CONTACT Ending Explained | Dr. Ellie Arroway's Interstellar Voyage
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- Опубліковано 10 чер 2024
- An exploration of Ellie’s interstellar voyage from the perspective of the novel Contact by Carl Sagan and examine some of the fascinating details of her epic journey through the cosmos. Undoubtedly, the most fascinating sequence of events in Carl Sagan's Contact revolves around Dr. "Ellie" Arroway's extraordinary journey through a series of wormholes, culminating in her encounter with advanced extraterrestrials. This pivotal part of the story unfolds with a rapid and intense pace, leaving both the reader and the central character in a state of awe.
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did you just watch contact recently?
And if so which did you prefer?
Contact was a great film, especially the whole "why build one when you can build 2 for twice the price!" bit XD
"Wanna take a ride"
@@busterjay64 favorite quote from the movie 👍
“….Clever girl”
“ASS TO ASS!”
I remember buying the book long before the movie came out.
I remember when Ellie talking with her 'dad', she mentioned how the aliens must've felt when they saw the Nazis as the first to send a strong enough signal out to space. Her 'father' stated they were a bit worried and almost dismissed Earth completely but the one thing that made them reconsider was the music playing during the broadcast. It was enough for them to give humanity at least a chance to connect.
I love this film - nothing can beat the moment when they first hear the signal!
Right there with you
I love how realistic that seems to me as well. If something were to happen like that in real life, I certainly hope that scientist like Eli would be the ones to discover it first and getting people from around the world on it so that they don’t lose the signal. I’m afraid that some government agency would keep it hidden and suppressed. If it was they who received it first..
Agreed!
Great film/story. The delivery of the line "they're alive" still gives me chills.
Contact is such a GREAT movie.
Truly an SF gem.
One of my favourite films.
Rachel Constantine: I assume you read the confidential fundings report from the investigating committee.
Michael Kitz: I flipped it through it.
Rachel Constantine: I was especially interested in the section on Arroway's video unit. The one recorded the static?
Michael Kitz: Continue.
Rachel Constantine: The fact that it recorded static isn't what interets me.
Michael Kitz: Continue.
Rachel Constantine; What interests me is that it recorded approximately eighteen hours of it.
Michael Kitz: That is interesting, isn't it?
Jodie Foster repeating "Okay to go," even as she is utterly terrified by the unknown and then her line, "They should have sent a poet," are two moments in cinema I'll never forget.
I'm ashamed I have not read the book but I truly love the movie and the science behind the story. It has now became a must read ty. Jodie foster was perfect in the role as Ellie
Contact was a great movie. Excellent science fiction story.
Oooh! Haven't watched this in forever! One of the first VHS I ever bought.
I worked on the visual effects, and spent time on the gantry and pod set. I was able to experience Ellie's pov entering the pod. I walked the gantry tunnel, across the bridge and stepped inside the pod. Of course the view below was only bluescreen.
That's really cool! Thanks for sharing!
Awesome ❤
This film was just fantastic in the Dolby sound theater. I find it funny that since it didn’t have a space battle at the end, some people hated it.
I love this movie so much.
It's one I've seen so many times I kind of know it by heart.
The most enduring thing about "Contact" is it was SciFi that forced you to THINK. No space battles (balls), no Greys, no Deau Ex Machina moments. It did make one optimistic and look up once in awhile. Best line for me was "We thought that we were alone. But in all our searching we realised that we had each other".
Contact is one of my most favorite stories of all time. I've never read the book but I've seen the movie many times.
Do yourself a favor and read the book it's brilliant.
Thanks for another awesome video to you and your team. Your nerdy talk is always the best part of my day. I am a Cookies monster.
Me too!!
"Wanna take a ride?" Art Bell loved this movie!
I saw the movie first, and it was really good in its own right. It was a brilliant crafting by a brilliant director, Robert Zemeckis. The book, which I read later, was a whole different level of tantalizing detail. It was also amazing, particularly the ending. Sagan produced a whole series of really good nonfiction books. The Demon Haunted World was one that really influenced my life.
I always wondered about the sand on her hand, and there was something on the floor at the bottom of stairs. It’s been so long since I watched this move I can’t be more precise.
The reflective sparkles in the sand (*and* the spilled popcorn at the bottom of the stairs at the Arroway home) are the constellation of Corona Borealis, which was Carl Sagan’s favorite constellation since it resembles a dish antenna.
I loved that scene where the billionaire said how the government built two machines.
I always love your content. Keep up the good work!!
The part where James Woods character and the other White House staffer have a conversation about Ellie's flight recorder when it had 16 hours of static on it. This was the evidence that they needed to give her a huge grant to expand the telescope array to look deeper into space.
Her seeing her father, and my hopes to see mine after my dad, and mom passed. That stood out.
It wasn't her father.
@@jd3jefferson556 You don't say lol
@@camulusjb906 I guess. I'm sorry for your loss, but how does aliens give you hope to see your dead loved ones?
