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Absolutely, we would be arrogant to think that there isnt life out there in the galaxy among 10 billion trillion planets. Look at how much different life there is on earth. Between humans other mammals, fish, animals and birds
Yes and they think they have seen seven different stars with Dyson Spheres around them. I heard some scientists talking about it. They’re not sure but what if it were true? Awesome ❤
Is there Life elsewhere in the Universe? The best, most honest answer we can give is, "We don't know." We have no way of knowing if there is or isn't Life elsewhere. We simply don't have enough information. All we can do is speculate and give our opinions. We have no facts. Do I believe that Life exists elsewhere in the Universe? Yes, but we may never discover it. The Universe is Vast to the Nth degree!
Glad to have been a part of making this movie. It's well directed and enjoyed contributing to the visual effects part. I was entrusted with the "Pensacola in space" scene at the end not telling my boss that I'm partially color blind. When he found out he almost tore all his hair out but it was too late, the stock has already gone to lab and we were on a tight deadline...I laugh my ass off every time I watch that scene....
Thanks for sharing that! That must feel pretty awesome seeing your work in a movie like that. Always best to ask for forgiveness than permission! Have you done some of the visual effects in other movies?
@@VerowakReacts Yes, of course, Spiderman, Matrix Revolutions, Lord of the Rings: Two towers, Stealth, Aeon Flux, Bad Boys 2, The Ghost and the Darkness and many more. I was in that business between 1996 and 2005
Januz Kaminski historically has worked with Steven Spielberg on most of his movies. Safe to say he's done some serious work!❤ Thank you Sir@@VerowakReacts
@@januskaminsky5399 So, over saturated colors are not artistic decision, to hint the viewer and the protagonist diegetically that it’s not real, and aliens reconstructed it, but because you were partially color blind?
Damn! If you've never seen Jodie Foster in a movie, then you HAVE to watch 'Silence Of The Lambs', starring her and Anthony Hopkins. One of the greatest suspense movies of all time.
@@jamesalexander5623 Also a very good one. Then again, I can't really think of any movies she's done that she hasn't passed all expectations. Even in movies where she only has a very limited bit part, such as in the movie 'The Inside Man', she shines.
43:40 Don't forget Ellie's retort: "Funny, I've always believed the world is what we make of it." In other words, the world doesn't have to be that way if we strive to behave morally, instead of being Machiavellian like Drumlin.
Ellie's retort is almost a maxim of science fiction fandom; in "Fallen Angels", one of the main characters asserts that the future is something you _build_ . I was going to chastise you for invoking Machiavellian, because most people, having never read his writing, just attribute it to "dishonest and evil"... but I think you used it correctly, here. Machiavelli was a pragmatist, I think; in "The Prince" he was explaining to a potential employer how politics in the real world works. He wasn't endorsing it. Another reference would be like in "Back to School" when Rodney Dangerfield, a self-made millionaire, is taking business class, and he "corrects" the teacher on how setting up a business works in the real world, versus the idealized version the teacher was describing. Drumlin's behavior might have been unethical, but I don't really see where it's immoral.
Some actors should keep away from aliens altogether. Drumlin is Tom Skerritt, who was the spaceship captain in "Alien", and John Hurt, who plays H. R. Haddon, was the first to die in "Alien".
When little Ellie talked to the priest she was not blaming herself. She was looking to science as an explanation as rejection of the priest's supernatural explanation.
Which ultimately means she was blaming herself. She should have kept a bottle of medicine in the downstairs bathroom -- that's why her father died. Not because of fate or God. Because she didn't get the medicine fast enough.
@@zammmerjammer ... Being a child, she couldn't help but blame herself to some degree. If she had brought him the medicine faster, he may have lived or he may have died anyway. The important part of that scene was that Ellie dismissed the priest's explanation, as it was not based on facts and logic. The look she gave the priest was great. Her face said, "Get your superstitions away from me."
@@Stogie2112From my experience adults blame themselves in these situations at least as much as children- probably more so. It is a way to feel some control when there is none.
As a lifelong scifi nerd, the wonder and hope in this story makes me cry every damn time. There are plenty of scifi movies that show humanity coming together because of an alien threat. This story takes the more awe-filled perspective and is so beautiful for it. Also, Corridor Crew has an episode where they go through how they did the mirror scene Vero! Check it out 😁
Same! Alien contact stories are a barometer of how we feel about the Other. The earlier shows from the 1960s - 80s, _E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 2001, Contact, Starman, Star Trek: the Original Series, Cocoon_ portrayed contact with aliens as a wonderful adventure, promising advancement for the human race. These were from a time when America was more confident, optimistic, idealistic, adventurous, humanitarian. Today America is meaner, more self centered, scared, tribal, racist, and nativist. Current alien SF shows reflect these attitudes: _Independence Day, Aliens, Predator, Annihilation, Oblivion, Star Trek: Discovery_ , Signs, Starship Troopers.
Arrival, and The Abyss the aliens were helpful. America was healing the racial divide until the most decisive President in our lifetime split the nation. The year was 2009, and Hussien Obama told us colonialism was all that set us apart from the rest of the world, that and a lot of of leftist /communist tripe. Obamas third term is a cess pool of high crime, inflation,, and turmoil caused by a wide open southern border. If Nationalist pride means shutting the border, no more funding for new wars in Europe, law and order, energy independence, and an end to runaway spending and inflation... sign me up!
When I was growing up I watched/listened to his narration of "The Cosmos" series. I was LOCKED In and in awe at 9 years old grasping how huge and amazing the universe really is. 100% it shaped my future. Carl was a gift to our planet and species.
Favorite Jodie Foster movie hands down is "Panic Room" (2002), she stars alongside an 11 year old Kristen Stewart. Hopefully it will be getting a 4K release in the next 12 months, it's been rumored for so long.
The main theme of Carl Sagan's novel, "Contact", was the conflict between scientific inquiry and religious belief. Ellie built her life on "knowing" things rather than "believing in" things. One of Sagan's goals in his too short life was to teach us all that we MUST base our understanding of Life, the Universe and Everything on what we KNOW and not on what we believe.
But oddly, the movie kinda does the opposite. Ellie didn’t believe in God like Palmer did because he could provide no “proof”… only his personal experience and belief. Once Ellie went on her journey, nobody believed her because she could offer no “proof” other than her personal experience and belief that it was real. If we are frustrated that other characters don’t believe Ellie’s story without concrete evidence, we should be open to believing Palmer’s. To me, the movie makes a decent case for faith.
@@jeffmansfield914 I like to quote Babylon 5 on this sort of thing, as one character says "Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one"... and given Babylon 5 was written pretty much all by one guy whos an atheist but with a respect to the concept of religion, and as an agnostic myself... each side offers a person something different, it just goes bad when either side thinks the other is irrelevant (especially when at their core they dont step on each others toes at all). Theres so much we dont know, and we wont know until we eventually know it... fighting just slows down getting to the knowing. Carl Sagan was also an Agnostic from what i gather and the movie to me at least sits that middle ground until the 'reveal' at the end.
