Interstellar
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Interstellar |
| Original title | Interstellar |
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| Country of production |
United States , United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 169 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christopher Nolan |
| script |
Jonathan Nolan , Christopher Nolan |
| production | Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas , Lynda Obst |
| music | Hans Zimmer |
| camera | Hoyte van Hoytema |
| cut | Lee Smith |
| occupation | |
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Interstellar is a 2014 American - British science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan . It is set in a dystopian future in which humanity has to leave Earth and find a new home on another planet .
Nolan revised his brother Jonathan's script , which he wrote in 2007 for producer Lynda Obst and Paramount Pictures , and produced the film with Obst and Emma Thomas . Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. jointly took over the financing and marketing . The film was shot mainly in Canada , Iceland and Los Angeles . Nobel laureate in physics, Kip Thorne, worked as a scientific advisor on the film.
The film was released in German cinemas on November 6, 2014. The film started the day before in 243 US film theaters that can still show analogue film copies.
action
In the second half of the 21st century, the terrestrial biosphere is so badly damaged that the future of humanity is threatened. Industrial civilization is in decline. Mankind concentrates mainly on the production of food, the cultivation of which is, however, made more and more difficult by the spreading plant diseases (including powdery mildew ). In addition, people suffer from strong dust storms and generally deteriorating environmental conditions.
The NASA no longer exists officially, but it operates without the knowledge of the public further, as large-scale activities such as space travel are considered dangerous and too expensive. Forty-eight years before the film began, a wormhole was discovered near the planet Saturn that leads into another galaxy to a planetary system around a black hole . Ten years earlier, twelve scientists were sent through the wormhole as part of a program called Lazarus . You should find habitable planets there for humans to settle on. Only rudimentary signals can be received from the wormhole. Data has been received from three of the astronauts in the Lazarus program (Miller, Mann, and Edmunds) suggesting that they may have found habitable planets.
Former NASA pilot Cooper runs a farm after the end of the space program. His ten-year-old daughter Murphy believes she is receiving messages from a "ghost" in her room. She interprets the gaps in the bookshelf of different widths left by the books pushed out by the “ghost” as Morse code . One day after a dust storm she discovered inexplicable traces in the dust in her room. By tossing a coin, Cooper shows that a gravity anomaly is causing the tracks. In these, Cooper recognizes binary represented coordinates, which lead him and his daughter to a secret NASA location. Once there, Professor Brand, the head of NASA, reveals that there will be another mission through the wormhole with the NASA spacecraft Endurance , which will be led by Cooper. Brand believes the unknown creator of the gravity anomalies wants Cooper to be in command of the Endurance. The new mission is to follow the signals from Miller, Mann and Edmunds and bring certainty about whether the discovered planets are actually suitable for human settlement.
For decades, Professor Brand has been working on a theory that aims to unite quantum physics and gravity ( see also: Quantum Gravity , Great Unified Theory ). This would make it possible to move large numbers of people through the wormhole to a new planet with the help of a space station already built on Earth (see O'Neill Colony ). This is the Plan A devised by Professor Brand to save humanity. However, Brand says he has not yet been able to complete the theory. If this does not succeed, Plan B comes into effect, which only provides for the transfer of frozen, fertilized human ova to a new planet and a new population of humans to be raised there. These egg cells are carried by the Endurance.
Cooper starts the mission on one condition: Brand should complete his theory so that Plan A can be implemented and Cooper's family can be saved. His daughter Murphy doesn't want him to go away. The "ghost" also confirms it with a new message: "Stay!" Murphy refuses to say goodbye to her father and, unlike his son Tom, initially does not send him any video messages about the endurance. Cooper is accompanied on the mission by Brand's daughter Amelia, the scientists Romilly and Doyle and the robots TARS and CASE.
The first planet that Miller explored is located near the black hole Gargantua. Because of the time dilation caused by gravity , one hour on the planet corresponds to seven years outside the immediate sphere of influence of the black hole's gravity. Cooper, Amelia and Doyle take a shuttle to the surface of the planet and thus into the sphere of influence of time expansion, while Romilly stays behind in the ship. All they find on the knee-high water-covered planet is the wreckage of Miller's spaceship. Shortly afterwards, it turns out what destroyed the spaceship: Mountain-high waves move over the surface of the planet every hour. When Cooper notices an approaching wave, Amelia wants to retrieve another data carrier from the rubble of Miller's wreckage. It is trapped by a piece of debris and has to be rescued by CASE. CASE and Amelia make it back to the ship in time, but Doyle is washed away by the wave, which also damages the ship. Just before the next wave, Cooper and Amelia can take off and return to the mother ship. More than 23 years have now passed there that Romilly spent in cold sleep and studying the black hole.
