Inception Music Comparison

[technovideostudios]

MY HEAD

OH GOD MY HEA- *guts flying around*

[SlickStitch]

Hans Zimmer Ftw!!

[bonaparte60]

Cracked.com

[emin777]

Damn, that perfectly makes sense. The music in reality would sound much slower in dreams. Well spotted !

[HalfTimesTwo]

@emin777 Is that true? Does music really sound slower in dreams?

[emin777]

@HalfTimesTwo Yes. Taking the fact that, things happen much slower in dreams than in reality (1 min in reality equals 6 minute or so in dreams). Therefore, if you listened to a 10 sec portion of music in reality it would equal to 1 min in a dream, more like stretched or slowed down version of original. I hope I could explain it 

[HalfTimesTwo]

@emin777 Yeah I definitely get it. :) I'll fall asleep for what feels like 10 minutes and I'll wake up an hour later. Makes sense!

[WightBoy16]

@HalfTimesTwo Yeah, except we're talking about dreams. When you fall asleep and don't have any dream, it feels incredibly fast because you're basically blacked out. If you have a dream, you have the illusion of complete consciousness and so it feels like real time. That's the notion they're playing with. Apparently you dream in the 10min or so before you wake up. I don't know if music actually slows down in your sleep. This is how they're representing it though, which is clever.

[SNM432]

@FakeSmileClown WHAT ABOUT YUSUF?! HE'S A PART OF THIS TEAM TOO! T_T

[TheAwesomeGuyTV]

So scary

[jayjay5396]

i dont "see" anything do you???

[aquariussouldier]

Wow well spotted mate!!!

[FakeSmileClown]

MIND FUCK! HOLY SHIT THANKS!

In return I'll give you another mind fuck:

D om

R obert

E ames

A riadne

M al

S aito

[dasuperJ]

@FakeSmileClown what about arthur...

[tommy35ss]

Cool

[vivustemporis]

i would say it is a genius clue of hans zimmer^^

[TheJanTabac]

No, I don't see what they did there, I do see that you're a paranoid tin foil hat wearer.

[XSilvenX]

@TheJanTabac Hanz actually did this intentionally you idiot. Maybe next time do some quick research before you make yourself look like a complete moron again.

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[XSilvenX]

@TheJanTabac From the article:

"Hans Zimmer, the film's composer, said that in order to achieve this, they actually went to France and extracted two notes from the original master of the song. Apparently those two notes went a long way, because he also said that "all the music in the score is subdivisions and multiplications of the tempo of the Edith Piaf track." So basically, old song + math = Oscar nomination."

DERP!

[podbuster0]

that's pretty damn cool.

[bgkmad]

It makes perfect sense. The Edith Piaf song is a way for the characters to know they're about to wake up but since time passes more slowly inside dreams, what seems like two minutes and 23 seconds in reality can last a lot longer for them. While the song is playing at normal speed in the waking world, the characters should hear it all slowed down.

[lilstalion10]

WHAT A GENIUS

[beatboy0121]

one day i'll understand inception ! but it will be a dream ...

[S1176115]

BRRAAAIIINNNSSSS...

[TheTimelord33]

I never realised. I always knew they sounded similar but it was great to hear them side by side!

[BlackBongo2000]

mindfucked

[theinternetoutlaw]

look at the length of the video ZO,BIES

[Dryued]

You've creeped me out.

[popcornpopper2]

This song is actually 2 minutes and 28 seconds long and inception is 2 hours and 28 minutes long. Exactly,

[iiAFX]

@popcornpopper2

my movie is 2 hours, 28 minutes, and 7 seconds, so not exactly

[nfsmohpsp]

hans zimmer and his awesome ways,

[JoKeRmAn23xxx1]

Very nice

[singletona082]

...I just shat a house.

[juezy1234]

are you saying hanz zimmer is a fraud...? if so ur a fag.

[jason0813]

@juezy1234 dude. you are one dumb guy. 

[alanmagicpiano]

@juezy1234 that is just stupid. He isn't saying that at all. He is illustrating composing genius

[SkemeKOS]

@juezy1234

WFT?????????

[okdesuka44]

God damn.. my mind!

[BABAMUMBU]

this reminds me of the 9 Beet Stretch which is Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th symphony stretched to 24 hours. I heard a radio show talking how some near death experiences slow down time. and that 1 second can last for ages. Also some drugs like weed slows things down.

[BABAMUMBU]

this reminds me of the 9 Beet Stretch which is Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th symphony stretched to 24 hours. I heard a radio show talking how some near death experiences slow down time. and that 1 second can last for ages. Also if you notice weed also kinda slows things down, just listen to reggea it's so slow because their minds need to catch up.

