'No idea what the movie was about!'

Claims Leonardo DiCaprio about his latest outing in Warner Bros release Inception. Enough with the suspense already, we say!

Here's the thing. The pre-release promotional strategy for Christopher Nolan's Inception seems to be more or less on these lines: Reveal something yet reveal nothing in trailers. Confuse. Confound. Draw them in with secrets waiting to be unveiled and then make them wait longer.



And if your cast is doing interviews, ensure they talk off tangent and give quotes that they had no idea what they were up to, even while filming. Like Leonardo DiCaprio did, in a recent interview. About how he (and the other cast/crew) didn't always understand what was going on.

Says he, "The material and its complexity are what I'm attracted to...I've been lucky to work with people who want to tell stories that hit on different cylinders simultaneously. 'Shutter Island' is definitely that. 'Inception' is the same. It is Chris delving into dream psychoanalysis and, at the same time, making a high-octane, surreal film that came from his mind. He wrote the entire thing, and it all made sense to him. It didn't make sense to many of us when we were doing it. We had to do a lot of detective work (laughing) to figure out what the movie was about."

All that fuss over secrecy for a film that Nolan wrote based on a story he has had in his head since he was 16.
Interestingly, if you see the teaser poster, the only thing it tells you, is that it resembles the Joker character poster from The Dark Knight promotional material and that the character, at very least, has the same hair style and fashion sense as the film's director.

Releases July 16 worldwide

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Not too long ago, the LA Times carried a story about the film's plot revealing how Leo plays Dom Cobb, a heistman who attaches victims to a device that plunders their ideas and business secrets.
"I originally wrote it as a heist movie," Nolan told the paper, "and heist movies traditionally are very deliberately superficial in emotional terms. I originally tried to write it that way, but when I came back to it I realised thatu00a0-- to meu00a0-- that didn't work for a film that relies so heavily on the idea of the interior state, the idea of dream and memory. I realised I needed to raise the emotional stakes."

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