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Behind the Special Effects of Inception

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yes-have-some dept.

Lanxon writes "Wired has a behind the scenes look at how Inception's reality-distorting special effects sequences were shot, in an interview with Chris Corbould — the man 'prized for his ability to stage a real-life tank chase in St. Petersburg (GoldenEye), to flip a working juggernaut down a narrow Chicago street (The Dark Knight), and to build a working Batmobile that can do 30-metre jumps without the aid of a single post-production pixel.'" Hopefully most of you who intend to see Inception have already seen it by now, so you don't have to worry about spoilers. It's getting pretty much universal praise.

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  1. Spoiler Alert by Haffner · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's all a dream

    Just kidding. No one knows what the hell happened.

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    1. Re:Spoiler Alert by Minwee · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's not a dream, but he's really a replicant.

    2. Re:Spoiler Alert by ukyoCE · · Score: 4, Funny

      He was dreaming at the end, the top didn't fall. Considering the slow zoom in on the top, if the filmmaker intended anyone to interpret the ending as reality, the top would have fallen. The wobble was just to elicit groans from the audience as it failed to fall, and made us start cranking our minds to figure out what happened.

      The simple and non-ambiguous ending is that he is in a dream because Saito shot him. The last scene before Cobb woke up was Saito picking up a handgun. This was Saito's plan all along. He sent Cobb back to limbo after planting the idea (inception) that Cobb would be able to make it through customs. This allowed him to life a life with his kids. Well, his creepy fake dream kids.

      There are many more complicated theories, but I think this is the intended "obvious" ending.

  2. That's Easy! by CajunArson · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wired has a behind the scenes look at how Inception's reality-distorting special effects sequences were shot

    That's easy, the just shot the whole movie with an iPhone 4 and invited Steve Jobs to the set.. all the reality distortion you'll ever need!

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  3. Re:Analog special effects are cool, but... by Just_Say_Duhhh · · Score: 3, Funny

    So in "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" when that truck hit that cow, you thought they really killed a cow with a truck?

    No, it was 2 guys in a cow suit. Sadly, one of the guys died filming that scene, but the guy who played the ass-end of the cow survived.

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  4. Re:allegory for memory management by skiflyer · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am never going to be able to unthink this post... you may have just ruined this movie for me.

  5. Re:I am left wondering by Chysn · · Score: 5, Funny

    What on earth is a "working juggernaut"?

    I'm an unemployed juggernaut, you insensitive clod!

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  6. maybe you didn't even see a movie... by Thud457 · · Score: 2, Funny

    no, Nolan's trick was to make you feel you enjoyed paying $9 to see that movie.

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