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Gravity

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Gravity	comment	Gravity is a 2013 sci-fi thriller film directed and co-written by Alfonso CuarÃ³n and starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.Two astronauts, Dr. Ryan Stone (Bullock) and Matt Kowalski (Clooney), are with the Space Shuttle Explorer on a routine mission to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope when the Russians decommission one of their satellites by shooting it down. As debris from the satellite spreads, the ensuing Disaster Dominoes result in Houston losing their own radio satellites, the Explorer suffering catastrophic damage, and Ryan and Matt being stranded in space and short on oxygen.And that's just the first (13-minute-long) shot of the movie.Among many other honors, the film was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won seven, including Best Director for Alfonso CuarÃ³n. While it lost Best Picture, Actress, and Production Design, it still went a long way in beating down the Sci-Fi Ghetto.Also related to the film is the short film "Aningaaq," detailing a scene in the story from a minor, earthbound, character's perspective. The short was directed by CuarÃ³n's son and the film's co-writer, Jonas CuarÃ³n. It was commissioned as a bonus feature on the film's DVD/Blu-Ray release for consideration in the Best Live-Action Short Film Oscar but didn't get nominated. It can be watched here, however it makes more sense after seeing the connected scene in Gravity. Tropes in "Aningaaq" are listed at the bottom of this page.Previews: First Trailer, "Detached", "Drifting", "I've Got You"
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Gravity / int_10072b2	type	Helpful Hallucination
Gravity / int_10072b2	comment	Helpful Hallucination: Stone hallucinates Kowalski's return and his explanation that the soft-landing rockets can be used to get to the Chinese space station.
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Gravity / int_118a41d5	type	Daydream Surprise
Gravity / int_118a41d5	comment	Stone is startled to see Kowalski outside the Soyuz hatch, which he opens even though she's not wearing her helmet, sucking out all the air but leaving her unharmed once he closes the hatch and raises the oxygen levels. Turns out it's a Daydream Surprise anyway.
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Gravity / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Gravity / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Of the three characters seen alive onscreen in the first shot, two of them are dead by the time the film reaches the 35-minute mark.
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Gravity / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Gravity / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: The Explorer is the Atlantis in all but name. Even the soundtrack names it thus. It's further linked by the fact that the last service mission to the Hubble Space Telescope was performed by Atlantis in 2009, bearing a patch that served as basis for the Explorer's STS-157 mission.
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Gravity / int_19df659c	type	Gone Horribly Wrong
Gravity / int_19df659c	comment	Gone Horribly Wrong: A routine satellite disposal causes a chain reaction that destroys a space shuttle orbiter, the Hubble Telescope, two space stations, and kills at least four astronauts.
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Gravity / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Gravity / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: There's a lot more to this movie than simply the female astronaut being flung off into space. Saving her happens pretty quickly, actually. Though the film itself depicts vacuum as a silent void, sound effects were added to the trailers.
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Gravity / int_1a0bba84	type	Improvised Microgravity Maneuvering
Gravity / int_1a0bba84	comment	Improvised Microgravity Maneuvering: A fire breaks out on the International Space Station, and when Stone tries to extinguish it the thrust of the extinguisher slams her against the bulkhead, knocking her unconscious for a moment. This becomes a Chekhov's Boomerang when she later uses the extinguisher to maneuver herself to another space station.
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Gravity / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
Gravity / int_1b122c5d	comment	Scare Chord: After their space shuttle is badly damaged, Stone and Kowalski inspect inside for survivors. They shine a flashlight inside to see that the hull has been breached. There is silence for several seconds, until the lifeless, frozen face of the pilot, not in a space suit and exposed to the vacuum, appears right in front of Stone. Stone screams, accompanied by a loud, prolonged glissando and tremolo of violins.
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Gravity / int_1ce428b5	type	Cold Equation
Gravity / int_1ce428b5	comment	Cold Equation: Kowalski detaches his tether because his momentum is pulling Stone loose from the ropes attaching her to the ISS. It's also possible he maintains radio silence when she tries to contact him later, so she won't try a rescue.
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Gravity / int_1dca0b0a	type	Disaster Movie
Gravity / int_1dca0b0a	comment	Disaster Movie: One with a very small cast.
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Gravity / int_1e7f218c	type	Drowning Pit
Gravity / int_1e7f218c	comment	Drowning Pit: Stone, upon landing, finds herself caught in the Shenzhou capsule rapidly filling with water.
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Gravity / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
Gravity / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: The vodka bottle hidden under the seat of the Soyuz. Then again, she was hallucinating.
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Gravity / int_1fd6a164	type	No Time to Think
Gravity / int_1fd6a164	comment	No Time to Think: Stone has to reenter the Earth's atmosphere using the capsule on the Chinese space station whose orbit is already decaying, but the instructions in the capsule are all in Chinese. In the end she just has to push buttons and hope she's hitting the right ones. They're not complete guesses though. The Chinese capsule (Shenzhou) is a Russian Soyuz copycat, which she received training for. Except for: being larger externally; being more spacious internally (ultimately able to hold four to Soyuz' three astronauts); having different (and more modern) engine design, avionics, and so on.
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Gravity / int_1fe36347	type	Take My Hand!
Gravity / int_1fe36347	comment	Take My Hand!: Happens quite often between Kowalski and Stone, as the two of them tumble through space.
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Gravity / int_201b05be	type	Explosions in Space
Gravity / int_201b05be	comment	Explosions in Space: Portrayed pretty well, it looks like. The one burst of flame we see expands in a ball then is gone a second later, leaving debris flying out in all directions. Stone survives because she's behind the Soyuz capsule. The one actual fiery explosion occurs within a pressurized compartment, albeit in microgravity.
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Gravity / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Gravity / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Stone floats through the International Space Station and does not notice the small fire. This has consequences.
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Gravity / int_21f3e32e	type	Chekhov's Boomerang
Gravity / int_21f3e32e	comment	Chekhov's Boomerang: The fire extinguisher that Stone hangs on to while fleeing the fire aboard the ISS, and which accidentally wedges itself inside the Soyuz. She later uses it to maneuver herself from the Soyuz to the Tiangong, Ã la WALLâ€¢E.
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Gravity / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Gravity / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Kowalski appears to be frivolously using a lot of fuel with his Jet Pack in the beginning of the story. That proves his undoing.
