I love this scene, it's so surreal. Here is Earth and everything on it facing death yet everything in the solar system and universe is going on like normal and not even noticing.
@@Inception13387 days ago to a comment from over a decade? @bedhed69 Do you see this guy? We get it. You saw Oppenheimer last week and finally discovered science. Now you hate science fiction because you’re exploratory deep dive on wiki, because a great movie edit, made you look up the difference between fission and fusion. You probably hate that love wins in interstellar. This scene is the essence of human curiosity and why we love the fiction in science. Go home. We don’t want you.
A comment below states that Mercury is "going the wrong way". Well... That depends on how you turn your spaceship. It might be "upside down", out there in space... Where "up" and "down" have little meaning. One could even say hey are looking down towiards the surface of the sun - which would be the most logical way to see things really. Have fun.
@@NT_1 Yes, visually amazing. The ability of this scene from a movie to capture the awesomeness of the universe and how small and insignificant we really are.
I love this scene, it's so surreal. Here is Earth and everything on it facing death yet everything in the solar system and universe is going on like normal and not even noticing.
I've watched this about ten times today and it never gets old. I love this scene. It's so beautiful and I love how effortlessly shows how small we are.
This movie inspired my interest for astronomy. The sheer dimensions of space and the universe is so thrilling. It puts things here on earth into a broader perspective. Very powerful. The sun is awesome.
My room mate was obsessed with this movie for a while. Plot analysis eventually crept into my subconscious and I ended up writing a instrumental song about the unknowing state of the sun dying or exploding back to life called Rutilant Refulgence
I just watched this movie for the first time in full. I knew it existed and came across glimpses when it came on TV but never sat down and gave it attention. Now after years I regret not seeing this before. what a movie and this is my favorite scene. For a moment I thought Mercury was falling into the sun. Cant imagine what it would be like to watch thinking that will happen to Earth too. im left speechless. will never forget this scene
At 0:28 the camera focuses on his watch. Which stands for time. And they are watching a planet revolve around the sun.. How it is symbolic of time, Gravity, mass etc ..
Sunshine was one of the most surprising sleeper movies that I never knew existed. Excellent film. That scene was particularly powerful. Now I gotta go watch it again.
I've just noticed that, of all the crew members watching the Mercury, Harvey is the only one who didn't looks at it and was thinking about something, probably about his family, which makes his demise more sympathetic!
i can answer that. that blasted sun has been frying my a** for the past 20 billion years with its rage! and im sick it! nah im just kidding lol. but in all seriousness that would be interesting to hear planets talk
Every time I see this scene, I am overcome with emotion. It just perfectly puts everything (literally EVERYTHING) in perspective. We're just floating on a tiny little orb, so beautiful, yet so very fragile, against the unimaginable vastness that is the universe. For this is not something out of a fantasy tale, or a science fiction novel...this is how things really are. That simple fact truly amazes me.
The Sun contains 99.8% of the solar system's mass. Every planet and anything orbiting the Sun is in that 0.2% and therefore infinitesimally small in comparison. SPACE is awesome.
I love everything about this scene, it's beautiful, but my favorite part has to be the shot of everyone's faces enraptured by spectacle, except for Harvey, who stares solemnly at the floor in the background... Such a cool little "acting" moment, gives a lot of depth to his character.
This scene is absolutely sublime! Danny Boyle is brilliant. I can almost imagine myself there with the crew fighting back the urge to cry at such beauty, wonder, and mystery.
I think so too. The diameter of the Sun is 1,391,000 km compared to Mercury's 4,879 km; Mercury has a diameter of about 0.35% compared to the Sun, although without boring people with maths the apparent size would vary depending on distance. Its not easy to calculate their angular diameter without knowing the distance from which Icarus II was observing. Watch the "2006 Transit of Mercury" video. Crazy stuff.
Yup^ Searle usually goes into that room and changes up the level of intensity of how much sun can enter the room. He's really obsessed with it, ironically he's the psych officer on board. Even one of the characters questions his sanity (Mace-Chris Evans)
I was asking the same the first time I watched it, but it seems that they exaggerated the distance between Mercury and the Sun in the film, maybe to make it more awesome. Still great scene!
It all depends of the spacecraft's orientation going towards the sun. They could have been "upside down", and therefore the planets would be moving in "reverse".
