Contact - "They should have sent a poet"
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- Contact - "They should have sent a poet"
One excellent remark by the main character of this great movie, based on Carl Sagan's best seller "Contact". This excerpt of the movie is placed here for a debate purpose on the subject of atheism and the sense of wonder. - Фільми й анімація
"They should have sent a poet" perhaps my favorite movie line ever!
in this situation sending a scientist is more productive
Ok to go ... is my favorite line - and it is on my license plate. A cop stopped me once thinking my plate meant that I wanted to speed until I told him about the movie. I saw him again, while slowly driving, and he said that the movie was wonderful. Happy I was able to lead him to such a good and beautiful experience.
One of mine too! This and her speech in the court room
which
poet? i have learned diff. Jobs
female AssisTenT of DenTisTs
MouTh Face surgery
• womanswear dress making
• female Bar Keeper : mixing CockTails
why because you are a failed poet? haha
I built that seat, sprayed Jodie with nitrogen as she entered the craft and ran the 2nd drop countdown clock. Carl gave us weekly pep-talks (read by the first AD), until the very last week of shooting, when he passed. Was a tough time for most of us.
What a story, Scott! Thanks a lot for sharing.
@@heldersanches Aw, was glad to share, Helder. Though I was on set a fair amount, few actually worked closely with director, Bob Zemeckis (Back To The Future, Forrest Gump), but at the big (West LA), Century City premier, and after the showing, I saw Bob wandering about, and thought I'd say hi, and introduce my 10 year old daughter to him. Not knowing the depth of the film (even whike working on it), my daughter only grasped about half of the film, let alone nuances, but the conversation went just like this...
Me - Hi, Bob, Scott from special effects, and what a wonderful piece of work, by the way, this is my daughter, Shelly.
Bob - Hi, Shelly (he extended his hand to greet her, but her hand was deep within her sweater, but she still shook his hand)
Bob - So, how did you like the movie?
Shelly - (smiling, bashfully), It was okay...
Bob - Just okay?
Shelly - (again, bashfully), yes.
Bob - Well, Shelly, I guess I'm gonna have to work a little harder on the next one! (he chuckled)
Shelly - Maybe... (they both chuckled)
One father/daughter moment I'll never forget. ♥
@@scottdouglasmaclachlan4792 Yeah, those father/daughter moments are very special. I know what you're talking about, I've got two of my own. :-)
@@scottdouglasmaclachlan4792small moves, Shelly. Small moves
@@scottdouglasmaclachlan4792 Omg that's the most adorable thing ever Scott! I'm sure your daughter has a huge appreciation for the movie these days.
The whole lead up to the launch and the almost Zen like hiss of the machinery was the most exciting movie moment ever for me. Everything builds up to it. That feeling of wonder we have about going to the stars, and right now in that scene, we're about to do it!
She should have won the Oscar for this.... no words, no words... to describe this movie
One of the finest movies ever made. My beloved is now in that Sea of Infinite Beauty and is getting to experience firsthand what Jodi saw! He tells me that everything he looks at is just filled with incredible beauty that is indescribable.
They way that she says "poetry" breaks my heart every time
Reduced to a child by utter Awe. Such a perfect performance! 🥹
This is my favourite ever moment of Jodie Foster's acting. In the context of the film, it pulls on my heartstrings hard and my tear ducts are going. I only wish they hadn't overcooked the idea and floated in images of the character as a little girl on her face. It makes 'sense' but Jodie is pulling out the stops here acting-wise and there's enough emotion already. In fact her ACTING indeed is 'so beautiful'. She really put her heart and soul into this performance. No one in her generation could do it any better.
They needed to superimpose the child’s face because of the nature of the moment being portrayed. The depth of the meaning behind her becoming her child self as she beheld the beauty of our cosmos is ingrained in the nature of our universe itself. The universal soul is a child. You cannot behold this beauty and understand it if you didn’t see it through the purity of a child’s eye. The purity comes from the unhindered love and joy that we experience when we look at the beauty of our universe like when we were a child- before the world told us not to trust our inner knowing. Jodie’s acting isn’t impaired in this, in fact the impact of it is heightened and we see through the skin into her soul as she witnesses the universal soul. Beautiful, isn’t it? This is who we all are.
@@kiarabanerjee9148true dat.
