I love how Colonel Weber isn't just a bone-headed military cliche who wants to blow everything up and says, "IN ENGLISH, PLEASE? NERD?" He has legitimate and valid concerns about Louise's methods and treats her like an equal, starting dialogue with her and actively listening to her. Great character

@t-ray1890

Жыл бұрын

Agreed 100

@mark9294

Ай бұрын

I do feel he’s a cliche.

She is one hell of an actress .

@jmack8767

3 жыл бұрын

She really is. There was a very well-studied flatness to her affect that's seems like a very convincing portrayal of an academic. Even the way she suddenly becomes very slightly more animated and talks a teeny bit faster when she has a chance to do a mini-lecture... Hardly a dramatic moment in the standard understanding of the word, but so clean and making such a careful contrast with the rest of her scenes it really stands out and becomes mesmerising. I love it when movies make an honest attempt to portray "boring" people.

This is actually a quite clever summary of the hypothetical scenario "contact with aliens". I like, how short yet precise, she explains it. And of course simple as well. Good movie, for sure! Especially when you are interested in linguistics. Needless to say, though, one could have stretched this scene out much further, but for the purposes of a movie, which is watched not only by linguistic nerds such as myself, it is a rather perfect compromise.

@The22ndDoctor

2 жыл бұрын

Listen to how it got into the movie. kzread.info/dash/bejne/iXiMzsOaaa3Wpaw.htmlm

@markusmuller6173

2 жыл бұрын

Communication + Negotiation

“It’s a lot more than that, you cheeky bastard” Lol so british.

"What is your purpose on Earth"... In a Villeneuve film, it really pays to take note of things in the frame that are written down somewhere in plain sight. I've never seen anything that commented on this particular example, even though it's one of the more blatant ones in his filmography (since Louise actually goes through the motion of writing it). It's not until much later in the film that you realize that this line was just as much directed to the audience as to the General. The line exemplifies what Villeneuve tries to do in all his films - NOT to "preach", to tell the audience what to think but to pose intellectually and emotionally challenging questions for each viewer to answer individually and personally. When Louise herself decides to go ahead with a doomed relationship with both father and child, it feels to us like she makes a deeply shocking personal decision in answering the "What is my purpose on Earth?" question - one that has many of us wondering what WE would do in similar circumstances and (however implicitly) how we ourselves answer the same question given our own circumstances...

@woodysmith2681

Жыл бұрын

Did Villeneuve study Brecht or Camus or Ionesco in college? The way you highlight elements of his style and how he often speaks to the audience are trademarks (not literally) of those playwrights. Brecht, in particular, eschewed narrative and only used a linear timeline due to the limitations of theater. The more I think about whether the timeline here would be linear or non-linear, the more I realize that it doesn't matter. And that, to me, screams Brecht.

@PeloquinDavid

Жыл бұрын

@@woodysmith2681 Good question. Villeneuve does seem to have a broad cultural exposure to a range of art forms (though I'm not familiar enough with modern theatre to see parallels that you may see). Someone is bound to do a documentary on his life and work some day, mind you. Maybe he'll reveal something in future interviews too...

@dirkdiggler.

2 ай бұрын

Great eye, I totally missed he's spelling out the theme for us lol. Can you think of anymore examples from his filmography. Nothing comes to mind but now I want to rewatch his films to look for written words.

Better title would be "Louise helps the Commander understand how complex the problem actually is", but that wouldn't be clickbaity enough, I suppose.

@ProcrastinatinZombie

3 жыл бұрын

snowflake

@jesussanchezherrero5659

3 жыл бұрын

I thought exactly the same. Specially cos he was so fond of listening to her

@MidnightSt

3 жыл бұрын

@Merlin stupid people are often under the wrong impression that ability to think is a snowflake characteristic

@MidnightSt

3 жыл бұрын

@@jesussanchezherrero5659 yes. one thing i loved about the movie was that there were no bad guys. not outright ones, not even the type that a lesser movie would make out of the Commander because "we need some tension and conflict in there!" instead, it was a story of trying to communicate, and of battle between understanding and misunderstanding.

@jesussanchezherrero5659

3 жыл бұрын

@@MidnightStsoo true. Also the movie's got so many sides and so many topics to talk about and find out more.

I love Amy Adams

I love the last scene mentioned here - as someone with deep interest in languages, this spoke to me :D

When she said "kangaroo" and he said "what is that?" I felt that.

How does she outsmart him? He asked a question and she answered it comprehensively, everybody benefits, why do somepeople have to turn everything into a competition?

@politereminder6284

4 жыл бұрын

She lied to him to calm him down and to convince him. 🤷. She managed to get her way.

@ProcrastinatinZombie

3 жыл бұрын

You and the people who liked your comment did not watch this movie...... or not good at observation. She lied to him, making up a story to bid for more time.

@AeneasGemini

3 жыл бұрын

@@ProcrastinatinZombie I did watch the movie, her bidding for time doesn't mean that she "schooled" him or in any way beat him. Whatever else was going on, what she said was actually completely correct, and proves true by the way they find it excruciatingly difficult to communicate. If anything he won out by understanding the situation better, and she also did by getting more time. That you have to see this situation as competitive says a lot about you

@ProcrastinatinZombie

3 жыл бұрын

@@AeneasGemini Lol get off your high horse. Says a lot about me. Maybe it's interpreted as competitive maybe just combatant. i can say you don't see it that way because you're one of those passive aggressive folks.

@AeneasGemini

3 жыл бұрын

@@ProcrastinatinZombie You can give criticism, but can't take it apparently, you're easily threatened I see, very sad

so touching for an excellent video

The way she erases the equations to write... damn I felt that

Both of them are amazing actors. Strong minded... What a film !

