Information
| Year: | 2007 |
| Rating: | 7.3(74385) |
| Listed in: | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| Directed by: | Danny Boyle |
| Actors: | Cliff Curtis Cillian Murphy Hiroyuki Sanada Chipo Chung Michelle Yeoh Rose Byrne |
| "If the sun dies, so do we." | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Danny Boyle | |
| Actors | |
| Cliff Curtis | as Searle |
| Cillian Murphy | as Capa |
| Hiroyuki Sanada | as Kaneda |
| Benedict Wong | as Trey |
| Chris Evans | as Mace |
| Troy Garity | as Harvey |
| Mark Strong | as Pinbacker |
| Archie Macdonald | as Child |
| Actresses | |
| Chipo Chung | as Icarus |
| Michelle Yeoh | as Corazon |
| Rose Byrne | as Cassie |
| Paloma Baeza | as Capa's Sister |
| Sylvie Macdonald | as Child |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | 22 August 2005 - ? |
| Budget: | USD 50,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 3,675,753 USD (18 October 2007) UK - 2,786,833 GBP (22 April 2007) Australia - 1,787,461 AUD (2 May 2007) Russia - 6,380,964 RUR (15 April 2007) |
| Plot: | In the future, the sun is dying and Earth lives another glacial period. After the failure of the Icarus Mission, a team of eight astronauts are sent to the sun in the Icarus II Mission to explode a weapon generating a supernova within the sun in the last hope of planet Earth. However, when a crew-member commits a mistake in the operation of the aircraft shield, he jeopardizes the survival of the group. |
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Original Soundtracks
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"Peggy Sussed" Performed by Underworld Written by Karl Hyde & Rick Smith Published by Sherlock Holmes Music Publishing Ltd. / Chysalis Music Group USA Licensed courtesy of Smith & Hyde Productions t/a Underworldlive.com "Avenue of Hope" Performed by I Am Kloot Written by John Harold Arnold Bramwell (as J. Bramwell) / A. Hargreaves / P. Jobson Published by Chrysalis Music © 2005. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Licensed courtesy of The Echo Label Ltd. "To Heal" (uncredited) Performed by Underworld Courtesy of Ato Records / Red |
Goofs
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Fact errors: As pointed out by one of the characters, the ship enters the "blackout" area around the sun (and loses contact with Earth) anomalously early, before Mercury's orbit in fact. Communications from this close to the sun are not a problem in reality (and were possible with 1970s technology), but the writer and director took deliberate creative license to improve the tension. Fact errors: In his DVD commentary, director Danny Boyle says the original idea for Icarus I was to "be on its side, like the Zeebrugge". In fact, he is referring to the "Herald of Free Enterprise", the British ferry that capsized on 6 March 1987 while leaving the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. 193 passengers and crew were killed. Fact errors: As the crew attempts to rotate the shield to repair it, there is an argument that they would lose com towers 3 and 4, which they say would need on the way home. However, many shots including the simulation of payload delivery reveal that the Icarus' small shield which is supposed to protect Icarus after the payload is detached, just isn't wide enough to protect those towers at all, so they would've lost them anyway. It is even questionable, whether this shield would be capable of protecting the Icarus itself after detaching the payload with the large shield and at that close distance from the sun. Revealing mistakes: In this movie, like in most science fiction productions, sound is heard in space. This is impossible due to the absence of a medium that can transmit sound in the vacuum of space. (However, audiences have grown so accustomed to this error, it is hardly an option for any sci-fi production to stay true to the laws of physics in this case.) FAIR: SPOILER: Two of the crew members jump from the Icarus I to the Icarus II without space suits. Contrary to expectations created by B-movie science fiction, this is entirely possible. The human body simply does not have enough internal pressure to explode in vacuum. Air in the lungs is expelled almost instantaneously, provided that the subject doesn't attempt try to hold his/her breath. Blood is contained and held under pressure by tension from the walls of the circulatory system, so it has has no way to boil. A prepared individual can remain conscious for more than ten seconds, and stay alive for for several minutes, in a complete total vacuum. One NASA engineer involved in a vacuum chamber mishap has discussed the sensation of standing exposed in vacuum until he lost consciousness, from which he recovered completely. Fact errors: SPOILER: During the "space jump", one of the crew members freezes solid in a couple of minutes. Space is very very cold, but objects in a vacuum cool down extremely slowly. The heat in the object has to go somewhere. On Earth, the heat would be transferred to the cold surroundings, such as the air, by contact. In a vacuum, there is nothing to transfer the heat to, so objects that are warm stay warm for a long time. This is the principle behind vacuum flasks. The only way a object in a perfect vacuum can cool down is by electromagnetic black-body radiation, which is incredibly slow. FAIR: In the transmission received from the Icarus I, they refer to themselves as the Icarus I, rather than simply Icarus. This doesn't make any sense unless they are already aware