December 13th, 2013
12:55 PM ET
'Gravity' director: Bullock should have been in adult diapersOK, "Gravity" hair-splitters, director Alfonso Cuaron has some news for you: It's a movie. Yes, he's aware of the criticisms of the film. Yes, he knows that some people don't buy his depiction of space. He's OK with that. "We tried to be as accurate as possible in the frame of our fiction," he told Entertainment Weekly in an interview following the film's Golden Globe nominations. "That we have things that are not accurate? Of course — and actually, we know about them. And we chose to disregard those things, because we wanted first of all to honor the emotional journey of the film." But it is fiction, he added. Sandra Bullock, for example, is an actress, not an astronaut. And even though she plays an astronaut in the film, "Gravity" wasn't even true to life in the issue of her clothes. You may remember that, in a key scene, Bullock takes off her spacesuit and is left in a T-shirt and underwear. If "Gravity" had stuck with reality, she would actually be wearing something else, Cuaron said. "The funny thing in all of these things — nobody has picked up on the most obvious one," he said. "And that is that when Sandra takes off her astronaut suit, she would be wearing an adult diaper. And obviously, we chose not to do that." Why? Well, for one basic reason, he added. "It’s a movie. It’s a movie!" he exclaimed. C'mon, Cuaron. Next you're going to tell us that "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" didn't feature real wizards.
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...diapers were good enough for lisa nowak and her loverboy william oefelein...
Wow. And we expect our children to understand what they watch is pretend.
Does someone have a diaper fetish?
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first off. who cares. second she looked great and third i was blown away by the video of earth. i know she wasn't in space nor were the others but you came pretty close to what i imagined it would be like. also if the real astronauts are an example they all loved it. so who cares about diapers! even though bullock would look good in them, even if she had to wear them for reality. lol brains and looks a very rare combination.
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first off. who cares. second she looked great and third i was blown away by the video of earth. i know she wasn't in space nor were the others but you came pretty close to what i imagined it would be like. also if the real astronauts are an example they all loved it. so who cares about diapers! even though bullock would look good in them, even if she had to wear them for reality. lol brains and looks a very rare combination.
Any film with Clooney is a film not worth the time to watch. Most of his films really stretch the unbelievable. That is in his inability to play a character other then himself.
Agree about a Clooney, but when she took off the suit and only had on the tiny tee shirt and pants,I assume for the male audiences, I could have screamed. I also want to know how she was able to hold on when she kept getting slammed into the ship.
Space blows.
My, how we digress. Sorry, but did not go see the movie to get further educated on the space program. I went to be entertained! If I want to know the realities of how people function (bodily) in space, I would have searched the web.
I always thought that you just didn't poop in space. You were like grizzly bears and they first did the boy scout treatment on you and then clogged you up. You know, boy scouts eat their own recipe of ex-lax cookies for a week before a long hiking trip. The last thing a leader wants is to mess with a latrine. So he serves the troop a bunch of exlax chocolate chip cookies. That cleans out the troop and by the time they start the hike, they are cleaned out like draino. Then you serve a lot of cheese dishes like rice & cheese for the hiking trip. I always gave all my hikers a roll of wax cheese to nibble on for the trip. If the trip was under a week, they very often didn't hit the head until on the drive home and heaven forbid the rest stop.
I figured the panties were an homage to Sigourney Weaver in Alien.
Sigourney Weaver looked like she had a little bunny rabbit in her panties...
I quit watching all movies in 1970 because they couldn't convince me anything they portrayed as 'real'. I haven't given them a dime since.
Read a good book and make your own 'movie'.
Sorry, I just don't buy that Malarkey. If you know what it should have shown, why not make it that way in the first place (yes, adult diapers too). I know it's a movie, but the closer you can make it to reality, the more people will respect the endeavor!
It is not the diapers that is the problem. It is EVERYTHING else. Everything about the story is fiction. They made people look like they were floating, but did not get even the basics of being in space correct. Clooney magically being pulled away from Bullock??? Bullock magically being able to maneuver herself with a fire extinguisher, after cruising thousands of miles per hour??? The movie had some awesome cinematic effects, but the story was absolutely horrible.
You're wrong, actually. Both of those instances were accurate (to a degree). Clooney was being pull away because of the angular momentum of the rope his leg was stuck on. The reason water stays in a bucket if you swing it upside down fast enough is the same reason that he was being pulled away like that. The fire extinguisher apparently wouldn't be as powerful as demonstrated, but there's this thing called relativity. Motion is relative. It doesn't matter if she's zooming thousand of miles an hour above Earth. The objects around her are also zooming at that speed, so they appear static, and you can move around them as if they were stationary.
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No, those days ended with the Apollo program. Since the Shuttle, spacecraft and space stations have been equipped with bathroom facilities.
Yes, they have facilities on ISS, but when you are doing an 8 hour spacewalk to fix something, chances are you will need to go.
Hmm.. The ISS has a facility that really sucks... really.... it really SUCKS! Now nobody's thinking about diapers anymore... (problem solved)
Well, she could have worn a diaper, but that depends.......
ACTUALLY, firth thing off after the outer suit would be the long sleeved/legged union suit with the hoses, called the cooling suit. THEN the adult diaper.
If you want to be lazy, you can account for it all with one simple phrase : "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away....". And then nothing need to be true to life as we know it.
I hate meatloaf....
How can Sandra Bullock's legs be bigger than her butt?
It's CGI.
That'd be really uncomfortable. Being an astronaut. If you poop yourself on takeoff how long do you have to sit in it before you get to change? :S
Anything is possible in a *MOVIE*.....I think most people know this.
I used to think that 2001 was a masterpiece, but thanks to all of the hate towards Gravity, I have changed my mind. 2001 was not accurate at all, so it is obviously overrated-trash.