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Gravity / int_22f6000b	type	Everybody's Dead, Dave
Gravity / int_22f6000b	comment	Everybody's Dead, Dave: Kowalski makes sure to retrieve Shariff's body and check the interior of the space shuttle, just in case there are any survivors. There aren't.
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Gravity / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Gravity / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: After his job is done and he's told to take the day off, Shariff starts goofing off by launching himself off the shuttle and letting his tether snap him back, laughing all the way. Then he's hit by debris, and the same thing happens. Not funny anymore.
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Gravity / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Gravity / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: A fairly interesting example, since shooting of the movie began before the Space Shuttle was retired. But even if that inconsistency was unintentional, we see George Clooney's character flying around using an MMU (Manned Maneuvering Unit) that has so far been used only in the eighties (there is a newer model, which however is much smaller and only to be used in case of emergency), while the Tiangong station won't be up there in the configuration seen in the movie until 2015.
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Gravity / int_25b05c04	type	Hitler Cam
Gravity / int_25b05c04	comment	Hitler Cam: The final shot of Stone standing on the ground — showing that she has conquered the adversity.
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Gravity / int_2726d167	type	The World Is Just Awesome
Gravity / int_2726d167	comment	The World Is Just Awesome: While towing her to the ISS, Kowalski draws Stone's attention to the beautiful sunrise.
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Gravity / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
Gravity / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: The entire movie takes place in about 4 hours. The debris field attacks are 90 minutes apart, and Stone re-enters just after the third.
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Gravity / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Gravity / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: The Greenlandic spoken by Aningaaq over the radio is not subtitled. The short film "Aningaaq", which shows his side of the story, has subtitles. When trying to figure out how to get the Chinese Shenzou spacecraft on the Tiangong to start up so she can return to Earth, she mutters a sarcastic "No hablo chino.", Spanish for "I don't speak Chinese", after the computer gives her a warning.
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Gravity / int_2af11f0	type	Survivorship Bias
Gravity / int_2af11f0	comment	Survivorship Bias: Ryan Stone is one out of two astronauts to survive the opening scenes, but she remains the central focus of the film even before George Clooney's character dies.
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Gravity / int_2ccdff6c	type	Mortal Wound Reveal
Gravity / int_2ccdff6c	comment	Mortal Wound Reveal: Any lingering hope that Shariff is still alive is averted when we see the massive hole punched through not only his helmet, but his head.
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Gravity / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Gravity / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Kowalski comes off as a jokester and goof-off, constantly telling weird stories, ribbing his fellow astronauts, and playing country music. But the dialogue establishes that Kowalski is a respected astronaut who's thought of highly by all who've worked with him, which hints there's more to this guy than playing around. When Mission Control informs Kowalski that he won't break the cosmonaut's spacewalk record, before they can tell him how much he's short by, Kowalski already knows he's 75 minutes shy. One could say that points to his vanity, but it's also a subtle hint that no matter how much he seems he's playing around, he seems to have a grasp of everything happening at any given moment. Also notice, immediately after accepting he won't break the record, he shrugs it off. Man's a team player. Stone, distracted by Kowalski's music, asks him to turn it off and he does so without complaint. He also cheers her up over her lack of comfort in space telling her he nearly coughed up his kidneys his first time up, and also volunteers to assist her with fixing the module on HST. All this foreshadows just how much of a difference he'll make to her survival.
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Gravity / int_3820a9ea	type	Tomboyish Name
Gravity / int_3820a9ea	comment	Tomboyish Name: Ryan Stone. When Kowalski asks about it, she answers that "Dad wanted a boy".
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Gravity / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Gravity / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Kowalski, adrift and beyond rescue, sends a final transmission expressing awe at the incredible beauty of Earth from space:
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Gravity / int_3a79543	type	One Scene, Two Monologues
Gravity / int_3a79543	comment	One Scene, Two Monologues: The fact that Stone and Aningaaq can't understand each other doesn't stop them from describing their troubles to each other in detail.
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Gravity / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Gravity / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: We never hear the full Mardi Gras story.
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Gravity / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
Gravity / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: Kowalski switches to calling Stone by her first name ("Ryan") in order to get her attention.
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Gravity / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Gravity / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Kowalski sacrifices himself to save Ryan who manages to get back to Earth safely.
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Gravity / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
Gravity / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: After the first debris strike, Kowalski and Stone are racing to get out of the way before the debris field completes an orbit and strikes again; Kowalski estimates the orbit will take 90 minutes and instructs Stone to set up a countdown on her wrist chronometer so she knows how long they have.
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Gravity / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
Gravity / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: The destruction of Explorer and the ISS, and the reentry of Tiangong.
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Gravity / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Gravity / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Some of the shots of Earth from outer space and some of the space shot itself is amazingly beautiful.
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Gravity / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Gravity / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The short ends with Aningaaq killing his dog Nanaan.
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Gravity / int_4e8b83a	type	That's an Order!
Gravity / int_4e8b83a	comment	That's an Order!: Mission Control warns them about the approaching debris, so Kowalski tells Stone to get inside the shuttle immediately. She says, "Just a second" as she's securing the Hubble equipment, but Kowalski snaps "Not in a second — NOW!"
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Gravity / int_53e1f74c	type	Asteroid Thicket
Gravity / int_53e1f74c	comment	Asteroid Thicket: The debris.
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Gravity / int_549a92e7	type	Minimalism
Gravity / int_549a92e7	comment	Minimalism: The story is quite stripped down, as opposed to other movies of similar funding. As stated elsewhere here there's No Antagonist. There's a Minimalist Cast. CuarÃ³n didn't have to fight with Executive Meddling (he has the cred to be trusted), but he did listen to people pitching ideas like the rescue mission being covered and Stone being in love with one of the mission controllers. This film is really simple — Stone is trying to get back to Earth somehow.
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Gravity / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
Gravity / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: Astronauts wear a Maximum Absorbency Garment (MAG), which is kind of like a diaper, because they cannot go back into the spacecraft to pee during a space walk. Ryan is definitely not wearing one — see Fanservice, above.
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Gravity / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
Gravity / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: As noted elsewhere, the other half of Stone's conversation with a ham radio operator who doesn't speak English was dramatized in the short film "Aningaaq". The astronauts on the ISS presumably had their own adventures after abandoning the station; it's never revealed if they made it back.