Originally the scene had everyone having a monologue to what they were thinking of at that moment, but then they realized that was really stupid and left it like this which is perfect :)
The image may not be the actual distance that they would be viewing if they looked out the "window". There appears to be some digitizing when switched from the green to yellow in the "window" This may be a magnification of the actual transit thus making things appear much bigger.
You know, there’s a noticeable chunk of people who hate this movie, and some of it is justified. There’s a chunk to complain about: the wonky and absurd science, the plot holes, and the fact the entire third act degrades into a slasher movie. I can’t find myself hating this movie though. The sound design, the soundtrack, the cinematography, the art design. All of it, this movie is just gorgeous to look at.
I think we should leave the space-travel movies to England. They do much better than us! The music was perfect. This scene gives the best sense of distance, the vastness of space, the feeling loneliness, but at the same time togetherness with their team out in space...
Seeing the sun so close in movies and tv always gives me an anxiety attack. Seeing so much power so close scares the crap out of me more then ghost and monster movies ever could.
Oh man the NASA live stream from Hawaii showed a close-up of the corona from a satellite with Venus approaching, and it looks almost exactly like this scene. Gorgeous.
The ship had a viewing room with the ability to filter the light coming thru the "glass". It was set to like 5% of the actual light able to enter the room for them to safely view it
I think this is one of the most beautiful scenes in Sci-Fi film history and it is enhanced by the music which is "Sad Guitar" aka "Mercury" by Underworld.
You are right that at that range from Mercury, the sun would appear much smaller (about 3 times as large as we see it from the Earth), but it would be possible to see the relative size of Mercury and the sun to be about that, at the right distance (probably around the range of 1-2 million miles out from Mercury).
Love this scene... But nobodies going to mention how Big the sun is here compared to Mercury's orbit.... Its like the sun is a red giant 44 times its original radi
Most astonishing thing about the scene is, that mercury is only roughly 0.4 as large as earth, meaning, the sun is still close to everything there fucking is in the solar system. Which yields that we're absolutely nothingin, in the solar system, in the universe, etc., hoping for the camp fire to burn forever
Love this scene... But nobodies going to mention how Big the sun is here compared to Mercury's orbit.... Its like the sun is a red giant 44 times its original radi
I always enjoyes the scene. But I don't believe Mercury was going the wrong way. It was the ship that was moving. It was approaching Mercury from left to right which makes the planet appear to move right to left from the observer's point of view when viewed against a distant background object such as the sun. Perspective and parallax are wonderful things!
You, sir, are incorrect. Prometheus was not supposed to be known as an "Alien" saga movie, til the end. People who see the movie go and post comments about it on the internet, then people read about it. They go watch it and join the bandwagon saying that the movie sucked because, "The movie was supposed to be about Alien, not big ass aliens from another world. Prometheus was an excellent movie. It is excellent because I was not expecting it to be about the "Alien" saga. I was totally surpirsed!
I think the video is flipped for avoiding-copyright-issue purposes. There's another video of this scene on TH-cam that shows Mercury going in the correct direction.
Disappointment is a mild word for Prometheus. On the other side it's a shame that Sunshine doesn't have better closure, that would made this movie a classic.
I'm pretty sure the two planets nearer to the sun than earth move from left to right from our perspective...something to think about if anyone else is considering a transit scene in his or her movie
Mercury is anywhere from 46 to 70 million km from the sun depending on time of year (Mercury years that is). That ought to put some scale on how huge the sun is, and the sun is thought to be smaller than most stars in our galaxy. Makes one feel quite... small.
Love this scene... But nobodies going to mention how Big the sun is here compared to Mercury's orbit.... Its like the sun is a red giant 44 times its original radi
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I love this scene, it's so surreal. Here is Earth and everything on it facing death yet everything in the solar system and universe is going on like normal and not even noticing.
John Case very creatively and well put.
Imagine watching this in IMAX 3D. Good lord, what an experience would that be.
I bought this on Blu-ray just for this scene haha
I definitely agree Obama.
This is the first and only movie that gave me an out of body experience.
Lol. What a clown.
One of the most profound scenes in science fiction. I love this film
I hate this movie. It's so utterly unnecessary.
@@Inception1338 each to their own my friend
This movie is criminally underrated. The visuals and soundtrack alone make up for the negatives. This movie also has a killer cast.
@@Inception13387 days ago to a comment from over a decade? @bedhed69 Do you see this guy? We get it. You saw Oppenheimer last week and finally discovered science. Now you hate science fiction because you’re exploratory deep dive on wiki, because a great movie edit, made you look up the difference between fission and fusion.
