00:00Yeah the stakes are huge in the movie but really it's a relationship story. It's a friendship
00:04story and that is the heart of the movie and that's the most important thing about the film
00:09is making you fall in love with these characters as they are learning how to work together and
00:15starting to care for each other and that's what makes the film so emotional and that's what makes
00:19the film so warm. A lot of films that are set in space are very antiseptic and cold and distant.
00:24This movie is warm and hopeful and optimistic and it's full of of emotion. We had two different
00:30forms of gravity when it was in centrifugal mode and when it was traveling so we had to have the
00:35sets not only built vertically and horizontally so that the characters could experience them in those
00:42two different ways. Very complicated to take a set and turn it on its side and figure out how it
00:46would
00:47work physically but we we made it extra difficult for ourselves but it paid off because it's really
00:53there and you can feel it. From the first meetings we had with Ryan about the screenplay he was
00:59insistent that he wanted to be a regular person and react like a regular person would in these
01:04scenarios he's like if I woke up and a robot was trying to force feed me food out of a
01:11tube I would
01:13want to fight the robot so we created a fight with the robot if I was asked to do a
01:19spacewalk I would
01:21immediately say no you would have to drag me kicking and screaming to get out on the into the hull
01:26of a
01:27spaceship. Absolutely not. So those intuitive reactions that he had which I think are the kinds
01:33of reactions that a regular person has an audience member has I think makes his growth into the person
01:39who saves all of mankind and oh by the way a whole other planet's worth of of life that makes
01:46that so
01:46much more powerful incredible. You can really relate to him even though he's really smart he's a
01:50microbiologist most of us aren't microbiologists but the character is also the same time very human
01:57and and not someone who has no flaws or insecurities he is like us and that's why I think he's
02:04so
02:05relatable in the film. He's such a generous collaborator because he understands that the movie and the book
02:10are not the same thing that the movie ought to be its own thing inspired by the book and he
02:15was very
02:16encouraging all the way through saying like I want to see how you guys react to the book I want
02:23to see
02:23the book grow as a course of the movie as opposed to being strict. The people who were the most
02:28strict
02:28were us we're saying like I don't want to make it easy on myself I don't want to take any
02:32shortcuts
02:32I want to act like the book really happened and that we're just telling a biopic about these people.
02:39We loved this book so much and we had had a previous relationship with Andy and Aditya Sood who
02:45runs our company with us he discovered and produced The Martian so we've known Andy for a long time and
02:51have asked him weird science questions over the years and so to be able to get to work with him
02:56so
02:56closely was really exciting. What he does as an author is create impossible problems to solve and then he
03:02solves them right the thing that I think sets him apart is not just his focus on engineering and
03:11engineers and scientists but really his his ability to bring forth the emotionality and heart of those
03:19characters like ultimately the reason this book is a sensation is because of the relationship
03:27it's because of how it makes you feel. We tried to be as fully scientifically accurate as we possibly
03:35could because that's part of the joy of reading an Andy Weir book it's grounded realism you know it's
03:42something that feels like it's real and could really happen and it's not in some far away universe
03:48where everybody looks like a person in a rubber suit this is real science.
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