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The Martian

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The Martian	comment	The Martian is a 2015 science fiction film based on the novel of the same name by Andrew Weir, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon.Set in the year 2035, the film follows astronaut Mark Watney (Damon) in his efforts to survive alone on Mars after his crewmates were forced to abandon the mission site, believing him dead. Upon learning that Mark is alive, the crew takes a major risk heading back to Mars to rescue him.The film was released in October 2015. Official trailers for the movie can be found here and here.Five In-Universe style promos featuring the main characters: "Farewell": Set immediately before the Hermes launches for Mars. "The Right Stuff": The Ares III crew are interviewed by a NASA psychologist. "Our Greatest Adventure": A stunning overview of the Ares III mission hosted by none other than (a gray-haired!) Neil deGrasse Tyson! "Leave Your Mark": A barely disguised Under Armour advert with a Punny Title. This promo emphasizes the sports-star status of the Ares program astronauts in the 2030s. "Bring Him Home": The world rallies in support of NASA's efforts to, well, bring him home.Character tropes go on to the Characters Sheet.
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The Martian / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
The Martian / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: While the book isn't explicit on Watney's age, it's implied he's younger than Matt Damon's mid-40s. Watney's parents being described as being middle-aged is the biggest implication of Watney's age.
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The Martian / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The Martian / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The first trailer spoils almost all of the major twists including Mark using Pathfinder to contact Earth, the airlock failure, Hermes turning around (or to be more precise, looping around), and Mark eventually going to the Ares 4 site. The trailer starts with one of the last lines of the book, about hikers getting lost, etc.
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The Martian / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Martian / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: During his first try at making water, Mark cheers as he manages to get it going, just in time for it to literally blow up in his face and send him flying across the room. At a certain point, the NASA Director states that he is worried about getting supplies in time to Mars, since they are facing a small window for error. He even notes that this is assuming nothing goes wrong. Cue an airlock that explosively decompresses, destroying Mark's crops, and the probe with supplies exploding after launch. Both incidents reduce his projected supply. Lampshaded and Subverted in-universe, when Mark Watney is talking about digging up the Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG) to provide heat for his extended rover trips. The narration proceeds normally, with shots of him digging it up and saying "But, as long as I don't break it..." followed by a hard cut to him in the rover, riding with the RTG, and grinning.
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The Martian / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Martian / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The book explains that the Hab airlock malfunctioned because of the additional wear and tear that Mark added, combined with a defect not detected in the quality inspections - in turn, a reference to the effects of omitting the inspections to the failed supply launch
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The Martian / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
The Martian / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: The movie inaccurately implies Mark would be receiving sufficient vitamins, minerals, fat and other essential nutrients from his grown potatoes and rations. The book explains that the Hab actually has a large supply of multivitamin tablets specifically to prevent this problem, but it was skipped over in the film. Martian soil contains traces of toxic chemicals, meaning the potato plants that Mark grew would've been poisonous to eat. In order for Mark to be able to eat the potatoes, he'd first have had to grow a first patch of potatoes that would absorb the toxic compounds in the soil before he could grow potatoes that would've been safe to eat.
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The Martian / int_191535aa	type	Eiffel Tower Effect
The Martian / int_191535aa	comment	Eiffel Tower Effect: When the "Nations of the World" Montage cuts to Trafalgar Square, Big Ben can be seen in the background.
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The Martian / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
The Martian / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: Mark's humor is limited to a single snark. The trailer also seems to imply that he has a wife and child he doesn't have in the movie — they're his crewmate's family and not plot-relevant. And the trailer makes it seem like NASA finds out that Mark is alive by seeing a message he sent with Pathfinder, rather than through satellite imagery.
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The Martian / int_1a0bba84	type	Improvised Microgravity Maneuvering
The Martian / int_1a0bba84	comment	Improvised Microgravity Maneuvering: Used twice in the climax. Once by the Hermes when it blows out an airlock door to slow down enough to intercept the MAV and then by Watney when he pokes a hole in his suit glove to accelerate to Lewis's position when her own safety line won't reach him.
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The Martian / int_1be3af98	comment	"Nations of the World" Montage: The entire world takes up the rally of "Bring him home." Several NASA officials say it throughout the film and once Watney's perilous rescue begins, millions and millions of people are shown holding signs, wearing T-shirts, and posting hashtags emblazoned with the pleading words.
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The Martian / int_1ce428b5	type	Cold Equation
The Martian / int_1ce428b5	comment	Cold Equation: When Rich Purnell makes his proposal, Bruce sums up that NASA has a choice between a large chance of killing one person or a small chance of killing six people. Teddy Sanders vetoes the Rich Purnell maneuver because that puts the entire Hermes crew at risk. He decides to let the Hermes continue to Earth unhindered and proceed with using the Chinese booster to send supplies to Mark even though that option is fraught with risk of actually delivering the supplies safely and will arrive after Mark has run out of food. Although Teddy is actively focused on keeping everyone alive, he has knowingly chosen a path that would, in all likelihood, result in Mark's death despite their best efforts.
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The Martian / int_1d8733d3	type	Overly Narrow Superlative
The Martian / int_1d8733d3	comment	Overly Narrow Superlative: Mark boastfully declares himself the greatest botanist on the entire planet.
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The Martian / int_20ffc19a	type	Famous for Being First
The Martian / int_20ffc19a	comment	Famous for Being First: Referenced by Watney during his journey to the Ares IV landing site, reflecting on how he's the first to set foot anywhere he goes.
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The Martian / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
The Martian / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The original novel did not have a Where Are They Now epilogue, whereas the film shows what happens to all the major players after the rescue mission is implemented.
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The Martian / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Martian / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: When Teddy tells Bruce that they have three months to get a supply probe ready, one of the JPL guys holds up a notepad that says "NO!"
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The Martian / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
The Martian / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: Bruce Ng, after hearing that Mark's crops are now dead and he and his team have an even tighter deadline to come up with a workable solution for the supply probe, turns off his Skype call and nervously says, "I'm gonna need a change of clothes," while adjusting his pants.
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The Martian / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
The Martian / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: "Faced with overwhelming odds, I'm left with only one option. I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this."
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The Martian / int_2eac5753	type	Narrative Profanity Filter
The Martian / int_2eac5753	comment	Narrative Profanity Filter: Mark's communications through the Rover link are usually shown with the profanities dashed out. On one occasion, when Mark is told that his crewmates hadn't been informed about his survival and responds with a Cluster F-Bomb, the audience gets to see and hear little more than the horrified reactions of Mission Controlnote except for Mitch Henderson, who didn't like it any more than Mark does, and is clearly trying not to laugh, aware that his words are being transmitted all over the world. The next scene is Teddy profusely apologizing to the President for Mark's vulgar outburst. Either Mark remembers to censor himself in future shots or NASA added a filter just in case.
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The Martian / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
The Martian / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: After Mark declares himself a Space Pirate he asks to be called "Captain Blondbeard". After hearing this, Kapoor immediately thinks of the same maritime laws as Mark.
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The Martian / int_324385bb	type	We Have to Get the Bullet Out!
The Martian / int_324385bb	comment	We Have to Get the Bullet Out!: After he wakes up, Watney frantically removes a piece of the communications antenna from his abdomen. The importance of removing the foreign object is second only to getting breathable air. In this instance, it's probably justifiable because the antenna breached his EVA suit, which he can't get off as long as it's stuck there, and any medical help besides himself is literally over a million miles away.
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The Martian / int_325ef3ab	type	Incredibly Obvious Bomb
The Martian / int_325ef3ab	comment	Incredibly Obvious Bomb: Unlike in the novel where it's just a glass beaker with a wire going into it, secured by duct tape, the bomb constructed by Vogel flashes and beeps after it's plugged into a USB port, and attaches to the airlock door with a clunk like a magnetized limpet mine.
