Goldilocks (Sci-Fi Short Film by Blake Simon)
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2022
- Written & Directed by Blake Simon - www.blakesimonfilms.com // / blakesimonfilm // / blakesimonfilm
Produced by Jared Selcer & Nicole Clowdus - / theonlyjselcer
Music by Daniel Ciurlizza - www.danielciurlizza.com
Director of Photography Arden Tse - / ardentse
Production Design by Brent Mason - bmasonsetdesigner.smugmug.com
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Continually amazed at how a handful of talented people, with limited budgets, can turn out better content
than multi million Hollywood productions
That's very kind of you to say so, thank you!
It’s all based on anything Hollywood , so let’s not discredit that
When you get sucked into a drama and do not even realize the music is giving each scene its emotional value the composition is perfect. Loved it.
Daniel Ciurlizza is a wonderful composer. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for your kind words. ❤️
indeed, the composer is a true talent
The movie and the music just became one. Very well made,excellent work.
Groovy 😊
First time since Forbidden Planet of 1956 (yes, I watched a first run back then) that we had a Robbie AI. Thanks for jogging my memory. 👍🏻
Robbie the robot (Forbidden Planet 1956) was precisely the inspiration behind the name. So glad you were able to appreciate the reference!
Imagine all the explorers throughout our history, landing on foreign shores, hoping to find wealth, land, freedom, hope. How many of them ended up on inhospitable shores, dying alone and hopeless far from home. Until one lucky soul finds a safe harbor, a paradise, or even just a place that is hospitable enough to support them. It takes a special kind of soul to risk it all in the slim hope of finding something better. Those brave, foolhardy, outright crazy pioneers changed our future, gave us new lands and opportunities (some squandered) and helped enable our species to survive and thrive, sometimes far from home. This film shows the next step in our journey, not just exploring a world, but MANY worlds, further from home than any before them. Outstanding work Blake Simon and team, a short but beautiful example of the human spirit.
This was a beautiful comment, thank you. We appreciate the kind words and support!
Not unlike the people who risk their lives daily coming to America seeking freedom and a better life for their families and themselves. Undocumented they may be, but they just want the opportunity to live like human beings, with dignity and respect. After all, this nation was founded by immigrants without any papers whatsoever.
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. ✨✌️💙🇺🇸
Short but impactful - like a Twilight Zone episode
As a huge Twilight Zone fan, this is great to hear!
WOW! A film with a beginning, a middle and an end! All within the span of 19 minutes! Characters that you care about in under five minutes! HEY HOLLYWOOD! See how it's done! Good film! Congratulations!
I loved this comment, thank you!!! So glad you enjoyed.
Applaud you for how you maintained the suspense of their space exploration from the beginning to the very end, and how you brought back the opening scene to see for ourselves what happens when the astronaut decides to take his helmut off. Thanks for sharing your work, well done!
I really appreciate it. Thank you for watching until the end!
*Helmet. Helmut is a Germanic personal name. #boneappletea
This was great! I was right there with the guy emotionally when he got the news of the comms delay.
Thank you, Jeff! Certainly one of the most important and one of my favorite moments in the film. Glad it worked for you.
A very compelling story, very human, and well crafted in all respects. I wish I could give it, and all who worked on it, more than one thumbs up.
That's extremely kind, thank you!
Well done. Wonderful story
Terrific plot, well written, well acted and well directed - a tribute to you all!
That's extremely kind, thank you Mike!
Hallelujah! It has a plot!
TBH not much of a plot.
@@blakesimonfilm Hi. About the plot.
Why send a manned mission to physically land when a probe would be enough. In fact why even send a ship to a possible habitable planet. Why wouldn't the mission not just send probes to each candidate and then the manned ship only visits the good one
Plot makes no sense. If the planet she is on is at a temp of 500°f how are there trees. Why are they physically going down on each planet. She would have the necessary instruments to tell the surface temp from orbit
I was thoroughly engrossed from beginning to end and really connected with the characters. Very well done
Could not have said it better
It's so thrilling to hear this, thank you!
