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since it’s pride month, throwback to this beautiful cover and this wholesome interaction between two icons
Gaycation - “USA”
I saw some of the greatest minds of my generation fall victim to Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
I think that we should start an urban legend for nipless top surgery folks. Something like "If you purple nurple someone hard enough they actually turn purple and fall off". So that someday a kid will see me at the beach or something and I can be like "It Could Happen To You"
I can't believe home depot literally produced a wildly successful science fiction musical and we all just pretend it didn't happen. on one hand yes it had a boring white guy main character but like.... home depot just... Made it? And it had shit ton of box office sales? and no one even talks about this. this is like avatar (2009) all over again
OK so. After a lot of frantic googling I realized this was all a dream. home depot did not in fact produce a wildly successful science fiction musical. I was on allergy meds and took a nap and my brain simply prophesized this. slightly disappointed because I wanted to watch it.
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here at kaibacorp we support duelists fighting to make their own destiny. or what ever
re-reading tsubasa reservoir chronicle really makes you realise that clamp didn't just put a chekhov's gun there but a whole armoury
My explanation for the book v. film difference on Eridian eating customs is that movie!Rocky was full-on bluffing.
Like he was just calling human eating disgusting, what was he going to do, say "okay actually the way Eridians eat is so incredibly gross we do it in private sound-proofed rooms"? And cede the conversational high-ground and sense of species superiority to Grace??? Nah, it looks beautiful, definitely.
Then Grace says "show me" and Rocky is stuck now, he's committed. So he just bucks up and goes all-in. It's not like he'll see the human after this is all done, he can pretend it's totally normal just this once.
Eventually before they reach Erid Rocky is gonna have to come clean, and Grace will laugh at him for an hour straight.
the musical motifs of project hail mary
been nerding out about the project hail mary score real hard, so here are some notes on the various motifs the appear throughout the score! this is just based on my own observations from listening to the score on repeat for the last two weeks, noticing patterns, then going back to the film to see the exact moments they correspond to. this score is so so gorgeous but also so so SMART, the more i listen to it, the more i hear.
(note: this post contains SO MANY SPOILERS)
main theme (connection)
there are two motifs that appear most often/prominently throughout the film, but I think of this one as the main theme. while it's not the first music we hear in the movie, it's added on to the beginning of the first track on the score album, almost like an intro to set the tone, and it's prominent in the last song we hear as well, bookending the score.
it shows up over and over again in the score, usually at moments of connection, collaboration, and trust. it's often heard as choral vocals, in the rhythm written above (often repeated a second time with the last note up a fifth) but there are many many variations on it as well.
its big debut is when grace takes off his helmet in the tunnel, trusting rocky and allowing connection between them (Connection)
however a variation of it appears earlier, when grace first puts the hail mary into centrifuge mode (Centrifuge). the melody starts with this sequence of notes, and a variation of it can also be heard as a small ornamentation right as he pulls down the lever. the score here is dreamy and optimistic—a celebration of humanity's innovation and success in coming together to design the hail mary.
after rocky tells grace he will give him enough astrophage to go home (Grace Go Home)
when grace is observing the taumoeba under the microscope and realizing that he and rocky succeeded (Tau Amoeba)
in Amaze Amaze Amaze, the upbeat song which plays as grace shows rocky the breeder tanks and as they celebrate their success, then again during the final scene of grace and rocky on erid. not only is the main form of the theme present as vocals (in Fist My Bump) and strings (in Life on Erid), but the repeated syncopated melody that forms the backbone of the song is actually a variation using the same pitch sequence
astrophage theme
this is the second of the two most prominent motifs. it's often repeated a second time down a half step (which puts the second instance in a minor key). another common variation is for the final note to go up instead of down (up to a G and then resolve to an A). like the main theme, it is very often choral vocals, but it appears in many variations.
(as a side note, one thing i love about the choral vocals in this score—in addition to the celestial/holy sound and the organic/human aspect—is that while they're wordless, there's a bit of vowel distinction and consonant articulation. not enough to be recognizable as words, but enough that your brain interprets it as language and strains to understand it, recreating rocky and grace's experience in a way)
anyway. i call this one the astrophage theme, but it's broader than that. it underscores moments of profound emotion. both have a celestial, almost holy/spiritual sound, but where the main theme is hopeful, the astrophage theme is haunting, present for moments of wonder, uncertainty, grief, awe. it's the feeling of looking up at the stars and feeling very, very small.
