Inception Music Comparison (by Cameron Whitehouse)
It’s been a while since I first saw this video comparing the most recognizable part of the Inception soundtrack with Édith Piaf’s “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien.” But this time I did a quick search after watching and found an L.A. Times post with the following quote (emphasis in bold is mine):
“If you were to see this movie a second time,” Zimmer said, “you realize the last note you hear in the movie is the first note in the movie. It’s a Möbius band. But the next thing you hear over the logos is actually telling a story. You realize that the elements that we’ve extracted from the Piaf song are the way you get from one dream level to the next. When the movie starts, some action has already happened.”
From another LAT post:
Pieces of Piaf’s interpretation of the song were stretched, manipulated and woven into Zimmer’s score.
Möbius on my mind? Probably. I wonder what Hofstadter would have to say about this…