Details from Inception, the much-hyped, much-confusing next film by Christopher Nolan, have slowly been leaking due to interviews with the films stars. While Nolan has most certainly told them all to keep their mouths shut we have been able to put (very) small pieces of the puzzle together. Most recently, Leonardo DiCaprio talked with Empire Magazine about the upcoming summer blockbuster while doing press for Shutter Island:
“It is complicated. It’s a complicated story-structure but it’s sprung from the great filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s mind, and he’s been able to take highly complex jigsaw puzzles in a narrative and put them together in an entertaining way that we could have never foreseen. Like you look at ‘Memento’: I don’t how a filmmaker is able to pull a narrative like off and have you be fully engaged.”
“This is another one. It’s done on a much grander scale with more spectacle to it but it is a plot-structure that’s working on multiple layers simultaneously – and quite literally when I say simultaneously, I do mean multiple narratives simultaneously. So everyone’s going to be in for a treat when they see it, including myself, I want to see how it plays out together.”
Although these are general comments, it’s enough to get me more hyped. Inception is easily my most anticipated film of the summer.
The film which stars DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy, Michael Caine, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy and Lukas Haas hits theaters July 16th.
What do you think about DiCaprio’s comments? Are you more excited for Inception?