The overwhelming sense of wonder and discovery in this scene makes me teary eyed every time. And people question our space programs.
Ditto, just saw this on cinemax..had me choked up. We all feel so alone and insignificant sometimes ...last half hour of this movie speaks for all of us
A sense wonder isn't fix our own planet, silly space-dreamer. Before we try to map the stars, maybe we should finish the more poignant messes on our own plate, hmm?
EmptyMan000 - maybe we should have perfected the bicycle before developing the automobile....or perfected that before we developed the airplane.....
Imagination knows no bounds or rules....it’s non linear and illogical
@@DNotzz I'm watching it on original video shop DVD, but pretty sure I have BluRay somewhere. Anyway, yes, I've always parroted that quote (Carl Sagan) spoke which I usually get right but won't right now. Anyway, you know the one cos you just referred to it. I should make a t-shirt of it!! 👍
Well said. I am amazed & genuinely proud of the human race daring to explore space. I was really into the landing a machine on a asteroid. Then again on another asteroid. I relayed that to friends. One reaction was; the money & technology should be used on the earth & so what? I believe humanities destiny is to explore space.
I feel the same way when I ride the Thunder Gun Express slide at the waterpark.
did you see the way she thunder gunned it through that wormhole?
Or the Gravitron at every fair
This is my favorite movie and my favorite scene.
Paul Clayton Smith mine too
👍 from Dare To Speak
This makes me cry every time. I remember the first time seeing TRebs planet on Capella. Still chokes me up,
Please clarify were you on a space station? Are there images of TRebs planet?
That shot of the galaxy at 1:51 was so epic, absolutely breathtaking and beautiful. We have no idea. 😭
That was a galaxy
That's a galaxy. The universe would look like veins
Got it!
no
idea whaT you speak of .... if am honesT
i remember hte scene where she told them not to edit the schematics and she was right. the seat was useless and extremely troublesome.
I always enjoyed this scene because it shows our limited vocabulary when encountering true wonder. " I had no idea! "
i also "wonder" only in which way
am a creaTive woman i have only
no
Time for
nonsense
@@andrealuisecandido1154She was referring to the existence of God: "I had no idea", meaning she was wrong her entire life.
Depressed and pseudo scientific liberal socialist pretend this is about arrogant self knowledge and wisdom.
First they show her the station at Vega where the signal was coming from, then their home planet and then I guess they sent her right at the center of the galaxy
the shit with the chair always scared the hell out of me, it still freaks me out a lot for something thats just a chair breaking loose
Because your sense of security broke loose with it. Being strapped into your chair should mean safety but in this case it was entirely wrong. Sometimes you gotta take a chance.
“It’s a compass. You should keep it, could save your life someday…”
From 2:00 you can see her face warping into a few different facial expressions that come with emotions which they did with CGI. I love that part.
"Director Robert Zemeckis had asked her to repeat the pod scene six times, each time with a different expression (intense joy, fear, sadness and so on) and then the SFX crew quickly morphed her face from one take to the next. For a moment they also used the face of Dr. Arroway as a child." - IMDB Trivia
I saw that part where they morph her face as a child. So many times I've seen it and just noticed it
+Jordy R Gotta watch it again after reading these comments.
@@ScottyWithABeard Her voice changes to her younger self at that time too.
Awesome Comment
It's so beautiful she said,....she's right. The most important part of the whole movie in my opinion,.....we are starlight, we are the universe.......
We are the only god we will ever find.
I love the glimpses of life during her journey! Especially the quadruple star system scene when we see a a planet teaming with life. That is my favorite scene.
I must of seen this movie a hundred times and this is the beginning of my favorite scene. But in all the time I've seen this I've never noticed that 2:15 Jodie Foster's younger and present character are inhabiting the same time/space. You can seen the young actress who played Ellie face and voice imposed over Jodie Foster's. That just adds to the greatness of this scene.
+ej1050 Wow, thanks for making me notice that.
+ej1050 I've always noticed the change in voice but never the two faces. Good spot!
+ej1050 homage to " 2001", " 2010 " maybe ?
ej1050 OMG. You're right! I never knew!
That's the whole point... this movie lets you travel into different dimensions at the same time. This movie isn't what it seems to be (it"s not a SF-movie to be honest) as reality in many ways is not what it seems to be.
This movie plays well (for those who can see it) with hidden (for many peeps that is) aspects of the mind.