@@NZBigfoot Well put. To say Carl Sagan was against religion would be like saying Albert Einstein was against religion, and he was famously known for saying that god does not play dice with the universe. I think the truth is that science doesn't consider nor attempt to disprove the existence of god. It means you can be a scientist and a believer, so long as you're not deriving conclusions on the basis of belief.
If you watch this again, look for a symbol that keeps appearing throughout the film. A crescent-shaped constellation. It was in the spilled popcorn when her father collapsed. At the very start when the camera pulls out of young Ellie's eye, you can see a reflection of the machine in her eye, minus the rings. When Ellie first got the signal and was rushing into the building, there was a hidden cut, splitting two different takes at two different locations. They used video morphing to make it pretty seamless. In the space pull-out intro sequence, look closely at Mars, the famous Mars "face" structure is visible.
Similar to the opening sequence of the movie, Carl Sagan did some PBS specials, in one he started a camera a meter above a couple on a picnic, then kept pulling away different distances until he was at the end of the universe. Then went into one of the people going down to the sub-atomic level. Showing the huge range of everything in the universe.
I live in NM and have visited the Very Large Array a couple times, once during the 2012 eclipse. It's a wonderful place in the middle of nowhere, 3 hours from Abq. I recommend a visit if you can. Each dish is the size of a pro baseball infield. We got a tour of the control room, which about 1/4 the size of the one in the movie. There's a signed photo of Jodie Foster.
What was cool about this movie, was that Carl was pretty much on his death bed after this movie was made, and before he passed, he got to see it in a closed setting, and he appreciated how it was directed. very good movie.
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." -- Douglas Adams
This film is linked inextricably, and unbearably painfully in my mind with the movie "Frequency". (there's a movie she should watch!). Even though the stories are massively different, some of the themes are parallel.
3:27 RIP Arecibo, the dish suffered catastrophic damage a few years back and is not getting repaired, it was also featured in another Alien movie with Charlie Sheen called The Arrival (not to be confused with "Arrival" the 2016 Amy Adams movie).
This is my favorite of all Jodie Foster's films. I can't get through the ending without crying my eyes out. Thank you for reacting to this, Ms. Verowak...
The Science and Faith juxtaposition in this movie is one of my favorite things about it. I am in the minority, but I believe that science leads to faith, and that faith leads to science. I think there is room for both in this wide universe. One does not cancel out the other, but rather enhances it. I believe that when we find a way to truly bring these two ideas together, it's going to lead us to more truth.
SETI project really existed. I would say it was the first form of cloud computing, as anyone could join and allow them to use your PC capabilities to process signals received by radiotelescops around the world.
A wormhole opens into a point in space-time. You can with super advanced technology select the the spatial coordinates and the time coordinates. The return wormhole was simply set to return her to a point in space and time a moment after she left.
The scene where young Eleanor (Jena Malone-man, she was good in this) races to get the medicine is a really famous cinematography shot. There's a great RUclips video on how they did it.
I only found out recently the recurring letter C shape in the popcorn spilled on the floor, in Ellie's hand full of dirt at the end, etc....is a tribute to Carl.
"This is a risk, the occupant could die?" Do you know how many people "almost" dying to reach the moon? Even on Earth. This movie is... very surreal in the best ways.
I cannot imagine any actress other than Jodie Foster being able to pull this role off, especially the senate testimony part. Some world class acting on display there.
You just watched my favorite Jodie Foster movie. And I grew up on her. She's 2 years older than me and was always on my TV. She's done a lot of great stuff. Others will give you suggestions. This one perfectly captures her intelligence and her acting chops. And she's beautiful in it too. No wigs, no accents, no gimmicks at all. Just a fierce, driven woman playing a fierce, driven woman. It's one of my all time favorite movies, period.
I'm amazed at how the CGI in this held up over the years..I consider the quality above average, if not outstanding ❤ also my favorite opening of any movie ever..the sheer scale of seeing galaxies upon galaxies is mind blowing!
Still the best first contact movie ever made. Epic and reasonably scientifically plausible. That medicine cabinet shot is legendary. Robert Zemeckis did a lot to advance SFX, not always successfully but often right on the edge of what was possible.
41:26 The sparkling dirt is the same pattern seen on the popcorn on the floor when her father dies, the poster on her wall at Arecibo, the star system when she goes through the wormhole.
She doesn't see clearly because she loses a contact lens at some point before she wakes up and sees her father/the alien. That's why the film's name is "Contact".
@@ronbeck201 The repeating pattern is there to suggest a higher intelligence or design at work, which is funny considering Sagan was an atheist. In the book, he does it by finding a pattern in the number Pi.
22:07 you are not wrong about "Forrest Gump". Composer for Contact is Alan Silvestri and he created the OST for "Forrest Gump" as well (and for many more movies)
zemeckis is known for interesting cinematography. There's a detailed commentary track about the mirror scene on the Contact Special Features DVD. Other less noticeable shots are her running from outside at the VLA to inside the control room, which LOOKS like one continuous shot but is actually several locations, I believe in different states, seamlessly edited into one sequence. Then you have 360 degree pans, which is impossible continuously because of cameras and equipment, cut together, and the fact that literally any time you see the machine it's all CGI on green screen. I like this movie a lot, but I've also seen it more times than it might even deserve because of the stunning visuals and camerawork. The Clinton footage is from actual speeches, one of them regarding finding microbes on Mars. As with Forrest Gump, this is another thing Zemeckis loves to do. He's up there with Kubrick and Spielberg among my favorite directors.
The relationship between Ellie and David Drumlin may have been inspired by the real life story of Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish. In 1967, Bell was a post graduate researcher at Cambridge and Hewitt was her thesis advisor. During her research Bell discovered a repeating radio signal that eventually was determined to be the first case of a pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star, to be discovered. When the paper announcing the discovery of pulsars was published the first name on the authors listed was Hewish's with Bell being second. In 1974 Hewish was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of pulsars with Bell not being included. The awarding of the prize to only Hewish (Martin Ryle was also awarded the prize that year but for different research) was, and remains to this day, a controversial decision. One other note, some astronomers jokingly called the radio sources LGMs, i.e. Little Green Men.
"contact" is so good i added the dvd to my dvd collection. and i have films from every year from 1896 to 2007. my only criticisms of the film would be her little space excursion is way too short and the film has 3 false endings. i think that's gotta be some kind of record. thanks for the video smiley.
i can suggest many excellent sci-fi films. don't put too much faith in silly on-line polls. some people just have horrible taste. "colossus: the forbin project" (1970) is a perfect example of sci-fi predicting the dystopian future in which we now find ourselves. check it out. its EXCELLENT!
