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⌠Are you telling meâŚ
⌠Jupiter AscendingâŚ
⌠Wasnât crazy?
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So Iâm reading this textbook for History and
⌠Are you telling meâŚ
⌠Jupiter AscendingâŚ
⌠Wasnât crazy?

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Hello Mr bee! Iâm so excited that spring is finally here :) #spring #flowers #bee (at Sowerby Bridge, West Yorks)
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Jupiter Ascending (2015) dir. The Wachowskis
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This interrogation is so damn bizarre, and I love that this scene literally gets Stingerâs redemption out of the way in 30 seconds (out of necessity, of course - thereâs literally no time for anything else). It also perpetuates Jupiter Ascendingâs dogged obsession with financial/material obligations.

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A great behind-the-scenes shot of the ramshackle entrance to Stingerâs farmhouse.
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A little while ago we ( @porcelaintoivorytosteel and @gayfuckingnerd ) were talking about shit and i mentioned i wanted a cute bee necklace and we said the ultimate goal would be a bee locket with pictures of Sean Bean bee marine in it and well..
GOAL REALISED
Bees around the U.S. are not just dying but actually vanishing. Are they the âcanary in the coal mineâ?
IMPORTANT TO YOUR PLANET.
Bees are genetically designed to recognize royalty
STILL BUZZING AROUND!
The Bee House
This post is inspired by Apini Week, a wonderful series of curated posts by salamanderinspace - check them out here! Concept image source here.
Set design is one of the oft-overlooked aspects of filmmaking, and it shouldnât be - in any good film, all of the environments we are shown are used to further the characters and add weight and substance to the story.Â
Jupiter Ascendingâs sets are some of the most interesting Iâve ever seen in a film, and I could easily write essays about all of them - theyâre packed with little details that hint at the charactersâ histories and personalities, and picking them apart is wonderful fun.
One of the most intriguing sets is Stingerâs farmhouse, which is a dilapidated ruin stuck in the middle of cornfields. As I wrote yesterday in response to a post by salamanderinspace, the location and appearance of Stingerâs house are deeply evocative and help to paint a picture of an isolated man bitter about the reduced living conditions he and his daughter have to endure.
What I didnât touch upon then is the apparent age of the farmhouse. Stingerâs house clearly isnât new, and is in a terrible state of repair - itâs surrounded by rusted cars and the boards that form its wall are rotting and coming away. This neglect ties in with Stingerâs complaint about budget cuts - one can presume the house is falling apart because he canât afford to maintain it properly. To sum up, the house is in a state of dilapidation that implies neglect spanning decades rather than years, and the dozens of bee hives in the house and the grounds suggest a long-term project (I know little about bees, but Iâm presuming that hives wouldnât proliferate as they do in the farmhouse without intervention and encouragement).
What Iâm getting at with this is that Stinger seems to have been living in the farmhouse for a long time (decades rather than years), which in turn implies that he and Kiza are both much older than they look. As previously discussed, Stinger seems to have no qualms about using RegeneX and is only bitter because he canât afford to keep a supply for his and Kizaâs usage. Stinger is clear that Kiza is at risk of dying without ReCodes, and itâs possible to infer that the ReCodes that keep Kiza healthy also keep her young.Â
I have a headcanon that Stingerâs âwageâ is formed - at least in part - of RegeneX, and that while his supply was plentiful when he worked for the Legion (as a high-up officer, he was highly valued and it was in the authoritiesâ interests to keep him around for as long as possible), itâs much reduced now heâs just an employee of the Aegis. That would explain both Stingerâs dilemma and the passage of time suggested by the condition of the house.
But those are just my thoughts - what are yours? Do you buy Stinger and Kiza (and, in all likelihood, Caine) being much older than they look, or do you have an alternate theory to explain the condition of the house?
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Stinger Apini
Iâve read a few reviews purposing that, if Jupiter Ascending were any other Hollywood film, Jupiter wouldâve been relegated to the role of âlove interestâ while Caine Wise assumed the coveted role of Chosen One / MC. I think thatâs true - but I also find it equally likely that, if this were the 90s, Stinger couldâve been the MC, considering what he represents.
Stinger is the boomer-era white male self-insert. Â Heâs a cop AND ex-military, retired to a FARM in middle America where he works - Â just strugglinâ to get by. Â He has a teenage daughter and a room full'a guns âin the back.â Â Heâs every character played by Bruce Willis, John Wayne, and Kevin Costner, all rolled into one. Â In the world of JA, heâs a father, a sheriff AND a cowboyâliterally a cowboy, if you read bees as farm animals. Â Or if you read earthlings as farm animals. Â Either way.
Stingerâs role in the story is a somewhat conservative one. Â As an Aegis âspace cop,â he is well-placed to introduce Jupiter to the status quo of space capitalism. Â Stinger is, by profession, a defender of the same laws which make Jupiter âYour Majestyâ and everyone else âproduct.â Â Yet he takes no responsibility for the power structure he helps defend. âTechnically, YOUR people killed the dinosaurs,â he retorts, even though Titus refers to âMarshals and Administratorsâ overseeing the harvests. Marshal is Stingerâs Aegis title. âAdministatorsâ may refer to the Legion Administrator, as mentioned by the Seals and Signets master in reference to Jupiterâs royal guard.
Legionnaires, Aegis Marshals, HuntersâŚall these roles are integral to maintaining the system of genetic immortality space capitalism.  Caine defies authority and rejects his role; he does so outside the story (by biting an Entitled) and within the story (by deciding to date Jupiter instead of cashing in on the bounty on her head). Stinger, however, embraces his role; he DOES cash in Jupiterâs bounty, and he maintains a rank within an institution that enforces stratification of the social order.  Stinger and the Aegis staff are responsible for the âharvestsâ on both an institutional and consumer level - they are even depicted actively using Regenex to heal Caine.