@@kimwhitley200 Very kind, thank you!
Congrats for a very worthy to watch, well made film. Entirely high quality production, I forgot I was watching a youtube short.
Thank you for sharing this story with us!
I really appreciate the kind words! The crew was amazing and put in a lot of hard work.
Same here, totally engrossing with so much heart! I am so disillusioned with the way sci fi movies have devolved into gratuitous violence, gore and tired overused themes with no originality, plot or imagination!
A glimpse to our future when humanity is capable of reaching planets in other star systems. Maintained the suspense all throughout the film
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Just watched this again and really enjoyed it. The actress doing the video email is incredible. Where the hell is Netflix or Hulu with some cash!!?? Best kept secret out there.
Love this!! That's a great question, ha. Feel free to point Netflix or Hulu in my direction, I'd love nothing more!
Excellent! Very well made and very inspiring. Could easily become a major film I would think. Never tire of sci-fi like this! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for watching! I would be very glad to make it into a major feature film.
I hope you enjoyed making this as much as I did watching it. Stellar work! Dare I say
We all really did enjoy making it. Thank you for the kind words, John!
Why would someone be offended or annoyed by what you said? If you thought it was stellar, who cares what they say about your entitled opinion. They're entitled to theirs as well but there's no need to say "dare I say" as in trying to apologize for your opinion and not offend, unless you're saying it bc you have a guilty conscience bc you really don't think it's stellar but trying to encourage the creators instead of putting down their film? Tbh I hope you genuinely thought it was stellar and maybe you didn't understand what "dare I say" means.
@@mandielou Oh Snap , who let the Karen on board?
@@blakesimonfilm Really enjoyed your film show! Look forward to more.
@karen People with no sense of humor amaze me. Special maybe, maybe a special challenge to my mindset. However traumatizing, maybe a sucker punch but in a good way, if that’s possible… Now to troll ‘stellar, I dare say’:
Oh you snarky dad joke bastard!
This was a beautiful story; hope, loss, tragedy, and so very human. If this were a pilot, I'd be onboard for the show. Excellent short production! More?
Thank you so much! The team worked very hard. Yes, there will definitely be more films. I hope one day I can continue this story as well.
@@blakesimonfilmLoved everything about this film and definately would look forward to a follow up of more to see how they fared!
It's the best sci-fiction and strange movie about "Goldilock" in future space exploration. I really like it.
That means a lot, thank you!
Thanks for the awesome sauce short film! GOD bless us all AMEN!
Excellent in all ways, plus the accomplishment of the hoped-for result that all the characters willingly sacrificed to achieve! Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
9:05 my only criticism is showing Earth-like forest, yet the planet is 500F. Not only would it seem unlikely that earth-like condition would evolve. I don't even know if you can have biology like that at 500F. The Goldilocks zone around deep ocean thermal vents is under 400F.
This was really well done. Very suspenseful, unfolded well & pleased to see the computer glitch was a fault, not some sentient AI taking over & killing astronauts.
So glad you enjoyed it and thank you for watching! A lot of people expect the AI to be malicious, but I felt we had seen enough versions of that story.
@@blakesimonfilm Probably because we model behaviour of other beings on human behaviour & humans are capable of the most horrendous behaviour. It’s an interesting question as to whether AI not having a human nature, even if built & initially programmed by humans, would or even could ever actually become malicious. But yes, it’s a storyline that has been done to death so yours was very refreshing
Enough freaking HAL already please
Very believable and great script. Well done Blake. Thanks to all who helped produce this short film.
Very kind of you to say so, thank you Doug. Really appreciate the support and the watch.
Oh very nicely done. I forgot it was short and was ready for a whole description of his struggles ala The Martian. 🥰📡
Thank you for watching!
I'll be screening this in one of my lectures sometime in the future, fate willing that I live that long. Was sold at exactly 3:18. A good line tells me everything I need to know about a story, visual or otherwise. And as a sci-fi storyteller myself, I salute every single member of this creative team. May we continue to share such beautiful works with the universe.