You probably hate that love wins in interstellar.
This scene is the essence of human curiosity and why we love the fiction in science.
Go home. We don’t want you.
@@yieldtochristian Oppenheimer I will never see. The trailer was painful enough.stop that shit.
A comment below states that Mercury is "going the wrong way". Well... That depends on how you turn your spaceship. It might be "upside down", out there in space... Where "up" and "down" have little meaning. One could even say hey are looking down towiards the surface of the sun - which would be the most logical way to see things really. Have fun.
Or their velocity is faster than Mercury through space, making it appear as if it's going the wrong way but really they're just going faster than it.
it could be wrong based on the suns own rotation
How can it be the wrong way when this is no way in space? 🤣
"On reflection, what can one say? Ladies and gentlemen, Mercury."
Is that what Captain says? I've always heard it wrong. though the said some Japanese wisdom. Still is
i hate how unknown and under rated this film is
utterly
@@NT_1 Yes, visually amazing. The ability of this scene from a movie to capture the awesomeness of the universe and how small and insignificant we really are.
I think about this movie every single winter. Where my sun gone?
This still gives me goosebumps every time I see it, I hope I live long enough to go on a vacation in space to witness events like this firsthand!
You can try going to the deepest part of the Antarctic and then maybe feel ready to go into space.
I love this scene, it's so surreal. Here is Earth and everything on it facing death yet everything in the solar system and universe is going on like normal and not even noticing.
Buy a telescope...? But I know what you mean ;D
When it's your time to pass away and you're following the light tunnel into reincarnation... turn around and look behind you.
goosebumps@@thetavibes9021
john murphy is a god damn genuis... when i watched this scene and heard that music i felt a strange kind of peace
I've watched this about ten times today and it never gets old. I love this scene. It's so beautiful and I love how effortlessly shows how small we are.
This movie inspired my interest for astronomy. The sheer dimensions of space and the universe is so thrilling. It puts things here on earth into a broader perspective. Very powerful. The sun is awesome.
My room mate was obsessed with this movie for a while. Plot analysis eventually crept into my subconscious and I ended up writing a instrumental song about the unknowing state of the sun dying or exploding back to life called Rutilant Refulgence
hi, do you still have this available somewhere?
i wish i was obsessed back when it came out, i regret not giving it a chance and watching it full but i did now. what a scene
I just watched this movie for the first time in full. I knew it existed and came across glimpses when it came on TV but never sat down and gave it attention. Now after years I regret not seeing this before. what a movie and this is my favorite scene. For a moment I thought Mercury was falling into the sun. Cant imagine what it would be like to watch thinking that will happen to Earth too. im left speechless. will never forget this scene
0:28 watch = time = planetary rotation = gravity = mass.
What a genius piece of detailed photography!
At 0:28 the camera focuses on his watch. Which stands for time. And they are watching a planet revolve around the sun.. How it is symbolic of time, Gravity, mass etc ..
dankiel memelife it is just her interpretation
I think it's just a shot of the guy's wrist and he happens to be wearing a watch. Not everything is a metaphor.
Sorry but Mercury only rotates 1 time every orbit
This is one of my best favorite movies ever, specially this scene. Respect from Italy.
Sunshine was one of the most surprising sleeper movies that I never knew existed. Excellent film. That scene was particularly powerful. Now I gotta go watch it again.
I've just noticed that, of all the crew members watching the Mercury, Harvey is the only one who didn't looks at it and was thinking about something, probably about his family, which makes his demise more sympathetic!
Makes you wish that mercury could talk, it's been the closest to the sun it's whole lifetime. Wonder what it would tell us if it could.
i can answer that. that blasted sun has been frying my a** for the past 20 billion years with its rage! and im sick it! nah im just kidding lol. but in all seriousness that would be interesting to hear planets talk
uhgulgughu my eyes....they buurn uheehuegeueu help me
something like that
"HAND ME THE FUCKING SOLAR CREAM!!!!"
Love this scene. I can only imagine being there in real life...
This scene is special in so many ways ...
One of the most beautiful and hard-hitting movies for me. ARTWORK
Its so simple but thats what make the scene so beautiful.
