Inception is a 2010 American science fiction action film written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Michael Caine. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb, a thief who extracts information from the subconscious mind of his victims while they dream. Unable to visit his children, Cobb is offered a chance to regain his old life in exchange for one last job: performing inception, the planting of an idea into the mind of his client's competitor.
Hans Zimmer scored Inception, marking his third collaboration with Nolan following Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. According to Zimmer, it's "a very electronic score". Nolan asked Zimmer to compose and finish the score as he was shooting the film.
For inspiration, Zimmer read Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter because it combined "the idea of playfulness in mathematics and playfulness in music". While writing the screenplay, Nolan wrote in Édith Piaf's "Non, je ne regrette rien" but almost took it out when he cast Marion Cotillard, who had just completed an Oscar-winning turn as Piaf in the 2007 film La Vie en rose. Zimmer convinced Nolan to keep it in the film and also integrated elements of the song into his score.
Track list soundtrack Inception
1. Half Remembered Dream - Hans Zimmer 1:12
2. We Built Our Own World - Hans Zimmer 1:55
3. Dream Is Collapsing - Hans Zimmer 2:23
4. Radical Notion - Hans Zimmer 3:43
5. Old Souls - Hans Zimmer 7:44
6. 528491 - Hans Zimmer 2:23
7. Mombasa - Hans Zimmer 4:54
8. One Simple Idea - Hans Zimmer 2:28
9. Dream Within A Dream - Hans Zimmer 5:04
10. Waiting For A Train - Hans Zimmer 9:30
11. Paradox - Hans Zimmer 3:25
12. Time - Hans Zimmer 4:35
13. Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien - Édith Piaf
14. Aboun Salehoun - Amira Saqati
