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Post by brittany on Dec 28, 2006 13:19:04 GMT -5
I was reading a comment on IMDB regarding a magazine interview about the characters in Sunshine and how they deal with their space trip. One element was how each person experiences their own level of insanity. I'm curious on how the space crew will behave... Comments, thoughts, questions, concerns? I'll start! Someone mentioned that "one guy takes up the shield and is staring into the sun, and he says he 'saw god'" Could it be Harvey based on his "soul" remarks seen in his room?
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Post by brittany on Dec 29, 2006 16:59:42 GMT -5
Based on what I've seen so far, it appears that Capa may be the relunctant hero of the bunch. He might be the last one to crack...
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Post by chero on Dec 29, 2006 17:03:55 GMT -5
I'm sure everyone will get insane at one point or another. C'mon, it's space travel. It must be stressful.
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Post by brittany on Dec 29, 2006 17:07:05 GMT -5
*I changed it* I'm just too cautious!
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Post by chero on Dec 29, 2006 22:40:59 GMT -5
That looks much better. ;D
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Post by brittany on Dec 29, 2006 23:01:10 GMT -5
No I don't. I wish! *squee*
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Post by solaris on Jan 1, 2007 22:46:40 GMT -5
I agree with the theory of Capa as the "reluctant hero". Even though his character seems kind of, um, edgy in what we've seen so far, Murphy has said that he will never play a villian again.
I think that someone (possibly Capa) will be widely suspected of being a killer/sabatour (sp?), but that it will turn out to be someone different.
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Post by brittany on Jan 2, 2007 9:52:13 GMT -5
I'm thinking suicide might be involved, too.
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Post by Amanda on Jan 2, 2007 11:27:38 GMT -5
Oh, definitely. I figure that's a given.
Haha, if it doesn't happen we're all going to be sitting here like, "Omg, we're dumb," while Gia sits on the sidelines and giggles.
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Post by chero on Jan 2, 2007 11:34:45 GMT -5
Haha, if it doesn't happen we're all going to be sitting here like, "Omg, we're dumb," while Gia sits on the sidelines and giggles. I can totally picture that happening.
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Post by Amanda on Jan 2, 2007 11:40:50 GMT -5
I'll bet it's already BEEN happening, too. But I'd love every second of it if I were her. xD We're like, "O YEAH, AND CAPA AND CASSIE ARE TOTALLY HOOKING UP!" and she's like, "*chuckle*"
But back on topic, I reckon that if I were on a mission to save the sun and things started going wrong, suicide would definitely be an option. I mean, I'd assume I was dead anyway, and I'd rather not just be sucked into space or something, y'know?
BUT, given the people who've worked on this film, if it does come down to it, I'm also assuming that it'll be an internal struggle type of thing. It won't just be an easy out for someone. And that's what I like to see--character development, please!
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Post by punctuator on Jan 2, 2007 12:05:52 GMT -5
See, it all-- well, okay, some of it-- comes down to the "dichotomy of drama." That is, we have a crew of very professional people who (according to Danny Boyle's sort of crew background thingy over at Sunshinedna.com) have trained together for years for this mission (even though, to these old and heavily prescripted eyes, "years" would have seen at least a third of them in middle school when their training began). So they should be thoroughly prepared for the boredom of space, the eyeball-squashing blackness of space, the coldness of space-- i.e., for "cabin fever" (which is why I think Minnesotans and North Dakotans and Montanans, et al., will eventually be the stars of the space program: we experience that crap for about eight months out of the year ). They also should be prepared for the immensity of the sun, and they should know how to identify radiation sickness, should it pop up. So, okay: a thoroughly prepared team of space professionals. They fly off to the sun and set off that big dark-matter M80, and everything's cool. Or hot. Whatever. Unfortunately, this is a "drama." So something "dramatic" must happen. And for that we need a catalyst-- i.e., something must break, or someone must break something, or someone decides (HELLO, "ALIEN") to respond to a distress beacon when anyone with an ounce of common sense would say, "Hey, maybe we hadn't oughtta do that--" Fortunately for us drama fans, smart people are usually almost uniformly lacking in common sense. So here's my vote: 1. Trey breaks something. To me, he has "Ooops" written all over his face. Whereupon 2. Capa identifies a "fix" that would have anyone who's ever seen a horror movie at any time in history saying, "NO [BLEEP]ING WAY." And thus does 3. Cassie, who strikes me, with her worried expression (i.e., "I'm flying a team of very, very bright idiots, aren't I? I knew it."), as the crew's voice of reason, say, "You may-- or may not-- be number one on my Christmas list, Capa, but-- NO [BLEEP]ING WAY.", whereupon 4. Kaneda, as captain (and, hence, as Team Tie-Breaker), says, "YES [BLEEP]ING WAY.", whereupon 5. The crew of the Icarus II commences to do something possibly necessary that they nonetheless really hadn't oughtta do, and We the Audience have DRAMA. (I just wanna say: if Capa dies in that stupid suit [as in the "Spacesuit" video] and not doing something at least marginally useful or self-sacrificial, I will be cheesed. And not in a nice aged-Cheddar way, either. I am at a most easily disgruntled age, and lesser things have led me to walk out of shows. It's a little weird-- and I've been doing it with books and television, too-- I have only to park a "No, not really" after the question "Do I care how this ends...?", and out I go.... [Gosh, I LOVE the smilies over here...!])
