“Inception” Nolan’s masterpiece that deepens the “fictional reality” without relying on CG

``Explosion'' scene without explosives on a Paris street corner

A clear example of Nolan's attitude is the sequence between Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Ariadne (Ellen Page), which was filmed on location in an open cafe-style set built on the streets of Paris. Books, boxes, vegetables and fruit explode around them as they sit outside.

When obtaining permission from local authorities to film, the crew was prohibited from using real explosives, so they chose to use high-pressure nitrogen to blow up the objects. This was recorded at 6x speed from multiple angles, and by skillfully controlling and editing the video playback speed, a unique effect was created in which the flying debris suddenly decelerated and stopped in the air. .

How was the “gravity anomaly” created?

Numerous spectacles unfold as Cobb and his friends advance through parallel missions in the four-story dream, but the most original sequence is probably the one in which Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) grapples with an enemy in the hotel hallway. . In the dream on the first floor, when the car Cobb and his friends are riding in falls freely from the bridge, the laws of physics in the dream on the second floor are broken and a gravitational anomaly occurs in the hotel hallway. Arthur and his enemy grapple and separate, floating from the floor to the walls and from the walls to the ceiling of the hallway. How was this sequence, which seems to dazzle the viewer's sense of balance, filmed?

Making of “Inception”

The production team created a 30-meter-long hallway and set up a large ring on the outside so that the hallway set would become the axis of rotation. This is rotated by two powerful large motors. A camera facing inside the hallway is also fixed to a rotating set. If you shoot the action of two actors in a rotating hallway in this setting, the two actors will move from the floor to the wall and from the wall to the ceiling in the hallway that appears stationary because the hallway and camera are synchronized. The result is an image that feels like it is bouncing around.

Pursuit of “realism” never seen before