9. The Movie Runs At 2 Hours 28 Minutes & "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" Runs At 2 Minutes 28 Seconds - Inception
Inception is a movie about what happens when you have to plant an idea in a dream layer of somebody's, uh, brain, but the layer is... there are more layers, like, three of them, and you have to go deeper, but be careful because.... there's,uh... Dreams. It's about dreams. When composer Hans Zimmer decided that he didn't want to create a wholly unique score for Christopher Nolan's epic sci-fi flick, he found himself inspired by Edif Piaf's "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien." There are traces of this song scattered all throughout Inception, both within Zimmer's score and more obviously, given that it's the piece of music which dream thief Dom Cobb uses to co-ordinate his incredibly complicated plan. In a way, the song is the centre piece of the movie - and in more ways than you probably realised. In fact, Inception's running time and the song's length are intertwined, too: Inception runs at 2 hours, 28 minutes, and the original recording of "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" runs at - you guessed it - 2 minutes, 28 seconds. Nolan, you clever clogs, you.