> It's a bad sign when all of the "original" films in hollywood are just mediocre remakes

There are only seven stories, and the ancient Greeks already told them. Everything else is just a remake of something several thousand years old.

would you be so kind to as to point out where the inception idea in inception came from?

I don't think I recall it from earlier things, and I'd be happy to know about them.

Unless your meant "mise en abyme is a trope", which, well of course it is.

Donald Duck?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/08/10/inception.donald.duck...

Paprika

I seem to have been misunderstood: I mean the topic of planting an idea so that it grows by itself.

As far as I remember paprika only just deal with the entering someone's dreams, which is a way more broad, and thus common, topic.

But I have only seen the animation, maybe it was in the book, or I remember incorrectly?

Did you see the entire movie? The whole premise is that a Japanese businessman is implanting a virus like visual into everyone's heads..

the whole premise to me is that the man uses a dream that spreads like a virus _to make people go mad_ which is not quite the same as implanting a single idea.

It's the same difference as having a virus that changes behaviour (e.g. switch which hand people use best) and the black plague: while technically they may be the same thing I wouldn't equate them.

I guess this highlights how things are susceptible to interpretation, thanks for taking time to answer.