Forget “Kick-Ass” and “Predators” — that’s old news. The talk across the interwebs today is of Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming sci-fi action puzzler “Inception,” and with the new footage debuting at ShoWest, buzz is once again circling one of the biggest films of the summer.
At Collider, they’re reporting that the new trailer pretty much confirms the dream hopping plot of the film, that has long been spoiled/figured out. In the latest clip, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character says “In your dream state, your consciousness defense is lower. It makes your thoughts vulnerable to theft, called extraction. So you can actually train your subconscious to defend itself from the most skilled extractor.” Pretty heady stuff.
However, from what we gather, most of the footage seemed there to impress theater exhibitors (after all, this is their show) and there was very little in the way of dialogue. Cinema Blend describes “a scene of Joseph Gordon-Levitt floating in zero gravity and tying up a bunch of corpses” and an “elevator opening into a room without gravity [and a scene of a] city folding up and falling into the ocean.” Latino Review details a sequence “that looked like something out of a Modern Warfare game. Guys dressed in white military outfits battling on a snow capped mountaintop. One scene showed Ken [Watanabe] in military gear tossing a grenade through a window.”
As for director Christopher Nolan, speaking with MTV he confirms the basic dream-hopping heist film premise of the film which again, has long been spoiled, and pretty much covers the same ground as he did in his interview with Empire: “‘Inception’ is about the world of dreams and the interior of the human mind. It’s about a guy played by Leonardo DiCaprio, who has a team of people who have access to a technology that allows them to enter people’s minds through their dreams. That allowed us to craft a film with no limits, a film that could take you anywhere and raise all different kinds of action scenarios, different realities, really play with the fabric of what constitutes a grand-scale summer movie.”
He also went on to describe the tone of the film as trying to balance the requirements of character within the framework of a summer tentpole, “We certainly tried to fuse some of the more intimate things I find fascinating about human beings and about human interaction and character with the grand-scale filmmaking we were doing on ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Batman Begins.'”
So when do we get to see this footage? We’ll probably have to wait until this summer, but some of it is bound to show up in the second full length trailer, which we’re guessing will arrive soon under the currently inactive Trailer 2 tab on the film’s official website.
