Inception

[Kid_Eternity]

Jesus I couldn't watch this again...there's just nothing worth watching again, no classic scenes etc...

 

[8den]

It was driving me insane so over the top and unnecessary, a lot of time. Sometimes a bit of silence, or even subtler music does wonders for suspense!

I saw this thread, and was reminded of this article, that shows you that there's a little more to the film score

In recent days Internet denizens have gotten very excited about a viral video (posted above) that compares the Édith Piaf song “Non, je ne Regrette Rien” to Hans Zimmer’s score for the movie. When the video’s pseudonymous author, camiam321, plays the key musical cue from that score, two ominous blares from a brass section, followed by a slowed-down version of the Piaf song (which the “Inception” characters play at regular speed as a warning to wake up from a dream state), they sound nearly identical.

In a telephone interview Mr. Zimmer, a film composer and producer who won an Academy Award for his music for “The Lion King” and was nominated for films including “Rain Man” and “Gladiator,” said the sonic similarity was not only intentional but also the one element of an enigmatic movie “that wasn’t supposed to be a secret.”

Speaking of the viral video, Mr. Zimmer excitedly said: “I’ve seen it. I’ve seen it. I was surprised how long it took them to figure it out.”

The musical cue, Mr. Zimmer said, “was our big signpost” in the film of its characters’ moving from one level of dreaming (or reality) into another. “It was like a drawing of a huge finger,” he said, “saying, O.K., different time.”

Mr. Zimmer said the idea for this musical game had begun with Mr. Nolan, the film’s director and writer.
“He had the Édith Piaf always written in the script, the ‘da-da, da-da,’ ” he said, imitating the cadence of that song. “It was like huge foghorns over a city, and afterward you would maybe figure out that they were related.”

Technically, Mr. Zimmer said, his score is not a slowing-down of the French song, which was composed by Charles Dumont and recorded by Piaf in 1960, but is constructed from a single manipulated beat from it.
“I had to go and extract these two notes out of a recording,” Mr. Zimmer said, using a little bit of “Inception” lingo. “I love technology, so it was a lot of fun for me to go and get the original master out of the French national archives. And then find some crazy scientist in France who would actually go and take that one cell out of the DNA.”

“Just for the game of it,” Mr. Zimmer said, “all the music in the score is subdivisions and multiplications of the tempo of the Édith Piaf track. So I could slip into half-time; I could slip into a third of a time. Anything could go anywhere. At any moment I could drop into a different level of time.”

In this sense, the score is Mr. Zimmer’s personal interpretation of “Inception,” which many viewers have read as a commentary on the nebulous boundary between dreaming and reality.

“Everybody thinks the dream is the important part,” Mr. Zimmer said. “For me, the time was the important part: the idea that, in a peculiar way, Chris had made a time-travel movie that actually worked.”

 

[Utopia]

For the record.....Cobb's totem wasn't the spinning top thing, that was, as he says himself, Mal's(his wife's).

Cobb's totem was actually his wedding ring, whenever he's dreaming he has his wedding ring on because, as he says, in his dreams they're still together.

In the last scene when he spins the top.....he's not wearing the ring, hence thats his reality.

 

[89 Til Infinity]

For the record.....Cobb's totem wasn't the spinning top thing, that was, as he says himself, Mal's(his wife's).

Cobb's totem was actually his wedding ring, whenever he's dreaming he has his wedding ring on because, as he says, in his dreams they're still together.

In the last scene when he spins the top.....he's not wearing the ring, hence thats his reality.

if the wedding ring is only in dream scenes surely that means it is a dream object rather than his totem?

 

[Utopia]

if the wedding ring is only in dream scenes surely that means it is a dream object rather than his totem?

AH......good point, well made!

Um.........

 

[DexterTCN]

...In the last scene when he spins the top.....he's not wearing the ring, hence thats his reality.

In the last scene, where the top is spinning...he's not looking at it, he's looking at and walking towards his kids. He has chosen it as his reality, whether it's real or not.