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| Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón says he knew of film's scientific flaws | Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón says he knew of film's scientific flaws |
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| Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón revealed he was aware of his film's scientific inaccuracies from an early stage, but had decided to drop scenes explaining them away from an early draft as he felt they were "irrelevant". | Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón revealed he was aware of his film's scientific inaccuracies from an early stage, but had decided to drop scenes explaining them away from an early draft as he felt they were "irrelevant". |
| The Mexican film-maker was responding to a string of tweets from astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson who had pointed out a number of flaws, including the fact that all the spacecraft in the film were on the same plane of orbit, and that Sandra Bullock's coiffure appeared unaffected by zero-gravity. | The Mexican film-maker was responding to a string of tweets from astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson who had pointed out a number of flaws, including the fact that all the spacecraft in the film were on the same plane of orbit, and that Sandra Bullock's coiffure appeared unaffected by zero-gravity. |
| Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Cuarón said that "most of [Tyson's] comments are things that we're aware of". Commenting specifically on the fact that the Hubble telescope, the International Space Station and a Chinese space station were on the same orbit in the film, the director said: "When we started having experts read the script and while working with them, they explained [the problem] to us ... We did a draft explaining why everything was on the same plane and the screenplay was like 30 pages longer (because of the explanation), and it was interesting, but at the end, irrelevant for the fiction we were trying to tell. So we took all that out of the draft." | Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Cuarón said that "most of [Tyson's] comments are things that we're aware of". Commenting specifically on the fact that the Hubble telescope, the International Space Station and a Chinese space station were on the same orbit in the film, the director said: "When we started having experts read the script and while working with them, they explained [the problem] to us ... We did a draft explaining why everything was on the same plane and the screenplay was like 30 pages longer (because of the explanation), and it was interesting, but at the end, irrelevant for the fiction we were trying to tell. So we took all that out of the draft." |
| Cuarón went to say: "We tried to be as accurate as we could within the framework of our fiction. In the end, it's fiction and it's an emotional journey more than anything else." | Cuarón went to say: "We tried to be as accurate as we could within the framework of our fiction. In the end, it's fiction and it's an emotional journey more than anything else." |
| Fortunately for Cuarón, Tyson signed off by saying he was a fan of the movie – "if you must know, I enjoyed #Gravity very much". The US public clearly shares his approval, as Gravity has now taken over $170m (£105m) at the North American box office on its third week of release, for a worldwide total of $284m (£175m) so far. | Fortunately for Cuarón, Tyson signed off by saying he was a fan of the movie – "if you must know, I enjoyed #Gravity very much". The US public clearly shares his approval, as Gravity has now taken over $170m (£105m) at the North American box office on its third week of release, for a worldwide total of $284m (£175m) so far. |
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