favourite things from phmovie that were added in/well adapted:
'good luck' on a sticky note on ryland's coma suit
the use of the videolog as a way to convey the inner monologue to the screen
the scene where they activate the IR view when ryland is doing the petrova line EVA collection at tau ceti and he's amongst the astrophage. god
just the entire execution of rocky and eridian language. PERFECT. that last scene where ryland doesn't need the translator? god
eva stratt double parked coffee
BLIP-A DESIGN. XENONITE DESIGN. ERIDIAN DESIGN. all impeccable.
'time to go fishing, question?'
the mental health screen room and rocky getting to experience bits of earth via it
the music while the hail mary and the blip a start spinning in sync. actually, just all of the music
ryland grace earth hackey sack packed on the hail mary, presumably on stratt's orders + ryland grace nerdy as fuck graphic tshirts packed on the hail mary, presumably on stratt's orders
implication that PHM sent a military jet to grover cleveland middle school to draw those 'save the world' pictures within 3 days so that they could send them with ryland on the hail mary. GOD.
nannybot -> armando. also ryland calling the ship 'mary'
not strictly within the movie but the tagline 'believe in the hail mary'. yeah.
yao and ilyukhina's collections of photographs and the way ryland cries over them when he does the space burial. they were his friends. he can't remember.
the scene where he's walking through the dark tunnel in the orange eva suit and it's like the inverse of the iconic 2001 space odyssey shot
he bikes to work and it's not for exercise
he vomits into a traffic cone after the supersonic jet ride
he runs from the baikonur facility and claws at the earth under his nails before getting sedated. one last look at the sky.
ryland grace in his classroom looking at the taped-up line running from venus to the sun that he's made to try to explain to his students what no one understands
ryan gosling's delivery of I showed you a clock and now youre showing me a clock <- THATS A NERD! THATS MY RYLAND GRACE!
"of course i'll watch you sleep, buddy. you gotta promise me you'll wake up though" just kill me now
grace getting to see the the blip-a! also, grace only remembering he didn't volunteer when he sees the light refracting off the blip-a.
rocky make door you close door
AND MOST OF ALL. they. made rockys handprint a scar on grace's arm. forever.
things I missed most from the book that weren't included in the movie
"I don't know if you can hear me. but i'm here, buddy, I'm on your hull!!" movie scene was good but grace clinging onto the blip-a thwacking a wrench into the hull in desperation while space is cold and grey and unrelenting in its darkness and silence around him and he doesnt know if rocky is dead. grace, question? you are here, question?
coma resistance gene plotline. this is FOUNDATIONAL for my understanding of stratt to sending ryland. if she could she would have gone herself. any of the PHM biology techs could have feasibly gone in the movie-verse. but they can't. it's one in 7000 and their next option is a distillery worker from paraguay. ryland grace, microbiologist sentenced to marytrdom by his own genes.... its delicious
doomed climatologist of all time, francois leclerc. he runs the numbers and knows we have nineteen years. he snaps and tells stratt 'this isnāt some optional outcome.' he nukes antarctica and cries. he has no choice
the fact that in the book grace is forced to work on analysing the probe samples and getting roped into PHM. in the movie he says 'I want to help earth if I can!' in that scene w the earth beanbag... its imperative to me that he literally never asked to do any of this at all
"how have you been lately" "dr shapiro and I have begun a sexual relationship"
steve, creator of the beetles
"do not fuck up my house, roscosmos bastards" ilyukhina line you are sorely missed
dmitri and grace bonding over puns and spin drives
'you are a fundamentally good man, dr grace.' 'you're murdering me.'
"why did the kiwi government think you were embezzling millions of dollars" "probably because I was embezzling millions of dollars"
dr lokken and dr grace's panspermia feud
the emotional whiplash of "Sorry, Rocky" after grace realises he can only go back to the blip-a OR earth to āI know youād love a beetle to take apart, but I couldnāt spare one.ā
the desperation of circling the petrovascope to locate the blip-a in increasing 5* slants not knowing if he's going to find anything.
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