History Film / Passengers2016

* PovertyFood: Not being a gold class passenger confines Jim to a brick of oatmeal for breakfast, this being the one machine on the ship he can't seem to reprogram or disassemble for his own benefit. He still has access to unlimited amounts of liquor and gourmet food he appropriates from the restaurants, seemingly purchasing them on credit with no intention of ever paying it off.

* BeautifulDreamer: Multiple shots of Jim watching over Aurora sleeping [[GirlInABox in her pod]].

* GirlInABox: Aurora in her pod. An obvious reference to ''[[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White]]'' in her glass case. {{Gender flip}}ped in the end, when [[spoiler:a dead Jim]] is put into the Autodoc.

** The scene where [[spoiler:Aurora rescues Jim from space and revives him]] is near-identical to something that happened to Chris Pratt in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014''. Only that time [[spoiler:he was the one doing the rescuing, though both times he still ended up nearly dying]].

** The scene where [[spoiler:Aurora rescues Jim from space and revives him]] is near-identical to something that happened to Chris Pratt in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''. Only that time [[spoiler:he was the one doing the rescuing, though both times he still ended up nearly dying]].

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The date of the setting is not specified, but apart from the development of interstellar travel, the civilization does not seem to have changed that much: the clothing has not changed, the bars still have the same look (but the bartender is an android), the Pulitzer Prize is still awarded, etc.

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: The ''Avalon'' sports a unique, almost alien design consisting of three curved passenger sections slowly rotating around a central spine that runs the length of the ship. Aside from looking cool, it serves the usual purpose of spinning parts on a spaceship -- providing [[CentrifugalGravity artificial gravity]].

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: When Aurora and Gus have a conversation about [[spoiler: Jim selfishly waking her up]], she is rightfully pissed about being essentially murdered and finally having ''someone'' to vent all her anger at, while he's right to point out that they have an important, [[spoiler: ship-saving]] job to do and it's not the best moment for this sort of conversation, especially since Gus needs all hands he can get. They ''both'' agree that [[spoiler: Jim did the wrong thing]], thou.
* BorrowedBiometricBypass: Averted, probably to avoid gore. One would assume that access to the ship's critical sections is shielded via biometric identification (voice/eye scan, fingerprint etc.) but all it takes to pass security clearance from [[spoiler:dying Gus]] to the heroes is by handing them an encoded wristband along with a code word.

* MsFanservice: Aurora frequently goes swimming in her space underwear and having sex with Jim while nude (but not explicitly). The many gorgeous dresses Aurora brought along for the journey, most of which do a great job at emphasizing Jennifer Lawrence's famously well-shaped body, deserve some mention, too.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After waking up Aurora, Jim breaths heavily and is visibly ashamed at himself for dooming her into a life with him.

* ExactWords: Jim asks Arthur not to tell Aurora that [[spoiler:he woke her deliberately]]. Arthur is programmed to be a gentlemen and obliges, but Jim makes the mistake of telling him that there are no secrets between him and Aurora, which Arthur takes to mean that he no longer has to keep that particular secret.

* DeflectorShields: The ''Avalon'' is equipped with a huge dome-shaped one projected from the bow to protect the ship from head-on collisions with asteroids and other deep space detritus. The film opens with the ship having to divert all power to the shield to survive an AsteroidThicket, and one particularly large rock manages to overwhelm the shield for a moment, leading to Jim's pod failure as the ship compensates for [[spoiler:the reactor control system having been hit by a fragment]]. Even so it's an impressive piece of tech, considering the ''Avalon'' is hurtling through space at half the speed of light.

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: When Aurora goes to town with Jim in his bed as retribution for his deed. While deserved, such a beating would not be well-conceived with reversed roles.

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* DrivenToSuicide: Jim gets so [[GoMadFromTheIsolation depressed from being alone]] that he nearly launches himself out the airlock sans spacesuit.

* {{Fanservice}}: Aurora frequently goes swimming in her space underwear and Chris Pratt is seen in various states of undress in some scenes as well. The many gorgeous dresses Aurora brought along for the journey, most of which do a great job at emphasizing Jennifer Lawrence's famously well-shaped body, deserve some mention, too.

* BaitAndSwitchAccusation: Half-way through the movie, Aurora approaches Jim with a stern voice, asking him "Why did you do it?" He looks perplexed, fearing that his house of cards may have finally collapsed. But then Aurora reveals she only wanted to know why he left Earth.

* BreakUpMakeUpScenario: After Aurora wakes up, she progressively falls for Jim. Jim is going to give her a ring, when Arthur tells her that Jim woke her up. So, Aurora is furious at Jim and she does not want to talk with him any more. They make up during the climax.

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: When Aurora goes to town with Jim in his bed as a retribution for his deed. While deserved, such a beating would not be well-conceived with reversed roles.

* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Jim nearly does this to himself after he becomes depressed from being alone. Apparently there's nothing to stop someone going into the airlock without putting on a space suit and opening it.

