I've had a few re-entries like this while playing Kerbal Space Program. The best one was where I had to jump Jeb out of the capsule and use his personal parachute because the ones on the capsule burned off.
@@AethernaLuxen I had two. Jeb on my first manned Mun mission, and Val on a Jeb rescue mission. I eventually recovered both of them, and Jeb (despite having never touched Minmus, Val did all of that) has been to Duna, Ike, an orbit of Jool, a flyby of Tylo, and Gilly.
A few physical mistakes here! Why would the different fragments travel at different speeds? Why does the tumbling capsule suddenly stabilise with the heat shield forward?
@@halberderdier8073 that's easy to answer: At 1:57 The station breaks apart thanks to debris ( i think). The fragments WILL travel at different speeds thanks to friction and the difference in mass or something like that The Capsule's center of mass (If i said that correctly) and friction will stabilize it back to it's proper position
@@josemanosalvas4041 Surprising how many either don't seem to, or appear to and yet reject that understanding instead to be a tech pedant. Sad, that. Especially considering what a potent message it is and how nowadays we are all 'having the conversation' - this is the best film about mental health and depression I've seen in a long time. Not dreary, not miserable, just empowering.
Sceintificly accurate? NO. Spectacular? YES. For me though, the best re-entry scene is the Apollo 13 scene. The built up to it, the emotions, and probably also the fact that it is accurate and a real life story makes it the best one for me.
@@wretchedmusic8782 Getting to space, that's the easy part. Coming back, that's the most dangerous mission. A tiny little capsule hurtling towards the earth faster than the speed of sound, fire is trying to engulf you, air resistance is trying to shred you, and you have to get said capsule to slow down enough so that it doesn't kill you. As Chris Hadfield described it, it's like flying a meteorite home.
The debris that caroms off the Tiangong at 3:06 is such a genius touch. If you watch at slower speed, you can see the capsule wobbles just a little. That hit must have sounded terrifying to Ryan, but I can't imagine how she could be any more terrified at that point. And equally smart not to show her reaction, which is a different kind of film (looking at you, Ron Howard). Her glimpse out the porthole at the re-entry burn is enough to carry us with her in hope and terror through every moment of this freefall. Alfonso Cuarón, cast and crew, I salute you.
They set up the moment, too. There's a near miss while the camera is in a long shot, then they show debris hitting each other so you get to see what would happen if a large chunk hits her capsule. Then a small chunk *does* hit the capsule, as you say, but only after the audience expectation is set. James Cameron does a good job of this. The mass drowning behind a watertight door near the beginning of The Abyss sets up Ed Harris' narrow escape from the exact same situation a moment later, etc.
'Terrified'? Her script consists almost entirely of screaming. The graphics in this film were impressive, but almost none of the physics was anything other than abysmal.
I got to see this in a theater, the only place to really appreciate a movie like this. For most of the movie I have never sensed so many people holding their breath and sitting so still feeling the tension of her plight.
I loved this movie, saw it in the theater when it first came out. And when she emerged from the water and crawled up on shore, I immediately thought of an amphibian emerging from the water.
I had the same thought when viewing that final scene. As if to compress 390 million years of evolution into less than 1 minute of screen time, to show that the human species may have had humble beginnings, but (and here's where the "looking up" camera angle that makes her look like a 30 foot tall giant comes in) we've made it this far -- and by proving that we can put ourselves into outer space and survive reentry, we show that there are even greater achievements just over the horizon of time if we can stand tall and walk tall and not destroy ourselves first.
Dr. Mark Watney: Good morning everyone, and welcome to the Astronaut Candidate Program. Now pay attention, because this could save your life. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about. Before I begin, allow me to introduce Dr. Ryan Stone. Some of you may remember her from the Explorer shuttle disaster. I believe that she might be able to enlarge your pool of knowledge...
@@whocares1302 "Thank you for that great introduction Dr. Watney. I would like to keep this very short, and based on experience. DON'T FREAKIN' DO-IT! YOU MUST BE NUTS TO DO THAT STUFF! Thank-you Dr. Watney".
@@sebastiandomingos335 Countries use other countries designs for almost about anything. Cars, planes, tools, military weapons, just about anything. China using Russia's design is no different than the US using a German scientist Wernher von Braun, to help build their space program. Just like the US has done with the help of Germany, China is getting help from Russia, it's really no different. The US used Russian rocket design to get their astronauts into space. If other countries would like to go to space besides China, US, and Russia, they too will use other countries rockets to do it.
@@bobubob5025 Gravity is not a force. gravity is an effect of curvature in spacetime. being curved, an object traveling through time gets to a denser point in the grid, which gives an illusion of attracting force. Big objects curve space fabric like our earth.
@@bobubob5025 Did you read a single paper about special relativity? Gravity is no force. Naveen K described gravity perfectly. The only force, that can be related to gravity is the force of the ground pushing against you while you "stand" on it.
one of the great regrets of my life is not seeing this in theaters. though, considering the nonstop waterworks from the time she gives Matt that message for her daughter until the moment she touches down, maybe it's best i saw it in the privacy of my living room. what an amazing movie. 3:19 still makes me tear up every time.
Except for the special effects, Gravity was an abysmal film. Everything from the "Tag" story to the rest of the contrived script was completely forgettable. I want my $10 back.
I saw it in theaters 3 times! My only regret (and this is minimal) was seeing it for the first time on a regular theater screen instead of IMAX. The other two times I saw it in IMAX, and it was amazing! Sorry you didn't get the chance to see it in theaters, but if you noticed, they recently re-released The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in DOLBY for 2 days not that long ago. They've done that with a lot of movies. I have a feeling at some point they'll re-release Gravity, too!