This is absolutely wonderful to read, thank you! Thrilled it worked for you and honored to be considered for the subject of any future lectures!
@@blakesimonfilm 🙏🏽🤍
well said, after reading all of the troll or just lets tear something apart because we don't create anything worth value, your comet was a huge pleasure to read.
@@ramonaugustus9470 🙏🏽
Interesting Kennedy clip at the begining. I'm curious what effect, if any, the new revelations regarding the CIA's involvement in the Kennedy assassination may have on stories of the days of the space race.
Kennedy wanted America to reach the moon, now, what I want to know, is, who began the narratives that the moon landings were a hoax?
Super piece of cinema. I found myself holding my breath. Wonderful acting and visuals, too.
This is amazing to hear, thank you so much for watching! The feedback is extremely encouraging.
Congratulations to all who had a hand in this film. The script is mesmerizing and the emotion it causes is real. The actors did a great job topped off by the composer's wonderful music that you do not realize is taking your emotions to the full spectrum.
I for one would love to see the full movie made. This is quality art and for me would stand out from what is out there today. I have signed up for Netflix a few times and eventually give up as there is so much crap being made. I spend 40 minutes trying to find something to watch and start only to leave after a few minutes. Your movie dragged me in in the first minute. Again congratulations to all who made this short film possible.
This is such a wonderful comment to read, thank you Daniel! The crew put in a lot of hard work and it's so wonderful seeing people appreciate all that went into it.
This was spectacular! The acting, directing. filming, editing, writing (you get the point). Very good. I would have been just as captivated for two hours, as I was for 19 minutes. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much, Mimi! Hopefully I'll get the chance to make a 2 hour version as well.
Nice Job. If it had been a movie I would have been drawn in from the very beginning with high expectations for a great movie.
That's wonderful to hear!!
Thanks Blake and Daniel and all the others who worked on this -- for transporting us to another world for a brief time.
You are very welcome! So glad you enjoyed our work and thank you for watching!
I really enjoyed this! At the end, I shouted..."NO! That can't be all of it!" Great job everyone!
That's wonderful to hear, thank you.
Very nice, you held my attention and left me wanting more. Why can we not have movies like this? Aliens and explosions are so blasé and trite. I hope you guys can get things off the ground and get a full length feature out. Thanks and best wishes
Thank you Chris! I really appreciate this and am glad you enjoyed it. I too hope we get a full feature. Thanks for watching!
Fantastic! Poor guy saved humanity but lost his wife. I'm not so sure you'd have riverbeds with lush fauna if it was five hundred degrees outside though!
Thank you for watching!
@hennepin 2020 it's Kryptonian vegetation, orbiting a ⭐ yellow star.
Wow... absolutely loved this film... ❤ 👏
That's wonderful to hear! Thanks for watching! : )
That was awesome thank you! Best of wishes for your future projects - we're all obviously enjoying the quality :)
That means a lot! I look forward to making and sharing future projects with you all.
Bravo to all involved in this production! 👏👏👏
Thank you!!
...I will watch this again. Thankz for the short.🤩😎👽👾🤖🧡💛💚
Wonderful. Thank you for watching and commenting!
I felt the agony and the ecstasy, nice production.
I'm so glad, thank you!
Well done! This was so compelling. Love the JFK intro!!
I and the team appreciate it, thank you!
well done, very enjoyable and uplifting
DG
Thank you!
Bravo,despite being made on,what I imagine was,a shoestring budget,you managed to pull it off,It was engaging throughout,and that bittersweet ending,boy did I feel that.
And shoestring it was. Thank you for watching!
@@blakesimonfilm those are the best, they force you to solve problems in ways you would never think about.
Really wonderful ... I've read and seen so many SF ... this is so well made, well played, well scripted, Thanks you so much !
Thank you for watching and for the support!!
The music definitely carried the emotion when the traveler learned that his wife(?) would not survive her mission. The music starts out sounding rather peaceful or resigned to fate but then gets discordant, conveying all the emotions he's experiencing. Full film was very well done.
