The music for the movie was composed by john barry. The black hole is a 1979 american space opera film directed by gary nelson and produced by walt disney productions. Theoretical physicist kip thorne was a scientific consultant for the film to ensure the depictions of wormholes and relativity w. Ending spoiler for the black hole 1979, plus mistakes, quotes, trivia and more. Earlier in the film, durant called the black hole something straight out of dantes inferno, with pizer adding that one would expect to see someone with a pitchfork and a tail.
This ends the movie on a more tragic note, limiting coopers reunion with his daughter to a moment in the past while having cooper. The black hole sent a generation of scifi fans to hell a. Quite possibly the ballsiest ending for a disney movie ever. Pizer foreshadowed this when they first discovered the black hole by suggesting the phenomenon was right out of dantes inferno, and later quipping that. According to an interview with cowriter jonathan nolan, the alternate ending had the black hole that allowed cooper to send a message back in time to his daughter collapse on him, effectively killing him. Later, after kate learns the truth about the crew of the cygnus, she tells reinhardt that if there is any justice at all, the black hole will be his grave. A broadcast of the black hole on daytime british television in the mideighties omitted the scene of the angel flying through the arches, instead cutting from maximillian on the mountaintop in hell to the shot of the palamino crew heading for the unidentified planet, having apparently survived. Its a little more of an adult kind of movie, said robert forster. Kosinski plans to fix the black holes ending with science. Claire denis, the french director of the new scifi drama high life, shares her opinions on black holes, and how their unknowability serves the ending of her film. He is so obsessed with discovering what is at the end of the titular black hole that he refused orders to return home. May, 2019 the second half of the movie jumps forward further in time to show monte with a new adolescent willow as the pair move closer to the edge of space and the unknown of the black hole.
Thorne told wired that the rendering of the black hole by the movies computer effects artists taught him new things about the ways black holes. Back in 1979, disney lost its damn mind and made the black hole. Sep 21, 2014 in every conceivable respect, the black hole plays like a 50s science fiction movie, from the tiny detail that the modern nations of earth remain unchanged centuries into the future, to the frank antiscience bent of making reinhardts quest for knowledge indistinguishable from his psychotic disregard to human life, and making durant the. However, he wasnt afraid of the black hole which was deadly. Interstellar may be a work of fiction, but the upcoming film gives viewers an amazingly accurate view of a black hole, its creators say. Kate mccrae, whose father was the cygnuss first officer.
When i picked it up i hadnt realized this was a novelization of the disney movie i was hoping it was a book that inspired the movie. The black hole 1979 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. In the wake of several successful disaster films such as the poseidon adventure 1972 and the towering. My impression from the end of the film was more that reinhardt encountered maximillian beyond the black hole, and put himself inside the robotic suit more for the purposes of an environmental suit. It was the studios firstever pgrated movie because of the utterances of hell and. And the entire time last night when i was watching this with my wife, who hadnt seen it, im thinking in mike nelsons voice, now see, this. The last and perhaps greatest manual special effects movie ever made, released between the original star wars and original tron movies. At the time, the black hole was the most expensive movie disney had yet undertaken. After calling the gossip site the dark energy permeating the vacuum of space wherever you look, he awarded the title to the original disney movie.
Sure, the black hole was disneys attempt to ride the star wars wave by including kidfriendly robots, a pair of twodimensional space cowboys, and a gratuitous lack of scientific accuracy, but what struck me most was the films eerily gothic production design and tone courtesy of peter ellenshaw and a dark cerebral ending that was perhaps not. But if you got a bit lost in the final act of the film, we wouldnt blame you. This is why we see reinhardts eyes through the visor of maximillians helmet. With malcolm mcdowell, dean cain, izzie steele, natalie distler. The black hole is what happens when you have people writing a science fiction movie who dont know a. The black hole suffered from the syndrome many disney films were victim to in the 70s80s. The movie was disneys sciencefiction event the black hole. Cygnus is perched precariously at the edge of a black hole the vast, empty nothingness where space and time end. Willow, now old enough to talk back to monte and demand a say in how things are done on the crumbling ship, convinces her father to board an escape pod with her and.
After a trippy werebeingsuckedintoablackhole sequence thats the. In the black hole, spaceships were cool looking, but in the late 90s people have seen spaceships and wanted cool spikey ball thingy to look at. Like the real black hole, the one in high life, where the. The black hole sent a generation of scifi fans to hell film. On board, they discover that only one man from the original crew, dr. While rewatching the black hole, the thing that blew me away in 1979 now simply blew. Dec 03, 2008 sure, the black hole was disneys attempt to ride the star wars wave by including kidfriendly robots, a pair of twodimensional space cowboys, and a gratuitous lack of scientific accuracy, but what struck me most was the films eerily gothic production design and tone courtesy of peter ellenshaw and a dark cerebral ending that was perhaps not. The voices of the main robot characters in the film are provided by roddy mcdowall and slim pickens both uncredited.
A scifithriller centered on a high school violinist who witnesses the collapse of space and time. It succeeded in the effects department for 1979 but the movie loses steam as it progresses to a lukewarm ending. Directed by christopher nolan, interstellar is a fantastic tale of time, space, and love. Too naive to understand the black hole 1979 youtube. When i was a kid back in the early 80s we subscribed to the brandspankingnew disney channel. They also managed to screw up escape from witch mountain at he same time, for he same reasons. Jul 11, 2019 directed by christopher nolan, interstellar is a fantastic tale of time, space, and love. The physics of black holes, explained for nonscientists. Neil degrasse tyson thinks the black hole is the most. The black hole is a 1979 american science fiction film directed by gary nelson and produced by walt disney productions.
