Interstellar is something - in a good way. When you see Cooper programming an unknown drone over the air while cutting through his field in a Dodge Durango, taking full control of the drone and letting his daughter Murph land it near their truck - it sets your perception. If you didnt catch that, you probably will end up with many questions. Which is not bad, considering what the movie is!
If this movie was an art movie, it probably may not qualify for National Awards. If this is a family drama, you probably saw Sivaji Ganesan doing it in 60's & 70's. If this is a sci-fi James Cameron already showed it to you. But for a change there is no fighting aliens in this cross galaxy ride. It is about a father trying to get back to his family. I have to admit that I took a short 7 minute nap during the ride.
In 1997, Devi Paradise Chennai, I was munching away popcorn watching Event Horizon along with my elder brother Mani. The movie was about a spaceship that goes missing near Neptune and starts sending distress signals. A crew under Lawrence Fishburne is dispatched to follow the distress signal. The spaceship is called Event Horizon and it is designed by Sam Neil. Event Horizon uses the experimental gravity drive that makes the ship travel faster than light. In real life law of relativity prohibits fast than light travel. The gravity drive creates a gateway allowing the spaceship to jump from one point of the universe to another. Transcript of the scene where Sam Neil explains:
"Dr. William: Lets imagine this attractive piece of paper represents space-time and you want to get from point "A" here to "B" there. Now whats the shortest distance between two points?
Mr. Justin: A straight line
Dr. William: Wrong. The shortest distance between two points is Zero and thats what the gateway does. It folds space, so that point "A" and point "B" co-exist in the same space and time. When the space craft goes through the gateway, space returns to normal. It is called a gravity drive."
I could not find the video of it, but I will post add it to this post whenever I find it.
Christopher Nolan for some reason puts the same scene in Interstellar of course with his characters with almost the same explanations. Event Horizon made in 1997, actually had only 2 factual errors in terms of logic. Interstellar has striking similarities to Event Horizon like travel through wormhole/blackhole, relativity and working around it in space, Dr Mann's distress signal and Event Horizon's distress signal, connections to gravity and time travel.
Luckily I have a collectors edition of Event Horizon and I saw it again immediately after coming out of Interstellar.
Event Horizon probably didn't get its due, but it was an awesome movie of its time.
If this movie was an art movie, it probably may not qualify for National Awards. If this is a family drama, you probably saw Sivaji Ganesan doing it in 60's & 70's. If this is a sci-fi James Cameron already showed it to you. But for a change there is no fighting aliens in this cross galaxy ride. It is about a father trying to get back to his family. I have to admit that I took a short 7 minute nap during the ride.
In 1997, Devi Paradise Chennai, I was munching away popcorn watching Event Horizon along with my elder brother Mani. The movie was about a spaceship that goes missing near Neptune and starts sending distress signals. A crew under Lawrence Fishburne is dispatched to follow the distress signal. The spaceship is called Event Horizon and it is designed by Sam Neil. Event Horizon uses the experimental gravity drive that makes the ship travel faster than light. In real life law of relativity prohibits fast than light travel. The gravity drive creates a gateway allowing the spaceship to jump from one point of the universe to another. Transcript of the scene where Sam Neil explains:
"Dr. William: Lets imagine this attractive piece of paper represents space-time and you want to get from point "A" here to "B" there. Now whats the shortest distance between two points?
Mr. Justin: A straight line
Dr. William: Wrong. The shortest distance between two points is Zero and thats what the gateway does. It folds space, so that point "A" and point "B" co-exist in the same space and time. When the space craft goes through the gateway, space returns to normal. It is called a gravity drive."
Christopher Nolan for some reason puts the same scene in Interstellar of course with his characters with almost the same explanations. Event Horizon made in 1997, actually had only 2 factual errors in terms of logic. Interstellar has striking similarities to Event Horizon like travel through wormhole/blackhole, relativity and working around it in space, Dr Mann's distress signal and Event Horizon's distress signal, connections to gravity and time travel.
Luckily I have a collectors edition of Event Horizon and I saw it again immediately after coming out of Interstellar.
Event Horizon probably didn't get its due, but it was an awesome movie of its time.
I also saw the similarities and when googled the topic, your blog came up. Even more similar: (Interstellar / Event Horizon)
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2. Cooper / Cooper
3. Smith / Smith
4. Edwards Planet / Edward Corrick
Just too much coincidence. Surely Event Horizon was a significant influence on Christopher Nolan. Wasn't sure if anyone saw these similarities as well. Based on google search you and I may be one of the firsts.
I wrote this 6 years ago and here is someone who spotted what I spotted. We are indeed firsts. Great to know Wirth!
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