Apollo 13 Of Ron Howard When it comes out in the rooms, June 30, 1995knows an incredible success of the public and criticism. After thirty years, the reason is still under everyone’s eyes: this is not simply A magnificent thriller in space, but an unforgettable suspense masterpiece
A routine mission that became an odyssey
Apollo 13 Even today, after thirty years, one of those films set in the space that deserve a separate chapter remains. This by virtue of the topics addressed, of the realistic setting, of A crazy directionthe best ever of Ron Howard. Few movies have known raise the concept of voltage At these levels and together connect it to an unarmed epic of its most truncated, more impetuous and deleterious aspects. The story of that touched tragedy, of those men who play for hours A chess game with deathclosed in what could become their flying coffin, Ron Howard The chisel through a realism supported by an exemplary, crystalline cinematographic classicism. A coherent choice, which underlines the revolutionary scope of Apollo 13, Which is and also remains a mix of different of the most intriguing characteristics of cinematography in space. Taken from the book “Lost Moon” Of Jim Lovellthe commander of Apollo 13, the film by Ron Howard should have had Kevin Costner in the main role.
The script of William Broyles Jr. e Al reinert it was tailor -made for the star of Dance with the wolves. Ron Howard will decide that he is instead Tom Hankspassionate about astronomy and space travel, the right man, in charge John Sayles to remind you of the script. The casting will see John Travolta, Brad Pitt e John Cusack miss the goal in favor of Kevin Bacon e Bill Paxtonrespectively in the role of Jack Swigert and Fred Haise. That July 20, 1969, when Neil Amstrong takes the great step for humanity, those astronauts underneath are thrown of envy, since they were the reserve crew for Apollo 11. But less than a year later they have their occasion. Swigert, however, is described almost as an intruder, has taken the place of Ken Mattingly (Gary blue) considered at risk of Rosalia. Already in this small episode, Howard inserts a reason for tension, of doubt and fragility in that crew. 13, its nature of not very lucky number, Perhaps he solidified precisely with the Apollo 13 mission.
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Ron Howard It makes us understand how that yet another journey to the moon was seen almost as routine by the American public. The televisions dedicate a few minutes to himyet there is fame, recognition, in the heads of Lovell, Swigert and Haise, the redemption for the missed opportunity. Then the explosion of the oxygen tankends those three astronauts in the face of a desperate situation, with little chance of survival. The famous phrase “Houston, we have a problem” It was born at that moment, they hear it at NASA where a granitic Ed Harris In the role of the flight director Gene Kranz, he takes the situation in his hand, For three days fight with his men To find a way to bring the crew back to the base. We are in 1970, America on television wants to see more, The space has gone fashionableLovell’s wife, Marilyn (Kathleen Quinlan), disappointed by poor media visibility, cannot imagine that in short all the eyes of the world will be on that spacecraft and its occupants.
Apollo 13 It is the story of a possible disaster who held the whole world suspended with breath. Paradoxically, it has more points in common with a prison film and the marine genreit is an escape masked by returning home, and together it talks about the sOpravvivenza against the elements of naturein an environment actually basically unknown. THEO space is a silent, overwhelming, gigantic containersurrounds that claustrophobic and increasingly unstable space module. If in Alien Of Ridley Scott Nobody could hear you scream, in Apollo 13 It is simply useless, contact with the earth is merely audio, it is technical, there is no time for feelings or anything else. The film brings out the technical mentality, performing at the highest levels, refractory to any emotional instability of NASA and of those who are part of it. Hanks, Patton and Bacon have a wonderful chemistrythey are not heroes, however they are men who know they have accepted a job that foresees A risk of not indifferent death.
Man and his incredible ability not to surrender
Apollo 13 Refuses the legacy of Stanley Kubrick, but embraces another extraordinary film: Real men Of Philip Kaufman. A few years later Clint Eastwood will come forward with his Space Cowboyssweet and sour adventures. But already a few months after the wing of Neil Amstrong, John Sturges he had created his exciting Abandoned in spacestill disturbing today for the many points in common with what really happened in Lovell and the others. Space is the new frontier of the American dreambut there are no Indians to fight, simply the fragility of a technology, which Apollo 13 It describes us as not up to our dreams (not even today is). Yet, it is precisely by improvising and adapting to the needs, to the oxygen that could end, to the energy to be preserved, that Kranz from the ground and the crew in that lunar module, will find the way of surviving. Apollo 13 simulates the absence of gravity in a simple and brutal way: turning the scenes in full parabolic fall.
