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- 0:00Speaker 1: I knew we were in trouble when you got to
- 0:02Speaker 1: the NASA flot point at seven seconds. It's like, Wow,
- 0:07Speaker 1: we're not even in space yet. Oh boy, Hello and
- 0:12Speaker 1: welcome to made the review beat with you with Nick.
- 0:15Speaker 1: I'm Joe, you all, everybody, I'm Nick.
- 0:19Speaker 2: What's up?
- 0:20Speaker 3: Wow?
- 0:21Speaker 1: I was not expecting a lost reference at the start
- 0:23Speaker 1: of this. Well cool, He's Nick, I'm Joe, you all, everybody.
- 0:28Speaker 1: Welcome to the show today. It is time for a
- 0:31Speaker 1: time travel draft episode, and we are reviewing Christopher Nolan's
- 0:36Speaker 1: space epic Interstellar. We are at a movie that I
- 0:42Speaker 1: have both been looking forward to and dreading very much
- 0:47Speaker 1: for the emotional pain that this movie very much is,
- 0:50Speaker 1: but the cinematic triumph that god damn it proves to be.
- 0:57Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, so works to talk about this.
- 1:00Speaker 1: If you haven't seen any of our time travel draft
- 1:03Speaker 1: episodes before, a quick summary of what this is. Nick
- 1:07Speaker 1: and I about a year ago at this point did
- 1:11Speaker 1: a movie draft of I think about seven different movies
- 1:14Speaker 1: each right, drafting them in different categories. And this particular
- 1:20Speaker 1: category that we have for today is a movie in
- 1:24Speaker 1: a surprise time travel genre, and Nick chose Interstellar for
- 1:30Speaker 1: this particular category, Nick, why did you choose Interstellar?
- 1:34Speaker 2: Well, this is maybe my favorite Christopher Nolan film. It's like.
- 1:43Speaker 3: Ridiculous how cool it is, And yeah, it ends up
- 1:46Speaker 3: being kind of like a secret time travel film, right,
- 1:49Speaker 3: most of the This is a category we I chosen
- 1:52Speaker 3: in You're not it's not really wasn't really marketed as
- 1:58Speaker 3: like a time travel film. I don't think it just
- 2:00Speaker 3: kind of sneaks up on you. And it's, like you said,
- 2:05Speaker 3: an epic. It's an epic film. Hard not to pick
- 2:09Speaker 3: it in a.
- 2:11Speaker 2: Time travel draft where it would be allowed.
- 2:14Speaker 1: To be picked.
- 2:15Speaker 3: So yeah, we'll get into why, I guess as we
- 2:18Speaker 3: progress here, but this is my pick for secret time
- 2:21Speaker 3: travel film.
- 2:22Speaker 2: Interested.
- 2:22Speaker 1: I will say so I avoided this movie in our
- 2:28Speaker 1: draft because I am so emotionally scared of this movie.
- 2:32Speaker 1: Because if you've seen the movie then you probably know
- 2:35Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. But there's an emotional scarring moment
- 2:39Speaker 1: about halfway through that I have never gotten over since
- 2:43Speaker 1: watching it in theaters, Nick, which really speaks to how
- 2:48Speaker 1: powerful the Nolans are at storytelling and creating empathy for
- 2:53Speaker 1: a character. Right. I don't think we've talked about this
- 2:57Speaker 1: a lot on the show. You know, of the great
- 3:00Speaker 1: American directors, I want to say, at least for me,
- 3:03Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure for you tune it, Christopher Nolan is
- 3:05Speaker 1: probably among our favorites, if not the favorite great American
- 3:08Speaker 1: director of the modern era.
- 3:09Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think he's definitely. I'm pretty sure he's
- 3:13Speaker 3: number one on both our lists.
- 3:15Speaker 1: So yeah, easily. And you know, part of that reason,
- 3:20Speaker 1: and again, this is kind of surprising that we've not
- 3:22Speaker 1: talked about Nolan on the show is so you know,
- 3:25Speaker 1: the whole reason why we've done a time travel draft
- 3:28Speaker 1: is Nick and I are huge simps for time travel
- 3:31Speaker 1: as a storytelling convention. And if there is one American
- 3:37Speaker 1: director who seems to share that, it's Christopher Nolan, who
- 3:42Speaker 1: maybe not every film is, you know, time travel related,
- 3:44Speaker 1: but he's pretty well known for having an obsession with
- 3:48Speaker 1: time and playing with the concept of time throughout his
- 3:51Speaker 1: movies with very creative editing. Right. I think just Tenant
- 3:56Speaker 1: and and Interstellar are the only I wanted to say,
- 4:00Speaker 1: off the top of my head, the only films that
- 4:02Speaker 1: actually deal directly with time travel. But he plays with
- 4:06Speaker 1: time in so many different ways throughout all of his films, right,
- 4:10Speaker 1: Memento obviously is the one that comes to mind right away.
- 4:14Speaker 1: But I mean, like, I think you can even make
- 4:15Speaker 1: that argument watching the Prestige, certainly the Batman movies, the
- 4:21Speaker 1: way that he edits films to go back in time
- 4:25Speaker 1: and like play with how the storytelling convention is happening
- 4:28Speaker 1: to develop a character. Right listening to him, it's it's
- 4:32Speaker 1: a concept he's obsessed with just time as a commodity,
- 4:36Speaker 1: as a resource to use, and man is it evident
- 4:39Speaker 1: in Interstellar.
- 4:42Speaker 3: Yeah, this is just to touch on what you're saying
- 4:45Speaker 3: about the saddest moment in movie history, probably halfway through
- 4:48Speaker 3: the film, not to be.
- 4:52Speaker 4: Not to play second second saddest.
- 4:55Speaker 3: Moment too later in the film, which just kind of
- 4:58Speaker 3: crushes you even more on spectively because you kind of always.
- 5:01Speaker 2: Forget that that one's coming.
- 5:04Speaker 4: Yeah, just like a brilliant.
- 5:06Speaker 3: Way to tell a story. And you know, like there's
- 5:11Speaker 3: not a lot of films where you can remember where
- 5:13Speaker 3: you were when you watch it for the first time.
- 5:14Speaker 3: Like typically like you might really enjoy film and it's like, oh,
- 5:19Speaker 3: this is awesome, but you don't remember where you were,
- 5:22Speaker 3: or like you don't remember the theory you went to
- 5:23Speaker 3: necessarily you don't remember who you were with exactly. But
- 5:26Speaker 3: this is like one of maybe four films where I
- 5:29Speaker 3: know exactly where I was, I know who I was with,
- 5:31Speaker 3: I know how we reacted crazy.
- 5:35Speaker 1: I actually I think I share that I know exactly
- 5:37Speaker 1: who I was with, I know what theater I was in.
- 5:40Speaker 1: H Yeah, this is one of these films that you
- 5:42Speaker 1: just don't forget. It was truly a mind blowing experience.
- 5:47Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's like it just makes you really think.
- 5:50Speaker 3: And I think the science behind it and the way
- 5:54Speaker 3: they explain things was it was explained well enough to
- 5:57Speaker 3: where you just you knew what was going on and
- 6:00Speaker 3: you understood the stakes and everything.
- 6:02Speaker 2: And so we'll get into some of the time travel
- 6:04Speaker 2: of it.
- 6:05Speaker 1: Here, but figure so the way that this is going
- 6:09Speaker 1: to go down, Nick and I will of course we'll
- 6:11Speaker 1: talk about the film, what we thought really works, what
- 6:14Speaker 1: perhaps you know, we didn't like, and then of course
- 6:18Speaker 1: time travel draft movie. We're gonna talk about the conventions
- 6:20Speaker 1: on the time travel and how well it made sense,
- 6:24Speaker 1: because all too often time travel, it all either makes
- 6:28Speaker 1: sense or it's all a bunch of bullshit. So we'll
- 6:31Speaker 1: figure out where we are with that in this particular film,
- 6:34Speaker 1: and then we're gonna grade it. We're gonna grade it
- 6:36Speaker 1: three different ways. We will grade it based on how
- 6:39Speaker 1: well the director succeeded as far as the movie itself
- 6:43Speaker 1: is concerned, and did he accomplish what he was trying
- 6:45Speaker 1: to accomplish, how well does time travel serve the actual movie?
- 6:49Speaker 1: And then how well did we do in drafting the
- 6:53Speaker 1: movie in this particular category, whether or not it made
- 6:56Speaker 1: sense to draft it in this category or if a
- 6:58Speaker 1: better pick was available.
- 7:00Speaker 3: Right.
- 7:00Speaker 1: So that's where we're at, And with that, I believe
- 7:04Speaker 1: it is time for a fifteen second summary, and it
- 7:08Speaker 1: is Nick's turn to do the best that he can
- 7:11Speaker 1: to summarize the space effect of Interstellar in fifteen seconds.
- 7:18Speaker 2: I'm not happy about this.