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Gravity / int_5a29f9f6	type	Sinking Ship Scenario
Gravity / int_5a29f9f6	comment	Sinking Ship Scenario: By the time Stone reaches the ISS, the station is deteriorating fast due to debris strikes, and she narrowly survives a fire by ducking into the remaining Soyuz. Even more so with Tiangong, which is literally falling into the atmosphere as she scrambles to a Shenzhou, complete with blaring alarms, exploding circuitry, and ominous rumbling as the station is battered by the thickening air outside.
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Gravity / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
Gravity / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: As Kowalski struggles to free Stone from the claw arm, Shariff suddenly snaps to one side on his tether as he's struck by the chunk of space debris that kills him. Later, as Stone is trying to free the Soyuz module, the audience sees the debris hitting the ISS before she notices.
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Gravity / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
Gravity / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: Kowalski. Justified as he's trying to keep Stone calm by acting calm himself. Also an accurate representation of how trained pilots and astronauts are supposed to deal with flight emergencies — coolly and methodically. You don't earn your wings if you tend to panic.
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Gravity / int_610afe0a	type	Flechette Storm
Gravity / int_610afe0a	comment	Flechette Storm: The cloud of space debris orbits the Earth every 90 minutes.
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Gravity / int_61996785	type	Sacrificial Lamb
Gravity / int_61996785	comment	Sacrificial Lamb: Shariff. We don't even see his face until after he's killed (and we need to look at the Fatal Family Photo to see what that looked like).
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Gravity / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
Gravity / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: Kowalski.
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Gravity / int_61e3b6ae	type	It's a Small World, After All
Gravity / int_61e3b6ae	comment	It's a Small World, After All: An unplanned descent down to earth, which is 70% covered with water, nets Stone a water landing in a relatively shallow lake in the United States' Midwest. She's even picked up again by NASA's radars. Forgivable as it's a way to allow the movie to end where it does, with the audience knowing she will be fine, picked up in less than an hour, and not stranded in a remote area without anyone knowing she's there.
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Gravity / int_61e43473	type	Dramatic Space Drifting
Gravity / int_61e43473	comment	Dramatic Space Drifting: The protagonists enter the shuttle to confirm there are no survivors, suddenly running into the bodies of the floating crew, who weren't wearing their spacesuits. Later, Kowalski sets himself adrift in space.
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Gravity / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Gravity / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: When she can't communicate with the ham radio operator she contacts on her radio, Stone begins howling like a dog after hearing his dogs barking.
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Gravity / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Gravity / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: See Cold Equation.
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Gravity / int_6532850f	type	Her Heart Will Go On
Gravity / int_6532850f	comment	Her Heart Will Go On: Not the entire function of Kowalski's death but part of it.
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Gravity / int_655aa5ff	type	Broken Faceplate
Gravity / int_655aa5ff	comment	Broken Faceplate: Shariff's death is confirmed not only from the large hole in the visor of his helmet, but from the hole in the back of the helmet and straight through the head in between.
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Gravity / int_6a42ef	type	Cynicism Catalyst
Gravity / int_6a42ef	comment	Cynicism Catalyst: Dr. Stone took the death of her four-year-old daughter quite hard.
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Gravity / int_6af8ebb5	type	Death by Falling Over
Gravity / int_6af8ebb5	comment	Death by Falling Over: Stone's daughter tripped during a game of tag, hit her head and died.
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Gravity / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Gravity / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: In the early scene where the pair work to activate Stone's equipment, Kowalski refers to Stone's "beautiful blue eyes" though she points out that hers are brown. Later, he gives tit for tat during their final conversation:
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Gravity / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Gravity / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: "Stone" is a two for one. It both indicates how she's not really living at the beginning of the movie (aside from the part about visiting space) and how tough she proves to be as the story progresses.
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Gravity / int_6bf93fc7	type	FanService
Gravity / int_6bf93fc7	comment	Fanservice: Two scenes with Stone in an undershirt, shorts, and bare feet. These scenes are, by the way, not accurate: in real life, astronauts wear special liquid-cooled undergarments like long underwear under their spacesuits.
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Gravity / int_6c3252ec	type	Fight to Survive
Gravity / int_6c3252ec	comment	Fight to Survive: "Life in space is impossible", as the opening title cards point out, and the bulk of the story is Stone fighting to overcome the many problems of being in space and make it back home alive.
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Gravity / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Gravity / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Stone turns down the oxygen when she gives up hope of reaching the Chinese station.
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Gravity / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
Gravity / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License â€“ Military: Dr. Stone is a medical engineer by profession and she's supposed to be one even as the Explorer's mission specialist. However, she is put to help Kowalski repair something that is as outside of her area of expertise as the Hubble Space Telescope, only for the Hand Waved reason that the piece she's installing is derived from the device she uses in her field. In real life, even small astronaut crews are not trained to do everything; the Space Shuttle crews had seven astronauts, so there would have been more than enough manpower among the crew members to let a proper engineering expert do the job.
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Gravity / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Gravity / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: The voice of Mission Control is provided by...Ed Harris, who played Mission Control (or rather, Gene Kranz) in another movie about a space disaster, Apollo 13.
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Gravity / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
Gravity / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: Subverted with Kowalski coming back to life... Not!
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Gravity / int_6f8b835d	type	One Size Fits All
Gravity / int_6f8b835d	comment	One Size Fits All: Stone finds a cosmonaut pressure suit that fits her. While astronauts do have height and weight restrictions so they aren't too far off each other's sizes, the differences are still enough and the suits are custom tailored. At the very least that suit is probably very uncomfortable, though given the situation, comfort is unlikely to be a priority.
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Gravity / int_7040b6bc	type	Understatement
Gravity / int_7040b6bc	comment	Understatement: Stone, after the second debris field encounter: "I hate space."
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Gravity / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
Gravity / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: Stone experiences this.
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Gravity / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Gravity / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The advertising tag line is "Don't let go", but the theme of the movie is "You have to let go". Inverted in Italy; there the tagline is "Non Mollare Ora" ("Don't give up now").
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Gravity / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
Gravity / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: In-universe example: The Soyuz flight manuals.
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Gravity / int_76f0d7a5	type	Historical Fiction
Gravity / int_76f0d7a5	comment	Historical Fiction: An accidental example; the Space Shuttles are no longer flying.
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Gravity / int_775a1af6	type	Married to the Job
Gravity / int_775a1af6	comment	Married to the Job: Stone after the death of her daughter; being a doctor is literally all she has left in life.
