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The Japanese Castle was the second dream level in the heist on Saito's mind. It was dreamt by Arthur. Cobb and Arthur speak to Saito in the Palace, offering their services to help him learn to protect his mind from theft. However, Saito sees the truth, that Cobb and Arthur are actually planning...
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Cobb's kids in his dream at a beach in Japan. Shot at Palos Verdes Peninsula Beach in Los Angeles...
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This place called Cafe Debussy, where Cobb is introducing the concept to Ariadne is actually an Italian corner deli near le Pont in Paris that the filmmakers converted to a sidewalk cafe. It's called Da Stuzzi, 6 Rue César Franck, 75015 Paris. This conversation is actually part of Ariadne'...
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On the road next to the Italian deli, is the street in Paris where Ariadne's dream continues. She is manipulating her dreamstate for the first time under Cobb's guidance. The entire road and the buildings and traffic on it move up ahead of her and folds itself over their heads. Its a breat...
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Ariadne's dream continues onto Pont de Bir-Hakeim bridge in Paris. This where Cobbs fights off perpetrators of the dream....
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The walkway part of the iconic bridge Pont de Bir-Hakeim was prominent in the mirror scenes when Ariadne manipulates giant mirrors along the walkway....
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Tangier’s historic Grand Souk (marketplace) was an ideal venue for the chase scene pitting Cobb against dreamt-up pursuers. This was supposed to be Mombassa in Kenya....
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Arthur demonstrating the 'Penrose Stairs' phenomena to Ariadne at the steel and glass staircases and building of the TAG Farnborough Terminal in the outskirts of London. The Penrose stairs is also dubbed the 'Impossible Staircase'. it is a two-dimensional depiction of a staircase...
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In the first level of the dream, the team is travelling in Yusuf's van but is attacked and the van slowly hits the water from the Hiem/Henry brige in Long Beach, California. ...
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A fight scene in which gravity and the laws of physics have no boundaries. The former RAF Cardington airfield in Bedfordshire features some of the world’s largest aviation hangars. They were originally built to house “airships” – blimps, zeppelins and barrage balloons – used in World War I...
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Cobb and Ariadne walk into “Limbo City” – a computer-generated construct of crumbling cliffs and buildings. Shot at Malibu beach in California. Limbo City was something glacial, with clear modernist architecture, but with chunks of it breaking off into the sea like icebergs. The designers mad...
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Alberta’s provincial government closed the Fortress Mountain Ski Resort in 2008 over unpaid taxes and other bills. By 2009, it had degenerated into just exactly the kind of seedy, forelorn, eerie aerie that Christopher Nolan loves to film at. Set builders enhanced the area’s cement-gray building...
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