#Gargantua Steven

[gargoyle-steven-au]

Hey everyone, mod bun here and i made a discord server! Yay!

For safety precautions y'all have to wait 10 minutes before verifying and get access, thank you in advance for your patience and support and come say hi uwu

Edit: The 10 min timeout is glitchy so if you join and be able to verify right away you can! 👍

[fanart-for-life-bun]

Another ref for my au just dropped!

Meet Soilage, Gargantua's evil love and will join the story to even the odds :3

For legal reasons she's only my character, unrelated to any creator

Here's a sketch of the duo

[letterful]

friends, do consider this delightfully eccentric syllabus that i’ve stumbled upon in Steven Moore’s The Novel: An Alternative History (& that was built around the unorthodox masterpiece that is Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel):

“With the motto "Do What You Will," Rabelais gave himself permission to do anything he damn well pleased with the language and the form of the novel; as a result, every author of an innovative novel mixing literary forms and genres in an extravagant style is indebted to Rabelais, directly or indirectly. Out of his codpiece came Aneau's Alector, Nashe's Unfortunate Traveller, Lopez de Ubeda's Justina, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Beroalde de Verville's Fantastic Tales, Sorel's Francion, Burton's Anatomy, Swift's Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels, Fielding's Tom Jones, Amory's John Buncle, Sterne's Tristram Shandy, the novels of Diderot and maybe Voltaire (a late convert), Smollet's Adventures of an Atom, Hoffmann's Tomcat Murr, Hugo's Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Southey's Doctor, Melville's Moby-Dick, Flaubert's Temptation of Saint Anthony and Bouvard and Pecuchet, Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Frederick Rolfe's ornate novels, Bely's Petersburg, Joyce's Ulysses, Witkiewicz's Insatiability, Barnes's Ryder and Ladies Almanack, Gombrowicz's Polish jokes, Flann O'Brien's Irish farces, Philip Wylie's Finnley Wren, Patchen's tender novels, Burroughs's and Kerouac's mad ones, Nabokov's later works, Schmidt's fiction, the novels of Durrell, Burgess (especially A Clockwork Orange and Earthly Powers), Gaddis and Pynchon, Barth, Coover, Sorrentino, Reed's Mumbo Jumbo, Brossard's later works, the masterpieces of Latin American magic realism (Paradiso, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Three Trapped Tigers, I the Supreme, Avalovara, Terra Nostra, Palinuro of Mexico), the fabulous creations of Severo Sarduy and Reinaldo Arenas, Markson's Springer's Progress, Mano's Take Five, Rios's Larva and otros libros, the novels of Patil West, Tom Robbins, Stanley Elkin, Alexander Theroux, W. M. Spackman, Alasdair Gray, Gaetan Soucy, and Rikki Ducornet ("Lady Rabelais," as one critic called her), Mark Leyner's hyperbolic novels, the writings of Magister Gass, Greer Gilman's folkloric fictions and Roger Boylan's Celtic comedies, Vollmann's voluminous volumes, Wallace's brainy fictions, Siegel's Love in a Dead Language, Danielewski's novels, Jackson's Half Life, Field's Ululu, De La Pava's Naked Singularity, and James McCourt's ongoing Mawrdew Czgowchwz saga.”

(+ it seems that someone has even gone out of their way to combine all of these into a goodreads list, if that’s your cup of tea!)

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GODZILLA vs. THE LAST GARGANTUA — episode 1 of the Kaijusaurus Podcast’s Godzilla Unmade mini-series, is out now!

Return to the Showa era of Godzilla movies with a new full-cast audio production, written and directed by Steven Sloss.

[gothamcityneedsme]

ive watched the steven universe movie about as many times as ive watched 'all this and gargantua-2'

[eskamtrash]

heyyyyy i was tagged by @sarcasmisalifechoice and @amiranaybets for the music rotation thingy that i dont really understand but here we gooo:

Genius by LSD

Remember by Seinabo Sey

Sunlight by Hozier

Gargantua by Rayden

The end of all things by panic! At the disco

A la sombra de la sierra by La Raiz

45 cerebros y un corazon by Maria Arnal

I miss those days by Bleachers

Sweatpants by Childish Gambino

4th of July by Sufjan Stevens

And i tag @alicechesire @jackdragon20 @kindaemotionalkindaemotionless and also everyone that wants to do it!!

