It was born as a film designed to be directed by Steven Spielberg, but ‘Interstellar’ has remained so associated with the name of Christopher Nolan it’s hard to think of a version that wasn’t signed by the author of ‘Dunkirk’. There are many praises that he has received, but today we come to give him a little stick and remind you that a key scene was “stolen” from ‘Final Horizon’.
indisputable resemblance
The scene in question is the moment where they explain how a wormhole works. Surely you remember that in ‘Interstellar’ a sheet of paper is used to explain how to get from one point to another. It is a very simple and clear way of explaining it to the viewer, but basically the same thing was already done 17 years before in the best work of Paul W.S. Anderson. A resounding and unfair failure when it hit theaters, although its popularity has continued to grow since then.
There was a somewhat more casual moment, since the character played by Sam Neil he used a photograph to make his crewmates understand the science behind wormholes. And the explanation was exactly the same as the one used by Nolan in ‘Interstellar’.
The popularity of such an accessible explanation for the few versed in the matter has led to the character embodied by Natalie Portman in ‘Thor: Love & Thunder’ I mentioned both films when it comes to understanding in a simple way how wormholes work.
Therefore, it is true that ‘Interstellar’ was revolutionary when it came to showing what a wormhole is like on the screen, but on this other point it seems that the Nolan brothers, since both signed the script for the film, were not able to overcome what had been devised almost two decades earlier by the screenwriter Philip Eisner.
Of course, the theory itself was not really new to ‘Final Horizon’ either, because in ‘Peggy Sue got married’ they used the parallelism that time is like a donkey that can bend to go from one point to another, while the book ‘The restaurant at the end of the world’ already used an explanation similar to the one in ‘Final Horizon’ to explain the Einstein–Rosen Bridge theory.
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