Re: After Earth (Gary Whitta & Will Smith) Trailer
If it is part of the c-plot, then it cannot be the premise, far from it.
The way Inception is structured and executed as a premise, I don't think you can refer to it as just "dreaming". They mention a specific type of dream, lucid dream, to try and explain why when in the dream world, the sub-conscious doesn't run wild. But that makes for a very boring experience when they are in the dream state, as everything plays out as in the normal world.
Inception tries to have it`s cake and eat it, for example, when Cobb is in the bar with Fischer, he literally tells him that he is in a dream, so for me, one of two things must happen. When you realise that you are in a dream you immediately wake up (As Ariadne did when they first met in Paris) or you if you are suddenly conscious of the fact that you are dreaming, you`ll remember it and weather you want it or not, your sub-conscious would take over(Again remember Ariadne, showing us the sheer power of the sub-conscious by folding Paris in half?). To have it play out that Fischer would/could control all this and play along with Cobb`s plan, was boring and way too plot convenient.
If it is part of the c-plot, then it cannot be the premise, far from it.
The way Inception is structured and executed as a premise, I don't think you can refer to it as just "dreaming". They mention a specific type of dream, lucid dream, to try and explain why when in the dream world, the sub-conscious doesn't run wild. But that makes for a very boring experience when they are in the dream state, as everything plays out as in the normal world.
Inception tries to have it`s cake and eat it, for example, when Cobb is in the bar with Fischer, he literally tells him that he is in a dream, so for me, one of two things must happen. When you realise that you are in a dream you immediately wake up (As Ariadne did when they first met in Paris) or you if you are suddenly conscious of the fact that you are dreaming, you`ll remember it and weather you want it or not, your sub-conscious would take over(Again remember Ariadne, showing us the sheer power of the sub-conscious by folding Paris in half?). To have it play out that Fischer would/could control all this and play along with Cobb`s plan, was boring and way too plot convenient.
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