[ventureladies]

Jill St Johns (Actress)

Stella Stevens (Actress)

Stella Stevens and Jill St Johns are famous actresses whoses careers span decades. In the Venture Bros universe, they shared a brief tryst with Dr Jonas Venture and the Blue Morpho aka Don Fitzcarraldo. Unbeknownst to them, and presumably without their consent, this romantic interlude was being recorded and the documentation would shape the lives of the Venture and Firzcarraldo families forever.

SPOILER THEORY BELOW

(FAN THEORY) This tape was the cage that held the Blue Morpho under Dr Ventures thumb, the catalyst for the Movie Night Massacre on Gargantua One (presumably) and even the deaths of Dr Venture and the Blue Morpho and finally, possibly the orphaning of Malcolm Fitzcarraldo aka the Monarch.

*image season six

[thesnakesaid]

To Be Read

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller

A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Alanna Series by Tamora Pierce

Alien Earth by Megan Lindholm

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Amy, My Daughter by Mitch Winehouse

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

Anathem by Neal Stephenson

And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts

Belgaraiad series by David Eddings

Binary Star by Sarah Gerard

Black Company series by Glen Cook

Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood

Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson

Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat

Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

Christopher Moore books (?)

Cloven Hooves by Megan Lindholm

Conan by Robert E. Howard

Contact by Carl Sagan

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Dangerous Women ed. George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

Death Comes to Pemberly by P.D. James

Death Is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury

Declare by Tim Powers

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney

Discworld by Terry Pratchett

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Dragon Flight by Anne McCaffrey

Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey

Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft

Dune by Frank Herbert

Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario

Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward

Fafhrd and Gray Mouser books by Fritz Leiber

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Four Past Midnight by Stephen King

Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt

Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett

Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem

Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Icewind Dale Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

In the Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

Inferno by Dante

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

Kingkiller Chronicle #1 and #2 by Patrick Rothfuss (upon announcement of release date for #3)

Kushiel’s Legacy by Jacqueline Carey

Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

Legend by David Gemmel

Lensman Series by E.E. “Doc” Smith

Little, Big by John Crowley

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Longbourn by Jo Baker

Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven

Lud in Mist by Hope Mirrlees

Malazan Books of the Fallen by Steven Erikson

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (reread)

My Two Moms by Zach Wahls

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Nova by Samuel R. Delaney

Old Man’s War by John Scalzi

Origin by Dan Brown

One Thousand and One Nights

Only Forward by Michael Marshal Smith

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

Pride by Ibi Zoboi

Purgatorio by Dante

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

Riftwar Saga by Feist

Ringworld by Larry Niven

River World Series by Phillip Jose Farmer

Rogues ed. George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally

Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

Shades of Magic by V.E. Schwab

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (reread)

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

The Amber Chronicles by Roger Zelazny

The Art of the Lord of the Rings by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull

The Belgariad by David Eddings

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov

The Chronicler of Master Li and Number Ten Ox by Barry Hughart

The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson

The Codex Alera Series by Jim Butcher

The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor

The Conan Chronicles by Robert E. Howard

The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart

The Culture Series by Lane M. Banks

The Dark Tower by Stephen King

The Death Cure by James Dashner

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

The Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood

The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock

The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet by Kate Rorick and Rachel Kiley

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey

The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay

The Fisher King Trilogy by Tim Powers

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Glass Book of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist

The Gormenghast Series by Mervyn Peake

The Gypsy by Megan Lindholm

The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood

The Hollows series by Kim Harrison

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

The Inheritance & Other Stories by Megan Lindholm and Robin Hobb

The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini

The Kalevala by Elias Lonnrot

The Ki and Vandien Quartet by Megan Lindholm

The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

The Legend of Drizzt by R.A. Salvatore

The Long Walk by Stephen King

The Malazan Book of the Fallen Series by Stephen Erikson

The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Pact by Jodi Picoult (reread)

