Monday 10 January 2011

'Inception' Trailer 2 HD.mp4

An idea is more than a thought. It's a virus, a cancer of sorts, that can spread until it completely takes over a person, until it defines the person. A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules. -- Inception as an individual embedded in the field of architecture, the wake of the movie Inception certainly does provoke my thought. I think the writing of this piece comes in a good time where everybody have seen the movie; if not don't read this onwards. though I'm not going to recite the plot, I'm going to relate how Inception is deeply rooted with architecture, not in obvious sense -- but in a much more thought-provoking manner. It all began with architecture. "Whether it's through the manipulation of structures to show the power of the dreamers, as in the folding streets of Paris, or in the crumbling towers of Limbo, which symbolize the advancing collapse of Cobb's mental state [played by Leonardo DiCaprio], the design of the built environment is always significant," explains Paul Franklin, the overall visual effects supervisor, who collaborated with Dneg's Pete Bebb, the CG supervisor, and Andy Lockley, the 2D supervisor, among others. -- Bill Desowitz Greek labyrinth and Inception Christopher Nolan certainly have put forward of how architecture have shaped our surrounding environment; and where architect's drawings of mazes (plans in architectural term) -- resulting in us being inside the maze, finding ...