is reality.
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But really, the spinning top is his reminder
00:23:03.380 --> 00:23:09.279
of her, his guilt. Because starting the top spinning
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was the thing that he inceptive was the idea
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that he accepted in her. That makes sense. And
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when he starts to top spinning and goes to his
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kids, that's him finally
letting go. But we're
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so conditioned, but we're so conditioned from
00:23:32.130 --> 00:23:37.009
the whole logic of the movie to think, oh, are
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we going to see if it's going to topple over
00:23:38.730 --> 00:23:42.109
if it's actually real life? But it won't, it
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doesn't even matter. That's awesome. I love what
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you said. Yeah, I like it. Because that top represents,
00:23:58.869 --> 00:24:02.269
in a way, it's like a metaphor of him still holding
00:24:02.269 --> 00:24:09.369
on to Maul. A lot of the time, I feel like near
00:24:09.369 --> 00:24:13.049
the end of his dream sequences, whoever he's
00:24:13.049 --> 00:24:17.509
with, whoever's dream he's in, he starts seeing
00:24:17.509 --> 00:24:21.529
references to Maul. And then when he finally
00:24:21.529 --> 00:24:24.750
gets out, he immediately tests reality with Maul's
00:24:24.750 --> 00:24:31.470
totem. And it not only shows that he's trying
00:24:31.470 --> 00:24:33.109
to figure out, like, okay, I'm in the reality,
00:24:33.890 --> 00:24:37.579
this is my reality, but also... He's still deep
00:24:37.579 --> 00:24:40.579
down holding on because he has returned him.
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Yeah, that's interesting. That's so cool. Who
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else? Did you know? Have you seen pictures of
00:24:56.160 --> 00:25:02.160
Christopher Nolan? When you mentioned it, I looked
00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:06.519
up a picture of him. I could see that he does
00:25:06.519 --> 00:25:10.220
look a little bit like him. I can see where you're
00:25:10.220 --> 00:25:15.920
coming from with that. And I'm wondering if that
00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:21.779
is a parallel to the story of Inception pairing
00:25:21.779 --> 00:25:26.599
with filmmaking in itself. That's kind of what
00:25:26.599 --> 00:25:30.960
I connected it to. Or there could be some...
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I didn't do any history on... Christopher Nolan's
00:25:34.369 --> 00:25:37.869
life, but there could be some regret in his life
00:25:37.869 --> 00:25:43.269
that could connect with that character. I see.
00:25:43.349 --> 00:25:47.230
It is just about his career in filmmaking and
00:25:47.230 --> 00:25:54.109
the obsession we all feel. Yes. It is an obsession.
00:25:55.150 --> 00:25:59.869
I think one of my favorite things that Steven
00:25:59.869 --> 00:26:06.500
Spielberg ever said. He said that... Hold up.
00:26:06.539 --> 00:26:16.619
Sorry. He said that filmmaking is an addiction
00:26:16.619 --> 00:26:23.779
and celluloid is like heroin. And it's just like,
00:26:23.880 --> 00:26:28.660
you know, you gotta get your fix every two, three
00:26:28.660 --> 00:26:37.049
years. But... I heard it said, like, that this
00:26:37.049 --> 00:26:42.210
movie was kind of an apology. Hmm. And, like,
00:26:42.349 --> 00:26:52.009
Saito's the producer. Cobb's the director. And
00:26:52.009 --> 00:26:54.849
they don't want to be old men filled with regret.
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Interesting. And sometimes the stories we tell
00:27:00.150 --> 00:27:08.390
ourselves... can be so engrossing and so obsessive
00:27:08.390 --> 00:27:14.390
that we just lose sight of everything else. It
00:27:14.390 --> 00:27:20.049
was always one last job to get back to his kids.
00:27:22.289 --> 00:27:28.170
And that pattern just kept repeating. And I think
00:27:28.170 --> 00:27:33.200
that's... That's what can happen in a long film
00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:40.079
career. It's true. Yeah, I didn't think about
00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:44.819
that, but I 100 % think you're right. That was
00:27:44.819 --> 00:27:47.839
a common theme. That was Dom's goal the whole
00:27:47.839 --> 00:27:50.339
time was to get back home, see his children.