@@VerowakReacts ... i have more films from 1939 and 1967 than any other single years. so i guess the 30s and the 60s would be my favorite decades for film. hitchcock, spielberg, capra and ford are the directors, in order, of whom i have the most films. bogart is the actor of whom i have the most films and jimmy stewart is a close 2nd. i try to promote older films as much as i can. sadly silent films are never viewed by reactors and there's some GREAT, absolutely remarkable silent films out there. some are EPICS and some are "small," charming films. all my dvds from 1896 to about 1912 are from one film maker named georges méliès. i have his complete works. his films range in length from 10 to 30 minutes. he created some fantastic special effects techniques still used today. sorry for the length of my reply.
@@cjmacq-vg8um Some movies are also hard to come by, and usually buying a dvd of every movie isn't feasible for reactors. The older movies that I have seen have mostly been really enjoyable! No need to be sorry at all, I love seeing people be passionate about something!
18:44 _This_ is why, even though they tried millions of permutations, they could never get more than three of them to fit. They were trying to make it work in _two_ dimensions and it was designed to work in _three._ _That's_ why no more than three of them fit. If you're working in three dimensions, three is all you _need_ to fit.
The book is really very good, imo. I expected it to be notably academic and was inclined to be charitable, but expected overly rational hyberbole. I was surprised. It plays well with virtually all World metaphysics and carries such breadth to a significant depth, clearly speaking to a universal experience of the divine.
Carl Sagan was a Cosomologist, a studier of everything, though his focus was on astrophysics. One thing that bugs me about every introduction to this movie is that everyone says the book was written by Carl Sagan without mentioning Ann Druyan, his co-author and wife. The credit on the book is "Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan". In addition to being an essay on what may happen, it is a representation of how women in science are treated by their peers. It has always been true, and is true today. I am a member of SETI. Not an active scientist, but part of the crowdsourcing who will download a screensaver program to take up the extra cycles of their personal computer to help process the mountains of data provided by the project.
Robert Zemeckis had an unblemished reputation as a director between Romancing The Stone (1984) and The Polar Express (2004) - every film he directed was a hit during those two decades. He also contributed so much to the development of visual effects during that period. Often he includes what I would call 'thankless effects shots', as in the audience is entirely oblivious that there is a visual effect. For instance, did you notice when Ellie runs into the observatory going right from the street to what was actually a set all in one shot? I'll bet you missed that. His films also pioneered composited crowd scenes - before Forrest Gump if you wanted a gazillion people on screen you had to hire a gazillion extras. The impossible shots in What Lies Beneath (2000) were also very innovative and impressive for the time. I notice you haven't reacted to that Zemeckis film. Might I suggest you check it out at some point.
YES! Finally a reactor that catches how awesome it was to have a camera going backwards, up stairs, turning a corner, then into and then facing the mirror that Ellie runs to. IIRC Carl Sagan and CS Lewis would have discussions about religion and science which led to things like "do you love your father, prove it" and other faith/science questions written in the source for the movie. For other Science theory adaptations into art, you might listen to The Greatest Show on Earth by Nightwish which takes Dawkins' writings and puts them into song form.
I read this book after buying for my late mother when she was recovering from a serous back surgery. After she was done with it of course. I took her to the theater when this came out, we both thought They did a great job making the movie and your reaction has been excellent!
There is one hole in addition to the static in the idea that the trip is all in Ellie's mind. She was strapped into the seat when the capsule fell and the seat was smashed to pieces in what they believe was a split second fall - massive gravitational effect. Could she have gotten out of the seat in that time when the camera blinked out and the capsule was released? Seems unlikely. Should they have detected such a massive gravitational effect?
27:07 this is why score is sooo important in movies. The score here gives off a sense of wonderment and a hint of cosmic horror as she is both joyful for hope not being lost but scared since she knows she has to take the trip herself after previous incidents and into another reality.
There's a behind the scenes video - or it may be commentary on a separate track of the movie with Jodie talking about how they did many of those scenes - the one where she's running into the office with that long shot was filmed in several different locations. The real "contact" happened at the end with Ellie and Joss touching each other's hands in the limo.
A cool extra bit of detail on that mirror shot is that the set with the stairway was built twice - mirror images of each other (why have one set when you can have two at twice the cost). They used the mirror-image reversed version for the mirror shot, so that everything in the mirror is correctly backwards from how it is seen at other times.
might I suggest,,,soundtrack wise...Silvestri at the end of :the movie Shattered: with Tom Berenger...as the helicopter begins to move away.. Probably my single fav Silvestri moment. Movie's good too. Cheers!
The other shot which people sometimes don't notice because I think shows have imitated it a lot nowadays, but when Ellie is on the radio after her dad dies, it slow pulls back and suddenly we are outside the window as if we just went through the glass.
3:27 Not anymore! That radio telescope (Arecibo) was destroyed in December 2020 when the overhead part collapsed due to a lack of maintenance and repairs. It will not be rebuilt.
*My favorite Jodie Foster movie and performance.* Imo, her acting range is awesome. As Shepard Book said "I don't care what you believe .. *JUST BELIEVE".*
A Krasnikov Tube can do exactly what the device did in this movie. It constructs a wormhole and brings you back through the same tunnel to the very moment you started the tunnel or entered it. In reality, though, the tunnel needs to be constructed as you go, which means it could only go at the speed of the ship that is creating it.... Many people like sci fi for the possibilities. But the best stories are set in sci fi worlds, while the human conditions are explored within those settings. That is what made Twilight Zone so compelling, for example, or even Black Mirror. They were not necessarily about the tech or science, but about the humans within the context of that! The best fantasy stories as well! Great reaction! Fun!
'Silence of the Lambs' should definitely be put somewhere on your list of movies that are a must see. Jodie Foster is awesome in it and it's a great movie.
I haven’t gone through your whole backlog of videos yet to see if you’ve reacted to a video called “How the universe is way bigger than you think” but if you haven’t you should definitely check it out.
Can I just say I love that you picked up on the start of the movie with the radio "time travel" at the speed of light? A surprising number of reactors totally miss it.
LOVE this movie. Love Carl Sagan, also. The opening sequence was amazing to see at the theater (i saw it 3 times at the theater). Hope you enjoy this one!
‘…not a hexagon…” The geometric form wrapped around the spherical core of the machine, was a dodecahedron, which has 12 faces, and each face is a regular pentagon.
The saddest thing about this movie now, if no one has mentioned, is you can no longer visit the Arecibo telescope. About 2 or 3 years ago one of the cables anchoring the receiver to one of the pillars snaped, after that the weight was too much and a second one snapped and the whole receiver array fell down through the dish. It was figured it would be too expensive to repair and so Arecibo was decomissioned.
I. Sagan's book, the dad at the beach scene never happened. She only saw the star Vega close up and that huge construction of some sort, then she was sent back.
