Christopher Nolan: This anecdote about Interstellar proves that the director has a sense of realism!

From Christopher Nolan’s 2014 space epic Interstellar, we especially remember the spectacular sequence of Endurance’s exploration of wormholes, a masterful planet-ocean scene where every passing hour corresponds to an Earth year, or 23. Matthew McConaughey’s years of unread messages in front of a teary-eyed screen.

However, even in the opening minutes of his feature film (rated by AlloCiné users as the best science fiction film with an average of 4492 stars out of 5), the British director shows his sense of precision and meticulousness in his pursuit of realism. Limit, is willing to make radical choices to avoid using computer-generated images.

This is especially true when we discover Cooper’s farm, a land ravaged by famine and drought, and the camera pans over the farmer’s vast cornfields (until they are finally destroyed by a dust storm).

Thus, instead of creating these plantations at CGI, Nolan decided to use large funds and plant an actual 200 hectares of land. A decision inspired by a certain Zack Snyder, who had already tried a similar experience on Man of Steel:

“Luckily, Zach was growing quite a lot of corn, so I asked him how much we could actually grow.”– said the director at the microphone HollywoodReporter.

“They were planted on several hundred hectares . That’s why we investigated this issue. We were looking at where we wanted to build our farm, near the Calgary Hills . In the end, we got quite a good harvest, which even brought us money.”

In total, the operation cost a hundred thousand dollars, but it allowed Nolan to shoot some really powerful scenes at the beginning of his film. After filming, the cornfields were not destroyed, even offering some production benefits.

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