Full Trailer For Christopher Nolan's Interstellar

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AgentQV said:
The_Darkness said:
...Can anyone identify the trailer music?
IT's Evey Reborn from V for Vendetta, I only know that because I've been listening to the soundtrack for a while.
Ah, thank you. Yes, it definitely is. I've got the scene in my mind now. Cheers.

truckspond said:
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Personally I'm betting that he comes home about a month later... To find his daughter fully grown up because years have passed back on Earth.
Yeah, Relativity typically does not react well to you bending the very fabric of spacetime
Plus, I can see it working as decent drama to put a bittersweet twist on enfolding events. Especially if we can see that she's getting older, but the idea doesn't even occur to McConaughey's character. At least, that's what I'd do. Though I doubt that Christopher Nolan and myself think that much alike...
 

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The Gentleman said:
The_Darkness said:
Yikes. That's by FAR the most realistic looking wormhole I've ever seen on screen. None of this cloudy blue wavy stuff from Star Trek, or glowing warp stars or anything like that - just, well, a decent impression of bent space.
One has to ask how you know what a wormhole/bent space looks like.
I can confirm that the dude is probably right, as a similar-looking thing was part of my random Astronomy course at college. It was actually really neat to see it represented this way in a trailer, especially that dive into it at the end.

I'm no expert but from what I can recall, the reason that wormholes/black holes look like that is because they actually bend light around them due to the effects of their gravitational pull, so flying around one of them would produce that weird "cloaked sphere" effect.
 

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I don't know. I want to be like, "this looks awesome". But the trailer... I mean, Nolan seems to be an expert at taking exciting and interesting things and making them kind of depressing.

It could be presented as: mankind must venture into the stars to save itself, this is the story of that first step!

It's presented as: we are all fucked, a man must leave behind his dying family to endure a journey that is hopeless!

Eh, maybe it's just me.

scotth266 said:
The Gentleman said:
The_Darkness said:
Yikes. That's by FAR the most realistic looking wormhole I've ever seen on screen. None of this cloudy blue wavy stuff from Star Trek, or glowing warp stars or anything like that - just, well, a decent impression of bent space.
One has to ask how you know what a wormhole/bent space looks like.
I can confirm that the dude is probably right, as a similar-looking thing was part of my random Astronomy course at college. It was actually really neat to see it represented this way in a trailer, especially that dive into it at the end.

I'm no expert but from what I can recall, the reason that wormholes/black holes look like that is because they actually bend light around them due to the effects of their gravitational pull, so flying around one of them would produce that weird "cloaked sphere" effect.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you cannot see a black hole at all since no light escapes from them. You would literally need to know where stars should be compared to where they are in order to figure out the location. There would be a noticeable parallax from light bending but not being absorbed by the black hole, from distant stars. Though, as I understand, some forms of radiation escape a black hole, so you could detect them with the right instruments. But you could never see one with the naked eye.
 

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As long as his brother is writing it there is some potential. Christopher Nolan often says his brother is 'the writer' while he's the film-maker and he is right! Christopher Nolan wrote Inception which was a convoluted mess. His best movies are the ones where his brother writes the screenplay (excluding Dark Knight Rises).

I am getting a very 'Inception'-esque idea here with the trailer though. Not knowing what it's about doesn't really make me want to see it. Please don't force some BS in it like Inception.
 

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The_Darkness said:
Yikes. That's by FAR the most realistic looking wormhole I've ever seen on screen. None of this cloudy blue wavy stuff from Star Trek, or glowing warp stars or anything like that - just, well, a decent impression of bent space.
The Wormholes in EVE Online [https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=eve+online+wormhole&safe=off&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=uLZ2U_PpA4vqOazOgMAO&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1920&bih=955#imgdii=_] are like that, they are spherical distortions and you can see the solar system on the other side through it. They used these concepts [http://www.spacetimetravel.org/wurmlochflug/wurmlochflug.html] as a guide for the visual design.
 

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Baresark said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you cannot see a black hole at all since no light escapes from them. You would literally need to know where stars should be compared to where they are in order to figure out the location. There would be a noticeable parallax from light bending but not being absorbed by the black hole, from distant stars. Though, as I understand, some forms of radiation escape a black hole, so you could detect them with the right instruments. But you could never see one with the naked eye.
Well, the point is, you're not actually seeing the black hole.

You're seeing light from behind/around it. Any light that paths straight into the black hole from the source to your eyes is consumed.

However, light that is near the edges of the event horizon is curved, but not drawn in. Thus, you get a refractive lens effect. Similar to if you look at concave/convex glass lenses and look at the edges compared to the center.

So you don't ever "see" the black hole simply because no light comes from it. However, if you were close to the event horizon enough to visually look at it, you would be able to tell(if there was enough light sources to see the effect) that space was distorted.

As for the trailer, what killed it for me was right at the beginning.

Where he comments he's an engineer, and the military space general man makes the jab that 'We don't need more engineers, we already have enough TVs, we need food'

....what do you think engineers....do?
Engineers are given a problem and told to figure out how to solve it. Solving a food shortage would probably be something you could give to engineers.

That, and why is this guy the guy that goes on this interstellar trip? If he's some random engineer/scientist/resident smart guy, why plop him on your random expedition to the stars? Did he draw the short straw at work that day?
 

