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* Possibly an unintended one, but a scientist named '''Mann''' [[spoiler:is caught [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_controversy falsifying data]] ]]
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* On a meta-level. The robot '''CASE''' is voiced by Josh Stewart... who had his first mainstream film debut in The Curious '''Case''' of Benjamin Button.
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* Donald comments on how much he wants a hot dog at the ballgame, saying that eating popcorn is a travesty. Remember that every other vegetable is extinct due to the Blight, and that means most - if not all - livestock have died of starvation. Also notice the meal that Older Tom's family sits down to eat consists entirely of corn-related foods. This aspect is never addressed directly in the film, but subtle touches like that really let you know the extent of the Blight.
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* Donald comments on how much he wants a hot dog at the ballgame, saying that eating popcorn is a travesty. Remember that every other vegetable is extinct crop has failed due to the Blight, and the farmers are struggling to grow enough to feed everyone. It seems unlikely that means most - if not all - any livestock have died of starvation.are still being raised for meat. Also notice the meal that Older Tom's family sits down to eat consists entirely of corn-related foods. This aspect is never addressed directly in the film, but subtle touches like that really let you know the extent of the Blight.
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* TARS tells Cooper "see you on the other side" [[spoiler:just before ejecting himself into Gargantua, which is basically a one-way trip, as far as anyone knows]]. This at first sounds like a continuation of his pithy personality, but on subsequent viewings, knowing that [[spoiler:Cooper will follow him into Gargantua]] it's actually a clever bit of foreshadowing too.
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* TARS tells Cooper "see you on the other side" [[spoiler:just just before ejecting [[spoiler:ejecting himself into Gargantua, which is basically a one-way trip, as far as anyone knows]]. This at first sounds like a continuation of his pithy personality, but on subsequent viewings, knowing that [[spoiler:Cooper will follow him into Gargantua]] it's actually a clever bit of foreshadowing too.
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* TARS tells Cooper "see you on the other side" [[spoiler:just before ejecting himself into Gargantua, which is basically a one-way trip, as far as anyone knows]]. This at first sounds like a continuation of his pithy personality, but on subsequent viewings, knowing that [[spoiler:Cooper will follow him into Gargantua]] it's actually a clever bit of foreshadowing too.
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* Coop says his wife was the calm one, seconds before he chews his daughter's teachers out without raising his voice. Who do we know who's trained to remain calm and suppress their emotions? [[{{Foreshadowing}} Oh, yeah]], [[ChuckYeager pilots]].
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* The school teaching that the Apollo Missions were faked. At first glance this just seems to be a way to get kids to care less about science. Then you realize: they needed to explain away the fall of the Soviet Union as something other than a failure of Collectivism, given the current state of their society. So, they claimed the Soviet Union was bankrupted by its Space Program.
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* The school teaching that the Apollo Missions were faked. At first glance this just seems to be a way to get kids to care less about science. Then you realize: they needed to explain away the fall of the Soviet Union as something other than a failure of Collectivism, that country's people wanting more national autonomy and consumer goods, given the current state of their society.world society (unified world government, subsistence-economy). So, they claimed the Soviet Union was bankrupted by its Space Program.
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* Gargantua seems a little strange at first, being a giant black hole in a solar system and all, [[spoiler: until you realize that in its center is the physical representation of every point in time of a single bedroom. With a nigh-infinite amount of mass in a small amount of space, you can imagine the power it must have.]]
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* Possibly an unintended one, but a scientist named '''Mann''' [[spoiler: is caught [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_controversy falsifying data]] ]]
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* In the Hans Zimmer soundtrack, the only time percussion plays is when there is a time crunch for some reason. The tempo is usually slow and deliberate, except when on Miller's Planet the percussion plays at nearly twice the speed, since outside clocks would seem to run faster from an observer on the planet.
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* The school teaching that the Apollo Missions were faked. At first glance this just seems to be a way to get kids to care less about science. Then you realize: they needed to explain away the fall of the Soviet Union as something other than a failure of Collectivism, given the current state of their society. So, they claimed the Soviet Union was bankrupted by it's Space Program.
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** Actually, it's even more fridge-brilliant than that. The planet is very near the black hole. The TIDES would be extreme: as it spun underneath the black hole, water would leap up into a massive wall walking around the planet... exactly what we see.
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** Actually, it's even more fridge-brilliant than that. The planet is very near the black hole. The TIDES would be extreme: as it spun underneath the black hole, water would leap up into a massive wall walking around the planet... exactly what we see.
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* On a meta-level. The robot '''CASE''' is voiced by Josh Stewart... who had his first mainstream film debut in The Curious '''Case''' of Benjamin Button.
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** Actually, the severe time dialation factor should have made Miller's signal undetectable for all intents and purposes. Furthermore, for the planet to experience a significant time-dialation, it should have been moving at nearly the speed of light compared to the Endurance. May be an example of bad science.
