Why do I aspire to be both a filmmaker and a spacefarer?
Why do I aspire to be both a filmmaker and a spacefarer? The answer is, if circumstances favor, I could do what Sir #RidleyScott did. His contribution to science fiction cinema (#Alien, #BladeRunner) is enormous. NASA/Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) appropriately recognized the auteur by asking him to design a 'Mission Patch' for US national laboratory on-board International Space Station (ISS).
The mission patch is one of the vital components of the laboratory in ISS, working in microgravity, orbiting at 17,500 miles/hour, 450 kilometers above Earth. I view science fiction films as the potential bridge between imagination and reality. After all, that's how i began exploring space and became a spacefarer.
I'm indebted to Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey', Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Solaris', George Lucas's 'Star Wars', Steven Spielberg's 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', 'ET', 'War of Worlds', Robert Zemeckis's 'Contact', Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar', Alfonso Cuarón's 'Gravity', several documentaries and narrative films that manipulated me to explore the universe.
Why do I aspire to be both a filmmaker and a spacefarer?
The answer is Sir Ridley Scott.
He becomes 86 today.
Born 86 years ago today, on November 30, 1937, a prolific, visionary, influential, and more importantly, holistic filmmaker, who has directed numerous films in all possible genres, which no one could ever conceive of.
Happy birthday auteur Ridley Scott.
Some of his major works are, Blade Runner (1982), Alien (1979), Gladiator (2000), Black Hawk Down (2001), Thelma & Louise (1991), Napoleon (2023).
Video credit: NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration / International Space Station / Center for the Advancement of Science in Space - CASIS/ #RidleyScott
Authored by Balaji Thangapandian aka #BT - a spacefarer, who is also curious about film-making, connectivity technologies and military history.
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