- 7:19Speaker 1: You shouldn't be good luck trying to summarize quantum physics
- 7:24Speaker 1: in fifteen seconds. Nick, you ready, no, but go ahead
- 7:30Speaker 1: on go three two one go.
- 7:33Speaker 3: Coop is a former NASA pilot who had to become
- 7:35Speaker 3: a farmer because the Earth ran out of food, who
- 7:37Speaker 3: stumbles upon the coordinates for the new NASA and him
- 7:40Speaker 3: and it. He has to go to space and go
- 7:42Speaker 3: through a wormhole to find new planets to help save
- 7:45Speaker 3: the human race.
- 7:46Speaker 2: And his daughter is smart than he is.
- 7:49Speaker 1: Time I knew him, we were in trouble. When you
- 7:58Speaker 1: got to the NASA plot point seven seconds, it's like, wow,
- 8:02Speaker 1: we're not even in space yet.
- 8:04Speaker 2: Oh boy, listen, did it perfectly?
- 8:09Speaker 1: Oh did you?
- 8:09Speaker 4: Did you?
- 8:14Speaker 2: And gravity is the thing. That's the last thing I said,
- 8:18Speaker 2: I missed.
- 8:18Speaker 1: The last part. I'm going to give that. I'm going
- 8:24Speaker 1: to give that a C. Yeah, yeah, that's a C.
- 8:27Speaker 1: You got most of the major plot points in there.
- 8:31Speaker 1: You did miss out on the TESTSA act and and
- 8:36Speaker 1: the wormhole. Did you say the wormhole?
- 8:38Speaker 2: I think I mentioned the wormhole.
- 8:40Speaker 1: You might have mentioned the wormhole. I'll give you that one.
- 8:43Speaker 1: But yeah, the tests act and the conflict of course
- 8:46Speaker 1: of man, and we'll get into that.
- 8:50Speaker 3: Listen, what you want from a fifteen second summary is
- 8:53Speaker 3: impossible in a three hour Nolan film.
- 8:55Speaker 1: Okay, I'm just saying I expected better from you. I
- 9:01Speaker 1: gave you an A plus for Donnie Darko, and like,
- 9:04Speaker 1: that's not an easy movie to summarize either, granted it is.
- 9:07Speaker 4: Yeah, Donnie Darco is a very simple film.
- 9:09Speaker 2: He falls asleep, has a dream.
- 9:11Speaker 1: That's not the movie. That is that the movie that
- 9:14Speaker 1: is a BS theory.
- 9:16Speaker 2: That is the only theory that makes sense.
- 9:18Speaker 1: Unbelievable, unbelievable. You are the only one who has this belief.
- 9:22Speaker 1: Walking away from Donnie Darko.
- 9:24Speaker 3: The dude, the dude was just was a bad dream
- 9:26Speaker 3: between him dying anyway, continue between between him.
- 9:28Speaker 1: Dying all right, well anyway moving on from wrong opinions.
- 9:32Speaker 1: Uh so yeah Interstellar, Damn, nick I, I kind of
- 9:41Speaker 1: regret not picking this movie in any of my categories.
- 9:47Speaker 1: Like I said, I wanted to avoid this movie. I
- 9:49Speaker 1: was kind of hoping we wouldn't have to watch it.
- 9:51Speaker 1: I love this movie. I forgot what a what a
- 9:56Speaker 1: cinematic like accomplishment. This movie is insane.
- 10:01Speaker 3: M it's so perfect and yeah, it's like it's as
- 10:08Speaker 3: good of a movie as you would want something to be,
- 10:11Speaker 3: Like if you go to a movie.
- 10:12Speaker 4: Theater, this is what you want to watch, Like, yeah, that's.
- 10:19Speaker 2: It's just so well done.
- 10:20Speaker 3: It's and especially with how he builds a story too,
- 10:23Speaker 3: and how he pieces like you were saying at the beginning,
- 10:26Speaker 3: like he's really good at using time as a commodity
- 10:29Speaker 3: and using it to tell a story. And like this
- 10:31Speaker 3: movie opens basically with characters that we're gonna meet later
- 10:41Speaker 3: or pretty much right after that are younger, right, Like
- 10:44Speaker 3: it opens up with Murph as an old woman telling
- 10:48Speaker 3: the story about the farm, you know, and like when
- 10:51Speaker 3: you're you're like watching like a you know, like a
- 10:55Speaker 3: history video at the.
- 10:56Speaker 2: Very beginning of this film and you're like, well, what's
- 10:58Speaker 2: what's going on?
- 10:58Speaker 3: You don't even realize to lay that that's who is
- 11:01Speaker 3: talking at the very beginning of the film, you know,
- 11:03Speaker 3: like you forget that that even happens. But it's just
- 11:07Speaker 3: such an interesting way to like start something, you.
- 11:10Speaker 1: Know it is and this was this was so sneaky
- 11:14Speaker 1: by him, the Nolan's. But and when I when I
- 11:17Speaker 1: say that, I mean Chris and of course his brother Jonathan,
- 11:19Speaker 1: who who wrote this script along with Chris. They they
- 11:24Speaker 1: love giving you all of the pieces for the ending
- 11:29Speaker 1: of their film right in the beginning. They do it
- 11:31Speaker 1: all the time, and this was one of their sneakier
- 11:35Speaker 1: I think intros, because like you said, you get this
- 11:38Speaker 1: ken Burns style documentary with about like the dust bowl.
- 11:44Speaker 1: Really like it's it's like familiar like of the dust
- 11:47Speaker 1: bowl of like our world, right, and it looks like
- 11:50Speaker 1: they're talking about, you know, our world, but like really
- 11:55Speaker 1: like you as you point out, you know, this is
- 11:57Speaker 1: a point in the future that we the viewer have
- 12:00Speaker 1: not arrived at just yet, but we will, and we
- 12:05Speaker 1: will get to see that documentary again at the very
- 12:07Speaker 1: end of the film and realize we've we've come full circle.
- 12:11Speaker 1: So yeah, I agree with you there. I love that
- 12:16Speaker 1: this film. There is a painstaking amount of detail that
- 12:22Speaker 1: is used to paint every part of this movie. Yeah,
- 12:26Speaker 1: there's not a single line that's wasted. There's not a
- 12:29Speaker 1: shot that's wasted. The music, We'll get into the music
- 12:33Speaker 1: a little bit later. The score is like very intentional
- 12:37Speaker 1: throughout the entire film in very certain ways that I'm
- 12:40Speaker 1: very excited to talk about. He's one of one of
- 12:44Speaker 1: Christopher Nolan's role models. And it should be obvious just
- 12:47Speaker 1: going into this movie is Stanley Kubrick, who, of course
- 12:51Speaker 1: extremely famous threat cinema history. If you don't know him,
- 12:53Speaker 1: my god, go look that up. Why are you listening
- 12:57Speaker 1: to us listening? Yeah, two thousand and one Space Odyssey
- 13:03Speaker 1: is you know, obviously one of one of Kubrick's huge
- 13:07Speaker 1: claim to fame, and that's that's a movie that clearly
- 13:11Speaker 1: Interstellar is is modeled so much after Cubrick is one
- 13:15Speaker 1: of Nolan's big heroes, one of his big cinema idols,
- 13:18Speaker 1: and another director who's just famous for being so meticulous
- 13:23Speaker 1: about every detail in a movie, and Nolan Nolan I
- 13:27Speaker 1: certainly would throw up there as being you know, really
- 13:31Speaker 1: really zoned in on those details, and in this movie
- 13:33Speaker 1: in particular, like you can you can really see it.
- 13:36Speaker 1: There's that throwaway line from murph in like in the
- 13:40Speaker 1: very beginning where she she talks to her dad and
- 13:44Speaker 1: she says, oh, like she got like he walked in
- 13:46Speaker 1: and she says like, oh, I thought you were my ghost,
- 13:48Speaker 1: you know, and like upon a rewatch, Like what a
- 13:51Speaker 1: mind blowing line that is, right, Or like when she's
- 13:54Speaker 1: in the truck and you know she sneaks in with
- 13:57Speaker 1: him to the NASA facility, she says, you wouldn't even
- 14:00Speaker 1: easier without me, Right, Yeah, all these sneaky little lineses.
- 14:04Speaker 3: That's such a great point too, about it's always fun
- 14:08Speaker 3: when you rewatch something because you get you you get
- 14:12Speaker 3: more foreshadowing than you did the first time. Right, you realize,
- 14:16Speaker 3: Holy ship, like they're they're kind of trying to tell
- 14:19Speaker 3: us where we're going so subtly and uh yeah, it's
- 14:24Speaker 3: it said.
- 14:25Speaker 2: So cool. Where where do we start?
- 14:29Speaker 3: This is like the problem with the Nolan films are
- 14:32Speaker 3: there's so much detail that we could talk for five
- 14:34Speaker 3: hours so easy, you know, And we're going to focus
- 14:38Speaker 3: on time travel, but overall, where do you land?