00:27:50.799 --> 00:27:54.819
But he was always working so he could do that.
00:27:55.319 --> 00:28:00.210
And to his children's perspective. daddy's gone
00:28:00.210 --> 00:28:03.789
daddy's working and i could totally see how that's
00:28:03.789 --> 00:28:07.089
symbolic to real life because there's there's
00:28:07.089 --> 00:28:09.609
lots of there's lots of people who are working
00:28:09.609 --> 00:28:11.930
who are away from their families wishing they
00:28:11.930 --> 00:28:14.269
could be back and especially with filmmaking
00:28:14.269 --> 00:28:17.730
you have to be gone from home for long periods
00:28:17.730 --> 00:28:22.390
of the time working on projects jobs to get you
00:28:22.390 --> 00:28:25.190
that break but like you mentioned it's a it can
00:28:25.190 --> 00:28:27.549
be an addiction and so you just find yourself
00:28:28.279 --> 00:28:30.920
falling back to it because it's a passion an
00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:42.200
obsession it is it is like Dom says when he first
00:28:42.200 --> 00:28:47.440
goes to Paris like there aren't many legitimate
00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:51.559
ways to use his skills and it's kind of like
00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:56.119
that with filmmaking like we have such a unique
00:28:56.119 --> 00:29:03.690
skill set That it's just like What else can you
00:29:03.690 --> 00:29:10.329
do with it It's true very true With that theme
00:29:10.329 --> 00:29:12.890
of storytelling and filmmaking. What do you think
00:29:12.890 --> 00:29:17.069
about? Fisher as a character and as an audience
00:29:17.069 --> 00:29:26.470
surrogate Mmm is he's very much he's he's someone
00:29:26.470 --> 00:29:29.470
who he's he's in a vulnerable state like throughout
00:29:29.470 --> 00:29:33.670
the movie he's the one being targeted uh he's
00:29:33.670 --> 00:29:35.529
the one with the inceptions being put on him
00:29:35.529 --> 00:29:39.329
and he doesn't even realize as far as we know
00:29:39.329 --> 00:29:44.529
um and in a way that could even be symbolic to
00:29:44.529 --> 00:29:49.569
uh like how the the way that media has a subconscious
00:29:49.569 --> 00:29:55.410
influence on us and I hadn't
really thought about
00:29:55.410 --> 00:29:57.690
that until now, but it's interesting because
00:29:57.690 --> 00:30:04.869
he's the victim of the story. And there's nothing
00:30:04.869 --> 00:30:08.769
that he's done wrong. In a way, the main characters
00:30:08.769 --> 00:30:13.390
are, in a moral sense, the villains, you know,
00:30:13.390 --> 00:30:15.329
because they're stealing information, they're
00:30:15.329 --> 00:30:21.250
altering people's minds. This guy, Fisher, he's
00:30:21.250 --> 00:30:24.319
the heir of a company. And his father's dying.
00:30:24.940 --> 00:30:28.940
And he's being taken advantage of by these people
00:30:28.940 --> 00:30:34.279
who have other motives and desires. And in a
00:30:34.279 --> 00:30:41.240
film industry, all of us as an audience, we are,
00:30:41.259 --> 00:30:45.960
in a way, we are used for our money to watch
00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:50.960
the content that they make. As an audience, we
00:30:50.960 --> 00:30:55.269
are at their... we're at their mercy of that
00:30:55.269 --> 00:30:58.589
they want what we have our money in a way but
00:30:58.589 --> 00:31:00.650
but you know that there's a balance now because
00:31:00.650 --> 00:31:03.049
now it's it's not all about the money it's also
00:31:03.049 --> 00:31:06.910
there's passion projects with film well i think
00:31:06.910 --> 00:31:11.529
i think you can still have i think a storyteller
00:31:11.529 --> 00:31:19.690
can still have goals for the audience like in
00:31:19.690 --> 00:31:27.660
those story meetings uh They're basically psychoanalyzing
00:31:27.660 --> 00:31:32.319
Fisher. What is the goal of the story that we're
00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:36.500
creating for Fisher in these dreams? What do
00:31:36.500 --> 00:31:40.319
we need to get him to feel? And I think that
00:31:40.319 --> 00:31:47.259
can be a positive thing. It's like in message
00:31:47.259 --> 00:31:52.640
movies and that kind of stuff. I don't know.
