The actor: Marion Cotillard The character: Mal The film: Inception The line: “You’re waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away.“ What Cobb and Mal have in Inception is never going to be confused with the great romances in movie history, but there is a deep allure in it that’s stuck… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #63
You can find the full list of the top 100 blockbusters since 1972 here, as well as an index for other posts in this series. As anyone who has ever pored over Tolkien minutiae will know—heck, as anyone who has ever stared at a Lord of the Rings Risk map will know—Frodo and Sam get reasonably… Read More Top 100 Blockbusters of the Multiplex Era: Fragments and Hyperlinks
Dir. Christopher Nolan. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page As the van which is holding the inception team and their mark tumbles, so too does the gravity change in a hallway where Arthur (Gordon-Levitt) is fighting a manifestation of Robert Fischer’s (Cillian Murphy) subconscious. The two of them come closer to falling up than anyone… Read More Inception (2010)
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