Inception had a good run. For two whole weeks, people talked about how mind-blowing it was. But then something hit the web so absolutely brain-ripping that it made Inception look like an old man pulling a quarter out of your ear. Dream thievery, eh? Perhaps that's wild if you haven't seen the guitar-machine-gun-filled, bullet-stopping, blood-spurting dance numbers of the 2007 Indian box-office smash Sivaji! Watch it below (but only if you want your cerebral cortex to melt): Directed by S. Shankar and scored by Slumdog Millionaire's A. R. Rahman, the Tamil film stars the incomparably mustachioed Rajnikanth as a software specialist who returns home from a job in the United States to start a charity and ends up fighting corruption — but, my oh my, that's so just the beginning. Do you like to believe what you see? Then go no further! But if you like to do spit takes and pinch yourself, then watch on, and then read our 25 reasons for why it's so much more inexplicable than Christopher Nolan's relatively conventional Inception.
1. Gold Shotguns
In Inception, all the guns are boring black or gunmetal. Yawn. How ironic that such a dull color scheme would put viewers to sleep — perchance to dream? — owing to insufficient mind-blowing.
2. Gold Bird Masks
There are neither sexy birds nor masks in Inception, let alone combined. Which is odd, because the two are the chocolate and peanut butter of mind-blowing moviemaking.
3. Motorcycling While Napping
Let us get this straight: Inception was an entire movie about sleeping and dreaming, and yet no one did so while driving a motorcycle? Was Christopher Nolan even trying?
4. One Hell of an Entrance
Now that is a dismount.
5. Lightsaber-Style Guitar-Gun
When we were young, we dreamed of owning a guitar gun that could be summoned with the Force. And yet not one person in Inception did?
6. Correction: Thirteen Light-Saber-Like Guitar-Guns
A baker's dozen of blown minds!
The post has to be read at the site - the accompanying photographs are nothing short of brilliant!
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/30_reasons_why_this_indian_dan.html#photo=6x55974
It is nothing short of serendipity that this post comes out just as Endhiran is getting ready for release ;-)
ReplyDeleteMotorcycling While Napping - Closest it came in inception is floating in sleep.
ReplyDeleteAntonia Banderas had a gun in a guitar but Guitar itself being a gun is something only a Superstar can do
:D :D
ReplyDeleteWow, why lap up a stupid anti-indian article like this? Because it's not a Hindi film? As if these morons can tell the difference
ReplyDeleteIt's painting all Indian film making with one brush and comparing with a Hollywood film recently released, I have no doubt in my mind this guy is an idiotic Joel Stein-esque racist.