When he got shocked, I swear, I could feel it too! Lol love the homages in the film.
Good VFX and sound design will get that shock just right. Thanks for watching!
Good video. Better than most. Too many other sci fi shorts are ridiculously computer graphics-heavy, or technology dominant, or stories that are piecemeal, incomplete, even nonsensical. This story is complete, with details that can sweep you into caring about the characters. Let's have more of these creative kind that stimulate imagination. Thanks.
Thank you very much! I'd agree that sci-fi should not be assumed to mean covered in full computer graphics heavy effects etc, but sometimes it often feels like that's the case. The best VFX are the ones we don't see. You may be surprised to know we had our fair share here (by the wonderful Geoff Stephenson and John Bashyam) but the goal was always to not be thinking about them. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Almost nothing can draw my interest but that was immersive, I really cared what happened, and I watched to the end.
Well done!
So glad to have captured your attention, thank you!
Great job all involved. Can't wait for Blake's newest project
Thank you, Carlos! Much appreciated.
Edge of my seat from beginning to end, and left me wanting more. Thank you!
This is wonderful to hear!!
Wonderfully written and acted. Thank you.
Thanking you for watching!
Well done to Blake and Daniel and the team. I enjoyed the story, the music and the plot. Keep those stories and movies coming. I suppose I'm getting old, but a complete story told in 20 minutes gives me far greater enjoyment and satisfaction than these 2 hour movies that they churn out these days. A BIG thank you for this piece of brilliance!! 🙏
Very nice to read this, thank you John. The team worked hard and we're glad you enjoyed it!
Good sci fi. And, no capes or punching folks in the face! Bravo!
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
This is how I discovered the great Daniel Ciurlizza! Excellent storytelling and filmmaking!!
Great short ! It deserves so many more views !
i really enjoyed the Interstellar vibe, lonely astronauts searching for livable planets.
Hoping for more work from you in the future.
So glad you liked it! You can count on seeing more work from me :)
agreed. big ups
Oh yeah awesome great story acting as has been said look forward to seeing you more for you in the future
This is just great. A lot could unfold from this story. I look forward to seeing more.
Thank you! I too hope we can continue the story.
Great concept & delivery! Entertaining! 👏🍿
Very glad you enjoyed it.
A reminder of how lucky we are to have this Goldilocks world.
Indeed, we are.
Another great show in the making. Like all those early 2000s science fiction shows that had 1 or 2 seasons about finding another planet. One was a cool British show about invisible entities killing the humanoids on the planet another was like fossil evidence of prehistoric humans on the planet and so on. Great shows that never got an ending
Thanks for watching, Aaron!
Very well done! Great acting and great story. Thank you!
I appreciate the kind words!
When you make science fiction movie, don't forget the science.
More! Excellent. Thank You
Thank you for the support! We will strive to make more!
this movie reminded me of David Bowies "Major Tom" song. this would be creepy - in a different way, to be out there all alone, away from everyone, waiting, waiting. good movie - which can happen any time a space craft goes up
What an amazing Film! Could see this easily being made into a feature length film for sure...
Thanks Robert! I'd be more than happy to expand it into a feature.
@@blakesimonfilm Please do so!!!
You have touched my heart and soul with a most fantastic piece of cinema. Thankyou!
So glad to hear this, thank you for watching!
Excellent, excellent work. 👏
Thank you so much. The team worked extremely hard.
Beautifully done. Thank you! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Thanks very much, Lisa! I appreciate it.
One of the best grounded sci-fi shorts I have seen. Thank you and best wishes of success in your new projects
This is wonderful to hear, thank you very much!
Beautiful. So much delivered in such a small package. Bravo.
Thank you very much! Very glad you enjoyed it.
Great video! I would definitely like to see more of this.
Thanks Eric! I appreciate the support.
I’m impressed by the set! Awesome man!
Thanks! Our production designer, Brent Mason, is a genius!
That chair base on the wall panel tho.. 😬
Really enjoyed this. Thanks.
