SUNSHINE: Danny Boyle discusses Science
Sunshine Director/Filmmaker Danny Boyle discusses the Science and Research behind his latest Sci-Fi film with Kurt Loder.
I think we just have to incentivate movies like this. Certainly there are some improbable facts, but on the other hand there are brilliant ideas that could be taken in consideration for a space mission in the future. Well, I liked very much this movie!
I absolutely agree! Sunshine is a touching and very tough film to make! It combines great humanity and convincingly shows a scientific leap of faith...Sunshine is well-told, the characters are fleshed out keenly, and the startling science is brave, bold, aesthetically compelling and the tension is palpable even as it ventures into metaphysics which is the most human way to involve the audience in deep science by having characters that one can relate to or at least admire or empathize with into the most stressful, compelling tension-filled situation. At every moment in the film, the viewer sees the humanity of the astronauts and the decisions they are faced with...fluent story, superb direction, intuitive cast...best scientific and most thrilling and dramatic solar scenario onscreen....superior science fiction....the visuals were breathtaking, the people were compelling, and the moment of Mercury passing was the moment that allows the audience to take a moment and ponder the beauty and magnificence of Sunsine.
I would favor it over many darker and less involving peril-in-space works before and after because of the unique combination of humanity, physics plausibility albeit a large leap, and philosophical boldness in telling the story where imagination becomes, as Einstein once said, more important than knowledge.
Hankies on their faces... but don't take the space suits.
No one made a contingency plan for a COURSE CORRECTION?
You are on a ship... and no one planned... for the possibility... that you might change course?
Think about the monstrous implausibility of that.
And what does the computer do?
The computer can talk and override manual control...
But it can't do course calculations?
Leave the course calculations to this one guy to do by hand?
And no one checks his math?
There's no check list? There's no contingency plan FOR A COURSE CORRECTION?
I WOULD NOT TRUST THESE IDIOTS TO TAKE ME TO THE GROCERY STORE!
What? What? What?
They go off by 1.1 degrees and it fries the shields... so the solution is to go off by thirty additional degrees? What? What?
What Universe was this film made in?
As a non-scientist, I have to say, that Sunshine was the most preposterously unscientific film I have ever seen. It is very, very clear that the director and writer's understanding of the Universe is about as sophisticated as a Roadrunner cartoon.
Who picked these "Astronauts"... they make so many bad decisions.
They had seven years to make contingency plans. SEVEN YEARS, and no one, NOT A ONE OF THE PLANNERS of this the MOST IMPORTANT MISSION IN HUMAN HISTORY thought, "What if they run into the old ship?"
They went into an unknown environment wearing hankies on their faces. For Goodness sake! Who would be so monstrously STUPID?
Okay... they go after Icarus I (why is it named Icarus ONE? Doesn't the ONE imply that there will be a two? It would have been named Icarus.) because they need a "backup". Assuming they did everything perfectly, and they got the second bomb, they would then have to accelerate away from the sun WITH THE SECOND BOMB ATTACHED to one ship or the other. I presume the first bomb is also the SIZE OF MANHATTAN.
Did anyone ask for a second how much energy it would take to slow a hunk of bomb THE SIZE OF MANHATTAN to a total halt at the Sun's Corona, and then accelerate a ship away from the sun's gravity at that distance...
To go from 29,000 kilometers per hour to a halt within the orbit of Mercury while flying DIRECTLY AT THE SUN? It is absurd. You didn't even give them some sort of antigravity device. It would've been perfectly permissible within the framework of science fiction to give them powerful devices...
This film is an INSULT to science, and an insult to anyone with half a brain who watches it. It is a sad statement about the effectiveness of science education that anyone can watch this thing without vomiting in horror at its scientific inaccuracies that exceed the preposterous by orders of magnitude.
Other than that, it was pretty good!
Saw the movie a few nights ago. It was AWESOME. I'm a scientist myself so I found it kind of querky at times and a little unrealistic, but im also a philosopher an cinemaphile so I loved it.
Was extremely upset about the extraordinarily poor marketing for the film though. I watched the trailer on youtube, but I had to do far more research than I should have just to find out when it was to appear in American theaters (didn't even find out for over a month after watching it on youtube).
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