This year marks 10 years of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, and the film has apparently made a splash at its IMAX re-release, being one of the biggest earning re-releases ever.
The film has just gotten finer with age, and Nolan has released a statement with a fun quote from another Matthew McConaughey role. Check this out:
“We get older… ‘Interstellar’ stays the same age” ✨
— Christopher Nolan
— Culture Crave 🍿 (@culturecrave.co) December 23, 2024 at 4:29 PM
“New generations of filmgoers discover and connect with the film in ways we’d never foreseen. To paraphrase another great McConaughey performance, “we get older… Interstellar stays the same age.”
Just in case you had no idea where the quote comes from, that’s from McConaughey’s first ever role in Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused which came out in 1993. The original quote by McConaughey’s character David Wooderson goes, “That’s what I love about these high school girls, I keep getting older, and they stay the same age.”
For context, Wooderson is a man in his 20s who still hangs out with high schoolers and hits on young teenage girls. You’d just never think that anything that character says would be used by an auteur director to describe one of his most celebrated works.
Admittedly, Interstellar was not the most beloved film by Nolan fans when it came out. After hits like The Dark Knight and Inception, Interstellar had been bashed for several plot holes in the story regarding time and how McConaughey’s character Coop uses ‘love’ to solve the film’s entire problem.
If anything Interstellar is one of Nolan’s ‘feel, don’t think’ films—kind of like his latter movie Tenet. The overall story and emotional arcs make sense; just don’t ask too many questions about why things are happening.
