Inception Special Effects

The Effects That Make Inception Exceptionally Awesome Inception, by Christopher Nolan, is a film that intertwines subconscious dreaming and conscious reality. Special director Paul Franklin magnifies a tremendous amount of astounding visual and audio effects at constant repetition throughout the whole film. Paul states that, “some of the more spectacular imagery of the film-the street folding over in Paris and characters creating architecture out of thin air-are VFX shots that we created from a combination of live action and copious amounts of digital animation” (How 1). Inception demonstrates key special effects and audio/video features that give the audience a better understanding of the substantial obstacles each character within the film encounters. The film’s main characters consist of Dominick “Dom” Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his business partner Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). Cobb is the principal practitioner of the artistic science and experimental military technology of what is known as “extraction”, or inserting oneself into a chosen subject's dreams to either obtain hidden information or “plant a seed/idea” in the subject’s subconscious memory without the subject knowing. This rare ability had made Cobb a very important man in the new world of corporate infiltration, but it had also made him an international fugitive and costed him everything he had ever loved. The majority of the scenes within this film take place in these sort of interconnected dream worlds. “This structure creates a framework where actions in the real or dream worlds ripple across others. The dream is always in a state of production, and shifts across the levels as the characters navigate it” (Best 1).
In the film, Cobb and Arthur’s latest target consists of a Japanese business man Saito(Ken Watanabe), but the extraction from Saito fails when sabotaged by a memory of Cobb’s deceased wife Mal(Marion Cotillard). Later, we discover that Saito had actually been auditioning the