Inception
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[shouting
to Cobb as he
walks away]Ariadne: That's some subconscious you've got on you, Cobb. She's a real charmer.
Arthur: Oh...I see you met Mrs. Cobb.
Arthur: So a totum, you need a small object, potentiall heavy, something you can have on you all the time that no one else knows.
Ariadne: Like...like a coin?
Arthur: No. It needs to be more unique than that. This is a loaded die.
[Ariadne tries to grab the dice]
Arthur: I can't let you touch it, that would defeat the purpose. See only I know the balance and the weight of this particular loaded die. That way when you look at your totum, you know beyond a doubt that you're not in someone elses dream.
[to Arthur]
Ariadne: I...I don't know if you can't see what's going on or if you just don't want to, but Cobb has some serious problems that he's trying to bury down there. And I'm not about to just open my mind to someone like that!
[she gets up and leaves]
Dom Cobb: She'll be back. I've never seen anyone pick it up that quickly before. Reality is not going to be enough for her now. When she comes back...when she comes back you're going to have her building mazes.
Dom Cobb: Inception, now before you bother telling me it's impossible...
Eames: No, it's prefectly possible. It's just bloody difficult.
Eames: Listen, if you're going to perform inception you need imagination.
Dom Cobb: Let me ask you something, have you done it before?
Eames: We tried it, we got the idea in place but it didn't take.
Dom Cobb: You didn't plant it deep enough?
Eames: Well, it's not about depth. You need the simplest version of the idea in order for it to grow naturally in the subject's mind. It's a very subtle art.
Dom Cobb: We need the heir of a major corporation to dissolve his fathers empire.
Eames: You see right there you have various political motivations and anti-monopolystic sympticals and so forth, but all of that stuff it's eh...it's really at the mercy of your subjects prejudices. What you have to do is start at the absolute basic.
Dom Cobb: Which is what?
Eames: The relationship with the father.
Ariadne: Cobb said you'd be back.
Arthur: I tried not to come, but...
Ariadne: But there's nothing quite like it.
Arthur: It's just pure creation.
[to Ariadne]
Arthur: In a dream you can cheat architecture into impossible shapes. That let's you create closed loops, like the Penrose steps. The infinite staircase. See...
[the staircase they've been climbing up suddenly shift up]
Arthur: ...Pradox. So a closed loop liked that will help you disguise the boundaries of the dream you create.
Ariadne: My subconscious seems polite enough.
Arthur: Well wait, it'll turn ugly. No one wants to feel someone else messing around in their mind.
Ariadne: Cobb can't build anymore can he?
Arthur: Well I don't know if he can't, but he won't. He thinks it's safer if he doesn't know the layouts.
Ariadne: Why?
Arthur: He won't tell me, but I think it's Mal.
Ariadne: His ex-wife?
Arthur: No, not his ex.
Ariadne: They're still together?
Arthur: No. She...she's dead. What you see in there is just his projection.
Ariadne: What was she like in real life?
Arthur: She was lovely.
Dom Cobb: We'd need you there to tailor a compound specific to our needs.
Yusuf: Which are?
Dom Cobb: Great depth.
Yusuf: A dream within a dream. Two levels.
Dom Cobb: Three.
Yusuf: Not possible. That many dreams within dreams is too unstable!
Dom Cobb: It is possibe, you just have to add a sedative.
Yusuf: No...a powerful sedative.
Saito: The only way to know you've done the job is if I go in there with you.
Eames: There's no room for tourists in a job like this, Mr. Saito.
Saito: This time it seems there is.
[seeing 12 people sleeping with powerful sedative, sharing their dreams]
Saito: Why do they do it?
Yusuf: Tell him, Mr. Cobb.
Dom Cobb: After a while it becomes the only way you can dream.
Yusuf: Do you still dream, Mr. Cobb?
[referring to the sleepers]
Eames: They come here everyday to sleep?
Elderly man: No. They come to be woken up. The dream has become their reality. Who are you to say otherwise.
Saito: We're the last company standing between them and total energy dominance. We can no longer compete. So they'll control the energy supply of the world. In effect, they become a new super power. The world needs Robert Fischer to change his mind.
Eame: The vultures are circling. The sicker Maurice Fischer becomes, the more powerful Peter Browning becomes. I've had ample opportunity to observe Browning. Adopt his physical presence, study his mannerisms and so on and so forth. Now in the first layer of the dream I can impersonate Browning and suggest concept to Fischer's conscious mind, then when we take him a level deeper his own projection of Browing should...should feed that right back to him.
Arthur: So he gives himself the idea.
Eames: Percisely. It's the only way it will stick. It has to seem self generated.
Arthur: Eames, I am impressed.
Eames: Your condescension, as always, is much appreciated, Arthur. Thank you.
[referring to the totum]
Ariadne: An elegant solution for keeping track of reality. Was it your idea?
Dom Cobb: No. It was uh.. it was Mal's actually. This...this one was hers, she'd spin it and in the dream it would never topple. Just uh...spin and spin.
Dom Cobb: Don't show me specifics. Only the dreamer should know the layout.
Ariadne: Why is that so important?
Dom Cobb: In case one of us brings in our projections. We don't want them knowing the details of the maze.
Ariadne: You mean in case you bring Mal in. You can't keep her out can you?
Dom Cobb: Right.
Ariadne: You can't build because if you know the maze then she knows it. She'd sabotage the whole operation. Cobb, do the others know?
Dom Cobb: No, they don't.
Ariadne: You godda warn them if this is getting worse.
Dom Cobb: No one said it's getting worse. I need to get home. That's all I care about right now.
