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All’s well that ends well (more or less)! At the end of Interstellar, Christopher Nolan’s 9th feature film (considered by AlloCiné viewers to be his best film and simply the best science fiction film ever made), humanity has survived and so has Cooper!
Even if the conclusion of this spatial and temporal epic has given rise to all sorts of theories and hypotheses, it is in any case decidedly optimistic and full of hope. The film’s hero, played by Matthew McConaughey, manages (after leaving the shuttle to save his teammate and being sucked into the black hole Gargantua) to use gravity to communicate with the younger me, as well as his daughter.
In doing so, he sends himself NASA coordinates (which allow him to relive the journey he just experienced) and gives his daughter data that will help her leave Earth and find a new home for humanity.
The icing on the cake: After sending his messages through space and time, Cooper manages to escape the black hole, join the survivors of humanity, and see his daughter once again.
But this pleasant conclusion, at the end of a film with a rather sinister and tragic tone, almost felt very different and much more pessimistic. Indeed, as screenwriter Jonathan Nolan (brother of director Christopher Nolan) suggested at the film’s video release event, Interstellar could have a much darker fate in store for Cooper.
According to the site NerdistThus, the screenwriter suggested that his first version of the script include the ending “much more direct”. We should have seen it first Einstein-Rosen Bridge Collapsed when Cooper was trying to send data.”
Even if Jonathan Nolan’s statement remains rather vague, we can assume that in this version Cooper did indeed sacrifice himself to allow his teammate Brand to escape into the black hole and not escape.
Therefore, she was unable to send a message to Earth (neither to herself nor to her daughter) and was unable to save the survivors. On the other hand, we can imagine that Brand managed to reach the “Third Planet” and gave birth to the frozen embryos that he carried with him, thereby continuing to save humanity.
What do you think of this much more tragic alternate ending?
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Source: Allocine
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