So, I may be late to the party...
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sho_no_tabi's Inception fic is glorious. Thanks, Inceptionwips! You introduce me to the nicest people.
While I'm as partial to cheerful banter and romance (give me His Girl Friday any day of the week, my friends) as the next girl, the thing I fell in love with about Inception ALMOST as much as the pretty men is the action and the heist. The sense that most of these characters were brilliant, calculating, daring criminals. Even Saito, despite not being part of the official team, is undoubtedly badass. (It helps that he's played by Ken Watanabe.) Heck, even Fischer gets to be badass.
Yes, I admit I would not kick any of these men out of bed (except Leo, really, but even him I wouldn't actually kick out of bed). But I also want to BE all of them. And that's because they're so smart. I drool over smart.
Andsho_no_tabi's fic gives me JUST WHAT I WANT for that. Arthur being impeccable but human. Eames being the smartest damn man in the room. (I also cannot say how much I appreciate that Cobb is not a maudlin ass in these stories.)
They have PLOT. They have beautiful, subtle character shifts, synced in with what I gleaned from canon.
And most of all they have both compelling, brutal action (that scene when Arthur's leaps across that fucking 15-foot gap stories above ground in Life During Wartime is just what I needed but didn't know I wanted.) Action that is charged with emotion, but not wallowing in it. Action is not easy to write clearly, either, and this is done efficiently and engagingly. It brings me right back to what hooked me about the film when I saw it the first time with no expectations.
These stories are not romances, not in the traditional way. There is very little in the way of smut (what's there is potent and effective, but not the point.) So look elsewhere if you want straight up porn.
Go forth and read!
As an aside, there are many bonus nods to the excellent Brick. And it just makes me want a fedora that much more than I already do.
sho_no_tabi's Inception fic is glorious. Thanks, Inceptionwips! You introduce me to the nicest people.While I'm as partial to cheerful banter and romance (give me His Girl Friday any day of the week, my friends) as the next girl, the thing I fell in love with about Inception ALMOST as much as the pretty men is the action and the heist. The sense that most of these characters were brilliant, calculating, daring criminals. Even Saito, despite not being part of the official team, is undoubtedly badass. (It helps that he's played by Ken Watanabe.) Heck, even Fischer gets to be badass.
Yes, I admit I would not kick any of these men out of bed (except Leo, really, but even him I wouldn't actually kick out of bed). But I also want to BE all of them. And that's because they're so smart. I drool over smart.
And
sho_no_tabi's fic gives me JUST WHAT I WANT for that. Arthur being impeccable but human. Eames being the smartest damn man in the room. (I also cannot say how much I appreciate that Cobb is not a maudlin ass in these stories.)They have PLOT. They have beautiful, subtle character shifts, synced in with what I gleaned from canon.
And most of all they have both compelling, brutal action (that scene when Arthur's leaps across that fucking 15-foot gap stories above ground in Life During Wartime is just what I needed but didn't know I wanted.) Action that is charged with emotion, but not wallowing in it. Action is not easy to write clearly, either, and this is done efficiently and engagingly. It brings me right back to what hooked me about the film when I saw it the first time with no expectations.
These stories are not romances, not in the traditional way. There is very little in the way of smut (what's there is potent and effective, but not the point.) So look elsewhere if you want straight up porn.
Go forth and read!
As an aside, there are many bonus nods to the excellent Brick. And it just makes me want a fedora that much more than I already do.
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Date: 2011-01-03 01:40 am (UTC)I agree about JGL being happy -- the dimples! They should always be present. And I just love seeing that he is a creative, ambitious, (and yes, again) smart guy. And that he can dress himself so very well! This movie has made me wish I had business cards I could give out to well-dressed men that just say, "Congratulations! You're wearing a suit that fits!" Why don't more men take the hint? I mean really.
Also, I meant to say before, on your comment about everyone should wear hats -- yes! I agree! My cousin has an antique car, a 1940s cadillac, and it had extra head room entirely for hats. Why am I not in that world?
I can't find the link right now (I've been looking) but I understood that Nolan stated somewhere that both Arthur and Eames had military background. Especially in that dream-sharing started as a military project, and Eames talks about "we" trying inception previously -- I always presumed that was his team in the military.
I did find a long interview with Tom Hardy that seems to say that Eames was definitely old school MI-5, at least, which makes perfect sense given his accent and manner. (If you haven't seen the current series MI-5, btw, I highly recommend it.)
I know what you mean about different bodies and impressions in dreams. I think we've all had dreams where we're convinced we're something else (gender, what have you). I wonder if it's because it's not a natural dream but a constructed space? That it's harder to make it convincing?
Sadly, I think there are no outtakes on this film -- Nolan doesn't seem to go in for those types of extras. And I can kind of see why -- he wants his film to stand alone, I think. But...I would KILL for some outtakes and just hanging around the set type videos. And, as you say, how that line came about.
T-Hard is indeed very beautiful from the get go, and in a more classical way. JGL is someone who I find quite beautiful because he has finely wrought features, a great mouth, and grace. Grace is something that cannot be underestimated! He's kind of a stealth beauty -- someone who, as you say, you'd think, "Cutie!" and then later, upon contemplation, think, "Damn, he has some fine bone structure there. And that mouth. And...hands..." Drool!
And of course there are so many things that make people attractive that have nothing to do with the standards of acceptable physical beauty. Voices (Tom Hardy's is quite delicious, but Alan Rickman still has him beat), laughs, smiles, accents, presence. And of course, personality usually trumps them all. One can aesthetically judge people all you want (and I do) but I fall for people totally outside my ostensible "type."