Overtime | The Martian (2015) Scene 

Unless the boss name is Trump, who is infamous for stiffing those who work for him.

except in real life the bosses fail to deliver the money, but you already did the work - trust no one, money upfront

​@user-cr3ti1vj6f the clock doesnt lie, plus its a government agency, youll get paid

if sh1t like this happen someday be sure it will be (politically) impossible for US goverment to deny the additional budget.

@@Gatotsu2009 This is precisely the mentality that inspired the coof lockdowns; if we can save just one life, then it's worth ruining a hundred million other lives.

NASA is a spoiled government agency, money was never an issue for them. More often than not they waste money rather than need it.

I think it would be a simple task of the money. He tells the closed session of congressional leaders, which of you do I tell America killed Watney (most famous man on earth, I assume) simply because you didn't want to pay?

i like his character too. even though he's portrayed as the "antagonist", everything he does makes sense from his perspective. he's also just so competent as a leader and collaborates with his experts on the team

That’s a wonderful point. A lot of people think that all is need is Woz, and Steve Jobs just steal ideas. They do not understand what leadership is. It is to get maximum effectiveness from genius working with you. That is second goal by importance. First is to find this geniuses and make them work with you.

That’s leadership

The rocket ship blowing up always confused me..... I know they explained it in a news conference shortly after the failure as to why, but haven't they launched multiple rockets successfully in the past? Surely they use past experience to make that one a success as well. Yes, I know my comment is quite basic, but don't I have a point???

@@tonychan8558 Launching a rocket is never a surefire thing; there are too many things that can go wrong every time. Yes, they've launched many before, but their rush to build the rocket means that they can't cover all their bases and completely minimize the odds of an issue appearing. Imagine trying to cook an extremely complex meal that you've cooked many times before, but now you have basically the minimum possible amount of time available to cook it. You're constantly multitasking and don't have the time to spend double and triple checking that every ingredient is well cooked or well mixed, so you kind of just have to hope that you did everything correctly. And in this case, something small went wrong (in the analogy, say, part of the chicken was undercooked), and that caused the whole rocket to fail.

they had to include that scene so that the chinese could bail them out, that's how they marketed the movie in china

​@@raggededge82LOL you know it was based on a book, right? So you're claiming the author of the book, Andy Weir, deliberately wrote that part into a story he published in installments on his own website, just in case it became a bestselling book, got optioned for a Hollywood production, and they needed to market it in China? That's some amazing foresight!

@@raggededge82 OR they had it blow up to show that when something so huge as a human being stranded on another world happens, everything goes out the window and the world comes together like it should and countries like China, Russia, etc with space programs would by all means offer up anything they can, with a view to furthering their relationship and access with NASA in the long term sure.

Its the kinda ok you get from someone who is GOING to do the job, and she ended up pulling off her end

The "Fuck the boss knows my name, and wants a big project out of me" okay.

@@BWBDCan More like the "Yeah, no problem. I'm a fucking surgeon when it comes to orbital adjustments." okay. Extremely confident.

That was such a mood 😂

Please watch Eternal Sunshine if you actually think this

Great eye! Also that's Nick Mohammed aka Nate the Great from Ted Lasso.

@@chrisknowskarate he looks so different!

Maybe, but I think it’s good that it’s not overpowering the scene It’s a fun little detail but the accessibility of readability does not need to be enforced at cost of the bigger point, being showing the staff and what the chairman is saying and getting him home safe It’s good that you can barely see it, and good it’s there at all (minus.. you know, saying he wants Mark to die)

I didn't notice that!

How the heck did anybody miss that in the first place?

Got fired tho, close call🤣

Drew Goddard joked that he should have written 'satellite debris out of nowhere lands on Sean Bean' during the credits scenes where we see him playing golf.

His job did.

Sean Bean now refuses to take roles where he dies.

Expected him to get crushed by falling space debris or something lol

One of my favourite parts of the movie. Blonde beard is my favorite. What are you going to be remembered for grandpa? Being the first space pirate, also never got charged for it. The people who i stole from gave me a job as a teacher.

To be fair: That is exactly the boss's job. "The work needs done, so it's my job to figure out how my employees can get that done". It's how I've approached every position of authority I've been in. Let me worry about the really annoying and stupid details. You do your job, you come to me with issues, and I'll fix them so they're no longer issues for you.

@@XxTaiMTxX Yes, thank you. I'd love to have you as my boss. You worry about the politics, the drama and upper management trying to throw a monkey wrench into every plan the engineers come up with due to a lack of funds or vision, keep all of that away from me, and I'll just get done whatever needs doing.

You really wouldn't need to find the money, government funding aside if you set up a gofundme for him even if millions bitch and say the government should pay you'd still find tens if not hundreds of millions worldwide who'd help in a situation like that. It would capture the world's attention

I think the writing had more to do with why the character shined

facts

If you're into books at all, the same author who wrote the novel who inspired this movie, also wrote another sci fi book that is totally rereadable in the same vain. Project Hail Mary. It was supposed to be made into a movie too.