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The Martian / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Martian / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Commander Lewis didn't just have a huge collection of 70s Disco music; she had an equally huge collection of 1970s television shows, and Mark fills his logs with all the Fridge Logic he notices. This was removed because getting the additional licensing for television shows in addition to the music would have added millions to the cost of the movie. They must have paid a fortune for the few seconds of Happy Days they showed.
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The Martian / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
The Martian / int_35a858b3	comment	When NASA informs Watney that the Ares crew has not yet been told he is still alive. He is furious and responds with a Cluster F-Bomb. The movie keeps its PG-13 rating through clever editing like switching to an exterior shot of Watney through the window clearly mouthing "What the F...?" without sound or by having a technician reading Mark's written response but substituting the phrase "F-word" several times. (Strangely enough, the closed captions come right out with this pair of "WtF"s even though they're not audible.) After Vincent asks him to watch his language, he angrily adds a new response and while the content is never shared with the audience we see NASA employees' reaction to his message and the next scene has Teddy apologizing to the President.
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The Martian / int_35f4e52b	type	In-Universe Soundtrack
The Martian / int_35f4e52b	comment	In-Universe Soundtrack: The only music Mark Watney can find to listen to is a collection of disco music files on Commander Lewis's laptop computer. He uploads the music to his rover's onboard computer and listens to it throughout the film even as he complains about it. Highlights include "Hot Stuff" by Donna Summer and "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor.
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The Martian / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
The Martian / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Very much on the idealism side. Everyone in this movie who isn't Watney is either trying to help Watney, or following his progress and rooting for him. No villains, no self-serving politics, no ulterior motives, just intelligent people racing against time to save a man's life. Even when disagreements occur, they're honest ones; two people who both firmly believe they are doing the right thing, but disagree about what the right thing is. Watney himself maintains an upbeat optimistic outlook in all but the worst situations, and his personal philosophy regarding life-or-death situations basically boils down to "You either accept you're going to die, or you start working. Solve one problem, solve another one, and if you solve enough problems you'll survive".
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The Martian / int_37d2818	type	Title In
The Martian / int_37d2818	comment	Title In: Locations and characters are named via on-screen text.
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The Martian / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Martian / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Sean Bean takes part in a secret meeting named for the Council of Elrond from The Lord of the Rings, which had a film adaptation... in which Sean Bean played Boromir... who takes part in the Council of Elrond. Bonus points in that he's the first to explain the significance of "Project Elrond" to Annie Montrose who is completely lost by the reference. A brief one where Sebastian Stan's character compares something to "jumping on a moving train". His character Bucky Barnes did just that in Captain America: The First Avenger... not that that ended well for him.
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The Martian / int_3c7022ce	type	Mundane Solution
The Martian / int_3c7022ce	comment	Mundane Solution: As Mark is modifying the Rover for his journey to the MAV, he notes how the smartest minds available to NASA are all working to help him, and the plan they've come up with boils down to "drill holes in the roof and hit it with a rock."
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The Martian / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
The Martian / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: Played for laughs. Mark decides that instead of being concerned that he's kept warm by a decaying radioactive isotope behind him, his biggest problem is that "the least disco song" Lewis owns is Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff", which he plays on the way back to the Hab.
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The Martian / int_3d897748	type	Do Not Go Gentle
The Martian / int_3d897748	comment	Do Not Go Gentle: Mark's first few days after being abandoned are filled with depression. He lists all the technical failures that could kill him, he packs up the belongings of all his teammates, and sits moodily in the shadows while a dust storm rages outside. Then he decides "I'm not going to die here" and from that moment on, Watney never gives up and this is what he urges the astronaut trainees at the end of the movie, when they too are facing 'certain' death.
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The Martian / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
The Martian / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: Lampshaded, by himself.
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The Martian / int_417c78f5	type	Robinsonade
The Martian / int_417c78f5	comment	Robinsonade: It's a person "shipwrecked" to fend for himself.
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The Martian / int_42839f8b	type	Sound-Effect Bleep
The Martian / int_42839f8b	comment	Sound-Effect Bleep: When Watney learns that his crew hasn't been informed that he wasn't killed outright in the disaster that forced them to leave Mars, the scene's vantage point switches to the exterior of the Mars rover where he conducts his communications with Earth, looking at him through the clear canopy of the rover. Thus, we clearly see, but don't actually hear, his reaction of "What the fuck? What the fuck?"
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The Martian / int_42d7e928	type	Meanwhile, in the Futureâ€¦
The Martian / int_42d7e928	comment	Meanwhile, in the Future…: When Mark is being rescued at the climax of the movie, the scene cuts back and forth between the events happening at Mars and various reactions from those listening in on Earth, despite the fact that it was expressly stated that Mars was 12 light minutes away, so the "live" reactions are happening 12 minutes after the Mars scenes.
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The Martian / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
The Martian / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Mitch Henderson sent Rich Purnell's calculations to the Hermes crew behind Sanders' back, and the crew voted to go against NASA orders to use those calculations to take the Hermes back to Mars to rescue Watney, all knowing they would face court-martial or being banned from the space program as a result. In the "Refocused" extra, it's made explicit that Mitch Henderson becomes the sole fall guy for the whole end-run around NASA — explaining why Martinez is piloting for Ares V — but it hasn't hurt him too badly; he moves into private consultancy and, although he and Teddy are more than willing to hurl insults at each other, they meet a few times a year to play golf together. Depending on who you believe, either Teddy really sucks at golf, or Mitch cheats.
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The Martian / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
The Martian / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: When Mark returns to the HAB after the initial accident her strips off his shirt to check is wound. He's banged up and looks like death warmed over after being abandoned, but viewers get to see Matt Damon's bare chest. It occurs again towards the end, but now to show how malnourished he is after trying to stretch his rations.
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The Martian / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
The Martian / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: As the trip to the Schiaparelli Crater takes weeks, Mark's hair grows longer and he grows a shaggy beard. Just before he suits up in the space suit to take off, he cuts his hair short again and shaves the beard off.
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The Martian / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Martian / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: All of the shots of Mars's landscape are this. The space scenes also qualify.
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The Martian / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The Martian / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In the novel, Watney notes that if this were a movie, the entire crew would be at the airlock to greet him. Which is exactly what happens in the movie. In the book, they are all still at their posts.)
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The Martian / int_4ae4e6e1	type	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure
The Martian / int_4ae4e6e1	comment	Popcultural Osmosis Failure: Rich Purnell's proposed Spaceship Slingshot Stunt is named Project Elrond, a reference Montrose, the PR person, doesn't get because she is the only one in the room who's not a trained scientist. Everyone else gets the reference immediately - even the Director of NASA. In the movie she expresses her feelings towards the nerdy scientists by half-jokingly saying "I hate you all." In the book she's more direct, saying "None of you got laid in high school, did you?"note This is a joke from Friends, which has made it into the zeitgeist; Tolkien fans are shy or unattractive white male virgins. The '60s and '70s Tolkien fan stereotype was an idealistic New-Age Retro Hippie (any gender); free love was taken for granted.
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The Martian / int_4dd42a04	type	Self-Surgery
The Martian / int_4dd42a04	comment	Self-Surgery: Mark gets a piece of steel antenna guyline lodged in his abdomen during the windstorm that caused the mission to abort. The rest of the crew was headed back to Earth, believing him to have been lost and killed in the storm. He removes the shrapnel himself and then staples the wound closed. Mark had to re-staple at least once, as one scene from the POV of a hab camera has him stating in exasperation to the camera that an exertion during an EVA caused a staple to pop.
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The Martian / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
The Martian / int_4ef92d0b	comment	In the book Beck is the one to retrieve Mark, and the "Iron Man" maneuver is discussed but dropped as being too dangerous. The Hermes is able to approach the MAV within tether length, so Beck and Watney are always safely tethered and the Iron Man maneuver is unnecessary. In the movie the closest approach is outside of tether length, thus Lewis overrides Beck and goes out to rescue Watney herself, fitting her role as The Atoner for leaving him behind in the first place. When the tether falls short, Lewis prepares to do an untethered spacewalk to close the gap when Mark invokes the Iron Man maneuver instead. Fortunately, Lewis had not yet unhooked as the tether line plays a major role in catching Mark and bringing him in safely.
