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Today is the tenth anniversary of the release of Inception.

Check out some fascinating facts and stories about this masterpiece by Christopher Nolan

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The run time for this movie was listed as 2 days 9 hours and 14 minutes in some listings.

That's how long it would've lasted in the dream world.

Nolan's producer and wife, Emma Thomas mentioned that her husband had been fascinated by the subject of dreams since their days at University College London.

After spending time in the 90s being fascinated by mind-bending movies such as Dark City, Fight Club and The Matrix, Nolan decided to bring his vision of dreams to reality.

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Nolan adopted a heist-flick model (like the Italian Job on LSD) because such movies have scenes where schemes are explained.

Nolan realized he’d need this approach if he wanted audiences to get things. When you watch it again, remember to pay attention to exposition.

After Nolan made Insomnia in 2002, he pitched the idea of Inception to Warner Bros and said (I paraphrase), "Bros, I have dream. I wanna make a movie about dreams."

However, it took him almost ten years to make it real.

Nolan used film making roles for creating the "Dream Team"

Cobb ( @LeoDiCaprioCom) - Director
Arthur (JGL - @hitRECordJoe) - Producer
Ariadne ( @EllenPage) - Production designer
Eames ( @TomHardy) - Actor
Saito ( @Watanabe) - Studio
Fischer (Cilian Murthy) - Audience @CMurphyFans

223 - this is the total number of times in the movie that the narrative moves from the real world into the dream world and within dream levels.

Not sure if urban legend but the first names of characters line up rather prophetically here.

The license plates in the first dream level say "The Alternate State".

Marion Cotillard who plays Mal in the movie played Edith Piaf in "La Vie en Rose".

Edith Piaf's "Non, je ne regrette rien" plays heavily in Inception.

This song lasts 2 min 28 seconds.
Inception lasts for 2 hours 28 minutes.

This scene where Arthur shows Ariadne the limitations of designing a scene is inspired by MC Escher's 1960 work, "Ascending and Descending".

One of the most famous scenes from the movie doesn't even feature the lead actor.

It was only one paragraph in the screenplay, lasted only 30 seconds but took 3 weeks to shoot and had very little CGI.

The hallway dream sequence is magic, and mostly so because it was mostly real.

This is what the visual storyboard looked like:

This scene was inspired by some of the scenes such as this one from 2001 A Space Odyssey and overlaid with some stunning action.

The rotating set for the fight sequence could turn 360 degrees and looked like this. It was constructed in an airplane hangar.

Watch "Art of the Scene" that tells you more about this fantastic sequence. This was in line with Nolan's strict requirement to use CGI only when needed.

Oh what a glorious scene this is!

When shown in Japan on TV, Inception had numbers at one corner of the screen to remind viewers which layer of the dream sequence they were in.

Here's one of many helpful timelines in case you wanted to figure things out. People designing infographics went all out making tons of these back in the day!

In what can be considered super meta, Inception was aired on @FortniteGame with many people logging on to the game and then watching the movie.

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