Pirates of the Dream Outline

Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a thief who is good at stealing. He sneaked into the target's consciousness to steal confidential information when the target's thinking was weakest in his sleep. Dom's natural skills make him a coveted partner in business espionage, but at the same time, it also makes him an international fugitive who has lost love.

At this time, Cobb accepted a new task, which was his redemption opportunity. However, he had to reach the most impossible state in subconscious crime: an idea. Cobb and his partner didn't plan the perfect theft as before. On the contrary, they wanted to sneak into the deepest subconscious of the target and implant an idea. If they succeed, it will be an unprecedented perfect crime. However, even if they carefully planned every move, there was a mysterious enemy who always accompanied them, as if he could predict every step of their plan ... and this mysterious person, only Cobb could feel its existence. ...

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A very complicated but fascinating sci-fi dream trip.

-"Hollywood Report"

This movie is like the Matrix plus the new york Synonymy Act. Anti-physics discussion, wonderful action scenes, strong emotions and Leonardo's amazing performance are all fascinating. This is a brand-new field of Nolan's films.

-"Empire"

The cornerstone is a very clever film with rich details and complicated narration, which brings people into a subconscious maze.

-"Diversity"

Behind the scenes production

Nolan's first sci-fi film, Souvenir of Christopher Nolan, has been on the screen for ten years. This two-line narrative story constructs two conflicting time and space, and the intertwined clues attract countless people's pursuit. With this masterpiece, Nolan and his brother Jonathan were nominated for the Oscar for Best Screenplay. In 2008, Nolan gained fame and fortune with the success of The Dark Knight. As the most successful superhero movie in history, The Dark Knight should be one of the few movies that basically didn't use computer technology.

The Foundation Stone is Nolan's seventh film and his first test in the field of science fiction movies. This film, which combines Memento's sensory disorder and the shooting scale of the Dark Knight, has a pre-budget of $6543.8+600 million, and location shooting has also set foot in Morocco, France and Japan. Leonardo DiCaprio, who just joined Shutter Island, plays the leading role in this film. He will play a detective in the film, and use high-tech means to detect commercial crimes by invading other people's hearts and dreams. But the problem is that he himself was tortured by his heart for a long time because of the pain of losing his wife.

This film is expected to become the first action film with ideological structure in Hollywood film history. Although it doesn't sound like the usual movie this season, Warner and Legendary Pictures jointly vouched for this movie, calling it the "Mission Impossible" version of The Matrix. In this story with elements of Freud and ian fleming, DiCaprio backed Nolan, saying that Nolan is definitely the best director to achieve this unimaginable cross-border integration.

In a recent telephone interview, Leonardo DiCaprio said that "complexity and vagueness can accurately describe this story", and it is a very challenging task to push the story to the end, but this is exactly what Nolan is good at. Insomnia and Memories of Time Past are both stories with multi-clue and multi-level complex narrative structure, which can make the films entertaining while telling the facts clearly. You have to admit that Nolan is really an expert in this field.

The relationship between real dreams and semi-dreaming and semi-waking states.

For Nolan, the cornerstone is an unattainable dream. "I hope to have enough time to finish this movie, because what I want to express in it is something I have been thinking about repeatedly since I was sixteen. I finished the first draft of the script seven or eight years ago, but later the story progressed much further than I expected, and it touched on the relationship between the real dream and the half-dream and half-awake state, "Nolan said during the filming interval last summer.

Nolan divided his youth into two stages: Chicago and London, but judging from his unsmiling expression, the Thames should nourish him more than the power of Lake Michigan. Nolan found that he had many strange ideas when he was very young. He always wakes up naturally in the middle of the night and then goes into a light sleep state. In this state, he often thinks he is dreaming. After that, more strange feelings will follow, and he can separate the stories in his dreams by memory.

"The human brain can accommodate all the real scenes, and I haven't encountered the limit of this behavior in my research. Just like walking on the beach, you can look around and grab a handful of fine sand on the beach. I try to verify this truth by manipulating lucid dreams, and my script is based on these common and relatively simple truths. As for the only weird thing in the movie, technology allows people to invade other people's brains and share the same dream with another person at the same time.

DiCaprio joined not only as a big movie star, but also to break the gap between science fiction movies and let more people walk into this story. "Leo always has many ideas. He will think from the perspective of the role, and at the same time take into account the role that the role can play in this story and the development of the whole story. Chatting with him is usually very interesting, which will always play a great role in promoting the development of the whole shooting. I think the emotional world of this character far exceeds the driving force at the beginning of the story, "Nolan said.

From action movies to exploring emotional connotation

"In the beginning, I wrote" The Foundation Stone "as an action movie. The commonality of action movies is that the emotional line is deliberately superficial. Those jokes should give people the feeling that they are just touching but charming, and the happy effect of instant eruption must be in place. So, I wanted such a movie at first, but when I looked at the original idea in reverse, I found it extremely unreliable. Because Foundation is a movie that relies heavily on the connotation of the movie to download, and it is all about dreams and memories, so I decided to increase the drama of the emotional part. When we filmed Batman movies, we knew that the most effective way to communicate with the audience was the feelings mentioned in the movie, and the role of big stars was only to draw the audience into the cinema. No matter how strange the next story is, they will pay for those familiar faces. "

Return to old-fashioned film technology

Unstable mental state and unreliable logical reasoning have always been recurring themes in Nolan's films: Memento is a victim who has lost his memory, insomnia is a middle-aged detective who suffers from insomnia, Fatal Magic tells another patient whose mind is full of fantasy, and the story of Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight takes a subversive form, which fundamentally prevents super good citizens from appearing anonymously.

