Intra-College Literary Activities 2015-16 at B.N.P.G.College, College, Udaipur (Rajasthan)
In Earth's future, a global crop blight and
second Dust Bowl are slowly rendering the planet uninhabitable. Professor Brand
(Michael Caine), a brilliant NASA physicist, is working on plans to save
mankind by transporting Earth's population to a new home via a wormhole. But
first, Brand must send former NASA pilot Cooper (Matthew
McConaughey) and a team of researchers through the wormhole and across the
galaxy to find out which of three planets could be mankind's new home.
Interstellar is a 2014 epic
science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway,
Jessica Chastain, and Michael Caine.
The film features a crew of astronauts who travel through a wormhole
in search of a new home for humanity. Brothers Christopher and Jonathan Nolan
wrote the screenplay, which has its origins in a script Jonathan developed in
2007. Christopher Nolan produced the film with his wife Emma Thomas
through their production company Syncopy
and with Lynda Obst through Lynda Obst Productions. Caltech theoretical physicist Kip Thorne,
whose work inspired the film, was an executive producer and acted as scientific
consultant. Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, and Legendary Pictures co-financed the film.
Cinematographer
Hoyte van Hoytema shot the movie on 35 mm
(in anamorphic format) and IMAX 70 mm film. Filming commenced in late 2013 in Alberta,
Iceland
and Los Angeles. The film utilized extensive practical and miniature
effects, while Double Negative created additional digital effects.
Interstellar premiered on October 26, 2014 in Los Angeles. In the
United States, it was released on film stock,
expanding to venues using digital projectors. The film was successful at the
box office with a worldwide gross of over $675 million, and received positive
reviews from critics, who gave particular praise to the film's science fiction
themes; musical score; visual effects; and the performances of McConaughey,
Hathaway, Chastain, and Mackenzie Foy.
It received several awards and nominations. At the 87th Academy Awards the film won the Best Visual Effects
award and was also nominated for Best Original Score,
Best Sound Mixing,
Best Sound Editing,
and Best Production Design.
Crop
blight
has made growing food on Earth nearly impossible, threatening the existence of
humanity. Cooper, a widowed former NASA pilot, runs a farm with his
father-in-law, son and daughter Murphy. Murphy believes her bedroom is haunted
by a poltergeist. When the "ghost" creates a pattern of dust on
the floor, Cooper realizes an unknown intelligence is using gravity to
communicate, and interprets the pattern as geographic
coordinates, which Cooper and Murphy follow to
a secret NASA installation.
There,
they meet Dr. Brand, a college professor of Cooper's. Brand reveals that a wormhole,
apparently created by an alien intelligence, appeared near Saturn
48 years before and leads to a distant galaxy, with numerous potentially
habitable planets. Twelve volunteers have gone through it, knowing they were
unlikely to be able to return, each to assess a different planet's suitability
as a new home for humanity. Three – Miller, Edmunds and Mann – have sent
encouraging data from planets near Gargantua, a supermassive black hole. Brand recruits Cooper to pilot the spacecraft Endurance
to evaluate as many of the planets as possible, while he works on a theory to
harness gravity for propulsion, which would allow humanity to leave Earth
(which he calls "Plan A"). However, should his efforts fail, the Endurance
also carries 5,000 frozen embryos as "Plan B", to provide for
humanity's survival. Cooper agrees to the plan, angering Murphy.
Cooper's
crew consists of three scientists – Romilly, Doyle, and Brand's daughter Amelia
– and robots TARS and CASE. Traversing the wormhole, they first head to
Miller's planet, an ocean world where time is severely
dilated; for each hour there, seven years
pass on Earth. Romilly stays on the Endurance while the rest take a
lander to the surface, where they find only Miller's wrecked lander in the
shallow ocean. Suddenly, a massive tidal wave strikes, killing Doyle and
waterlogging the lander's engines; when Cooper and Amelia return to Endurance,
23 years have elapsed for Romilly and Earth.
Murphy,
now an adult, has been assisting Dr. Brand with his research. On his deathbed,
he admits to her that he solved the equation long before and deemed Plan A
impossible, and that he lied to everyone, pinning his hopes on Plan B. Murphy
sends a message notifying Amelia of her father's death, then accuses her and
Cooper of abandoning Earth. She continues researching, concluding that Plan A
could work if somehow information could be obtained from observing Gargantua's singularity.