Ariadne: Why can't you go home?
Dom Cobb: Because they think I killed her.
[Ariadne remains silent]
Dom Cobb: Thank you.
Ariadne: For what?
Dom Cobb: For not asking whether I did.
Dom Cobb: "I will split up my father's empire." Now this is obviously an idea that Robert himself will choose to reject. Which is why we need to plant it deep in his subconscious. Subconscious is motivated by emotion, right. Not reason. We need to find a way to translate this into an emotional concept.
Arthur: How do you translate a business stratedgy into an emotion?
Dom Cobb: That's what we're here to figure out right. Now Robert's relationship with his father is stressed to say the least.
Dom Cobb: We need Robert Fischer to have a positive emotional reaction to all this.
Eames: Okay, well try this....um..."My father accepts that I want to create for myself, not follow in his footsteps."
Dom Cobb: That might work.
Arthur: Might? We're going to need to do a little better than might.
Eames: Thank you for your contribution, Arthur.
Arthur: Forgive me for wanting a little specificity. Specificity?
Dom Cobb: Inception is not about being specific. When we get inside his mind we're going to have to work with what we find.
Eames: On the top level we open up his relationshp with his father. Say "I will not follow in my father's footsteps". Then the next level down feed him, "I will create something for myself." Then by the time we hit the bottom level we bring out the big guns.
Dom Cobb: "My father doesn't want me to be him."
Eames: Exactly.
Arthur: Three layers down, dreams are going to collapse at the slightest disturbance.
Yusuf: Sedation, for sleep, stable enough to create three layers of dreaming. I will have to combine with an extremely powerful sedative
Yusuf: Brain function in the dream will be about twenty times more. Now when you enter a dream within that dream, the effect is compounded. That's three dreams, that's ten hours...
Eames: I'm sorry, Maths was never my strong subject. How much time is that?
Dom Cobb: That's a week the first level down, six months the second level down, third level...
Ariadne: It's ten years! Who'd wanna be stuck in a dream for ten years?
Yusuf: [smiling] Depends on the dream.
Arthur: So once we've made the plant, how do we get out? I'm hoping you have something more elegant in mind that shooting me in the head.
Dom Cobb: A kick.
Ariadne: What's a Kick?
Eames: This, Ariadne, would be a kick.
[he kicks Arthurs chair causing Arthur which jolts him back down]
Dom Cobb: It's that feeling of falling you get that jolts you awake. It snaps you out of a dream.
Dom Cobb: The trick is to syncronise a kick that can penetrate all three levels.
Arthur: We could use the musical countdown to syncronise the different kicks.
Eames: We need at least a good ten hours.
Dom Cobb: Then he must be flying privately.
Saito: Not if there were unexpected maintainance on this day.
Arthur: It would have to be a seven forty seven.
Dom Cobb: Why's that?
Arthur: Because in a seven forty seven the pilot's up top, first class cabin is in the nose, so that no one would walk through. You'd have to buy out the entire cabin and the first class flight attendant.
Saito: I bought the airline. It seemed neat.
Dom Cobb: Looks like we have our ten hours.
[Ariadne invades Cobb's dream and sees Cobb with his wife in their home]
Mal: You know how to find me. You know what you have to do. You remember when you asked me to marry you?
Dom Cobb: Of course I do.
Mal: You said you had a dream.
Dom Cobb: That we'd grow old together.
Mal: And we can.
[after Cobb discovers Adriadne has invaded his dream]
Dom Cobb: This has nothing do with you.
Ariadne: This has everything to do with me. You've asked me to share dreams with you.
Dom Cobb: Not these. These are my dreams.
[in Cobb's dream they see Mal and their children at the seaside playing]
Ariadne: Why do you do this to yourself?
Dom Cobb: It's the only way I can still dream.
Ariadne: Why is it so important do dream?
Dom Cobb: In my dreams we're still together.
Ariadne: These aren't just dreams. These are memories and you said never to use memories.
Dom Cobb: I know I did.
Ariadne: You're trying to keep her alive. You can't let her go.
Dom Cobb: You don't understand, these are moments I regret. They're memories that I have to change.
[explaining his dream to Ariadne about regretting not calling out to his children to see their faces just before he decided to leave them]
Dom Cobb: And I start to panic and realize I'm gonna regret this moment, that I need to see their faces one last time. The moment's passed and whatever I do I can't change this moment. I'm about to call out to them, they run away. If I'm ever gonna see their faces again I've gotta get back home in the real world.
[Ariadne finds part of Cobb's dream that he doesn't want her to see and finds Mal]
Ariadne: I'm trying to understand.
Mal: How could you understand. Do you know what it is to be a lover? To be half your whole?
Ariadne: No.
Mal: I'll tell you a riddle. You're waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you don't know for sure. That it doesn't matter. How can it not matter to you where the train will take you?
[Mal grabs a broken glass]
Dom Cobb: Cause we'll be together.
[to Cobb, after waking up from sharing Cobb's dream]
Ariadne: Do you think you can just build a prison of memories to lock her in? Do you really think that that's going to contain her?
Dom Cobb: If I get on this plane and you don't honor our agreement, when we land I go to jail for the rest of my life.
Saito: Complete the job on route, I make one phone call from the plane, you have no trouble going through imigration.
[aftering entering the first layer of the dream where it's raining heavily]
Arthur: You couldn't have peed before you went under?
Yusuf: I'm sorry.
Eames: A bit too much free champagne before take off, hey Yusuf?
Yusuf: [sarcastically] Ha...ha...bloody...ha!
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