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

The Red Magician by Lisa Goldstein

The Riddlemaster of Hed series by Patricia McKillip

The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist

The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

The Shannara Trilogy by Terry Brooks

The Shining by Stephen King (reread)

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (reread)

The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis

The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova

The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind

The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult (reread)

The Third Hill North of Town by Noah Bly

The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

The Uplift Trilogy by David Brin

The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

The Wilful Princess and the Piebald Prince by Robin Hobb

The Xanth Series by Piers Anthony

The Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia Butler

Tillu and Kerlew by Megan Lindholm

Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (reread)

Tripod Trilogy by Samuel Youd

Warriors ed. George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

Watchmen by Alan Moore

Watership Down by Richard Adams

We Are Pirates by Daniel Handler

Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

Wizard of the Pigeons by Megan Lindholm

World War Z by Max Brooks

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (reread)

XKCD: What If? by Randall Munroe

Zodiac by Neal Stephenson

Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks

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Black Mesa: Military Early Access Version is now available for download

Modder ‘hecumarine’ has released an early access version of a cool mod for Black Mesa. In Black Mesa: Military you play as one of Hazardous Environments Combat Unit marines, Steven Mills. This Early Access will let you play the first five chapters of the full version, and we highly recommend downloading it.

In this mod, players will have to secure Black Mesa Research Facility with the rest of their squad and eliminate any hostile forces. According to the modder, this mod is not a recreation of any existing mods. Therefore, all maps and plot were created by him. Furthermore, hecumarine aims to stick to the canon of the Half Life universe as much as he can.

The following chapters are playable: Arrival, Dangerous Facility, Heavy Fire, Escalation and Eliminate Freeman. I’ve also included below a video showing a battle between the marines and the Gargantua. As you will see, this mod looks pretty cool.

In order to install it, you’ll have to copy “bmmilitary” and “Launch Black Mesa Military.bat” files to your Black Mesa directory.

Last but not least, you can download the mod from here.

Have fun!

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[strangeeagleexpert]

MASTERY JOURNAL

“Mankind was born on Earth.  It was never meant to die here”. This phrase plays an important sentiment in Christopher Nolan’s ninth feature film, Interstellar (2014). The film is an experience beyond the limits of our wildest imaginations. In 2006, the studio hired Jonathan Nolan to write the script for Steven Spielberg. Six years later, Spielberg had departed the project and Christopher was in search of his next film after wrapping up his Dark Knight Trilogy. He was familiar with Jonathan’s aspirations and frustrations with Interstellar, but over time he found that he too had become interested in the project from a directorial standpoint. When he learned the director’s chair was open, he simply placed a call to Paramount and offered his services.  

Having made all his previous studio features at Warner Brothers, Nolan had forged warm relationships with the top executives there. Unwilling to miss out on the next project from one of their most valuable talents, Warner Brothers took the unorthodox step of co-financing Interstellar with Paramount.  As such, two of the largest studios in Hollywood backed Nolan with $175 million dollars – a large sum considering that Nolan also enjoyed a $20 million salary. The fact that Nolan ultimately brought the picture in $10 million under budget is, a testament to Nolan’s disciplined work ethic and goodwill towards his financiers.  Interstellar finds Nolan working with the largest canvas he’s ever had, considering the overwhelming scale of The Dark Knight Rises.

This world must be saved, but this time, the responsibility falls not to superheroes but to scientists and mathematicians. We begin in the back half of the twenty-first century, where the mounting effects of pollution, industrialization, and other byproducts of modern civilization have ravaged the earth. Crops are failing, water is growing scarce, society is stagnating. A desperate and hungry world turns to space exploration as the remaining farmers to try to till the increasingly-infertile fields. An ex-pilot turned corn farmer named Cooper is trying to live the remainder of his time with his two children and father-in-law. When Cooper examines the curious phenomena of patterned dust in his daughter’s bedroom, he manages to decode it as geographical coordinates. Cooper and his daughter, Murph, follow the coordinates to a secret underground bunker, only to discover a secret refuge for the remnants of NASA with a secret mission. The mission started with the discovery of a wormhole near Saturn, placed there by an unknown intelligence.  An entirely new galaxy has been placed within their reach complete with three potentially habitable planets orbiting a supermassive black hole named Gargantua. One of the few pilots qualified to lead a mission of this importance, Cooper finds himself with the tough choice of leaving his family behind and command an interstellar reconnaissance mission to find a new home for the human race before they lose the only one they’ve ever known.  