With
limited fuel left, Cooper decides to go to Mann's planet, rather than Edmunds',
as Mann is still transmitting. On arrival, they revive Mann, who has been in
stasis. Mann assures the crew that while the frozen planet has an ammonia-laden
atmosphere, the planetary surface is fit for human survival. However, when they
are alone, Mann tries to kill Cooper, revealing that he falsified the data so
he would be rescued. Mann then flees, intending to take the Endurance.
Meanwhile, Romilly is killed by a booby trap
Mann had set inside his own robot.
Amelia
rescues Cooper, and they race to the Endurance, where Mann is attempting
to dock. Mann defies Cooper's order not to open the airlock, which fails
catastrophically. Mann is killed and the Endurance is severely damaged.
Cooper manages to use the landing craft to stabilize the ship. Using the black
hole's gravity as a slingshot,
they set the ship on course to Edmunds' planet; but being close to a black
hole, 51 years would pass on Earth.
Cooper
jettisons himself and TARS into the black hole so that Amelia and CASE can
complete the journey. Cooper and TARS plunge into the black hole, but emerge in
a tesseract,
which appears as a stream of bookshelves, with portals that look out into
Murphy's bedroom at different times in her life. Cooper realizes that the
tesseract and wormhole were created by humans from the future to enable him to
communicate with Murphy through gravity waves, and that he is her
"ghost". He relays data that TARS collected from the black hole in Morse code
by manipulating the second hand of a watch he gave to Murphy before he left.
Murphy uses the information to solve the remaining problem, completing
"Plan A" and thus saving the population of Earth.
Cooper
emerges from the wormhole and is rescued by the crew of a space habitat
orbiting Saturn. Aboard, he reunites with Murphy, now elderly and near death.
She convinces him to rejoin Amelia, who is with CASE on Edmunds' Planet, which
was found to be habitable.
Answer the
questions on the basis of the reading material about the movie INTERSTELLER –
1. What are the two
causes that have made Earth not fit to live in future?
2. Who is working
to save mankind by transporting Earth’s population to a new home via wormhole?
3. Whom does Brand
want to send with a team of researchers through the wormhole and across the
galaxy?
4. When was the
movie released?
5. Who is the
director?
6. Which award did
the movie get?
7. Who are the main
screenplay characters?
8. What kind of
fictional film is it?
9. What do we call those persons who travel
through space?
10.
Who
acted as a scientific consultant to inspire this film to the director?
11.
What
has threatened the existence of humanity?
12.
For
which agency is the character Cooper work as a pilot?
13.
What
is his actual occupation or with whom does he work and where in actual sense/
14.
Who
are the other members of his family live with him?
15.
What
does Cooper’s daughter believe in?
16.
What
does the pattern of dust on the floor makes Cooper to understand?
17.
Upon
whom do they fall their suspicion regarding that pattern of dust in their
library of the house?
18.
What
does Dr. Brand reveal regarding wormhole and which one of planets is nearest to
that wormhole?
19.
How
many of the astronaut volunteers had attempted to travel through it to search a
new home for humanity?
20.
Who
have been able to send data from planets near Gargantua and what is Gargantua?
21.
For
what does Brand recruit Cooper and for what mission?
22.
On
what theory does Brand work so that humanity can leave Earth as ‘Plan A’?
23.
What
is the Plan B of brand in case the Plan A fails?
24.
Who
are the other members of Cooper’s crew?
25.
After
crossing the wormhole where does Cooper’s crew head for?
26.
What
is the name of Cooper’s Spaceship?
27.
How
do they calculate the time of the other planet Miller with the time of Earth?
28.
How
does the crew face disaster when the rest of crew takes lander to the surface
of the planet Miller?
29.
In
what way does the time on the planet Earth equal to the time spent on Miller
planet by Cooper and Amelia when they returned to the spaceship Endurance?
30.
What
does Cooper’s daughter Murphy as an adult now finally find the flaws in brand’s
plan A?
31.
Who
is Mann? What harm does Mann do to Cooper to escape through the spaceship
Endurance?
32.
How
do Cooper and Amelia manage to counter Mann and set to Edmund’s Planet?
33.
How
far is the Edmund planet from the Earth, so how does Cooper try to manipulate
the time data by way of blackhole to catch wormhole in order to get back to
Saturn and then the planet Earth?
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