Your reaction to "the shot" was perfect. And I saw a documentary on how the shot was made, and it was much more in depth than they made it sound.. I watched it and my brain was still broken lol
You just barely miss the scene in this edited reaction, but just before the shot shown in this video at 34:18 if you look closely, the movie seems to show Ellie lying in a reclined position and she looks like she's seeing the aliens around her, and the look in her eye is terror, or overwhelmed bewilderment. You have to look really carefully because it's only on-screen for a quick moment, but it seems to say so much about her and the story. All her life she's been looking for aliens, and feels like she's prepared for it, and here she is, IN THE ROOM with actual aliens, and her brain is melting down. It also kind of syncs up with the alien telling her "We thought this would make things easier for you." They probably get a lot of completely blitzed creatures popping up at Grand Central Station, what they call her destination in the book. (Loved your reaction!!)
What a fabulous watch!!! Knew this would be a great source of fascination, interest, and belief for you. Excellent reaction. Thank you so much, for being you and allowing me, (us) to view this wonderful movie for the first time, again. Can't wait for the next one. Oh yeah, you did ask..... "Silence of the Lambs" is a phenomenal movie that Jodi Foster stars along with Sir Anthony Hopkins. Just one of her amazing accomplishments.
Vega was actually the first, blue star system the pod stopped at (where she saw the rails of the transport system); she was then moved to another system
@@VerowakReacts Then you simply must watch the Haunting of Hill House, which has an episode with a 20 minute long single take which moves around sets and changes cast. And Atonement, which has a 3 minute long take with thousands of extras and moving parts. You won't regret either!
Top notch sci-fi film. Really good script, casting & storyline. Although we'll probably never hear anything from space, I'd love to go...just to explore. Science fiction is also a favorite genre behind historical period pieces.
The unknown is so fascinating, isn't it? I would love to become a ghost and be unaffected by gravity so I can travel the universe. Sure it could take a while but I could get rides on spaceships eventually lol
Carl Sagan was a very good writer, too. He was a _brilliant_ astrophysicist who worked for NASA, but I would say that probably his _greatest_ contribution was as a popularizer of _science._ I am, of course, bragging when I say that in my day I have read many books. A lot of them (especially toward the beginning) were very entertaining, but a lot of them have also been very informative and instructional, and probably the _most_ informative and instructional was a book _he_ wrote: _The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark._ The main selling point for _this_ book is Chapter 12. _The Fine Art of Baloney Detection._ This is where Dr. Sagan introduces what he calls "the baloney-detection kit," probably because this title is catchier than "the scientific method,_ but then he details 20 examples of what his experience had shown him are the most frequently used Logical Fallacies. This was an _incredibly_ insightful thing to read, because over the years, several of them had taken me in. They were responsible for _years_ of _terrible confusion_ any time a big decision lay before me.
The mirror shot was done In Harry Potter, when they were learning to fight bogarts. In it you pass the class looking in the mirror, pass through the mirror an the class is in front of you.
Hey Verowak. This is the first time seeing a reaction from you........Well done. U r the first person I've seen to make the connection between Robert Zemekis and Alan Silvestri. I started my love and interest in movie soundtracks when I saw Romancing the Stone in 1984. To keep a long story short, I talked twice on the phone with Alan because of that movie. It turns out we are the same age. He was very generous and told me that his next project soon to be released was a movie called Back to the Future. He went into the studio and made a tape for me along with a note. I cherish it to this day. He went on to have a brilliant career. I love the guy's music. Thanks for making that connection. Bravo!
Another sci-fi movie!!! 🤩🤩Do you think that there is life somewhere else in the universe?
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Absolutely, we would be arrogant to think that there isnt life out there in the galaxy among 10 billion trillion planets. Look at how much different life there is on earth. Between humans other mammals, fish, animals and birds
Be an awful waste of space if there weren't😀
Yes and they think they have seen seven different stars with Dyson Spheres around them. I heard some scientists talking about it. They’re not sure but what if it were true? Awesome ❤
Is there Life elsewhere in the Universe?
The best, most honest answer we can give is, "We don't know."
We have no way of knowing if there is or isn't Life elsewhere. We simply don't have enough information.
All we can do is speculate and give our opinions. We have no facts.
Do I believe that Life exists elsewhere in the Universe? Yes, but we may never discover it. The Universe is Vast to the Nth degree!
The shear size of just the known Universe means the probability is high but it also that size means we are unlikely to ever find out.
My dad was in this movie. He plays one of the many faceless spectators in the courtroom at the end. RIP pops ❤
Very coool! RIP ❤❤
That's cool, one of my favourite films ❤️🇬🇧
My condolences =( Give my thanks to your pops
Contact is a great and underrated sci-fi classic, and more proof that the 1990s is one of the greatest decades in film history
I do really love the 90s movies that I've seen! Makes me excited to see more
that's for dang sure
Totally agree.
Its great until it turns to this absolute trash with her father
@@ReinersBlauerHoden The ending is a little anticlimactic. But that makes it unique. It could be worse. It could be like the ending to Mission to Mars
Glad to have been a part of making this movie. It's well directed and enjoyed contributing to the visual effects part. I was entrusted with the "Pensacola in space" scene at the end not telling my boss that I'm partially color blind. When he found out he almost tore all his hair out but it was too late, the stock has already gone to lab and we were on a tight deadline...I laugh my ass off every time I watch that scene....
Thanks for sharing that! That must feel pretty awesome seeing your work in a movie like that. Always best to ask for forgiveness than permission! Have you done some of the visual effects in other movies?
@@VerowakReacts Yes, of course, Spiderman, Matrix Revolutions, Lord of the Rings: Two towers, Stealth, Aeon Flux, Bad Boys 2, The Ghost and the Darkness and many more. I was in that business between 1996 and 2005
Januz Kaminski historically has worked with Steven Spielberg on most of his movies. Safe to say he's done some serious work!❤ Thank you Sir@@VerowakReacts
@@januskaminsky5399 It's time for me to look at what you've worked on and check out the movies that I haven't seen!!
@@januskaminsky5399 So, over saturated colors are not artistic decision, to hint the viewer and the protagonist diegetically that it’s not real, and aliens reconstructed it, but because you were partially color blind?
Forrest Gump, 12 Angry Men, Sixth Sense and now Contact. Verowak has been on a tear of late with some excellent movies.
The "waste of space" thing is a Carl Sagan quote.
He wrote the book that the movie was based on
Damn! If you've never seen Jodie Foster in a movie, then you HAVE to watch 'Silence Of The Lambs', starring her and Anthony Hopkins. One of the greatest suspense movies of all time.
Hard AGREE!
"The Accused" (1988) with Kelly McGillis. Foster won four awards for Best Actress, including the Oscar.
Panic room. Another good one.
Maybe risk "Taxi Driver"?
