3/21/2024 0 Comments The martian movie castYou also know that, despite the heated discussions back on earth of how risky, time consuming and expensive a rescue mission would be, NASA will still have to stage one, and that any objections (mainly by Jeff Daniels' character, the agency's director) will be waved off in the name of doing what's right. You also know that, despite the Lone Man Against Nature plot line, there's a reason why the filmmakers cast Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain as the captain of the mission that's forced to abort its exploration of the planet's surface and leave Mark for dead-and it wasn't so that she could turn tail and head for Earth with her crew in the first ten minutes and never return. If you've ever seen a film, you know going in that things are going to turn out fine for Mark-that no studio is going to pay for a special effects driven epic about a smart, likable castaway who dies in the last five minutes. Like all the variants of "Robinson Crusoe"-including " Cast Away" and, of course, "Robinson Crusoe on Mars"-this film is about a man, Matt Damon's Mark Watney, who summons all of his ingenuity and courage to endure a seemingly impossible situation, then must deal with loneliness on top of it all. But although the outline offers no surprises, the details and the tone feel new. "The Martian," Ridley Scott's film about an astronaut surviving on a desolate planet, is at heart a shipwreck story, one that just happens to take the form of a science fiction adventure.
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