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This is one of the top fifty highest grossing movies of all time. (2015)
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Contrary to popular belief, Hans Zimmer did not compose the music that appeared in the third trailer for this movie. The track, titled "Mind Heist", was composed by Zack Hemsey.
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Cillian Murphy (Robert) doubled for a young Maurice Fischer (with glasses and a mustache) in the bedside photo.
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The theme music for this movie, composed by Hans Zimmer, is named "Time".
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Eames is named after Charles Eames and Ray Eames, a married couple well-known in the fields of furniture design, buildings architecture and avant-garde/documentary filmmaking.
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The IMAX 65mm format was earlier considered, as used in The Dark Knight (2008), but it was eventually ruled out due to extensive hand-held camera usage throughout the shoot. Due to its weight, it cannot be operated hand-held.
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The only characters that call Dom Cobb by his first name are Mal (Marion Cotillard) and Miles (Sir Michael Caine).
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Before Ellen Page was offered and accepted the role of Ariadne, writer, producer, and director Christopher Nolan considered casting Evan Rachel Wood, Emily Blunt, Rachel McAdams, Emma Roberts, Jessy Schram, Taylor Swift, and Carey Mulligan.
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Prints of the movie were shipped to theaters under the name "Hour Glass".
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The labyrinthine style of the movie's logo resembles the logo of Christopher Nolan's production company Syncopy.
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When Cobb and Miles are first shown, Cobb mentions "Extradition between France and the United States is a bureaucratic nightmare." In Catch Me If You Can (2002), Leonardo DiCaprio's character is arrested in France and later extradited to the United States.
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James Franco was in talks with writer, producer, and director Christopher Nolan to play Arthur, but was ultimately unavailable due to scheduling conflicts.
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This is the fourth of seven Christopher Nolan movies, in which Sir Michael Caine appeared. The others are: Batman Begins (2005), The Prestige (2006), The Dark Knight (2008), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Interstellar (2014), and Dunkirk (2017).
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There is a series of numbers that keep appearing, on the front of the train the number is 3502 and the taxi number is 2053.
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There are five Academy Award nominees in the cast: Tom Berenger, Tom Hardy, Pete Postlethwaite, Ken Watanabe, and Ellen Page, and three Academy Award winners: Leonardo DiCaprio, Sir Michael Caine, and Marion Cotillard.
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In an interview with French website AlloCiné in 2016, Marion Cotillard stated that Mal is one of her favorite roles.
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This movie used University College London as a location for several scenes, including when Miles introduces Cobb to Ariadne. Not only did Christopher Nolan study at the university, he has used it as a location for several of his other movies, such as Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
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Early in this movie, during Mal and Cobb's conversation in a room within Saito's estate, Mal comments on a painting in the background. Cobb replies stating that Saito "is partial to postwar British painters". This is referring to the artist, Francis Bacon. The painting, "Study for Head of George Dyer", is of his late lover, whom he painted long after Dyer's death to perpetuate his memory.
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The barrel chairs in Saito's dining room were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1937 for Wingspread, the Herbert Johnson house in Wisconsin. Saito sits at the head of the table in a copy of the Willow Chair designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1903. This further plays on the Architect theme that is prevalent throughout the movie.
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Mal's totem, a spinning top, is (probably) a reference to the Clifford D. Simak's story "Ring Around the Sun", where the spinning top is used as a way to skip from one parallel Earth to another (by way of helping characters to concentrate).
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