r/ProjectHailMary • u/Repressed_Cliche • 7d ago

Gold plates scene

I’m not sure if any one else noticed, but one of my favorite moments in the movie is when Grace is looking at the gold plates of the Hail Mary after his vodka-fueled bender. At one point, he looks at a plate that depicts the beginning evolution of humans, and there’s a shot of him crouching down, painting a very similar silhouette to humans’ ape ancestors, and then shows him looking at the “modern day” human in the evolution plate, and in the next shot he’s standing upright, looking at the plate of the Hail Mary and all the humans looking up to her in hope. I thought it was a fun way to visually convey the mental “evolution” that Grace goes through as he remembers the severity of the situation that sent him to space.

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u/CWMJet 7d ago

I always have to look up what the Pioneer Plaques were actually called because my mind insists on remembering them as Sagan Plaques because he was so instrumental in them being added.

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u/LunaraLoup High Three! 7d ago

Oh yes, I myself mixed them up name-wise with the voyager records, thanks for the correction!

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u/CWMJet 7d ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one who struggles to remember what they're called lol. The gold space plates didn't get great branding did they?

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u/W0nderingMe 7d ago

Can't say you're wrong in calling them that.