4.6 • 639 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2010
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Christopher Nolan's made Batman, The Joker and a Scandinavian film noir his own. With Inception, he returns to his roots, bringing an original script to the big screen.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment. |
0:13.9 | Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. You can also hear this short, KCRW.com. |
0:18.8 | It's been about 12 years since writer-director Chris Fennell and has worked |
0:22.2 | from his own screenplay, his own original screenplay. That was his first film following, for which he |
0:26.7 | was here back in the days and the treatment was live, as he reminded me. He's done a few films |
0:31.0 | since then. Most notably, of course, the Dark Night Batman begins. My gosh, Memento, the prestige. His new film, of course, is Inception. Again, |
0:40.0 | an original is the writer-director. Chris, first of all, welcome back. Thank you. The movies are so |
0:44.1 | much about, especially the things you write, about people who have an idea of themselves that they |
0:49.1 | push onto the world, and they sort of encounter people's reactions to that, kind of like |
0:53.5 | they're living out their alter egos. |
0:55.0 | And this is a movie that's kind of different in that it's about people diving to somebody |
0:58.6 | else's alter ego a little bit, though that perception of themselves they force onto the |
1:03.4 | world. |
1:04.2 | I think everything for me really comes back to the difference between the way we see the world |
1:08.0 | subjectively, but we believe there's an objective reality. |
1:14.8 | So even the way we see ourselves, for example, and I've always liked genres and stories, you know, the crime genre, the film noir and everything, that embrace that |
1:19.1 | idea and kind of use that as a jumping off point for stories where you're in the maze with |
1:26.5 | the characters, kind of making the wrong turns and everything. I think stories that are too objective, you know, where you're in the maze with the characters, kind of making the wrong turns and |
1:28.4 | everything. I think stories that are too objective, you know, where you're hovering above the |
1:32.4 | maze, watching people make the wrong turns. They're a little frustrating. I like to be down |
1:36.1 | in there with the person really embracing the subjectivity of the storytelling. Because I think |
1:40.8 | cinema particularly, it's a great, it's a great medium for exploring, subjectivity, exploring the way you can get lost in your own perception of the world and your place in the world. |
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