Inception sure is added to my top five must watched movies. The concept about dreams is intriguing and is executed very well by the director, Christopher Nolan. It's perfectly cast (well, except DiCaprio, which I never like, and which I thought played the role too similar with the one on Shutter Island). The antigravity scene is impressive. I'm admiring the whole movie I've watched it twice, but what I'm trying to write here is more about my admiration to the whole set. Kudos to Guy Hendrix Dyas, which also the production designer of Agora, Indiana Jones, and X-Men. I was impressed from the very first scene set in a Japanese room in red ambience with a lot of lanterns hung at the ceiling. The size of the room fits perfectly with the angle of the camera. Next I was impressed with the props at their "basecamp" where Ariadne has her first "workshop". And I was impressed reading about how they construct the long lobby that can be rotated 360degree to create the antigravity effect. The list could go on, but my point is..
Watching the "behind the scene" has always been my favorite part from a movie. I always have this curiosity and of how things are produced until we came to see what we see. I watched how they make a small scale model to construct a big set of houses inside a studio to make it look like Greece for the movie Mamma Mia. But it was not until I watch the movie Dear John, where it has this special feature on the dvd about the role of a Production Designer. Production designer is a term used in the film industry and television to refer to the person responsible for the overall look of a filmed event such as films, TV programs, music videos or adverts. Production designers have one of the key creative roles in the creation of motion pictures and television. Working directly with the director and producer, they must select the settings and style to visually tell the story. In Dear John, it is an interesting process how they must face the challenge of creating the scene of Mogadishu, Eastern Europe, and Afghanistan, all in South Carolina.
I am so willing to experience being a small part of an "art department" in a movie production without being paid at all. But local movie industry doesn't attract me that much, although it has shown some significant progress within the last couple of years. What I do for a living right now is too lame. I'm not even doing any architectural thing, and on the other side, I'm not sure if I want to be an real architect. The local beurocracy and politics in construction world which is full of corruption and dirty money disgusts me, I don't even want to think about it. And I think this movie art department thing sounds fun, although I know every field has their own negative drama.
