10 Movies With Ridiculously Subtle Foreshadowing That Nobody Noticed
2. Fischer Gives Saito The Idea For His Limbo - Inception
Similar to Total Recall, Inception spends a lot of time building up the big question of whether the whole thing or only part of it is an elaborate dream. Unlike the gore-splattered actioner, Christopher Nolan's more cerebral film did this in a last minute twist rather than an overarching theme, requiring rewatches that also help you pick up on bizarrely convoluted references.
When the van in the first dream level hits the barrier, the second level is sent into zero gravity while the third suffers a horrific avalanche. Gasping from a mixture of a the near death experience on the complexity of the plot, mark Fischer muses to Saito, "couldn't somebody have dreamt up a goddam beach?" Easy to chalk up to Fischer wanting to be out of the snowy maze, nothing, even this realistic aside, are coincidental in this film.
When Saito falls into Limbo what does he dream up but a beach. This is an interesting example, as while its foreshadowing, it's an entirely contained event; Fischer's comment probably influenced the increasingly unstable Saito in creating his Limbo base on a beach. And just when you thought you'd got the film's many threads down, right?