Did Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” take inspiration from this show?

Mar 30, 2023 4:21 PM

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The whole focus on the passage of time while in space seems too familiar.

Mar 31, 2023 10:11 AM

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Idk tbh. There are also other anime/manga that explore the time dilution, like for example Hoshi no Koe (voice of a distant star), but… who knows? Western filmmakers have been inspired by anime, so you may be right.

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Apr 2, 2023 8:37 PM

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Really, really doubt it. Nolan is heavily interested in anachronistic storytelling. Memento is constantly looking at the past, Inception's time perception is different in every layer of the dream, Tenet goes backwards, Dunkirk's historical events are told from different perspectives in different lengths of time...

He also has said that he's inspired by multidimensional science when he referenced the short novel flatland and the reality-bending short stories of Jorge Luis Borges. It's logical that when he eventually learned that time is relative and that gravity (like that of a black hole) can alter it's passage, he wanted to tell a story set in space.

So just because they're set in space doesn't mean every other story about time dilation set there takes inspiration from what came before. Space is the only place where the effect can be compared because there's nowhere on earth where you could really notice it since the gravitational forces here are pretty much the same all around.

Like if I wanted to film a documentary about wild lions it wouldn't make sense to say that I was inspired by older documentaries because I filmed in Africa.

Apr 17, 2023 1:00 PM

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Most definitely not.

I really enjoyed Interstellar. Though as a sci-fi story it was not very original. The core part of Interstellar that made it so great and memorable was its emotional storytelling and binding the idea of love to its sci-fi parts.

The idea of relativistic space travel is not unique to Interstellar or Gunbuster, it's an idea that had been explored in science fiction works for decades by the time even Gunbuster came into existence.

Off the top of my head, as a contemporary comparable to Gunbusters: Ender's Game, which had been created in the late 70s and turned into a full novel by the mid 80s, featured this same idea of relativism in a plot central role. Not to mention that some dude named Einstein had come up with the theory of relativity as long ago as 1905.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity

tl;dr of theory of relativity: time moves slower the faster you are traveling

Aug 10, 2023 4:32 AM

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Reshiram_IX said:
The whole focus on the passage of time while in space seems too familiar.

amerigolems can't write shit the only good stuff they make are just copies of other foreign films lmao. for example like the american version of vanella sky or american version of the girl in the dragon tattooo or the blind vietnam viet guy who was based on zatouchi etc

Aug 10, 2023 4:36 AM

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nolan got ideas from paprika anime with his inception movie so possible

Aug 10, 2023 6:38 AM

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Time dilation has been a popular subject of interest ever since it was popularized so the source of Nolan's idea can't be pinpointed unless of course he reveals it. Maybe he likes Planet of the Apes (the old one), maybe he saw it on Carl Sagan, Gun Buster, that Shinkai short or maybe he just read a book about Einstein.

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