This feels soo much nostalgic I don't know why
Every time I see this scene, I am overcome with emotion. It just perfectly puts everything (literally EVERYTHING) in perspective. We're just floating on a tiny little orb, so beautiful, yet so very fragile, against the unimaginable vastness that is the universe. For this is not something out of a fantasy tale, or a science fiction novel...this is how things really are. That simple fact truly amazes me.
If you look up at the sky and it's a particularly beauiful day...
Amazing line. 😭😭😭
I got this song on my ipod and listened to this song as I watched the annular eclipse on sunday. It was a moment filled with bliss and passion.
Something about the music is so beautiful, yet so sad.
Really puts into perspective just how small we really are. What a view.
What a scene. Amazing.
This scene is the definition of a masterpiece.
It also gives me an overwhelming sense of unity. Like it or not, we are all in this TOGETHER.
The Sun contains 99.8% of the solar system's mass. Every planet and anything orbiting the Sun is in that 0.2% and therefore infinitesimally small in comparison. SPACE is awesome.
... You mean less massive? They're small in comparison, but not minuscule.
Yes, because the coordinates on the globe from which a movie originates determines its quality. Brilliant.
Love the small, unsteady movements of the camera, it's the perfect way to give some sense of scale.
First time I saw this movie I broke down and cried hard at this scene...it's profoundly moving.
I love everything about this scene, it's beautiful, but my favorite part has to be the shot of everyone's faces enraptured by spectacle, except for Harvey, who stares solemnly at the floor in the background... Such a cool little "acting" moment, gives a lot of depth to his character.
watching all the crew's faces, i feel like i know them, like we are friends..sign of a well done movie
makes you feel so fortunate to be able to witness such a thing
One of several truly inspiring scenes from a wildly uneven film. The soundtrack is consistently gorgeous throughout.
what a music ... wow
This scene is absolutely sublime! Danny Boyle is brilliant. I can almost imagine myself there with the crew fighting back the urge to cry at such beauty, wonder, and mystery.
A quiet and serin moment.
A great moment in modern cinema.
Best scene in the movie.
my favorite is when Capa touches the surface of the sun :) LOVE THIS MOVIE :O
What a scene, what a film.
One of the most peaceful clips of any film I’ve ever watched. Enjoy. If there’s a 10 hour long version of this please let me know.
to me one of danny boyles best movies
Now this, this is what 720p was made for.
Yes, very humbling.
Play Elite: Dangerous, which contains 1:1 scale replica of the galaxy.
Be here.
I think so too.
The diameter of the Sun is 1,391,000 km compared to Mercury's 4,879 km; Mercury has a diameter of about 0.35% compared to the Sun, although without boring people with maths the apparent size would vary depending on distance. Its not easy to calculate their angular diameter without knowing the distance from which Icarus II was observing. Watch the "2006 Transit of Mercury" video. Crazy stuff.
space is beautiful
We will get to see a treat like this coming up, with Venus transit of the Sun...
Beautiful scene. Makes you wonder.
Yup^ Searle usually goes into that room and changes up the level of intensity of how much sun can enter the room. He's really obsessed with it, ironically he's the psych officer on board. Even one of the characters questions his sanity (Mace-Chris Evans)
my farvorite scen from the movie!
I was asking the same the first time I watched it, but it seems that they exaggerated the distance between Mercury and the Sun in the film, maybe to make it more awesome. Still great scene!
It all depends of the spacecraft's orientation going towards the sun. They could have been "upside down", and therefore the planets would be moving in "reverse".
Originally the scene had everyone having a monologue to what they were thinking of at that moment, but then they realized that was really stupid and left it like this which is perfect :)
Have you seen the movie?
The glass is filtered.
They can adjust the amount of sunlight that gets in.
I can't believe this has only 20 million budget and is epic success, while Prometheus has hundreds of millions and is the disappointment of the year!
I love this movie
God I love that music...
I had just seen an IO transit of Jupiter through my telescope and it reminded me of this scene.
Seth Johnson i saw it too, once. From the roof of my house. You cant describe that emotion: happiness, sadness, euphoria, all together.
this is so beautiful.
The image may not be the actual distance that they would be viewing if they looked out the "window". There appears to be some digitizing when switched from the green to yellow in the "window" This may be a magnification of the actual transit thus making things appear much bigger.
You know, there’s a noticeable chunk of people who hate this movie, and some of it is justified. There’s a chunk to complain about: the wonky and absurd science, the plot holes, and the fact the entire third act degrades into a slasher movie. I can’t find myself hating this movie though. The sound design, the soundtrack, the cinematography, the art design. All of it, this movie is just gorgeous to look at.