@@ShooterMcGottem Project Hail Mary is so damn good. I'd love for it to be a movie too, but it would be a much more ambitious movie than The Martian.

@lukew1383 Yes true, Rocky would be kinda hard to portray on screen.

@ShooterMcGottem it's definitely possible, and I think with some combination of modern live action and CGI, they could pull it off. This is the kind of thing though where if they don't hit a home run on that character, it's gonna turn into a double play.

LOL

Mordo would've objected, as it was against the natural order

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

his magic can only take him so far... masters of the mystic arts weren't meant to tread on the forbidden grounds of Mars

Do you really want Wong and entire NASA to die from depressurized?

Have to throw a glove joke somewhere in there

Remember to put out the vibe…

Well, I am fairly certain that her feeling portrayed in the book is quite the opposite. Not saying that an adapted movie always has to follow its original text, and maybe I was influenced by the book, but I felt nothing but her nervousness and having no idea how to accomplish her assignment when I watched this scene.

@@prelan1340is that what was portrayed in the book? She seemed unsure of her position here, perhaps you could call that nervous - and she was worried she hadn’t done her task as well as she could have - but once she’s given the authority, that “Okay.” is a “well I wasn’t bloody expecting that but I vow I will accomplish this quest”, kind of smacked between the eyes but with a little bit of promise in there too

​@@PJOZeus The text from the book, chapter 8: “I want that gap down to four minutes,” Teddy said. “I’m giving you total authority over satellite trajectories and orbital adjustments. Make it happen.” “Yes, sir,” Mindy said, with no idea how to do it. And some other contexts that came along with the lines above: MINDY GLANCED nervously around the conference room. She’d never felt so thoroughly outranked in her life....Mindy felt a pang of envy as she watched the director of media relations. She was everything Mindy wanted to be. Confident, high-ranking, beautiful, and universally respected within NASA... She tried to ignore the lump in her throat. Perhaps I failed to read the connotation between the lines: I just assumed that she had no idea whatsoever when the job was assigned. However, as I said above, it's fairly certain that movies do not always have to follow the original text, and the actress here had full liberty to portray a figure slightly different from the text.

It's a movie, she isn't real...

not seeing it, sounds more like an "oh no, this is going to suck" okay

Except the part telling her he wants something done in like half the time, which may not even be possible

@@Jst4vdeos Working with a lot of bosses like that though, they just want to push you. You'll go back and say sorry best I could do was 7 minutes because this this and this and they'll say "great".

​@@Jst4vdeosHe also gives her 100% control over resources to fix the problem. He knows he may never get that four minute mark, but she can certainly start shaving time off and give him reasonable reductions. If she gets it down to six minutes, he can be in the position to ask what else she needs.

@@LordNinja109 Just saying, working on high value projects in the real world we don't make promises we can't keep and we don't demand results to a degree beyond what the subject matter experts tell us is realistic. You can ask questions to push bounds but demanding them is how corners are cut and people get killed.

@@Jst4vdeos Did you watch the movie? Because he understood the risks and had to make tough calls throughout

just in case your hands get cold you can have my spare gloves

Top tier writing! Absolutely love every part of the movie, even watching Mark eating potato with vicodin makes me feels hungry. Lol

@@ezpzgz You're quite right to single out the writers. Good actors cannot rescue bad scripts. Bad actors can look fantastic with a good one.

​@tconlon251And Matt as Loki actor!

Not the MCU per se, but Kate Mara was in the last Fantastic Four film

@@Smilingottershe was in the MCU, as a US Marshall in Iron Man 2

They weren't alums at the time...

But, on the plus side, the pay checks would have been amazing.

@@tamaradominy977 lol yeah

They do in this scenerio. Asking for a tight window like that comes at a very very steep price. Specially since the entire world is watching. Good thing these are movies and arent impacted by external factors.

you can be salary and non exempt besides they have third party crews working OT not just the Nasa engineers.

JPL look like a motley crew of nerds & rejects. I would work overtime with them over working regular hours with a bunch of suits!

actually most engineers on projects like this are union and hourly. Only the senior project managers and project leads are salary/exempt.

FLSA exempt scientists and engineers can absolutely earn overtime, including those working at JPL (contractors) or civil servants working at NASA. It's just not guaranteed under law

Legit option, in the end they will packed smaller cargo of protein cubes and launch everyday, thus the disaster later never happened.

Overtime....as in getting paid past 40 hours as opposed to time and a half.

He’s also the Director of Talos 1 (and your brother) in Prey

@@joelwoodall1050 he is the Necromancer actually

@@iljavija there are no necromancers in Prey mate

@@joelwoodall1050 in What we do in the Shadows he is Necromancer

There are a number of shocking events in NASA's history that required impressive and high-speed hack jobs to prevent disaster, usually not with human life on the line, though. They are part of what inspired the ideas of the book. If you like The Martian, you ought to look into the history of the hundreds of disasters and near disasters they have dealt with.

