Christopher Nolan Almost Cut ‘Inception’s Most Crucial Element

Christopher Nolan’sInception is a movie obsessed with time. Every tick of the clock is one step closer to disaster; seconds become minutes, become hours, become days, months, and years, as its characters descend through layers of dreams, and Hans Zimmer miraculously translated that concept into the music itself. One of the movie’s most ingenious tricks connects Zimmer’s thunderous score to Édith Piaf’s “Non, je ne regrette rien,” the song used to warn Nolan’s dreamers that their “kick” is approaching.