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The Martian / int_4f3c14ca	type	Go Mad from the Isolation
The Martian / int_4f3c14ca	comment	Go Mad from the Isolation: Averted; though people back on Earth wonder a lot about how he's coping psychologically, Watney's natural jokey manner and determination, plus communication with Earth, helps avert the trope.
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The Martian / int_4fb78f0c	type	Scotty Time
The Martian / int_4fb78f0c	comment	Scotty Time: According to JPL, assembling a probe to resupply Mark Watney will take six months; Houston's immediate response is to tell them to do it in three. Immediately lampshaded by Teddy Sanders predicting the course of the conversation to follow; justified because Watney's limited food supply is a deadline that can't be extended. Subverted when the time pressures get bad enough that NASA has to skip inspections to launch on time... and the probe is destroyed during launch.
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The Martian / int_5036c7d4	type	Time-Passage Beard
The Martian / int_5036c7d4	comment	Time-Passage Beard: Mark grows a scraggly beard after a seven-month Time Skip. He shaves it off before taking off though.
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The Martian / int_51e0938e	type	Picture-Perfect Presentation
The Martian / int_51e0938e	comment	Picture-Perfect Presentation: Used twice. Early on, Teddy Sander's speech to the public about Watney's death transitions from a TV screen into the press room. Towards the end, an aerial photograph of Mars's surface on a monitor in NASA's control room dissolves into a bird's eye view on site.
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The Martian / int_527fbbe6	type	Latex Space Suit
The Martian / int_527fbbe6	comment	Latex Space Suit: The Martian EVA suits are made of a strong, Kevlar-like material. Aside from the fishbowl helmet and some equipment on their back, they are skintight albeit padded out with an insulated jumpsuit underneath. On the other hand, the vacuum EVA suits are very similar to NASA's current EMU suits — big, bulky, and uncomfortable two-piece hardsuits. However, the skintight space suits are Justified, as this takes place in the future where space traveling has advanced to the point of humans making multiple trips to Mars. It's entirely possible that less clunky astronaut suits could have developed along with that.
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The Martian / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Martian / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The movie opens with a shot of Mars from space, and ends with a similar shot of Earth from orbit.
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The Martian / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
The Martian / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: Jessica Chastain as Commander Lewis. Lewis' attractiveness in the book isn't explicitly stated, but it's pointed out that Beth Johanssen is the "looker" of the Ares III crew, implying that Lewis is of at best average attractiveness. Some have pointed out that the actresses were more "emaciated" than real astronauts should be, that they would have done better to cast actresses who were built like the real thing. Still, Dr. Johanssen is specifically described in the book as young and beautiful, so Kate Mara is not miscast. Mark himself is described as somewhat short and nerdy-looking in the books, and says he doesn’t get a lot of female attention. It’s hard to imagine how that applies to Matt Damon.
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The Martian / int_5663a595	type	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole
The Martian / int_5663a595	comment	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: The plot of the book is very consistent so when the movie starts to cut some stuff, it inevitably introduced some plot holes. Notable examples are: After Mark sends a goofy picture of himself to NASA when they ask for a publicity shot, Annie complains she can't use it and needed a picture with his face, to which Kapoor responds that can't be done because Mark can't take off his helmet outside. In the book, this made sense because of the helmet's tinted sun visor, but in the film Mark frequently has the sun visor pushed back and his face is clearly visible in the sent photo. The map of Mars that Vincent and Mindy use is wrong. While it does show where Pathfinder is, the hab is a ways away to the north-east (otherwise the drive would've taken hours, not days). The whole space pirate joke worked in the book because he was out of communication with Earth due to the probe breaking down. In the film, Mark still was in communication with Earth and thus could receive permission to take the MAV, thus his using it was not piracy.
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The Martian / int_582f5a70	type	This Is the Part Where...
The Martian / int_582f5a70	comment	This Is the Part Where...: Teddy Sanders anticipates Ng's response to his Scotty Time demand.
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The Martian / int_583ec33e	type	Snark-to-Snark Combat
The Martian / int_583ec33e	comment	Snark-to-Snark Combat: The movie starts out with this, with Mark reporting on the soil he's collecting and Martinez snarking that Mark had "found dirt", then Watney counters with Martinez's job of just making sure visually that the MAV is standing up.
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The Martian / int_598b59a4	type	Everything Is an iPod in the Future
The Martian / int_598b59a4	comment	Everything Is an iPod in the Future: NASA's tech, as seen on the Hermes and Hab, is mostly white and modern, and the interfaces we see are slick and graphical.
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The Martian / int_5a852047	type	Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification
The Martian / int_5a852047	comment	Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification: Although certain details and minor plot points of the novel were adjusted or dropped to fit the medium of film, a good deal of effort was made to keep the overall narrative close to its source material in tone and themes.
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The Martian / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
The Martian / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: It's implied that Beck feels responsible for Mark's situation, being the one who said he was dead and that they should leave him. When they hear that Mark is alive, Beck looks horrified. Lewis is hit particularly hard with the news of Watney's survival, as she's the mission commander and gave the official order to take off while he was presumed dead. She insists on holding herself responsible despite Beck trying to share the blame.
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The Martian / int_5b12f598	type	Million to One Chance
The Martian / int_5b12f598	comment	Million to One Chance: Downplayed. To meet their launch window, NASA takes the calculated risk of skipping the pre-flight tests and inspections on the Iris probe because past experience shows that they only reveal problems 1 in 20 times. Unfortunately, probability was a harsh mistress. Justified in that the engineers were forced to stick to a brutally short timeframe, making mistakes almost inevitable.
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The Martian / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Martian / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The months-long overland journey from the Hab to Schiaparelli Crater (and all its associated hardships) was cut almost entirely to save on time.
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The Martian / int_62011b2f	type	Centrifugal Gravity
The Martian / int_62011b2f	comment	Centrifugal Gravity: The Hermes has a spinning section, providing artificial gravity for the crew on their long journey.
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The Martian / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
The Martian / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: The bomb that is used to breach the VAL is wired to a lighting panel. When the bomb is triggered, the screen immediately flashes "Malfunction".
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The Martian / int_655aa5ff	type	Broken Faceplate
The Martian / int_655aa5ff	comment	Broken Faceplate: Mark's helmet visor gets cracked; he has to try to hold it together with duct tape until he can swap it for one of the Hab's extra helmets.
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The Martian / int_67dfa28	type	Planning with Props
The Martian / int_67dfa28	comment	Planning with Props: Rich Purnell explains his plan for rescuing Mark using a stapler as the Hermes spacecraft, a pen as the supply shuttle, and two high-ranking NASA officials as Earth and Mars. During the run-up to the last phase of the rescue, Commander Lewis goes over the details one last time using salt and pepper shakers to represent Mark and the Hermes spacecraft.
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The Martian / int_6cce8078	type	Recognition Failure
The Martian / int_6cce8078	comment	Recognition Failure: Poor Rich just isn't great with people.
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The Martian / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
The Martian / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: As in the book, Beck and Johanssen strike up a romance over the course of the mission. The Where Are They Now credits show them as brand-new parents still in the delivery ward as they watch the Ares-5 astronauts take off. A deleted scene shows that Commander Lewis was fully aware of the (against regulations) relationship, but allowed it to continue due to the mission's extraordinary circumstances.
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The Martian / int_71329e49	type	Turn in Your Badge
The Martian / int_71329e49	comment	Turn in Your Badge: Sean Bean's character is asked to resign after the mission because he overstepped his authority by leaking information to the Hermes crew which allowed them to choose a course of action in direct violation of NASA's official orders.