- 14:44Speaker 2: Where are your what are you thinking? What are your thoughts?
- 14:46Speaker 1: You know what I want to I want to talk about.
- 14:50Speaker 1: I want We're going to talk a lot about a
- 14:52Speaker 1: lot of this movie, but like I do kind of
- 14:53Speaker 1: want to start with the ending. So because when this
- 14:56Speaker 1: movie came out, I remember that it was a bit
- 14:58Speaker 1: divisive as far as how some people felt about about
- 15:02Speaker 1: the convention of how the human race is saved. And
- 15:04Speaker 1: just as a reminder for anyone just listening right now,
- 15:08Speaker 1: because Nick failed to bring this up in his fifteen
- 15:10Speaker 1: second summary. Now there are there are two plans of
- 15:16Speaker 1: action to save the human race from the dying world. Right,
- 15:19Speaker 1: There's Plan A and Plan B. And Plan A is
- 15:24Speaker 1: to solve the gravity equation, right, which they are they're
- 15:29Speaker 1: trying to create space colonies, but in order to do so,
- 15:32Speaker 1: they need to be able to solve the equation of
- 15:35Speaker 1: gravity of how to create their own gravity, right, in
- 15:39Speaker 1: order to sustain a huge population of people out in
- 15:42Speaker 1: space and the equations proving to be quite challenging. The
- 15:47Speaker 1: only way they could possibly solve it is getting lucky
- 15:49Speaker 1: on Earth, I guess, or if they were inside the
- 15:52Speaker 1: singularity of a black hole. Right. Option B is to
- 15:58Speaker 1: find a world that they could repopulate with human embryos
- 16:02Speaker 1: that they are bringing with them on this space exploration trip.
- 16:07Speaker 1: We come to find out later that Plan B was
- 16:09Speaker 1: always the plan and Plan A is a lie. Anyway,
- 16:14Speaker 1: we we get to the end of the movie and
- 16:16Speaker 1: turns out Matthew McConaughey is going to be in the
- 16:18Speaker 1: black hole and we can get heart gravity equation and
- 16:24Speaker 1: the big the big thing that they talk about that
- 16:27Speaker 1: that traverses the cosmos and it extends beyond space time
- 16:35Speaker 1: is a gravity But B. They talk about the human
- 16:39Speaker 1: concept of love being this this factor invariable that makes
- 16:43Speaker 1: it possible for beings of a higher dimension to use
- 16:48Speaker 1: coop to get him to send the the the data
- 16:55Speaker 1: that's required to solve the gravity equation to Murph on
- 16:58Speaker 1: Earth right.
- 16:59Speaker 4: Through Morse code through a fine risk.
- 17:03Speaker 1: Watch right right, right right insane, insane, absolutely insane, And
- 17:11Speaker 1: I think I think there was. I think the divisiveness
- 17:15Speaker 1: comes from people talking about how like love was the answer, right,
- 17:22Speaker 1: and and they wanted, like a hard science movie to
- 17:25Speaker 1: like remain in hard science. Watching this movie now for
- 17:29Speaker 1: the for the second time, because I've avoided this movie
- 17:31Speaker 1: for years for the emotional scarring. I think people who
- 17:35Speaker 1: are hung up on the love thing need to rewatch
- 17:38Speaker 1: this movie because like the hard science is there, and
- 17:42Speaker 1: I think, like love is obviously what saves the day,
- 17:45Speaker 1: but it's love through like the theoretical science of what
- 17:50Speaker 1: he's doing, you know.
- 17:51Speaker 3: Right, And they set the love thing up with doctor Brand,
- 17:56Speaker 3: yeah conversation before they decide not to go to Edmund's
- 17:59Speaker 3: plan and to go to doctor Man's plant instead. Like
- 18:02Speaker 3: that's what's so brilliant about Nolan. Like in that scene,
- 18:06Speaker 3: Coop McConaughey's character is disagreeing with Brand's statement about love
- 18:13Speaker 3: being you know, not quantifiable and like, you know, being
- 18:17Speaker 3: an important factor into potentially saving us. Coop is like, honestly,
- 18:22Speaker 3: you know it, it might.
- 18:24Speaker 2: Be the wrong choice, you know.
- 18:26Speaker 3: And they decide to go to doctor Man's planet because
- 18:28Speaker 3: of the data they currently have, not the data that
- 18:30Speaker 3: you can't see. And then you know, the story unfolds
- 18:34Speaker 3: from there, and towards the end, Cooper realizes that she
- 18:37Speaker 3: was right and that love is quantifiable.
- 18:41Speaker 2: And you can use it to your advantage, and.
- 18:44Speaker 3: That's how he figures out that he can pass a
- 18:46Speaker 3: message to Murph while in this fifth dimension test seract
- 18:51Speaker 3: that's been created.
- 18:52Speaker 2: Essentially, it's I.
- 18:54Speaker 1: Think it's also worth bringing up that, like Brand is
- 18:56Speaker 1: absolutely the character that plants the seed for this, I
- 19:00Speaker 1: think who also helps cells this is Doctor Man or
- 19:05Speaker 1: is he a doctor Man as pot.
- 19:06Speaker 2: Man, doctor mant Man, doctor Man.
- 19:10Speaker 1: So doctor Man is a fascinating character in this movie.
- 19:16Speaker 1: I think he's one of the more interesting points of
- 19:18Speaker 1: the whole film. So doctor Man, not subtly named at all,
- 19:24Speaker 1: is supposed to represent the downfall of man, and like
- 19:28Speaker 1: the evil that man has in his heart, even if
- 19:32Speaker 1: man is not inherently it doesn't seem inherently evil. There
- 19:36Speaker 1: is evil in the heart of all man, right, and
- 19:39Speaker 1: like that's what they're trying to get across with this
- 19:41Speaker 1: Heart of Darkness story. In surprise Matt Damon. I remember
- 19:46Speaker 1: the first time Matt Damon just popped out of the
- 19:49Speaker 1: capsule watching this in theaters, how shocked I was was
- 19:52Speaker 1: Matt Damon, And what a great choice since, like traditionally
- 19:55Speaker 1: Matt Damon is like a protagonist, and he is someone
- 19:59Speaker 1: that we as Hollywood audiences have come to trust, and
- 20:04Speaker 1: what a great way to abuse that trusty as as
- 20:08Speaker 1: he backstabs the crew and his cowardice. But the reason
- 20:11Speaker 1: why I bring him up is so earlier in the film,
- 20:15Speaker 1: Brand talks about how she she's so excited about the
- 20:21Speaker 1: about the mission, and one of the reasons is because
- 20:25Speaker 1: they're they're heading into parts unknown and uh, into the
- 20:30Speaker 1: purity of the unit of the universe. And h Coop
- 20:34Speaker 1: asks her about about evil, and she says, well, there
- 20:37Speaker 1: is no evil because uh, you know, evil is a
- 20:40Speaker 1: concept of man and we're we're heading to parts that
- 20:44Speaker 1: humanity has never touched. And Coop says, so it's only
- 20:47Speaker 1: that which we bring with us, which I think you
- 20:50Speaker 1: can relate to the line about love, right, And it's
- 20:55Speaker 1: that love that we bring with us throughout time and
- 20:58Speaker 1: space that that permeates throughout the universe. And like evil
- 21:03Speaker 1: is just as as powerful, or maybe not just as powerful,
- 21:07Speaker 1: but like certainly as permissible as it can permeate the
- 21:11Speaker 1: universe just as easily as love. Can, right, it's that
- 21:14Speaker 1: which we bring with us, and evil extended beyond space
- 21:18Speaker 1: and time right all the way to a different galaxy. Ye,
- 21:22Speaker 1: through this, this tragedy of a man and doctor.
- 21:25Speaker 3: Man, especially because he was supposed to be the best
- 21:27Speaker 3: of them all and he ends up being ends up
- 21:30Speaker 3: being the worst of them all. And I mean, and
- 21:36Speaker 3: that's like real proof too on how evil can just
- 21:38Speaker 3: overtake your thought process, because nothing that he does when
- 21:42Speaker 3: he gets woken up makes sense. He had so many
- 21:45Speaker 3: times where he could have like told the truth and
- 21:50Speaker 3: it could have gone differently, you know.
- 21:52Speaker 1: Yeah, Like this is actually something that my partner brought up.
- 21:56Speaker 1: She asked, like, why can't why can't he just go
- 22:00Speaker 1: back on the ship with them? And I think I
- 22:05Speaker 1: think there's certainly an argument to that, right, Like he
- 22:09Speaker 1: he could have just said, like, guys, there's nothing here.
- 22:12Speaker 1: I was just hoping someone would rescue me, and like
- 22:14Speaker 1: I realized, like that's going to drain our resources a bit,
- 22:16Speaker 1: but like I don't want to di low.
- 22:20Speaker 3: I think the reason he didn't do that is because
- 22:22Speaker 3: he heard Coop and Amelia talking about because they found
- 22:27Speaker 3: out that Plan A was a sham while he was
- 22:31Speaker 3: in the same room and then told them the truth.
