Gravity And Interstellar And The Movie

Film exists in layers of physical existence and reality. You have the layer the audience views of the film’s world - setting, characters, and plot - and then you have the layer the film production workers view of the film’s world - actors, the set, and the story. Like photography, film is able to establish a physical existence. However, unlike photography, film uses two very unique and different techniques in order to establish its physical existence. According to Siegfried Kracauer, film establishes its physical existence through representation of reality as it evolves through time and with the help of techniques and devices exclusive to cinema cameras (Kracauer 187). All the world is a stage for film, however Kracauer lists specific techniques of film he refers to as cinematic due to how these techniques are read on the cinematic medium. Although Kracauer wrote his theory on Establishment of Physical Existence in 1960, the 2015 movie Tangerine contains a fair amount of content that can be serviced as examples in order to support Kracauer’s theory. Using the 2010’s movie Tangerine directed by Sean S. Baker, modern cinema examples from various scenes of the film can be provided for examples on Siegfried Kracauer’s theory of Establishment of Physical Existence through cinema’s recording functions of nascent motion, cinema’s revealing function of transients, and cinema’s revealing function of blind spots of the

The movie “Gravity” starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney was about a medical engineer Dr.Ryan Stone(Sandra Bullock) on her first shuttle mission with her commander Matt Kowalsky(George Clooney) and it is his last flight to space before his retirement. During the journey, disaster strikes leaving Ryan and Matt stranded in space with absolutely no connection to Earth. There shuttle is destroyed and the other astronauts died, leaving Matt and Ryan the only two that survive. Until only one of them can survive and that one is Ryan.Matt floats off to space with little oxygen and eventually dies. Ryan is left all alone, she is running out of oxygen and the shuttle of fuel. She soon realizes that it is time to go home, the shuttle goes through

The Alien is a science fiction horror movie. Its setting in space and the presence of technology and artificial intelligence empathizes on its science fiction genre. Moreover, the presence of the Alien and the fact that it is a threat to human lives reflects it is also a horror film. The movie revolves around seven human beings that have the mission to return to earth from the space.

     The discussion about science leads into the second point of monoliths and technology. www.dictionary.com defines a monolith as something, such as a column or monument, made from one large block of stone. This is first portrayed in the first couple of scenes in the movie. As the gorilla finds the monolith, picks it up and uses it as a weapon to kill prey. Next, when the gorilla throws the bone up in to the air, it becomes a space ship over Earth. As I researched, this was the longest time change in history of all the movies. Considering the bone became the spaceship just shows that even though technologically people have progressed, the minds still stayed relatively the same with the same goals. As a saying my mother once told me, Men are like children, but when they get older they change their toys. I find this to be relevant in “2001” as the time change only portrays a different time period but more or less the same content. Because the movie is very slow paced, in my opinion, it gives the viewer a lot of time to question everything that is happening and make sure to understand everything. There is not much conversation there either which is not serving as another distraction. Makes the theme of the movie very clear. Stanley Kubrick also includes the

The movie “Interstellar” takes place in a vast, desert of a land which is barely recognizable as the planet, Earth. America suffers severely from famine, dust storms, and lack of advanced technology. Due to a previous accident, as well as with the worldwide food shortage, Cooper, a former NASA pilot, now works as a farmer to produce the only food left in the world.

Arthur C. Clarke, an award-winning author, in his novel, 2001: A Space Odyssey, suggests that human evolution would not have been possible without the help of extra-terrestrial beings and the use of tools. Clarke is able to support his suggestions by narrating the influence the extraterrestrials have on humans and by describing the importance of the tools humans utilize. His purpose was to share his take on the final frontier in order to help readers make their own opinions and conclusions on evolution and deep space. Clarke utilizes a direct and scientific tone with his audience in a way to help them follow along, so that they don’t lose focus on the important themes throughout the novel.

“2001: A space Odyssey” opens in the African Rift Valley, where a tribe of hominids encounter a stone monument which has obstructed on their domain. This stone monument transmits radio waves that end up expanding their IQ 's, teaching them weaponry and other tool uses to help them live, as they proceed to defeat a rival tribe. Four million years later, we see the luxurious space travel that the vintage science fiction of the 1960’s, with space stations for air terminals and such. Dr. Heywood Floyd is heading to Clavius Base, a United States lunar station. Along the way, he finds out about gossipy tidbits about an unidentifiable disease going around on the Clavius Base and his responsibility to study a four-million-year-old structure. Floyd

Gravity is a Science -Fiction movie released in 2013. It is directed by Alfonso Cuaron and brought him an Oscar for best achievement in directing. Gravity also won many other Academy Awards including: best achievement in Cinematography, best achievement in Editing, Original Score, best achievement in Sound Editing, best achievement in Sound Mixing, best achievement in Visual Effects, best achievement in Production Design, Best Motion Picture of The Year, and Best Performance of the Leading Role Actress. By winning an Oscar for best directing Cuaron became the first Hispanic or Mexican to win an Academy Award for Best Director. Gravity takes place in present time at 372 miles away from earth in outer space where an astronaut and a medical

In the early 1900’s silent films amazed audiences with images, later talkies impressed with sound, today we have 3D. As technology continues to evolve so too will film genres. Genres, while having some shared characteristics, also differ in terms of stylistic devices used. For instance, the dramatic film “The Notebook” effectively uses color to reinforce theme and has plausible performers as the two main protagonists.