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The Martian / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
The Martian / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: The film ends with an epilogue showing the launch of Ares 5 after Mark had successfully returned to Earth. Martinez is shown piloting the mission. Mark would never again go into space, although his new job at NASA is training new recruits in survival techniques that no doubt will be invaluable in future emergencies.
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The Martian / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Martian / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Bring him home."
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The Martian / int_75159534	type	CoolSpaceShip
The Martian / int_75159534	comment	Cool Spaceship: The Ares spacecraft Hermes is stunningly beautiful.
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The Martian / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
The Martian / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Played for Laughs when Vincent, Mitch and Bruce are discussing what Watney will have to remove from the MAV in order to reduce weight so it will actually get into space. When Vincent starts balking at Bruce's recommendation to remove all the backup comms, Mitch gives a sad chuckle saying "He's not even got to the bad stuff yet, Vincent". Bruce then explains how Watney will essentially need to remove the front of the ship and replace it with a tarp.
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The Martian / int_794f3589	type	Adaptation Explanation Extrication
The Martian / int_794f3589	comment	Adaptation Explanation Extrication: Due to the limits of the medium, it is just not possible to explain the specifics of everything Mark or NASA cooks up in detail the way the book does. One prominent instance is that the film has an extended montage of NASA testing and Mark implementing a modification to the Rover that involves replacing part of its roof with a balloon of Hab canvas, but completely omits the explanation of why this modification is necessary (and in fact, since the Rover is very different from the book description, the modification seems pointless anyway)
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The Martian / int_7b4cbce1	type	Headbutt of Love
The Martian / int_7b4cbce1	comment	When Beck suits up and goes out to grab the resupply probe, he touches his face-plate and waves to Johanssen nearby in the Hermes, who tenderly touches the window in response. Later Johanssen gives Beck a Headbutt of Love, then kisses his EVA helmet.
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The Martian / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
The Martian / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: At one point, Mark mentions Iron Man. Assuming that the world of The Martian contains the MCU and not just Marvel comic books, then he's completely failed to notice that Beck and Martinez look a lot like characters from Marvel films. Johanssen, the team's tech, was both The Invisible Woman and had a cameo in Iron Man 2. It's not clear if he's ever met Kapoor, but he'd be surprised as the resemblance to someone from Doctor Strange (2016). Furthermore, one of the Asgardian actors in Thor: Ragnarok looks suspiciously like Mark himself. Sean Bean attended the Council of Elrond in two different movies. See Actor Allusion, above.
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The Martian / int_7c42a8ac	type	Captain Colorbeard
The Martian / int_7c42a8ac	comment	Captain Colorbeard: After deciding that he's a pirate, Mark insists that the ground crew address him as "Captain Blondbeard."
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The Martian / int_7d10c8a5	type	Skip the Anesthetic
The Martian / int_7d10c8a5	comment	Skip the Anesthetic: Played with — Mark injects himself immediately before Self-Surgery to pull that chunk of metal out of his abdomen, but it's clear from Matt Damon's portrayal that either it wasn't a local anesthetic, Mark didn't wait long enough for it to kick in, or the shock and pain of his situation and other injuries hurt just as bad.
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The Martian / int_7d4a47d1	type	Let Us Never Speak of This Again
The Martian / int_7d4a47d1	comment	Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Johanssen kisses Beck's helmet just before he goes EVA near the end of the film, then tells him not to tell anyone.
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The Martian / int_7d97ab06	type	Space Is an Ocean
The Martian / int_7d97ab06	comment	Space Is an Ocean: Technically Mars is under maritime laws; Mark uses some questionable logic to declare himself a Space Pirate.
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The Martian / int_7e07f634	type	Paranoia Fuel
The Martian / int_7e07f634	comment	Paranoia Fuel: In-universe. After the airlock blows up and Mark has to cover it using a spare canvas and duct tape, a storm arrives that night. The sound of the canvas blowing from the winds understandably drives Mark, who is not wearing an EVA suit to protect him if it rips and causes another explosive decompression, to the edge. And he has to live like this for over a year.
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The Martian / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Martian / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: After waking up on Mars and realizing exactly what has happened, Mark gets up, calmly makes his way back to the Hab despite being in great pain, performs emergency surgery on himself (with only local anesthetic) to remove the embedded piece of the communications antenna that struck him and then, only after he's finally more or less stabilized, does he react to being stranded on Mars not with a panic attack but with a single, totally appropriate f-bomb.
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The Martian / int_86a00a8e	type	If My Calculations Are Correct
The Martian / int_86a00a8e	comment	If My Calculations Are Correct: "The math checks out" or "we ran the numbers" tends to be the shortcut phrase to justify that some of the more complicated astrophysics navigation maneuvers will work.
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The Martian / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Martian / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Several times by Watney, given both his sense of humor and need to keep his own morale up. (immediately after listing all the things that can potentially kill him) "I'm not gonna die." "Mars will come to fear my botany powers." "[...] I've colonized Mars. In your face, Neil Armstrong." "Mark Watney. Space Pirate."
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The Martian / int_86bbf6b5	type	Newscaster Cameo
The Martian / int_86bbf6b5	comment	Newscaster Cameo: Several real-life news agencies, including CNN, BBC, and CNA, report on the events of the film. We even see Jeff Daniels in a press-related role.
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The Martian / int_8aae7db4	type	Disco Sucks
The Martian / int_8aae7db4	comment	Disco Sucks: Astronaut Mark Watney thinks this of his commander's music collection, being stranded on Mars with nothing else to listen to.
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The Martian / int_8f9f71a8	type	Crazy Enough to Work
The Martian / int_8f9f71a8	comment	Crazy Enough to Work: Generally subverted throughout the movie as Watney, NASA and the Hermes crew use sound scientific principles to try to make the best decisions possible based upon the limitations of the scenarios they face. The one crazy idea that does fit is Watney's decision to deliberately puncture his suit while in orbit and "fly like Iron Man" which requires a generous helping of Artistic License to pull off successfully.
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The Martian / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The Martian / int_958a7bef	comment	Layman's Terms: Johanssen gives an elaborate technical explanation on how to prevent remote override from Mission Control, upon which Martinez demands a translation into English.
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The Martian / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
The Martian / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: During the "Council of Elrond" scene the normally uptight Teddy Sanders insists that if they're going to make The Lord of the Rings references, he be given the codename "Glorfindel".note In the book (but not in the film), Glorfindel was an elf-lord who found the fellowship as they approached Rivendell and put Frodo on his own horse so he could ride ahead of the Ringwraiths and cross into Rivendell safely. He also died during the First Age fighting balrogs after the Fall of Gondolin, was allowed for his heroic deeds to reincarnate very quickly, and came back to Middle-Earth during the Second Age to fight evil more- while (most) elves eventually reincarnate in Valinor, Glorfindel is the only elf known in Tolkien's legendarium to go back to Middle-Earth. Teddy's choice of Glorfindel proves he not only read the trilogy, but likely also the Silmarilion.
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The Martian / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
The Martian / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Pops up here and there. Characters often explain to other characters things that astronauts and NASA administrators should already be well aware of. For example, in the storm at the beginning, the characters ask questions about the procedure on when to scrub the mission that should have been well-drilled into these people before leaving Earth.
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The Martian / int_9940aa1b	type	Time Lapse
The Martian / int_9940aa1b	comment	Time Lapse: Used subtly to show the soil getting moister from the outer edges to the center after Mark figures out how to make water in the Hab.
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The Martian / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Martian / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In the promo film "The Right Stuff", when the NASA psychologist asks Johansen to give her impressions on the crew, she comments that Watney is "everyone's favorite". This foreshadows the scene in the movie where the crew vote unanimously to go back to Mars to bring Watney home.
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The Martian / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
The Martian / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "You... have... terrible taste... in music!"