- 22:34Speaker 3: And in that moment, he knew that they didn't want
- 22:37Speaker 3: to go to another planet.
- 22:38Speaker 2: They wanted to go back to Earth.
- 22:40Speaker 3: And so that's why he decided to like steal the
- 22:43Speaker 3: ship and try to repopulate and take like the samples
- 22:47Speaker 3: to repopulate.
- 22:48Speaker 2: A different part.
- 22:49Speaker 1: I thought he was trying to go back home. I
- 22:50Speaker 1: thought he wanted to go back to Earth.
- 22:52Speaker 2: No, I thought he was. My interpretation is that he
- 22:56Speaker 2: was going to continue the mission, and Coop was the one.
- 22:59Speaker 4: Koop and Miliar were the ones who wanted to go
- 23:01Speaker 4: back to Earth.
- 23:01Speaker 3: After that because they didn't have enough They didn't have
- 23:04Speaker 3: enough fuel to go to Edmund's planet. They had to
- 23:06Speaker 3: go either to Earth or to Edmund's planet after doctor
- 23:09Speaker 3: Mann's planet, right, and when they found out that planet
- 23:12Speaker 3: was a sham. My thought was like Coop was going
- 23:15Speaker 3: to go home, but he can't go home, and like
- 23:19Speaker 3: everyone would have to go home or everyone would have
- 23:22Speaker 3: to they can do both.
- 23:23Speaker 1: And I'm not I'm see I'm inclined to believe your
- 23:28Speaker 1: confidence here, but like I really thought, like, like this
- 23:32Speaker 1: man is so cowardly and that he knows that like
- 23:35Speaker 1: the option that their mission is so fruitless, and that
- 23:39Speaker 1: like he misses human contact so much that he's just like,
- 23:44Speaker 1: screw it, I'm going back to the burning planet and
- 23:47Speaker 1: I'll die with the human race because like if it's
- 23:50Speaker 1: if it's what you said the former, there is like
- 23:53Speaker 1: a certain degree of heroism to that, right that he's
- 23:57Speaker 1: still going to try and save like the species. And
- 24:00Speaker 1: I'm not sure that's what he was trying to do,
- 24:03Speaker 1: especially with like what Coop and Brand end up doing, right,
- 24:10Speaker 1: I guess I have to listen to his motivations again.
- 24:13Speaker 3: But the Coop and Brand thing only ends up happening
- 24:15Speaker 3: because he ends up trying to steal the space station
- 24:18Speaker 3: or the ship, yeah, and blows a hole in it,
- 24:21Speaker 3: and then they had to think of like another way
- 24:24Speaker 3: to figure out how to get back basically or to
- 24:29Speaker 3: you know, for Amelia to get to Edmonds's planet.
- 24:33Speaker 1: Right, So.
- 24:36Speaker 2: Yeah, who knows, Maybe it's open to interpretation.
- 24:39Speaker 1: We'll see, we could do a whole podcast.
- 24:40Speaker 2: Let us know, let's just talk about that scenario.
- 24:43Speaker 1: Please please, Obviously we have to watch the movie again.
- 24:47Speaker 1: I'll you know what I might defer to you on
- 24:49Speaker 1: this just because you have seen this movie more than
- 24:52Speaker 1: I have. So I will defer for now, but yeah,
- 24:56Speaker 1: please let me know if I'm right. But uh, yeah,
- 25:01Speaker 1: so love is the big vehicle that saves the day. Honestly,
- 25:07Speaker 1: Like if you are, if you're listening to how love
- 25:11Speaker 1: is the factor that saves the day? I think I
- 25:14Speaker 1: think it works for this film, and I think that's
- 25:16Speaker 1: what you need to I think that's what it should
- 25:20Speaker 1: be graded against rather than well, I wanted it to
- 25:23Speaker 1: just be heart science. I think there is enough heart
- 25:26Speaker 1: science for love to be the thing that makes this work,
- 25:29Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, and empathy ultimately is the vehicle that
- 25:34Speaker 1: will save this species. I think that's actually a great commentary,
- 25:37Speaker 1: even like on just like today's politics and geopolitical news,
- 25:45Speaker 1: that empathy is the thing that that raises us as
- 25:47Speaker 1: a species.
- 25:48Speaker 3: But even like, but it does go hand in hand
- 25:50Speaker 3: because the science. If you take love out of the equation,
- 25:53Speaker 3: the science doesn't complete because there's still yes, they the
- 25:57Speaker 3: higher the higher beings, which is us figured out a
- 26:01Speaker 3: way to create a Tesseract in their fifth dimension. But
- 26:06Speaker 3: the only way that you can then still make the
- 26:08Speaker 3: science work there is you have to be able to
- 26:10Speaker 3: send a message back, right, And the only way that
- 26:13Speaker 3: you can know how to send a message back to
- 26:16Speaker 3: the past so that someone that you love is going
- 26:19Speaker 3: to be able to know.
- 26:20Speaker 2: What to look for is through love.
- 26:22Speaker 3: There's no other way, Like you can't, like especially with
- 26:25Speaker 3: the way that they are able to do it, which
- 26:27Speaker 3: essentially is like via gravity, Like there is no other option.
- 26:31Speaker 3: And not only that, they had to send multiple messages
- 26:34Speaker 3: throughout time so that in the moment Murph knew that
- 26:38Speaker 3: she had to that the watch is where the answer was, right,
- 26:42Speaker 3: Like Coop sends the coordinates first, right, and then throughout
- 26:48Speaker 3: Murph's life is like knocking shit over on the bookshelf
- 26:52Speaker 3: to make Murph think that someone's trying to get her attention,
- 26:54Speaker 3: so that finally when he sends the big the big
- 26:59Speaker 3: reveal and the big data of gravity and watch, she
- 27:03Speaker 3: knows that. Like when she looks at the watch, she
- 27:05Speaker 3: knows that there's a message there. Like, but he had
- 27:08Speaker 3: to do that throughout time, you know.
- 27:10Speaker 1: Right, And like also like keep in mind that, like
- 27:13Speaker 1: it has to be Coop and it has to be
- 27:14Speaker 1: Murph right, right, because the bulk beings as they call them,
- 27:20Speaker 1: are are counting on the fact that Coop loves Mrph
- 27:24Speaker 1: so much that he is willing to sacrifice his relationship
- 27:29Speaker 1: with her, no matter how painful that actually is, to
- 27:32Speaker 1: traverse the cosmos and you know, jump on the grenade
- 27:36Speaker 1: essentially and let Brand go off and lived that he
- 27:40Speaker 1: ends up in the situation where he's faced with the singularity.
- 27:44Speaker 1: Most human beings cannot do that, As doctor Mann points
- 27:47Speaker 1: out that most humans can't extend empathy beyond themselves, right
- 27:52Speaker 1: beyond their immediate reach, right beyond the immediate consequences, right
- 27:55Speaker 1: whereas Coop could. That's how powerful his love and therefore
- 27:59Speaker 1: empathy actually was, and that's what makes the equation work.
- 28:03Speaker 3: Yeah, and also it brings up the question of what
- 28:06Speaker 3: happened first, the wormhole or Coo Cooop saving Coop saving
- 28:10Speaker 3: the eaving.
- 28:12Speaker 1: Okay, let's get into this. So I love this. I
- 28:15Speaker 1: love this discussion. So I cannot take credit for this idea.
- 28:19Speaker 1: I saw someone online talk about this and I think
- 28:21Speaker 1: they are absolutely correct. So if you recall when they
- 28:27Speaker 1: enter the wormhole, which, by the way, the wormhole is
- 28:29Speaker 1: so cool, so cool, And to to talk about the
- 28:35Speaker 1: wormhole for a second, it is extremely for the point
- 28:38Speaker 1: that I'm going to make, I think it's extremely pertinent
- 28:40Speaker 1: to take note of the fact that they specifically tell
- 28:43Speaker 1: you that the wormhole is not a two dimensional hole,
- 28:47Speaker 1: that is this three dimensional object. It is a sphere.
- 28:50Speaker 1: It's a hole, that's a sphere.
- 28:51Speaker 4: A spherical hole, a spherical.
- 28:53Speaker 3: Hole, spherical and a spherical.
- 28:59Speaker 1: It's a hole that you can fall into from any direction. Right,
- 29:02Speaker 1: And when when we're in the the wormhole, you know,
- 29:07Speaker 1: there's there is a discussion about how like all time
- 29:10Speaker 1: is happening all at once, the past, the present, of
- 29:12Speaker 1: the future all happening at the same time. Right, Okay,
- 29:14Speaker 1: we passed through the wormhole or on the other side
- 29:16Speaker 1: of the wormhole. It is at this point during the
- 29:18Speaker 1: movie we find out that Earth is sending messages to
- 29:21Speaker 1: the ship, but the ship can't send messages back, right,
- 29:26Speaker 1: And they never explain exactly why that is. They say
- 29:30Speaker 1: it could be for any number of reasons that they're
- 29:33Speaker 1: not able to send them back, and and there is
- 29:35Speaker 1: this belief on Earth that either a they're dead or
- 29:38Speaker 1: b they've abandoned Earth. Right. However, as as this user
- 29:44Speaker 1: pointed out on Reddit, what seems to have actually happened here.