According to the data sent by the astronaut Mann, the next planet headed for by the Endurance is suitable for colonization. Man has survived in cold sleep, but the planet's icy desert is also proving to be uninhabitable. Mann had deliberately sent false data to attract another mission and be saved.
Murphy, who is now as old as her father when he left, has worked with Professor Brand for a long time. On her deathbed, Brand confesses to having recognized decades ago that his theory cannot be completed. He kept this a secret because he made the survival of humankind as a species a priority through Plan B. Only man knew about it. Cooper and Amelia learn of the deception through a video message from Murphy.
Mann confesses to having sent falsified data to Cooper and tries to kill Cooper, who, however, can be saved by Amelia at the last second. However, shortly afterwards Romilly is killed when he accesses the data archive of Mann's deactivated robot KIPP. This was apparently previously manipulated by Mann and exploded. Man flees with a shuttle to the Endurance, which is in orbit around the planet. However, if you try to dock manually, you are killed. The endurance is badly damaged by the failed maneuver. However, Cooper and Amelia manage to dock their shuttle and bring the spaceship back under control.
Cooper and Amelia now decide to head for the planet discovered by the astronaut Edmunds. Since there is little fuel left, the planet can only be reached by means of a swing-by maneuver around Gargantua. In order to achieve the required speed, two shuttles also have to be pushed off during swing-by. The robots TARS and Cooper are on board these shuttles. During the maneuver, TARS is supposed to try to collect data about the black hole that could lead to the completion of Prof. Brand's theory. Amelia unintentionally remains alone with CASE in the endurance on the way to Edmunds' planet. Cooper and TARS enter the Gargantua event horizon with their shuttles . Instead of being torn apart by the tidal force of the black hole, they find themselves in a huge tesseract in which Cooper's daughter Murphy's room in the farmhouse appears to be present at very different times. Cooper speculates that the tesseract and the wormhole were not created by indefinite "beings", but by humans of the future who have evolved into five-dimensional beings and are therefore able to move freely through time and gravity manipulate.
Cooper realizes that by manipulating gravity he can communicate with his daughter in the past: Murphy's "ghost" is none other than himself, Cooper himself. Cooper conveys the messages that ten-year-old Murphy has received, including the "Stay!" and the coordinates of NASA headquarters. Then TARS contacts Cooper. TARS has collected the data inside the black hole that are necessary to complete Prof. Brand's theory. Cooper transmits this to the adult Murphy via the second hand of a wristwatch that he gave her before he left and that she kept as a souvenir of her father. After the messages are conveyed, the tesseract disappears. Murphy actually succeeds in completing the theory and thus a union of relativity and quantum physics, whereby people can be evacuated from the earth. Cooper and TARS are stranded at the wormhole entrance near Saturn.
Cooper barely aged comes to in a hospital bed. He learns that he is on a huge space station. A doctor tells him that he is now 124 years old, although relatively little time has passed for him on his space flight. Many people were able to leave the earth and now live on space stations in space, on which a comfortable life is possible. Murphy, now over 90 years old, is on a different ward from the one where Cooper woke up. When Cooper visits her, she lies on her deathbed surrounded by her descendants. Cooper is given the opportunity to say goodbye to her. Murphy sends him to Amelia, who is now alone on Edmunds' planet.
In the final scenes of the film, Cooper steals a spaceship together with the reactivated TARS - presumably to go to Amelia. In the last shot you see her without a hard hat and in good health in a barren landscape at Edmunds' grave. In the background is a small, functioning planetary station.
Motifs
In the film, the frequently quoted poem Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas (German translation: “ Don't go easy into that good night ”) becomes a leitmotif .
production
Interstellar grossed over $ 675 million worldwide on a budget of about $ 165 million.
Casting and casting
In April 2013, Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway were confirmed to have the leading roles. After starring in every Nolan film since Batman Begins, Michael Caine was confirmed for Interstellar in May 2013 . Casey Affleck joined them at the end of June 2013 .
Filming
Filming began on August 13, 2013 in Alberta , Canada . Since Wally Pfister , Nolan's usual cinematographer who so far in all of his films led the camera, even with the Director of Transcendence was employed instead was Hoyte van Hoytema involved. 35 mm cameras and 65 mm IMAX cameras, which were attached to the tip of a Learjet for some scenes, were used for the shoot . Shooting ended in December 2013.
