20 Things You Didn't Know About Inception
1. Their Names Spell Out "Dreams Pay"
Well, we've spent the penultimate three entries of this list on the characters' names, so why not conclude it with them as well?
The characters' names weren't just chosen based on relevant historical figures and foreign words, but they were carefully chosen to spell out an acronym.
If you take the first letters of six of the main characters' first names in this order - Dom, Robert, Eames, Arthur, Mal, and Saito - it spells out "Dreams." Add Peter, Ariadne, and Yusuf, and you get "Dreams Pay."
That's extremely clever. Well played, Nolan.