- 29:50Speaker 1: So when they go through the wormhole, Doctor Brand has
- 29:52Speaker 1: the interdimensional handshake with she doesn't know who it is,
- 29:56Speaker 1: but we come to find out the end of the movie.
- 29:57Speaker 1: It's Coop on his way back after he's exited the
- 30:01Speaker 1: Tests I Act the Singularity, and he's on his way
- 30:04Speaker 1: back to the Solar System, right, and he's passing through
- 30:08Speaker 1: at a future point in time. Right. Okay, So this
- 30:12Speaker 1: user points out that the moment they enter the wormhole,
- 30:15Speaker 1: the mission is successful. As soon as they go in there,
- 30:19Speaker 1: the mission is done because Coop is already on his
- 30:22Speaker 1: way back, right. So when they're on the other side
- 30:24Speaker 1: of the wormhole, they are One way to think about
- 30:29Speaker 1: it is the future is fixed and they've already have
- 30:34Speaker 1: done what they're going to do. Therefore, they can't they're
- 30:38Speaker 1: in the future compared to like where Earth is, right,
- 30:41Speaker 1: they can't send messages back to Earth because they can't
- 30:46Speaker 1: change the past at that point. They can't just send
- 30:49Speaker 1: messages through the wormhole because they're so far into the future,
- 30:52Speaker 1: which is why it's so imperative that they're in the
- 30:55Speaker 1: TESTA Act at one point or Coop is because the
- 30:58Speaker 1: only way you could interact with the pass is through gravity,
- 31:00Speaker 1: and they were not sending messages through gravity before because
- 31:04Speaker 1: only gravity coulture first time, they were sending it via
- 31:07Speaker 1: you know, light waves, right or radio waves, same difference,
- 31:10Speaker 1: I guess. So they're so far into the future that
- 31:15Speaker 1: the messages are only just catching up to them, which
- 31:17Speaker 1: is why they can't send messages back because it's already happened.
- 31:22Speaker 1: It's already done.
- 31:29Speaker 3: Right.
- 31:30Speaker 1: I love that, Right, Isn't that crazy? And like the
- 31:32Speaker 1: movie is kind of lying to us because, like the movie,
- 31:35Speaker 1: the way it's edited, it deceives us into thinking that,
- 31:38Speaker 1: like the actions that are happening on Earth with like
- 31:41Speaker 1: Murph as an adult is happening tangently with them and
- 31:45Speaker 1: the other galaxy, but it's not. It's we're watching the
- 31:49Speaker 1: past at that point.
- 31:50Speaker 2: Right, ah man, Right?
- 31:55Speaker 1: Is that wild?
- 31:57Speaker 2: That is so good. That's such a great explanation that
- 32:01Speaker 2: answers so many of my questions too.
- 32:04Speaker 3: Like the second they touched the wormhole at the beginning
- 32:08Speaker 3: of the film.
- 32:09Speaker 1: It's successful, it's done.
- 32:11Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, then you can just turn the movie off.
- 32:14Speaker 1: You've seen the whole thing. As a handshake, it's over.
- 32:19Speaker 4: You edit Interstellar to.
- 32:20Speaker 3: Just cut to the end of the film once they
- 32:23Speaker 3: hit the wormhole at the beginning.
- 32:26Speaker 1: Am I trying to do that that sounds like a
- 32:28Speaker 1: really fun edit.
- 32:30Speaker 4: Hits the wormhole cuts to Murphy Station end of film.
- 32:35Speaker 1: No, you know what, you know, it would be the
- 32:36Speaker 1: perfect way to edit that. It's they cut into the wormhole,
- 32:39Speaker 1: Brand reaches out for the handshake, and then you cut
- 32:41Speaker 1: to when Coop is doing the handshake and then exits.
- 32:45Speaker 4: Yeah the movies though, Yeah, yeah, movie's over.
- 32:48Speaker 1: I love that. Awesome. That's it. We solve it.
- 32:50Speaker 3: We solved the problem of interstellar time travel science.
- 32:57Speaker 1: Before we we we move on with time trouble. Nick,
- 32:59Speaker 1: is there is there anything about the movie itself that
- 33:03Speaker 1: that you wanted to get into and explore.
- 33:05Speaker 3: I love the the tars and Chase characters having like
- 33:09Speaker 3: these you know, robot this robot intelligence kind of traveling
- 33:16Speaker 3: with them through time. Fascinating, really cool addition, I don't
- 33:20Speaker 3: have much to say on that other than like, those
- 33:22Speaker 3: are some of my favorite characters, you know, and they're
- 33:24Speaker 3: just technically robots. And also the use of the like
- 33:31Speaker 3: humor settings and honesty settings throughout the film, especially at
- 33:35Speaker 3: the end when Coop leaves Amelia. Really like Nolan just
- 33:39Speaker 3: does a little shit like that in his films that
- 33:41Speaker 3: just like.
- 33:44Speaker 2: They just get you.
- 33:45Speaker 1: Towards they seem they seem like throwaways in the beginning,
- 33:48Speaker 1: and then he uses them in such a meaningful ways
- 33:50Speaker 1: at the end.
- 33:51Speaker 3: Yeah, he's just like, oh, we agreed, we agreed, brand
- 33:54Speaker 3: you know, like honestly, I was just thinking.
- 33:57Speaker 1: About it just there, just so good, so like just
- 33:59Speaker 1: a little shit like that.
- 33:59Speaker 2: And of course, like you touched on it a little
- 34:01Speaker 2: bit earlier.
- 34:01Speaker 3: But the score, this has to be one of Hans
- 34:03Speaker 3: Zimmer's like best film scores of all time, and this
- 34:06Speaker 3: is like run of applause. This is as good as
- 34:08Speaker 3: it gets. And he's they're so good at like getting
- 34:12Speaker 3: you ready for what's coming with the introduction to the
- 34:16Speaker 3: score for the moment of the scene, right like the
- 34:20Speaker 3: scene where they leave doctor Mann's planet and they're like
- 34:25Speaker 3: hoping that doctor Man doesn't dock because if he opens
- 34:29Speaker 3: the doc bay when he's docked incorrectly, it's going to
- 34:31Speaker 3: cause an explosion, and of course he does.
- 34:33Speaker 2: He opens it.
- 34:33Speaker 3: There's an explosion, and all of a sudden, like there's
- 34:36Speaker 3: this like little bit of music starting to play in
- 34:39Speaker 3: the background, and you kind of get this feeling that
- 34:41Speaker 3: like something crazy is about to happen, like someone's about
- 34:44Speaker 3: to do something insane, and essentially it's Coop who decides
- 34:48Speaker 3: that he's going to dock on a space station that
- 34:51Speaker 3: just exploded and that is spinning at a rate like uncontrollable, right,
- 34:56Speaker 3: And so you get the score that just starts creeping up,
- 34:58Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden it hits like this
- 35:00Speaker 3: massive crescendo at the middle of the score where Coop
- 35:05Speaker 3: actually successfully docs in this like insane scene, you know,
- 35:09Speaker 3: and it's just like, you, like, no one can do
- 35:12Speaker 3: that score wise, Like.
- 35:13Speaker 4: It's like he's as good as he as it.
- 35:16Speaker 3: Gets from a score perspective, Han Zimmer, So, Like, it's
- 35:20Speaker 3: just so cool how they can tell the story with
- 35:24Speaker 3: just the music that's going on, right, I mean, there's
- 35:26Speaker 3: barely dialogue in.
- 35:27Speaker 2: That scene that seems like seven minutes long. It's just
- 35:30Speaker 2: him tucking.
- 35:33Speaker 1: It is. It is a riveting scene. You're absolutely right.
- 35:35Speaker 1: The music really drives that scene home. I think that
- 35:40Speaker 1: the music actually weighs in on you how how life
- 35:43Speaker 1: and death this actually is about to be you brought up, Zimmer. So,
- 35:49Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring up a new favorite thing that I've
- 35:51Speaker 1: learned about this movie, and I think it's going to
- 35:53Speaker 1: be yours too, So Hans Zimmer, as you point out, Uh,
- 35:59Speaker 1: this is this is like Nolan's guy for music. Zimmer
- 36:04Speaker 1: and Nolan are like the Batman and Robin of movies
- 36:09Speaker 1: and music, baby, you know, like the Nolan's come up
- 36:12Speaker 1: with a crazy story, Zimmer comes up with like a
- 36:16Speaker 1: crazy compelling score to help really sell the emotion of something. Right.
