GO BEHIND THE SCENES OF INTERSTELLAR | Christopher Nolan film.
//Summary - Level-C2//
The text highlights the creation of the film "Interstellar," focusing on its realistic depiction of space through practical effects and scientific accuracy. It discusses using real locations and innovative visual techniques, integrating scientific concepts like gravity and relativity. The film aims to inspire exploration and adventure, with Matthew McConaughey's character embodying the spirit of discovery.
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(2014) Film "Interstellar"
Christopher Nolan(1970-) directed it, and theoretical physicist Kip Thorne was a scientific consultant.
Kip Thorne served as a scientific consultant to portray wormholes and make the theory of relativity as accurate as possible.
(2017) Kip Stephen Thornea(1940-) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves" in 2017.
(2017-2018) The Event Horizon Telescope has released new M87 supermassive black hole observation images. The exact size shadow was found to be reproduced in the 2018 image (right), taken about one year after the first image in 2017 (left).
(2023) A research team led by Assistant Professor Yuichi Harikane(1991-) of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research at the University of Tokyo used observational data from the James Webb Space Telescope to discover ten massive black holes in the distant universe from 12 to 13 billion years ago.
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It's about people and relationships between people, but for me, dealing with the vastness of the universe has to be the most ambitious thing you've done, which takes several different forms.
He likes to work from reality. When we turn around and say, uh oh, a dust storm, you think you are just looking at an empty landscape, and they put it in for us, so we had to pretend no. Chris always wants to do as much as you can practically.
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If you can achieve it on camera, that's always the goal when shooting somewhere cold. I find it helpful to feel the cold. Would you recreate the biggest glacier in Europe in a studio? We wouldn't.
He takes us to these exotic locations and creates a planetary atmosphere, filling the screen with an actual image that feels real.
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Because it is accurate, the initial impetus for the project has been to say why not examine real possibilities where the world got to in terms of its thinking about gravity being able to Traverse Dimensions, the gravitational lensing.
The effects of gravity on the light around the black hole: Why not look at the actual science there? Luckily, we had Kip Stephen Thorne, the foremost authority on all things gravitational.
What makes this different is that natural science was woven into this film from the beginning and woven in deeply. The visual effects Department under Paul Franklin and everybody at Double Negative took Kip's data.
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They created accurate visual representations. The algorithms gave us something extremely spectacular. Wormholes and black holes have never been shown in any Hollywood movie as they would appear.
This is the first time that the representation started with Einstein's general relativity equations from the beginning.
We built very realistic sets that can be contained entirely in 360 and can put the audience in the shoes of the astronauts exploring these new worlds and new galaxies. The sets that we shot in Los Angeles were quite incredible.
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We built pretty much everything real. We put them on big gimbals so they could go vertical and so we could go zero-g. Everything was on hydraulics. Everything had movement. You can't tell it's made for a film; you want it to look like it's made for real.
We wanted to create an authentic environment for the actors inside the spaceships rather than rely on green screens, so we didn't use any green screens.
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We were very interested in the way that perhaps visual effects were created in the past before computers came along; combining that with the power of modern digital technologies, the idea of creating space environments live on stage.
If you could create imagery you could show on set and make it part of the set, it would give it instant reality.
If there was ever going to be a film that would use IMAX—let's face it—go into space, use IMAX, the camera department had to take a very experimental approach to how it was done.
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We wanted to shoot the film with the IMAX cameras and do a lot of handheld cameras.
We wanted to mount many cameras outside of ships, really treating an IMAX camera. We tried to mount it on helmets, space shoes, and bodies.
NASA has sent IMAX cameras into space; they can film with that camera in tiny spaces. You create a particular feeling, and we want to replicate that. It is a film set in a future where the world tells us our time is up here.
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"And we have to leave the nest and go out into the rest of the universe. That's the mission you've been trained for."
"I've got kids, Professor." "Get out there and save them."
Space travel has always been the ultimate challenge. From the beginning, we've been explorers and adventurers, and humanity's impulse to push boundaries and look beyond where they are right now is a fascinating thing that sets us apart.
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I hope Interstellar will rekindle people's interest in that sort of thing. I need to fix this before I go.
Matthew McConaughey seems so perfect for the part. He's so much the lonely, almost cowboy pilot.