00:31:53.299 --> 00:31:55.319
I thought I had a better idea for that, but I
00:31:55.319 --> 00:31:58.960
guess not. Well, there was a thought I had from
00:31:58.960 --> 00:32:02.200
what you just said. I did like in the film, one
00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:05.960
of the characters referenced the idea of influencing
00:32:05.960 --> 00:32:09.900
Fisher by planting a negative memory in his mind.
00:32:09.940 --> 00:32:12.720
Like, I think they mentioned like, I got a crap
00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:14.880
on you, dad. I'm going to split the company kind
00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:20.099
of thing. But Dom, he said there is more positive.
00:32:21.379 --> 00:32:24.539
There's more power in a positive idea, a positive
00:32:24.539 --> 00:32:28.920
mindset. And so they turned it into a positive
00:32:28.920 --> 00:32:32.220
thing. They made it a sad story where they're
00:32:32.220 --> 00:32:37.180
showing him in a stream that his uncle, I want
00:32:37.180 --> 00:32:40.160
to say Uncle Ben for some reason. Uncle Peter,
00:32:40.380 --> 00:32:43.660
yes. Which is also pretty funny because it's
00:32:43.660 --> 00:32:46.960
like the flip -flop there. Yeah, Peter and Ben,
00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:51.549
yes. That he was... selling him out because he
00:32:51.549 --> 00:32:56.230
was wanting information and but then uh he's
00:32:56.230 --> 00:32:59.009
this this fisher character is haunted by his
00:32:59.009 --> 00:33:00.769
father's last words saying he was disappointed
00:33:00.769 --> 00:33:06.690
but they used that and rolled with it and made
00:33:06.690 --> 00:33:09.309
his father tell him that he's disappointed that
00:33:09.309 --> 00:33:12.730
he tried to be like him and he wasn't being his
00:33:12.730 --> 00:33:17.089
own man and and i think there's just a lot of
00:33:17.089 --> 00:33:23.549
inspiration behind that Without them meddling,
00:33:23.670 --> 00:33:29.390
I guess, he probably never would have had that
00:33:29.390 --> 00:33:35.490
notion, that idea that, hey, maybe my dad wasn't
00:33:35.490 --> 00:33:38.650
such a dick at the end, and maybe he actually
00:33:38.650 --> 00:33:43.829
did care. That catharsis. That's another thing
00:33:43.829 --> 00:33:47.630
I want to talk about, is catharsis. And, like,
00:33:47.650 --> 00:33:52.339
that's... the crowning achievement of the concept
00:33:52.339 --> 00:33:57.960
of Inception is that idea comes from that catharsis.
00:33:58.640 --> 00:34:04.200
I think that's important in storytelling, and
00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:08.780
I think it's important that we experience that,
00:34:08.900 --> 00:34:16.380
and that's why movies exist. Any final thoughts?
00:34:18.980 --> 00:34:21.420
Well, you know, on the idea of catharsis, you
00:34:21.420 --> 00:34:27.780
know, releasing built up emotion is a huge aspect
00:34:27.780 --> 00:34:31.780
of our lives. And just like you mentioned, movies
00:34:31.780 --> 00:34:35.239
can let us do that. They put us in the stories
00:34:35.239 --> 00:34:38.840
of other people's shoes or shoes of other people's
00:34:38.840 --> 00:34:41.960
stories that go out of the way. And when we experience
00:34:41.960 --> 00:34:45.059
those things through film, it gives a sense of
00:34:45.059 --> 00:34:51.320
empathy. And a sense of just wonder and excitement
00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:54.179
allows us to release inner emotion that could
00:34:54.179 --> 00:34:59.000
be built up. And that was the dream goal in Inception
00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:02.039
was they were planting these ideas, helping him
00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:06.059
get things off his chest, which in turn leads
00:35:06.059 --> 00:35:10.099
him to make the final decision to split the company.