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The Martian / int_9e447c8c	type	Suspiciously Apropos Music
The Martian / int_9e447c8c	comment	Suspiciously Apropos Music: At several parts, Commander Lewis's disco tracks match Mark's current situation. Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" plays when Mark has dug up the plutonium RTG to use as a source of heat inside the rover cabin instead of the rover's own battery-guzzling heater. Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" plays over the credits. David Bowie's "Starman" plays when Earth and the Hermes mobilize their main effort to go rescue Watney. The line: "There's a starman waiting in the sky" is truly appropriate. Thelma Houston's "Don't Leave Me This Way" plays when Mark explains and demonstrates the misery of stretching out his already rationed food.
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The Martian / int_9f62723d	type	Get Out!
The Martian / int_9f62723d	comment	Get Out!: Played for Laughs after Rich Purnell explains his plan to save Mark Watney, which involves props, spaceship noises, and stealing Teddy's pen. Teddy flatly tells him "Rich. Get out." to preserve what little dignity he has left at this point.
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The Martian / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Martian / int_a1b141f4	comment	It's implied that Beck feels responsible for Mark's situation, being the one who said he was dead and that they should leave him. When they hear that Mark is alive, Beck looks horrified.
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The Martian / int_a3d85e14	type	Genius Thriller
The Martian / int_a3d85e14	comment	Genius Thriller: For Mark Watney, there is No Antagonist other than Mars' unrelentingly brutal nature, just waiting for him to screw up and die. Watney has to do whatever he can with just his knowledge and what supplies are on the habitation dome to survive.
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The Martian / int_a4916876	type	Blown Across the Room
The Martian / int_a4916876	comment	Blown Across the Room: Mark, after he gets the oxygen/hydrogen mix wrong at his water factory. He immediately makes a video log saying as much in a dry, matter-of-fact manner, while his clothes and hair are still smoldering. The next time he tries it, he's in a jury-rigged bomb suit which also serves the purpose of keeping his breath from affecting the process (he suspects his exuberant yelling over his success caused the blast).
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The Martian / int_a5f0752f	type	Rule of Drama
The Martian / int_a5f0752f	comment	Rule of Drama: In the book Beck is the one to retrieve Mark, and the "Iron Man" maneuver is discussed but dropped as being too dangerous. The Hermes is able to approach the MAV within tether length, so Beck and Watney are always safely tethered and the Iron Man maneuver is unnecessary. In the movie the closest approach is outside of tether length, thus Lewis overrides Beck and goes out to rescue Watney herself, fitting her role as The Atoner for leaving him behind in the first place. When the tether falls short, Lewis prepares to do an untethered spacewalk to close the gap when Mark invokes the Iron Man maneuver instead. Fortunately, Lewis had not yet unhooked as the tether line plays a major role in catching Mark and bringing him in safely. The script's mostly faithful to the actual dialogue spoken by the characters in the book, with one notable exception being Johannsen happily announcing to Houston the successful rescue of Watney. In the novel, Commander Lewis simply informs Houston the success of their mission with the protocol phrasing, stating all six crew has been accounted for.
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The Martian / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
The Martian / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Before they discover he's alive, NASA officials discuss getting funding from Congress for another mission. Vincent Kapoor suggests that if they pitch bringing back Watney's body as one of the mission objectives, they might get a more sympathetic response.
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The Martian / int_a67b8999	type	Extreme Graphical Representation
The Martian / int_a67b8999	comment	Extreme Graphical Representation: NASA's huge control room display.
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The Martian / int_a74d419a	type	Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway
The Martian / int_a74d419a	comment	Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway: In order to meet their launch window when the resupply probe took longer to prepare than estimated, NASA takes a calculated risk to skip the pre-flight inspections to allow the probe to launch on time. Sadly, the rocket explodes shortly after lift-off due to the rations unbalancing the launch vehicle. In a bitter irony, it's indicated that they would have identified this situation in the inspection stage.
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The Martian / int_a8556a04	type	Video Credits
The Martian / int_a8556a04	comment	Video Credits: During the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue, every character is accompanied by their actor's name.
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The Martian / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
The Martian / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Lampshaded.
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The Martian / int_ab3c178e	type	Never Give the Captain a Straight Answer
The Martian / int_ab3c178e	comment	Never Give the Captain a Straight Answer: When his boss asks Rich Purnell what his "Eureka!" Moment was all about, the latter doesn't answer but goes straight to his desk to work on his sudden insight which annoys his boss completely. Averted in the opening sequence. Johanssen starts by playing it straight, telling Lewis there's something in the Hab she should see. After Lewis asks what it is, however, Johanssen immediately starts filling her in on the oncoming storm, without waiting for her to come inside.
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The Martian / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
The Martian / int_aca32000	comment	Armor-Piercing Response: After discovering Watney is still alive, NASA immediately starts putting together plans to prepare a resupply probe with the near-impossible goal of three months. Teddy makes the stakes very clear.
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The Martian / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Martian / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Mark is a botanist. Comes in very handy when he becomes stranded and realizes he will need to grow food in order to live long enough for the next mission to come retrieve him.
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The Martian / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Martian / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Mindy Park, when she looks at the satellite imagery and realizes Mark Watney is still alive, stares at the screen in utter horror for a moment.
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The Martian / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
The Martian / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: The Chinese scientists have a classified booster that could give NASA one last chance to save Watney after the Iris explodes. They discuss the fact that if they choose not to help, no-one would ever know they could have helped and didn't. They immediately move to a discussion of how they're going to do it, showing they barely had to think about choosing to help, and they do so in a manner that forces the politicians both in the USA and China to get dragged along behind the scientific collaboration.
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The Martian / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The Martian / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Mark proposes flying like Iron Man by puncturing his glove and using that to propel him toward the Hermes. It's rejected as a plan, but when he does it anyway, he is promptly blasted backward against the wall. He then discovers controlling his flight vector is exactly as hard as he was warned about.
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The Martian / int_b39abd04	type	The Whole World Is Watching
The Martian / int_b39abd04	comment	The Whole World Is Watching: As the Hermes prepares to rendezvous with Watney after he was stranded on Mars for nearly four years, crowds are shown gathering in Times Square in New York, Trafalgar Square in London and in Beijing to follow updates on the mission. And the entire world cheers when word comes that Watney has been safely recovered.
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The Martian / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
The Martian / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: Justified, to tragic effect. The Iris resupply probe takes longer to prepare than estimated so to meet their launch window, NASA takes the calculated risk to skip the pre-flight tests and inspections. Unfortunately, things go wrong when the protein packs liquefy from the g-forces and create an unbalanced load, causing the rocket to wobble and break up from the stress. As a bitter irony, it's indicated that they would have identified this situation in the inspection stage.
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The Martian / int_b6e1d40b	type	Acceptable Breaks from Reality
The Martian / int_b6e1d40b	comment	The Martian atmosphere is so thin that it could never displace multi-ton objects like the launch vehicle depicted in the film. Even with heavy storms as depicted in the movie, it would at most feel like a breeze (author Andy Weir has admitted that he knew this when he wrote the scene, but needed it that way in order to strand Watney). It is estimated that for Martian winds to have the same force as category 5 hurricane winds on Earth, that wind would need to be somehow traveling at a speed of 40,000 km/h, or 41 times the Martian speed of sound.
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The Martian / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Martian / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Watney complains about Mission Control trying to get him excited about their insane plan to launch him into orbit in a completely stripped-down MAV by saying he'll go faster than anyone in the history of space travel. Then he admits it actually sounds pretty cool. But he's not going to tell them that.
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The Martian / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
The Martian / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Watney is teaching new astronauts at NASA, Lewis is reunited with her husband, Vogel is living with his family, Beck and Johanssen have a baby, and Mitch is teaching kids golf. Meanwhile, the rest of the eggheads at NASA can enjoy another launch to Mars (with Martinez aboard), the Chinese space agency can enjoy a Chinese taikonaut going to Mars, and everyone (Teddy, Kapoor, Park, etc.) can rest easy as mankind continues its expedition to the stars.
