This doesn't happen regularly in Hollywood even though women make up half the population and buy half the movie tickets, and if it would have been up to the studio executives it wouldn't have happened at all. What is so extraordinary is the fact that Sandra Bullock spends three quarters of the movie on screen by herself in close up shots with very little makeup. The film is a nail biter and an intense thriller - and I recommend you see it in 3-D and IMAX if you can.
The shuttle gets destroyed and Kowalski and Stone are left out in space with very little oxygen and not a lot of options. But being a movie you know that's not going to happen. She is intensely focused on her mission and will do anything she can do get it done and get back on the shuttle. She looks like she wants to puke the entire time. They team her with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski ( George Clooney) who in his last flight is so comfortable in space that he spends his time on his last space walk cracking jokes and telling stories. Ryan Stone and puts her up into space to repair the Hubble Telescope with technology she created. The film by Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron and written by Cuaron and his son Jonas, takes Bullock as first time astronaut Dr. It's a film about competence, about training, about science and resiliency and, yes, Sandra Bullock is a hero, and she's a hero who actually flies in space.
Not a typical Hollywood movie to say the least.
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Most films that dominate our the Oscar conversations especially this year are about male heroes including 12 Years a Slave, Captain Phillips, All is Lost and Lee Daniels' The Butler.) Even the films about men that are not even a part of the Oscar conversations are about male heroes - albeit superheroes - but this film takes a woman, a scientist, an incredibly smart woman who needs to figure out how to save herself. Gravity is important because it is a movie that will be a part of the Oscar conversation for the duration and that means we will be talking about a female astronaut who has to basically overcome every adversity you could imagine to survive. McCarthy was able to take the ludicrous The Identity Thief and make it a hit, and now Sandra Bullock has been shot into space in Gravity, the most complicated role of her career. Interestingly, as Gravity hits screens this weekend, the two women who star in The Heat - Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock - and if the great buzz for Gravity turns into great box office, which I suspect will be the case, these two women will each have two films in the top 25 films of the year. The Heat currently sits at number 10 for the year at close to $160 million. There was only one movie - The Heat - that starred women that opened on over 3,000 screens during the entire summer of 2013.
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