00:35:11.219 --> 00:35:16.170
And much like dreams. coming up with your own
00:35:16.170 --> 00:35:19.730
ideas, a film can have that incredible effect
00:35:19.730 --> 00:35:24.389
on us as well. And it can just be life -altering,
00:35:24.530 --> 00:35:29.710
just like an idea. Yeah. I completely second
00:35:29.710 --> 00:35:35.650
what you said. The
biggest thing I can say is
00:35:35.650 --> 00:35:39.090
never be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
00:35:40.150 --> 00:35:48.449
Yes. Always had a bazooka thing. Yeah. Tom Hardy,
00:35:48.610 --> 00:35:53.969
man. What a dude. I couldn't help but think of
00:35:53.969 --> 00:35:57.809
Venom the whole time I'd see him. Or technically
00:35:57.809 --> 00:36:06.369
Dark Knight Rises as well. But yeah, actually,
00:36:06.469 --> 00:36:13.130
for legit though, I forgot just how much I love
00:36:13.130 --> 00:36:16.570
this movie. Until I just recently watched it.
00:36:16.630 --> 00:36:22.590
And that's been my experience this entire podcast.
00:36:24.750 --> 00:36:27.349
Of just re -watching these movies that mean so
00:36:27.349 --> 00:36:30.369
much to me and rediscovering why they mean so
00:36:30.369 --> 00:36:35.610
much to me. And there is a reason that Inception
00:36:35.610 --> 00:36:38.750
is number three behind Interstellar and It's
00:36:38.750 --> 00:36:46.590
a Wonderful Life. A lot of I's. Yeah, it's...
00:36:46.590 --> 00:36:52.130
It speaks to me as a storyteller. And just a
00:36:52.130 --> 00:36:59.449
guy that loves movies. But... Watch it as many
00:36:59.449 --> 00:37:03.250
times as you can because it is so good. It is.
00:37:03.889 --> 00:37:07.849
But... Oh, yeah, go ahead. I was just gonna say,
00:37:07.929 --> 00:37:12.360
I am just so impressed with the story. And just
00:37:12.360 --> 00:37:17.519
like you said, it reminds me of just how deep
00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:21.500
a story can go. You know, like he worked on this
00:37:21.500 --> 00:37:24.900
for seven years and it's just incredible what
00:37:24.900 --> 00:37:29.239
you can come up with. And an audience perspective,
00:37:29.500 --> 00:37:31.139
you watch it, you're like, oh, wow, I can never
00:37:31.139 --> 00:37:34.139
come up with that. But in reality, the person
00:37:34.139 --> 00:37:38.219
who made it, Christopher Nolan, is a human just
00:37:38.219 --> 00:37:43.039
like us. All storytellers, everyone is capable
00:37:43.039 --> 00:37:45.980
of such thought. We just have to set our minds
00:37:45.980 --> 00:37:49.000
to it. We have to dream a little. Dream a little
00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:54.019
bit. I do actually find it interesting when you're
00:37:54.019 --> 00:38:00.599
talking about the chiasmus of it. That's basically
00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:07.019
the layering of the dreams. Like, it's dream
00:38:07.019 --> 00:38:11.699
A. And then they go to layer B, layer C, layer
00:38:11.699 --> 00:38:16.639
D. And then the audience with the rest of them
00:38:16.639 --> 00:38:22.219
ride the kicks back up. In a way, there's chiasmus
00:38:22.219 --> 00:38:27.260
within the chiasmus of the film. Chiasmus -ception.
00:38:28.079 --> 00:38:32.659
Yes. Goodness, this movie just blows your mind.
