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Sebastian's dream throughout the film is to open his own jazz club, which he eventually gives this simple name inspired by Mia
What is Seb's?
Ryan Gosling plays this middle-school science teacher who wakes aboard a spacecraft with no memory of how he got there
Who is Ryland Grace?
Gosling's Ken discovers this concept in the Real World and enthusiastically decides that Barbieland could use some of it
What is patriarchy?
The titular "Real Girl" Lars introduces to his family as his girlfriend is actually this type of human-shaped object
What is an anatomically correct doll?
Gosling's Officer K works as this kind of artificial human, while simultaneously hunting older models of his own kind
What is a replicant?
Mia performs this song at her audition for the role that eventually takes her to Paris, telling a story about her aunt jumping into the Seine
What is "Audition (The Fools Who Dream)?
Grace eventually discovers that the mysterious organism threatening Earth's Sun is known by this astronomical-sounding name
What is Astrophage?
After taking over Barbieland, the Kens rename Barbie's Dreamhouses using this horse-adjacent term
What are Mojo Dojo Casa Houses?
Lars gives his new girlfriend this name
Who is Bianca?
K's holographic companion, played by Ana de Armas, goes by this three-letter name
Who is Joi?
Sebastian reluctantly joins Keith's successful jazz-fusion band, fronted by this real-life musician
Who is John Legend?
Grace's unexpected extraterrestrial companion is given this musical nickname because his language initially sounds like chords
Who is Rocky?
Ryan Gosling performs this power ballad while contemplating the difficulty of existing merely as Barbie's accessory
What is "I'm Just Ken"?
Rather than directly challenging Lars' belief that Bianca is real, the town gradually does this with his delusion
What is play along with it/treat Bianca as real?
K eventually tracks down Rick Deckard, once again played by this actor from the original Blade Runner
Who is Harrison Ford?
Before Damien Chazelle settled on Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, Miles Teller was attached to play Sebastian and this actress was attached to play Mia
Who is Emma Watson?
Sandra Hüller plays this formidable administrator responsible for coordinating humanity's desperate attempt to save itself
Who is Eva Stratt?
The film's narrator points out that casting this actress is perhaps not the best way to make a point about Barbie feeling unattractive
Who is Margot Robbie?
Despite Lars initially insisting she is simply a co-worker, this character gradually becomes his genuine romantic interest over the course of the film
Who is Margo?
The wooden horse that leads K toward the possibility that his childhood memories are real has this year carved into its base
What is 6.10.21/6-10-21?
The film's climactic fantasy sequence imagines an alternate version of Mia and Sebastian's relationship. This extended sequence is commonly identified by this French-derived term for a concluding section
What is the Epilogue?
Project Hail Mary reunites screenwriter Drew Goddard with the work of this author, whose earlier novel The Martian Goddard also adapted for film
Who is Andy Weir?
Gosling received an Academy Award nomination for playing Ken, but lost Best Supporting Actor to this performer from Oppenheimer
Who is Robert Downey Jr?
Patricia Clarkson plays Dagmar, the doctor who uses Bianca's supposed medical appointments as an opportunity to regularly do this with Lars
What is talk with/counsel Lars?
The baseline test K repeatedly undergoes uses passages from this Vladimir Nabokov novel, including the phrase "cells interlinked within cells interlinked."
What is Pale Fire?