Contact The Movie : First Contact

This is my favorite scene in the movie "Contact" starring Jodie Foster among others. After years of silence the skies are filled with voices from an alien civilization and Ellie Arroway is the first human on Earth to hear them.What happens next is history.

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• First Contact
• Jodie Foster
• Very Big Array
• New Mexico

[dgahacker]

There are a lot of advances in cinema since the filming of Contact. However, the way the story is written and the way the story is told (i.e. Directed) there isn't anything today that would make it better. So many people neglect to realize the point of the film and the usefulness of the Sci-fi genre. Its not about the aliens, its not about the different worlds, or the CGI this story like all good Sci-fi films are stories about ourselves (human nature).

[tonyonly2]

and what do YOU do for a living kingbrenty? drive an ice cream truck?

[lewisner]

@ferrucciog Yes. We live longer and are better fed, and can communicate with each other over vast distances instantaneously.

[ofgs2]

I think this is a very intellegent film. It goes more for the realistic sci-fi approach.

[shutupsilentjim]

@ferrucciog "Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not master the differential equations of thermodynamics or the biochemical cures of illness. They stay in thatched huts and die young."

- Edward O. Wilson

[acm58]

@stuartquark "The flux unit or jansky (symbol Jy) is a non-SI unit of spectral flux density[1] equivalent to 10−26 watts per square metre per hertz."

l2google buddy :)

[stuartquark]

At 6;54 does he say jansky? What is a jansky?

[pablo229pablo229]

"well, not if they use their *laser blasters and *photon torpedoes!!..."

[PeterTravisBooth]

This scene still gives me goose-bumps. Great scene.

[B4Bandana]

I am a scientist, and I can confirm this is how almost all discoveries are made. You jump into a convertible and start yelling numbers into a walkie-talkie. It is fucking epic.

[meginmd]

"....it'd be an awful waste of space."

God, do I love that line.

[ferrucciog]

Are we happier as human race? Is the world fundamentaly a better place because science and technology?