- 36:23Speaker 1: Something I've never known about about Zimmer, I don't know
- 36:26Speaker 1: if this is true, but certainly true in this one
- 36:28Speaker 1: specific scene is as we talked about before, the Nolans
- 36:31Speaker 1: have an obsession with playing playing with time in their films,
- 36:36Speaker 1: whether it is literally time travel or just playing with
- 36:39Speaker 1: like your perception of linear time as they change up,
- 36:44Speaker 1: like the editing of a film. Right. Inception is a
- 36:48Speaker 1: great example of that. So Miller's Planet. What I did
- 36:54Speaker 1: not know about Zimmer is apparently he also seems to
- 36:57Speaker 1: have some sort of obsession with time too, or at
- 36:59Speaker 1: least see one of the humor of the Nolan's on
- 37:01Speaker 1: this one, because he does something this film I've never
- 37:06Speaker 1: known any other composer to do, and he well, I
- 37:11Speaker 1: shouldn't say that, he did it in a way that
- 37:13Speaker 1: I've never seen a composer do before, which was the
- 37:16Speaker 1: music plays a very it's not just there to assist
- 37:20Speaker 1: emotionally to drive the scene. It certainly does on Miller's Planet. However,
- 37:25Speaker 1: there is an actual narrative component to the music in
- 37:31Speaker 1: Miller's Planet that I think is amazing. Shout out to
- 37:35Speaker 1: New Rock Stars and that Canadian reviewer who pointed this out.
- 37:40Speaker 1: I believe this is talked about in the book The
- 37:43Speaker 1: Science behind Interstellar. So the planet Miller's Planet, which is
- 37:50Speaker 1: the water planet. We are told that time is very
- 37:54Speaker 1: relative on this planet and that for every hour that
- 38:00Speaker 1: passes on the planet. I forgot what the math is
- 38:02Speaker 1: it is it seven years?
- 38:03Speaker 2: Seven years?
- 38:04Speaker 1: Yeah, one hour is seven years. Okay, So they know
- 38:09Speaker 1: the consequences of doing this, and of course, if you
- 38:12Speaker 1: remember the scene they go down to Miller's planet, they
- 38:16Speaker 1: get hit by a wave, the engine gets flooded, they
- 38:18Speaker 1: get stuck down there for over over two hours, almost
- 38:21Speaker 1: three hours, and they returned back to their mothership to
- 38:25Speaker 1: find out that they've lost almost twenty five years.
- 38:28Speaker 2: Twenty three years, four months, eight.
- 38:30Speaker 1: Days twenty three Wow. Okay, nice, thank you for writing
- 38:33Speaker 1: that down. Okay. So, something that's really amazing about the
- 38:36Speaker 1: music in this scene when they land on the planet.
- 38:40Speaker 1: The moment the hatch of the ship opens, you are
- 38:43Speaker 1: greeted by a slow bit of music and Nick, as
- 38:47Speaker 1: you pointed out, Zimmer's really good at like having this
- 38:50Speaker 1: like very like slow build up. That's something that crescendos
- 38:54Speaker 1: into this monumental scene. And in that scene that very
- 38:56Speaker 1: much happens. Right, we get this little wood block that's
- 39:01Speaker 1: very reminiscent of a clock, right, so like already we're
- 39:04Speaker 1: really stressed out, and then that music swells until we
- 39:07Speaker 1: see the giant wave. Right. What's amazing about the the
- 39:12Speaker 1: woodblock sound that we hear is apparently it is timed
- 39:16Speaker 1: out to be one point twenty five seconds, So every
- 39:20Speaker 1: one point twenty five seconds you hear the if you
- 39:24Speaker 1: keep that going throughout their entire time they are on
- 39:28Speaker 1: the planet, it checks out with the math that the
- 39:31Speaker 1: movie has given us for the amount of time that
- 39:33Speaker 1: they lose. Every one point twenty five seconds is twenty
- 39:37Speaker 1: four hours that passes on Earth. So every time you
- 39:40Speaker 1: hear that's a day, that's a day. That's a day,
- 39:43Speaker 1: that's a day. So you are right there with them
- 39:46Speaker 1: listening to the amount of time that they are losing
- 39:50Speaker 1: as they're on this planet that blew me away.
- 39:52Speaker 3: Oh so heartbreaking, so heartbreaking, man, just like concepts here too, right.
- 40:01Speaker 3: And then when they finally get back to the ship
- 40:04Speaker 3: and I forget his name now the top of my head, Romilly,
- 40:09Speaker 3: I think, yeah, Romilly.
- 40:10Speaker 2: Then but I figured that you.
- 40:12Speaker 3: I started to think you weren't coming back, and then
- 40:14Speaker 3: sleeping my LifeWay just didn't seem right, just like, man,
- 40:16Speaker 3: can you imagine just being.
- 40:17Speaker 2: There for twenty three years alone? Like, oh god.
- 40:21Speaker 1: Also another great point to bring up in the discussion
- 40:26Speaker 1: of doctor Mann. Seriously could do a whole podcast and
- 40:28Speaker 1: just doctor Man, who says, like a few men have
- 40:31Speaker 1: been tested like I have. Romilly definitely was and didn't
- 40:37Speaker 1: freaking lose himself right in the same way. Right, what
- 40:41Speaker 1: a what a good boy? What the best boy?
- 40:43Speaker 2: Not evil?
- 40:44Speaker 1: I think he's not evil.
- 40:48Speaker 3: So speaking of Hans Zimmer still on the score, this
- 40:50Speaker 3: is something I've seen online a couple of times.
- 40:52Speaker 2: So apparently.
- 40:55Speaker 4: Nolan at the beginning only had.
- 41:00Speaker 3: Like the dialogue where it was like a letter from
- 41:04Speaker 3: a son to a father, right, like I don't know
- 41:07Speaker 3: if it was exactly the scene where Coop is rewatching
- 41:14Speaker 3: you know the videos back about his son, like, you know,
- 41:16Speaker 3: checking in. I don't think it was that scene particularly
- 41:19Speaker 3: written down, but he had. Basically, what Nolan had was
- 41:21Speaker 3: a letter from a son written to his father, and
- 41:26Speaker 3: he brings this to Zimmer. He's like, hey, here's a
- 41:29Speaker 3: piece of writing I'm doing, you know, read it and
- 41:35Speaker 3: tell me what you come up with from like a
- 41:36Speaker 3: music perspective. And so Zimmer writes something and calls up,
- 41:41Speaker 3: calls up Nolan. I think Nolan's wife picked up the
- 41:44Speaker 3: phone at the time. But I guess they live close
- 41:46Speaker 3: by to each other because they're like, hey, come over,
- 41:48Speaker 3: I've got something.
- 41:49Speaker 1: Of course they're best friends, of course.
- 41:51Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I think they must live really close because like,
- 41:53Speaker 3: according to what this video I've seen, like they went
- 41:56Speaker 3: to his house like very quick, Zimmer plays a score
- 42:01Speaker 3: for Nolan. Nolan looks at him and goes, well, I
- 42:04Speaker 3: guess I better write the movie now.
- 42:06Speaker 1: Then he writes Interstellar essentially amazing.
- 42:11Speaker 3: It's like a Zimmer's telling the story, like told this
- 42:15Speaker 3: story online somewhere, so we'll have to find it to
- 42:18Speaker 3: it and clip it in.
- 42:19Speaker 1: But that's that's incredible.
- 42:20Speaker 3: But yeah, I was like, man, like, all it takes
- 42:24Speaker 3: is Nolan to have just like a quick story written down,
- 42:28Speaker 3: you know, a piece of a piece of a story
- 42:30Speaker 3: written down. Zimmer writes the score and then Nolan's like, yeah,
- 42:32Speaker 3: this is definitely gonna get done.
- 42:33Speaker 4: Then should we get into the time travel questions?
- 42:39Speaker 1: Yeah? I think so. And it's so funny because like,
- 42:42Speaker 1: I feel like we've talked so much about time travel
- 42:45Speaker 1: already and we haven't even really gotten into the travel park.
- 42:49Speaker 2: Did it obey its own rules? What are we thinking?
- 42:53Speaker 1: So? I guess it's got a I think we observe
- 42:56Speaker 1: like two different, not too different, but two different like
- 43:01Speaker 1: functions of the relativity of time and how you can
- 43:08Speaker 1: traverse it, right, the first being of course, like them
- 43:13Speaker 1: being on Miller's planet, and we watch how much time
- 43:17Speaker 1: goes by by you know, entering the planet. Right, I
- 43:20Speaker 1: guess it's all the same. Really, it's all affected by gravity,
- 43:23Speaker 1: and it's all affected by the black hole. Yeah, it's like, yeah, like.
- 43:26Speaker 2: The mechanism is really like the ship going through the
- 43:28Speaker 2: wormhole and the black hole basically right like that.