[MisterNatMan]

cracked

[Lucarra157]

this show that in the dreams we are slow, the music be slow and we heard the soundtrack

[Dubrichius]

I think my mind just had an orgasm from being blown so hard

[rompesucasa]

Someone call the police I just got mind-raped. 

[Rofleupagus]

Wow nice.

[LouieBayne]

Well i'll be.

[TriggerMisaGamerGirl]

awesome!

[Spitfirefilmz]

bur. bur. bur. bur. Bur. Bur. Bur! Bur! BUR! BUR! BUUUUURR!!!!!

[PinionGears1]

Hans Zimmer said it himself. They took out those horns and slowed them down. To give the impression of being in a dream, that's how the song would sound to you.

[TheDestroyer2311]

Nice dude!

[MinisterKGB]

its a song within a song within a dream

[BuckFitchesThe]

There are hardly any REAL songs that aren't heavily influenced or directly ripped from another work, which is perfectly fine. Good find, though.

[EsseSterence]

Very cool! Makes me want to watch the movie again...

[kizbo]

i see what they did there

[KoTMedia]

@kizbo 9gag?

[Delta45555]

I thought it supposed to be kind of obvious, they played the tape in real time to wake them up and you could hear the original song, then they'd show them in the dream and it'd be the slowed down version, or when they were traveling up the levels if you listen closely you can even hear it slowed down even more for the deeper stages. its a pretty awesome concept, all those minor details make the movie even more brilliant.

[RisenFromDust]

It's a song within a song.

[YwkyWy37]

@RisenFromDust That is EXACTLY what I was thinking when i saw this video!

[moonjinx]

Hans Zimmer is a friggin genius.

[8catsinmypants]

dat shit kray



[paulrozy]

@8catsinmypants forserious kraykray

[amirshik]

yeah, that was obvious but I also find main theme kinda similar sounding to Prokofiev's Battle Of The Knights. don't you think?

[Hugga1bear]

...I thought this was a given?? Seriously, people didn't realise?

[Ayame300]

Mind=BLOWN

[SgtJ0RawrMeow]

That blew my mind!!

[zachleda]

Yo Dawg, I heard you like music...

[Superspeed04]

I've seen this before but Song within a song = Songception

[GreenDay3213]

This just made my dream collapse because it was that much of a mindfuck

[konorokingdom]

I don't get what the big surprise is. You even hear the lyrics in the song when they have the headphones on and they're meant to wake up...?

[yodudeswhatsupful]

OH SHIT! WOW

matches up wit da frekin movie

lies upon discover

its like a frekin mystery still unsolved!

lol

[Melodymiracle37]

Can't we just all get along?

[TheWentzMachine]

Too bad Hans Zimmer didn't notice this! He totally could've used this as a plot device!

[Squishy876]

This is the only part of the movie I found mindblowing

[TheTakenforafool]

no shit its the same song slowed down, its even in the movie happening, the song is slower because they're dreaming and theyre listening to it in realality

[MADxGENIUS]

MusicCEPTION??

[muzic1luver]

@emhfeng Agreed O_O

[jillyzanzibar]

Maybe he did that on purpose? I mean is there a sub message in there? Is it trying to show u something? Hans Zimmerman is one of the best music conducters and players I've ever heard and he is a genius !!! But does any one else agree with me here?

[YouTubeToen]

@jillyzanzibar In fact he is telling you that you are watching an actul inception all the movie that is originally being done be the Japanese guy to Cobb, and you are hearing the higher-level sincronisation music ;)

[lukasos1000]

I see what you did there...

[esobardnahcnarak]

This trick that Hans Zimmer used is actually already revealed at the end of the movie during the last of the credits.

Edith Piaf's song plays and slows down to the way it started at the beginning of the movie.

Check the Blu-ray, you'll find that i'm right.

[LesnyDZ14D]

No, its not smart, it shows how bored he was to dont even try to invent anything but he does the most obvious thing that comes to every 5 years old child's head on the first place.

You did not hear it before cause you are to busy turning you brain in to the porridge with your iShit gadgets.

Ps: I am not going to argue with anyone so you can piss off straight away ;)

[SR21990]

@LesnyDZ14D Please go die.

[Laura7AndSavanna4]

:) That's genius!

[JammyJoh]

Droolssss... So cool

[TheCombineAssassin]

FUCKIN SMART

[craigdamico1]

Hans Zimmer is a Genius.

[TheAwakenedHeretic]

WHOA! WHOA!

[phoenixmm216]

woh, man. woh.

[Hamgammy]

And Marion Cotillard played Edith Piaf also in La Vie en Rose.....an actress playing a singer in a movie who's song is used in another movie with the same actress..........

[VancePuppet]

What. The Fuck.