I love what he's brought to Joseph Cooper. I felt like he did something every single day that surprised me. Cooper, he's a man out of time. He's not supposed to be a farmer, he's not supposed to be on the ground, he's supposed to be up there. It means that he should be in space.
GO BEHIND THE SCENES OF "INTERSTELLAR" | Christopher Nolan movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjsUt6YW9go
Special footage of the movie "Interstellar"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZZ9jRan9eo
Everything is "real"! Special behind-the-scenes footage of the movie "TENET"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vu6igY-His&t=244s
[NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is amazing] More than ten massive black holes existed 12-13 billion years ago / Is extraterrestrial life possible? [EXTREME SCIENCE]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uRyE4NO19I
Film Tenet(2020) - Wikipedia
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/TENET_%E3%83%86%E3%83%8D%E3%83%83%E3%83%88
Christopher Nolan(1970-), who wrote and directed the film, has been working on the idea behind Tenet for 20 years but has said, "I've been working on the script for six or seven years." The original title, "Tenet," is a palindrome that reads the same both forward and backwards.
Theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, who worked with Nolan on "Interstellar" (2014), was consulted on time and quantum mechanics.
Interstellar(2014) - Wikipedia
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar
Interstellar is a 2014 American science fiction film written by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan. Christopher Nolan directed it, and theoretical physicist Kip Thorne was a scientific consultant.
Kip Thorne served as a scientific consultant to portray wormholes and make the theory of relativity as accurate as possible. He said, "No film has ever accurately depicted a wormhole, and the same goes for a black hole. For the first time, the depiction is based on Einstein's general theory of relativity."
In creating the wormhole and the supermassive rotating black hole (which has an ergosphere as opposed to a non-rotating black hole), Dr. Thorne collaborated with visual effects supervisor Paul Franklin and 30 computer effects artists at Double Negative. He gave the artists pages of theoretical physics formulas, and they wrote new CGI rendering software to create computer simulations of the gravitational lensing caused by these phenomena. Some individual frames took 100 hours to render and 800 terabytes of data. The visual effects results gave Thorne new insights into the gravitational lensing and accretion disks surrounding black holes, and one academic paper in computer graphics and astrophysics was written for him.
Kip Stephen Thorne (1940 - ) - Wikipedia
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_Stephen_Thorne
Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist. He is a student of John Wheeler and has contributed to the theory of gravity and relativistic cosmology.
He became famous for his book Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy, which explains the history and theories of gravity, black holes, and cosmology. He is also known for his efforts to disseminate cutting-edge scientific knowledge in addition to his research, such as serving as executive producer of the movie Interstellar (2014).
In 2017, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves."
First-ever successful image of a black hole: An Earth-sized radio telescope approaches a massive black hole lurking in the elliptical galaxy M87
https://www.nao.ac.jp/news/science/2019/20190410-eht.html
The M87 black hole one year after the first image
https://alma-telescope.jp/news/bhshadow-202401
The Event Horizon Telescope has released new M87 supermassive black hole observation images. The exact size shadow was found to be reproduced in the 2018 image (right), taken about one year after the first image in 2017 (left). The Greenland Telescope is joining the 2018 observations. The central darkness surrounded by the bright ring corresponds to the shadow of the black hole, and the brightest part of the ring is at 6 o'clock in the 2017 image and 5 o'clock, about 30 degrees different, in the 2018 image.
[Press Release] James Webb Space Telescope discovers a large number of massive black holes in the distant universe
Assistant Professor Harikane Yuichi(1991-) explains at a press conference held at the University of Tokyo's Hongo Campus on December 4, 2023
https://www.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/14512/
A research team led by Assistant Professor Yuichi Harikane of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research at the University of Tokyo used observational data from the James Webb Space Telescope to discover ten massive black holes in the distant universe from 12 to 13 billion years ago. This number is 50 times the number predicted by previous research. A significant result shows that many massive black holes existed in the distant universe 1 to 2 billion years after the universe's birth.
The University of Tokyo and the National Astronomical Observatory discovered more massive black holes than expected in the early universe.
https://scienceportal.jst.go.jp/newsflash/20231225_n01/
Harikane Yuichi(1991-) | Astronomer. He specializes in astronomy and astrophysics. He is an assistant professor at the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo. He completed a doctoral course at the University of Tokyo Graduate School. He worked at the National Astronomical Observatory and University College London before assuming his current position.