- The film is dedicated to presenting the most realistic experience of space travel. The director described it as a mixture of "Apocalypse Now" and "2001: A Space Odyssey", and was influenced by the author of "Heart of Darkness" Joseph Connard.
- When Roy walked out of the meeting room, the wall of honor displayed photos and introductions of the meritorious astronauts, including Roy's father. In addition to him, other meritorious astronauts came from reality, including Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins; the first female astronaut to command a space mission, Irene Collins; the first not to be Bruce McCandres II, the astronaut on a rope space walk, and so on.
- In order to achieve the purpose of shooting in a narrow space, the scene had to be set twice during shooting, because the crew must have both a horizontal version and a vertical version of the same scene. On several occasions, Brad Pitt was hung 30 feet in the air so that the camera could take pictures of him when hung from an elevation angle. It looked as if he was weightless, but the shooting was very laborious.
- The English name of the film is "Ad Astra", which means "overcoming difficulties and sailing to the stars" in Latin, which implies the goal and determination to explore interstellar space.
- In reality, Voyager 2 took 12 years to arrive at Neptune, while the manned spacecraft in "Interstellar Exploration" took 79 days to reach Neptune from Mars.
- The Virgin Atlantic flight from the earth to the moon in the movie also exists in real life, and this company also has a plan for commercial space travel.
- When Roy became an adult (Brad Pitt), it was not NASA that led the space exploration, but the US Space Command. In reality, this organization was established in 1985 and disbanded in 2002, and again in 2019. Recovered again.
Ad Astra behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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Shakira 2021-11-22 18:54:14
Pete: Dad loves me again! Dad: I never loved you
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Ofelia 2022-03-24 09:01:34
The four emotional flashpoints are all related to death, and there seems to be some special information behind the death: 1. The death on the far side of the moon is a result of human beings' suspicion of the same kind, a side effect of civilization and the original sin of human nature itself. 2. Deaths caused by animal experiments are suspected aliens by humans. Human innate arrogance will bring destruction. 3. Death in the cockpit is emotion killing reason. Benchmarking the emerging psychological assessment: Mood swings hinder human development. 4. The death of the father means the disillusionment of heroism. It is also equivalent to acknowledging that the meaning of exploration is void. Follow this hard journey to reach the sky. Under the shell of the story of interstellar family search, the movie is embedded with a lot of thinking between people and time and space. During the long journey, the characters and time and space are opposed to each other. "It became more and more obvious. Until we face the ultimate answer: everything we've been searching for is meaningless, and even the strongest and toughest heroes will fall apart in the face of this answer. The photography is very beautiful, and the lonely temperament is also well grasped. But focusing on the successor is a bit anticlimactic.
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Roy McBride: Can I have a blanket and pillow?
Female Flight Attendant: Certainly, that will be $125
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Roy McBride: I do what I do because of my dad.