This is basically a movie about human consciousness and how to get to it (THROUGH it)...
Look at this movie from another perspective and a whole new reality will open...
The reality of yourself...
The reality many peeps are blind to... the reality of themselves.
Have a nice day
Love the way they shot this. Very unusual with the light subtly shifting angles across her face. And the scene before this, in the wormhole with the timeshift images ripping through her. Very effective.
1:13 that part where the chair hits the ceiling always scared the ____ out of me when I was younger.
Seeing this scene again, it makes me wonder if the aliens weren't deliberately showing this to the traveler. It could have been both to pacify and to get a sense of our species' reaction to the sight. If so, Ellie's reaction was just exactly right, seeing it with wonder and humility.
Es tan conmovedora esta escena. Imagino que así será cuando por fin vea cara a cara a mi amado Dios. Mi Señor Jesucristo. "So celestial event. No words, no words to describe...poeltry! They should send a poet. So beautiful, So beautiful, So beautiful, So beautiful. I had no idea, I had no idea, I had no idea!!!" Ven Señor Jesús 🙏🏻
ThaTs only FanTasy .... i Think
This scene is true poetry
I've read the book three times. One of my favorite movies, even though it doesn't follow the book exactly.
Thank you sooo much for posting this beautiful excerpt from Contact, and really appreciate enriching comment from Jordy R below as well!
She was a poet only to make many expressions of her face, but it's so much more her eyes are speaking by love in the heart, faith and the sensibility that she has for her desires to know that all the world has been asking for many years: who knows what is there beyond all these bolds? Could we ever get an answer? 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Her eyes witness the formation of a new solar system with its protostar in the center gathering mass, I love every facial expression in this part of the film, it's touching.
I worked with the second AD unit during the desert scenes - Carl hung around set giving pep talks and explaining things in detail - it was always cool when he was around. We used to go behind the catering trailer and smoke about 10 blunts before the end of the day - that dude loved his long bottom leaf. I sold him a dime bag once.
Vim pelo canal de @abe tarô amo esse filme!!! gratidão!
Every time I see this scene I'm reminded of Psalm 19:1 where David wrote that the heavens showcase God's glory.
Yes the universe is undescribably beautiful just take a look at the Hubble famous deep space photo where they still in an apparently dark corner of the visible universe they still photographed countless galaxies.
I wanna watch this movie again and again!
1:40 I had an out of body experience yesterday. I literally saw this. I experienced this. I swear to everything I hold dear that I am telling the truth. This is out there, waiting for all of us. Actually, we're experiencing it right now, it just doesn't feel like it yet. But it will, when your life is being shown to you again, in non-chronological order.
Imagine you see a galaxy in real life from above our eyes see more clear than any camera, how much stars and planets you could see at that moment.
You need to know who Carl Sagan was.
Whenever the occasion calls for it I always do an impression (usually sarcastically) of Jodie Foster saying the last few lines. Inevitably, only I end up getting the reference... but that's good enough for me.
Poetry content right here
I had no idea; I had no idea; I had no idea; I had no idea; I had NO Idea!!!
Katie Jesusita Measell... I had no idea
Yeah, it feels kinda like this, It's SO BEAUTIFUL every single moment that awaits me, & for SO MANY YEARS I HAD NO IDEA
GOD & JESUS They're ALIVE!!!
So true because you need all the words possible lol, passion, empathy, 🌑🌕, open eyes, and so much more to try, and describe everything we see every day all around us 🌐🪐 so imagine this experience 🤩🖌️🌟🌌
And then the Dark Eldar reveal they were behind it all…
‘Hello Ellie. We’ve been waiting for you.’
I got the same feeling watching this as I get when I dream about being in space
This is my favorite Sci-Fi movie.When making this movie they had Carl Sagan's wife for advice on some of the space scenes.Still Hollywood got some scenes wrong.It was a great movie in the end.Thanks for the upload!
That seat sounded like my washer just before it broke.
I wish this footage got back to earth
If I have to describe giving birth and seeing my daughter for the first time. It was so beautiful, no words can describe it.
You should have had a poet in the room with you.
Just remember, here we are in 2023, still fighting over who has the best imaginary friend.
After you have seen the stars.
How can there not be a heaven?
Because magic sky daddies are make believe?
This flick never really got the credit it deserved.
