Interstellar just came out on DVD, and I've been thinking a lot about the ending. Apparently, the happy ending where Cooper goes into the black hole, changes the past, and gets shot back out just in time to get picked up by the people of the future, and sees his daughter again just before she dies of old age, and goes off to rescue Brand...was all not supposed to happen.
http://nerdist.com/jonathan-nolans-ending-to-interstellar-made-a-lot-more-sense/
In Jonathan Nolan's original ending, the wormhole collapses when Cooper flies into it. He sends the data about the planets and wormholes off and it's left to the audience to decide if the people on Earth are able to rescue themselves with it in time, and nobody is left to go rescue Brand. No happy ending for the heroes, no certainty of a future for anybody, just hope and loss.
The major plot point this leaves dangling is the gravity anomalies at the start of the film which led Murphy and Cooper to NASA in the first place. Apparently these were supposed to gravity waves produced by a neutron star being destroyed by the black hole, but Christopher Nolan felt that was too much science for the audience to digest. Plus he had to carve out his happy ending.
Personally, I think I would have preferred the sad ending. I was touched when Cooper and Murphy met again and I really felt joy for Brand as she stood there alone on the planet knowing she would get rescued, but something tells me the weight of the previous plot points was reduced by all of this. After all of the harsh punches to the gut the movie gives you, the ending really feels too perfect in hindsight. Seeing Cooper set up the robot again was funny, but I think I would have preferred a more stark ending which juxtaposes hope and loss than a happy ending that wraps up everything in a nice neat bow like this is a Disney film or something.
What do you think, those of you who have seen Interstellar (or those who haven't and still wish to comment)? Happy ending, or sad ending?
http://nerdist.com/jonathan-nolans-ending-to-interstellar-made-a-lot-more-sense/
In Jonathan Nolan's original ending, the wormhole collapses when Cooper flies into it. He sends the data about the planets and wormholes off and it's left to the audience to decide if the people on Earth are able to rescue themselves with it in time, and nobody is left to go rescue Brand. No happy ending for the heroes, no certainty of a future for anybody, just hope and loss.
The major plot point this leaves dangling is the gravity anomalies at the start of the film which led Murphy and Cooper to NASA in the first place. Apparently these were supposed to gravity waves produced by a neutron star being destroyed by the black hole, but Christopher Nolan felt that was too much science for the audience to digest. Plus he had to carve out his happy ending.
Personally, I think I would have preferred the sad ending. I was touched when Cooper and Murphy met again and I really felt joy for Brand as she stood there alone on the planet knowing she would get rescued, but something tells me the weight of the previous plot points was reduced by all of this. After all of the harsh punches to the gut the movie gives you, the ending really feels too perfect in hindsight. Seeing Cooper set up the robot again was funny, but I think I would have preferred a more stark ending which juxtaposes hope and loss than a happy ending that wraps up everything in a nice neat bow like this is a Disney film or something.
What do you think, those of you who have seen Interstellar (or those who haven't and still wish to comment)? Happy ending, or sad ending?