Word & Image

(photo courtesy of http://ravereader.wordpress.com/category/movies/100-modern-classic-films/page/2/)

(photo courtesy of http://www.filmofilia.com/2009/12/22/inception-poster-2/)

Tonight I watched one of most talked about films of the year, Inception. I remember the first time I saw the trailer for this film, the title image of the film helped me remember the film the most. Even though I saw the trailer for this film two or three months before it came out, I never forgot that I wanted to watch this movie because I remembered that the title was incorporated in mazes and cities.

Above shows two versions of the film title image. Both settings give a clue about what the film is about but is still specific enough that they represent that film uniquely. There is no other film that could use a maze to represent the film's story like the way that Inception does.

When comparing the two different title images for the movie, I think both of them show an equal amount of power and concept to represent the movie. The first one shows a maze formed around the title. Relating to the plot of the movie, it could literally be describing the hard, confusing, maze-like journey that the characters had to go through to reach the goal of inception. The second image shows the word "inception" shaped as skyscrapers coming out of the ground. The concept I thought about when referring to the movie is that the main character has a road block, the job if inception, that blocks a straight path to his family and what he wants.

These two ideas about the movie formed when thinking about how the word "inception" and the image that is formed around or into the text.