the very first time it's heard is (briefly, but very clearly) at the moment grace realizes he has bred astrophage (Box in a Box)
it's there as a small ornamentation in Secret Clearance on the score album, though interestingly I don't hear that part in that scene in the movie
during the burial scene, beginning right when grace nearly breaks down giving their eulogies, and then building as he sends their bodies off (You Were Loved)
when grace and rocky talk about their crewmates dying (Learning to Communicate). leads into "grace rocky save stars", followed by the dies irae theme (more on that below)
during grace and stratt's conversation on deck, right when he asks if she believes in god (God Willing)
during grace's moment in the petrova line!!!! here it's slow and grandiose, with a huge swelling orchestral sound (A Moment)
in the background as rocky and grace realize that astrophage has a natural predator on adrian (Life Is Reason)
after grace sets up the taumoeba breeder tanks and there's nothing left to do but wait for rocky to wake up (Tau Amoeba)
as rocky and grace say goodbye (Goodbye My Friend)
the moment grace makes his choice to save rocky instead of returning to earth (Xenonite Contamination)
ascending 6ths
ascending 6th intervals, often repeating in a descending sequence. i can't even catalogue everywhere this motif is used because it's so omnipresent in the score. it's often played on cristal baschet, which gives the score that unearthly, shimmery vibrato. but it shows up in some other really cool variations as well!
dies irae
ok this one is really, really cool. this is a variation on the dies irae, a theme from a 13th-century gregorian chant about the judgment day that was used in funeral masses, which in the last century or so has been widely quoted in music from symphonies to film scores. here's a video from a composer talking about how the dies irae theme has become synonymous with death and apocalypse in popular consciousness, and project hail mary's more hopeful-sounding variation on it.
within the score, the dies irae still represents high-stakes moments and moments of existential fear—where failure would mean death for the characters and their entire species and planets. but it's transposed from the original into a major key (i think from dorian to lydian? don't quote me tho), and at times the second part of the phrase is changed to move upward instead of downward, giving it a swelling, hopeful feeling.
it's first heard when grace looks at astrophage under the microscope for the first time, in the lab on earth. (interestingly, this doesn't appear at this point on the score album, and i think it might actually be Life Is Reason, which comes way later?? the music at the moment he puts the petri dish under the scope is the exact same as when he's putting the petri dish with the sample from tau ceti's petrova line under the scope!)
it appears again when stratt and co are explaining the hail mary mission to grace—and it comes in specifically when they say they need grace to breed the astrophage, aka the moment that the stakes become personal for him (Secret Clearance)
as noted above, it comes in after rocky and grace talk about losing their crews and rocky's determined "grace rocky save stars". the score has been more curious and upbeat in the few minutes prior as they begin to communicate; now the dies irae theme interweaves with that optimism as they are reminded of the stakes (Learning to Communicate)
it's heard as grace and rocky study their petrova line sample and they begin to prepare to collect samples from adrian's atmosphere (Life Is Reason). this is where you can really hear the more hopeful upward-climbing variation, particularly as grace looks at the sample under the microscope and the music builds towards rocky's realization of the significance of life on adrian.
and of course it's a huge part of the masterful building of tension as they're retrieving the samples from adrian's atmosphere (Time Go Fishing)
what i didn't realize until i was halfway through writing this post, though, is that the main theme is ALSO a variation on this one! the four notes of the main theme are the first four notes of the dies irae. there are some moments, like the choral vocals when grace is first looking closely at rocky (Connection), where i truly wasn't sure whether which motif to put it under. so not only does the score inject a more hopeful sound into the dies irae, it also remakes it entirely, into something nearly unrecognizable—transforming death and fear into connection and trust.
curiosity theme
this one shows up for moments of curiosity and investigation!
it first appears in the score in Water Based. i can't actually find this one in the film, so if anyone knows where it is, let me know! but my best guess is that this was planned as the score for when grace is first in the lab studying astrophage, but it was replaced with a version of Life Is Reason. it's very wet-sounding, which is fun. the lower staff pitches are approximated with percussion, sort of like a proto-version of the motif that then develops further.
it shows up as grace is deciphering the contents of rocky's canister (The Message)
and when grace starts building his translator and they start to be able to talk (Learning to Communicate)
the synocpated motif in the lower staff is heard as grace demonstrates the astrophage's power for the astronauts
and when rocky wakes up while grace is sleeping, it's what plays as the lights come on and rocky comes into frame in his ball (Wake Up Buddy)
the four note sequence from the top staff is heard when rocky and grace are in the tunnel, after their mirrored motions, when they come closer and look at each other through the xenonite (Connection)
and! the same sequence appears diegetically in the same scene—rocky vocalizes it as he taps on the xenonite!
box in a box (aka doin' science together)
this one just makes me laugh a lot. this motif appears in Box in a Box, when grace and carl are putting a sealed box (containing the three astrophage) inside the sealed lab. and a variation of it appears later in Rocky Moves In.... aka a sealed container (rocky's ball) inside a bigger sealed container (the hail mary)
they're also both moments of working together, where grace is letting someone else in to his work!
hail mary theme
this motif scores the first moments of the film and the climax. it has a few similar variations, so i just picked one to transcribe, but they all use the same main pitches, just rearranged a bit and with different grace notes. i'm not sure of the exact instrument it's usually played on, but whatever it is has a very bright, resonant tone. i think of this one as the theme for life triumphing over the odds.
