Things you didn't notice until you got the DVD...
POSTED BY: Shiny
UPDATED: Sunday, April 30, 2006 15:27
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Here are the results of being stuck in bed with the flu over Christmas; hope you find it interesting rather than a commentary on my obsessiveness! Please feel free to add your own observations!
* Dr. Matthias actually gives his guards a brief look to signal them to attack the op
* It's hard to hear, but when Mal tells Kaylee to "quit fiddling" under the Mule as they are about to leave for the heist, he says "I want my ship running smooth when we get back", to which Kaylee responds, "have faith, captain" and mal replies: "not today." Great characterization and plot foreshadowing disguised as witty banter.
* After they shoot the Reaver that survived the barnswallow collision, River says, "He didn't lie down...they never lie down", which is actually backwards, since when they get to Miranda it's, "none of them fell, they just lay down".
* There's a spiral parasol similar to the one Kaylee has in the pilot episode that you can see in the crowd as she leaves the ship after telling Simon not to fly in anything with a Capasan 38 engine (or what I like to call Kaylee's "neither a borrower nor a lender be" speech)
* After asking for an explanation for River's superhuman barfighting skills, when Mal throws Simon on the table, Kaylee jumps from one chair to another with a priceless expression/reaction that's so perfectly Kaylee
* When Jayne asks, "In earnest Mal, why'd you bring her back on?" Mal and Zoe share a look, calling back to Zoe's comment earlier about never leaving a man behind...
* Many have commented on how the circling camera lands on Wash as Jayne says "this whole world's dead for no reason" but in one of the deleted scenes, when Simon asks "who's death?" and River screams "EVERYBODY'S!!!", who is the very next person we see on screen? Book.
* The op actually gives Mal the idea to disguise Serenity as a reaver ship
* When Mal goes to Inara's shuttle after his "I hear a word from any of you that ain't helping me out or taking your leave, I will shoot you down" speech, it makes me think he has often used that shuttle as his sanctuary for comfort/solitude (in fact, the deleted scene shows him being momentarily surprised at Inara's presence, indicating he had gotten used to being able to take refuge in her old, and vacant, shuttle)
* The op's "define disappeared" parallels Mal's "define interesting"
* River retching after seeing the hologram symbolizing her finally expelling the destructive memories forced upon her, hence "I'm all right"
* During the tail-spin, Jayne -- the most mercenary and selfish of the crew -- is the one checking everyone's seatbelts like a concerned flight attendant!
* As they move out of the cargo bay after the crash landing, it always struck me as odd that Jayne looks up, but after re-watching the movie I realized that the cargo bay is level with the bottom of the 'pit', while it's the nose/cockpit of the ship that is level with the landing strip, where the Reavers are (and you can momentarily see search lights scanning the cockpit when Jayne looks up)
* Simon asks for adrenaline for his gut wound, much like Mal used when he was shot in the gut in Out of Gas.
* Though the op told his men to "destroy it all", almost all of the monitors in Mr. Universe's "office" displayed the Miranda recording when Mal transmitted it.
* In the funeral scene, Jayne is smoking a cigar; one of the deleted scenes shows Jayne giving a few cigars to Book (one of which we see Book smoking while talking to Mal at night), but then deciding to keep one for himself.
* The tears in River's eye while she fixes some wiring during the repairing Serenity scenes
* In the extended Mal/Operative final conversation deleted scene, Mal telling the Operative "you still standing there when that engine starts, you never will find out" calls back to Mal kicking Crow into the engine in The Train Job.
By the way, I've also updated the Serenity Bloopers/Shout-outs page at browncoats.com, so go take a look: http://www.browncoats.com/index.php?ContentID=433ed68443f0d
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I never noticed the Fruity Oaty Bar song was in English, not Chinese. Now i've heard it, and can't get it out of my head!
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i never noticed that Mal kicks Jayne as he's laying on the floor, as Mal goes to pick up the unconscious River after the barfight scene.
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Originally posted by Shiny:
* It's hard to hear, but when Mal tells Kaylee to "quit fiddling" under the Mule as they are about to leave for the heist, he says "I want my ship running smooth when we get back", to which Kaylee responds, "have faith, captain" and mal replies: "not today." Great characterization and plot foreshadowing disguised as witty banter.
* After they shoot the Reaver that survived the barnswallow collision, River says, "He didn't lie down...they never lie down", which is actually backwards, since when they get to Miranda it's, "none of them fell, they just lay down".
Gotta say I noticed most of those in the cinema :D But then again, I did go three zillion times - the first one I've quoted especially, I would say is pretty loud!
And the thing about River - it's not backwards at all IMO - because she's talking about the Reaver, and the Reavers are the ones that DIDN'T just lie down like most of the population of Miranda.
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Originally posted by ExcitingNewCrime:
the first one I've quoted especially, I would say is pretty loud!
It might be loud, but it was obscured a bit by the whirring of the engine and other sounds, at least to me -- and I saw it several times in the theatre and specifically tried to pick out what Kaylee was saying!
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Nice observations,
You've given me a lot to look for again!
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Though the op told his men to "destroy it all", almost all of the monitors in Mr. Universe's "office" displayed the Miranda recording when Mal transmitted it.
I think you're confused on this point though.
We didn't see the actual "office" i.e., the place with the lovebot at any time after Mal runs the broadwave. All those lit monitors were in the generator room, I swear!
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When Mal says to Jayne "no grenades" and walks away, as the camera follows Mal, in the background, Zoe is talking to Jayne about the arsenol (sp?) he wants to take with him on the heist and she says something like "we're robbing the place, not occupying it" (commenting on the amount of weaponry he wants to take).
Definately missed that one at the theatre (all 3 times that I went). Wasn't until the dvd that I noticed. Even then it was kinda of hard to catch.
"Gee, wish we had some GRENADES right about now" - Jayne
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I've noticed that Fruity Nutty Bars give me gas (and a powerful need to beat on folks).
Chrisisagoof
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What I noticed on DVD were the little details that I'd missed the three times in the theater. Things like Jayne's pendant...what is that? St. Christopher medallion?
The new furniture! Serenity's been to planet Ikea! I like it, but it doesn't seem as...well..homey.
The glances Mal gives Inara, both on Haven, and again at Mr. Universes place, just before he leaves them. Says so much with just a glance.
Is anybody else watching the outtakes repeatedly and laughing until they cry? The Haven one is just priceless!
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after getting my jayne hat for xmas, my wife rocks. in the movie jayne is wearing his hat, when walking off the boat on whitefall you can see it on his head
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