They are comparing him to greats like Nolan Ryan and Roger Clemens.

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"I read books like Freud's book on the analysis of dreams but I realized this is Chris Nolan's dream world.

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Nolan leads characters and the audience deeper and deeper into the subconscious, combining an elaborate heist with science fiction and psychological drama.

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The technique is called inception. Explains film maker Christopher Nolan ""Inception" is the notion that an idea is indeed a resilient parasite.

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By combining larger-than-life sets and a mind-bending plot, Nolan creates an intelligent, highly entertaining and dramatic film.

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(OMITTED) To make the film's dream world concrete, Nolan uses grand sets in six different countries.

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Writer-director Christopher Nolan launched his career with Memento and Insomnia, mysteries that delve into how reality can be in the mind of the beholder.

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and Nolan says Inception goes on an even deeper inner journey: "I've been fascinated by dreams my whole life, since I was a kid.

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Writer-director Nolan says the worldwide success of his Batman adventures, especially the 2008 blockbuster The Dark Knight, gave him in the unique chance to make an unconventional studio film.

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It's something I've found fascinating." Leonardo DiCaprio stars as mind thief Cobb and says Nolan's audacious mix of action and science demands the full attention of both actors and audience.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16