Mackenzie Davis

you couldve just looked that up on your own

I love her since Halt and Catch Fire show.

@@TeddySnleon it's also easy to just ask. There's always someone on the internet who's willing to show how smart and knowledgeable they are. Almost as many as those who like to criticize.

@@OptimusWombat moronic response. Just cause someone’s going to eventually answer your question, doesn’t mean you can’t get it easier.

That she is, Mackenzie Davis.

You have no business commenting.

@@Dave-in-MD Do something about it then 😝

@@Robertward111 Sorry little boy, I wont meet you on the school yard after last class. Now try and grow up and not be such a troll.

She was in the most recent Terminator movie.

Gwen Stacy

@@OptimusWombatlol, that would require someone to search the answer for which you condemned in the other comment asking the actress name

@@benchgoblin In the other comment, I was _defending_ the guy who asked. In this comment, the guy here asked, so I answered. That's pretty straightforward.

@@OptimusWombat you answered by telling them to look up the terminator movie cast which is the same strategy for finding the martians cast *lol*

I think the actress portrayed her decently, but it was strange seeing someone who was very clearly supposed to be a Korean woman being a tall white woman.

@@Falllll So you are assuming she should be Korean because of her name? No where in the book is her ethnicity mentioned.

Careful your prejudice is showing. Please give your reason she should not be white. Where the actress hails from doesn't matter. And neither does her physique. And if you are going to insist that she should be Korean just because her last name is Park, will you just need to sit down and STFU.

@@Dave-in-MD It's not mentioned in the book because it's pretty obvious from the name and isn't really important to the plot.

@@Falllll I agree that it is not important to the plot but a name doesn't imply ethnicity. Park is an English and Scottish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charlotte Park (1918-2010), American painter Craig Park (born 1986), South African cricketer Daphne Park (1921-2010), British spy Harry Jonathan Park (1868-1927), American businessman and politician James Park (disambiguation), multiple people John Park (disambiguation), multiple people John Mungo-Park (1918-1941), Royal Air Force fighter pilot and flying ace of the Second World War Keith Park (1892-1975), New Zealand air force commander Maria Hester Park (1760-1813), Born as Maria Hester Reynolds, British composer, pianist, and singer Michael Park (actor) (born 1968), American actor Mungo Park (explorer) (1771-1806), Scottish explorer Mungo Park (golfer) (1836-1904), Scottish golfer Nick Park (born 1958), English animator and director Nigel Park (1921-1942), New Zealand flying ace of the Second World War Ray Park (born 1974), Scottish actor, author and martial artist Robert E. Park (1864-1944), American urban sociologist Robert L. Park (1931-2020), American physicist and pseudo-science critic William Hallock Park (1863-1939), American bacteriologist

You clearly have never worked in corporate America.

@@SophiaAphrodite Clearly.

Even if you are an expert or start out as one, as you lead more people, its impossible to understand how everything works and thats why you delegate, trust your team and then make calls with the best info you have. This isn't a stereotype, its just executive leadership.

​@@bobbyricigliano2799These aren't numbers he is pulling out of his ass, he's the director for a reason. He knows what's possible and delegates full authority and resources to the experts. It may be a trope but this movie/book manages to circumvent it.

Its not a stereotype . That is how you lead. The thing is that when someone doesnt really know what they are doing , bad things start to happen

How many NASA directors' meetings have you been a part of?

It's called acting. I have a hard time taking you seriously.

Watch clips from " The Newsroom". Jeff Daniels kills it.

@foxfireman188-ls1kv Yes I can see the validity of that, and it's true Watney needed the folks back home to get their ducks in a row in order for him to get back. But the problem-solving stuff was really fascinating and would've held up for almost the entire movie for me. More drama on Mars, less on Earth. I remember the feeing I had in the cinema at the start of the second Matrix film when the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar exited the ramp and entered Zion and you suddenly realised they were all part of a much larger community. At that point a lot of the magic that had been created around them being these awakened renegades fighting against the AI disappeared for me. But of course they wouldn't have been able to do what they did without people in Zion. Perhaps in both cases it's inevitable and necessary, but the narrative transition does remove the tension that's been created, for me anyway.

​@@bumblebeebat-te5xvWhen did they talk about "worker's rights and unions"? Also, all of the characters have names unless you didn't pay any attention.

Concern troll.

How did you think he would escape Mars without the help of these people? He can’t teleport home….

@@M0M0117 That side of things dragged the film down for me in the second half. But it's hazy now because I watched ages ago; maybe it'd be better on second viewing. I really liked all the Mars survivalist stuff.

This is practically stupid thing to do the reason they limit the supply because of the cost it will bring.

About rocket booster, IRL SpaceX can launched supply cargo to Mars everyday when contracted so the disaster like in the movie will never be a problem. And Elon will send Starship to Mars for extraction.