As Matthew McConaughey’s absence as Cooper stretches from months, to years, to decades, his children grow into disillusioned, bitter adults. They’re angry at the father who abandoned them, the most vindictive sibling being Murph, ripped from her father’s warmth and guidance at a fragile young age. Jessica Chastain continues her winning streak of strong performances for prestigious directors here as the adult Murph, a brilliant and driven scientist working for NASA.  Her insightful ability to see patterns where others do not allow her to successfully receive messages sent by the universe and employ them towards the salvation of the human race, all while communicating with her long-lost father in a way that transcends both space and time. Casey Affleck is even more humorless and bitter as Cooper’s grown son, Tom. In his father’s absence, the work of maintaining the family farm has fallen to him, and the hard, fruitless work and tragic death of his firstborn son has left him an angry and hollow shell of the optimistic and eager boy he once was. Well known for his boyish physicality, Affleck instead conveys an imposing corn-fed frame and a hardheaded coldness that puts him at odds with Murph’s good intentions.

In Interstellar, Michael Caine plays Cooper’s mentor Professor Brand, the NASA scientist in charge of the Endurance mission. He plays the role of the sagely mentor and charming bearer of exposition, but where the Professor Brand character diverges the most from prior performances is in his intentional misleading of Cooper and his crew about the ultimate impossibility of their primary mission objective. Anne Hathaway, plays Professor Brand’s daughter, also named Brand. As a character who finds herself caught at the intersection of faith and reason, Hathaway capably conveys her character’s vulnerable intelligence and idealistic confidence. More than just a potential love interest for Cooper, Brand is a conduit through which Nolan presents one of Interstellar’s key ideas: the idea of “love” as a powerful, quantifiable cosmic concept.  In other words: the idea of “love” being a separate dimension unto itself that can transcend and influence time, space, and gravity.

By the time of Interstellar’s release in November of 2014, Paramount had completely ceased the distribution of celluloid release prints in favor of an all-digital delivery to theaters. However, Nolan harnessed his considerable influence and convinced the studio to make an exception for him, even going so far as providing an incentive to see the IMAX, 70mm and conventional 35mm film prints over digital by making them available a full two days before the film’s official release. Interstellar scored mostly-positive critical reviews, most of which praised Nolan’s considerable technical showmanship and awe-inspiring ambition even as they found some faults in the overall cohesiveness of his story.  While the film’s box office performance didn’t post Batman kinds of numbers, Nolan’s fanbase and Interstellar’s buzz as “the most anticipated film of 2014” all but guaranteed a healthy reception. Interstellar’s legacy as a technical triumph was confirmed at the Academy Awards, where it was nominated for Best Score, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, and Best Production Design. It would go on to win the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, the same category that Stanley Kubrick won for his work on 2001: A Space Odyssey.  Interstellar will surely end up as a timeless classic and will go down as one of the most audacious and ambitious science fiction films ever made.  

[gargoyle-steven-au]

Nothing is wrong, everything is fine

@starry-eyed-samantha

@atp-engineer-6640

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[fanart-for-life-bun]

Been busy doing other things but got inspired by a tumblr thread so have sum garga shitposts

[severebeardllama-blog]

