History Awesome / Interstellar

* TARS and CASE. In a meta way: Their entire presence on the film (every borderline-AlienGeometries-feeling second of it) was ''practical effects''.

* When the astronauts first go through the wormhole and soar through infinite space, the imagery, mixed with the score, is fantastic. Renowned theoretical physicist, Kip Thorne himself provided the most up-to-date mathematical models and equations to the VFX department. So that scene really is our best guess as to what it would actually look like.

* When the astronauts first go through the wormhole and soar through infinite space, the imagery, mixed with the score, is fantastic. Renowned theoretical physicist, Kip Thorne himself provided the most up-to-date mathematical models and equations to the VFX depart, so that scene really is our best guess as to what it would actually look like.

** The way in which the tesseract displays every single moment of Murph as a young girl and as an adult walking around in her room as 3-dimensional constructs. It's just such mind-blowing, trippy imagery as only Nolan could do.

* When the astronauts first go through the wormhole and soar through infinite space. The imagery, mixed with the score, is fantastic. Renowned theoretical physicist, Kip Thorne himself provided the actual mathematical models and equations to the VFX depart, so that really is our best guess as to what it would actually look like.

** The way in which the tesseract displays every single moment of Murph as a young girl and as an adult walking around in her room in 3 dimensions. It's just such a mind-blowing, trippy scene as only Nolan could do.

* The 5th Dimension ([[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant no]], [[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 not that one]]): Or at least how it's translated in 3-dimensional space as a hyper-cubic, grid-like tesseract composed of perpendicular, time-bending gravity waves ([[MindScrew or something like that]]) inside the black hole created by beings who [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence transcend 3-D perception of time and space]]. It is what enables Cooper to send the necessary data for Professor Brand's gravity equation to Murph to successfully crack the equation, and save humanity.

** Cooper toggling a "wave bar(?)" to manipulate one of the hands on adult Murph's watch to tell her the gravity data [[EverybodyKnowsMorseCode in Morse code]].

* When the astronauts first go through the wormhole and soar through infinite space. The imagery, mixed with the score, is fantastic. Kip Thorne himself provided the actual mathematical models and equations to the VFX depart, so that's our best guess as to what it would actually look like.

* TARS and CASE. In a meta way: Their entire presence on the film (every borderline-AlienGeometries-feeling second of it) was ''practical effects''.
** The way in which they move around (including their ability to churn through water by turning into a tumbling water-wheel) makes this use of practical effects all the more amazing.

* Murph torching Tom's crops to draw him out and save Tom's family from himself.
* The long, empty shot of the crew drifting past Saturn. Even though they're all still alive at that point, there is still such a profound sense of isolation and insignificance--and they still have so far to go. There is just enough time on this shot to allow all this to sink in. Now ''that'' is filmmaking.
** Special mention should go to the segment where they impose ambient noise from a thunderstorm against the image of the ship flying by Saturn. Blending powerful sounds of nature with the majesty of the cosmos.

'''CASE''': Not since TARS disabled it.\\
''[{{Beat}}]''\\
'''Cooper''': [[HellYesMoment Nice!]] What's your trust setting, TARS?\\
'''TARS''': Lower than yours, apparently.

* While on Miller's planet, Cooper sees a tsunami is coming their way and orders Brand and Doyle to return to the shuttle. Except Brand gets stuck under a piece of debris [[spoiler: while trying to recover the data log]], so Doyle orders CASE to go save her. Up until then, CASE seemed like a clumsy, slow and blocky robot, but it suddenly makes full use of its shape-changing features, displays amazing moving speeds through the water and saves Brand in a flash.
* CASE casually reveals that TARS [[spoiler: turned off the auto-docking to prevent Dr. Mann stealing the ''Endurance'', due to the latter robot's low trust settings]].
-->[[spoiler:'''CASE''': He [Mann] doesn't know the ''Endurance'' docking procedure.]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Cooper''': But the auto-pilot does!]]\\
[[spoiler:'''CASE''': Not since TARS disabled it.]]\\

[[spoiler:'''Cooper''': [[HellYesMoment Nice!]] What's your trust setting, TARS?]]\\
[[spoiler:'''TARS''': Lower than yours, apparently.]]
* Cooper coupling the landing craft with the ''Endurance'' [[spoiler: after Dr. Mann, in his mad attempt to hijack the ship, severely damaged it. It should be noted that he does this while the ''Endurance'' is '''spinning at 68rpm.''' And he doesn't black out, even though the g-forces of that spin did knock out Brand.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''CASE''': It's not possible.]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Cooper''': No. It's ''necessary.'']]
* [[spoiler:The 5th Dimension ([[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant no]], [[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 not that one]]): Or at least how it's translated in 3-dimensional space as a hyper-cubic, grid-like tesseract composed of perpendicular, time-bending gravity waves ([[MindScrew or something like that]]) inside the black hole created by beings who [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence transcend 3-D perception of time and space]]. It is what enables Cooper to send the necessary data for Professor Brand's gravity equation to Murph to successfully crack the equation, and save humanity.]]