2001 is/was/will always be "overrated trash". The dumbest movie I've ever seen. Taking the cue from what Susan Sarandon said they are all on drugs.... Not as thought that were news.
This movie should have been more accurate like last year's award-winning Argo because that movie was so historically accurate.
Argo accurate???
I'll agree that it was 60% accurate, but check your history books.
Minimizing the role of the Canadian embassy in the rescue was unforgivable in my mind, but then so was falsely claiming that the Americans were turned away by the British and New Zealand embassies, and for exaggerating the danger that the group faced during events preceding their escape from the country.
Or as accurate as the Star Trek movies!
A movie that didn't depict reality 100%? Has that ever happened before?
In a fiction where Clooney is hanging onto something and falling back towards Earth... while already in orbit? Where you just point yourself in the direction you want to go and fire a rocket or compressed air? He's making excuses for laziness. It was a pretty film with a good ending, but not at all accurate outside the props and photography. Apollo 13 is pretty accurate. And surprisingly, Red Planet is at least as accurate as Gravity... and pretty darn underrated.
Excuse me but APOLLO 13 is a biography. GRAVITY is fiction. You are comparing apples with oranges. Obviously, GRAVITY will be less realistic than APOLLO 13. When filming a biography, the screenwriter and director have a duty to be as accurate as possible. Why should we hold a fiction like GRAVITY to that same standard? True, we need a certain amount of suspension of disbelief to accept GRAVITY's premise but far less suspension of disbelief than, say, ALIEN or STAR TREK. All in all, GRAVITY is an excellent sci-fi thriller. Well written and well acted.
What bothered me most about the film was that a lot of care went into making the movie fairly accurate–at least superficially so–then, the director abandoned any attempt at verisimilitude.
You would think that with the millions of dollars spent to create such movies, why didn't they hire a competent scientific adviser to go through the script early on in development, to make sure there weren't any major scientific blunders.
If you are a director working on a movie and would like a Scientific Adviser to peruse your script/ scenes, I am available at $100–$500 per hour.
So, all a director would need to do is look up 'James' in the phone book? Or do a Google search for "Scientific consulting by James?"
High school physics or 5 minutes playing around with Orbiter and any USB joystick would have given someone the ability to see how much was wrong with the film.
And the movie would have been as exciting as watching ISS space walks on NASA TV.
you used the word verisimilitude in a comment section on the internet lol
Well, I liked the movie. It was neat.
He should've been more concerned with violating the fundamental laws of physics in this movie.
There are no real laws of physics, per se, as much as there are loose-knit suggestions.
But capt'n...I canna change the lawa o physics!
people seriously need a reality check....who cares?
More people should believe that they can jump across 500 feet between buildings is feasible just like in The Matrix. GO FOR IT PEOPLE! It's all real!
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SO OVER RATED.! BULLOCK ..".NONONONONO"
I don't see why "Gravity" received a nomination for an award. Besides the obvious flaws, the story line was not well developed. The movie would have been a zero except for the fact that Sandra Bullock and and George Clooney were the two main characters (the other characters were incidental). The movie itself is well below their level.
Was that in your own opinion, or do you wish to represent the audience in totality?
They needed a paycheck.
I found comfort in seeing Sandra in her underwear
Sandra Bullock in her underwear?? Oh, hells yeah!! Scientific accuracy be damned!!
it's hilarious the extent to which people want to pick out discrepancies in a freakin space movie, like they're trying to prove, "HEY, YOU GUYS DID NOT REALLY FILM THIS IN SPACE!" I would understand if the discrepancies had anything to do with the actual plot (like in the movie Looper), but they don't.
If "Hardware Wars" can film on location in outer space,
then "Gravity" should strive for the same level of authenticity.
...nobody want to see that...!
There is a niche market that would have paid quite a lot to see that,
The ONLY mistake in the movie was having her wear a bra.
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Ok so I am a Physics buff, took everything from microbiology to organic chem. and the movie was good fun and well worth my money. I like a few types of movies, heady thrillers (No Country), comedies (Clerks), smart mature but interesting drama (Shawshank) and pure action movies (Gravity, Kunf-Fu flicks). We saw it in 3D at Sundance and had a great time. I went in ready for an action film not a space sim and go what i wanted.
The theme song from Mystery Science Theater covered it best:
If you're wondering how he eats & breathes,
And other science facts...
Then repeat to yourself its just a show,
I should really just relax...
Well, I certainly won't be seeing it now that I know she wasn't in them.
All the criticism of Gravity as to space accuracy but when Star Wars came out people seem to ignore the fact that there was sound being heard in the vacuum of space. It is surprising how selective people are in what they notice and choose to voice their opinions about. Quite funny.
Star Wars was obviously fantasy, not as bad as Space Balls, but it wasn't even close to realistic most of the time. A movie like Gravity that attempts to be realistic invites you to think of it not as a fantasy, but as something that could really happen. At that level, it's the fantasy parts stick out and spoil your feeling awe at the reality of being in space.
It's like seeing a 100% CGI person that seems interesting and you believe is real until you see a glitch that shows it's not actually a person...
Bro it asks you to think as a laymen not as Stephen Hawking. JEEEZ! Its more than a believable scenario for someone who never really delved into Physics in college.
Star Wars (Science fiction, 1977, George Lucas): Terrorists enlist the aid of a drug smuggler and a religious fanatic to bomb the seat of governmental power.
The obvious error was that her hair was lying flat on her head. Her hair should have been floating....
I gotta get me some of them spaceman diapers too. That'd be cool.
You remind me of the time I got into a political debate with a quadruple amputee...the poor dumb basterd didn't have a leg to stand on.
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Windshield wipers she shoulda weared diapers
Hmmmm. Sandra Bullock in adult diapers...
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