{"id":2044,"date":"2010-07-31T09:22:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T13:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2022-10-26T11:09:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:09:23","slug":"the-best-of-inception-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-best-of-inception-online\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best of Inception Online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To follow up on our <a href=\"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/christopher-nolans-fugue-state-inception\/\">recent review of Inception<\/a>, here&#8217;s a collection of the best online coverage I&#8217;ve seen elsewhere:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Devin Faraci&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/chud.com\/24477\/never-wake-up-the-meaning-and-secret-of-inception\/\">Never Wake Up: The Meaning and Secret of Inception<\/a> is the best thing you will read about Inception, an opinion shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2010\/07\/the-key-to-inception-its-a-movie-about-making-movies\/\">The Awl<\/a>. &#8220;Inception is about making movies, and cinema is the shared dream that truly interests the director.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;You have three minutes to make a PowerPoint presentation that will take me three hours to click through.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/goingson\/2010\/07\/christopher-nolan-implementation.html\">Christopher Nolan&#8217;s Implementation<\/a>, from The New Yorker, by Gideon Lewis-Kraus. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/10\/07\/christopher-nolans-implementation\">Kottke.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/39181681\/Inception-The-Cobol-Job\">The Cobol Job<\/a>, the official prequel, in comic book form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio&#8217;s pal and fellow ecowarrior, gave Inception a <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150418164416\/blog.algore.com\/2010\/07\/go_see_inception.html\">rare endorsement<\/a> on his blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An appropriately Escher-esque infographic by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lastexittonowhere.com\/\">Last Exit To Nowhere<\/a>. [update: no longer online]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infographicsblog.com\/inception-infographics-which-is-the-best-inception-infographic\/\">best Inception infographic<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cinema Blend provides a very handy F.A.Q. [update: no longer online]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prepare to have your mind blown all over again by this key musical cue clue discovered by YouTube user camiam321, drawing on <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/herocomplex\/2010\/07\/inception-christopher-nolan-the-smiths-johnny-marr-hans-zimmer-and-johnny-marr-on-the-sound-of-inception-its-about-sadness.html\">hints dropped by composer Hans Zimmer<\/a> in the L.A. Times:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UVkQ0C4qDvM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To follow up on our recent review of Inception, here&#8217;s a collection of the best online coverage I&#8217;ve seen elsewhere: Devin Faraci&#8217;s Never Wake Up: The Meaning and Secret of Inception is the best thing you will read about Inception, an opinion shared by The Awl. &#8220;Inception is about making movies, and cinema is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[248,885,892,891,879,65],"class_list":["post-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","tag-al-gore","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-edith-piaf","tag-hans-zimmer","tag-inception","tag-leonardo-dicaprio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/inception-city.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-wY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2042,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/christopher-nolans-fugue-state-inception\/","url_meta":{"origin":2044,"position":0},"title":"Christopher Nolan&#8217;s Fugue State: Inception","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"July 21, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"In his 1999 essay Celluloid Vs. 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