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The Martian / int_b78b8584	type	Hope Sprouts Eternal
The Martian / int_b78b8584	comment	Hope Sprouts Eternal: The sprouting of Watney's first potato plant is presented this way; he even greets it with obvious joy. Later Subverted when an explosive decompression of the Habitat kills off all his potatoes, with no means of growing more. At the end of the film, when back on Earth, he sees another plant sprouting through the gravel at his feet and greets it just like he did the first.
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The Martian / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
The Martian / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: Of The Martian, by Andy Weir.
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The Martian / int_ba0ff694	type	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
The Martian / int_ba0ff694	comment	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: The PR woman's response to the news that Watney is alive but abandoned, and Watney's response to the plan for stripping the MAV.
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The Martian / int_bb44af57	type	Robot Dog
The Martian / int_bb44af57	comment	Robot Dog: After using the Pathfinder lander to contact the Earth, Watney keeps the accompanying Sojourner rover as a pet.
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The Martian / int_bb96aefb	type	All Gravity Is the Same
The Martian / int_bb96aefb	comment	All Gravity Is the Same: The film doesn't even try to simulate Martian gravity, which means Mark is moving around like he was on Earth. The novel was better about this, since Andy Weir didn't have to worry about an effects budget.
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The Martian / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Martian / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Zig-zagged. In the original novel, most characters swear like sailors. In the movie adaptation, to preserve the tone of the novel but still keep a PG-13 rating required judicious use of actual f-bombs as well clever editing to shield Cluster F Bombs and other swearing while still keeping the strong emotional core. Two f-bombs are delivered directly without editing from Watney. note Even though PG-13 only allows for one f-bomb, the MPAA did a special vote to allow the second use because it was judged that the context in which the word was used was appropriate for the story. First is right after his self-surgery to remove the antenna. He sits there as the full weight of his situation hits him and yells "Fuck!" Later, after he decides he's not going to die on Mars and starts moving in dirt for his potato farm, he rests from his efforts for a moment and calmly states, "Fuck you, Mars." When NASA informs Watney that the Ares crew has not yet been told he is still alive. He is furious and responds with a Cluster F-Bomb. The movie keeps its PG-13 rating through clever editing like switching to an exterior shot of Watney through the window clearly mouthing "What the F...?" without sound or by having a technician reading Mark's written response but substituting the phrase "F-word" several times. (Strangely enough, the closed captions come right out with this pair of "WtF"s even though they're not audible.) After Vincent asks him to watch his language, he angrily adds a new response and while the content is never shared with the audience we see NASA employees' reaction to his message and the next scene has Teddy apologizing to the President. Later messages appear to have implemented a filter into the communication channel as Mark's response presented on-screen when NASA tells him to strip the Ares IV to the bare minimum in order to save weight is "Are you f- - -king kidding me?"
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The Martian / int_bdc94cd9	type	Compressed Adaptation
The Martian / int_bdc94cd9	comment	Compressed Adaptation: In the film version, there are a number of scenes cut out from the book: when Watney shorts out Pathfinder with the drill or when he runs into a dust storm on the way to Schiaparelli Crater Ares IV site or the fact that he is also a Mechanical Engineer,note Which would explain why he knows so much about engineering, as opposed to the film where no explanation is given. but their omission from the movie doesn't really change that much from the source material.
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The Martian / int_bebf0356	type	Mission Control
The Martian / int_bebf0356	comment	Mission Control: The NASA sets are simply stunning, with dizzying arrays of flashy monitors.
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The Martian / int_c2299d6e	type	Cutting the Knot
The Martian / int_c2299d6e	comment	Cutting the Knot: The directors of the CNSA go directly to the director of NASA with their offer to help. This forces the politicians on both sides to work things out, leaving the scientists and engineers on both sides to collaborate relatively unimpeded.
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The Martian / int_c2c15b23	type	Bait-and-Switch Comment
The Martian / int_c2c15b23	comment	Bait-and-Switch Comment: Mark's line "I'm definitely gonna die up here... if I have to listen to any more god-awful disco music."
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The Martian / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Martian / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: When the team discusses aborting in the face of the incoming storm, it's Whatney who says, "Let's wait it out." He even says it twice. If he'd only known how long he would be "waiting it out"...
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The Martian / int_c3ae004a	type	Re-Cut
The Martian / int_c3ae004a	comment	Re-Cut: Scott has confirmed that there will be an extended version on video, by about 15 to 20 minutes longer.
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The Martian / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Martian / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: The Iris launch is tense, and has a successful liftoff. Then the troubles begin...
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The Martian / int_c5193552	type	Mocking Music
The Martian / int_c5193552	comment	Mocking Music: The Captain's Disco music library appears in astonishingly appropriate situations. From Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" when Watney is toting the RTG, to ABBA's "Waterloo" as he prepares for the "convertible" stunt. And since Watney is the one playing the music, it borders on Self-Deprecation at times.
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The Martian / int_c57a6051	type	If I Do Not Return
The Martian / int_c57a6051	comment	If I Do Not Return: When several misfortunes make it seem all but certain Watney will die on Mars, he never gives up, but does want to prepare for every possible outcome. As such, he asks Lewis to tell his parents that he's proud of what he's done and believes he died for something greater than himself.
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The Martian / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
The Martian / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: You're not shown what Mark says to Mission Control after being told to watch his language (because their conversation is being broadcast globally), but it's evidently a humdinger. In the Extended Editions, it's revealed that he called the President a "bureaucratic felcher".
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The Martian / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
The Martian / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: The first time we see Watney shirtless is while trying to plug the wound he got from the antenna. He's also bleeding quite a bit. After around 500 sols, we see Watney exit a shower naked — his body is obviously malnourished and covered in bruise-colored swatches. Toward the end of the film, there are several close-up shots of Watney's face showing how his teeth have considerably yellowed and decayed and his skin has grown wasted and sunken.
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The Martian / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Martian / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: One of the TV spots shows Mars with Jimi Hendrix's "All Along The Watchtower" playing in the background. The Hermes spacecraft has a triple-dish like the Discovery One from 2001: A Space Odyssey. What's the first photo NASA gets from Watney? Him striking a Fonz pose. A NASA meeting is named after a The Lord of the Rings character in reference to the meeting where they discussed what to do with the ring, made funnier by the fact that Boromir is part of it. Watney wants to be Iron Man; made even funnier since some of his crew members have been in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the "Right Stuff" promotional short, Watney asks the NASA-appointed psychiatrist "How did Aquaman talk to whales?" Unsurprisingly, the EVA suits look similar to the suits worn by the crew of the USCSS Prometheus. One of the programs Mark finds on Johanssen's computer is a copy of Leather Goddesses of Phobos.
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The Martian / int_c83751cb	type	Description Cut
The Martian / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: Vincent Kapoor muses about what could be going through Watney's head when the man is stranded all alone on a distant planet with little hope of survival, and it cuts to Mark drying himself off, listening to "Turn the Beat Around".
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The Martian / int_c9c313ed	type	LastMinuteHookUp
The Martian / int_c9c313ed	comment	Last Minute Hook Up: Beck and Johanssen share a sort-of kiss right near the end. In the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue, they're welcoming a new baby. In a scene that was deleted from the movie, it's confirmed that Beck and Johanssen had hooked up shortly after the Hermes began its return to Mars, and that Lewis knew about it and grudgingly accepted their sleeping together. This scene is taken from the book.
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The Martian / int_cbf5c04	type	Insult of Endearment
The Martian / int_cbf5c04	comment	Insult of Endearment: Nearly every line of dialogue between Watney and the Ares crew is an affectionate verbal barb.
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The Martian / int_cd2b8aa3	type	Space Is Noisy
The Martian / int_cd2b8aa3	comment	Space Is Noisy: A few examples, including the low rumble of the Hermes can be heard as it passes by as well as the sound of atmosphere escaping from Mark Watney's suit after he pokes a hole in it to use it as an improvised thruster in the climax. Justified in that most incidents take place on Mars which, while thin, has an atmosphere and would allow for sound to travel.