@@jamesalexander5623 Also a very good one. Then again, I can't really think of any movies she's done that she hasn't passed all expectations. Even in movies where she only has a very limited bit part, such as in the movie 'The Inside Man', she shines.
43:40 Don't forget Ellie's retort: "Funny, I've always believed the world is what we make of it." In other words, the world doesn't have to be that way if we strive to behave morally, instead of being Machiavellian like Drumlin.
Ellie's retort is almost a maxim of science fiction fandom; in "Fallen Angels", one of the main characters asserts that the future is something you _build_ .
I was going to chastise you for invoking Machiavellian, because most people, having never read his writing, just attribute it to "dishonest and evil"... but I think you used it correctly, here. Machiavelli was a pragmatist, I think; in "The Prince" he was explaining to a potential employer how politics in the real world works. He wasn't endorsing it. Another reference would be like in "Back to School" when Rodney Dangerfield, a self-made millionaire, is taking business class, and he "corrects" the teacher on how setting up a business works in the real world, versus the idealized version the teacher was describing.
Drumlin's behavior might have been unethical, but I don't really see where it's immoral.
Some actors should keep away from aliens altogether. Drumlin is Tom Skerritt, who was the spaceship captain in "Alien", and John Hurt, who plays H. R. Haddon, was the first to die in "Alien".
John Hurt was the last to die in "Spaceballs". 😉
We should have put them in more movies with aliens, they'd bound to have been good ones.
When little Ellie talked to the priest she was not blaming herself. She was looking to science as an explanation as rejection of the priest's supernatural explanation.
Which ultimately means she was blaming herself. She should have kept a bottle of medicine in the downstairs bathroom -- that's why her father died. Not because of fate or God. Because she didn't get the medicine fast enough.
@@zammmerjammer ... Being a child, she couldn't help but blame herself to some degree. If she had brought him the medicine faster, he may have lived or he may have died anyway.
The important part of that scene was that Ellie dismissed the priest's explanation, as it was not based on facts and logic. The look she gave the priest was great. Her face said, "Get your superstitions away from me."
@@Stogie2112From my experience adults blame themselves in these situations at least as much as children- probably more so. It is a way to feel some control when there is none.
Yes,and I love that there's layers to her reaction.
Her disgust with Drumlin was funny to watch. 😄
I love dislikable characters in movies, but they make me so mad! 🤣
She wanted him to die - I thought, just wait.
As a lifelong scifi nerd, the wonder and hope in this story makes me cry every damn time. There are plenty of scifi movies that show humanity coming together because of an alien threat. This story takes the more awe-filled perspective and is so beautiful for it.
Also, Corridor Crew has an episode where they go through how they did the mirror scene Vero! Check it out 😁
Same! Alien contact stories are a barometer of how we feel about the Other. The earlier shows from the 1960s - 80s, _E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 2001, Contact, Starman, Star Trek: the Original Series, Cocoon_ portrayed contact with aliens as a wonderful adventure, promising advancement for the human race. These were from a time when America was more confident, optimistic, idealistic, adventurous, humanitarian. Today America is meaner, more self centered, scared, tribal, racist, and nativist. Current alien SF shows reflect these attitudes: _Independence Day, Aliens, Predator, Annihilation, Oblivion, Star Trek: Discovery_ , Signs, Starship Troopers.
Arrival, and The Abyss the aliens were helpful. America was healing the racial divide until the most decisive President in our lifetime split the nation. The year was 2009, and Hussien Obama told us colonialism was all that set us apart from the rest of the world, that and a lot of of leftist /communist tripe. Obamas third term is a cess pool of high crime, inflation,, and turmoil caused by a wide open southern border. If Nationalist pride means shutting the border, no more funding for new wars in Europe, law and order, energy independence, and an end to runaway spending and inflation... sign me up!
Dr. Carl Sagan was heavily involved in this production but sadly passed away approximately six months before the film was released.
Goddamn, "For Carl" always makes me tear up. Love this movie.
Carl Sagan.
@@chanceneck8072 Carl's Jr. 🌟
@@fakereality96 Idk what that means.
When I was growing up I watched/listened to his narration of "The Cosmos" series. I was LOCKED In and in awe at 9 years old grasping how huge and amazing the universe really is. 100% it shaped my future. Carl was a gift to our planet and species.
@@mikekay3313 If a science guy, late teens can have an Idol to be proud of,.......it would be him. I'm now 69 !
Favorite Jodie Foster movie hands down is "Panic Room" (2002), she stars alongside an 11 year old Kristen Stewart. Hopefully it will be getting a 4K release in the next 12 months, it's been rumored for so long.
The main theme of Carl Sagan's novel, "Contact", was the conflict between scientific inquiry and religious belief. Ellie built her life on "knowing" things rather than "believing in" things. One of Sagan's goals in his too short life was to teach us all that we MUST base our understanding of Life, the Universe and Everything on what we KNOW and not on what we believe.
Sounds like scientism.
But oddly, the movie kinda does the opposite. Ellie didn’t believe in God like Palmer did because he could provide no “proof”… only his personal experience and belief.
Once Ellie went on her journey, nobody believed her because she could offer no “proof” other than her personal experience and belief that it was real.
If we are frustrated that other characters don’t believe Ellie’s story without concrete evidence, we should be open to believing Palmer’s.
To me, the movie makes a decent case for faith.
@@jeffmansfield914 I like to quote Babylon 5 on this sort of thing, as one character says "Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one"... and given Babylon 5 was written pretty much all by one guy whos an atheist but with a respect to the concept of religion, and as an agnostic myself... each side offers a person something different, it just goes bad when either side thinks the other is irrelevant (especially when at their core they dont step on each others toes at all).
Theres so much we dont know, and we wont know until we eventually know it... fighting just slows down getting to the knowing. Carl Sagan was also an Agnostic from what i gather and the movie to me at least sits that middle ground until the 'reveal' at the end.
@@NZBigfoot The thing is, if you wait until the 'reveal' at the end, it might be too late.
@@NZBigfoot Well put. To say Carl Sagan was against religion would be like saying Albert Einstein was against religion, and he was famously known for saying that god does not play dice with the universe. I think the truth is that science doesn't consider nor attempt to disprove the existence of god. It means you can be a scientist and a believer, so long as you're not deriving conclusions on the basis of belief.
If you watch this again, look for a symbol that keeps appearing throughout the film. A crescent-shaped constellation. It was in the spilled popcorn when her father collapsed.
At the very start when the camera pulls out of young Ellie's eye, you can see a reflection of the machine in her eye, minus the rings.
When Ellie first got the signal and was rushing into the building, there was a hidden cut, splitting two different takes at two different locations. They used video morphing to make it pretty seamless.
In the space pull-out intro sequence, look closely at Mars, the famous Mars "face" structure is visible.
The movie does not do justice to the book. Originally there were six people on the trip. Having only one person justifies people’s skepticism.