I think we should leave the space-travel movies to England. They do much better than us! The music was perfect. This scene gives the best sense of distance, the vastness of space, the feeling loneliness, but at the same time togetherness with their team out in space...
Thanks! It truly is an amazing feeling that I want to share with others.
Seeing the sun so close in movies and tv always gives me an anxiety attack. Seeing so much power so close scares the crap out of me more then ghost and monster movies ever could.
Oh man the NASA live stream from Hawaii showed a close-up of the corona from a satellite with Venus approaching, and it looks almost exactly like this scene. Gorgeous.
Wow lovely
the power of the sun and the universe
..makes our home, our planet! habitable for life :)
so beautiful
The budget was 40 million, but the film is still and impressive achievement.
Yes twas a great choice, more visual awsomeness and emotions!
wow its just an amazing scene
If this movie doesn't inspire a few more people to become astronomers I don't know what will.
The ship had a viewing room with the ability to filter the light coming thru the "glass". It was set to like 5% of the actual light able to enter the room for them to safely view it
I think this is one of the most beautiful scenes in Sci-Fi film history and it is enhanced by the music which is "Sad Guitar" aka "Mercury" by Underworld.
I don't think Benedict Wong gets enough credit for anything he does. He's a different age and a different weight class for every role he does.
Yeah, this music is pretty evocative.
Probably. In a later scene showing them flying past Mercury, the Sun looks a lot farther away.
You are right that at that range from Mercury, the sun would appear much smaller (about 3 times as large as we see it from the Earth), but it would be possible to see the relative size of Mercury and the sun to be about that, at the right distance (probably around the range of 1-2 million miles out from Mercury).
Love this scene... But nobodies going to mention how Big the sun is here compared to Mercury's orbit.... Its like the sun is a red giant 44 times its original radi
The sun's about the size of aldebaran in this scene
Most astonishing thing about the scene is, that mercury is only roughly 0.4 as large as earth, meaning, the sun is still close to everything there fucking is in the solar system. Which yields that we're absolutely nothingin, in the solar system, in the universe, etc., hoping for the camp fire to burn forever
Love this scene... But nobodies going to mention how Big the sun is here compared to Mercury's orbit.... Its like the sun is a red giant 44 times its original radi
Same here man.
I'm gonna listen to this song when I watch the Venus transit in a week and a half
..سبحان الله... هو من المبدع وخالق كل شئ
I always enjoyes the scene. But I don't believe Mercury was going the wrong way. It was the ship that was moving. It was approaching Mercury from left to right which makes the planet appear to move right to left from the observer's point of view when viewed against a distant background object such as the sun. Perspective and parallax are wonderful things!
You, sir, are incorrect. Prometheus was not supposed to be known as an "Alien" saga movie, til the end. People who see the movie go and post comments about it on the internet, then people read about it. They go watch it and join the bandwagon saying that the movie sucked because, "The movie was supposed to be about Alien, not big ass aliens from another world. Prometheus was an excellent movie. It is excellent because I was not expecting it to be about the "Alien" saga. I was totally surpirsed!
i hated the olympic ceremonies. but theres no denying Danny Boyle is a talented director. i adore this film
I think the video is flipped for avoiding-copyright-issue purposes. There's another video of this scene on TH-cam that shows Mercury going in the correct direction.
That's correct. There are studios in which effects go with script. America is all big-bang....
Yes there is, as long as there is something to compare to.
The planets rotate counter clock wise when looked at from above.
Disappointment is a mild word for Prometheus. On the other side it's a shame that Sunshine doesn't have better closure, that would made this movie a classic.
I'm pretty sure the two planets nearer to the sun than earth move from left to right from our perspective...something to think about if anyone else is considering a transit scene in his or her movie
this movie is called Sunshine.
I wish I was on that ship, watching today's transit
Its called Mercury, the 5th track on the Sunshine Soundtrack album.
Mercury is anywhere from 46 to 70 million km from the sun depending on time of year (Mercury years that is). That ought to put some scale on how huge the sun is, and the sun is thought to be smaller than most stars in our galaxy. Makes one feel quite... small.
Love this scene... But nobodies going to mention how Big the sun is here compared to Mercury's orbit.... Its like the sun is a red giant 44 times its original radi
The sun shouldn't be that big in real life it would be alot smaller their ship is still about 40 million miles away at that point.