Articles about Inception

The winter mountain battle scenes in the snow were all filmed in the Canadian Rockies, at the Fortress Mountain ski resort.

Cafe Debussy, the Paris sidewalk cafe where Ellen Page first realizes she's in a dream world is actually in Paris. It's a deli called Da Stuzzi

The place in Inception with the endless stairway:

At the end of the film, Leo makes it to his home and is reunited with his children. Here's the actual house

A long scene plays out on a drawbridge, where a white fan falls from the bridge in slow motion as part of a "free-fall kick" strategy designed to shock the dreamers awake.

Leo walks with his wife through a deep dreamworld they have created together. In reality they are at the Ahmanson Theatre. One thing that's cool is that the tall tower that is across the street is the Department of Water & Power building (at 111 N. Hope Street) but they've messed with it and used CGI to make it go from 15 stories high to hundreds.

Leo's wife is about to jump to her death from a window, because she believes that she is still in a dream, and that the only way to wake up is to "die."

In the dream sequence, the team goes into a brick warehouse. Leo jumps out and slides open the warehouse door, and the cars drive inside. The warehouse serves as one of their strategic planning locations.

In the kidnap dream sequence, a gunfight then breaks out on the street, as the kidnap victim's subconscious begins to fight back, creating an squad of armed defenders.

In a dream sequence, Leo and Ellen Page emerge from an elevator to find themselves on a rocky beach, where Leo sees his children playing in the sand. It's not the same as the beach at the beginning, but instead a beach on Malibu.