20 Facts About Inception

Inception is a 2010 science fiction action film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who produced the film with Emma Thomas, his wife.

Inception is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

Inception soon realized that a film like Inception needed a large budget because "as soon as you're talking about dreams, the potential of the human mind is infinite.

Dream sequences in Inception, Nolan used little computer-generated imagery, preferring practical effects whenever possible.

Inception had nearly 500 visual effects shots, which is relatively few in comparison to contemporary effects-heavy films, which can have as many as 2, 000 visual effects shots.

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Score for Inception was written by Hans Zimmer, who described his work as "a very electronic, dense score", filled with "nostalgia and sadness" to match Cobb's feelings throughout the film.

In Inception, Nolan wanted to explore "the idea of people sharing a dream space.

Inception criticized Nolan's "literal-minded" action level sequencing compared to Bunuel, who "silently pushed us into reveries and left us alone to enjoy our wonderment, but Nolan is working on so many levels of representation at once that he has to lay in pages of dialogue just to explain what's going on.

Inception was released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 3, 2010, in France, and the week after in the UK and USA.

Inception was released on 4K Blu-ray and digital copy along with other Christopher Nolan films on December 19, 2017.

Inception described it as "a longer-term proposition", referring to the medium of video games as "something I've wanted to explore".

Inception was re-released in theaters for its tenth anniversary, starting on August 12, 2020, in international markets and on August 21 in the U S The re-release was originally announced by Warner Bros.

Inception was released in both conventional and IMAX theaters on July 16, 2010.

Inception is the third most lucrative production in Christopher Nolan's career—behind The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises—and the second most for Leonardo DiCaprio—behind Titanic.

The website's critical consensus reads: "Smart, innovative, and thrilling, Inception is that rare summer blockbuster that succeeds viscerally as well as intellectually.

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone called Inception a "wildly ingenious chess game, " and concluded "the result is a knockout.

Inception appeared on over 273 critics' lists of the top ten films of 2010, being picked as number-one on at least 55 of those lists.

In 2012, Inception was ranked the 35th-best-edited film of all time by the Motion Picture Editors Guild.

Inception was ranked 84th on Hollywood's 100 Favorite Films, a list compiled by The Hollywood Reporter in 2014, surveying "Studio chiefs, Oscar winners and TV royalty".

In 2016, Inception was voted the 51st-best film of the 21st Century by BBC, as picked by 177 film critics from around the world.