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*** Leo also washes up on a beach shore, as mentioned below.

** Marion Cotillard was cast as Mal. She also won an Oscar for playing Edith Piaf in ''La Vie En Rose''. Edith Piaf, by the way, was the French singer who performed the song "Je ne Regrette Rien", also known as the music which the crew played for the kick.

* [[Allusion]]: In ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'' there is a '''Japanese man named "Saito"''' who is '''filled with regret''' over the actions of one of his subordinates in regard to '''the building of a structure''' that at first '''crumbles''' because its foundation is built on mud in the midst of a jungle where '''there is no escape'''.

* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: "Inception" has now become the term for whenever one object is placed inside an identical object, referencing the "dream within a dream" plot. "Inception" actually refers to planting an idea in the person's subconscious -- the "dream within a dream" plan was just a method of performing the inception.

** "We need/have to go deeper" is used in [[Image Macro|Image Macros]] and as a [[Memetic Mutation|meme]] of the movie despite not appearing in the film.

** This film was Nolan's baby, his decade-long [[A Worldwide Punomenon|dream project]]. You can see how much he loved what could have been an action-heist film, and how much enthusiasm the cast and crew had for him and the story. It's a real life heartwarmer, showing that there is a place for [[New Hollywood]]-style, ''auteur''-driven projects. That said, making an art film ''after'' making a hundreds of millions of dollars for your backers with ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' is more likely to work than coming in off the street. In fact, ''Inception'' is the reason Nolan took on ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]'' to begin with. When working on the drafts for ''Inception'', he realized he could not do it on a small-scale budget, and needed to get some experience with large-scale films, as well as every mainstream film he did that succeeded financially would make it that much easier for a studio to back whatever budget and resources he would need.

** To add to that, Nolan tried as far as possible to film the spectacular effects in-camera, opting to use CGI to edit and enhance as opposed to entirely create. Massive props have to go to Chris Corbould, the special effects supervisor on the film who had to figure out how to achieve all the things (that had such a high [[Holy Shit Quotient]]) with practical effects. For example, the scene in the hotel bar with the slanting water levels was achieved with a hydraulically-controlled set that could tilt at a 25-degree angle, while the camera was anchored to the ground. Similarly, the zero-gravity fight in the hotel corridor was achieved with a rotating set, while the camera was kept level relative to the set. The effect was so amazing that the film's editor, Lee Smith, admits to being stunned and disoriented the first time he saw the footage. Also, the snow-fortress-hospital was built full-scale in the Canadian Rockies and blown up for real - along with a smaller scale model built in the studio parking lot. The atomizing streets of Paris were done with air cannons and rigs ''on an actual Paris street'' and the water flooding Saito's castle at the start of the film was accomplished with air cannons creating high-pressure jets of water.

** Also, he refused the studio's wish to have the movie converted to 3D as he isn't satisfied with the image quality of 3D.

* [[Enforced Method Acting]]: If [http://roman-numerals.tumblr.com/post/3559671571/this-story-has-no-proof-of-course-only-the-word this] is to be believed.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]:

** [[Titanic|Jack Dawson]], who dropped Rose for <s>[[Public Enemies|John Dillinger's girlfriend]]</s> [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450188/ Edith Piaf].

*** And [[Platoon|Barnes]] is his right hand man.

** [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000592/ Friar Lawrence] says: Our [[Leonardo DiCaprio|Romeo]] hath not been in bed tonight. (Yes, but he still dreamt a dream tonight... [[Fake-Out Make-Out|That]] [[Master of Disguise|dreamers]] often [[All Just a Dream|lie]].)

** That one guy who gave Arthur so much trouble in the hotel corridor? [[28 Days Later|Private Mailer]].

* [[Jossed]]: If Sir Michael Caine is to be believed, {{spoiler|any fan theory which assumes that the "real world" is just another level of dream. Caine states that any scene which he's in is the real world. Virtually confirmed by [[Word of God]], Christopher Nolan.}}

** More than a few fans have been resorting to [[Death of the Author]] on this matter.

* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Inception/Shout Out|Has its own page.]]

* [[Shrug of God]]: Basically Nolan's entire stance on the ending.

{{quote|I've been asked the question [about the ending] more times than I've ever been asked any other question about any other film I've made... What's funny to me is that people really do expect me to answer it.}}

** In his own mind, though, the ending is real, but he feels this shouldn't be everyone's interpretation.

** A costume designer stated that the last scene showing Cobb's children in fact used different children from an earlier scene and they were wearing slightly different shirts, which suggests that the final scene isn't a dream.