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The Martian / int_cd30716e	type	Boring Return Journey
The Martian / int_cd30716e	comment	Boring Return Journey: The return journey of the Hermes is not shown.
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The Martian / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
The Martian / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: In comparison to Ridley Scott's other stabs at Science Fiction (Alien, Blade Runner, Prometheus), The Martian is considerably more optimistic than those other films, given its hopeful tone and very positive viewpoint of NASA. Some critics have even argued that the film is probably the lightest film he's ever done. In comparison to the book, slightly, all the characters have a few of their rough edges knocked off and are nice and a lot less sweary than the book's characters. Particularly the confrontations between Teddy and Mitch are toned down.
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The Martian / int_ceb854cb	comment	The Door Slams You: When Lewis opens the airlock door during the storm, it slams her against the wall and the airlock fills with wind-blown sand.
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The Martian / int_d01a97fb	comment	E = MC Hammer: Rich Purnell has a large blackboard in his room, full of complex equations.
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The Martian / int_d026cad8	type	Sigil Spam
The Martian / int_d026cad8	comment	Sigil Spam: The NASA logo appears everywhere, even on the soles of the EVA suits' shoes. The logo is protected under federal laws that make it illegal to use it in a way that indicates NASA's endorsement of something if no such endorsement exists. For that reason, the official logo is often replaced with a generic alternative in works of fiction (for instance, in Interstellar), a very specific form of Greeking. In the case of The Martian, NASA actually produced a number of tie-in videos (released on their TV channels and YouTube) as a way of drumming up interest in the exploration of Mars. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory logo turns up in several places as well.
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The Martian / int_d06305ff	comment	Talking with Signs: Since Watney's first contact with Earth after being left behind is video-only, he has to communicate by writing on plastic tub lids and holding them in front of the camera. After a little while, this becomes impractical — especially for receiving messages, since that more or less limits it to yes and no questions — and starts using hexadecimal instead. Eventually, enough information is exchanged to enable Mark to hack the Rover's comms software to use the Pathfinder signal, enabling Mark and NASA to forego the crude sign system entirely.
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The Martian / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
The Martian / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Rich Purnell has one in his office regarding the slingshot maneuver. Vincent Kapoor has one when watching Mark's movement on the map and realizing that he is planning to reach the Pathfinder site.
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The Martian / int_d137b509	type	Competence Porn
The Martian / int_d137b509	comment	Competence Porn: As Bob Chipman put it, "This isn't some hackneyed cautionary tale about the dangers of exploring the unknown, it's a high-stakes procedural about the awesome power of knowledge, which has placed Watney in one of the most impossible situations imaginable mainly so it can thrill us with detailed depictions of smart, dedicated people figuring out how to get him out of it."
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The Martian / int_d1b4f0ef	comment	Everybody Lives: With the exception of Mark's potatoes, there are no deaths in the film. Yes, even in a film directed by Ridley Scott, and prominently including Sean Bean, though his character does commit career suicide.
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The Martian / int_d2ef6cb4	comment	Spaceship Slingshot Stunt: The Hermes spacecraft performs a gravity assist maneuver around the Earth, then Mars — this means they can't stop to pick up either their supplies or Mark Watney, both of which must be fired into space to intercept them.
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The Martian / int_d40e1a9f	comment	Break Out the Museum Piece: The JPL team dusts off their old computers when Mission Control determines that Mark is going for the Mars Pathfinder probe and the Sojourner rover (that landed on Mars in 1997) and use it for communication.
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The Martian / int_d44ea142	type	You Are Not Alone
The Martian / int_d44ea142	comment	You Are Not Alone: The story begins with Mark stranded on Mars with no hope of survival with his comrades on Earth completely ignorant of the fact that he is alive. However, after seeing him struggle to survive totally alone, Mark's movements are noticed by NASA and once they correctly conclude the situation, everything is devoted to trying to find some way to help him. With communication made practical when Mark restarts the Pathfinder machinery, he knows that NASA is in his corner with all their knowledge and resources determined to save him.
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The Martian / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Venkat Kapoor is Indian in the book but in addition to a name change for Vincent, is now half Black and half Indian. This was presumably done for his actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, as the original actor chosen for the role, Irrfan Khan, could not participate due to previous obligations in a Bollywood film. Mindy Park also being played by Mackenzie Davis. Park's ethnicity in the book is not mentioned, though Weir stated that he had imagined her as Korean or Korean-American.
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The Martian / int_d9563969	type	Failed Attempt at Drama
The Martian / int_d9563969	comment	Failed Attempt at Drama: Watney makes a funny joke, shuts down the Hab, signs his calendar, walks into the airlock... and has to go back for his space helmet. When Watney reaches the MAV, he pulls down a Big Electric Switch to lower the ladder. Nothing happens until he brushes sand off a couple of buttons and pushes one.
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The Martian / int_db8b1727	type	Window Love
The Martian / int_db8b1727	comment	Window Love: Martinez is talking to his wife back on Earth, and presses his hand against the computer screen image when she raises her own hand. When Beck suits up and goes out to grab the resupply probe, he touches his face-plate and waves to Johanssen nearby in the Hermes, who tenderly touches the window in response. Later Johanssen gives Beck a Headbutt of Love, then kisses his EVA helmet.
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The Martian / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Martian / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: The "Our Greatest Adventure" promotional video mentions asteroids bombarding the Hermes and the exposure to cosmic radiation as potential threats to the safety of the Ares mission. This is flavor and never comes up in the film itself.
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The Martian / int_dc031fde	type	Inelegant Blubbering
The Martian / int_dc031fde	comment	Inelegant Blubbering: In the tension of the pre-launch of the MAV, Watney breaks down crying when he hears the voices of his crewmates for the first time in well over a year, knowing they've all come back to rescue him.
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The Martian / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
The Martian / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: Mark tells the crew to tell Martinez "No Barrel Rolls!" This is something that has been stated to every Boeing Airliner test pilot since the Boeing 367-80s famous roll in 1955.
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The Martian / int_e0aed924	type	No Antagonist
The Martian / int_e0aed924	comment	No Antagonist: Plot complications come from Watney's efforts to survive on Mars, and NASA's efforts to bring him back. Teddy drags his feet a bit on things, but it's due to a difference in priorities rather than morality.
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The Martian / int_e135b3de	comment	Pass the Popcorn: JPL engineer Tim smiles and pops a snack in his mouth as Vincent futilely tries to calm Mark down from his Cluster F-Bomb response after learning that his crewmates don't yet know he's alive.
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The Martian / int_e1c796e9	comment	Diegetic Switch: Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" switches from Mark's stereo in his rover to the soundtrack.
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The Martian / int_e206977a	type	In Space, Everyone Can See Your Face
The Martian / int_e206977a	comment	In Space, Everyone Can See Your Face: Every spacesuit comes with broad visors and face-floodlights. Looks cool in the darkness of the dust storm, though.
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The Martian / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
The Martian / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: The crew has to improvise heavily during the climactic maneuver to snatch Mark from orbit.
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The Martian / int_e528c7b4	type	And Mission Control Rejoiced
The Martian / int_e528c7b4	comment	And Mission Control Rejoiced: Happens multiple times over the course of the movie. Once after the supply rocket successfully takes off until it explodes. Once when the Chinese rocket successfully takes off. And, once when the Hermes crew successfully retrieve Watney.
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The Martian / int_e80cdd72	type	Almost Out of Oxygen
The Martian / int_e80cdd72	comment	Almost Out of Oxygen: The Broken Faceplate leads to a severe loss of oxygen in Mark's spacesuit. Cue Duct Tape for Everything.
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The Martian / int_ea6fdefb	comment	Casual Danger Dialog: Mark likes to have these. During the climactic knuckle-biting deadly maneuver he finds the time to rascally joke about the Iron Man suit and demanding the memorials to be all about him and not the six of them.
