Little things you noticed in Serenity

POSTED BY: christhecynic
UPDATED: Monday, January 23, 2006 22:41
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CHRISTHECYNIC

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 2:44 AM

My dad, who is borrowing my DVD of Serenity called up to say that he just noticed, River takes out just about everyone in the bar with her hands or feet, but Jayne she has to hit twice in the head with something metal.

Jayne really is a tough guy if he was the only one in that bar who required a weapon. I think she just used the gun, when she got it, out of ease.

OMELET

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 2:48 AM

When I watched the movie with the commentary on it at the part where Mal talks to the Operative after the whole Reaver ordeal, the Operative is completely in dark. Joss said it was to represent how he had become a shadow and, in essence, no longer existed. It thought little subtleties like that really added to the movie to give it an overall better feeling.

Also, it took me many times to hear the backround conversation between Jayne and Zoe after Mal tells Jayne not to bring any grenades. Took me a while to concentrate only on their conversation instead of the ship's backround noises.

Jayne: Are you saying River's a witch?
Wash: Yes, Jayne, she's a witch. She's had congress with the Beast.
Jayne: She's in Congress?
Wash: How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious!

CHRONICTHEHEDGEHOG

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 2:51 AM

Just rewatched it and she also takes out one guy with a chair, one with a bottle and one with a knife.

CHRISTHECYNIC

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 2:59 AM

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Originally posted by chronicthehedgehog:
Just rewatched it and she also takes out one guy with a chair, one with a bottle and one with a knife.

I thought there was a knife. Like I said, the DVD is on loan.

GUNRUNNER

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 3:01 AM

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Originally posted by christhecynic:
My dad, who is borrowing my DVD of Serenity called up to say that he just noticed, River takes out just about everyone in the bar with her hands or feet, but Jayne she has to hit twice in the head with something metal.

Jayne really is a tough guy if he was the only one in that bar who required a weapon. I think she just used the gun, when she got it, out of ease.

IIRC she also hit him in "the junk".

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OMELET

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 3:03 AM

IIRC she also hit him in "the junk".

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The expression on Jayne's face when River hit him there was just priceless.

Jayne: Are you saying River's a witch?
Wash: Yes, Jayne, she's a witch. She's had congress with the Beast.
Jayne: She's in Congress?
Wash: How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious!

CHRISTHECYNIC

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 3:08 AM

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Originally posted by GunRunner:
IIRC she also hit him in "the junk".

I could never tell if she hit him there or grabbed and squeezed. Either way ... ouch.

MISBEHAVIN

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 3:31 AM

One of the little things I noticed is in the scene where Zoe and Mal discuss why he pushed that villager off the Mule. The sound and lighting are perfectly tied to the ship leaving the atmosphere. Behind the conversation, you hear the buffeting of the ship and the side of Mal's face is lit toward the red end of the scale. Then there's a shot toward the bow where you can briefly see yellowish light from the cockpit. At the exact second the buffeting sound stops, the light on the side of Mal's face shifts blue. Wash comes down from the cockpit and behind him you see the cockpit is now dark against the black of space. There was definately a lot of love that went into the making of Firefly and Serenity - it shows through in details like this.

OMELET

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 3:43 AM

Also, with regards to the mule scene, they had originally built the thing with five seats. In the movie, Mal says a mule can't run with five. They had to remove one of the seats to actually get it right when the line came, even though I couldn't tell if there were five or four seats on that thing. The effort to get things as accurate as can be really shows in the movie.

Jayne: Are you saying River's a witch?
Wash: Yes, Jayne, she's a witch. She's had congress with the Beast.
Jayne: She's in Congress?
Wash: How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious!

KOZURE

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 3:49 AM

Probably everyone notices these lines, but I find it particularly poignant when you know the movie well enough:

THE OPERATIVE
There's a lot of innocent people in the air being killed right now.

MAL
You have no idea how true that is.

Another hard to miss moment, but Joss Whedon's director credit comes up during the infamous "one-take" tracking shot in the Serenity introduction sequence just as River says: "... We're going for a ride."

I didn't really notice it in the movie when watching it the first time, but in the Maidenhead bar, Fanty slips the fan dancer some money and she positions herself very carefully to obscure the transaction between the twins and Mal from the ever-present security cams.

As Kaylee walks off Serenity after docking at Beaumonde (just following the infamous "Capissen 38 line"), you can see in the background someone twirling an umbrella identical to the one she was twirling when she met Shepherd Book.

The news broadcast about the Reaver attack on Lilac heard in the background of Maidenhead mention that everyone was killed except for a group of survivors who locked themselves in the vault.

A minor costuming detail that bugs me when I see it is that Jayne's shirt when he's in the Maidenhead has a complete hodgepodge of rank insignia - his shoulder slip-ons indicate he's a corporal, but the insignia on his chest shows that he's a Sergeant First Class. I suppose this could be some creative sewing by Jayne to make his shirt look more impressive, but it bugs me nonetheless. Jayne's indicated in the past he never fought in "no war" - the shirt seems to be a private security uniform. Could be surplus, could be just Jayne sewing on a bunch of insignia on a uniform shirt. He's also put pilot's wings on the left front shirt pocket.

Kozure the Kamikaze Highlander

"...he's our friend, we should honour him."

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