Annonce Une Fin Sanglante

Kamal Oudrhiri, ingénieur en télécommunications à la NASA, a supervisé l'arrivée du robotic Curiosity sur la planète rouge. En même temps, ils nous cachent l'ancienne sagesse des trois singes, nous dérobant vraiment le principal outil/enseignement dont nous avons besoin pour nous défendre. Quoi qu'il en soit, quand la fameuse révolte arrive enfin, monstrueuse et brutale, exemplaire dans sa mise en scène et sa gestion de l'espace même si filmée sans véritable génie, il ne reste plus qu'à constater l'effarante supériorité des singes sur l'homme. Il se peut que leur implantation ait modifié, modelé ou déterminé la localisation et le débit de ces courants, probablement intentionnellement. Au Pérou, la rivière Vilcanota (ou Wilcamayu, Huilcamayo, Urubamba) dans la vallée sacrée de Cuzco était également considérée par les Incas comme la représentation de la voie lactée. http://filmtelecharger.info/la-planete-des-singes-suprematie-telecharger-gratuit/ des mondes a été adapté en feuilletons radiophoniques (dont une model de Orson Welles qui défraya la chronique en 1938), jeux de rôle, bande dessinée ainsi que deux longs-métrages (le premier a été réalisé par Byron Haskin en 1953 et le second par Steven Spielberg en 2005). Dans l'Ain, le lac de Nantua a été pissé par Gargantua, tandis que le mont qui domine la ville est une catole (une crotte) qu'il a laissée là. Dans le Maine-et-Loire, la ville de Bouzillé la bien nommée en est une également. Apparu 7 thousands and thousands d'années auparavant, il a survécu jusqu'au Pléistocène vers -300 000, contrairement à la plupart des grands singes du Miocène. Troisième et ultime volet de la trilogie racontant les origines de La Planète des Singes , La Planète des Singes - Suprématie sera l'event pour César et sa bande de primates d'affronter une nouvelle fois les Hommes, et de notamment contrer les plans du Colonel (Woody Harrelson), un militaire sans scrupule qui sera prêt à tout pour remporter ce fight. Ou encore on pourrait citer l'adaptation par Stuart Gordon (1985) de la nouvelle Re-animator de HP Lovecraft, qui illustre de façon tout a fait jouissive et gore cette tendance du cinéma à montrer les scientifiques comme des personnages a-moraux et obsédés par leur recherches plus que par le respect de l'humanité. Découvrez la livraison en 1 jour, gratuite et à volonté toute l'année (essai gratuit pendant 30 jours puis forty nine€/an).

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The Kaijusaurus Podcast presents: GODZILLA UNMADE! A series of three fan-made full-cast audiodrama shorts, all based on unproduced Godzilla movie treatments.

I wrote GODZILLA VS. HEDORAH II, a short audio drama based on Yoshimitsu Banno’s original unproduced sequel concept.

This is going to be a really special project. Steven and Daphne have done a great job with their own scripts.

I tried to make something that feels distinctly like Banno while also being my own take on what I’d do with Godzilla (which I hadn’t seriously written before).

[filosofilm-blog]

Interstellar

Release Year : 2014

Genre : Adventure, Sci-Fi, Drama

Starring : Mattew McConoughey, Anne Hatheway, Jessica Chastain

Director : Christopher Nolan

IMDb Score : 8.6

Reviewed by : Heisenberg

Sinopsis :

Wabah tanaman menyebabkan dunia kekurangan makanan. Bencana badai pasir terus melanda. Bumi dalam keadaan kritis saat Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), seorang petani yang merupakan mantan pilot NASA, menyadari telah terjadi sebuah anomali yang menurutnya merupakan anomali gravitasi. Anomali tersebut membawa Cooper dan Murph (Mackenzie Foy), anaknya yang berusia 10 tahun secara tidak sengaja menemukan markas NASA. Penemuan wormhole (lubang cacing), yang dapat membawa ke galaksi lain, mendorong Prof. Brand (Michael Caine) untuk menjalankan misi Lazarus. Misi ini dilakukan untuk mencari planet baru yang dapat ditinggali manusia. 12 orang astronot telah dikirim dan didapatkan 3 planet potensial untuk ditinggali. Cooper, Dr. Brand (Anne Hathaway), anak dari Prof. Brand, Romily (David Gyasi), dan Doyle (Wes Bentley) beserta dua robot tentara, TARS (voice by Bill Irwin) dan CASE (voice by Josh Stewart) ditugaskan untuk mengunjungi ketiga planet tersebut untuk melihat langsung hasil observasi yang telah dilakukan. Dilema yang harus dihadapi Cooper ketika meninggalkan keluarganya, Bapak Mertuanya, Donald (John Lithgow), Anak tertuanya, Tom (Timothee Chalamet) dan tentu saja Murph yang tidak bisa menerima kepergian Ayahnya untuk misi ini. Walaupun begitu, demi kemanusiaan Cooper tetap berangkat. Butuh hampir 2 tahun untuk mencapai Lubang Cacing yang berada di orbit Saturnus. Konflik sebenarnya terjadi setelah melewati lubang cacing. Ada 2 rencana yaitu Plan A dan Plan B :