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Gravity / int_7976e429	type	2-D Space
Gravity / int_7976e429	comment	2-D Space: Sort of. The space stations, satellites, and action in general take place in a thin shell of an orbit. In reality, satellites, shuttles and the ISS have their own altitudes to themselves, largely to prevent the sort of thing we see in this movie. The destruction of the Russian satellites would not have affected the ISS, for instance.
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Gravity / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
Gravity / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: Shariff. The only time we see what's under his helmet is when there's not much left underneath.
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Gravity / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Gravity / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: At one point Stone half-stammers excuses about how she'll never make it back until Kowalski asks her "Do you want to go home or stay up here?" She goes silent.
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Gravity / int_7f2c7fae	type	Explosive Instrumentation
Gravity / int_7f2c7fae	comment	Explosive Instrumentation: Downplayed. During reentry, the panels of the Chinese capsule start to spray sparks.
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Gravity / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Gravity / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: In the 8 minutes before the plot kicks in, we get many hints as to the type of people Stone and Kowalski are. The first lines of dialogue involve Mission Control telling Stone that her medical readings indicate she's more than a little stressed. Control asks she'd like to stop what she's doing and return to the Shuttle, to which she replies she just wants to get the job done. That kind of Determinator willingness to push through difficulty is what winds up saving her life. Kowalski comes off as a jokester and goof-off, constantly telling weird stories, ribbing his fellow astronauts, and playing country music. But the dialogue establishes that Kowalski is a respected astronaut who's thought of highly by all who've worked with him, which hints there's more to this guy than playing around. When Mission Control informs Kowalski that he won't break the cosmonaut's spacewalk record, before they can tell him how much he's short by, Kowalski already knows he's 75 minutes shy. One could say that points to his vanity, but it's also a subtle hint that no matter how much he seems he's playing around, he seems to have a grasp of everything happening at any given moment. Also notice, immediately after accepting he won't break the record, he shrugs it off. Man's a team player. Stone, distracted by Kowalski's music, asks him to turn it off and he does so without complaint. He also cheers her up over her lack of comfort in space telling her he nearly coughed up his kidneys his first time up, and also volunteers to assist her with fixing the module on HST. All this foreshadows just how much of a difference he'll make to her survival. A bit of a reach, but the dialogue indicates Mission Control did not heed Dr. Stone's warnings that parts of the equipment she was installing might not work. One could say it foreshadowed how badly they underestimated effect of the Russian missile strike.
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Gravity / int_816a4e80	type	Star Wars (Franchise)
Gravity / int_816a4e80	comment	Kowalski has "a bad feeling about this mission."
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Gravity / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
Gravity / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: After Shariff dies, we see a photo of his wife and son floating alongside his body.
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Gravity / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Gravity / int_875615dd	comment	Kowalski looks at Stone's reflection in his wrist mirror when she's talking about her daughter, as she is behind him. We also see a wrist mirror on the Russian suit that Ryan gets into after she makes it to the ISS, as they are a standard piece of equipment due to the Truth in Television nature of this trope while wearing a space helmet.
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Gravity / int_8cb4b589	type	Symbolic Baptism
Gravity / int_8cb4b589	comment	Symbolic Baptism: Gravity ends with Dr. Stone unsteadily walking out of a lake: a literal return to life on Earth after a grueling trial to escape death on a space mission gone wrong.
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Gravity / int_8e3b5b4d	type	Minimalist Cast
Gravity / int_8e3b5b4d	comment	Minimalist Cast: The film has only three visible characters (with two dying by the 35-minute mark), with five other roles credited on IMDb as voice-only. The vast majority of this film focuses on Bullock's character, almost constantly. The "Aningaaq" short likewise has just two visible actors (with one character not even named).
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Gravity / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
Gravity / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: Following the first trailers, people compared the film to shipwreck films like Cast Away and Open Water. This is not the case. The time Stone spends "adrift" is relatively little. Afterwards she always knows where she is going.
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Gravity / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Gravity / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: "Rebirth" is the theme. Stone floating in the capsule with her umbilical cord-like oxygen tube. Stone never once stands on her own two feet until the very end, when she has overcome her trauma and resolved to live again. The entire end sequence once Stone splashes down in the lake is one gigantic "being born" symbol. She is "birthed" from the capsule, and needs to shed her protective suit to swim to the surface of the lake. She takes her first natural breath in the entire movie, and then crawls onto the shore, where, the "fluids" of her "afterbirth" running off her, shakily climbs to her feet and takes her first tentative steps. Fade to Black. This same scene also includes a frog in the foreground, an animal known for its transformative life cycle from a weightless environment to land. Having a butterfly in its place would have likely been taken as too cliched.
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Gravity / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
Gravity / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Stone mentions that she had a daughter who died in a preschool accident.
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Gravity / int_963086ce	type	Damn You, Muscle Memory!
Gravity / int_963086ce	comment	Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Inverted to "Bless you, muscle memory". The Chinese reentry craft is based off of the Soyuz, which Stone has been trained on. While she can't read the buttons, she does know enough of the layout that she knows generally where each button should be, narrowing down the guessing to a few buttons. Stone almost loses her screwdriver when trying to detach the tethers by absentmindedly setting it down on the ship. In zero gravity, it starts to drift away. Foreshadowed when Stone almost loses a screw in the opening scene. She apologizes to Kowalski after he retrieves it, noting that she's used to a basement laboratory where things fall to the floor.
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Gravity / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
Gravity / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Out of Focus Funny Foreigner Shariff is the first character to die in the film.
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Gravity / int_992aa05b	type	Space Friction
Gravity / int_992aa05b	comment	Space Friction: Averted; much of the drama comes from the fact that an object (whether debris or protagonist) doesn't slow down once it's set in motion. It also helps when they only need short maneuvering bursts to launch themselves across vast distances.
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Gravity / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
Gravity / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: We don't get to see the actual impact in detail, but the remains of Shariff's face are extremely gruesome for a PG-13 movie.
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Gravity / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
Gravity / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: Kowalski definitely holds the space walk record now.
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Gravity / int_9dd2329c	type	Camera Abuse
Gravity / int_9dd2329c	comment	Camera Abuse: Droplets of water impact the camera. CuarÃ³n loves this trope.
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Gravity / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Gravity / int_9f6fb586	comment	The Leitmotif for the debris sounds similar to the one used in Jaws for the shark.