@@jd3jefferson556 Its the concept that you will be able to see the loved ones you have lost. True its an alien but I think we all hope for a day to be reunited and here in this context even though its not really her father it gives a moment of validated hope of that reunification.
@camulusjb906 but your soul dies or what? I'm so confused by your theology. Like or like some weird soul sleep thing?
Another great video. Thanks Elaine. Loved the film. I've got to get the book.
Farscape seems to hsve borrowed from this . Wormholes, the aliens used the father or memory to communicate .
That movie got me into sci fi even more as a kid. It was awesome
The only novel Carl Sagan ever wrote is an absolute Jewel. As is the movie.
You made me wanna watch that movie again, for the ninth time
Carl Sagan was a genius and I still remember watching his TV show Cosmos, with my dad and two brothers ... Great movie and one of Jodie Fosters best.
Incredible book/movie, and even better commentary!
Haven't read this book in a really long time. Should revisit it.
6:55 how I wish we could do that. Anything to see and talk to my dad one more time
I so need to read the book...
My brother and I got my dad detained at Area 51. I blame this movie, partly. Love you Pops...
I haven't read the book. But there is a good audiobook narrated by Jodie Foster on yt. I'm not sure if I preferred one version over the other. But I was in no doubt they left out a lot from the excellent book. I liked the movie nevertheless.
I always liked this movie even if the ending threw me off a bit but the context you gave from the book was helpful. Thanks.
More. MOAR!!!!
-Kyle Ren
And yes. He’s a Kyle.
I remember when this movie came out, it made such an impact on me that I stayed for the next showing. Like Ellie, I firmly believe that homo sapiens is not the only sentient species in the cosmos but I wish we could get past the limitations of our tribalistic nature and start taking care of our collective selves. It may be a naive assumption on my part-- maybe I've watched too much Star Trek--- but I'd like to think we, as a species, could be much better than we are now.
I loved the ending. Wish there was a part two. I just want to know what happened after the higher ups knew there were hours of static or whatever it was (:
Thank Elaine
I read this book back many years ago in high school, long before it was ever made into a movie. I absolutely loved the book. Though the movie deviated from the book in several major ways. The core concept was still there, and I did enjoy the movie quite a bit. And I’ve watched it a number of times since. 1) One of my favorite parts in the book, and they only lightly touched on it in the movie, was Eli and Palmer’s discussion about faith in God and Science. In the book they go to the Los Angeles observatory, and there’s a large pendulum in there that swings. I don’t want to spoil it for anybody who is thinking of reading the book but it’s a very interesting portion and how they test their faith in God and in Science. 2). I wished that they would’ve had five individuals go in the transport device in the movie like they did in the book. 3) and the whole point about pi being a message from the originators, has always stuck with me and something I’ve always loved about the way the book ended. I thought the way that they depicted the travel and the beach and the galaxies and such in the movie was absolutely beautiful. Thank you for covering this on your video. Did you recently watch the movie or read the book?
I loved this movie when it came out and have rewatched a couple times. Recently my wife and I were discussing some of our favorite movies within certain genres and I brought up Contact to find she had never seen it. We plan to watch together soon. It’s a fantastic movie. I love the sci fi core of the story wrapped within personal & political drama. I’d love a sequel especially this long after the first one but since this wasn’t as well liked as I believe it should’ve been I doubt we’ll ever see it
This happened to me once.
I love this damn movie
For me, as a serious sci fi fan, Contact is one of three of the greatest sci fi films ever made.
What are the other two?
@williamschacht7076 Oh yeah!! Sorry, forgot the other two. 2001: A Space Odessy, a true sci fi classic, which set a standard for all sci fi movies for the past 50 plus years. The next film, The Matrix. I saw this film three times in the theater. This film melted my brain. It certainly made me question my reality. Other classic and standard. 💥🧠💥
@@michaelhearson Yes, definitely some good choices!
Your review was better than the actual movie
I remember reading that book long ago. It's significantly different than the movie in that there several people on board that craft. Not just her. They all went. That's why I didn't like the film. It took big a liberty. The whole plot changed. I know, it was a faith thing, but that's not how the book was.
Well wormholes essentially invert space time outside of them hence why her drop was straight through with 60 hours of static
The movie has some great moments, but then the realise they uttterly betray Sagan's story and the point. In the book 5 peope went naking it impossible to claim it was faked. Still the bits with the machine beginning to work are glorious and the opening beautiful.
Next time, take a pencil!
I liked contact because it, to me, is a gentler version of 2001: A Space Odyssey. I really would have liked Contact more if it had been made into a movie later than it was. I would have respected the book a lot more and I think they could have made the travel scene closer to the scene in 2001 when the monolith shows Bowman the... Let's call it Ultimate.
I didn’t know that Contact was a book first.
It's possibly even better and more satisfying than the movie.