** Actually, the severe time dialation factor should have made Miller's signal undetectable for all intents and purposes. Furthermore, for the planet to experience a significant time-dialation, it should have been moving at nearly the speed of light compared to the Endurance. May be an example of bad science.
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** Actually, the severe time dialation factor should have made Miller's signal undetectable for all intents and purposes. Furthermore, for the planet to experience a significant time-dialation, it should have been moving at nearly the speed of light compared to the Endurance. May be an example of bad science.
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** Actually, the severe time dialation factor should have made Miller's signal undetectable for all intents and purposes. Furthermore, for the planet to experience a significant time-dialation, it should have been moving at nearly the speed of light compared to the Endurance. May be an example of bad science.
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* How could they land on the ocean planet and ''not notice the giant waves from space''? Remember the timescale on the planet was 7 years for every hour on the planet. Those waves would be barely moving when viewed from space, and by the time they were close enough to see they were concerned with landing.
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* Remember Cooper's son's insistence on keeping his family on the farm, even in the face of massive dust storms and crop failures? There was almost certainly a significant number of people who refused to evacuate Earth for exactly those reasons, leading to a lot of self-selection against particular traits. Probably darker than Nolan intended it to be. It's only through Murph setting his corn on fire that he decides to leave...but what if some people didn't do that?
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* Remember Cooper's son's Tom's insistence on keeping his family on the farm, even in the face of massive dust storms and crop failures? There was almost certainly a significant number of people who refused to evacuate Earth for exactly those reasons, leading to a lot of self-selection against particular traits. Probably darker than Nolan intended it to be. It's only through Murph setting his corn on fire that he decides to leave...but what if some people didn't do that?
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* When you realize that due to time dilation, Miller's all green signal would've eventually stopped transmitting to Romilly ''after'' the other astronauts went down to the planet and were trapped there. Which would've left him with an agonizing decision of whether to [[HopeSpot hope they still might make it back]] (and for decades never seeing ANY indication of them surviving) or [[DarkestHour push on with Plan B alone.]]
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* In the parent-teacher conference, the principal and the teacher are dismissive of sending Tom Cooper to college, arguing that the world needs more good farmers than engineers, and explicitly cite Cooper himself as an example of the kind of good farmer they're talking about. It's apparent that, despite disdaining the farming life, Cooper is quite good at it -- however, what we ''also'' see is that Cooper has found many ways of using his engineering skills to help out around the farm; he's built combine harvesters that pretty much drive themselves, uses scavenged drone-parts in barns, etc. It's hinted that it's actually these which give him the edge over other farmers in the area. In other words, what the principal and the teacher clearly don't realise that Cooper is a good farmer ''because'' of his college education.
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* Quite a few viewers have remarked on this movie's pronounced similarities to ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', to which it could be considered a SpiritualSuccessor. In ''2001'', the heroes were human astronauts, and the primary villain was HAL 9000, a chillingly amoral robot who would do absolutely anything to keep the mission going. In ''Interstellar'', the robots are unfailingly loyal companions, and the primary villain is [[spoiler: Dr. Mann, a chillingly amoral human astronaut who will do absolutely anything to make his mission ''end'']].
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* Donald comments on how much he wants a hot dog at the ballgame, saying that eating popcorn is a travesty. Remember that every other vegetable is extinct due to the Blight, and that means most - if not all - livestock have died of starvation. Also notice the meal that Older Tom's family sits down to eat consists entirely of corn-related foods. This aspect is never addressed directly in the film, but subtle touches like that really let you know the extent of the Blight.
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* Chemically minded viewers might sneer at Dr. Mann's explanation of the planet's surface, which is supposedly low enough that the chlorine in the atmosphere doesn't reach it (what with chlorine being so heavy that in most atmospheres it should sink to the bottom rather than remain floating at height). [[spoiler: It's a hint he's bullshitting.]]
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* Remember Cooper's son's insistence on keeping his family on the farm, even in the face of massive dust storms and crop failures? There was almost certainly a significant number of people who refused to evacuate Earth for exactly those reasons, leading to a lot of self-selection against particular traits. Probably darker than Nolan intended it to be.
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* Remember Cooper's son's insistence on keeping his family on the farm, even in the face of massive dust storms and crop failures? There was almost certainly a significant number of people who refused to evacuate Earth for exactly those reasons, leading to a lot of self-selection against particular traits. Probably darker than Nolan intended it to be.
be. It's only through Murph setting his corn on fire that he decides to leave...but what if some people didn't do that?
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* NASA sent the crew up using a rocket to conserve resources for the mission. This allowed them to start the journey with an almost full fuel tank.
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** Saturn's orbit is where the Monolith was in 2001: A Space Odyssey as well.
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** Saturn's orbit is where the Monolith was in 2001: A Space Odyssey as well.well (in the book only; in the movie it was Jupiter).