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Gravity / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Gravity / int_a0efb4e7	comment	It's Probably Nothing: NASA mission control informs the astronaut team that the Russians have just created a big debris field by shooting down a satellite, yet both control and Kowalski initially dismiss it. Given that this is NASA here, they should probably know enough about space to guess how that could lead to a worst case scenario and taken steps to prepare for it. It actually takes Mission Control about 2 minutes to abort the mission, which could have given the astronauts twice the time to escape as they actually got.
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Gravity / int_a3597c29	type	Magic Countdown
Gravity / int_a3597c29	comment	Magic Countdown: The time it takes for Stone's oxygen supply to drop from 5% to 1% is roughly the same time it takes to drop from 1% to 0%.
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Gravity / int_a38088cf	type	Space Is Cold
Gravity / int_a38088cf	comment	Space Is Cold: The shuttle crew freezes solid, instantly, when exposed to the vacuum of space. In reality, it would take hours for them to freeze under most circumstances.
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Gravity / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Gravity / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: "Gravity" means both "the physical force of gravitation" and "the seriousness of the situation".
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Gravity / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Gravity / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: A Marvin the Martian toy floats through the space shuttle wreckage. Then a body. The movie actually utilizes this trope to great effect throughout. With The Oner, we get several minutes of Shariff finishing work and goofing off, Kowalski amiably chatting, and Dr. Stone simply trying to get her tech to work. Just as Kowalski is starting to tell the Mardi Gras story NASA interrupts and tells everybody to pack up and get the hell out of dodge; now. Kowalski comes off as a highly-experienced, but goofy, astronaut. However, the minute the situation calls for it, he drops the stories and jokes, and gets deadly serious, sometimes in the space of a sentence. Throughout his screentime, Kowalski will alternate between sternly telling Stone to get her head straight and focus, and then switching to jovial banter and light flirting.
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Gravity / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
Gravity / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: Dr. Ryan Stone. When Matt complains that it's no name for a girl, she explains to him that her father wanted a son.
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Gravity / int_a5c30aec	type	Floating Water
Gravity / int_a5c30aec	comment	Floating Water: We realize Stone is crying when her tears start floating in bubbles through the microgravity of the Soyuz capsule. Note that Stone's tears would not have formed free-floating tear spheres. The liquid's surface tension would make them cling to her skin or eyelashes.
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Gravity / int_a5f0752f	type	Rule of Drama
Gravity / int_a5f0752f	comment	Rule of Drama: Despite the emphasis on scientific accuracy, there are several examples of this. Also here. That being said, it's still one of the more accurate films ever made about space.
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Gravity / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Gravity / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: The space debris comes around three times with catastrophic results each time.
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Gravity / int_a8593e70	type	Real Time
Gravity / int_a8593e70	comment	There seems to be a time skip when Stone and Kowalski are getting back to the space shuttle, and another when Stone is exiting the Soyuz capsule to untether it (in that scene the camera cuts from her in the capsule without a suit, to her exiting the capsule with full suit on). These two time skips separate what are essentially three long Real Time action sequences.
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Gravity / int_aa30e350	type	Sole Survivor
Gravity / int_aa30e350	comment	Sole Survivor: What Stone realizes that she is about a third into the film.
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Gravity / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
Gravity / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Kowalski talks constantly in order to keep Stone's spirit up. Subverted with his final speech; it's a Daydream Surprise so Stone is in fact giving the speech to herself.
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Gravity / int_ad4c74ed	type	Final Girl
Gravity / int_ad4c74ed	comment	Final Girl: Stone, outliving her companions.
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Gravity / int_ad7a381d	type	P.O.V. Cam
Gravity / int_ad7a381d	comment	P.O.V. Cam: Several times things are seen through Stone's eyes.
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Gravity / int_b13a123	type	Fade to Black
Gravity / int_b13a123	comment	The entire end sequence once Stone splashes down in the lake is one gigantic "being born" symbol. She is "birthed" from the capsule, and needs to shed her protective suit to swim to the surface of the lake. She takes her first natural breath in the entire movie, and then crawls onto the shore, where, the "fluids" of her "afterbirth" running off her, shakily climbs to her feet and takes her first tentative steps. Fade to Black.
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Gravity / int_b1fcaa08	type	Jammed Seatbelts
Gravity / int_b1fcaa08	comment	Jammed Seatbelts: Stone has trouble unstrapping herself from the claw arm, and is still there when the debris cloud hits.
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Gravity / int_b29a2ef8	type	Cut the Safety Rope
Gravity / int_b29a2ef8	comment	Cut the Safety Rope: Kowalski cuts himself loose when he realizes that the ropes tethering them to the ISS aren't strong enough to hold them both. Note in Artistic License - Physics above that nothing of this was necessary.
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Gravity / int_b4fe9d97	type	Space Isolation Horror
Gravity / int_b4fe9d97	comment	Space Isolation Horror: Currently provides the page image.
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Gravity / int_b55e8979	type	Science Hero
Gravity / int_b55e8979	comment	Science Hero: An updated version.
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Gravity / int_b90b48b7	type	Conflict
Gravity / int_b90b48b7	comment	Conflict: One of the Man vs. Nature types. Or, more accurately, "Woman vs. the Laws of Nature, including the ever-present Finagle's Law."
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Gravity / int_ba0ff694	type	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
Gravity / int_ba0ff694	comment	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Ryan Stone repeatedly exclaims "You've got to be kidding me!" when the Soyuz capsule's main rocket is out of fuel.
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Gravity / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Gravity / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike
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Gravity / int_bda3b88e	type	Sudden Soundtrack Stop
Gravity / int_bda3b88e	comment	Sudden Soundtrack Stop: The film often cuts off the music to mark Ryan transitioning from spacewalking to inside a spacecraft and vice versa.
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Gravity / int_bebf0356	type	Mission Control
Gravity / int_bebf0356	comment	A bit of a reach, but the dialogue indicates Mission Control did not heed Dr. Stone's warnings that parts of the equipment she was installing might not work. One could say it foreshadowed how badly they underestimated effect of the Russian missile strike.
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Gravity / int_c00802ea	type	Remembered I Could Fly
Gravity / int_c00802ea	comment	Remembered I Could Fly: Even though she always crashed it in simulators, Stone learned enough about landing the Soyuz to know it has soft-landing rockets that activate at 3 meters above ground. Rockets that, in orbit, are useful for one good boost...