Carl Sagan wrote several good books. "Contact " is just one of them.
Fun fact: Jeff Bezos was based off of the rich guy S.R. Hadden.
I am pretty sure I watched this movie way back when and was definitely very meh about it. I might have been more impressed if it was more of a human experience and not just focused on this "Ellie". I guess I left it feeling like "her companions".
Not going to lie. I was SO MAD they made the being her dad. It would have been so much more fulfilling for the being to be some strange looking humanoid.
08:11 The galaxy Caretakers had inherited the Galaxies transit system from a long vanished civilization.
Me:That long vanished civilization better not be The Forunners otherwise I'm calling Masterchief.
No, they inherited it from the precursors, who inherited it from the maintainers, who inherited it from the creators who....
@@Draggeta Dammit Jim I'm a fan not a Historian
I read the book when it came out in 1985 and loved it, though my memory of it is now a bit fuzzy. I was disappointed that the film used Sagan's hard SF story as a platform for a defense of religious faith, which is the opposite of Sagan's aim in everything he wrote. Matthew McConnaughey's fatuous argument: “Did you love your father? Prove it.” struck me as particularly stupid. I was disappointed too that they omitted the part about pi at the end which was a great idea in the book.
Unless I'm not remembering correctly (could be - I read the book a looong time ago), I thought Palmer Joss and the whole religion vs science theme was already a part of the story in the book. But even if it was, I definitely felt the film overplayed this element and did it in a pretty ham-fisted way.
But they aren't wrong. When looking for a candidate for first contact. Why would you not pick someone who isn't part of one of the major religions on Earth? Wouldn't you pick a representative who will represent the largest contingent on Earth? I don't know if Carl Sagan, an atheist included this point. But in the end it was Ellie and her group who made first contact.
The book was the first worm hole used in science fiction. Before that such gates were merely potholes. The journey to people on earth thought they went nowhere but traces of days of cosmic rays on the casing. Movie was less than perfect compared to b[k.
the movie is great, but it reallyfalls short of the text, omitting a LOT of key details you have described here
All reality is a hallucination. Alien life doubly so.
Not sure why you kept saying companions came along with Ellie..that is not correct..I have seen this movie at least over 100 or more times I even have the DVD, and Ellie was ALONE on that ship, and alone on the planet she landed on..the control center lost connection with her while she was transported through the black whole, until she came back they said to her they lost communication with her the whole time, but said she never went anywhere. you were showing clips from the movie, but you mention the book..that is where the discrepancy is in your title
There's no discrepancy. I'm talking about the ending of the novel 'Contact' the whole time. There are no images I can pull from the book. That's why I use images from the movie.
@@NerdCookiessad that you almost need to preface some of your videos by explaining that you’re talking about the book or you get nasty comments. (I love your content. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been through the Dune lore.)
Warhammer prequel, luckily she didn’t get trapped in the warp
There's no hope for you if you need the end of this movie explained to you.
Soooo aliens are gods? Idk about Contact.
Bulk Beings.
any out-of-the-blue ending with aliens is a fail with me. it's like a deus ex machina. brings to mind that meme "i'm not saying it's aliens... but it's aliens".
if it's part of the story and done well, no problem.
ellie arroway was alone in the craft, for the whole round trip.
Not in the book...
I think that Contact and The Martian are really films for real STEM folks, they seem to lose a lot of other audiences...
I appreciate that you covered this, but, from my perspective, Sagan was just proposing extraterrestrial life as a substitute for God.
Did you even see the movie? What companions are you referring too?! She is on a journey ALONE. No one is with her.
Horrid movie. Essentially 2001:A Space Odyssey meets How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Read the book. Read any book.
The movie was much worse
I didn't hate it, but it's certainly not the best movie out there.
If the ending needed to be explained, it's because someone went to the bathroom and didn't see it.
I no longer watch anything with the voice used. I recommend everyone do likewise.
Cool concept, terrible movie.
This was a boring movie.
Not a fan.
Why do you keep saying "Ellie and her companions" when it was just Ellie that went through the wormhole? Have you actually seen the movie? I don't think you have.
As I said in the video, I'm talking about the events of the book.
Yeah in the book there's like a group of 4 or 5 passengers
Tell us you don't read without telling us you don't read
The movie was based on the book and the movie creators did what they always do and changed the story.
@dustinmiron4298 I would be willing to bet that I've read more books than you ever had. Picked up my first Encyclopedia Brown novel when I was 9 and haven't stopped reading since. I'm now 57. I'm so passionate about reading and collecting that just in the last week, I spent over $3000 on 7 special editions books. I just don't happen to read sci-fi books. Watch sci-fi movies but can't be bothered reading the books. With the only exception being the Dune series, which I read many, many years ago on the constant insistence of a friend. I'm more into crime fiction by authors like Kathy Reichs, which I have every first edition hardcover signed by the author herself.