Similar to the opening sequence of the movie, Carl Sagan did some PBS specials, in one he started a camera a meter above a couple on a picnic, then kept pulling away different distances until he was at the end of the universe. Then went into one of the people going down to the sub-atomic level. Showing the huge range of everything in the universe.
I live in NM and have visited the Very Large Array a couple times, once during the 2012 eclipse. It's a wonderful place in the middle of nowhere, 3 hours from Abq. I recommend a visit if you can. Each dish is the size of a pro baseball infield.
We got a tour of the control room, which about 1/4 the size of the one in the movie. There's a signed photo of Jodie Foster.
What was cool about this movie, was that Carl was pretty much on his death bed after this movie was made, and before he passed, he got to see it in a closed setting, and he appreciated how it was directed. very good movie.
"Funny, I always thought that the world is what we make of it."
Amen.
It's between this and Silence of the Lambs for my favorite Jodi Foster film.
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
-- Douglas Adams
I was listening to HHGTTG at work last night...
i've watched this on repeat for a long time. The opening radio scene stayed with me to this day
This film is linked inextricably, and unbearably painfully in my mind with the movie "Frequency".
(there's a movie she should watch!). Even though the stories are massively different, some of the themes are parallel.
3:27 RIP Arecibo, the dish suffered catastrophic damage a few years back and is not getting repaired, it was also featured in another Alien movie with Charlie Sheen called The Arrival (not to be confused with "Arrival" the 2016 Amy Adams movie).
Also in the season 2 premier of the x files
One of the flight controllers in this film was Gerry Griffen a real life Flight Controller from the Apollo project at NASA..
This is my favorite of all Jodie Foster's films. I can't get through the ending without crying my eyes out. Thank you for reacting to this, Ms. Verowak...
The Science and Faith juxtaposition in this movie is one of my favorite things about it. I am in the minority, but I believe that science leads to faith, and that faith leads to science. I think there is room for both in this wide universe. One does not cancel out the other, but rather enhances it. I believe that when we find a way to truly bring these two ideas together, it's going to lead us to more truth.
23:00 - There's a saying that "Some people prefer a comforting lie over an uncomfortable truth."
SETI project really existed. I would say it was the first form of cloud computing, as anyone could join and allow them to use your PC capabilities to process signals received by radiotelescops around the world.
When you think about it, this is another version of, "If you build, he will come."
Baseball. really? You 'muricans 😛
@@dallesamllhals9161 ... Not baseball. The main character dealing with his/her past and missing Dad.
A wormhole opens into a point in space-time. You can with super advanced technology select the the spatial coordinates and the time coordinates. The return wormhole was simply set to return her to a point in space and time a moment after she left.
One of my all time favorite movies. It also has one of the most amazing camera shots of all time. AKA the mirror shot.
At that time that fantastic shot had never been filmed.
Brilliant movie, written by one of my favorite people of all time. Carl Sagan
I sadly haven't read or seen much that Carl Sagan has done. I'll have to fix that
absolutely adore this film. kudos to Jodie Foster and Tom Skerritt for brilliant acting
"It'd be an awful waste of space."
That's a famous phrase coined and popularized by Carl Sagan, the author.
The scene where young Eleanor (Jena Malone-man, she was good in this) races to get the medicine is a really famous cinematography shot. There's a great RUclips video on how they did it.
I only found out recently the recurring letter C shape in the popcorn spilled on the floor, in Ellie's hand full of dirt at the end, etc....is a tribute to Carl.
Oh that's a subtle but very nice tribute!
"This is a risk, the occupant could die?"
Do you know how many people "almost" dying to reach the moon? Even on Earth.
This movie is... very surreal in the best ways.
I cannot imagine any actress other than Jodie Foster being able to pull this role off, especially the senate testimony part. Some world class acting on display there.
It seems Jodie is a terrible mother: all her children are in Foster care.
You just watched my favorite Jodie Foster movie. And I grew up on her. She's 2 years older than me and was always on my TV. She's done a lot of great stuff. Others will give you suggestions. This one perfectly captures her intelligence and her acting chops. And she's beautiful in it too. No wigs, no accents, no gimmicks at all. Just a fierce, driven woman playing a fierce, driven woman. It's one of my all time favorite movies, period.
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying” - Arthur C. Clarke
I'm amazed at how the CGI in this held up over the years..I consider the quality above average, if not outstanding ❤ also my favorite opening of any movie ever..the sheer scale of seeing galaxies upon galaxies is mind blowing!
The opening is just beautiful! I love space and the universe so I'm perhaps biased
Still the best first contact movie ever made. Epic and reasonably scientifically plausible.
That medicine cabinet shot is legendary. Robert Zemeckis did a lot to advance SFX, not always successfully but often right on the edge of what was possible.
41:26 The sparkling dirt is the same pattern seen on the popcorn on the floor when her father dies, the poster on her wall at Arecibo, the star system when she goes through the wormhole.
She doesn't see clearly because she loses a contact lens at some point before she wakes up and sees her father/the alien. That's why the film's name is "Contact".
@@pistonburner6448 Spoilers!!!
That shape looks like the constellation Corona Borealis, never figured out the meaning of it. Wonder if it is in the book.
@@ronbeck201 The repeating pattern is there to suggest a higher intelligence or design at work, which is funny considering Sagan was an atheist. In the book, he does it by finding a pattern in the number Pi.
22:07 you are not wrong about "Forrest Gump". Composer for Contact is Alan Silvestri and he created the OST for "Forrest Gump" as well (and for many more movies)
zemeckis is known for interesting cinematography. There's a detailed commentary track about the mirror scene on the Contact Special Features DVD. Other less noticeable shots are her running from outside at the VLA to inside the control room, which LOOKS like one continuous shot but is actually several locations, I believe in different states, seamlessly edited into one sequence. Then you have 360 degree pans, which is impossible continuously because of cameras and equipment, cut together, and the fact that literally any time you see the machine it's all CGI on green screen. I like this movie a lot, but I've also seen it more times than it might even deserve because of the stunning visuals and camerawork. The Clinton footage is from actual speeches, one of them regarding finding microbes on Mars. As with Forrest Gump, this is another thing Zemeckis loves to do. He's up there with Kubrick and Spielberg among my favorite directors.
The relationship between Ellie and David Drumlin may have been inspired by the real life story of Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish. In 1967, Bell was a post graduate researcher at Cambridge and Hewitt was her thesis advisor. During her research Bell discovered a repeating radio signal that eventually was determined to be the first case of a pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star, to be discovered. When the paper announcing the discovery of pulsars was published the first name on the authors listed was Hewish's with Bell being second. In 1974 Hewish was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of pulsars with Bell not being included. The awarding of the prize to only Hewish (Martin Ryle was also awarded the prize that year but for different research) was, and remains to this day, a controversial decision.