Plan A

NASA akan mengirimkan manusia ke luar angkasa menggunakan stasiun luar angkasa yang sedang dibangun. Mereka harus segera menemukan planet yang paling mungkin untuk ditinggali. Mereka berlomba dengan waktu agar Plan A bisa dilakukan. Relativitas waktu menjadi masalah di sini. Relativitas menyebabkan perbedaan waktu yang begitu signikan antara Bumi dan angkasa luar.

Plan B

mereka harus menciptakan populasi manusia dengan menggunakan benih yang telah dipersiapkan. Kecurangan data yang dilakukan oleh Dr. Mann menjadi dilema selanjutnya yang harus dihadapi. Mereka kehabisan banyak waktu, bahan bakar dan kru di sini. Gargantua dan terkatung-katung di luar angkasa menjadi takdir yang harus diterima Cooper dan Dr. Brand. Akankah Cooper dapat bertemu lagi dengan Murph (Jessica Chastain) dan Tom (Cassey Affleck) yang telah dewasa dan bahkan lebih tua dibandingkan dirinya? 

Review :

Siapakah yang telah memilih Cooper untuk ikut dalam misi ini? Siapakah yang telah meletakan Lubang Cacing di orbit Saturnus? Banyak pertanyaan yang timbul dalam film ini. Tenang saja, durasi film ini cukup panjang untuk menjawab pertanyaan-pertanyaan tersebut. Interstellar memang merupakan film dengan durasi terpanjang yang pernah dibuat oleh Christopher Nolan (2:49:04). Berbeda dengan film-film luar angkasa lainnya, film ini benar-benar merupakan kolaborasi ilmu pengetahuan dan seni peran. Teori-teori astronomi seperti relativitas waktu, gravitasi dan black hole yang digunakan tidak semata-mata hasil kreativitas dua bersaudara Nolan saja. Teori-teori dalam film ini diawasi langsung oleh seorang fisikawan, Dr. Kip Thorne. Pada pra-produksi film ini, Dr. Kip Thorne, memberikan dua pedoman yaitu tidak ada hukum fisika yang dilanggar dalam film ini dan semua dugaan yang muncul berasal dari ilmu pengetahuan bukan dari pemikiran penulis skenario. Bisa dikatakan teori-teori yang digunakan dapat dipertanggungjawabkan sepenuhnya. Tidak hanya sekedar menyuguhkan film Box Office demi kepentingan uang semata.

Secara keseluruhan, film ini benar-benar dikemas secara apik. Kualitas suara film ini patut diacungi jempol. Ciri khas Christopher Nolan, yang tidak terlalu menyukai efek 3D juga masih kental dirasakan dalam film ini. Interstellar berhasil mengondol Oscar untuk kategori Best Visual Effect buah kerja keras Christopher Nolan dan team dalam menciptakan setting yang begitu real. Namun, jika anda seorang penggemar Christopher Nolan, mungkin anda akan merasakan ada yang kurang dalam film ini. Ide orisinil yang biasa ia tampilkan dalam film-filmnya terlihat kurang menonjol di sini. Film ini awalnya akan digarap oleh Steven Spielberg bersama dengan Jonathan Nolan sebagai penulis naskah. Seiring dengan keluarnya Spielberg dari proyek ini, Jonathan Nolan meminta Kakaknya, Christopher Nolan untuk meneruskan proyek ini. Walaupun begitu, untuk anda pecinta penjelajahan luar angkasa, film ini memperlihatkan perjalanan luar angkasa tidak melulu soal tembak-tembakan dengan alien.

Trivia :

Christopher Nolan menanam 500 hektare jagung untuk scene ladang jagung dalam film ini. Hasil panen dijual dan menghasilkan untung.

[gargoyle-steven-au]

U mad, Garg?

"Not really, i feel more famished if anything~"

@starry-eyed-samantha

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