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Post by Amanda on Jan 2, 2007 12:23:55 GMT -5
See, it all-- well, okay, some of it-- comes down to the "dichotomy of drama." That is, we have a crew of very professional people who (according to Danny Boyle's sort of crew background thingy over at Sunshinedna.com) have trained together for years for this mission (even though, to these old and heavily prescripted eyes, "years" would have seen at least a third of them in middle school when their training began). So they should be thoroughly prepared for the boredom of space, the eyeball-squashing blackness of space, the coldness of space-- i.e., for "cabin fever" (which is why I think Minnesotans and North Dakotans and Montanans, et al., will eventually be the stars of the space program: we experience that crap for about eight months out of the year ). They also should be prepared for the immensity of the sun, and they should know how to identify radiation sickness, should it pop up. So, okay: a thoroughly prepared team of space professionals. They fly off to the sun and set off that big dark-matter M80, and everything's cool. Or hot. Whatever. Unfortunately, this is a "drama." So something "dramatic" must happen. And for that we need a catalyst-- i.e., something must break, or someone must break something, or someone decides (HELLO, "ALIEN") to respond to a distress beacon when anyone with an ounce of common sense would say, "Hey, maybe we hadn't oughtta do that--" Fortunately for us drama fans, smart people are usually almost uniformly lacking in common sense. So here's my vote: 1. Trey breaks something. To me, he has "Ooops" written all over his face. Whereupon 2. Capa identifies a "fix" that would have anyone who's ever seen a horror movie at any time in history saying, "NO [BLEEP]ING WAY." And thus does 3. Cassie, who strikes me, with her worried expression (i.e., "I'm flying a team of very, very bright idiots, aren't I? I knew it."), as the crew's voice of reason, says, "You may-- or may not-- be number one on my Christmas list, Capa, but-- NO [BLEEP]ING WAY.", whereupon 4. Kaneda, as captain (and, hence, as Team Tie-Breaker), say, "YES [BLEEP]ING WAY.", whereupon 5. The crew of the Icarus II commences to do something possibly necessary that they nonetheless really hadn't oughtta do, and We the Audience have DRAMA. (I just wanna say: if Capa dies in that stupid suit [as in the "Spacesuit" video] and not doing something at least marginally useful or self-sacrificial, I will be cheesed. And not in a nice aged-Cheddar way, either. I am at a most easily disgruntled age, and lesser things have led me to walk out of shows. It's a little weird-- and I've been doing it with books and television, too-- I have only to park a "No, not really" after the question "Do I care how this ends...?", and out I go.... [Gosh, I LOVE the smilies over here...!]) WELL, now that I've seen the movie... =P I really hope that since, in my [limited, since I've only seen Millions and 28 Days Later] experience of Danny Boyle films, there's just going to be intelligent and intellectual stuffs going on (I know, right, I'm being all "intelligent" and "intellectual" and then throw a "stuffs" on the end). Plus, since the best known actor in this film (for me) is Cillian and he has proven thus far that he has a tendency for choosing smart films, so I'm still just kind of stuck in the assumption that, while this is going to be another dramatic sci-fi type film, there probably will be things I don't see coming. And I swear, that happens less and less these days with the amount of books I read and films I see. But I'm allowed to hope. I'm in particular agreement with that last paragraph, though.
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Post by katrina on Jan 2, 2007 15:11:53 GMT -5
I don't have anything big and intelligent to say. (Simply because I like what was already said...) But what I know for sure is that if Capa dies too soon, so will I. I will have to leave or scream. I do love how Gia "knows" what we don't know, or don't suspect. oy!
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Post by brittany on Jan 2, 2007 15:30:58 GMT -5
Wow I just mentioned one thing *cough* suicide *cough* and you guys took it out for a midnight stroll! ....cool Additionally, I agree with you both on the Capa thing...
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