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Gravity / int_c12f0c4	type	Outrun the Fireball
Gravity / int_c12f0c4	comment	Outrun the Fireball: When a fire takes hold on the abandoned ISS.
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Gravity / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Gravity / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: "How did you make it back here?" When Kowalski "makes it back" to Stone. Stone makes contact with someone via the Soyuz radio, only they're a ham radio operator who can't speak English.
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Gravity / int_c4b8e2ae	type	One-Woman Wail
Gravity / int_c4b8e2ae	comment	One-Woman Wail: Shows up towards the end of the title track in the film's score. It works quite well to show the triumph of Stone's survival.
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Gravity / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Gravity / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Kowalski's insistence on playing country music while getting the team to reminisce about those they're missing back on Earth is a shout out to Dark Star and its opening theme, Benson Arizona. Ryan grasping for a bolt floating in space resembles the poster/DVD cover for Planetes, as well as one of the establishing shots. Stone stripping down to a singlet and panties resembles the shuttle scene at the end of Alien. A toy of Marvin the Martian is shown drifting out of the destroyed shuttle. Near the end, Stone has to fly her way to the Chinese Space Station with a fire extinguisher, just like WALLâ€¢E. The Leitmotif for the debris sounds similar to the one used in Jaws for the shark. 2001: A Space Odyssey: The floating pen seen in several shots is reminiscent of a shot from Stanley Kubrick's movie. Another 2001 shout-out is the scene in which Stone blows herself out of the capsule, similar to Dave Bowman doing the same. And when she gets into the ISS and disrobes, she curls into a fetal position, with her umbilical floating behind her, reminiscent of the Star Child. Kowalski has "a bad feeling about this mission." The lake Stone crashes into was filmed at Lake Powell in Arizona, the same lake used for astronaut Taylor's crash in the original Planet of the Apes. After boarding the ISS, Stone starts undressing in zero gravity in a way very similar to Barbarella's opening scene. The final radio message from Ripley in Alien is paraphrased. Some viewers have humorously noted that Kowalski looks like Buzz Lightyear.
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Gravity / int_c7b5445c	type	Cool Starship
Gravity / int_c7b5445c	comment	Cool Starship: The gutsy little Soyuz escape boat fits nicely into the "old, junky rustbucket" categorynote By reputation anyway. While in real life the history of the Soyuz craft has been tainted by safety failures and shortcuts — as well as the general Western conception of "Russian, therefore crap" regarding most Russian technology — for the last few decades it has had the best safety record (given well over 2,000 launches by now) of any spacecraft family in the world. Even NASA acknowledges this. A Soyuz serving as a lifeboat would not be an "old, junky rustbucket" since each launch is a new spacecraft, and the Soyuz family itself has been continually upgraded over the decades., complete with a visually stunning separation sequence. The Shenzhou, a Chinese Soyuz knockoff that Stone uses to finally reach Earth may also qualify, but gets rather less screentime.
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Gravity / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
Gravity / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: This is supposed to be Commander Matt Kowalski's last mission before retiring.
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Gravity / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Gravity / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Did Kowalski's spirit stop by to give Stone one last pep talk before crossing over to the other side? Or was it the part of her that still wanted to live making her see somebody it knew she would listen to?
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Gravity / int_cb7524cf	type	Other Stock Phrases
Gravity / int_cb7524cf	comment	Other Stock Phrases: "I've got a bad feeling about this," used by Kowalski before launching into Let Me Tell You a Story.
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Gravity / int_cd2b8aa3	type	Space Is Noisy
Gravity / int_cd2b8aa3	comment	Space Is Noisy: Averted. The film relies on its soundtrack (or lack thereof) to evoke action and emotion. The only sounds heard during the scenes where the astronauts are out in space (apart from the soundtrack) are sounds that would vibrate through their suits. Played straight in the trailers, which added sound effects to seem more exciting. Ironically, the film won Oscars for Sound Editing and Sound Mixing.
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Gravity / int_ce151179	type	Heads-Up Display
Gravity / int_ce151179	comment	Heads-Up Display: Projected on the space helmets, but not greatly emphasized.
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Gravity / int_d074c3a2	type	Coming in Hot
Gravity / int_d074c3a2	comment	Coming in Hot: Stone gets to the Chinese station, but its orbit is already decaying. She has to pilot its reentry capsule down to the surface, even though the buttons are all labeled in Chinese.
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Gravity / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Gravity / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: "Gravity".
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Gravity / int_d1438872	type	Missing Mission Control
Gravity / int_d1438872	comment	Missing Mission Control: Things only get worse when the connection to Mission Control is severed.
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Gravity / int_d279adbb	type	Read the Freaking Manual
Gravity / int_d279adbb	comment	Read the Freaking Manual: Although Stone flew the Soyuz simulator dozens of times (and crashed it every time), she still takes the time to pick each specific color-coded manual to verify procedure depending on her needs at the time.
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Gravity / int_d38f2bc8	type	Fetal Position Rebirth
Gravity / int_d38f2bc8	comment	Stone floating in the capsule with her umbilical cord-like oxygen tube.
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Gravity / int_d99d9918	type	The Captain
Gravity / int_d99d9918	comment	The Captain: Mission Commander Matt Kowalski. A bit of a One-Scene Wonder, his cool head and utter calm in extreme circumstances helps Ryan survive.
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Gravity / int_da1211b4	type	Security Cling
Gravity / int_da1211b4	comment	Security Cling: As the tagline says, "Don't let go!"
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Gravity / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Gravity / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Stone gets to Tiangong mere minutes before it reenters. She then has an unplanned, unmanned splashdown in a freshwater lake in the Midwestern US, where NASA can easily track her reentry and send a rescue team.
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Gravity / int_dd51740f	type	P.O.V. Sequel
Gravity / int_dd51740f	comment	P.O.V. Sequel: Of a sort.
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Gravity / int_dddbdc26	type	Monumental Damage
Gravity / int_dddbdc26	comment	Monumental Damage: The satellite debris deals spectacularly catastrophic damage to the most iconic achievements of the modern space program, including the space shuttle, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the International Space Station. This would cause what's known as Kessler Syndrome and has a high likelihood of rendering space inaccessible from Earth for a very long time (until the debris deorbited by friction with the extremely thin atmosphere at that altitude). No more satellite communications, TV, weather, etc.