it's the first music we hear in the film, as grace is waking up on the hail mary (Ryland Grace Cognition Assessment)
we hear a similar version of it after yao tells grace "you just have to find someone to be brave for"
it's heard as rocky is waking up after saving grace. the score swells into the last few notes just as grace hugs rocky's ball (Wake Up Buddy)
after grace goes back for rocky, the score shifts from a darker sound to this motif right as rocky appears in the tunnel, and that same triumphant swell happens right as they touch hands through the xenonite (Believe in the Hail Mary). the same song continues through the shots of the probes reaching earth and stratt watching grace's video
whew!
this post got so much longer than i meant it to! i hope someone else finds this all as interesting as i did. it's such a brilliant score, and it really rewards a close listen—there are so many moments where these motifs are woven together in very clever ways. please feel free to add on with any moments i missed, other observations, or just your favorite moments from the score!
I can't stop thinking about how weird Grace must seem to Earthlings!
Beatles come to Earth, humanity learns about taumoeba and discovers that they accidentally made first contact! With friendly rock-spider aliens! They have a little English-Eridian vocabulary, great new material, coordinates of their planet and the best fuel for spaceships, so why not make the second contact?
It takes time, but finally four or five astronauts in coma (scientists found the reason for Yao's and Ilyukhina's deaths) go to Erid.
And upon arrival they discover that Eridians' English is muuuch better than they thought and that their idol, the Earth's hero, the savior of humanity Ryland Grace is still alive!
Wtf??? He has no food??? We have posthumous memorials???
And they decide to meet with him and suddenly he:
had been eating nothing but space unicellular slime for four years,
lives in some weird place that's half zoo, half science center,
now eats human flesh burgers (his own flesh but...),
hasn't interacted with another human being in almost 30 years
hasn't had sex in over 30 years (dude, are you asexual???)
spends his days teaching little blind rock-spider aliens physics and human science and experimenting with astrophage and eridian things...
and he is totally happy about it!
He doesn't want to go back to Earth. All that he wants is to grow some of their plants on Erid! They tell him about his heroic status, about memorials and statues, and he is HORRIFIED. Ok, he saved Earth, but statues???
Crazy man.
Then they ask him how he and Rocky didn't kill each other on the way back. Like... Soviet experiments, you know?
And he looks at them as if they're the ones eating human flesh burgers and starts to list for like an hour what you can do with your best rock-spider friend and a computer with all Earth media ever created.
Bonus: Grace is autistic. It's okay, but after almost 30 years without any human contact he doesn't mask. It takes time for poor astronauts to realize that his oddities didn't caused by Erid. He's just like that.
Bonus 2: one of the astronauts is his ex-student. Imagine discovering that your coolest teacher is kinda the craziest person alive in every sense of the word.
the among us show being a total gorefest on par with john carpenter's the thing is a really fun choice
the among us show having a gay orgy in the middle of it is another really fun choice
realizing many people don't know about infinity train creator owen dennis' among us show from years ago, which has been trapped in unreleased limbo all this time and was just dumped on streaming this morning with no advertisement. they don't even know about its weirdly stacked cast
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Can I be honest with yall I don't want to hear SHIT against cishets at pride this year
"But it's not FOR them!!!" The biggest military power in the world belongs to a christofascist nation overseen by a felon found guilty of 34 federal crimes and has greenlit a gestapo with more direct funding than the entire military of Canada for the purpose of ethnic cleansing. Let Hetero Jessica throw some biodegradable glitter at a municipal parade
At this point if anyone is trying to exclude anyone benignly pro-queer from a pro-queer space I'm just going to assume you're a fed or something idk like something something destabilize the movement from within or whatever
I am making a VERY big point of the Ally flag in all my pride stuff at work.
Feel awkward about people maybe thinking you’re queer but still want to clearly signal “queers are okay with me”? SURE. LOVE IT. HERE’S YOUR WEIRD FLAG.
Don’t fucking at me about allies right now, they are ALSO actually getting fucking killed over us. Take your puri-gay shitty tent somewhere else mine is great with people’s cishet friends and relatives showing up to have our backs.
(“but what if they -“ shitty behavior is shitty behavior I don’t care if you INVENTED queer sex, if you’re acting like a douche i’ll kick you out. wanna act decent and accept the premises of queer coexistence and freedom, cool, i’m not judging you for feeling ok with the gender title they gave you in the delivery room or being attracted to people with the other standard issue title, grab a pop).
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If you're with us, you're welcome. Sure, sometimes you have to wear the costume before it becomes the clothes, but also, some of the best people at Pride are the slightly confused moms, dads, and siblings who show up whether or not they understand. "Love is love" also means "I don't need to get it to show up for you."
Thing is, too, if you kick people out who came to Pride to support and defend you (and/or because they are also queer), they will eventually stop showing up to support you.