<![CDATA[CHRISTOPHER NOLAN says dream-invading sci-fi thriller Inception, which hits UK screens on July 16, is his ultimate homage to the James Bond films.<\/p>\n
The movie features a ski chase and other 007-style action sequences, and the director admitted: “This is absolutely my Bond movie.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been plundering from the Bond movies in everything I’ve done, forever. I grew up loving them and they’re just a huge influence on me.”<\/p>\n
Speaking in Empire magazine, he said: “When you look at being able to construct a scenario that’s only bound by your imagination, I think the world of Bond movies is a natural place for your mind to go.”<\/p>\n
He said Inception was most like George Lazenby’s 1969 Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, which was his favourite in the franchise.<\/p>\n
Nolan explained: “It’s a hell of a movie, it holds up very well. What I liked about is that we’ve tried to emulate in this film is there’s a tremendous balance in that movie of action and scale and romanticism and tragedy and emotion.<\/p>\n
“Of all the Bond films, it’s by far the most emotional. There’s a love story. And Inception is a kind of love story as well as anything else.”<\/p>\n
In Nolan’s new corporate espionage thriller, Leonard DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb, a spy whose work stealing ideas and information from people’s dreams has made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved.<\/p>\n
But then he is then offered a chance at redemption with a job where he won’t extract anything but will instead plant an idea.<\/p>\n