One other note, some astronomers jokingly called the radio sources LGMs, i.e. Little Green Men.
This novel and film has so much heart.
Hi! Contact is my favorite film, period. Love your reactions and here is a new subscriber from Guatemala. 🤗😇🙌🏼
Welcome!! I'm glad that I watched your favourite film!! It's a great one!!!
"contact" is so good i added the dvd to my dvd collection. and i have films from every year from 1896 to 2007. my only criticisms of the film would be her little space excursion is way too short and the film has 3 false endings. i think that's gotta be some kind of record. thanks for the video smiley.
i can suggest many excellent sci-fi films. don't put too much faith in silly on-line polls. some people just have horrible taste. "colossus: the forbin project" (1970) is a perfect example of sci-fi predicting the dystopian future in which we now find ourselves. check it out. its EXCELLENT!
I'm amazed that you have films from every year from 1896 to 2007, that's very impressive! Do you have a favourite decade for movies?
@@VerowakReacts ... i have more films from 1939 and 1967 than any other single years. so i guess the 30s and the 60s would be my favorite decades for film.
hitchcock, spielberg, capra and ford are the directors, in order, of whom i have the most films. bogart is the actor of whom i have the most films and jimmy stewart is a close 2nd.
i try to promote older films as much as i can. sadly silent films are never viewed by reactors and there's some GREAT, absolutely remarkable silent films out there. some are EPICS and some are "small," charming films.
all my dvds from 1896 to about 1912 are from one film maker named georges méliès. i have his complete works. his films range in length from 10 to 30 minutes. he created some fantastic special effects techniques still used today.
sorry for the length of my reply.
@@cjmacq-vg8um Some movies are also hard to come by, and usually buying a dvd of every movie isn't feasible for reactors. The older movies that I have seen have mostly been really enjoyable! No need to be sorry at all, I love seeing people be passionate about something!
Love this one. Thanks for sharing it, Verowak. 🙂
18:44 _This_ is why, even though they tried millions of permutations, they could never get more than three of them to fit. They were trying to make it work in _two_ dimensions and it was designed to work in _three._ _That's_ why no more than three of them fit. If you're working in three dimensions, three is all you _need_ to fit.
You got it! Same composer as Forrest Gump. Alan Silvestri
The book is really very good, imo. I expected it to be notably academic and was inclined to be charitable, but expected overly rational hyberbole. I was surprised. It plays well with virtually all World metaphysics and carries such breadth to a significant depth, clearly speaking to a universal experience of the divine.
Carl Sagan was a Cosomologist, a studier of everything, though his focus was on astrophysics. One thing that bugs me about every introduction to this movie is that everyone says the book was written by Carl Sagan without mentioning Ann Druyan, his co-author and wife. The credit on the book is "Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan".
In addition to being an essay on what may happen, it is a representation of how women in science are treated by their peers. It has always been true, and is true today.
I am a member of SETI. Not an active scientist, but part of the crowdsourcing who will download a screensaver program to take up the extra cycles of their personal computer to help process the mountains of data provided by the project.
Robert Zemeckis had an unblemished reputation as a director between Romancing The Stone (1984) and The Polar Express (2004) - every film he directed was a hit during those two decades. He also contributed so much to the development of visual effects during that period. Often he includes what I would call 'thankless effects shots', as in the audience is entirely oblivious that there is a visual effect.
For instance, did you notice when Ellie runs into the observatory going right from the street to what was actually a set all in one shot? I'll bet you missed that. His films also pioneered composited crowd scenes - before Forrest Gump if you wanted a gazillion people on screen you had to hire a gazillion extras. The impossible shots in What Lies Beneath (2000) were also very innovative and impressive for the time. I notice you haven't reacted to that Zemeckis film. Might I suggest you check it out at some point.
Forrest Gump had the most SFX shots in a movie at the time, and its so seamless that its completely unnoticed.
YES! Finally a reactor that catches how awesome it was to have a camera going backwards, up stairs, turning a corner, then into and then facing the mirror that Ellie runs to.
IIRC Carl Sagan and CS Lewis would have discussions about religion and science which led to things like "do you love your father, prove it" and other faith/science questions written in the source for the movie. For other Science theory adaptations into art, you might listen to The Greatest Show on Earth by Nightwish which takes Dawkins' writings and puts them into song form.
I read this book after buying for my late mother when she was recovering from a serous back surgery. After she was done with it of course. I took her to the theater when this came out, we both thought They did a great job making the movie and your reaction has been excellent!
Masterpiece! (the movie, the music and your reaction!)
Thank you!!! 😁
There is one hole in addition to the static in the idea that the trip is all in Ellie's mind. She was strapped into the seat when the capsule fell and the seat was smashed to pieces in what they believe was a split second fall - massive gravitational effect. Could she have gotten out of the seat in that time when the camera blinked out and the capsule was released? Seems unlikely. Should they have detected such a massive gravitational effect?
A plothole deeper than crater lake.
27:07 this is why score is sooo important in movies. The score here gives off a sense of wonderment and a hint of cosmic horror as she is both joyful for hope not being lost but scared since she knows she has to take the trip herself after previous incidents and into another reality.
I've been to the VLA. I ran into it by accident driving from New Mexico back to Arizona! You can actually tour it and see where they filmed!
There's a behind the scenes video - or it may be commentary on a separate track of the movie with Jodie talking about how they did many of those scenes - the one where she's running into the office with that long shot was filmed in several different locations. The real "contact" happened at the end with Ellie and Joss touching each other's hands in the limo.
28:45 - “it also makes sense that they have hexagons cuz they’re the bestagons” ~some CGP fan
A cool extra bit of detail on that mirror shot is that the set with the stairway was built twice - mirror images of each other (why have one set when you can have two at twice the cost). They used the mirror-image reversed version for the mirror shot, so that everything in the mirror is correctly backwards from how it is seen at other times.
might I suggest,,,soundtrack wise...Silvestri at the end of :the movie Shattered: with Tom Berenger...as the helicopter begins to move away.. Probably my single fav Silvestri moment. Movie's good too. Cheers!
The other shot which people sometimes don't notice because I think shows have imitated it a lot nowadays, but when Ellie is on the radio after her dad dies, it slow pulls back and suddenly we are outside the window as if we just went through the glass.
And when the signal is discovered and she runs from outside to the control room
3:27 Not anymore! That radio telescope (Arecibo) was destroyed in December 2020 when the overhead part collapsed due to a lack of maintenance and repairs. It will not be rebuilt.
My urologist looked and sounded like James Woods. I liked him as much as I did Woods character.
🤣
Absolutely love your disgust with Drumlin. Well placed
*My favorite Jodie Foster movie and performance.* Imo, her acting range is awesome. As Shepard Book said "I don't care what you believe .. *JUST BELIEVE".*
aw ffs this movie gets me going as it is with out you bringing in shepherds books death
This is among my favorite films, glad you enjoyed it. I always loved the line of dialog from the alien of their perception of humanity.