* YouHadUsWorriedThere: Played with. When Jim is hurled out of the vent shaft, communication to Aurora breaks down. She is deeply worried and asks if he is still there but no-one answers. We then see Jim alive floating in space, but it takes another minute until he decides to re-establish communication to tell Aurora that he's alright.

* BaitAndSwitchAccusation: Half-way through the movie, Aurora approaches Jim with a stern voice, asking him "Why did you do it?". He looks perplexed, fearing that his house of cards may have finally collapsed. But then Aurora reveals she only wanted to know why he left Earth.

* BlackGuyDiesFirst: Gus, played by Creator/LaurenceFishburne, [[spoiler:is the only person to die in the movie]].

* GirlInABox: Aurora in her pod. An obvious reference to ''[[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White]]'' in her glass case. [[GenderFlip Gender flipped]] in the end, when [[spoiler:a dead Jim]] is put into the Autodoc.

* IChooseToStay: In the end, Aurora forgives Jim and [[spoiler:chooses to stay awake with him aboard the ''Avalon'' instead of using the medical facilities to go back to cryosleep.]]

** The trailers make it look as though both Jim and Aurora wake up by accident, around the same time. [[spoiler:Actually, Jim is awake on his own for a year, becomes infatuated with Aurora, and wakes her up on purpose]].

* ObsessiveCompulsiveBarkeeping: Arthur is programmed with this CharacterTic. When Jim asks him why he always polishes glasses, he [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it by pointing out that people would be freaked out by an android bartender that just stood there and did nothing.

* RecycledINSPACE: Arguably, this is The Bible in space:

* RomanticizedAbuse: One of the main criticisms against the film. Jim for all intents and purposes [[spoiler:stalks Aurora, and then he wakes her up, telling her that her pod malfunctioned and romancing her under that pretense, which from an ethical standpoint makes their sexual relationship akin to rape--no different than if he had kidnapped her while hiding his true identity and then proceeded to woo her without her knowing he was her kidnapper. She understandably calls his action murder after finding out.]] However, it never portrays Jim as having been right in doing this, and he himself says this was wrong. Aurora reacts realistically and nearly kills him over this. It's only after they save the ship together that she finally forgives him.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: {{Exaggerated}}. By the time [[spoiler:Gus]] finds out he's dying, he has mere ''hours'' left.

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: Arcturus is 36.7 light years from Earth. Having traveled 30 years at one half the speed of light, the ''Avalon'' shouldn't be anywhere near it.
** Even assuming it's "30 years" in ship time (meaning 34.64 years for those on Earth), at half the light speed, ''Avalon'' would be only 17.32 light years closer to Arcturus.

** The collision with an asteroid the size of the ship itself at half the speed of light would likely kill everyone aboard either from the radiation of it being vaporized or from the force of the impact.

''Passengers'' is a 2016 {{science fiction}} {{romance}} film directed by Morten Tyldum (''Film/{{Headhunters}}'', ''Film/TheImitationGame''), written by Jon Spaihts (''Film/DoctorStrange2016''), and starring Creator/JenniferLawrence and Creator/ChrisPratt, with Creator/MichaelSheen and Creator/LaurenceFishburne in supporting roles.

!! ''Passengers'' contains examples of the following tropes:

** The scene where [[spoiler: Aurora rescues Jim from space and revives him]] is near-identical to something that happened to Chris Pratt in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''. Only that time [[spoiler: he was the one doing the rescuing, though both times he still ended up nearly dying]].

** Gus -- who is played by Creator/LaurenceFishburne--says he "should have taken the pills". Is he thinking of [[Film/TheMatrix the blue and red ones]]?

** The airlock has a verbal prompt to pull the handle to 'release air pressure', which also allows access to the button that opens the door, and yet when the door opens there is still a visible rush of air out of the lock. This apparent depressurisation also [[spoiler: fails to suck Gus' body out when Jim is giving him his BurialInSpace]].

* TheCameo: Andy Garcia as Captain Norris. [[spoiler: He appears at the very end of the film, is on screen for no longer than five seconds, and has no lines. In fact, his appearance in the trailer is pretty much the entirety of his role in the film.]]

* ChandlersLaw: [[spoiler: Gus's awakening forces the plot to move on from Jim and Aurora being stuck on the fallout of Jim waking Aurora up.]]

*** [[spoiler: Gus reads an override code to make the Autodoc give him the true diagnosis of his condition. Aurora would later use that same code to force the doc to use every resuscitation process at the same time on Jim.]]

* ContrivedCoincidence: Of more than five thousand cryo pods, the one that malfunctions happens to contain a man who's a GadgeteerGenius, possessing the necessary skills to be able to fix the crippled ship. [[spoiler:Another such incident awakens a senior crew member with full authority to access all of the starship systems, which is exactly what the two protagonists need in the third act.]] Then, as a final contrived touch, [[spoiler: after two years of minor malfunctions, the ship goes critical just as they get said authority, forcing them to fix it themselves, rather than waking up the more experienced crew.]]