00:38:33.099 --> 00:38:38.840
I know. That's why I love it so much. It's all
00:38:38.840 --> 00:38:45.880
the emotion that goes through my brain when Dom
00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:55.000
finally completely opens up about mall and when
00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:58.039
she dies is just like that that whole scene just
00:38:58.039 --> 00:39:10.000
Leonardo DiCaprio eat chewing scenery there just
00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:16.599
incredibly well acted on both sides oh i was
00:39:16.599 --> 00:39:20.820
locked in yeah yeah and uh and one one interesting
00:39:20.820 --> 00:39:23.760
um theme i wanted to mention or get your thoughts
00:39:23.760 --> 00:39:30.360
on was the build -up to that scene in in the
00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:33.480
very beginning before you knew what was going
00:39:33.480 --> 00:39:37.980
to happen the the girl who's the new engineer
00:39:37.980 --> 00:39:41.559
for the dreams she is trying to dig a little
00:39:41.559 --> 00:39:46.239
deeper asking him questions about her and she
00:39:46.239 --> 00:39:51.519
eventually goes into the basement and he dom
00:39:51.519 --> 00:39:55.800
is acting almost in a way like he killed her
00:39:55.800 --> 00:39:58.159
like that's kind of what was going back my mind
00:39:58.159 --> 00:40:00.679
i'm like he's he's kind of keeping it hidden
00:40:00.679 --> 00:40:02.820
like like he murdered her like that's the big
00:40:02.820 --> 00:40:06.019
secret kind of thing and Even telling her she
00:40:06.019 --> 00:40:07.559
wants to go in the basement. He stops her. He's
00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:09.900
like, don't go in the basement. You know, that's
00:40:09.900 --> 00:40:13.820
total serial killer vibes kind of thing. Don't
00:40:13.820 --> 00:40:16.619
go in the basement. My important things are in
00:40:16.619 --> 00:40:21.039
the basement. Exactly. And so she ends up going
00:40:21.039 --> 00:40:23.460
down to the basement. And there's this wrecked
00:40:23.460 --> 00:40:26.500
apartment and still giving killer vibes. And
00:40:26.500 --> 00:40:29.480
she's there. And we learn the truth that she
00:40:29.480 --> 00:40:32.650
was not killed. It was a suicide. The United
00:40:32.650 --> 00:40:36.369
States thinks it was a murder because of her
00:40:36.369 --> 00:40:38.809
sending out those letters or whatever, saying
00:40:38.809 --> 00:40:42.210
she fears her safety, all that stuff. So just
00:40:42.210 --> 00:40:46.389
that buildup where the audience, a .k .a. me
00:40:46.389 --> 00:40:49.170
as I was watching it, was like, oh, it's almost
00:40:49.170 --> 00:40:52.889
like he killed her. that's actually a part of
00:40:52.889 --> 00:40:55.510
the story. The United States thinks he killed
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her. So it's just such a beautiful, they're connecting
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what they're showing the audience with actual
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plot points, even though that's not actually
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what happened. So yeah. And then aside from that,
00:41:07.070 --> 00:41:11.349
kind of on a different note with it, just the
00:41:11.349 --> 00:41:15.530
villain vibes of Maul was just, was one of my
00:41:15.530 --> 00:41:18.969
favorite aspects of the movie. Like I just, that's
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what kept me up at night thinking about that.
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I'm like, She's the villain, but she's dead.
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It's literally his guilt and subconscious yet
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personified stopping them from their goals. What
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a brilliant idea. It is kind of interesting that
00:41:45.659 --> 00:41:51.519
his guilt is... preventing him from doing his
00:41:51.519 --> 00:41:57.679
job right. Like, she's almost simultaneously
00:41:57.679 --> 00:42:04.800
his guilt and his conscience. But... Anyway,
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what do you give it out of 10? I'd say it's a
00:42:09.420 --> 00:42:15.400
9 out of 10. What keeps it from 10? For me, what
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:20.150
keeps it a 10 would be... I wish there were things
00:42:20.150 --> 00:42:28.769
that were explained just a little bit more. Do
00:42:28.769 --> 00:42:34.409
you think the end was too ambiguous? Well, something
00:42:34.409 --> 00:42:37.150
that just kept on annoying my mind as I was watching
00:42:37.150 --> 00:42:41.719
the movie was... They never touched on the science
00:42:41.719 --> 00:42:44.380
of exactly how it works. They have this machine.
