Curiosidad: Entrevista a Christopher Nolan en la que cuenta cómo surgió la idea de hacer Origen durante su estancia en la universidad y cómo comenzó a experimentar con el control de sus sueños.
Jonathan Nolan: Let's talk about the script. You've been working on this one for a while.
Chris Nolan: Ten years, I think.
JN: Is it ten? I was trying to remember the first time you talked to me about the idea because there were several different versions of corporate espionage scripts that you were playing around with.
CN: I was. Then I took the idea of corporate espionage and applied it to thing I'd been working on even longer, which was dreams.
I remember the initial genesis quite clearly. My interest in dreams come from this notion of realizing that when you dream you create the world that you are perceiving, and I thought that feedback loop was pretty amazing. I remember when I was in college you had free breakfast that finished at nine o'clock...
JN: [laughs] That would be an important part of your life.
CN: It was very important. So you had to wake up to get the free breakfast and then you would go back to bed because you hadn't gone to sleep until four in the morning. But I would make sure I got it and then I would go back to sleep for another two or there hours. And in that slightly weird, discombobulated sleep I discovered that you can have active dreams, and that when you realize you are dreaming, you could control the dream.
I thought that was really amazing. I remember having a dream and saying to myself, "Okay, there's a bunch of books on the shelf. If I pull a book off the shelf and look at it, can I read the words in the book?"
And I could, because your brain is making up the words in the book. Or you could be walking on a beach in your dram and pick up a handful of sand and you'd be looking at all the grains and thinking, "Well, my brain is putting all the millions of grains in this handful of sand."
What this immediately suggests--forgetting the alleged firewall between creation and perception in your brain--is the infinite potential of the human mind. To me, that is what is exciting. Because we talk about this all the time, using the analogy of the computer for the human brain. I am always interested by things that seem to defy that analogy. And I think dreaming...
JN: ...dreaming is a pretty good one.
CN: Yeah, because being able to create a whole world and to have a conversation with someone in a dream-you feel like you're having a conversation, but you're putting all the words into the other person's mouth.
JN: You're playing chess against yourself without realizing you're your own opponent.
CN: Yeah, which you can't do in walking life. There's no form of shadow boxing like that, while you're awake.
El resto en este PDF. Contiene spoilers de la película, obviamente.