Dreamscape (1984)
Directed by Joseph Ruben
In order to diagnose the psychic traumas suffered by his patients, Dr. Paul Novotny gets young Alex Gardner to enter their dreams.
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(One movie not referenced is Joseph Ruben ’s terrific “Dreamscape,” from 1984, which had a lot more fun with some of the same concepts.)
Similarly themed films have been produced over the years -- such as the 1984 Dennis Quaid thriller "Dreamscape," the 1999 blockbuster "The Matrix" and Jim Carrey's 2004 indie hit "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" -- though none with as quality a cast or as much dramatic oomph as "Inception."The…
"Dreamscape" (1984) featured a man who could enter and manipulate dreams, and, of course, in "The Matrix" (1999) human beings and machines battled on various reality levels created by artificial intelligence.
It lacks the nimbleness of Spielberg’s Minority Report or the Jungian-carnival bravado of Joseph Ruben’s Dreamscape or the eerily clean lines and stylized black-suited baddies of The Matrix?or, for that matter, the off-kilter intensity of Nolan’s own Insomnia.
The Bigger Picture: Though there will undoubtedly be (valid) comparisons made to The Matrix and Solaris , a more blatant antecedent for Inception is Joseph Ruben's 1984 thriller Dreamscape , in which Dennis Quaid must enter the President's nightmares to prevent an assassin from doing likewise.
The idea of entering dreams to manipulate someone isn’t new — “Dreamscape” did that back in 1984 — but Nolan raises the stakes with brilliantly deployed effects (Gordon-Levitt walking on ceilings is just one “wow” moment) and a fast-moving, globe-spanning story.
From the director of Pâfekuto burû / Perfect Blue (1997), Paprika was a change of pace for Satoshi Kon, a science fiction psychological thriller that isn’t quite as original as might at first seem (it owes much to the likes of Escapement (1958), Dreamscape (1984) and The Cell (2000) among many others) but which is still one of the most visually lavish and intellectually stimulating of animes.