A Krasnikov Tube can do exactly what the device did in this movie. It constructs a wormhole and brings you back through the same tunnel to the very moment you started the tunnel or entered it. In reality, though, the tunnel needs to be constructed as you go, which means it could only go at the speed of the ship that is creating it.... Many people like sci fi for the possibilities. But the best stories are set in sci fi worlds, while the human conditions are explored within those settings. That is what made Twilight Zone so compelling, for example, or even Black Mirror. They were not necessarily about the tech or science, but about the humans within the context of that! The best fantasy stories as well! Great reaction! Fun!
26:19 bless your little Canadian heart
'Silence of the Lambs' should definitely be put somewhere on your list of movies that are a must see. Jodie Foster is awesome in it and it's a great movie.
I haven’t gone through your whole backlog of videos yet to see if you’ve reacted to a video called “How the universe is way bigger than you think” but if you haven’t you should definitely check it out.
I haven't checked it out. Only heard about it from the comments on this video :D
Can I just say I love that you picked up on the start of the movie with the radio "time travel" at the speed of light? A surprising number of reactors totally miss it.
LOVE this movie. Love Carl Sagan, also.
The opening sequence was amazing to see at the theater (i saw it 3 times at the theater). Hope you enjoy this one!
‘…not a hexagon…” The geometric form wrapped around the spherical core of the machine, was a dodecahedron, which has 12 faces, and each face is a regular pentagon.
7:45 Looks like she's about to become a...
**puts on sunglasses**
...Foster child.
_YEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHH!_
🤣Good one, I like it!!!
The saddest thing about this movie now, if no one has mentioned, is you can no longer visit the Arecibo telescope. About 2 or 3 years ago one of the cables anchoring the receiver to one of the pillars snaped, after that the weight was too much and a second one snapped and the whole receiver array fell down through the dish. It was figured it would be too expensive to repair and so Arecibo was decomissioned.
That is so unfortunate and sad 😭
I. Sagan's book, the dad at the beach scene never happened. She only saw the star Vega close up and that huge construction of some sort, then she was sent back.
Your reaction to "the shot" was perfect. And I saw a documentary on how the shot was made, and it was much more in depth than they made it sound.. I watched it and my brain was still broken lol
You just barely miss the scene in this edited reaction, but just before the shot shown in this video at 34:18 if you look closely, the movie seems to show Ellie lying in a reclined position and she looks like she's seeing the aliens around her, and the look in her eye is terror, or overwhelmed bewilderment. You have to look really carefully because it's only on-screen for a quick moment, but it seems to say so much about her and the story. All her life she's been looking for aliens, and feels like she's prepared for it, and here she is, IN THE ROOM with actual aliens, and her brain is melting down. It also kind of syncs up with the alien telling her "We thought this would make things easier for you." They probably get a lot of completely blitzed creatures popping up at Grand Central Station, what they call her destination in the book. (Loved your reaction!!)
Pretty good movie, but I wish they gave us more with the actual contact with the alien civilization.
7:31 Love waiting for the mirror shot reaction every time !
What a fabulous watch!!! Knew this would be a great source of fascination, interest, and belief for you. Excellent reaction. Thank you so much, for being you and allowing me, (us) to view this wonderful movie for the first time, again. Can't wait for the next one. Oh yeah, you did ask..... "Silence of the Lambs" is a phenomenal movie that Jodi Foster stars along with Sir Anthony Hopkins. Just one of her amazing accomplishments.
Vega was actually the first, blue star system the pod stopped at (where she saw the rails of the transport system); she was then moved to another system
7:18 so glad you pointed out how amazing that shot was. So easily goes unappreciated.
I loved being amazed at what people come up with in terms of cinematography
@@VerowakReacts Then you simply must watch the Haunting of Hill House, which has an episode with a 20 minute long single take which moves around sets and changes cast.
And Atonement, which has a 3 minute long take with thousands of extras and moving parts.
You won't regret either!
@@BennyHarveyBigMan Those sound amazing! 🤩
7:14 This film came out when I was in film school and we studied this scene.
Top notch sci-fi film. Really good script, casting & storyline. Although we'll probably never hear anything from space, I'd love to go...just to explore. Science fiction is also a favorite genre behind historical period pieces.
The unknown is so fascinating, isn't it? I would love to become a ghost and be unaffected by gravity so I can travel the universe. Sure it could take a while but I could get rides on spaceships eventually lol
@@VerowakReacts ooooh, forgot to make a suggestion for you; "Metropolis" & "THX 1138"...both phenomenal sci-fi movies! 😁
Carl Sagan was a very good writer, too. He was a _brilliant_ astrophysicist who worked for NASA, but I would say that probably his _greatest_ contribution was as a popularizer of _science._
I am, of course, bragging when I say that in my day I have read many books. A lot of them (especially toward the beginning) were very entertaining, but a lot of them have also been very informative and instructional, and probably the _most_ informative and instructional was a book _he_ wrote: _The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark._
The main selling point for _this_ book is Chapter 12. _The Fine Art of Baloney Detection._ This is where Dr. Sagan introduces what he calls "the baloney-detection kit," probably because this title is catchier than "the scientific method,_ but then he details 20 examples of what his experience had shown him are the most frequently used Logical Fallacies.
This was an _incredibly_ insightful thing to read, because over the years, several of them had taken me in. They were responsible for _years_ of _terrible confusion_ any time a big decision lay before me.
another great movie is Frequency with Dennis Quaid......her wanting to contact her mother and father through the radio reminded me of that movie
The mirror shot was done In Harry Potter, when they were learning to fight bogarts. In it you pass the class looking in the mirror, pass through the mirror an the class is in front of you.
I believe you'll enjoy the book quite a bit, especially where it's different from the movie.
Hey Verowak. This is the first time seeing a reaction from you........Well done. U r the first person I've seen to make the connection between Robert Zemekis and Alan Silvestri. I started my love and interest in movie soundtracks when I saw Romancing the Stone in 1984. To keep a long story short, I talked twice on the phone with Alan because of that movie. It turns out we are the same age. He was very generous and told me that his next project soon to be released was a movie called Back to the Future. He went into the studio and made a tape for me along with a note. I cherish it to this day. He went on to have a brilliant career. I love the guy's music. Thanks for making that connection. Bravo!
One of my fave childhood movies. I love seeing reactors get more and more enraged at Drumlin lol
Damn that guy!! 😠
There are a few changes in the book and of course more details.
The music sounds to similar to Forrest Gump because Alan Silvestri composed both movies. He later did Captain America and Avengers!❤
Alan Silvestri has quickly become one of my favourite composers... I love the avengers music!!
@@VerowakReacts Have you seen Avengers: Endgame? He reused some of his score from Cast Away in it. You can look up comparison videos on RUclips.