[Clarkd87]

It's totally AWESOME!! But, does anyone else think that the song slowed down sounds kind of creepy....?

[8maxthemax8]

non, rien de rien, je ne regrette rien.

[jkvjkvjkv]

Voila!!

[SammEater]

That's...AWESOME, just like that Gamecube music slowed down, is kinda creepy but when you speed up the music 16x times it turns out into the Famicon Disk theme. :P

Also, this is pretty nice, I mean it totally fits with the "eternal dreams in a few minutes" theme. :D

[shivercanada]

Nice catch dude!!!

I wonder if that was subconscious on his part or conscious...or just a coincidence.

The chords are completely different though but rhythm is spot on.

[shivercanada]

@shivercanada oops guess it was concious... amazing

[asdfbim]

@shivercanada they play the song in the movie it is totally a conscious move, and they didn't try to hide it or anything, i believe the song even comes on at the credits... it's a play on the "fact" that the time moves slower when you are dreaming, they play this song to signal the kick, that's why they are wearing the head phones, and when they are in the dream they hear the song in slow motion.

[kheddoujs]

a sentirlo

[KenOfReach]

Well observed on your part and extremely well played on Hans Zimmer's. Totally did not see that and yet it makes so much sense.

[AshleyPirawinkle]

thank you so much took me awhile to find out that songs name "non je ne regretterien"

[amazingdany]

If you put the volume at MAX, you can hear a Wilhelm's scream at the very end!

[AddictiveRhythm]

Hans Zimmer himself said they had to fly to Paris to get the original recordings of the Edith Piaf song. It´s no secret. Also, many songs in the score are variations of this song or contain samples. That´s what´s makes it a masterpiece - apart from the brilliant arrangement: the whole soundtrack is built around one song - and noone realizes it.

[valoroll1]

@AddictiveRhythm That is brilliant

[kimpag647]

@AddictiveRhythm even the song called "Time" ?

[AddictiveRhythm]

@kimpag647 I´m not so sure about the details...maybe some sample parts...it´s also a 3/4...

[iiauvvke]

epic

[movadoband]

you have a lot of free time

[LProds]

cool

[lightnessss]

brilliant demonstration

[AetherKael]

Striking observation mate. Respect

[shamantics]

Ho .Li. Fuk. In. Shit.

[FixedNewsChannel]

@shamantics - stop copying redditors, boy.

[TeingKX]

Yes, Hans Zimmer is using Piaf's song as foundation, you can hear it right before the credits end.

[theone1991]

It's also sounds like a train. :)

[TheSilentHavoc]

It also works because, as they point out in the movie, time slows down the deeper they go.

[JeePsSsS]

@TheSilentHavoc Time doesn't slow down, in the contrary it speeds up: 1 sec in the real world = much more in the first lvl of dream so times goes faster in the first level :-o)

[EideJulie]

@JeePsSsS I think what (s)he means is the time (being the "real life" time in our world) slows down when they leave the real world. Therefore the soundtrack is slower the deeper they go. You are correct too: technically it is the other way around since dreaming doesn't slow down our real world and a dream takes place in the period of a few seconds. But still we experience the dream as OUR real time, and that is why the soundtrack here fits.

What I'm trying to say is: You are both correct.

[MannySteinerBIeeky]

I regret nothing!

[drummerboyymlim]

listening to this makes me scared cause it just sounds so creepy with the slowed down music and all :(

[MrFunxy]

dude, the movie was enough of a mind fk, you're KILLING US! xP

Nah that's really cool.

[thedenimeffect]

that. is. fucking. boss. someone just earned their way into my #3 fave spot.

[lovejordanart]

mind.blown.

[skarddard]

FWAAMP!

[dgaitan240]

BWOOOM

[0160n]

Its just music...director may or may not take the idea from that track...Dont you have bigger things to worry about in this film than this music hah???

[blarnzz]

Yes exactly. That's the beauty of the movie. The opera music in reality, goes slower in the dream and sounds like that.

[Lenfal]

I got chills

[tjgrant1993]

the original song, the classical one, is the one used in the movie to wake the characters up...but this song, the one everyone recognizes, is what is heard down in the dreams because time is slower in the dreams. its the same song.

[eerereps]

@chocomental ha ha ha ha!!! nice one!!!

[grendelee]

They say that when you hear music when you dream, its slowed down. Hence....inception music.

[malivaxx]

and this is whats at the end of the rabbit hole, the exit... doesn't exist.

[moviesunrated]

I searched "Inception music" and came across the first song that was played in this video, and the quality wasn't shit.

But I decided to watch this, and the audio quality is absolute shite.

I agree with you, they sound similar, but it just seems like a shitty idea to put such bad audio on a comparison.

Sorry, had to complain...