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Gravity / int_df35b851	type	Danger Deadpan
Gravity / int_df35b851	comment	Danger Deadpan: Kowalski remains unflappably calm and collected throughout the entire disaster.
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Gravity / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Gravity / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: George Clooney appears to be having a larger role as Kowalski. Turns out, he is only a Sacrificial Lion whilst Sandra Bullock as Stone is having most of the screentime for herself.
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Gravity / int_df41acb	type	Casual Danger Dialogue
Gravity / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue: Kowalski, intentionally doing it as a means to calm down the panicked Stone at times.
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Gravity / int_e0723cbb	type	You Talk Too Much!
Gravity / int_e0723cbb	comment	You Talk Too Much!: Kowalski — Stone and Mission Control both gripe about his constant stories.
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Gravity / int_e0aed924	type	No Antagonist
Gravity / int_e0aed924	comment	No Antagonist: It's all just Stone versus the space debris, which isn't a character.
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Gravity / int_e0ecb7b3	type	Space Station
Gravity / int_e0ecb7b3	comment	Space Station: The International Space Station and the Chinese Tiangong (albeit an expanded version) make appearances. The former is damaged by the debris cloud, then completely annihilated by the second pass; the latter is only damaged, but it's thrown into the atmosphere and it breaks up into chunks during entry.
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Gravity / int_e206977a	type	In Space, Everyone Can See Your Face
Gravity / int_e206977a	comment	In Space, Everyone Can See Your Face: Probably the least realistic aspect of an otherwise thoroughly researched movie, so we can get a good look at stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.
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Gravity / int_e234ddbf	type	Escape Pod
Gravity / int_e234ddbf	comment	Escape Pod: The main plot of the movie involves trying to get to one of these to make a safe return to Earth.
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Gravity / int_e26d8285	type	Explosive Decompression
Gravity / int_e26d8285	comment	Explosive Decompression: Stone is startled to see Kowalski outside the Soyuz hatch, which he opens even though she's not wearing her helmet, sucking out all the air but leaving her unharmed once he closes the hatch and raises the oxygen levels. Turns out it's a Daydream Surprise anyway. Stone has to open an airlock quickly to take shelter from an oncoming cloud of space debris; the hatch slams open from the sudden outrush of air, nearly breaking her grip on the handle. Then, at Tiangong, she can be seen attempting to get a good grip on the surrounding rail while opening the door, but it smacks into her as it blows open and knocks her grip on the rail loose, leaving her swinging from the handle again. Averted with the dead bodies the protagonists find along their way.
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Gravity / int_e2d7b14c	type	Made of Explodium
Gravity / int_e2d7b14c	comment	Made of Explodium: Averted. Unlike, for instance, the comparable situation in Armageddon (1998) — where a small fire aboard the Mir space station eventually caused the whole thing to blow up spectacularly in mere minutes — the fire on the International Space Station causes no structural damage at all, and is only a problem in that it eats up oxygen like nobody's business, and could have damaged the Soyuz capsule.
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Gravity / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
Gravity / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: When you are stranded in space with nothing between you and the vacuum except your suit, which is rapidly losing air, it's time to call in this trope.
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Gravity / int_e4ba33fc	type	Disaster Dominoes
Gravity / int_e4ba33fc	comment	Disaster Dominoes: Each piece of debris impacting a satellite or space station throws off multiple pieces that endanger anything else in the same orbit.
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Gravity / int_e4bb68b8	type	The Charmer
Gravity / int_e4bb68b8	comment	The Charmer: Kowalski. He's professional to a fault and a consummate commander, but he enjoys keeping morale up with light banter and good-natured flirtation.
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Gravity / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Gravity / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Stone, from the conversation aboard Soyuz to the end credits.
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Gravity / int_e6291d05	type	Percussive Maintenance
Gravity / int_e6291d05	comment	Percussive Maintenance: Stone tapping one of the instruments of the Soyuz to make it show the correct oxygen level.
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Gravity / int_e6558beb	type	Artistic License â€“ Space
Gravity / int_e6558beb	comment	Artistic License â€“ Space: Even the most technically accurate stories have to bend the rules somewhere. There is a fire aboard the ISS, even though without gravity, there would no convection to sustain the flame, at least not the type of convective fire seen in the movie. Space debris moving slow enough to be seen would have too little energy to be dangerous. The Chinese space station leaves orbit and crashes to the Earth for no obvious reason. It seems to be caught in a rain of debris, but that could not possibly impart enough energy to cause reentry. However, it is possible that the station was intentionally deorbited by the Chinese to avoid adding to the Kessler Syndrome. It is unclear what continues to pull Kowalski away after his momentum has been halted by Dr. Stone grabbing the tether. Dr. Stone is only slowing him down. Her leg is trapped in the deployed parachute cord of the escape pod, but if you look closely you will see that the actual parachute being slowly pulled through whatever it is entangled in. Kowalski is in a position to see that not only is the cord around Dr. Stone's foot unwrapping, but the parachute is also unraveling because of his momentum. A communications blackout would be unlikely as the ISS orbits at only about 260 miles and is reachable by just about every radio transmitter on Earth due to its unrestricted line of sight. Routing communications through satellites which operate at higher orbits would only introduce unnecessary delay.
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Gravity / int_e7e558	type	The Oner
Gravity / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: A Creator Thumbprint for Alfonso CuarÃ³n. The film uses a lot of long shots, and the camera is almost always moving — a visual shorthand for the disorientation of the zero-G environment. Special mention: The opening scene, from the establishing view of Earth to Dr. Stone detaching from the structure, is a single, continuous shot lasting about twelve and a half minutes. Another notable instance occurs when she exits the Soyuz capsule to free it from the entangled parachute cords: her entire efforts, the approach of the debris cloud, the disaster that destroys ISS, and Dr. Stone's close-calls as the Soyuz is swung all over the place by the cables, is one single take until she finally goes back inside the capsule.
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Gravity / int_e80cdd72	type	Almost Out of Oxygen
Gravity / int_e80cdd72	comment	Almost Out of Oxygen: Stone spends the first 20 minutes dealing with this.
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Gravity / int_eb9eaecd	type	Jet Pack
Gravity / int_eb9eaecd	comment	Jet Pack: Kowalski has one; a fictitious prototype upgrade to NASA's (retired) Manned Maneuvering Unit.
