Daily Dialogue — October 15, 2017

“Welcome home, Mr. Cobb.”

— Inception (2010), written by Christopher Nolan

The Daily Dialogue theme this week: Homecoming, suggested by Gisela Wehrl.

Trivia: Christopher Nolan first pitched the film to Warner Bros. after the completion of his third feature, Insomnia (2002), and was met with approval from the studio. However, it was not yet written at the time, and Nolan determined that rather than writing it as an assignment, it would be more suitable to his working style, if he wrote it as a speculation script, and then presented it to the studio whenever it was completed. So he went off to write it, thinking it would take “a couple of months”, but it ultimately took nearly eight years.

Dialogue On Dialogue: One of the more memorable homecoming scenes in recent movie history. Notice how this is the very first time Cobb’s children reveal their faces. All their other scenes, they keep their back to Cobb. Lends credence to the theory this moment is real.