For a director who seems so forward-thinking in many ways, Christopher Nolan is decidedly old school. Trying his best to avoid CGI whenever possible, the impossible feats in many of his films have instead been created with insane practical effects. The spinning hallway fight used an actual rotating set, the dream where Paris explodes around Leonardo di Caprio and Ellen Page on a street corner used actual explosives, and the scene where the first dream is flooded with 50,000 tonnes of water? They filmed that for real.
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