Interstellar 4
Homework:
Heavy duty vocab 1 : TEST 1.1 (trouver la signification des noms présentés sur la fiche)-> cf photo pour les élèves absents.
Interstellar, the Wave
Doyle / Cooper / Brand / CASE
Goran :Planet with sea / waves / they are in danger / Doyle dies / a dialogue, about family
Véa : in the end, a big plan (close up) on Doyle. CASE saves the woman before she dies, at the last minute.
Rachel : Doyle is fascinated by the big wave, The wave is seen from the bottom up. intriguing - > Brand= a mountain, suspense
Mathilde : imagination / science-fiction
Badis : Wave, it goves us a feeling a fear, non diegetic music.
Thomas : 4 characters / lost on a planet with on ly water. In search for a beacon. Not a documentary, a fairy tale
Anaïs : I don't know. Question : imagniation / not realistic, his daughter - > FATE
The scene starts with a long shot of the sea. It's depicted as an ancient, primordial ocean. The non-diegetic music kicks in, and the theme features the tick tock of a clock, as Cooper reminds the crew of the stakes (Make it count).
The characters are shown through close ups, and through the point of view of Cooper, who stays in the ship. When he finally realizes the mountain range really is a wave, there's a pan shot, going up. It reveals the scale of that monstrous wave, and Zimmer's score shifts from minor chords into a majestic major chord. It conveys a sense of awe. The wave fills the frame like in Alain Resnais's Night & Fog (1955). This wave is also reminiscent of The Wave by Hokusai.
Hokusai's work, as well as the wave in Interstellar, reveals the frailty (la fragilité) of human life. Like Fate (destiny), the water is inescapable, it ignores good or evil, and the characters can't do anything about it, their efforts are futile. Yet, Brand chooses to disobey Cooper's orders, and Doyle dies because of her arrogance in the face of the wave. It's an act of Hubris (pride in Greek), and Doyle becomes a Tragic Hero.
When Brand and Cooper have their conversation, Cooper muses about (thinks about) the nature of time, and he has a hunch (an intuition)
as he keeps looking at the right of the frame : maybe they could go
through a black hole and communicate from the future. He basically
announcing the end of the movie. Strangely enough (bizarrement),
CASE doesn't tell them about the incoming wave up until the very last
minute. He could have interrupted them, but it seems he wanted them to
have that essential conversation. Could CASE know about the end of the
movie? Then there's an ellipsis (time slippage), because time in the
movie goes faster than in real life, just like on the planet. In the
end, the shuttle takes off (a topos, a cliche of science-fiction), and
Doyle body is left behind, forever trapped in time. This scene could be
considered as a purple patch.
a chord :
the scale
to kick in
to convey
to shift from x to x
the stakes
Time slippage=the movie itself
Heavy-Duty Vocab 1
Nouns
1. pitfalls
2. a breakthrough
3. a downside
4. a watershed
5. an epitome of
6. a surge
7. a moot point
8. a pipe dream
9. the apex of
10. a case in point
11. a fixture
12. a mainstay
13. a hot-button issue
14. a doomsayer
15. a woe
16. a smokescreen
17. a hurdle
18. policy makers
19. a rosy picture
20. the epitome of
21. a hot topic
22. a turnabout
23. a moot point
24. intricacy
25. blind optimism
26. a sheer fact
Heavy-Duty Vocab 1
Nouns
1. pitfalls
2. a breakthrough
3. a downside
4. a watershed
5. an epitome of
6. a surge
7. a moot point
8. a pipe dream
9. the apex of
10. a case in point
11. a fixture
12. a mainstay
13. a hot-button issue
14. a doomsayer
15. a woe
16. a smokescreen
17. a hurdle
18. policy makers
19. a rosy picture
20. the epitome of
21. a hot topic
22. a turnabout
23. a moot point
24. intricacy
25. blind optimism
26. a sheer fact
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