In all these stories, Nolan insists on shooting with a camera, and computers are basically worthless to him, which is incredible in Hollywood. Thanks to the help of wally pfister and Chris Cobold, Nolan's royal photographers and Bond's special effects director, they helped Nolan realize the return of old-fashioned film technology.

When shooting a street fighting scene in Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kobold's team designed a large-angle rotating corridor for the sudden transition from a dream to a real scene and filmed it. Nolan said, "This looks like a torture machine. We tortured Joseph in there for weeks. But in the end, when we watched the movie, the effect inside was something that none of us had ever seen. The rhythm of the whole plot is very unique. When you watch it, even if you know how it was shot, it will still make you dizzy. This kind of shooting is really great, so that extraordinary things can happen in a very simple way, which is exactly what we want. "

Mechanical scene design

When presenting surreal dreams, the cornerstone did not follow the old path of Hollywood. Those scenes with fog and liquid effects were abandoned and replaced by large-scale mechanical scene design. In Nolan's films, the style of escher's Doctor Calgary's Cabin completely defeats Dali's dripping meaning. Architecture also strongly influenced the cultural sense of this film. Dream design is not an illusory poem, but a concrete architectural blueprint. This result is related to Nolan's long-term fascination with architecture. A key scene in The Cornerstone was shot in the School of Architecture of University of London, which was once a treasure trove for Nolan to get an English degree and meet his current wife Emma Thomson.

Some time ago, the popularity of Avatar set off a wave of this kind of movies, and the story patterns about a person living in two spaces emerged one after another (future person, escape from heaven and earth, etc.). Many people have also asked Nolan if his new film has followed this routine. Faced with this problem, Nolan can only shake his head helplessly. "I think our film may be more inclined to the old-fashioned academic style, the multi-faceted extension of the matrix, and the exploration of Taobao's realistic concept in many aspects. The whole concept of Avatar is similar to the movie we are making, but I think when I started making this movie, its sources were more like the movies The Matrix and The Thirteenth Step. Just like Memento, their foundation is based on your doubts about the authenticity of the world around you. "

A strong cast

The cast of "The Groundbreaking Ceremony" was created by Nolan according to his personal preference, such as Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, michael caine and experienced Tom Hardy. In addition, the popular Joseph Gordon Levitt and Ellen Page played the golden partners of DiCaprio's Dreamcatcher.

Allen was shocked by many scenes when she participated in the filming of Foundation Stone, which she had never experienced before. For the unique large-scale scenes and sensory confusion in Nolan's films, Peggy feels that this is what makes him unique. When almost all directors wanted to make a film as easy and exciting as a video game in summer, Nolan took out this film which mixed literary and architectural ideas, and his courage was evident.

"It's like reading a novel by Haruki Murakami. This film is full of fantasy. But that world gives people the feeling that it is not a strange surreal world, but a strong sense of existence. The rich emotional paragraphs in the film are also his indispensable core. Although the story is complicated, it will never deliberately confuse people. "

titbits

The filming plan of this film was born during the filming of Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight. Christopher Nolan once considered working with his close partner Christian Bale again, but Christian Bale suggested that Christopher Nolan find other actors he liked to play the leading role, because he wanted to shoot Terminator 20 18, and Christian Bale had other shooting plans later. At this time, Christopher Nolan thought of another actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, who he liked very much but had never formally cooperated with.

When Leonardo DiCaprio knew that the film was written and directed by Christopher Nolan, he decided to star in it. Even then, he didn't know what the theme of the film was.

In the early days, james franco and Christopher Nolan decided to play the role of this film during their talks, but due to the conflict of time schedule, he could not participate in this film. Finally, Joseph Gordon Levitt replaced James Franco.

In the original plan, Evan Rachel Wood was the best person for Christopher Nolan to play Ariadne, but she refused the invitation of the director. Finally, the role was played by Ellen Page. However, before Ellen Page was finally chosen to play this role, Emily Blunt, keira knightley and Emma Roberts were all considered by Christopher Nolan.

When the filming plan of this film was announced in the early days, it was rumored that Leonardo DiCaprio's character was named Jacob Hastily and Alain Page's character was named Isabella. Later, when the specific details of the film were officially announced, both of them proved to be just smoke bombs in official propaganda. Leonardo DiCaprio plays the role of Cobb, while Alain Page plays the role of Ariadne.

In this film, it is generally believed that Christopher Nolan borrowed the idea of Japanese director Jin Min's animated film Red Pepper in 2006. However, Christopher Nolan clarified this statement and repeatedly said that the film was completely original and brand-new.

The cornerstone is Tom Hardy's first work officially released in the United States since 200 1 Training Day.