of an "Icarus II" mission. The Icarus II is launched almost immediately when the Icarus I disappears, confirming that both ships and both bombs were built at the same time or consecutively, and thus the naming makes sense. Continuity: When the ship is tilted to angle the damaged shield away from the sun, the crew is very unnerved by the incredibly loud sounds made by the cooling metal of the shield expanding and contracting. They all seem in surprise by the loudness of the noise, even though they know what it is. However, these sounds should have come as no surprise, and everyone should have known exactly what to expect as, only a few scenes before, the shield was completely removed from all sunlight when the ship orbited Mercury, and would have inevitably produced the same phenomena. FAIR: The spacecraft takes sixteen months to cover fifty-five million miles but only takes what seems a period of less than a week to travel the remaining thirty-six million miles. As described in the commentary, it takes sixteen months to arrive at their destination because, they likely had to use the gravity of larger planets such a Jupiter (which is in the opposite direction) in order to obtain the correct velocity to orbit the sun. CHAR: In the scene where four crewmen are forced to go into outer space, with no protection, Corazon states that the temperature outside is -273 degrees Celsius. This is not exactly true, because though outer space is near absolute zero (-273 degrees Celsius) it is in fact about 3 degrees above absolute zero. She should have said -270 degrees Celsius, or 3 degrees Kelvin. Fact errors: During the spacewalk scene where Capa, Mace and Harvey are trying to get back aboard the Icarus-1 from Icarus-2, they float across into the airlock. The shot cuts to the airlock control panel, which indicates "EQUALISE", whereupon Capa and Mace immediately crash to the floor of the airlock as it's repressurized. This wouldn't happen; gravity operates whether there's an atmosphere or a vacuum, and once they were inside the Icarus-1's gravitational field (however it works), they'd have literally "fallen" to the floor immediately. |
Quotes
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[from trailer] Kaneda: It's a two person job, fixing the shield. Harvey you're second in command, you're not coming. Trey: I volunteer. Mace: No! *I* volunteer... Kaneda: Alright. Mace: I volunteer Capa. Capa: [after long pause]... alright... Capa: By the time you get this message, I'll be in the dead zone. It came a little sooner than we thought, but this means you won't be able to send a message back. So, I just wanted to let you know that I don't need the message because I know everything you wanna say. Just remember it takes eight minutes for light to travel from sun to Earth, which means you'll know we succeeded about eight minutes after we deliver the payload. All you have to is look out for a little extra brightness in the sky. So if you wake up one morning and it's a particularly beautiful day, you'll know we made it. Okay, I'm signing out and I'll see you in a couple years. [last lines] Capa: So if you wake up one morning and it's a particularly beautiful day, you'll know we made it. Okay, I'm signing out. Cassie: Are you scared? Capa: When a Stellar Bomb is triggered, very little will happen at first -and then a spark, will pop into existance, and it will hang for an instant, hovering in space and then, it will split into two, and those will split again, and again, and again... detonation beyond all imaging - the big bang on a small scale. - a new star born out of a dying one... I think it will be beautiful... No, i'm not scared Cassie: ...I am. Pinbacker: Are you an angel? Has the time come? I've been waiting so long. Icarus: Capa; warning. You are dying. All crew are dying. Capa: We know we're dying. Were OK with it, just as long as we have enough oxygen to reach the payload delivery point. Icarus: Capa; warning, you do not have enough oxygen to survive until the payload delivery point. Capa: Please clarify. Icarus: Twelve hours before crew will be unable perform complex tasks. Fourteen hours before crew will be unable to perform basic tasks. Sixteen hours until death. Time to payload delivery point, 19 hours. Capa: Negative, Icarus. We have enough oxygen for four crew members to survive. Icarus: Affirmative. 4 crew members could potentially survive. Capa: Trey is dead. There are only four crew members; Cassie, Mace, Corazon and me. Icarus: Negative. Five crew members. Capa: Icarus... who is the fifth crew member? Icarus: Unknown. Capa: Where is the fifth crew member? Icarus: In the observation room. Capa: My God... my God. Pinbacker! Pinbacker: Not your God. Mine! Cassie: Only dream I ever have... is it the surface of the sun? Everytime I shut my eyes... it's always the same. Searle: Kaneda! What do you see? Kaneda! What do you see? Kaneda! *Kaneda!