Visual effects
The company Double Negative, which had also worked on Inception and The Dark Knight, was responsible for the visual effects. VFX Supervisor was Paul Franklin and VFX Producer Ann Podlozny.
music
As with the Dark Knight trilogy and Inception , Hans Zimmer composed the background music for Interstellar. He had already completed the first pieces in June 2013. Zimmer composed the entire soundtrack without ever reading the script. He had only received one text written by Nolan, through which his creativity should be increased. “The one page that Chris wrote for me that day, oddly enough, had little to do with the movie. It was a very personal text that was more aimed at my own story. He knows how to touch me, ”said Zimmer.
Scientific consideration
During the production of Interstellar , Christopher Nolan's crew was advised by Nobel Prize winner and astrophysicist Kip Thorne . At Interstellar , Nolan orientated himself on his theories of gravitational waves and the possibilities of space travel with the help of wormholes . Thorne also acted as executive producer on the film project .
In 2017, Kip Thorne, together with his colleagues Rainer Weiss and Barry Barish , was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the detection and observation of gravitational waves. In their essay "Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysics, and in the Movie Interstellar" ( English for: Gravitational lensing effect through rotating black holes in astrophysics and in the film Interstellar ) the authors describe the physical background of the black hole Gargantua and how the scenes have been calculated for the film.
In contrast to some other science fiction films, the lack of sound transmission in the vacuum is correctly taken into account. So are z. B. no noise to be heard during explosions in space or the ignition of control nozzles .
synchronization
The German dubbed version was created by Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH (FFS), Tobias Meister was responsible for the dialogue .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| cooper | Matthew McConaughey | Benjamin Völz |
| Dr. Amelia Brand | Anne Hathaway | Marie Bierstedt |
| Romilly | David Gyasi | Dennis Schmidt-Foss |
| Doyle | Wes Bentley | Robin Kahnmeyer |
| Murphy, young | Mackenzie Foy | Léa Mariage |
| Murphy, adult | Jessica Chastain | Manja Doering |
| Getty | Topher Grace | Timmo Niesner |
| Grandpa Donald | John Lithgow | Jürgen Kluckert |
| Tom, adult | Casey Affleck | Tim Sander |
| Prof. Brand | Michael Caine | Jürgen Thormann |
| Williams | William Devane | Reinhard Kuhnert |
| Dr. man | Matt Damon | Simon hunter |
| CASE | Josh Stewart , voice | Torsten Sense |
| TARS | Bill Irwin , voice | Frank Röth |
Trivia
- The design of the robots CASE and TARS was based on the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey .
- Also based on 2001: A Space Odyssey is the placement of the wormhole near Saturn. In Clarke's novel , the journey also leads to Saturn, but when it was made into a film it was not yet possible to convincingly depict the giant planet with its rings in its shape. That's why director Stanley Kubrick decided back then to postpone the trip to Jupiter .
reception
Reviews
Interstellar received a lot of attention from the international and national press. The opinions of the critics sometimes differed greatly. While some saw a masterpiece and made comparisons with Stanley Kubrick, others saw a visually very good film, but which sticks to familiar patterns. Some expressed displeasure with the end of the film and criticized logic holes.
Scott Foundas wrote in Variety that Interstellar was "the director's best work yet". He also praised the “visionary” of the film and placed it in a row with The Wizard of Oz and 2001: A Space Odyssey .
Todd McCarthy of the Hollywood Reporter saw in Interstellar "personal Nolan's answer to his favorite movie 2001: A Space Odyssey ". The film is full of “wondrous images and fundamental feelings”, even if not all of them work equally well.
Henry Barnes of the Guardian viewed the work more critically . He praised the “best embedding of scientific theories in a blockbuster” since Nolan's Inception , but criticized that Nolan had forgotten “with all his ambitions” to “convey fun in the whole thing”.
Gregor Wossilus from the television magazine Kino Kino took the film ambiguously. He saw "at least a visually very strong space adventure" and the action moments and effects are gripping. Wossilus saw the “highly philosophical approaches” embedded in a “typical entertainment sci-fi scenario” that clearly followed the rules of the genre. The critic also wrote that the finale left a lot to be desired in terms of logic.
As with The Dark Knight and Inception , Gregor Wossilus found Interstellar to be “a high-gloss entertainment cinema that wants to be more profound than it is in the end”.
In the German film magazine epd Film , Frank Schnelle judges that the problem with Interstellar lies "in the great dramaturgical arc", "which Nolan and his brother Jonathan are overloading this time."