- 43:30Speaker 1: Yeah, you're you're right kind of yeah, we see because really,
- 43:35Speaker 1: like the Tesseract isn't really time travel necessarily, it's it's
- 43:39Speaker 1: how he's going to interact with the past, right, And
- 43:43Speaker 1: I think when we when we're talking about time travel
- 43:45Speaker 1: in this movie, that's probably what most people are talking about.
- 43:48Speaker 1: They're not talking about the wormhole usually.
- 43:50Speaker 2: Right, But it's not.
- 43:51Speaker 3: It's it's a much different time travel than that we're
- 43:53Speaker 3: used to in this draft so far, because a lot
- 43:55Speaker 3: of the times time travel and time travel movies has
- 43:57Speaker 3: to do with like you start somewhere, you go somewhere else,
- 44:01Speaker 3: you come back to where you started, or you which
- 44:05Speaker 3: does happen? Right, Yeah for Coop, Yeah, yeah, like it's
- 44:14Speaker 3: but it's not as it's not as straightforward here in
- 44:16Speaker 3: this film.
- 44:16Speaker 2: Right, like, and there are multiple there are.
- 44:20Speaker 3: Different time travel sections kind of right, like your Miller's
- 44:23Speaker 3: Planet is like a specific section of time travel in
- 44:26Speaker 3: this movie. Right, Like you're on this planet for two hours,
- 44:29Speaker 3: three hours whatever it is, and you lose twenty three
- 44:32Speaker 3: hours when you get off the planet or twenty three
- 44:34Speaker 3: day years when you get off the planet. So like
- 44:36Speaker 3: that's like a moment of time travel. But then later
- 44:39Speaker 3: in the film they go through the black hole to
- 44:41Speaker 3: then end up in this fifth dimension so that you
- 44:43Speaker 3: can interact with the past, which isn't directly time travel.
- 44:46Speaker 3: You're more like interacting with the past, but then that's
- 44:48Speaker 3: going to help navigate what happens later. Very confusing kind.
- 44:56Speaker 2: Of but I don't know. It's not cut and dry.
- 45:00Speaker 3: Like like a back to the future where you travel
- 45:02Speaker 3: to the past and then you go back.
- 45:06Speaker 1: They also didn't have I don't think they really cared
- 45:08Speaker 1: about the science in that movie. They just had Christopher
- 45:11Speaker 1: Lloyd spew out as much science arm it as possible.
- 45:14Speaker 3: Right, But in a lot of the movies we've talked
- 45:16Speaker 3: about in the time travel draft, there's more of like, hey,
- 45:18Speaker 3: we're gonna go here and we're gonna come back here
- 45:20Speaker 3: where Like that really happen in this movie, right, it's
- 45:22Speaker 3: not that kind of time travel.
- 45:24Speaker 2: It's it's more real.
- 45:29Speaker 3: Right, like you're gonna lose the time and you can't
- 45:31Speaker 3: physically go back to where you started, like not with
- 45:36Speaker 3: your body.
- 45:37Speaker 1: At least.
- 45:38Speaker 3: Coop is able to transfer data that he's learned over
- 45:41Speaker 3: the years that he's been gone and he hasn't aged,
- 45:46Speaker 3: but he can't physically go back to where he can't
- 45:50Speaker 3: physically go back to the bedroom, like he has to
- 45:52Speaker 3: transfer the data to the bedroom. And then murvh has
- 45:55Speaker 3: to find him later after she has aged you know,
- 46:00Speaker 3: eighty years or whatever.
- 46:01Speaker 1: So great. Uh, yeah, it's that communication with the past
- 46:08Speaker 1: via gravity, right, which it's not time traveling, it's time talking, right,
- 46:14Speaker 1: which I mean he does time travel, but like in
- 46:16Speaker 1: that specific moment, Yeah, he's.
- 46:18Speaker 2: Time talking, right, it's like time more than travel.
- 46:22Speaker 1: Yeah right, Yeah. I think you know, like some people
- 46:27Speaker 1: I've talked to you about this movie, you know, say
- 46:29Speaker 1: that like they found the ending a little confusing or
- 46:33Speaker 1: maybe not confusing, overwhelming, and and they liked it, but
- 46:38Speaker 1: like they weren't. They were like, yeah, I wasn't smart
- 46:40Speaker 1: enough to understand what happened at the end. I think
- 46:43Speaker 1: watching it a second time really does help. Yeah, because
- 46:46Speaker 1: the second time I watched it, like I felt like
- 46:48Speaker 1: I understood what happened so much better, especially with like,
- 46:53Speaker 1: you know, I think the gravity equation was really lost
- 46:55Speaker 1: on me the first time I watched the movie because
- 46:57Speaker 1: of like how overwhelming. So much of what you're seeing
- 47:01Speaker 1: is like not just like the problems that they're facing
- 47:05Speaker 1: as astronauts, but like the visuals that you're seeing are
- 47:09Speaker 1: so overwhelming in this movie. And I don't think that
- 47:12Speaker 1: that's necessarily a detriment against the film. I think. I
- 47:15Speaker 1: think it captures the vastness of space and the vastness
- 47:17Speaker 1: of the problems that we would encounter as interstellar travelers,
- 47:22Speaker 1: right right, But I could see why someone would have
- 47:26Speaker 1: a hard time understanding, wait, we're time traveling. But uh yeah,
- 47:34Speaker 1: I mean you pretty much nailed it there. You know,
- 47:36Speaker 1: the time travel is the moment that we enter the wormhole,
- 47:40Speaker 1: which is, you know, this construct that these bolk beings
- 47:42Speaker 1: created for us, right, and then again the bolt beings
- 47:46Speaker 1: interfering with the tesser Act in the Singularity that allows
- 47:50Speaker 1: Coop to communicate with the past and ultimately save the
- 47:53Speaker 1: future because, as we learn, past, present, future all happening
- 47:58Speaker 1: at the same time, which is pretty cool. Yeah. I
- 48:03Speaker 1: love the Time Travels movie. I think it. I think,
- 48:06Speaker 1: even if it doesn't try to explain the tests or
- 48:09Speaker 1: act like the hard science of the testa act at
- 48:12Speaker 1: the end, because like apparently you could apparently like it's
- 48:15Speaker 1: theoretically possible to do what like the math checks out
- 48:19Speaker 1: crazy physically no impossible at this current moment. But uh yeah,
- 48:28Speaker 1: I love that the movie goes out of its way
- 48:31Speaker 1: to explain relativity and how time travel is possible via
- 48:37Speaker 1: that right. As complicated as that could be, it does
- 48:42Speaker 1: explain it, and I think it does it pretty well.
- 48:44Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think for the most part it obeys
- 48:46Speaker 3: its own rules too, that it sets within the time
- 48:48Speaker 3: travel right.
- 48:49Speaker 1: So oh yeah, the first time I thought it broke rules.
- 48:52Speaker 1: The second time, I'm like, nope, didn't break any rules.
- 48:54Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, awesome, I've done. I did such a good
- 48:58Speaker 3: job picking in my time travel drafting.
- 49:01Speaker 1: We'll see about that. We'll get to my argument in
- 49:03Speaker 1: a moment. I think some people like as far as
- 49:08Speaker 1: like why why the ending is like so abruptive to them.
- 49:11Speaker 1: It's like, wait, he's just like in a bookcase behind
- 49:15Speaker 1: her bedroom, Like what why is the bookcase in space?
- 49:20Speaker 1: But of course fifth dimensional beings creating this construct for
- 49:24Speaker 1: Coop to enter and traverse time. I guess he is
- 49:28Speaker 1: trying time traveling, there, isn't he, because he's going through
- 49:31Speaker 1: different eras of IMR's past.
- 49:33Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, he's time traveling.
- 49:34Speaker 3: But it's still it's just communicative really, like is he
- 49:36Speaker 3: gonna write he can't physically be there, right, right?
- 49:39Speaker 1: Right, He's not physically there, but like, yeah, he's viewing
- 49:41Speaker 1: different parts of the past, right via gravity and be
- 49:44Speaker 1: a light and it's it's neat that Brand actually tells
- 49:48Speaker 1: us what this is like. Way in the beginning of
- 49:51Speaker 1: the movie, when the exit Miller's planet and Coop is
- 49:53Speaker 1: desperate to try and get back the time that they lost,
- 49:55Speaker 1: and she's explained that that can't happen, and he brings
- 49:59Speaker 1: up the fifth dimension beings and she says, yeah, but
- 50:02Speaker 1: they're fifth dimensional beings like for them, they could access
- 50:05Speaker 1: time just as easily as like you and I can,
- 50:08Speaker 1: you know, crawl into a canyon or climb a mountain.
- 50:12Speaker 1: And that's exactly what he ends up doing in the bookcase. Yes, yeah,
- 50:17Speaker 1: so so fascinating. Okay, let's score this movie. Okay, so
- 50:26Speaker 1: I believe we score out of five. So our our
- 50:28Speaker 1: first category for scoring here is the movie itself. How
- 50:32Speaker 1: would you rate the movie? Nick? This was your pick?