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The Martian / int_eac7bacb	type	Gratuitous Disco Sequence
The Martian / int_eac7bacb	comment	Gratuitous Disco Sequence: A Running Gag, as the only music left behind when the mission is abandoned is Commander Lewis's extensive collection of disco music, much to Watney's ongoing chagrin.
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The Martian / int_eb716c8c	comment	When Watney reaches the MAV, he pulls down a Big Electric Switch to lower the ladder. Nothing happens until he brushes sand off a couple of buttons and pushes one.
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The Martian / int_ed3e90f3	comment	Duct Tape for Everything: The reel of duct tape at Watney's belt is a real lifesaver. The two most prominent examples come after the explosive decompression incident that tears the airlock off the Hab. Being thrown around the airlock fractures his faceplate, and only a frantic application of tape stops him from suffocating as his oxygen is vented into the thin atmosphere. Then, since he doesn't have the means to repair the airlock, he makes the Hab airtight again with a tarp, some ratchet straps, and lots more duct tape.
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The Martian / int_f32d85ab	type	20 Minutes into the Future
The Martian / int_f32d85ab	comment	20 Minutes into the Future:According to author Andy Weir, the plot is set in the not so distant year 2035.
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The Martian / int_f33ff01c	comment	Adaptational Context Change: In the novel Mark sends Martinez an email asking him to speak to Mark's parents if he dies on Mars. The movie keeps the request but Mark asks Lewis to do it instead. In the book, Mark's "I'm the first person to be alone on an entire planet" is more of a lament that he's incredibly lonely, punctuated by the fact that he wasn't even the first person off the ARES III landing craft, and serves to show how his mind is wandering when he's not performing tasks. In the movie, the speech occurs while he's crossing Mars to get to Schiaparelli Crater, and omits the middle part, making it more of a statement of wonder about the fantastic nature of his situation.
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The Martian / int_f50c4557	type	Viewer-Friendly Interface
The Martian / int_f50c4557	comment	Viewer-Friendly Interface: The space center's supercomputer says "Calculations Correct" in a 72-point font when the calculations for the retrieval mission are made.
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The Martian / int_f5f79e56	type	Hard-Work Montage
The Martian / int_f5f79e56	comment	Hard-Work Montage: Set to David Bowie's "Starman", this one covers Watney preparing to journey to Ares 4, JPL and the Chinese space agency preparing the resupply probe, and the Hermes crew preparing to rendezvous with the probe.
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The Martian / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: It takes a lot of effort and many years in space and away from Earth, but in the end, Watney is rescued by his crew.
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The Martian / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Cdr. Lewis's disco music.
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The Martian / int_fabef10f	comment	Don't Explain the Joke: In-Universe when Vincent Kapoor starts to explain the Space Pirate joke, only to be told that Watney's already done so.
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The Martian / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
The Martian / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License – Physics: The Martian atmosphere is so thin that it could never displace multi-ton objects like the launch vehicle depicted in the film. Even with heavy storms as depicted in the movie, it would at most feel like a breeze (author Andy Weir has admitted that he knew this when he wrote the scene, but needed it that way in order to strand Watney). It is estimated that for Martian winds to have the same force as category 5 hurricane winds on Earth, that wind would need to be somehow traveling at a speed of 40,000 km/h, or 41 times the Martian speed of sound. Watney is able to wake up once the storm passes in relatively short order, with the dust it kicked up nowhere to be seen. Martian dust storms are noteworthy for their ability to linger for weeks or even months at a time; this is what killed the Opportunity rover when it was starved of solar power in a storm whose effects lasted from May to October. Mars, in the film, exhibits Earth's gravity, presumably for ease of filming. Mars has only 0.376 Earth gravity, so a 100 lb weight would only weigh about 38 lbs. Watney would have far more bounce to his step both inside and outside the Hab. The sunsets on Mars look a very bright, vibrant orange, like on Earth. Earthen sunsets are such because of the way the light interacts with our thick, blue atmosphere. With Mars being 50 million miles farther away and with an atmosphere 1% that of Earth's and dominated by dust scattering, it should look a more pale gray-blue color.◊ Probably a result of The Coconut Effect, since audiences would expect the "Red Planet" to be, well, red. Mark's "Iron Man" plan was vetoed in the book for a long list of reasons (including but not limited to): His hand was not rigid enough to provide a controllable thrust vector and it's not his body's center of mass, which makes it a terrible and unbalanced position for a thrust vector. In addition, his malnourished body with broken ribs would not have the resilience to stand up to the stresses of the maneuver. Once Mark starts spinning it would introduce problems like being unable to stop unless he can exert the proper counter-thrust made increasingly more difficult by the growing disorientation which also increases the odds of him thrusting himself in the wrong direction and spinning out into space. Space suits like the one Watney is wearing in the climax are only pressurized to 4 PSI (pressurizing a suit to 14.7 PSI, or one atmosphere, actually hinders movement). Realistically, there wouldn't have been enough air in the suit to even alter Watney's course. As Vincent Kapoor notes, it takes 12 minutes for a one-way message between Mars and Earth, so the entire operation to intercept Watney would already be over by the time NASA received word they were just starting. Understandably, the climax of the film is edited to appear like Hermes's communications are being received by NASA almost instantaneously for a dramatic build-up.
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The Martian / int_fc5dd45e	comment	Lodged Blade Removal: The hero has been impaled in the stomach by an antenna and it needs to be removed. Can be seen here: antenna removal
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The Martian / int_fcc1378e	comment	Pop-Up Texting: The In-Universe promo hosted by Watney, ARES: Live, features "Crew Facts" giving backstory details on the characters as well as live tweets from people on Earth.
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The Martian / int_fd5603b	comment	MacGyvering: Mark has to continually "science the shit" out of his problems in order to survive. He converts the hydrogen from leftover rocket fuel into the extra water needed for his potato crop. He uses the team's desiccated feces as manure to enrich the Martian soil. He even digs up a big box of plutonium that powered a supply rocket to provide him with heat in the rover so he can conserve battery power.
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The Martian / int_fdaf37f0	comment	Captain's Log: Mark's video log is used for exposition.
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The Martian / int_fea27091	comment	Buffy Speak: "I'm going to have to science the shit out of this."
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The Martian / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Readers of the book might have been confused by seeing prominent mesas near the Ares 3 landing site at Acidalia Planitia, when in the book it's described as a "featureless wasteland". It turns out that the film is just matching actual photos of the site, which were taken after the book became popular.
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The Martian	hasFeature	Inelegant Blubbering / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Interplanetary Voyage / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	It's All My Fault / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Last-Minute Hookup / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Layman's Terms / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Leno Device / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Let Us Never Speak of This Again / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Living Legend / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Lodged Blade Removal / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Mars Media / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Meanwhile, in the Futureâ€¦ / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Million to One Chance / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Mocking Music / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Mouthing the Profanity / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Narrative Profanity Filter / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	/ int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Not So Above It All / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Operation: [Blank] / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Out of the Ghetto / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Overly Narrow Superlative / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Picture-Perfect Presentation / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Re-Cut / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Robinsonade / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Rousing Speech / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Science Hero / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Scientist Video Journal / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Scotty Time / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Self-Surgery / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Shiny-Looking Spaceships / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Sigil Spam / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Skip the Anesthetic / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Sophisticated as Hell / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Space Isolation Horror / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Space Pirates / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Space Stories / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Spaceship Slingshot Stunt / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Tally Marks on the Prison Wall / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	The Aloner / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	The Anti-Nihilist / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	The Captain / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	The Door Slams You / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	The Foreign Subtitle / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	The Whole World Is Watching / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	This Is the Part Where... / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Time-Passage Beard / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Veteran Instructor / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Video Credits / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Viewer-Friendly Interface / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Vlog Series / int_487e0909
The Martian	hasFeature	Window Love / int_487e0909
themartian	sameAs	The Martian

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