Storytelling
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Writer's Corner: Where do ideas come from by Charles Kline
Written by Charles Kline
We know Christopher Nolan directed Inception. Now I want to know more about the maker..
A little more about Christopher Nolan would help me to understand at what angle he directed this movie. I love his style to include movies such as The Prestige, Insomnia, Memento, The Dark Knight, Batman Begins and Inception. He brings so much to a film and his philosophical approch has given me much joy in watching films again. I actually have to think when I leave the movie theaters!
Let's start with a quote of him walking on a beach (as per Empire The World's Biggest Movie Magazine - July 2010)...
"My mind did that. It put every grain of sand into my hand..." Not only that. "We all do this, every night, when we dream. Our minds create and perceive the world simultaneously. The mind is infinetely expansive, and infinitesimal..."
He's simple in the way he makes movies...
Guillermo Del Toro Finally Sets Sights On At the Mountains of Madness
Written by Charles Kline
I recall reading about this in Fangoria magazine several years ago and getting really excited, because H. P. Lovecraft's work was going to get the big budget treatment it needed at last, especially in the capable hands Guillermo Del Toro, who directed Cronos, Mimic, Blade 2, The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth, and the Hellboy pictures. Then I heard that Del Toro was going to direct The Hobbit next and thought At the Mountains of Madness was going to be put on hold indefinitely. However, all of that has changed and it looks as though my wildest cinematic imaginings are going to come true:
Guillermo Del Toro (and James Cameron) follow Lovecraft passion
Produced at the Wildclaw Theatre Company's Deathscribe: Ten Minutes of Terror Radio Play Festival (Chicago, IL / October 2008)
Download the original radio script below and read it if you dare...
In Inception, does Cobb's totem (top) stop spinning?
Written by Jeffrey Sinor
***If you have seen Inception please proceed with this article, if you have not, you may want to hold off until you have seen the movie***
The film cuts off at the end when Cobb spins his totem (which is a top). Per Cobb's explanation about the use of his totem in dream extraction and inception, he explains that his totem keeps spinning if he is in a dream state. If his top spins and eventually stops he would not be dreaming.
Soo...what are your guesses? Did Cobb make it out of limbo?