There you go! It's a signal fire! And it spells out S.O.S! (embers start falling around him) Woah! It's a meteor shower! (drops the branch back into the fire) Fireflies, go! Run! You're free, you're free! (the fire burns bigger) Yes! YES! Look what I've created! I have made FIRE! I.have made fire! C'mon, baby, light my firrrrre!" (takes a palm branch, lighting the end, then holding it up) There you go. (Having successfully lit a fire, putting more wood onto it) There we go! Light it up, c'mon! (singing) "The time to hesitate is through!" (throws more wood and gets briefly burned) Ouch! Haha, ouch! "No time to wallow in the mire.(to Wilson) You wouldn't have a match by any chance, would you?.(talking to Wilson, the volleyball) Hey, you want to hear something funny? My dentist's name is James Spalding.We live and we die by time, and we must not commit the sin of turning our back on time.
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In that final frame of the film it becomes apparent why the movie is titled Gravity. It’s an astounding moment, that makes us suddenly aware of something so common, so pervasive, it’s usually imperceptible in our daily lives: the way the earth hugs us in gravity’s embrace. You feel the pull of the earth holding on to her, keeping her safely anchored to the ground. The impact of that final shot - with Bullock’s Ryan Stone standing firmly on the ground - is profound. Stone finally splashes down on earth and, with her muscles weak from the extended weightlessness, slowly crawls onto the land. Sandra Bullock’s Ryan Stone has been drifting weightless for roughly 90 minutes of screen time, with the camera floating in 3D space. Despite all the razzle-dazzle special effects, the film’s most powerful moment is its final shot. Only in the film’s final act is the meaning of its title clear.Īlfonso Cuarón’s Gravity is similar. Presumed to be dead, by the time he finally makes it back home, Kelly is married and has a child. The movie’s true theme isn’t apparent until near the end the film, when Noland realizes that the one thing he held on to during his long period of isolation - his relationship with his girlfriend, Kelly (Helen Hunt) - has been lost. Tom Hanks discovers he’s been cast away in ‘Cast Away’.
Even though for most of the movie’s running time Hanks’ Noland is, indeed, alone and abandoned on an island - a castaway - the title of the film is not Castaway. It brings to mind Cast Away, Robert Zemeckis’ film starring Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland, a Federal Express worker stranded on an island following an airplane crash. The title is a clever misdirection that makes sense only at the conclusion of the movie. Doesn’t the entire film take place in outer space, where the characters are floating weightlessly? Shouldn’t it be called No Gravity or Gravity-less? I get the play on words - “gravity” also implies “significance” or “consequence” - but the title seemed misplaced nonetheless. Sandra Bullock floating in the absence of gravity in ‘Gravity’.īased on the trailer and preview clips I had seen, the title of the Alfonso Cuarón movie Gravity perplexed me. If you haven’t seen both films, you may not want to read it. This article contains major spoilers for the movies Gravity and Cast Away.