00:42:44.460 --> 00:42:48.019
It looks like a suitcase. They stick an IV in
00:42:48.019 --> 00:42:50.760
themselves, and then movie magic happens. They
00:42:50.760 --> 00:42:53.519
all have connected dreams. I would have liked
00:42:53.519 --> 00:42:59.239
just a teaspoon of an explanation of how it worked,
00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:04.940
which it's okay, I guess. But then the other
00:43:04.940 --> 00:43:08.639
thing, too, was... it was hard to keep track
00:43:08.639 --> 00:43:14.199
of i felt like whose dream people were in and
00:43:14.199 --> 00:43:17.219
where they were jumping um there was even times
00:43:17.219 --> 00:43:19.860
characters were questioning that they're like
00:43:19.860 --> 00:43:21.980
all right let's go in the next step we're going
00:43:21.980 --> 00:43:25.659
over here and then the the girl who's the um
00:43:25.659 --> 00:43:31.400
imagineer i can never remember her name yes she
00:43:31.400 --> 00:43:35.070
she questioned she was like wait whose dream
00:43:35.070 --> 00:43:37.030
are we going in next and i'm sitting there with
00:43:37.030 --> 00:43:39.550
the same question and then he answers it but
00:43:39.550 --> 00:43:42.829
i kept and i kept asking that question over and
00:43:42.829 --> 00:43:45.849
over throughout the movie and it was in a way
00:43:45.849 --> 00:43:48.389
a little bit distracting for my own mind because
00:43:48.389 --> 00:43:50.889
i'm just someone who i want to keep up with exactly
00:43:50.889 --> 00:43:53.530
what's happening and so when there's events occurring
00:43:53.530 --> 00:43:57.329
action scenes and i still haven't had my initial
00:43:57.329 --> 00:43:59.809
question answered on whose dream we're actually
00:43:59.809 --> 00:44:04.429
in it's a little bit annoying but It does not
00:44:04.429 --> 00:44:08.250
affect me enough to go below a nine. Like, there
00:44:08.250 --> 00:44:12.710
are clues. And, like, at least with the question
00:44:12.710 --> 00:44:20.409
of the device. I mean... Yeah. Gotta have a little
00:44:20.409 --> 00:44:25.670
mystery. I wouldn't say that. But it's like,
00:44:25.730 --> 00:44:28.949
you gotta have a little bit of mystery. Yes,
00:44:28.949 --> 00:44:33.250
you would. It's like... The glowing suitcase
00:44:33.250 --> 00:44:39.730
in Pulp Fiction. You don't need to know the actual
00:44:39.730 --> 00:44:45.510
mechanics, but just that it works. But for me,
00:44:45.570 --> 00:44:53.429
though, I cannot not give it a 10. It is just
00:44:53.429 --> 00:45:02.039
too perfect for me. All right. Yeah. There is...
00:45:02.039 --> 00:45:04.880
Oh, go ahead. Oh, go ahead. I was going to say,
00:45:04.920 --> 00:45:10.420
there is another criticism I have as well. Okay.
00:45:10.840 --> 00:45:14.340
So, and this is kind of a plot point criticism,
00:45:14.460 --> 00:45:17.659
but I felt like they're making a big deal, and
00:45:17.659 --> 00:45:19.219
they made a big deal about this in the trailers
00:45:19.219 --> 00:45:22.019
too. They made a big deal about the things that
00:45:22.019 --> 00:45:25.820
you can do in a dream. They showed the world
00:45:25.820 --> 00:45:29.480
folding in on itself. They showed bridges. Building
00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:36.219
out of nothing. But. Outside from that. They
00:45:36.219 --> 00:45:40.000
didn't really use that. To get themselves out
00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:45.000
of problems. I felt like. I mean. They explained
00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:50.199
that. You can't really do. A whole bunch of crazy.
00:45:50.400 --> 00:45:58.570
God like stuff. Without the. Projections. Figuring
00:45:58.570 --> 00:46:02.630
out that it's a dream. Okay. And making it a
00:46:02.630 --> 00:46:07.070
whole lot harder on yourself. Okay. That's the
00:46:07.070 --> 00:46:10.010
explanation I needed. Because that was bothering
00:46:10.010 --> 00:46:12.489
me. But now I remember when she was building
00:46:12.489 --> 00:46:14.590
the bridge. And he's like, oh, you got to stop
00:46:14.590 --> 00:46:17.329
that. Projections are going to find out. So when
00:46:17.329 --> 00:46:19.929
they're on an actual mission, they're not doing
00:46:19.929 --> 00:46:26.440
that. So, yes, that makes sense. I do remember
00:46:26.440 --> 00:46:28.300
the quote we've been saying, where he's like,
00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:29.699
you gotta dream a little bigger, darling, and
00:46:29.699 --> 00:46:33.440
pulls out that thing. I wanted more of that stuff.