In the IMDb Top 250 list in mid-April 2019, the film was 31st with almost 1.3 million votes with an average rating of 8.6. Rotten Tomatoes rated the film with 72 percent positive reviews, the critical consensus there was: “Interstellar represents more of the exciting, thoughtful, provocative and visually brilliant filmmaking that cinema-goers now expect from the author and director Christopher Nolan, even if the intellectual reach of the film is one little exceeds his capacity to grasp. "
In Germany, the film had over 1.7 million moviegoers.
Awards
- Award in the category visual effects best for Paul Franklin , Andrew Lockley , Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher
- Nomination in the category Best Film Music for Hans Zimmer
- Nominated for Best Production Design for Nathan Crowley and Gary Fettis
- Nomination in the Best Sound category for Gary Rizzo , Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten
- Nomination in the category Best Sound Editing for Richard King
- Nomination in the category Best Film Music for Hans Zimmer
British Academy Film Awards 2015
- Award in the category Best Visual Effects for Paul Franklin , Scott Fisher and Andrew Lockley
- Nomination in the category Best Film Music for Hans Zimmer
- Nominated for Best Production Design for Nathan Crowley and Gary Fettis
- Nomination in the category Best Cinematography for Hoyte van Hoytema
- Award in the category of best science fiction film
- Award for Best Screenplay for Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan
- Award in the Best Music category for Hans Zimmer
- Award in the Best Equipment category
- Award in the Best Special Effects category
- Award in the Best Young Actress category for Mackenzie Foy
- Nomination in the category Best Director for Christopher Nolan
- Best Actor Nomination for Matthew McConaughey
- Nomination for Best Actress for Anne Hathaway
- Nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category for Jessica Chastain
- Nomination in the Best Editing category
- Award in the best film category
- Award in the category of best director for Christopher Nolan
- Nominated for the best sci-fi / fantasy film category
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
literature
- Greg Keyes : Interstellar: The Official Movie . Titan Books, 2014, ISBN 978-1-78329-369-8 ( titanbooks.com [accessed December 30, 2016] Interstellar: The Official Movie Novelization).
- Kip S. Thorne : The Science of Interstellar . Norton & Company, 2014, ISBN 978-0-393-35137-8 .
Web links
- Interstellar in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Interstellar atrotten tomatoes(English)
- Tilmann Siebeneicher: Interstellar. Rebirth in space: visions of the future since the late 20th century on Zeitgeschichte-online.de, March 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Approval certificate for Interstellar . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2014 (PDF; test number: 148 011 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Interstellar . Youth Media Commission .
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- ↑ Pamela McClintock: How Christopher Nolan's Crusade to Save Film Is Working. In: hollywoodreporter.com. January 10, 2014, accessed November 4, 2014 .
- ^ Box office / business for Interstellar. In: imdb.com. Retrieved November 19, 2014 .
- ↑ Matthew McConaughey confirms lead role in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic "Interstellar". In: filmstarts.de. April 3, 2013, accessed October 6, 2014 .
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- ↑ Michael Caine confirmed for Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic "Interstellar". In: filmstarts.de. May 4, 2013, accessed October 8, 2014 .
- ↑ Casey Affleck takes on the role in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller "Interstellar". In: filmstarts.de. June 21, 2013, accessed October 8, 2014 .
- ↑ Christopher Nolan is shooting again: Production of the sci-fi thriller "Interstellar" has started. In: filmstarts.de. August 13, 2013, accessed October 8, 2014 .
- ↑ “Interstellar” is getting big: Christopher Nolan relies on IMAX cameras at lofty heights for shooting. In: filmstarts.de. November 19, 2013, accessed October 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Star of Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar' notes film's 'major scope'. In: latimes.com. December 19, 2013, accessed October 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Hans Zimmer is making the music for Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" and is already working on it. In: filmstarts.de. June 3, 2013, accessed October 11, 2014 .
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- ^ Nobel Prize in Physics 2017. Retrieved October 3, 2017 .
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- ^ Scott Foundas: Film Review: 'Interstellar'. In: variety.com. October 27, 2014, accessed October 31, 2014 .
- ^ Todd McCarthy: Christopher Nolan aims for the stars in this brainy and gargantuan sci-fi epic. In: hollywoodreporter.com. October 27, 2014, accessed October 31, 2014 .
- ^ Henry Barnes: Interstellar Review. In: theguardian.com. October 28, 2014, accessed October 31, 2014 .
- ^ Gregor Wossilus: Interstellar. Kino Kino - the film magazine on Bavarian television, October 27, 2014, archived from the original on November 8, 2014 ; accessed on December 1, 2014 .
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