Another masterpiece from Denis

What intellectual superiority? The commander understood her point and moved forward.

True success is not in learning but in its applications to the benefit of mankind

Damn your title is kinda clickbaity but I really loved this scene

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra... Darmok and Jalad on the ocean... Darmok on the ocean.

Communication + Negotiation

"Stay in yo lane !"

Any one else think that Amy Adams character here was a lot like Jessica Chastain character from the movie Zero Dark Thirty

Great movie but It s too short..A huge potentiel in the idea that could make a great TV show

@selcuk1479

Жыл бұрын

exactly what i think. it could be perfect 1 hour long 8 episode, not more not less...we could understand better how they learn each other language.

I know the movie has us learning their language has special reason, but in general a more advanced alien would have much easier time learning any one of our more simpler or easy languages than we do theirs and communicate with us via that language.

WOW!

"IL THE MYTH.";

Needs more "hssssssssss"!!! Like if you get the reference

Disease nearly wiped them out

Yes hoppers verses speakers

I wonder why not use the Yucatan example

@PutoMedicoBrujo

4 жыл бұрын

aguacatl?

@thegreenmanofnorwich

4 жыл бұрын

@Samuel Lima apparently it was a bastardisation of the Mayan for "I don't understand", though I understand that there are a number of other theories for what the Mayans said to the conquistadors

Sam higgs

1:30 or it is common

You get a thumbs down for your misleading title. Her "intellectual superiority" is her explanation of the problem, which he grasps because he is an expert in his field as a general, because you don't get promoted to the rank of general if you're a dummy. A general has to understand experts, he has to consider many different scenarios, follow his directive and be responsible for the lives of thousands of people under his command. (not to mention the fate of humanity!) Her only responsibility is to figure out what the aliens are saying.

@bullettube9863

4 жыл бұрын

@@samhiggs5695 You are funny! What do you plan to do with your life after high school?

@andrascsizmadia6595

4 жыл бұрын

@@samhiggs5695 you get a thumbs down for using the term "Mansplaining"

@Free2LoveDorks

4 жыл бұрын

I mean she was a teacher, so she knows how to explain it in a way that he, or anyone, would understand. The experts are there to help, not to compete. Her 'only responsibility' was probably the most important job there at that time and he made her job more difficult than it needed to be.

@bullettube9863

3 жыл бұрын

@@therealjuror8 Really? A thumbs down for assuming only a General would have been put in charge of such an important operation? If he was portraying a colonel then the movie gets another thumbs down from me!

Actually the commander outsmarted her. At the beginning of the movie when the commander goes to her for help he says that she is at the top of everyones list of experts but then later on in the army camp he tells her that there was person before her that got fired, that means she was never at the top or the first choice and he just said that to butter her up.

@saya1720_

4 жыл бұрын

That's not outsmarting. That's just lying.

@scarocci7333

3 жыл бұрын

@@saya1720_ Both can go together

@iamtheruraljuror9257

2 жыл бұрын

Nah she was the top of everyone's list, but for civilian list. I bet they ask the army linguist first before coming to her,since the first couldnt figure it out, they then ask her, a civilian professor. That's why she ask "whats the sanskrit word for war" because the army tend to use aggression instead of diplomacy in dealing with the aliens.

Louise is Smart but distrustful in front of everyone

@scottwpilgrim

5 жыл бұрын

Distrustful? As in she does not trust anyone around her?

@rakeemmcdaniel227

5 жыл бұрын

Scott W Pilgrim No as in anyone does not trust her to solve the alien crisis when aliens said offer weapon and 12 sites cut off communication form each other thus sparking global war as was the only to save the planet form humanity

@thegreenmanofnorwich

5 жыл бұрын

@@rakeemmcdaniel227 I see what you mean; that the others don't trust her to solve things, rather than that she doesn't trust others. To be fair to everyone else, she's one linguist, so she's not supposed to be in charge per se. In the flash forward one year, it does seem like she is very highly regarded

@AeneasGemini

4 жыл бұрын

@@rakeemmcdaniel227 You need to work on your syntax, that wasn't clear at all.

He outsmarted her with a reality check

Do the Heps actually hear? Speak? Or are they just mimicking the dumb humans?

326 follow ets

@camogrrl

3 жыл бұрын

It takes 1 second to proof read 3 words but somehow you failed even that

If im the commander, i will just ask a simple question, "why dont u teach them alphabet?"

@jennyB07

3 жыл бұрын

That’s why you’ll never be a commander lol

@pussyyyy

3 жыл бұрын

@@jennyB07 i know ur envy with my outsmart thinking coz ull never ever think out of the box like me 😏

@pussyyyy

3 жыл бұрын

@@jennyB07 and ill give u like so u dont need to like ur own comment

" a more advanced race", or a more barbaric people group ?

@baran3284

4 жыл бұрын

he meant technologically

@ActionableFreedom

4 жыл бұрын

@I M It's just semantics. We've stoped calling other ethnicities races because it fits our political agenda right now, before Hitler there were no problems in doing so.

@sbraypaynt

4 жыл бұрын

Jesus Christ Nothing can escape whining idiocy of virtue signalling dipshits AT THAT TIME THE RACE OF WHITE PEOPLE FROM THE WEST WAS MORE TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED THAN BLACK TRIBES IN AUSTRALIA STOP TRYING TO MAKE EVERYTHING RACIST WHEN IT’S NOT

@TopNotch770

3 жыл бұрын

Another butthurt sjw.... read a book you priviledged spoiled dweeb

2:55 "I need a status report doctor" "I've just started teaching them about pronouns" 20 years later "What's the situation doctor, it feels like we're not any closer to being able to communicate with them" "I'm about halfway through explain all the different genders".