00:46:33.699 --> 00:46:37.300
He did it once. More room of requirements kind
00:46:37.300 --> 00:46:43.659
of stuff. Yeah. I guess that could be a fair
00:46:43.659 --> 00:46:48.480
criticism. But I do understand the plot point
00:46:48.480
--> 00:46:51.440
behind it, that they needed... It was like...
00:46:51.840 --> 00:46:54.199
It was a secretive mission. You know, they can't
00:46:54.199 --> 00:46:57.940
let the projections know that they were there.
00:46:58.719 --> 00:47:01.079
Especially Fisher's, because he had military
00:47:01.079 --> 00:47:05.059
-trained projections. For some reason, did he
00:47:05.059 --> 00:47:08.579
actually have some kind of dream protection thing,
00:47:08.619 --> 00:47:12.719
or was it just his personality? He had... You
00:47:12.719 --> 00:47:20.820
know, in this kind of world, there's... Extractionists
00:47:20.820 --> 00:47:26.539
are... known or known commodity and so he had
00:47:26.539 --> 00:47:34.000
professional training against extraction so his
00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:37.460
projections would be militaristic militarized
00:47:37.460 --> 00:47:43.460
because like his subconscious is a trained machine
00:47:43.460 --> 00:47:51.849
in that in that regard yeah um that's cool And
00:47:51.849 --> 00:47:56.550
that makes the plot a lot more intriguing and
00:47:56.550 --> 00:47:58.809
dangerous. And the fact they were still able
00:47:58.809 --> 00:48:05.989
to succeed. Oh, I have a question for you. So
00:48:05.989 --> 00:48:12.289
I know that Dom said the reason why he didn't
00:48:12.289 --> 00:48:18.480
tell everyone that if they die... under deep
00:48:18.480 --> 00:48:21.820
sedation in the dream they'll go into limbo so
00:48:21.820 --> 00:48:24.659
he didn't he didn't tell them that because they'd
00:48:24.659 --> 00:48:27.059
be like oh they think it's too dangerous or whatever
00:48:27.059 --> 00:48:31.719
but i i wonder i kind of look a little bit more
00:48:31.719 --> 00:48:37.860
into it i'm like is that the only reason um well
00:48:37.860 --> 00:48:40.139
kind of i guess i just wanted to get your thoughts
00:48:40.139 --> 00:48:45.670
on Dom's choice to not reveal that critical piece
00:48:45.670 --> 00:48:47.909
of information, where if you were to die, your
00:48:47.909 --> 00:48:50.409
mind goes into limbo while you're under sedation.
00:48:51.929 --> 00:48:55.849
Do you have any thoughts regarding that? Maybe
00:48:55.849 --> 00:49:03.630
it's just arrogance. Like Shirley with... They...
00:49:03.630 --> 00:49:08.880
I think he just didn't expect it. He was trusting
00:49:08.880 --> 00:49:13.079
Arthur to get all the right information. He didn't
00:49:13.079 --> 00:49:15.699
know that they were going to be facing a military.
00:49:18.099 --> 00:49:21.519
So they weren't expecting it to be that dangerous.
00:49:24.559 --> 00:49:28.219
He didn't want to take Saito in in the first
00:49:28.219 --> 00:49:37.840
place, also. But it's just like... Yeah. Does
00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:40.780
that answer your question? Yeah, I guess that
00:49:40.780 --> 00:49:42.539
mainly just I just wanted your thoughts on it
00:49:42.539 --> 00:49:45.900
because I just found that so interesting that
00:49:45.900 --> 00:49:48.119
he chose to not give that information to them.
00:49:49.519 --> 00:49:56.679
But yeah, overall is so good. Yeah, I give it
00:49:56.679 --> 00:50:01.679
a 10. Don't be an old man filled with regret.
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We can all be young men together. Yes. But with
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