from geek to point man, still a geek

I do not own the images in this post

I'm sure almost, if not everyone agree that Inception is awesome, brilliant, and has probably one of the most genius storyline ever made in history. You gotta be insane enough to come up with such plot. I'm not gonna go blabbing about the story or behind-the-scene stuff because this movie is so huge that there's too much you can talk about and it won't fit in one post. So I'm gonna talk from my own perspective about one of many things that attracted me in this movie: Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

You don't hear me? Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Arthur. The Point Man. What about him? Well, it all started when I watched (500) Days of Summer for the first time, a couple days before I watched Inception. I loved it, it's a great, realistic love story, but I dislike the male protagonist, Tom Hansen, which is too stupid, spoiled, too skinny and geeky, which is portrayed by JGL. His portrayal was so great that he won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for it, so great that when I remember him, I remember Tom Hansen, whom i despise for his stupidity in (500) Days of Summer. So when I read the A-list cast list of Inception, there I saw the name Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and I thought, "Oh, Tom Hansen, the skinny spoiled geek is there".

looks a bit like Heath Ledger, eh?

Then I saw Inception, and there's Arthur the point man. Well, at least he's a portrayal of a better side of Tom Hansen, the one that's pursuing his career as an architect and already moved on from Summer. Still too skinny, though. And he seemed to be bullied all the time by the gorgeous forger, Eames (portrayed by Tom Hardy). The scene flowed, and there it is. The hotel corridor fighting scene in Arthur's dream, the one with the zero gravity. In case you forget, Arthur is the host of the dream so he's in charge to prevent Fischer's subconscious army from interfering the team's job. So he finds himself fighting those subconscious protectors. In a zero gravity corridor. With some spiderman-crawling-jumping scene. Which is fascinating! I watched that fighting sequence in awe and there I fell in love instantly with Arthur. This is the point where Tom Hansen is all gone. You won't believe this is the man in (500) Days of Summer anymore. Still a geek, but the spiderman scene is  just wow! I guess I will have to thank Tom Hansen, if it weren't for him, I wouldn't notice Arthur and his spiderman-jumping scene :p

I find plenty of Tom Hansen's pictures but it's bloody hard to find Arthur's and I'm still working on it. I'll add more pictures soon as I find a good one. And you can find many resemblance of him and Heath Ledger. Reckon he can be the next Batman villain? The Riddler, perhaps? We'll see, with so many proof of being a great actor he sure will find a way.
 

Tom Hansen, the skinny geek

with Zooey Deschanel as Summer