You did this perfectly! Loved how you put the money shot scene at the exact moment the music kicked into its most powerful notes at 3:19. Masterful job.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this just a score video? I believe this is the actual score that plays in the scene, we just don't get the rest of the audio used in the scene
This man is an undiscovered genius! Genius in the cinema is the director's delivery of planned emotion by immersing the audience in the movie! Remember the horror of being launched into space!?
Что забавно, по визуалу спускаемый аппарат в фильме садится в Северном Казахстане (незадолго до посадки виден характерный остров-завитушка на Каспии), а по сценарию - на Среднем Западе США.
This movie clarifies how inhospitable space can be. It is a very unpredictable and dangerous environment. We should be thankful we live in a secure place like earth.
Beautiful but unrealistic: torsion and drag forces would have ripped open all docking lid connections, tumbling would have torn her apart, probably ripping off her head and arms. Unlikely she still could have pressed any button while tumbling. The software would not be able to recover a stable position at that time anymore and hot gases would have cut already into the pressure shell cabin. But still beautiful
This movie is super unrealistic but I don't think you are correct. 1. Airlocks open inwards, its basically impossible to open them outward without ripping the structure of the station apart and at the point where that mattered the atmosphere wasn't thick enough. 2. When the reentry vehicle was tumbling with the service module and chunk of the station attached she was pretty much right at the center of mass. So despite spinning pretty quick she wouldn't be subjected to that much force. 3. Astronauts train to be able to remain coherent and control their craft while tumbling randomly. 4. The software didn't really do anything to regain stability, a capsule shape is naturally stable in the correct position which is why everyone uses that shape, it falls into a stable position on its own.
@@odstwingman But her headphones floating peacefully in the decelerating and rotating spacecraft were inrealistic. That reminded me of the scene in "Contact" with the floating medallion near the shaking face of Jodie Foster character.
@@odstwingman It's not that the software couldn't do anything. It's that the thrusters the software controls are designed to be powerful enough to rotate the capsule itself but not the extra weight from the service and docking module attached to it but yeah the capsule itself is designed to aerodynamically orient it's shield down during re-entry.
@@MrAlexOrex Yes it is a bit unrealistic. Also she shouldn't be surrounded by burning debris while re-entering. The debris would break into tiny pieces that are easily slowed down by air resistance while the soyuz capsule she's in is one large heavy object that is harder for air resistance to slow down meaning she would zoom far ahead of all of the debris.
I remember watching this, it was epic and it kinda makes me tear up a bit. Just seeing billions of dollars being burned, just like that, makes me a bit sad, and at the same time, gave me an awe.
@@deniskhaidarov9166 Tiangong was never planned to be in the same inclination as the ISS. The shuttle at the beginning of the film is Explorer, which doesn't exist, flying STS-157, which also never existed. The ISS did then and does now exist. Net realism change is 0. Tiangong did not and _now does_ exist. Therefore that is a net increase in realism
Funny thing, the CSS is planned to have a co-orbiting space telescope roughly the size of Hubble called Xuntian, to be launched in 2024. Of course it wouldn't be serviced by a crewed vehicle, instead if it needed to be serviced it will rendezvous with the CSS and the station's robotic arm will grab it and hold into it while the crew EVA over and do whatever need to be done.
@@lewismassie at the movie's release, Tiangong-1 was in orbit. It was a single-launch station, there weren't plans to upgrade it, but it did exist. But in any case, the movie shows Tiangong(-1) and the ISS as being, for all intents and purposes, rendezvoused, which isn't really excusable.
Please dont fall down agains...well happy new year for iss crew.we will always pray for your healty at there.for me far away from eyes.but near to my heart...love u all.im MD Fairuz razak.Malaysia ETA.Take care.
2:30 So I know that that person is inside of the capsule, and is therefore protected from the thousand degree air rushing by at whatever Mach speed that dude is going, but the capsule is SPINNING, which means two things. First, the capsule would be exposing different cross-sections of itself to the atmosphere and potentially increasing resistance and temperature while doing so, and secondly, it would be exposing sections of itself that are not outfitted with a heavy-duty heat shield. Those capsules are designed for a PLANNED re-entry, which has the capsule facing its bottom down at all times, not a tumble where the whole thing is being exposed to the extreme maximum heat. So yeah that capsule would be destroyed the moment it has anything other than its bottom heat shield facing the earth
@@lucioahr You can get away with it in movies that are interesting or mostly realistic, but unfortunately I found this one boring. Which then actively encourages the watcher to try and pick out faults, even if they don't know entirely what they're talking about, to try and entertain themselves. :P
Well, it should theoretically be passively stable heat-shield first, so even if it loses all control it will stay pointed the right direction, which does seem to happen later on.
it was best and epic in 3d.. i was late for the film but i walked in glasses on and omfg i was stunned it was during a space walk and they were looking back at earth.. felt like i was in orbit for a second
Not sure how this ended up in my recommended views. I will say that it's so amazing how I forgot how bad this movie was. Then I see the pure idiocy of this scene and it comes right back to me.
And then you remember how you were a waste of 9 months for your mother. Since nothing that you've done in your entire life is even a fraction as good as this "bad" movie.
@@TatankaTaylor oh no someone who doesn't know me said something harmful. Who hurt you and why do you feel the need to inflict that pain on others? You know what? Nevermind I'll just report you.
That heat shield and that parachute are what separate us from cave men, and the years of engineering it took to make that capsule work 100% of the time. Full faith in it
Wow! Real or not, this scene is very powerful and strong in the effects of reentry to earth from space. I guess I'm cheering her to make it back home from the near death experience that she went through. For me, watching the movie for the first time, it got me emotional because she survived all that at the end.
