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[grishaxverse]

The boy falling first trope always hits harder

[grishaxverse]

don’t let anyone tell you pursuit of jade drawbacks aren’t real because why did I just finish cinder and imagine tian xiwei and zhang linghe the entire time?????

(artwork: frostbite.studios)

[cyrjovie]

Xie Zheng, any chance he gets: I'm married *divorce letter is in his hand* this? Ignore it. I'm married. My wife sent me these candies, the only sweets I eat. Sui Yuanqing has my wife's sister, I'm going to save her at the risk of my own life and 1,000 of my men, but our lives are only at risk if we fail, and we won't because I WILL save my wife's sister. *pauses for a few moments* Have I told you about my incredible wife and her sister?

Fan Changyu, at least a few times a day: I'm looking for my husband. *divorce letter in bag* don't look at that. My Yan Zheng is too good at martial arts to die in battle, so I'm going to find him, make sure he's okay, and then see about bringing him home. Have I mentioned he married into my family and is very smart and handsome and good at martial arts?

[fierce-little-miana]

Pursuit of Jade is actually really good at making you understand that for a normal person (reading not a noble) getting entangled in matter of states and standing up for themselves is a real threat for their safety and the safety of the people around them. Changyu’s village and the town next to it were attacked and their people massacred because Changyu ‘dared’ to counter the plan of one guy and caught his eyes while he noticed she had a connection to the Marquis of Wu’an (something she doesn’t even know!!!!). And it is also good at reminding you that normal civilians that are collateral damages in the nobles plans/quarrels are people with hopes and dreams who did not ask for this!!!!

[officialdietcoke]

one of the things i admire most about obsession is the deliberate denial of any kind of optimistic ending, as well as the method by which that is executed. i’m thinking, specifically, of how the musical cues are utilized to pull multiple bait-and-switches on the audience: the way the music swells when bear is explaining the wish to ian and asking for his help; when bear puts the gun in his mouth; and when he takes the oxycodone.

obviously, if ian wishes away bear’s initial wish, that’s a happy ending! if bear dies in the bathroom and we cut to black, the audience can hold onto the hope that the wish breaking allows nikki to go back to her life before!

but those endings, especially the latter, would be dishonest. i appreciate that the film makes us sit in nikki’s anguish instead, bc i appreciate that it understands that she was equally affected by this, if not more so! an ending that bleak is honest to the concept and to the consequences inherent to the concept and i think it shows a great deal of respect for nikki. it’s an acknowledgement that nikki experienced something deeply violating and now has to somehow learn how to cope with it.

[officialdietcoke]

WAIT i just realized it’s even more bleak than i originally thought bc nikki used her one wish to make bear love her and now can’t even make one to undo everything that’s happened to her

[write-on-world]

[big-blog-of-cheese-day]

[ccorinthian]

Sometimes you gotta get down to brass tacks

[ahgase7en]

Kinda crazy of me to have post concert depression from a movie but here we are

[grishaxverse]

prefect crown text post (3/3)

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perfect crown text posts (2/3)

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perfect crown text posts (1/3)

[bluehaired-boy]

I want to steal the baby king and let him be a baby. He's like 4 apples tall I can't -

[yaoibattlepass]

Positive affirmations

- I'm still good meat

- I'm perfectly good meat

- I taste fine

[starseed-awakening]

This is basically how that conversation went

[grishaxverse]

when huiju pulled prince ian in for a kiss and her hand moves from his arm to the nape of his neck and her hand clutches his hair and she pulls him closer and I’m like AGHGGSHAHAJAJAHJAKAJAJAKAK

[grishaxverse]

I love you like all-fire

[grishaxverse]

so do I look like him?

[copper-leaf]

Highlights from the Project Hail Mary director's commentary:

*SPOILERS!!!*

Grace waking up from the coma was the first shot they filmed for the movie! They wanted Ryan to feel eased into the character, and what better way to do that than have him play a character who can't remember who he is?

The little "GOOD LUCK!" note in sharpie that's written on Grace's sleeping bag was canonically written by the other astronauts on the I.S.S. before the Hail Mary crew got put into the ship. In real life, Phil and Chris wrote one word each. They said it was like "a blessing on the movie."

Ryan's most nerve-wracking day on set was when he had to shoot with the classroom full of children. Most of the kids were made up of the children of the film's crew members.

The scene where Grace looks through Yao and Ilukhina's photos is footage of him looking at and reacting to actual pictures of the actors with their loved ones.

When Grace calls Stratt to tell her that he and Carl figured out how to breed astrophage, Ryan is genuinely calling Sandra on her day off set, and her audio is her genuine reaction to the unexpected line: "Carl and I made a baby!"

"We like showcasing Ryland Grace's social anxiety while having a lot of people staring at him. LOL!"

Their intention for the space funeral scene was to have Grace convey that he was trying to ease his own sadness by making the dead people with him feel better about being dead :(

The markings on Rocky's body convey his mission patch, his rank in the crew, his wedding band, and his family crest.

Grace and Stratt's conversation on the boat is Grace asking her if they're allowed to be close friends, and the response from Stratt is no, they can't. This gets driven home in the karaoke scene. She understands the value of connection, a part of her wants it, but "Her love for people has to be suspended for her to do her job."

Rocky has different forward-facing faces for different thought processes! They named his "satellite dish" face, his "scrunched up thinking face", and his "monobrow face".

Direct quote: "I love how on the spectrum Rocky is." ROCKY AUTISTIC CODED CONFIRMED!

After Rocky recovers from his injuries: "As Rocky returns to the movie, the lights turn on. The warmth returns. It's like the day breaking."

Confirmed that when Grace and Rocky reunite, Rocky says to Grace, "You came back for me, question?"

They throw this out there for two seconds and do NOT expand on it, but according to Andy Weir, Stratt is imprisoned for life but somehow ESCAPES???

The Eridians built Grace an artificial tree in his enclosure because Rocky knew he liked trees

There's so much more they shared about film processes and the people who were behind making certain effects possible. I highly recommend checking out the commentary if you're able!