* Cooper Station. [[spoiler:Especially since not only is it a functional American space colony orbiting Saturn, implying that civilization's recovered beyond Earth, but that all it represents was made possible by both Cooper and his daughter. The fact that even the family farmhouse was moved to the colony is just icing of the cake.]]
* Murph [[spoiler:torching Tom's crops, to draw him out and save Tom's family from himself.]]
* The long, empty shot of the crew drifting past Saturn. Even though [[spoiler: they're all still alive at that point]], there is still such a profound sense of isolation and insignificance--and they still have so far to go. There is just enough time on this shot to allow all this to sink in. Now ''that'' is filmmaking.

* While on Miller's planet,Cooper sees a tsunami is coming their way and orders Brand and Doyle to return to the shuttle. Except Brand gets stuck under a piece of debris [[spoiler: while trying to recover the data log]], so Doyle orders CASE to go save her. Up until then, CASE seemed like a clumsy, slow and blocky robot, but it suddenly makes full use of its shape-changing features, displays amazing moving speeds through the water and saves Brand in a flash.

* [[spoiler:The 5th Dimension ([[IThoughtItMeant no]], [[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 not that one]]): Or at least how it's translated in 3-dimensional space as a hyper-cubic, grid-like tesseract composed of perpendicular, time-bending gravity waves ([[MindScrew or something like that]]) inside the black hole created by beings who [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence transcend 3-D perception of time and space]]. It is what enables Cooper to send the necessary data for Professor Brand's gravity equation to Murph to successfully crack the equation, and save humanity.]]

* TARS casually reveals that he [[spoiler: turned off the auto-docking to prevent Dr. Mann stealing the ''Endurance'', due to his low trust settings]].

-->[[spoiler: '''CASE:''' It's not possible.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Cooper: '''No. It's ''necessary.'']]

** The way in which they move around (including their ability to swim by rotating like a water wheel makes this use of practical effects all the more amazing.

* Murph [[spoiler: torching Tom's crops, to draw him out and save Tom's family from himself.]]

** Special mention should go to the segment where they impose ambient noise from a thunderstorm against the image of the ship flying by Saturn. Blending powerful sounds of nature with the majesty of the cosmos.

* [[spoiler:The 5th Dimension ([[IThoughtItMeant no]], [[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 not that one]]): Or at least how it's translated in 3-dimensional space as an extra-dimensional, transspatial, hyper-cubic, grid-like tesseract composed of perpendicular, time-bending gravity waves ([[MindScrew or something like that]]) inside the Gargantua black hole created by Bulk Beings who have [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence transcended 3-D perception of time and space]]. It is what enables Cooper to send the necessary data for Professor Brand's gravity equation to Murph to successfully crack the equation, and save humanity.]]

* [[spoiler:The 5th Dimension ([[IThoughtItMeant no]], [[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 not that one]]): An extra-dimensional, transspatial, hyper-cubic, grid-like tesseract composed of perpendicular, time-bending gravity waves ([[MindScrew or something like that]]) inside the Gargantua black hole created by Bulk Beings who have transcended time and space. It is what enables Cooper to send the necessary data for Professor Brand's gravity equation to Murph to successfully crack the equation, and save humanity.]]

* [[spoiler: "The Tesseract": A fourth-dimensional, transspatial, hyper-cubic, grid-like structure composed of perpendicular, time-bending gravity waves ([[MindScrew or something like that]]) inside the Gargantua black hole created by Bulk Beings who have transcended time and space. It is what enables Cooper to send the necessary data for Professor Brand's gravity equation to Murph to successfully crack the equation, and save humanity.]]

* [[spoiler: "The Tesseract": A fourth-dimensional, transspatial, hyper-cubic, grid-like structure composed of perpendicular, time-bending gravity waves ([[MindScrew or something like that]]) inside the Gargantua black hole created by BulkBeings who have transcended time and space. It is what enables Cooper to send the necessary data for Professor Brand's gravity equation to Murph to successfully crack the equation, and save humanity.]]

* [[spoiler: "The 5th Dimension": An extra-dimensional transspatial grid-like structure composed of perpendicular time-bending gravity waves ([[MindScrew or something like that]]) created by Bulk Beings who have transcended time and space. It is what enables Cooper to send the necessary data for Professor Brand's gravity equation to Murph to successfully crack the equation, and save humanity.]]

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* TARS casually reveals that he [[spoiler: turned off the auto-docking to prevent Dr. Mann stealing the Endeavour, due to his low trust settings]].

* The long, empty shot of the crew drifting past Saturn. Even though [[spoiler: they're all still alive at that point]], there is still such a profound sense of isolation and insignificance--and they still have so far to go. There is just enough time on this shot to allow all this to sink in. Now ''that'' is filmmaking.