Behind the Special Effects of Inception 196
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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.
Wired Spolier (Score:2, Insightful)
Here's the spoiler: The Slashdot summary is about as long as the article it links to. WTF? Who allows crap like this to get on the front page?
Nolan is better without FX (Score:2, Insightful)
allegory for memory management (Score:5, Insightful)
I am left wondering (Score:3, Insightful)
What on earth is a "working juggernaut"?
Re:Spoiler Alert (Score:5, Insightful)
It's a movie, the whole thing was Nolan's dream. He shared it with us.
Re:WHOOSH! (Score:3, Insightful)
far as he was concerned, he was as home as he wanted to be.
BS. He made it abundantly clear in his confrontation with his dead wife's memory that he was *not* satisfied with the idea of only having his kids in a dream. He directly stated that he wanted to be with them "up there," in real life. The entire reason he was even on the mission is because he turned down that easy out.
I will agree that the plot was thin, but this specific point was repeated multiple times. I am surprised you missed it.
Re:Analog special effects are cool, but... (Score:5, Insightful)
I think the phrase you are looking for is that "not once have you ever seen a CGI-rendered scene that you could identify as CGI-rendered that did not look CGI-rendered."
The ones that didn't look utterly fake looked real enough for you to assume that they were real. That's kind of the whole point, you see.
Re:WHOOSH! (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Spoiler Alert (Score:3, Insightful)
Guess I'm sentimental, and wanted it all to be real for him.
It is real for him, regardless of whether it is a dream or not.
Just like those were real emotions that you were feeling, despite it all being fiction on a screen.
Re:Spoiler Alert (Score:4, Insightful)
I think the obvious ending is that we're not supposed to know.
I think its quite obvious the director wanted to have a good 'hehe, I'm not telling' inside joke with his audience, and I'm good with that.
Your version is just one possibility of how things may have turned out. The truth is, we weren't told.
Re:WHOOSH! (Score:5, Insightful)