The Martian

Directed by Ridley Scot

Produced by Simon Kinberg

Ridley Scot

Michael Schaefer

Aditya Sood

Mark Huffam

Screenplay by Drew Goddard

Based on The Martian

by Andy Weir

Starring Mat Damon

Jessica Chastain

Kristen Wiig
 Jeff Daniels

Michael Peña

Kate Mara

Sean Bean

Sebastian Stan

Aksel Hennie

Benedict Wong

Donald Glover

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Music by Harry Gregson-Williams

Cinematography Dariusz Wolski

Edited by Pietro Scalia

Production Scot Free Productions

companies
Kinberg Genre

TSG Entertainment

Distributed by 20th Century Fox

Release date September 11, 2015(TIFF)

September 30, 2015(United

Kingdom)

October 2, 2015(United States)

Running time 142 minutes

Country United States

United Kingdom

Language English
 Budget $108 million

Box office $630.2 million

In 2035, the crew of the Ares III mission to Mars is exploring Acidalia Planitia on Martian
solar day (sol) 18 of their 31-sol expedition. A strong dust storm threatens to topple their Mars
Ascent Vehicle (MAV), forcing them to abort their mission. During the evacuation, astronaut
Mark Watney is struck by debris and lost in the storm, and telemetry from his suit's biomonitor
stops. With Watney believed dead, the storm worsening by the second, and the MAV on the
verge of toppling, mission commander Melissa Lewis orders the crew to take off and return to
their orbiting vessel, the Hermes.

Watney awakens after the storm to a low-oxygen warning and returns to the crew's
surface habitat ("Hab"). Doing self-surgery, he removes from his abdomen the debris that
destroyed his biomonitor. He begins a video diary. Lacking communications with Earth, his only
chance of rescue is via the next Mars mission, four years later: the Ares IV, landing 3,200
kilometers (2,000 mi) away at the Schiaparelli crater. Watney's immediate concern is food;
being a botanist, he improvises a farm inside the Hab utilizing Martian soil fertilized with human
feces, water produced by extracting hydrogen from leftover rocket fuel, and potatoes intended
for Thanksgiving dinner. He also begins to modify the only functional rover for longer journeys
in preparation for the long-distance travel.

After NASA holds a funeral for Watney, satellite planner Mindy Park reviews images of
the Hab area and realizes he has survived. NASA administrator Teddy Sanders has the news
released, but despite the objections of the Hermes flight director Mitch Henderson, decides not
to "distract" the Ares III crew by informing them.

Watney takes the rover to retrieve the nearby Pathfinder probe, which fell silent in 1997.
Using Pathfinder's camera and its motor, he establishes rudimentary two-way communication
with Earth, first using simple signs, and then sending and receiving ASCII in hexadecimal. NASA
sends a software patchto link the rover with Pathfinder and communicate via text. Watney
becomes angry when he learns that the crew has not been told of his survival, and Sanders
reluctantly lets Henderson finally inform them.

Henderson and Jet Propulsion Laboratory(JPL) director Bruce Ng prepare an Iris space
probe to deliver enough food to last Watney until Ares IV's arrival. Meanwhile the Hab's airlock
malfunctions due to a small puncture, destroying Watney's crops. Sanders orders the team to
skip the usual safety inspections to launch the probe sooner, but it fails 40 seconds after liftoff.
Watney now feels his death is inevitable.

The China National Space Administration has been developing a powerful

classified boosterrocket, the Taiyang Shen. Feeling camaraderie with NASA's scientists, they
violate their government's secrecy and offer it to repeat the Iris mission. As Watney is still at
more risk the longer he waits, JPL astrodynamicist Rich Purnell devises an alternative plan: send
the Taiyang Shen with supplies to the Hermes, which will use Earth's gravity to "slingshot"back
to Mars two years earlier. Sanders rejects the idea, refusing to risk the crew on Hermes, but
Henderson surreptitiously sends them Purnell's plan. Risking their lives and careers, they vote
unanimously for it, and make the necessary course change. Powerless to stop them, NASA
concedes the issue.

Watney begins the 90-sol journey to Schiaparelli, where the MAV for Ares IV has been
pre-positioned, but it needs to be lightened to make the rendezvous with Hermes on its new
course. Watney must remove many components, and replace the nose cone with a piece of the
Hab's canvas. The MAV still fails to reach the required speed, so Commander
Lewis maneuversHermes, consuming most of its available fuel, then ordering a directional
explosive decompression of the internal atmosphere. Finally she uses a Manned Maneuvering
Unit, but still cannot quite reach Watney. He pierces the glove of his pressure suit and uses the
escaping air to propel himself towards Lewis, effectively reuniting him with his crew after 560
sols alone on Mars.

After returning to Earth, Watney becomes a survival instructor for astronaut candidates.
Five years later, on the occasion of the Ares V mission launch, those involved in Watney's rescue
have begun new lives

The Martian is a new Ridley Scot classic, featuring his best work in years, the best performance I've
ever seen from Mat Damon, an outstanding supporting cast, a surprisingly funny screenplay from Daredevil
creator Drew Goddard, and a great narrative that ties the film together beautifully.

As expected with Ridley Scot films, the film itself is visually stunning. The landscape of Mars looks absolutely
breathtaking, and the scenes aboard the Hermes and back on Earth are just as sharp in detail and scope. The
way he chose to make this film made it almost seem like an exceptionally made biopic. Many times during this
film, I legitimately believed that Mark Watney was a real, living person that was actually stranded on Mars for
many months alone. It's Cast Away meets Apollo 13, and this marriage is crafted beautifully.

Mat Damon is absolutely brilliant in this film. He plays Watney with so much optimism that it actually makes
the depressing aspect of the film not as depressing for me. However, when he has to put on his dramatic
chops in certain scenes, he truly commits to the drama of the situation, and that right there is true Ridley
Scot suspense for you. The supporting cast, everyone involved, all do great work as well. Jeff Daniels, Jessica
Chastain, particularly Chiwetel Ejiofor. He is one of the best actors working today, and this movie and 12 Years
a Slave shows how far he's come. II

The most surprisingly element about this movie though was the screenplay. The film is hilarious in some
parts, in fact I'd argue that it's funnier than most comedies that have come out this year. What makes to
movie unique to me was Watney's optimistic point of view. He believes that he isn't going to die on Mars, and
this transforms this rather depressing situation into something comical instead. But when you really think
about it, this is a very personal film about some people coming together to save somebody. That's it. And in
today's world, it's nice to hear an story about people coming together to save one of their own

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