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S'good movie.
I enjoyed the premise of control of 'lucid dreaming' since I read the 1966 novella The Dream Master (He Who Shapes) by Roger Zealzny back in childhood, that won a Nebula Award, and I'm surprised that this is never mentioned in reviews of the film as a precursor, or even the 1980's film Dreamscape, (Dennis Quaid, Christopher Plummer) loosely based on the novella.
But Chris Nolan says he wrote this up from his own ideas, I don't doubt it. I am glad the concept was not a horror film, but espionage based, I could see where you could have gone even further with it, and maybe they will.
I enjoyed the premise of control of 'lucid dreaming' since I read the 1966 novella The Dream Master (He Who Shapes) by Roger Zealzny back in childhood, that won a Nebula Award, and I'm surprised that this is never mentioned in reviews of the film as a precursor, or even the 1980's film Dreamscape, (Dennis Quaid, Christopher Plummer) loosely based on the novella.
But Chris Nolan says he wrote this up from his own ideas, I don't doubt it. I am glad the concept was not a horror film, but espionage based, I could see where you could have gone even further with it, and maybe they will.
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Date: 2011-01-12 04:26 am (UTC)Have you seen the Japanese anime "Paprika" by Kon Satoshi?
I felt Inception was very much like it.