However, there is really no way to explain its meandering storyline. Apr 22, 2019 high life director claire denis on her scifi movie s mysterious, cosmic ending. Aug 09, 2016 when i was a kid back in the early 80s we subscribed to the brandspankingnew disney channel. Theres about as much plot to the black hole as there is to an average, hourlong episode of the original star trek. A story of robots and humanoids, human genius and madness, and a spectacular descent into natures ultimate mystery the black hole. A scifithriller centered on a high school violinist who witnesses. The most satisfying part of researching for this post was turning up roger eberts verdict on lost in space.
The black hole remake is is too dark for disney right now. The black hole is notable for being the first disney film to earn a pg rating because of the frequent use of hell and damn and the violent death of dr. High life director claire denis on her scifi movies mysterious, cosmic ending. The black hole is a 1979 american space opera film directed by gary nelson and produced by. The crew of the starship palomino encounter the legendary research vessel cygnus, eerily stationary near an enormous black hole.
In every conceivable respect, the black hole plays like a 50s science fiction movie, from the tiny detail that the modern nations of earth remain unchanged centuries into the future, to the frank antiscience bent of making reinhardts quest for knowledge indistinguishable from his psychotic disregard to human life, and making durant the. Perhaps to give the special effects artists their opportunity to go berserk on the visuals. They end up getting sucked into the black hole with reinhardt anyway. An earth exploratory ship, the uss palomino, discovers a black hole with a lost ship, the uss cygnus, just outside its event horizon. So while remaking the black hole seems like kind of a. A nonsensical ending that would be hard to show in movie formisnt this a novelization of a film. It is notable for two reasons, being the first disney film to be rated pg and one of the first disney films to feature cgi. So by merging with it, he was trapped with the object of his fear. Can someone please explain the end of black hole to me. It is one of my favourite movies and it clearly explain about black holes.
Alternate movie endings that are way better screenrant. That everswirling black hole, ready to swallow everything, is awesome. Anything that crosses its border enters a universe of the complete unknown. He is so obsessed with discovering what is at the end of the titular black hole that he refused orders to return home and will not let anyone get in. Apr 27, 2012 the black hole was therefore nelsons first attempt at an effectsheavy science fiction movie, and he doesnt seem to have much of an affinity for the genre. The film stars maximilian schell, robert forster, joseph bottoms, yvette mimieux, anthony perkins and ernest borgnine, while the voices of the main robot characters are provided by roddy mcdowall and slim pickens both uncredited.
And it sounds like one of the goals for him in doing a black hole remake is to use a little actual science, instead of the vague, mumbo jumbo which passed for it in the first film and eventually. Moving on, the black hole is a disney scifi family movie set in space. Tasked with harvesting the energy from a black hole, theirs is a mission with no return the closer they get, the more they have to come to terms with. So even though the meeting between murph and coop at the end of the film is the first time they. As a black hole rotates, it twists spacetime in the direction of rotation at a speed that decreases with distance from the event horizon, meaning that spacetime closer to. The original disney movie left a pretty clear ending where the black hole led to final judgement. The scientists involved desperately try to shut the hole down. The dangerous black hole itself seems to represent the whirlpool, the deadly maelstrom that destroyed the nautilus in vernes literary masterpiece, serving the same function in the black hole.
The black hole 1979 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. The black hole was therefore nelsons first attempt at an effectsheavy science fiction movie, and he doesnt seem to have much of an affinity for the genre. A research vessel finds a missing ship, commanded by. Tmz caught up with the cosmos host and asked him which space movie is the most scientifically inaccurate. Plus, damns and hells never appeared in disney films until the black hole. A research vessel finds a missing ship, commanded by a mysterious scientist, on the edge of a black hole. Set as an epic sciencefiction journey into the deepest corner of space, the black hole attempted to marry grandiose visions of life among the stars with cuttingedge effects. With all the wisdom of teeagers in a slasher movie, these stalwart adventurers decide to nudge around the edge of a black holes event horizon in a ship no bigger than my apartment building.
The black hole 1979 escaping the black hole youtube. The most openly pathetic has got to be moonraker, the movie where. Neil degrasse tyson thinks the black hole is the most scientifically inaccurate movie ever. Theres about as much plot to the black hole as there is to an average. Buena vista distribution had released the pgrated sports drama film take down earlier the same year, but it was produced by an independent production studio. It stars maximilian schell, robert forster, joseph bottoms, yvette mimieux, anthony perkins, and ernest borgnine. However, when an energy creature emerges, things get even more. The black hole sent a generation of scifi fans to hell. The film stars maximilian schell, robert forster, joseph bottoms, yvette mimieux, anthony perkins, and ernest borgnine, while the voices of the main robot characters are provided by roddy mcdowall and slim pickens both unbilled. Back in the day i recall this movie while in its entirety not being creepy, there were always bits here and there that were. This is the kind of movie that, if it fell into a black hole, you wouldnt be able to. The black hole was designed by the veteran effects artist peter ellenshaw, who avoids the look of most earlier movie spaceships walltowall computer display screens re laying meaningless information to nonexistent monitors.
Its the whole reason the rest of the movie youve just watched exists. Palomino, is returning from a deep space exploration mission. About the only new thingy was the gravity drive spinny ball. With maximilian schell, anthony perkins, robert forster, joseph bottoms. Successful in stabilizing their damaged ship, they make a run for a huge. Finally, it is impossible not to notice that reinhardt and nemo share very similar death scenes in both the black hole and the movie version of. The black hole has a decent amount of silliness, but the production design, john barrys epic score, the ending, v. When a particlecollider experiment goes astray, a black hole forms. The second half of the movie jumps forward further in time to show monte with a new adolescent willow as the pair move closer to the edge of space and the unknown of the black hole. The black hole is a 1979 science fiction movie directed by gary nelson. Palomino fight to escape the crushing gravity of a nearby black hole.
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