Also, my much sillier response: Arthur's so dreeeamy! He wears nice suits, kicks ass in zero gravity, and does pro bono work with kids. No wonder Eames can't resist!
The thing is, kid dreams are serious and scary and terrible, and the first time Eames comes along, he's all, ho hum, this is going to be stupid and silly OH GOD WHAT IS THAT HORRIFYING THING while Arthur is just calmly schooling the kid, having developed nerves of steel about monsters.
I'm not into the canon enough to know who Katie are (or Dan??) but what is interesting is how actually little dream-like the dreams in Inception are. They are 'built' but they don't have that nightmarish quality of your black fingers and the 'things'. This is perhaps the limit of film as a medium, or the limit of digital reality-driven action cinema as a medium where everything has to be shown and spelled out where in dreams nothing is shown and nothing is spelled out and there is vague dread but you don't know of whom. Also: my dreams? Never big panoramas a la Inception with dozens of 'projections' but intimate spaces where I can only see so far and don't know what's round the corner.
But who knows? Maybe everyone else dreams in widescreen.
Katie and Dan are original characters, so I think you're fine there.
I--hm, do I dream in widescreen? My dreams are usually more psychological dramas, about how I FEEEL and such, but sometimes there are big things in there like the ocean or what have you.
That read a lot like what I remember my kid nightmares feeling like, so absolute bonus points there.
What you said in another comment about your dreams--the thing that has been so funny about Inception for me is how much it's made me think about my own dreams, and what I dream. I apparently dream in cinemascope--I only rarely dream about myself, or about myself-as-someone-else. Mostly I dream these massive original films inside my own head, like I'm sitting too close to the screen at the cinema, watching intensely as these, I guess projections, play out dramas I've never consciously thought about before.
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Also, my much sillier response: Arthur's so dreeeamy! He wears nice suits, kicks ass in zero gravity, and does pro bono work with kids. No wonder Eames can't resist!
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The thing is, kid dreams are serious and scary and terrible, and the first time Eames comes along, he's all, ho hum, this is going to be stupid and silly OH GOD WHAT IS THAT HORRIFYING THING while Arthur is just calmly schooling the kid, having developed nerves of steel about monsters.
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But who knows? Maybe everyone else dreams in widescreen.
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I--hm, do I dream in widescreen? My dreams are usually more psychological dramas, about how I FEEEL and such, but sometimes there are big things in there like the ocean or what have you.
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Also, you are evol because your evol snippet has inspired forced me to write 362 words of Arthur today. Subliminally forced.
I am convinced you are in my brain. Incepting me.
Look, I even made topical icon! *tries to resist*
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What you said in another comment about your dreams--the thing that has been so funny about Inception for me is how much it's made me think about my own dreams, and what I dream. I apparently dream in cinemascope--I only rarely dream about myself, or about myself-as-someone-else. Mostly I dream these massive original films inside my own head, like I'm sitting too close to the screen at the cinema, watching intensely as these, I guess projections, play out dramas I've never consciously thought about before.
It's weird. And kind of awesome.
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