I just watched this on tv and wondered if they edited her face it looked crazy. I dont remember it looking that way in theaters but that was forever ago.
This scene of the movie was like the Gravity of 1997.
***** Obviously.
...more like the Interstellar of 1997. Gravity was an awesome film but it was more pragmatic and technical if you know what I mean.
Não estamos sozinhos no universo
All that amazing beauty was just a Speck in the Universe !!!
TED 2
i like this movie so much new ideas and philosopy a revolution
Family Guy's take on this line is beautiful....when Peter finds an abandoned Twinkie factor after a nuclear war....
Yes. The younger version of herself. You can also hear her younger self mixed in with Fosters audio.
fucking tears ! i can't help releasing them !!
holy crap i actually never noticed she said this until now lol. Ive watched this scene probably 50 times
did protoss archons (starcraft) watch this scene before they have a lot of puns during the war?
first time i saw it, the chair slamming into the roof scared me.
They should have sent Jason Silva
"They should have sent a poet"
DearMoon: Okay, hold my beer.
Dr. Sagan was much more respectable than establishment respected him and he KNEW much more than establishment is ready to admit.
No body notes that the capsule was modified and that kill the passager, but they know that 😉
Wouldn't be surprised if it was. Zemeckis was experimenting a lot with CG even this far back.
Uh... I've actually taken pictures through my smaller scope, the colors are mostly correct. The only exception is when they intentionally create false color images to show features outside visible wavelengths.
Then answer me this. Why did the camera record 18 hours of static......... ANSWER!
+JJ No witnesses to their " godlike " nature ? I got nothing.
Love this movie.
:D
that it was an existing civilization of intelligent life other than humans somewhere in the universe
also that the civilization that originally sent the message still existed i suppose
that's what i thought, i just wasnt sure.
She was pretty beautiful too.
I had no idea… we still in 2024 have no idea.
I remember the ruckus, this movie caused, when word got out that the alien turned out to be her father. :'D After Independence Day, the world had very high expectations, when it came to alien movies!
Independence Day was a good movie, but it pales when compared to Contact, which is a great movie, in a different league.
And, the alien was NOT her father, as I'm sure you know. I heard a number of different takes on the encounter from people who didn't understand. One of those takes had her trip being to heaven, where she got to talk with her father. I don't know whether these people were too busy eating popcorn, or just too dense to understand the dialog.
@@Vector_Ze NO SHIT, the alien wasn't her father. You actually think I was saying it was??? :'D Use your head.
@@CooManTunes Typical UA-camr, with almost zero reading comprehension and prone to emotional, insulting outbursts.
@@Vector_Ze HA! O RLY? THE ALIEN WASN'T HER ACTUAL FATHER? THAT WAS VERY HARD TO REALIZE, WITHOUT YOUR COMMENT! :'D
Stop being an idiot, and develop your critical thinking skills.
I cried
She Saw Katya!
i see what u did there, i hope my answer makes you feel VALID and SEEN.
1:45
The eye ball
What's the connection between the torch and her being able to see the galaxy?
Stays the same but our faces change
Nat & Jon
Through the Wyrmhole
Did she have an idea?
That means follow the ET recipe or you're damned.
They did
@ineedu2hateme but you haven't even seen a fraction of earth. Go see it all. Then tell me whether it is boring.
❤❤
I have a feeling what that poet would have written.
"I love the whole world, and all its sights and sounds, boom-de-yada, boom-de-yada, boom-de-yada, boom-de-yada..."
Starcraft sent me here.
in the snyder cut, she didn't meet her father
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉😊pg hello Jodie Foster how are you? Very nice trip.
My gut instinct says no murder death kill, like another movie. So I welcome technology to help and save our freedoms to help! I write this today following a coronovirus and constitutional series of events 2019 to 2020
0:10
Yes I’m a horrible liar.
GOD did send a poet and I wanted to get to heaven but the missions ended in the 70s a class delta five is a type of UFO
What is she looking at that has her in awe?
Me after watching Zack Snyder´s Justice League
i didnt understand the part where she says "they're alive"
It wasn't a signal sent across millions of light-years by a civilization that is now dead. If we were to receive a signal from some species today - chances are the senders would be long dead. These folks are very much alive and kicking.
The chair was do it a terrible interference on the project 😐
This is what girls say when they see my sweet abs.