inception

[khana]

so, months after everyone else ever, i finally watched inception last night.
and i don't get it.
i mean, i get the plot, and the ending, and how it's probably all some kind of dream and how there are dozes of different interpretations.
i just don't get the big fandom thing.
just from the three or four lines of banter between arthur and eames and their otherwise pretty much nonexistent characterization (noone but coob was really characterized, for that matter), fandom got to a place where there's pretty much only that ship?
I'm confused.
does anyone have a rec or two to convince me otherwise?

Comments

[dooropener.livejournal.com]

those are the times that I'm glad that I can watch a movie without thinking about fandoms :)

[paeroka.livejournal.com]

Do you know Paprika (http://www.amazon.de/Paprika-2-DVDs-Susumu-Hirasawa/dp/B000S6EMV4/ref=cm_cr_dp_orig_subj)? Similar theme and I really enjoyed it.

I can't say anything about Inception as I haven't seen it. :)

[zeraphita.livejournal.com]

I did not get into even a bit of the fandom, but that might be because in 99%, I don't like the fandom versions because they are highly unrealistic.
I did enjoy Inception a lot though. I loved the ideas of the dreamworlds and the controlling of the dreamworlds and the impact a dream can have on the daily behaviour and personality of a person, which is what an inception eventually does in the end - changing the perception of a person through a dream.
I kind of stopped watching movies with slash intentions in mind. If there is possible slash, there is, but I don't need any construction of things that are not there and of which there are no real traces. Also, I did like the tiny story evolving around Arthur and Ariadne, I don't need any forced slashing of Arthur and Eames. I also loved Cobb and Mal and the concept of losing yourself in a dream so that you lose the connection to real life. In my opinion, there was a whole lot to love about the movie, but not in a slash-fandom-based way.

[polaris-86.livejournal.com]

I don't ship Arthur and Eames (or any other Inception - peirings, like Arthur/Ariadne) but I do understand who it is so appealing to ship characters which weren't characterized a lot. It means the writer has plenty of freedom. That's not a bad thing IMO. At least it never gets boring because you're too restricted...

[lian-li.livejournal.com]

1) characters have undefined prior history
2) characters are played by incredibly attractive people
3) character can easily be molded into popular archetypes

BOOM

pairing explosion. I don't think anyone really believes that the canonical "darling" was meant affectionally (it's condescending as hell), but pffft, canon, fandom has taken less and run with it :D

(if I was basing my shipping on canon, I'd go with Arthur/Ariadne. Since I'm basing it on what my id craves, Arthur/Eames alllll the way.)

[luthien82]

While I agree that the movie itself does not lend too much in the slash department, I more or less fell into the fandom due to good writers I knew from other fandoms and from whom I would read pretty much anything so... yeah. But if you want a fic rec, I can only come up with one which, for me, is my personal canon for Arthur and Eames. As someone already said, there is no prior history for the characters except what Nolan told the press (i.e. Arthur and Eames both having military backgrounds) and this fic is pretty much running with that, weaving in a lot of the movie which makes it better. Just... if you want to give it a shot, this is the fic to try:

The Music Makers by mami_san (more or less gen with a lot of action and violence and some Arthur/Eames slash near the end) - it is finished with about 50.000 words.

[starsystems.livejournal.com]

bah, Cobb/Arthur is the better ship. :3