I'm so glad, thank you!
So excellent - I appreciate the ending so much.❤
This is so nice to hear, thank you for watching and commenting!
Beautifully told story. I like the subtle undertones of different potential future plot directions, but can say you chose the right one. Excellently done.
Very kind of you to say so, thank you!
FTW! Finally a spaceship movie whose doors don't have odd angles and jagged edges with horizontal fingers sticking out. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Dramatic and yet hopeful. Well done scifi short!
Thank you very much!
The music and the emotional story line were powerful enough to make the inevitable science errors almost insignificant to the experience. Keep up the good work, and keep getting science reviews of the scripts.
I'm very glad you enjoyed it, thank you for watching and commenting!
Beautiful short, congrats! Love the story, the acting and the cinematography, as well as the production design (great :D)
Thank you! I appreciate the kind words. I'm lucky to be surrounded by an incredible team.
Amazing. I believed every second of it. So well done, on every level. Bravo to the whole cast & crew & writers/directors/producers!
Very kind and nice to hear this, thank you!
Excellent! A puzzle with terse storytelling, slick design, compelling acting and a powerful denouement.
Thank you Graham!!
Wow, fantastic!
Thank you!
This film crew put in some serious hours in set design and construction... nice job on a low budget!
They certainly did. Almost single-handedly built by our amazing Production Designer Brent Mason.
What a great short! Story, plot development, photography, acting and music on point....even had a kinda happy ending too :)
Thank you Nigel! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Powerful. Thanks for making this.
My pleasure! Thank you for watching and commenting!
It looked like he was repairing a plotter at first and not "Robbie". Lol! My favorite part is how "refreshing" his incoming email transmission could jeopardize the entire mission.
Thanks for watching!
LOVED this short! The actors were awesome. I hope this story continues
Thanks very much! I agree, the cast is wonderful and they're all great people.
Not sure about the AI popping out of the wall like a cuckoo clock but otherwise a thoroughly engrossing piece, I felt his pain. Excellent.
Thank you very much!
Αληθινά υπέροχο, Bravo!
Thank you!
JFK's reference to "Why does Rice play Texas?" Rice University is a small business school tucked inside Houston, TX. The University of Texas is a very large university in Austin, TX. It's an annual David vs Goliath when they play football against each other.
Extremely well done.
I must confess I originally thought "Blake Simon, I thought he was dead and I didn't know he had any interest in SF but okay". Then I realised that somehow in my head I had squashed Blake Edwards and Neil Simon together.🤣
Two very talented people, happy to get mixed up with them.
Loved it very much!!
Thank you!!
Bravo, entirely captivating to watch!
I'm very glad, thanks for commenting!
The UA-cam algorithm has recommended a lot of crap recently. This makes up for it! Outstanding short film!
That's wonderful to hear. Thank you and I'm so glad we were a positive watch for you! I appreciate it.
Easily material for a full length trilogy.
Very moving, very well done. Thank you.
I'm very glad you felt so! Thank you!
Love this! Amazing job everyone
Thank you for watching!!
Quite a discovery. Congrats to this excellent production. Hopefully we'll see more of this before long.
I'm so glad you found us! Thanks for watching!
Great and compelling short, great and believeable characters and fantastic photography. The short and the music are well balanced. I was drawn in the story almost immediately. Great work.
Thank you for watching! I'm thrilled you enjoyed it.
Nice short 👍. Good suspense and the emotional connections are perfect 👍
I'm so glad it worked for you, thank you for watching and commenting!
I really enjoyed this. Great work! Thank you, hope there is more to come. It reminded me of Interstellar a bit.
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you!!
Great film; quality is amazing, to point of expecting a Matt Damon cameo :)
Matt Damon isn't a bad idea - doesn't he have a production company, known for green-lighting small indie projects? Certainly couldn't hurt to smuggle a copy into the office :)
Love this comment. I like the way you think, thanks Lisa!
Nice work! That was riveting both mentally and emotionally. Thank you!
Really glad to hear this, thank you!