* AMatchMadeInStockholm: The movie's detractors claim Jim and Aurora's relationship to be this, since [[spoiler:he wakes her up, thus, as far as he knows, taking away the life she wanted to have, and in the end she decides to stay with him]]. It's more complicated than this however. [[spoiler: When she learns the truth, she spends a lot of time being incredibly mad at him, to the point she almost kills him once. Later she slowly comes to realize her time with him was possibly the happiest in her life and she previously mentioned they'd most likely never meet otherwise. It still takes [[FireForgedFriends them working together to save the ship]], with Jim nearly dying to save everyone, along with Gus telling her that Jim's actions, while bad, were out of desperation, rather than malice, for her to forgive him and [[RelationshipSalvagingDisaster fall in love with him again]].]]

** The trailers make it look as though both Jim and Aurora wake up by accident, around the same time. [[spoiler: Actually, Jim is awake on his own for a year, becomes infatuated with Aurora, and wakes her up on purpose]].

* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: After Aurora learns that Jim [[spoiler: woke her up on purpose, she goes into his room one night and wakes him up with a beating. Then she picks up a crowbar... and Jim deliberately lowers his arms.]] Ultimately, Aurora doesn't go through with it.

* RelationshipSalvagingDisaster: [[spoiler: Jim and Aurora's relationship understandably falls apart when Aurora learns that Jim woke her up and stranded her with him just so he wouldn't be alone. However, a conveniently timed series of malfunctions that nearly destroys the ship gets them to team up and save it, and ultimately brings them back together.]]

* SecretKeeper: Jim tells Arthur that it's to be a secret that he woke Aurora up. [[spoiler: This backfires catastrophically when Aurora tells Arthur that she and Jim "have no secrets from each other." Arthur, remembering his promise to Jim, asks Jim to confirm this, and Jim agrees. Jim's tone would make it clear to a human that he's warning Arthur not to spill the beans, but the android simply takes him at his word.]]

* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler: Jim, to Aurora, feels like this even before he wakes her up from cryosleep against her will.]] Though it's mostly because of the predicament of GoMadFromTheIsolation, and the character contemplates the morality of the act several times before giving in. Even after he does go through with it, it's clear that he realizes it is a terrible thing to do to her and hates himself for doing it. [[spoiler: When she beats the crap out of him and raises an object as though she means to kill him, he doesn't even fight back.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:[[{{Tagline}} There is a reason they woke up]].]]

The ''Avalon'' is a SleeperStarship on a 120-year trip from Earth to Homestead II, a [[SettlingTheFrontier colonized planet]] in distant outer space. Due to a ship malfunction, one of the passengers aboard -- engineer Jim Preston (Pratt) -- is accidentally awoken 30 years into the trip, and try as he might, he is unable to re-hibernate himself. The prospect of what will become of the remaining 90 years between him and his destination is a crippling one for him to deal with, and [GoMadFromTheIsolation loneliness and despair set in hard shortly after]].

Then he notices a woman in her pod, Aurora Lane (Lawrence), becoming smitten with her to the extent of coming to grips with an unthinkable decision: whether or not to [[AbductionIsLove consciously awaken Aurora from her pod to share his fate]].

''Passengers'' is a 2016 {{science fiction}}[=/=]{{romance}} film directed by Morten Tyldum (''Film/{{Headhunters}}'', ''Film/TheImitationGame'') and written by Jon Spaihts (''Film/DoctorStrange2016'').

Aurora Lane (Creator/JenniferLawrence) and Jim Preston (Creator/ChrisPratt) are two people from Earth traveling aboard the ''Avalon'', a SleeperStarship on a 120-year trip to Homestead II, a [[SettlingTheFrontier colonized planet]] in distant outer space. When Jim is awoken prematurely by his malfunctioning sleep pod, he believes he will be [[GoMadFromTheIsolation alone till he dies]]. Then he [[AbductionIsLove awakens Aurora from her pod to share his fate]].

Creator/MichaelSheen and Creator/LaurenceFishburne also star.

** It's scientifically sound thanks to time dilation. The ship is traveling at half the speed of light, and the 36.7 light years distance is time dilated to 31.783 years on-ship time (or 73.4 years for everyone back on Earth). Jim was woken after 30 years on board, Aurora one year later, Einstein approves.

** The manual override of the reactor's vent door only works as long as somebody is there to turn the lever. Makes you wonder what situation this safety measure would make sense for other than for committing a HeroicSacrifice.
*** It is however implied that this isn't how it's supposed to work. Odds are the damage to the systems damaged this safety mechanism as well, requiring that someone hold the door open as it were.

* QuestionableConsent: It's very probable that had she known what Jim did, Aurora would never have had sex with him, making her consent thus very dubious.