In spite of all this, Stinger is a likeable character. Heâs a part of the team; heâs necessary for the success of the heroes. His knowledge, abilities, and resources come in handy to help them survive and achieve. He serves as a mentor to Caine and a protector to Jupiter. Most importantly, he is a good father to Kiza. I absolutely love how the fandom has honed in on this attribute of Stingerâs character, recasting him as âsad bee dadâ (lol) - basically placing Kiza in primary focus and relegating Stinger to his function as âKizaâs father.â This is a nice reversal of a gender-dynamic that, imo, has plagued fiction ever since âGrendelâs motherâ never got a name. Female characters are often written without any development or motivation apart from the male characters they are relative toâŚthey are mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, but not full human beings. Kiza gets all of two lines in JA, and yet her presence as a character is so felt that we can all kind of look at Stinger and say, âah yes, thereâs Kizaâs dad. Whatâs he up to now?â
This is interesting, but I feel like there is more to Stingerâs âTheyâre YOUR peopleâ line. We literally see both Stinger and Caine are marked with the name of the people who created them â you can choose to see this as an artist signing off on her work, but you can equally see it as a sign of trademark. We donât know what the status of the splices are in the JA universe, but many elements of Caine and Stingerâs stories imply that other people have, or at least had, ownership over them. Caine was bred. Both Caine and Stinger consider themselves basically a different type of organism than humans, which I find incredibly interesting, and I agree with people who have specilated that the splices seem more akin to Roman slaves rather than citizens. While I feel like the royals (and possibly the regular humans) in the JA world see splices as inferior, to be owned and used, Stinger and Caineâs attitude towards humans I see more as a âThose people are doing some fucked up shit internally, weâll be over here side-eyeing them while taking advantage of what they have and are willing to give us.â
First of all, fascinating thoughts from both of you! I love the idea of Apini Week, salamanderinspace, and the additional commentary from palpunte really builds on the original post.
I definitely agree that splices see themselves as entirely separate from other forms of humans, and especially from entitled humans. The implication is that splices are all designed and bred to fulfil particular roles and carry out certain tasks - so Stingerâs splicer gave him quick reflexes that make him an excellent pilot and solider, while Caineâs splicer gave him a heightened sense of smell so he could be used as a tracker. In both cases, they were treated as commodities, being given certain âdesirableâ traits to give them a higher value in the market. In this way, they are objects to be bought and sold for profit just as much as terrsies are.
Throughout the film, Stinger is shown to be primarily out for himself (and, of course, Kiza). He is hugely disaffected with his present position and his employers, and his primary loyalty is, quite naturally, to his daughter. This isnât remotely surprising - the system he works for and helps to perpetuate has treated him as a commodity, so he feels almost no personal investment in it. This sense of alienation was presumably deepened dramatically with his expulsion from the Legion - he clearly felt he belonged to the Legion, a feeling lacking from his involvement with the Aegis. Stinger is quite literally on the fringes of society and the organisation he works for - this is embodied in a very literal manner by Stingerâs house, which is a crumbling ruin of nails and board stuck in the middle of nowhere.
Stinger is only a part of the system because it has leverage over him - specifically, complicity in the system is what gives Stinger his wage and allows him to pay for RegeneX and ReCodes for himself and Kiza. This state of affairs has gradually eroded any strong moral objections he might have had to harvesting - while Stinger can acknowledge that the industry is âuglyâ, he demonstrates no interest in bringing it down and, as salamanderinspace mentions, serves as a marshal on a planet pegged for harvest in a few generations. The main source of his dissatisfaction is that his wages are too low for him to afford the treatments he needs for Kiza - he has no apparent objections to the treatments themselves.
Over the course of the film, Stinger is shown to overcome his cynical (albeit understandable) self-interest and fight in Caine and Jupiterâs corner - while he certainly doesnât vow to bring down the wicked harvesting industry, Stinger is morally redeemed because his guilt leads him to help the Aegis track Caine and Jupiter down. While the entitled prove themselves to be self-serving, manipulative and deceptive, the splices ultimately prove themselves to be loyal, brave and true - most importantly, they demonstrate this to each other, with Caine recognising that Stinger only betrayed him out of love for Kiza and Stinger recognising that his friendship with Caine matters more than a bargain with an entitled.Â
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Sad bee dad Stinger Apini, presumably after receiving a re-code via Photoshop.
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Stinger raises Caine and Kiza as siblings.
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From JUPITER ASCENDING: GENETICALLY SPLICED DVD Extras,
An early concept for Stinger - this one is particularly interesting because the dark glasses and cane strongly suggest that Stinger was once envisaged as a blind character. I presume the thinking behind this was to draw his super-senses to the forefront (as a rule blind people have heightened senses to compensate for their lack of sight, and that would be amped up to 11 with Stinger because of his magical bee powers).
I LIKED THIS LOOK...

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âDaddy,â says Kiza, her voice small and quiet. âWe should live here now?.. It stinks,â she wrinkles her nose. âI donât like this place!â He reaches for her hand - years ago and galaxy away she told him she was too old for holding hands - and she clutches his fingers. Me too, he wants to say. âLook, maybe youâll find something⌠interesting? That you like?â he tries. âGive this place a chance!â Kiza looks at him incredulously. âBut it stinks,â she complains. âI donât wanna live here!â Me too, he wants to scream. âOkay, look, maybe it stinks here, but it also shines. Not so bad, yeah?â She shrugs and stares. And he stares, too.Â
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