- 50:35Speaker 3: This is this is the five out of five. It's
- 50:38Speaker 3: as good as it gets. It's the best, one of
- 50:39Speaker 3: the best movies ever made. I don't think I've ever
- 50:43Speaker 3: given anything a five before. This is the first one.
- 50:45Speaker 2: Here we go.
- 50:47Speaker 1: You know you want there's always room for improvement. Uh No,
- 50:51Speaker 1: I I I almost want to follow you in because
- 50:56Speaker 1: like if you can't give a five to something like this,
- 51:01Speaker 1: What can you give a five too?
- 51:02Speaker 2: Exactly?
- 51:03Speaker 1: So I'm actually I am gonna follow you in I'm
- 51:05Speaker 1: gonna give this movie a five, which I think this
- 51:07Speaker 1: is the first time you and I have both gone
- 51:09Speaker 1: five and five on on something before. I think this
- 51:13Speaker 1: movie pushes the boundaries creatively. It was a huge commercial success.
- 51:17Speaker 1: I think it did exactly what no one was hoping
- 51:19Speaker 1: that it would do. And like, scientifically speaking, the renderings
- 51:23Speaker 1: of these models is a huge achievement, so cinematically, scientifically,
- 51:31Speaker 1: historically now because it's cultural touchstone. Yeah, I think it's wonderful.
- 51:36Speaker 1: I can't believe how well they blend science and empathy
- 51:39Speaker 1: into a movie. It's it's great. Honestly, Like watching this
- 51:43Speaker 1: a second time, I think this is one of no
- 51:45Speaker 1: One's best films, if not maybe his best. I mean,
- 51:49Speaker 1: certainly there's an argument for Oppenheimer, but.
- 51:53Speaker 2: This is damn this is awesome.
- 51:55Speaker 1: I think this is a more complicated movie. Yeah.
- 51:57Speaker 3: And also this is, like you know, Oppenheimer in many
- 52:00Speaker 3: Is is telling a story that is true from history, right,
- 52:04Speaker 3: Like it's pulling from a lot of historical data. This
- 52:08Speaker 3: is complete creativity using some a lot of science backed.
- 52:15Speaker 2: Things, right.
- 52:16Speaker 1: But well, I'd almost argue that, like this movie kind
- 52:18Speaker 1: of paves the wave for Oppenheimer, right because, like so
- 52:21Speaker 1: much of this movie depends on the physics and understanding
- 52:25Speaker 1: the physics correctly, right, right, Like so much of the
- 52:28Speaker 1: story revolves around that. The visuals we see revolves around that.
- 52:32Speaker 1: So you know, he's always both of them have always
- 52:34Speaker 1: had the Nolans have had this, you know, fascination with
- 52:37Speaker 1: science and physics. But I would say that, like this
- 52:40Speaker 1: is kind of the first movie where they really like
- 52:42Speaker 1: dug into it, and I don't think you can have
- 52:44Speaker 1: Oppenheimer without having a really good understanding of physics. Right.
- 52:49Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good point. It's good point.
- 52:52Speaker 1: So fives across the board, ives across the board. Okay,
- 52:55Speaker 1: let's do the time travel of this movie. I'm not
- 53:01Speaker 1: gonna give this a five, but it's gonna be close.
- 53:04Speaker 1: I'm gonna give this. I'm gonna give it a five.
- 53:08Speaker 1: What am I talking about? How can I not like
- 53:13Speaker 1: it obeys its own rules? I think that it This
- 53:17Speaker 1: is for me too. Across the board. Geez, you're gonna
- 53:20Speaker 1: win the whole draft just because of Interstellar. God, yeah,
- 53:27Speaker 1: it obeys its own rules. I think it explains the
- 53:29Speaker 1: rules very well. If you have a problem with the
- 53:32Speaker 1: love Thing, honestly go back and rewatch it, because, like
- 53:34Speaker 1: if you're grading it against the rules of the movie,
- 53:38Speaker 1: I think it works extremely well. I agreed last last
- 53:44Speaker 1: category here, how well it did in the category. The
- 53:48Speaker 1: category here being secret time travel movie.
- 53:54Speaker 4: So this is a little tougher.
- 53:55Speaker 3: I don't know if it's a five because like it's
- 53:57Speaker 3: not what do you say it's not?
- 54:01Speaker 4: Yeah, because like it's.
- 54:02Speaker 3: Not really a secret. I guess once they hit the wormhole,
- 54:05Speaker 3: you kind of know that.
- 54:08Speaker 1: You know, time will be involved. I'm involved, So yeah.
- 54:12Speaker 3: At least, like and I think part of the issue
- 54:15Speaker 3: for us is we know that your choice for secret
- 54:17Speaker 3: time travel is a rival, and that is as close
- 54:19Speaker 3: to as a secret you can get from a time
- 54:21Speaker 3: travel movie.
- 54:23Speaker 1: So that is gonna be the one thing that saves
- 54:24Speaker 1: me this time travel arrival, is you know we're not
- 54:28Speaker 1: gonna you know, that's an automatic five from a secret perspective.
- 54:33Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go with just like probably a four
- 54:35Speaker 3: point three on my end here for secret time Travel.
- 54:38Speaker 1: I'm pretty close. I'm doing a four here, and I
- 54:43Speaker 1: think I think calling it a secret time travel movie.
- 54:46Speaker 1: I know why we would call it a secret time
- 54:48Speaker 1: trouble movie, right right, because like the scene with the
- 54:51Speaker 1: Tesseract is so surprising, right right, Like it's so jarring
- 54:56Speaker 1: you're like whoa, yeah, like this is some crazy shit
- 55:00Speaker 1: we're seeing right now, which I love and I wish
- 55:03Speaker 1: more filmmakers would try to be that ambitious, right, So,
- 55:09Speaker 1: like that's the secret, that's the surprise that we are
- 55:11Speaker 1: going to directly interact with the past in a way,
- 55:14Speaker 1: right right. But as far as like the rest of
- 55:17Speaker 1: it goes, like by the time you're on Miller's planet,
- 55:19Speaker 1: like it should be pretty well known, like okay, maybe
- 55:22Speaker 1: not your traditional time travel, but we are time traveling
- 55:25Speaker 1: in a sense, right the surprises of course the end.
- 55:29Speaker 1: So like it's still it still works great in the category.
- 55:32Speaker 1: It doesn't score as high as the other two categories
- 55:34Speaker 1: because you know, like you said, like I said, so yeah,
- 55:37Speaker 1: I'm going with a four here, which yeah, great, great choice, Nick,
- 55:42Speaker 1: this is crazy and that's definitely the highest we've scored
- 55:44Speaker 1: a movie so far on this podcast. Yeah, great, great choice.
- 55:48Speaker 1: I regret I regret not choosing it.
- 55:51Speaker 3: Well, you were just you know, still shell shocks from
- 55:54Speaker 3: the first time seeing it and didn't want to cry
- 55:56Speaker 3: us and you know, but hey, thank you for.
- 55:59Speaker 1: I cried again. I cried again. Now I will, I will, yeah,
- 56:03Speaker 1: I will be a man on this podcast and admit
- 56:06Speaker 1: that I cried a few times. But like again, that
- 56:10Speaker 1: scene with Murph halfway through the movie, it's still as
- 56:13Speaker 1: emotionally scary. I cursed your name, Nick, I cursed you.
- 56:15Speaker 1: I was like, God, damn, nick I. This movie hits
- 56:19Speaker 1: so hard and so ending.
- 56:21Speaker 3: To though gets you, Like he walks in the hospital room,
- 56:24Speaker 3: you know, it's just like, oh my goodness.
- 56:26Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So I think for me it's it's it's
- 56:30Speaker 1: the moment when Murph says, it's my birthday and today's
- 56:34Speaker 1: the day that you told I am now the same
- 56:37Speaker 1: age that you told me i'd see you again.
- 56:39Speaker 3: And then Austin McConaughey just absolutely bawling right right right
- 56:44Speaker 3: the meme that's.
- 56:45Speaker 1: All over the internet. So yeah, as we've already teased up,
- 56:51Speaker 1: next on the Time Travel Draft is my pick for
- 56:53Speaker 1: secret time travel movie Arrival, So be sure to catch that.
- 56:57Speaker 1: But we've got a lot more goodness on the way, Nick,
- 57:00Speaker 1: What's next on the Horizon for us on the Event Horizon.
- 57:03Speaker 3: Keep a look at we are going to do something
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- 57:08Speaker 3: original Wizard of Oz. We're going to talk about Oz
- 57:10Speaker 3: the Great and Powerful, and we're going to talk about
- 57:11Speaker 3: Wicked and kind.
- 57:12Speaker 1: Of just Wick.
- 57:13Speaker 3: There all three that'll be coming up here in a
- 57:15Speaker 3: couple of weeks, so keep an eye out for that.
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- 57:21Speaker 3: We're gonna go through like that whole season once that concludes,
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- 57:27Speaker 3: of April, so we'll do a couple shows about that.
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