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Gravity / int_ebbf48c0	type	Silent Credits
Gravity / int_ebbf48c0	comment	Silent Credits: Which are punctuated with a gunshot.
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Gravity / int_f226207f	type	Conveniently Close Planet
Gravity / int_f226207f	comment	Conveniently Close Planet: The space shuttle, the International Space Station, and the Chinese Tiangong are all within spitting distance of each other, despite really being in vastly differing orbits. The Tiangong is "100 miles" (in one line; "100 kilometers" in another) from the ISS, a figure which evidently stays stable in this film. Of course, if the movie was following the real-life distances and orbits, however, Stone would have never survived. CuarÃ³n stated in an interview that an early draft of the script did try to work with the fact the HST, ISS, and Tiangong were in different orbits in reality, but it ended up with half the movie being the characters explaining orbital mechanics, so the decision was made to put them all in the same orbit for plot convenience.
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Gravity / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Gravity / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: When he is talking with Stone, Aningaaq mentions that his beloved dog, Nanaan, is elderly and sick, but he can't bear the thought of having to sacrifice her and put her out of her misery because he loves her so much. Evidently, his conversation with Stone (despite the fact that they actually couldn't understand each other due to the language barrier) is what gives him the resolve to go through with euthanizing Nanaan, as the short ends with a single gunshot.
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Gravity / int_f482730a	comment	No Peripheral Vision: Played straight. Stone has to use the fire extinguisher when her back is to the Chinese space station, but she can't see behind herself due to her helmet; she has to estimate when she has rotated halfway around. Kowalski looks at Stone's reflection in his wrist mirror when she's talking about her daughter, as she is behind him. We also see a wrist mirror on the Russian suit that Ryan gets into after she makes it to the ISS, as they are a standard piece of equipment due to the Truth in Television nature of this trope while wearing a space helmet.
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Gravity / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: We see a Mole Wrench◊ in the cockpit of the Shuttle and in the International Space Station. We get a particularly good look at the one in the ISS because it's near the small fire that Stone misses. An alternative explanation is that the effects crew are Mole Wrench fanboys, and stick them in whenever they can.
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Gravity / int_f6214be1	comment	Hollywood Psych: Dr. Stone's daughter died not that long ago, yet NASA apparently felt it was all right sending her as a mission specialist to Low Earth Orbit, despite her lingering depression over the loss of her child(!). Even the excuse of "they couldn't get anyone else" makes no sense in this case, given that every astronaut/cosmonaut crew in history has always had backup crew members (in case the primary ones would become sick or be otherwise indisposed).
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Gravity / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Several deaths and a whole bunch of hard work to get Stone back to Earth. And even after she makes a safe splashdown, she nearly drowns trying to leave the capsule. As Cinema Sins put it, "We've already had her escape death about eleven times in this movie..."
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Gravity / int_f765e2d3	comment	Dying Alone: Kowalski essentially floats off into space by himself. Stone laments how she will die without anyone to mourn or pray for her.
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Gravity / int_f91d1d4f	comment	Darkest Hour: In the Soyuz capsule, Stone learns the fuel is out, resigns herself to death, and turns off the oxygen. Then a Helpful Hallucination gives her a Heroic Second Wind.
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Gravity / int_f97b5d33	comment	Shoo Out the Clowns: Shariff sure has a funny accent and loves space bungee jumping. He's the first to be removed from the main plotline.
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Gravity / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: While it is a fairly accurate-to-physics movie, it is by no means completely true to them. Research was done, as the script initially had a lot of exposition to explain what was happening, but CuarÃ³n felt the resulting infodumps would take away from the characters and drama (not to mention double the running time), so he opted for some artistic liberties. Kowalski telling Stone to detach from the manipulator arm, which has been hit by debris and is rapidly spinning away from the shuttle. He tells her she needs to detach before the arm carries her too far and he will not be able to reach her, so she detaches. The problem is she would have still had all the angular momentum of the arm itself, so detaching may have flung her away from the arm, but like a baseball pitcher releasing a baseball, she would have still kept moving, and not just stopped dead in space while the arm kept going. It may have been possible for her to release at the exact moment in the arc where she would have been flung back towards the shuttle, but that's an extremely iffy, one-in-a-billion chance that she clearly isn't trying for, as she releases when Kowalski tells her she has to hurry up and do it. Kowalski's death. In zero-G environments, once the initial momentum had been absorbed, no additional tension would have remained on the tether. He shouldn't have been "pulling Ryan away from the ship", because there was no other force acting on him and he was virtually weightless, so Stone would have been able to retrieve him with only the slightest pull. Even if Kowalski was released, he would remain peacefully floating nearby instead of being violently catapulted to the space's void as in the film. Interestingly enough, Stone's tears. Astronaut Chris Hadfield gave a demonstration of how a person cries in space in April 2013 — in reality the tears form a ball on your eye until you get a towel and sop them up. Of course, Tropes Are Tools and the way it is portrayed in this film is much more moving. Even if we assume this film takes place in an alternate universe where the Tiangong and the ISS are in the same orbit 100 miles (or even just 100 kilometers) apart, thrusting directly toward the Tiangong wouldn't actually get her there. At 100 miles distant, she'd need to do an orbital rendezvous. She would have to thrust away from Tiangong by just the right amount, which would lower her altitude on the opposite side of her orbit, then wait for their orbits to re-intersect and thrust in the opposite direction to re-circularize her orbit. If she'd thrusted toward Tiangong, as shown in the movie, she'd actually end up pulling farther away from it. The Tiangong space station is stably upright as it enters the atmosphere, though it would have begun to tumble due to the increased drag of the atmosphere on such a not-aerodynamic object.
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Gravity / int_fdaf37f0	type	Captain's Log
Gravity / int_fdaf37f0	comment	The final radio message from Ripley in Alien is paraphrased.
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Gravity / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Gravity / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: One of the most accurate films ever made about space. The film addresses many actual physical effects of zero-G that were largely ignored in other science fiction films, such as how when you start moving, you won't stop until you've hit something, which is really bad when a disaster happens and you're now spinning out of control. The movie's story is very much based on a real proposed space disaster, the Kessler syndrome.
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Gravity / int_ffd816e7	comment	Everything Trying to Kill You: The film could be described as "90 minutes of the universe trying to kill Sandra Bullock." The opening text shows just how hostile to life space is.
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