Gravity - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Gravity or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Gravity

[jesse]

The film is second only to Cabaret (1972) to receive the most Academy Awards without winning Best Picture.

[bryan]

Ryan's hallucination of seeing Kowalski again in the space pod was George Clooney's idea. According to Clooney, Alfonso Cuarón was unable to come up with a satisfactory resolution for the character despite many revisions of the scene, including removing the dialogue, until Clooney offered to take a shot at rewriting the scene himself.

[jim]

Director Alfonso Cuarón originally wanted Salma Hayek to play Dr. Ryan Stone, but the studio refused saying that no one would believe a Mexican astronaut.

[bernice]

In the International Space Station, when Dr. Stone finds out there is a fire, besides the notebook monitor displaying the warning shows two photos of the screenwriter Jonás Cuarón and his family, and also a photo with reference to a short film The Voyage Across the Impossible (1904) directed by Georges Méliès

[morris]

Gravity (2013) was more expensive the real Indian Mars Orbiter Mission also known as Mangalyaan. The budget of Gravity (2013) was $100,000,000 USD (estimated) against the $74,000,000 USD budget for the mission.

[kylie]

Though the film itself depicts vacuum as a silent void, sound effects were added to the trailers.

[lynn]

Despite being set in space, the film uses motifs from shipwreck and wilderness survival stories about psychological change and resilience in the aftermath of catastrophe.

[ivan]

A chance meeting between their siblings led Astronaut Cady Coleman (Cady Coleman) to call Sandra Bullock from the International Space Station to talk to her about life in vacuum.

[darrell]

There is an underlying theme about the creation of life. Starting with the big bang and the ensuing chaos with the initial destruction of the I.S.S.; Dr. Stone portraying a fetus in the womb when she relieves her space suit in the Russian Space Station; and ending with her emerging from the ocean onto land, like the first amphibians did millions of years ago. A moment prior to this end scene, a frog swims briskly past the camera underwater, in a testament to that very idea.

[manuel]

Because of Alfonso Cuarón's lengthy takes, Sandra Bullock had to memorize long combinations of precise movements to hit her marks at different points in the shot. She often had to coordinate her own moves with those of the wire rig attached to her and the camera.

[lynn]

Kowalski mentions landing at Edwards, a reference to Edwards Air Force Base in California. It was the primary landing site for all shuttle missions until 1991, then a reserve landing site until the Space Shuttle program ended in 2011.

[maureen]

Shooting long scenes in a zero-g environment was a challenge. Eventually, the team decided to use computer-generated imagery for the spacewalk scenes and automotive robots to move Sandra Bullock for interior space station scenes. This meant that shots and blocking had to be planned well in advance for the robots to be programmed.

[kim]

The entire film was shot on digital cameras. However, Emmanuel Lubezki stated that the closing sequence, after Ryan lands back on Earth was shot in sixty-five millimetre in order to give a hyper-reality look.

[christina]

In the Soyuz's wall we can see a painting of Saint Christofer, the protector of travellers and drivers.

[miriam]

The actors could not be filmed using conventional means as they could not spend long amounts of time upside-down, which was needed for the range of movements. Because of this, elaborate mechanisms were created to rotate the camera, whilst the actors moved, to replicate this effect.

[francisco]

The lake Ryan crashes into was filmed at Lake Powell in Arizona, the same lake used for astronaut Taylor's crash in Planet of the Apes (1968).

[caroline]

Tim Webber stated that 80% of the movie consisted of CG, compared to Avatar (2009), which was only 60% CG.

[liam]

George Clooney's first feature, outside of his Ocean's Eleven (2001) franchise, to break the $100,000,000 mark since The Perfect Storm (2000).

[stephanie]

When the sequence of Stone entering the I.S.S. (International Space Station) airlock and shedding her spacesuit was filmed, actress Sandra Bullock sat on a rig with a bicycle seat and had her right leg strapped into a two-part brace inside a specially made chamber. She then mimed movements that were carefully choreographed and a camera rig was rotated slowly to create the illusion of her's and the I.S.S.'s rotation. Lights were also placed in strategic spots to capture the shining of the sun in the window. In postproduction, Bullock's right leg and the braces were erased completely and recreated with C.G.I.