The planets are seen orbiting around an enormous black hole, hence the name Gargantua. While there is little known about black holes, the movie accurately displays what our human eyes would see a black hole as. Research from NASA explains that “a black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light cannot get out.” Keeping this in mind, the CGI creators show how light bends around the black hole due to the immense gravity. These waves of light are close enough that they are distorted, but far enough away that they don’t get trapped. This creates what is known as an event horizon where light can no longer escape. Beyond the event horizon and into the black hole there is a singularity. The further Cooper got to the singularity, the stronger gravity became, showing how powerful black holes

“2001: A Space Odyssey” is a film loosely based on the short story “The Sentinel”. It is based on an alien species that has placed monoliths on different planets in order to evaluate the evolution of mankind. After a space exploration to the moon, the explorers discover the second monolith on the moon. When the sunlight hits the monolith for the first time it sends a piecing signal towards the planet Jupiter. The United States then send another spaceship to the distant planet. The spaceship is equipped with an artificial intelligence computer named Hal. On board the spaceship are astronauts David Bowman, Frank Poole, and three others frozen in cryogenic pods. Hal, the super computer who is in control of the ship, informs the crew that there has been a component failure on one of the antennas. Poole is sent out to replace the component when Hal severs his lifeline. Bowman ventures out to rescue Poole but Hal closes the entry doors and then terminates the lives of the three others on board the ship. Bowman is forced to abandon Poole and go in through the emergency hatch to terminate Hal. He manually shuts down the computer’s memory and logic circuits and continues his journey for Jupiter. Bowman then discovers a third monolith and is sent plunging into a new dimension of time and space. He then stops in a green room, aged

The Dawn of Man. Four simple words introduced what is remarked as one of the greatest films of all time. There is no spoken dialogue within the first 25 minutes and the last 23 minutes of the film. “2001: A Space Odyssey” is an ambiguous film. The broad range of audience captures various interpretations of the film. The main theme seems to be about the evolutionary process of mankind interwoven with elements of a higher or extraterrestrial entity guiding this evolution. There are some film theories that suggest this movie was all propaganda used in conjunction with the space race that occurred during World War 2. Some even go as far as to say that the same set used in “2001: A Space Odyssey” was used to fake the moon landing of 1969. However, theories with more evidence suggest that the iconic monolith doesn’t represent aliens or “God”, but instead represents the cinema screen of which we are viewing. The artistic importance of “2001: A Space Odyssey” is derived from its ability procure various conclusions.

“We are not meant to save the world. We are meant to leave it.” This is my favorite quote from the movie Interstellar. Interstellar is a story about mankind trying to search for another planet that is suitable for them to live on. During the time period in Interstellar, human beings are facing a big problem: the weather on the earth is getting worse and worse which leads to the crop blight.

“Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” In the movie Interstellar, Christopher Nolan portrays the character, Murph, as a strong, wise, and independent individual that struggles with themes of man vs. society and man vs. man as she tries to understand and solve the equation of gravity in order to save all humanity. At the beginning of Interstellar, Murph faces the difficulty of battling man vs. society as she tries to prove to the other students that the teachers are not teaching the history of the space discoveries correctly. In fact, society is focused on building up farmers so that the Earth can be sustainable again.

Literature can, at times, have a fascinating connection with film. Whether it is a film or a piece of literature, both are written by someone that wants to leave an impact on an audience. However, movies and books have different roles. They each have different strong points wherein books give better characterization, stronger revelations, and inner conflict, but movies create a better mood with music and visuals, showing much more emotion. It's a totally different kind of experience, of course, and there are a number of differences between the book and the movie. The novel of 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke, for example, attempts to explain things much more explicitly than the film does, which is inevitable in a verbal medium. The movie version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, on the other hand, is essentially a visual, nonverbal experience. It avoids intellectual verbalization and reaches the viewer's subconscious in a way that is essentially poetic and philosophic. The film thus becomes a subjective experience, which hits the viewer at an inner level of consciousness, just as music does, or painting. Utilizing its verbal medium, Clarke is able to explain his narrative, whereas Kubrick creates a visual and audial experience, through means of ambiguity, in which the viewer sees everything, is told nothing, and in which one cannot detect the presence of the film as one at all.