![]() ![]() ![]() “And he said, ‘You know, I feel like I should say something,’” McKay said. They were filming the dinner scene in a house in Massachusetts “in the freezing cold.” Between takes, DiCaprio came up to McKay and script supervisor, Cate Hardman. That line was DiCaprio’s idea, McKay said. With Britell’s piano score behind him, Randall says, “The thing of it is we really” - he pauses - “we really did have everything, didn’t we? I mean, if you think about it.” Remembering things to be thankful for, one of Randall’s sons wistfully recalls sleeping in the backyard and waking up to a baby deer: “That was the best day of my life,” he says. “So the trickiest part of the movie was the ramp down into that tone in the last 20 minutes.”Īt the dinner table, the Mindys and their chosen family are trying to make their last meal meaningful, as composer Nicholas Britell’s score kicks in. “I just think we’re having to deal with these strange feelings being next to each other,” McKay continued. “The whole movie’s trying to just process basically the question of what the eff is going on in reality.” Along with “The Big Short” and “Vice,” his most recent films, “You can almost call them the what-the-eff-is-going-on trilogy.” McKay said that these days, with the world becoming more surreal by the day, he wanted to create a blend where “absurdist, ridiculous comedy lives right next to sadness,” he said. “I’m good,” he tells her, adding that she should have fun with Jason. Teddy comes for dinner as well, and “Don’t Look Up” cuts between the intimate Mindy dinner and the disastrous comet mission at BASH that will doom Earth.Īfter Isherwell and Orlean ditch the mission control room to escape the planet, and Orlean forgets that her son and chief of staff, Jason (Jonah Hill) exists, leaving him to die, she offers Randall a spot on the ship, which is decked out with cryo-chambers, and will search for a habitable planet. But knowing that Isherwell’s attempt to break up the comet will likely fail, Randall shows up on his Michigan doorstep to have a “family dinner” - with Kate and her new boyfriend, Yule (Timothée Chalamet) - and asks to be forgiven. When Randall Mindy becomes an international celebrity, and the primary media messenger about the comet, he gets a glow-up and loses his way - he ends up ditching his wife (Melanie Lynskey) and their kids. The result of taking away that structure was a “triple ending.” McKay spoke with Variety about how he ended “Don’t Look Up.”Ĭourtesy of Netflix One Last Supper as the World Ends “There could be something powerful about just not having that,” he said. To bring about those goals, McKay wanted to take away the “guaranteed happy ending” that filmgoers have grown used to, and “break that traditional three-act Hollywood thing that we know so well.” “Don’t Look Up,” in other words, has a lot to do. Along the way, “Don’t Look Up” satirizes modern life, skewering media, politics and the culture of fame and celebrity. To achieve that synthesis, “Don’t Look Up” attempts a tonal high-wire act the movie is heading, after all, toward the end of the world, and the deaths of Kate, Randall and Teddy. “The idea,” McKay said, “was always that it was going to involve absurdist comedy and some reality - can you blend those two things?” And that was McKay’s plan before the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe, causing new and horrifying variations of anti-science denial. ![]() McKay, who wrote and directed the Netflix film, wanted to make a movie about the impending climate apocalypse - one that was “a big, broad comedy,” as he called it in a recent interview with Variety. Katherine's supervisor Vivian Mitchell(Kirsten Dunst) assigns her to assist Al Harrison(Kevin Costner) space task group, Katherine becomes the first African American team member to assist in a key group and even work in the building that doesn’t even have a bathroom for coloured people.Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio and Rob Morgan. Following the successful Russian satellite launch there was pressure on America to send one of their own in space. They crossed gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big. Johnson (Taraji P Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae), who were brilliant served as the brains at NASA and saw the launch of one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation's confidence. Yet three incredible women African-American women Katherine G. More so in places like Virginia where this film is based. ![]() Plot Summary Hidden Figures is based in the 60s when women and coloured people were given the `treatment’ in America. ![]()
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