Wars Of The Stars

I like how it outfit looks on him xd 🌸

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (2016)

first of all: same.

Second of all: Listen. You can read the Elevator Scene™ as platonic. I don't know why you would, but you can - she thought this man was dead, and she was as good as dead, and then he came back and saved her life and they are stuck out of time in the middle of a D-day level battle and neither of them have words for this scenario. This scene can work for all kinds of love, really.

But this scene. This scene makes absolutely no sense to include if we were not meant to see a physical attraction develop here. What is the point of showing us Jyn's smile turning awkward, her little glance when she runs into him? What is the point of lingering on Cassian completely losing the plot when she briefly gets closer than anticipated after smiling at him like that? What, pray tell, is the point of showing us that if they're meant to be Very Professional Coworkers, or 'sibling coded' or whatever fresh hell the interwebs have decided this is post Andor?

Most of their scenes in the latter half of this movie are filmed beat for beat like a romance movie. Like we joke about the similarities to Pride and Prejudice 2005, but the visual language is genuinely doing the same thing: Circling around two people while they are locked in a very personal moment in a crowded room. Lingering on someone's reaction to a small gesture or a careless brush from their person. Cutting to a smile with a musical cue like it is the climax of your scene. The focus on brief physical touch. Even the act structure of specifically their relationship is really, really similar - look:

Pride and Prejudice 2005:

bad first impression: Netherfield ball

argument in the rain where both accuse one another of their shortcomings: first proposal

grappling with said shortcomings, adjusting behaviours: meeting again at Pemberley

big selfless gesture: Darcy "rescues" Lydia

protagonist stands up to allegorical antagonist: Lizzie blows of Lady Catherine, who is a stand-in for... pride and prejudice

soft dramatic handholding with sun just over the horizon: second proposal at dawn

fatherly approval: Darcy and Lizzie both get approval from her father

Rogue One:

bad first impression: Jyn is forced to work with Cassian

argument in the rain where both accuse one another of their shortcomings: Eadu shuttle scene

grappling with said shortcomings, adjusting behaviours: Jyn standing up to the Council, Cassian reckoning with his guilt and responsibility

big selfless gesture: Cassian offers Jyn an army (and himself)

protagonist stands up to allegorical antagonist: Jyn faces off with Krennic and, by extension, the Empire she has tolerated

soft dramatic handholding with sun just over the horizon: The Beach

fatherly approval: "Your father would have been proud of you."

Can’t wait to see this baby on the big screen!! Such a tiny little movie star 🥹✨👏🏻