When was inception shot

The bridge crosses the Seine River and is near the Eiffel Tower. The climactic scene in the rugged mountain fortress was filmed near Calgary, Alberta. The set was constructed at the Fortress Mountain ski resort at Kananaskis, situated 55 miles west of Calgary. The marketplace is a labyrinthine space of vendors showcasing various colorful products ranging from different kinds of goods like spices and assorted food items.

Tangier is a Moroccan port city on the Strait of Gibraltar. It has been a strategic gateway between Africa and Europe since historical times. Tangiers doubled as Mombasa, Kenya for several other scenes as well.

It was also, probably, the most pain I've ever been in on a movie set, physically, but you know, pain in a good way, like in the way I guess athletes must get when they have to put on their pads and they tape up their ankles and they get a little beat up throughout the day, but that's just part of slamming yourself into walls and jumping around all day," he said during a Warner Bros. More than crew members made it possible to shoot the iconic scene, which took place in a foot revolving hallway.

The filmmaker's son Magnus portrayed James, Cobb's month-old son. As of , "Inception" remains his only film credit. Miranda played the flight attendant serving the first-class passengers on the plane to Los Angeles in "Inception. The actor plays Ariadne, an architecture student brought onto the team to build dreams. Before Page even knew about the film, he met with Nolan as a fan.

I didn't know about 'Inception' when I met him. I really liked him — such a down-to-earth guy, no ego at all, just a pleasant, enjoyable guy to talk to," he told MTV.

Page said he didn't view the meeting as a gateway to a project but received a call a week later. Then I got to read the script in an office.

I wasn't sent a copy. The script totally blew me away," he said. The painting of Dyer, who was Bacon's lover from to his death in , shows a distorted version of his face containing a gaping hole. The work is one of many that Bacon created of Dyer, both during his life and after his death. For Nolan, who told Tate that he turns to art when unable to express himself with words, the painting's placement is no mistake.

In my work I've tried to echo or represent it cinematically," Nolan said of Bacon's work. Later in the film, the audience finds out that Mal, who stares directly at the painting before turning and speaking to Cobb, is a mere projection of the protagonist's memory. Like Bacon's misshapen image of Dyer, Nolan is showing Cobb's imperfect, distorted version of his wife, standing directly in front of Bacon's work. Arthur's totem, an object that signifies whether or not he's in a dream or reality, is a red pair of dice.

When he shows it to Ariadne, the side with five dots faces the camera. In his dream at the hotel, the number appears several times. The hotel has at least five floors, and two "5" signs frame Gordon-Levitt several times during the zero-gravity fight scene. The library, constructed using glass and concrete, was designed in the late '60s by famed architect William Pereira.

Nolan hasn't confirmed that the fortress was modeled after the Geisel Library, though he has spoken about his appreciation for architecture and its influence on his films. I think there's a narrative component to architecture that's kind of fascinating," he told Wired. The characters' dreams are filled with subtle hints that separate the subconscious from the real world. Though a minor detail, Nolan changed the cars' license plates to read "The Alternate State," dropping a hint that the action scene was happening in a dream.

Nolan didn't intentionally create roles that mirrored jobs on a film set but admitted the filmmaking allegory is "clearly there" during an interview with Wired ,. The way the team works is very analogous to the way the film itself was made.

I can't say that was intentional, but it's very clearly there," Nolan said. Cobb, who calls the shots and makes the decisions, represents the director. Arthur, who keeps the process moving along and orchestrates all the details, mirrors a producer.

Dream architect Ariadne could serve as the set designer, and Eames, who has the power to impersonate others inside of dreams, represents an actor. As for Fischer, who's having an idea planting in his head, he could represent the film's audience. Before filming, DiCaprio met with Nolan every day for two months to talk through his character.

The relationship proved to be symbiotic. He added, "Leo's very analytical, particularly from character point of view but also how the entire story is going to function and relate to his character Nolan strapped Hardy to the back of a snowmobile and sent him down the mountain at 40 miles per hour.

In the end, Nolan was impressed by the actor and how quickly he was able to pick up expertise. To achieve this effect in camera, the filmmakers recruited the help of professional avalanche makers, according to co-producer Jordan Goldberg. The demolition professionals would fly around the mountain and drop timed explosive at crucial locations throughout the snow banks to create an avalanche once they were detonated.

Several controlled avalanches were set off before the filmmakers got the shots they needed for the final film. A pivotal moment in Inception involves a freight train barreling through the middle of a downtown street. However, since the road they were filming on had no train tracks and Nolan tries to use as many practical effects as he can, the filmmakers had to improvise to achieve the effect. So the effects crew acquired a semi-truck and extended the frame.

They built a shell out of plywood, Plexiglas, and steel that would fit over a truck and replicate a freight train. The front of the structure contained approximately 1. Scenes and set pieces throughout I nception provide a wide variety of settings and locales as the globetrotting protagonists travel the world planning their mission. While the majority of the filming took place in and around Los Angeles, other locations included Japan, Morocco, France, England and Canada.

Despite drought conditions and watering bans in effect at the time, the filming was done in a Hollywood-style rainstorm created by water cannons mounted atop skyscrapers. It was a very detailed mock-up of an actual locomotive, 60 feet long, mounted on the stretched chassis of an wheel tractor trailer.

Watch the locomotive flinch when it rams into cars; real runaway trains just make pancakes out of cars. Special effects wizards Chris Corbould , Mr. Struthers and picture car coordinator Tyler Gaisford also deserve credit for this mind-blowing Silver Screen moment.

The Port of Los Angeles area, adjacent to San Pedro, was where the battered and abused white Ford Econoline van finally meets its denouement. Rao, who did much of the actual driving of the van, said chase sequences involving the van took almost a month of on-and-off filming to complete. He said 11 identical third-generation Econolines were destroyed in the sequence; Mr. Gaisford was quoted as saying it was One was even converted for underwater filming. The drawbridge used at the end is named, fittingly, for auto tycoon Henry Ford and a Commodore Heim.

Did Mr. The Fortress Mountain ski resort has fallen on hard times, since its use in the Winter Olympics in nearby Calgary. By , it had degenerated into just exactly the kind of seedy, forelorn, eerie aerie that Mr. Stunt personnel here included Olympic and extreme freestyle skiers and Ski-Doo virtuosos. And that weird military-type vehicle with the snow tracks?

Although it was late fall by the time the Canadian scenes were filmed, and bitterly cold, no snow fell until two days before filming was to begin.

Be careful what you wish for. In interviews after post-production wrapped in Los Angeles, Mr. We took our actors to the top of mountains and under the water and all over the world, and they rose to every challenge marvelously. I am a great believer in getting out there on location and confronting an environment — because it brings so much to the credibility of the action.

Someplace deep into the dream-world of the mind. Do I hear Edith Piaf starting to sing? Anyway, this makes sense if everything is slowed down in a dream. The soundtrack gets weirder as they go down levels in the dream worlds, because just one reverberating note of the song could last a lifetime in the lowest levels.

This material is copyrighted and may not be reprinted or reproduced without permission. The downhill venue was at Nakiska, which is 25 minutes north.

Thank you for clarifying that. Kananaskis Country, which consists of Nakiska and Fortress Mountain, was an official venue of the Winter Olympics. But actual alpine and freestyle mogul events were held only at Nakiska.

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