(stratt) things i definitely focused too hard on while rewatching project hail mary last night
i know most of these have probably already been said look i'm not an original thoughts haver im a character rotater
oops. long post
the way stratt spends the first few scenes gently encouraging grace "come on. you're doing great. don't take it personal. you can do it" and hyping him up for all the other scientists and world leaders before having to turn to them with her little :/ face like 'yeah he's kind of a loser but just listen to what he has to say okay'
literally when she introduces him to yao, they straight up say this in front of him (but in mandarin)
yao: why is he speaking like a child/talking to us like we're children
stratt: don't worry about it/it's whatever, you'll eventually get used to it
mandarin translation credits: i speak mandarin and also it passed peer review with my friend okay. slashes are because translation is hardddd it could be interpreted slightly different ways PLUS some of the words are really hard to make out
"i'm glad you didn't die" I WANT HER TO SAY THIS TO ME. eva stratt type compliments are so funny. also ok foreshadowing. thinking about this in the context of 26 years later...
bweep bweep
the lighting when she's talking to grace on the ship outside the party... she's so fucking pretty. and she's speaking so softly to him...
during sign of the times (ugh the whole scene) the way she looks at grace singing "just stop your crying, it'll be alright" like how she's been encouraging him along this whole time and then singing "we can meet again somewhere, somewhere far away from here" because she keeps rejecting his overtures of friendship but maybe after the project is over they could be friends...
the way she just starts fucking laughing after grace asks "so what are you gonna do for the next twenty years? got any plans" because she has a hot date with a french prison cell
she looks so FUCKING sad all throughout her last two scenes with grace. honestly she looks sad to me even from the start of the movie but she looks really really sad after the explosion. all the time. of course
her face when grace says "i can't do it" and you can see her forcing herself to make the decision. to lock it in. and then
the. the way she says "you are my solution". there's still warmth in her eyes when she looks at him and SO MUCH GRIEF
pretty sure this is the only time she calls anything other than "Dr. Grace". she calls him "Grace". just this once.
her voice shaking the ENTIRE scene she's putting grace away. "i have to do it" sounds like she's convincing herself.
the lines in this scene are delivered really slowly except for "missionplanwillstatethatweinducedyourcomaearlytomaximiseyoursafety.youwillberememberedasahero". she just spits it out as fast as she can to get through it without crying
SHE'S BLINKING SO MUCH I WONDER WHY
going from "actually it isn't" (hard to ask people to give up their lives) before the farewell party, to "don't make this harder, please" in the end
her little swallow and nod - to try to steel herself - as she watches grace run.
anyways so i gotta just try and focus and reflect on her smile in the last scene when the beetles come back and she learned that her gamble paid off. she saved the world. its okay. don't cry. everyone, don't cry. its okay. see? she's smiling.
her face when grace is first checking out the astrophage and gets everyone's attention by being like "WOW you won't believe this" ...... "nothing happened". she just opens her mouth and then closes it again. she's looking upwards like 'god give me the strength to deal with this man, the fortitude to put up with this man, and the patience to not fucking kill him'
uh accidentally expanded on this by making a post of every single time stratt looks at grace like he's an idiot (with pictures)
grace: "they toot to scoot"
stratt (closes her eyes. shakes her head.): why would you say that. i did not need to know.
her face when he gets off the fighter jet and throws up in a traffic cone:
you can just tell she's thinking: big sigh
grace: "he gave me a pill and its still in my throat"
stratt (leaning away to look at him judgementally): tmi. why is he saying this. why can't he take a pill correctly.
shes literally herding him into the room here. she's a sheepdog
stratt: okay now that i've got him in here everyone clap for my little guy. please be gentle to him he will cry. feat. #mycoffees
"whoomp, there it is" instant regret
quickly retrieving him because he is making a fool of himself. she stood up SO FAST i could not get a non-blurry screenshot.
couldn't convince him to speak up to the crowd so having to speak FOR him like he's her child IMMEDIATELY followed by him rushing into her personal space to say "they're going to breed". what a duo. the blurry screenshot is so funny to me sorry. feat #mycoffees
after this, she explains project hail mary to him and honestly the rest of the movie is just sad times for stratt.
except for this:
stratt: what the fuck is that shirt. does he really need to be wearing this right now while i'm trying to introduce him to the flight crew
(seriously though what is up with this shirt its the weirdest one he owns)
Fuck I’m at a fencing tournament and literally a minute after I reblogged this my dad told me that he talked to the point people and I’m probably going to win a medal.
I need to follow up to say I reblogged this last night, and this morning I got some of the best news of my life, like, a life dream come true news thing.
FUCK, I though it was just another lucky meme but LISTEN. Since a week ago I was waiting a phone call to confirm me if I got a job or not in my university. I reblogged this yesterday’s night “just for fun and because I don’t want any bagel to be mad with me”, and today’s afternoon, while I was losing my time as always, the professor I was supposed to work with called me and asked me for my personal information to start working with her.
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