* Pinbacker: For seven years I spoke with God. He told me to take us all to Heaven. Capa: It's the problem right there. Between the boosters and the gravity of the sun the velocity of the payload will get so great that space and time will become smeared together and everything will distort. Everything will be unquantifiable. Kaneda: You have to come down on one side or the other. I need a decision. Capa: It's not a decision, it's a guess. It's like flipping a coin and asking me to decide whether it will be heads or tails. Kaneda: And? Capa: Heads... We harvested all Earth's resources to make this payload. This is humanity's last chance... our last, best chance... Searle's argument is sound. Two last chances are better than one. Pinbacker: I am Pinbacker, Commander of the Icarus One. We have abandoned our mission. Our star is dying. All our science. All our hopes, our... our dreams, are foolish! In the face of this, we are dust, nothing more. Unto this dust, we return. When he chooses for us to die, it is not our place to challenge God. Mace: Okay, that make sense to anyone? Mace: When the Icarus Two was broken apart from Icarus One, there's something we weren't thinking about. The computer was down. The airlock was decoupled manually. Corazon: I was on the flight deck with Cassie the whole time. Capa: And I was with Mace and Searle in the observation room. Mace: And I think we can all... assume it wasn't Harvey. That leaves one possibility. Corazon: Trey. Capa: But why would Trey do it? He blames everything on himself, he sleeps twenty-three hours a day, he's clinically depressed... Why'd he do it? Mace: We don't know, but we can't discard it as a possibility. Corazon: And there's something else. [slides forward a piece of paper] With Searle and Harvey gone, we lost two breathers. We have enough oxygen for four crew to make it to the payload delivery point. Capa: So we'll do it. Mace: I'll do it. I'm not passing any bucks. Corazon: Well, then... Mace: We'll vote this time. Unanimous decision required. [pause] Well, you know where I stand. Corazon: [draws back the piece of paper] And me. Mace, Corazon: [look at Capa] Capa: What are you asking? That we weigh the life of one man versus the future of all mankind? [pause] Kill him. Mace: [looks at Cassie] Cassie... Cassie: [a tear slides down her face] No. Mace: Cassie... Cassie: I know the argument. I know the logic. You're saying you need my vote. I'm saying you can't have it. Mace: [long pause] [gets up] Sorry, Cassie... Cassie: [crying] Oh God... Make it easy for him. Somehow. Pinbacker: At the end of time, a moment will come when just one man remains. Then the moment will pass. Man will be gone. There will be nothing to show that we were ever here... but stardust. Searle: It's invigorating. It's like... taking a shower in light. You lose yourself in it. Corazon: Like a floatation tank? Searle: Actually, no. More like... In psych tests on deep space, I ran a number of sensory deprivation trials, tested in total darkness, on floatation tanks - and the point about darkness is, you float in it. You and the darkness are distinct from each other because darkness is an absence of something, it's a vacuum. But total light envelops you. It becomes you. It's very strange... I recommend it. Mace: What's strange, Searle, is that you're the psych officer on this ship and I'm clearly a lot saner than you are. Cassie: Kaneda, Searle, report to flight deck... We have an excess of manliness breaking out in the comms centre. Mace: We should split up. Harvey: I'm not sure that's such a good idea... Mace: You're probably right. We might get picked off one at a time by aliens. Searle: Hey Capa, we're only stardust. [first lines] Capa: Our sun is dying. Mankind faces extinction. Seven years ago the Icarus project sent a mission to restart the sun but that mission was lost before it reached the star. Sixteen months ago, I, Robert Capa, and a crew of seven left earth frozen in a solar winter. Our payload a stellar bomb with a mass equivalent to Manhattan Island. Our purpose to create a star within a star. [long pause] Capa: Eight astronauts strapped to the back of a bomb. My bomb. Welcome to the Icarus Two. Searle: Everything about the delivery and effectiveness of that payload is entirely theoretical. Searle: May I make a counter-argument? Mace: No! Cassie: We have an excess of manliness in the comm center right now. Searle: Prescription, two hours in the Earth Room. And get a haircut. Searle: There is something on board the Icarus I that may be worth the detour. As you pointed out, Mace, we have a payload to deliver. *A* payload, singular. Now, everything about the delivery and effectiveness of that payload in entirely theoretical. Simply put, we don't know if it's gonna work. But what we do know is this: If we had two bombs, we'd have two chances. Capa: You're assuming we'd be able to pilot Icarus I. Searle: Yes. Kaneda: Which is assuming that whatever stopped them wasn't a fault or damage to the spacecraft. Searle: Yes. Mace: That's a lot of assumptions. Trey: I'd need to look at all of the carefully, very carefully. But if I had to make a guess right now, I'd say we could adjust our trajectory. We could fly straight to them. Mace: But we're not going to do that. Just to make it absolutely clear there's no way we're going to do that. Do I have to spell it out for you? We have a payload to deliver to the heart of our nearest star. We are delivering that payload cause that star is dying and if it dies, we die, everything dies. So that is our mission, there is nothing, literally nothing more important than completing our mission. End of story. Capa: Icarus, how close is this to full brightness? Icarus: At this distance of 36 million miles, you are observing the sun at two percent of full brightness. Capa: Two percent? Can you show me four percent? Icarus: Four percent would result in irreversible damage to your retinas. Corazon: [stepping between fighting crew members] Air's low. We need to limit our exertions. Pinbacker: One man alone with God. Pinbacker: The last man, alone with God. |
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