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4. The Music Is All Made From Two Notes - Inception

To be honest, I could talk about any intricate element of Christopher Nolan's mental sci-fi and blow you away, but few come bigger than this. Non Je Ne Regrette Rien worked brilliantly as a recurring audio motif for the characters throughout the film. And, unexpectedly, for the audience too; Hans Zimmer's score was created entirely from two of the songs notes.

That iconic brrrrmm? That's one note slowed down; notice how its appearances come when the music is playing in a higher dream level? Nolan had already gone to great lengths to make the outlandish dreams seem as real as possible, which this merging of diegetic and non-diegetic sound only furthered.

There's another cool timing trick with the song, although this is more up in the air as to how intended it was; Inception runs at 2 hours 28 minutes, which is exactly sixty times more than Non Je Ne Regrette Rien. And you thought Marion Cotillard playing Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose was the coolest thing about that song's inclusion.