I’m sure you can find tens if not hundreds of video essays on YouTube dedicated to various sequences from Christopher Nolan‘s films, but today brings a new one courtesy of CineFix that explores the mind-boggling, physics-defying hallway fight scene in Nolan’s Inception.
“Few movies have ever been so pleasantly perplexing as 2010’s Inception,” the essay begins, and how true that is. The film simultaneously puzzled and wowed audiences the world over on its way to earning $825.5 million at the worldwide box office and picking four wins (and four other nominations) at the Oscars that year.
Aside from its ending, perhaps the most-discussed scene in the film is its hallway fight scene, which features Joseph Gordon-Levitt running and crawling across walls to square off against a formidable foe. It is an impressive sequence and often considered the film’s “coolest” by fans of the movie, and was also among the most difficult for Nolan and his crew to put together.
The essay below explores some of the backstory of Inception and takes a look at all the craft involved in putting together the hallway fight sequence, namely how Nolan’s anti-digital stance made matters increasingly more difficult from the construction of the set itself to the sequence’s exhausting three-week long shoot. Check it out below.
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