[Kyeennedy]

Awesome, Hans Zimmer has no limits!!

[happypony141]

Nice

[DeepThoughtsMusic]

hans zimmer explained that this was very deliberately. but thanks for the vid ;)

[LaceyandDexter]

thumbs up if ant sent you here

[TheMerianus]

This is Great! Well done

[deckardb26354]

Or maybe you read about it in the trivia section about the movie on IMDB...

[krystlerita]

My mind= officially blown

[Chris5044]

hehe, so? still great work :D ... and could well be a coincidence :D

[MrSpoonsicle]

@necroticfeasts Just like TIME is dragged out and slowed down in dreams. YOUR MIND HATH BEEN BLOWN.

[TheBritishEditor]

Songception.

[chris92124]

Ur all crazy.

[AandR1408]

that is fucking genius, Christopher Nolan.

[Bantam486]

@AandR1408 Well, the music is made by Hans Zimmer, not Nolan. But they´re both genius. ;)

[nuthinbutachump]

@Bantam486 *genii

[necroticfeasts]

this is fucking stupid, anyone who knows this song that this is the only part of both compositions that sound similar, when its dragged out and slowed down mind you.

[AgentSapphire]

@necroticfeasts actually thats not true. It is confirmed to be the same song only slowed way down in the dream part.

[explorer2101]

@necroticfeasts

I don't get the point you are trying to make

[dabangginception]

that was intentional. they thought audience these days are clever enough to guess that "half remembered dream" is "non je ne.." slowed down. they even try to show this in the end when the credits stop rolling and "non je ne...whatever" is played with"half remembered dream" and the name shows up once again-- I N C E P T I O N. anyway thanks @camiam321 we couldnt have noticed it without you.

[Qp0wer]

You should add that Non, Je ne regrette rien is the song they listen to when it's time to wake up. :O

[ExplodingGinger]

after u realize what they did with the two songs the inception horn needs to go off BWWWAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

[PapomanResurrect]

Yeah what you are hearing in the movie especially in Arthur's level in the Hotel is when Piaf's song is playing in reality, but since time is slowed down they hear the countdown we hear as the main Inception musical countdown. In other words it is like we are in it.

[imikey123]

this gave me the creeps!!!

[4fuksakeletmesignin]

Well yeah, i knew this from the first time i watched this movie. obviously the music they heard was the music playing from the sound cue's for the kicks. Im pretty sure they mentioned it earlier in the movie too.

[impossimadnescyAJ]

If you stayed up until the end of the credits, they actually point this out to you.

So I guess this wasn't meant to be hidden in the first place...

[dabangginception]

@impossimadnescyAJ ya your right..

[Nielsblog]

I already noticed this my self. The "wake-up" music of Edith Piaf get slowed down because of the different speed of time when going in deeper dream levels.

[Super1337Productions]

Ohhhh, I see wut yew did thar!

[MrFunsocks]

Non.

[reblreed]

Since in the dream world everything is slowed down if you heard music in the real world it would be slower in the dream so you would hear Half Remembered Dream when its really Non, Je ne regrette rien.

[anomalousclouds]

Loved this soundtrack based purely on watching the film, and now it has secrets as well? Killer sweet, man.

[mdkhanahsan]

inception cross-sectioned!!

|awesome|

[Pl4rk]

Wow! I knew that those songs had something to do with each other!

[TheBlooGrrl]

geniusness!!

[btj89]

8888 likes? sorry, i had to ruin it :)

[nyo267n]

"This phenomenon may be obvious to a lot of you out there..."

If by "a lot" you mean you, Hans Zimmer and Christopher Nolan. Well spotted!

Reading an interview with Zimmer about this tune (and this clip), I must say that I'm really happy that they didn't scrap this amazing idea when Marion Cotillard was cast (which was their initial thought).

[Cinderovo]

Amazing. Hans zimmer slowed down a very famous song and discovered a Rhythm!

[MrBonny987]

Damn, we don't care !

[KafshakTashtak]

Well Actually in the movie when they played this music for the dreamer, in the dream he heard the same music slowed down.( due to the face that brain works faster in dream and it looks like time is lengthened.)

So what you discuss in this video is axiomatic.

[Futil1ty]

Wow...how you faded it into the actual track...gave me goosebumps. :S

[MsMitxel]

ok..... and??? what are you going to do? I think he did well...

[Kevora92]

this actually all makes sense if you consider that 5 minutes in reality mean about an hour in a dream (as it is explained by arthur in the movie).

meaning what happens in reality or a dream layer above turns out to be much slower in the dream youre momentarily in

as edith piafs song seems to slowly help people fade out of their dreams and to regain consciousness you could say the piaf song stands for reality and hans zimmers awesome soundtrack represents the dream world

this is not a coincidence