And it’s actually the unknown names that areInterstellar’s brilliant secret ingredient.

You may not have realized it, but these characters are some of this masterpiece’s most interesting aspects.

A series of factors gradually compounded throughout the 1920s that culminated in the terrifying event.

Christopher Nolan Ingeniously Used Real People For These ‘Interstellar’ Characters

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When the major droughts of the ’30s began, the region was tragically primed for unfathomable dust storms.

“Those are real people,“Nolan toldStephen Colbert.

Nolan crafts a profound message about the power of love in one of his best films.

Floyd Coen being interviewed in an excerpt from The Dust Bowl, as shown in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar.

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What he was doing, you could hear the ambition in his voice.”

Burns and Duncan then promptly agreed.

Together, they spoke of their family’s resilience and devastating hardships.

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Of course, specifics like these didn’tmake their way intoInterstellar.

The excerpts largely focused on the overwhelming conditions and the adaptation required.

However, they’re fully present in spirit.

Matthew McConaughey from Interstellar

In the film, NASA has a Plan A and a Plan B.

The latter involves restarting humanity with a supply of frozen embryos should Earth’s population perish.

Plan A is solving the problem of intergalactic travel and saving everyone on Earth.

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When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.

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Interstellar

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