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The_Darkness said:
Yikes. That's by FAR the most realistic looking wormhole I've ever seen on screen. None of this cloudy blue wavy stuff from Star Trek, or glowing warp stars or anything like that - just, well, a decent impression of bent space.
That was my immediate thought as well. Going into the trailer I knew what the general plot was about, and I knew it involved wormholes (thanks to Kip Thorne), but in the back of my mind I kept thinking, "I bet they messed up the look of the wormhole. I bet it looks like something out of Stargate."

What a relief this wasn't the case. Kudos to Nolan and his team for aiming for some amalgam of realism.

I'm also getting a worrying vibe that relativity might have something to say about them coming home from this trip within a reasonable timescale.
My guess is that either the wormhole will provide some kind of narrative work-around for this issue or the varied time scales will play into the plot in some way.

But yeah. This looks good. Can anyone identify the trailer music?
I believe it's this -
 

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Is this a joke?! Because it sure looks like it! Lone Southern Ranger looking for his family to get his family of the planet that the damn aliens roasted, Yeah, never heard of that before!
 

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I'm getting a pretty strong Contact vibe from this.
SPOILERS: Mr. McConaughey's character says that him and his team were gone for "only" 30 minutes... Every other character down on Earth state he was gone for almost 20 years... The recorded footage in question, which continued recording before and after the "trip", has about 30 minutes of nothing but white noise recorded during it's entire duration...

Dun Dun DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!

OT: I remember seeing this before the Godzilla showing on Thursday... I still don't know how I should feel about this movie or how there's that many studios willing to back this movie up...

Eh... I'll wait until someone "drags" me to see this movie with them, I guess...
 

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Amaror said:
Is this a joke?! Because it sure looks like it! Lone Southern Ranger looking for his family to get his family of the planet that the damn aliens roasted, Yeah, never heard of that before!
What trailer did you watch? Because it sure as hell wasn't the one for Interstellar.

XD
 

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looks good. just hope that it will not focus to much on the single parent part. that part was actually boring in the trailer.
 

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Is this a joke?! Because it sure looks like it! Lone Southern Ranger looking for his family to get his family of the planet that the damn aliens roasted, Yeah, never heard of that before!
Wat?

I... wat?

Give the time point in the trailer where he was either A. looking for his family, or B. anything aliens. -___-

OT: Huh. Looks interesting, but I doubt I'm going to go for it. It looks to be either be utterly tragic or hilariously sentimental in the end.
 

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So... why is the farmer (I know the trailer said he was smart and had a degree in engineering) the one going on the trip into space? Is this so far into the future we no longer have ANY space programs?
That sounds likely. He's a really healthy and smart individual with connections and since there aren't any astronauts anymore he was nominated.
 

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FizzyIzze said:
The_Darkness said:
...Can anyone identify the trailer music?
I'm guessing it's original to the movie, done by Hans Zimmer. The "Interstellar" link on his official/unofficial sites turn up nothing as well. Looks like you'll have to wait until the movie comes out.
Not quite, It's a piece of music from V for Vendetta, the music for which was written by Dario Marianelli, though I can't be sure if he wrote this particular score or not. In any event, to me this has always been one of the most moving pieces of music ever, the arrangement in the trailer is a little calmer than that in V, it's interesting to hear in a different film.

EDIT OK after brief research found it, it is original score from V by Marianelli

 

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socialmenace42 said:
FizzyIzze said:
The_Darkness said:
...Can anyone identify the trailer music?
I'm guessing it's original to the movie, done by Hans Zimmer. The "Interstellar" link on his official/unofficial sites turn up nothing as well. Looks like you'll have to wait until the movie comes out.
Not quite, It's a piece of music from V for Vendetta, the music for which was written by Dario Marianelli, though I can't be sure if he wrote this particular score or not. In any event, to me this has always been one of the most moving pieces of music ever, the arrangement in the trailer is a little calmer than that in V, it's interesting to hear in a different film.
Oh right, somebody already identified this earlier (after my post). It's interesting that you noticed the difference between the two tracks. I isolated the music from the dialogue in the trailer and, while Shazam was able to identify the original Marianelli score off of YouTube, it couldn't identify the piece used in the Interstellar trailer.

Good ear though, it's impressive how both you and AgentQV [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view/AgentQV] knew it off the top of your heads.
 

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FizzyIzze said:
Good ear though, it's impressive how both you and AgentQV [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view/AgentQV] knew it off the top of your heads.
Well I thank you for your critical appraisal of my musical skills, but V was pretty much my philosophical coming of age, I watched and re-watched that movie so many times and it still tops my list of favourite films ever, so I probably couldn't recognise most classical scores but anything from that movie, well I know the whole thing pretty much off by heart.
 

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The_Darkness said:
The Gentleman said:
The_Darkness said:
Yikes. That's by FAR the most realistic looking wormhole I've ever seen on screen. None of this cloudy blue wavy stuff from Star Trek, or glowing warp stars or anything like that - just, well, a decent impression of bent space.
One has to ask how you know what a wormhole/bent space looks like.
A degree in astrophysics, a decent knowledge of gravitational lensing (which is bent space) and a ridiculous amount of my spare time thinking about how light would travel through a 4d tunnel...

You did ask :)
Any thoughts on how a singularity would behave?