That conference table is incredible!

I always loved that scene. The character was extremely smart and realized that someone was watching. Her gracious “thank you” to the camera was very charming.

I am doing this for my Drama class as my monologue.

@shyguy23000001

4 жыл бұрын

Hope it went well

@davidlara9350

3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant choice!

@BrittneyQuinn

3 жыл бұрын

@@shyguy23000001 It did go well, I was glad that I went with this one. It was a lot of fun to get into character!

@LTDANMAN44

3 жыл бұрын

Bless you

@commenter7893

2 жыл бұрын

She didn’t make a great speech though. It was clumsy.

Hadden takes care of her from the beginning. Puts her under his wing. “He knows a good bet when he sees one”.

@inthedarkwoods2022

2 жыл бұрын

Because it was all a scam

@Exchiefboy

Жыл бұрын

@@inthedarkwoods2022 oh really? I thought this movie was a documentary :D

The acting by Jodie Foster in this scene is incredible. Her shifts from rejection, to anger and frustration, to beseeching passion, then resignation and finally victory with a cheeky smile are just a masterclass.

@ChrisWolff2013

Жыл бұрын

She was born to play this character.

@Samurai63864

11 ай бұрын

She was a bit nasally. 8.2/10.

@robmausser

5 ай бұрын

She was snubbed for even an Oscar nom because they don't consider Sci-Fi movies to be "real movies" Even though this movie is so much more than sci-fi.

Watching this makes me think about the SETI Organization today. Jill Tarter is the Chair Emeritus for SETI Research in Mountain View, California and it bothers me that this same issue still plagues R&D for SETI research. We have enough money for making war, but just not enough to save the planet, provide for a better life for those who need it or for SETI.

I've always loved this scene. Watching the smug arrogance on the interviewer's face melt away and listening to the "yes, sirs" from him while talking to Hadden about Arroway. Great acting.

@jwilde642

11 ай бұрын

That was someone getting his ass kicked over the phone.

I love how she looks at the camera and thanks Haddon

@Julio-fz8xj

4 жыл бұрын

She is a bit of an actress, this Jodie Foster.

@josemanuel-chema-solis4127

3 жыл бұрын

It’s very elegant also the way they previously introduce Hadden with the TV screen, so you know who is she thanking.

“I know a good bet when I see one.” Not a bad thing to have one of the richest and most powerful people in the world in your corner

@ajdominguez1002

10 ай бұрын

Especially if they made their money doing stuff like she did

The phone doesn't ring. A small bulb flashes to warn the user that someone is calling. The fund manager picks up the reciever and hears an elderly sounding voice with a distant crackly quality to it. The voice reminds the manager about the last manager who stood in the doctors way, and the helicopter he was thrown from. The voice then asks the manager a simple question: "Wanna go for a ride?" Fund manager "you have your money"

That is one hell of a smile at the end, there.

@ChrisWolff2013

Жыл бұрын

Jodie always got a great smile on her.

For how many dramatic moves she has to pull off here, she doesn't go over the top with nerd affectations in her speech and physicality-yet both are subtly there. You can tell she did that work, imagining how a nerdy girl's passions could grow into a brilliant scientist's lonely dedication, then burst through in anger

Good to have friends in invisible places!!!

This is a great movie, see the whole thing if you haven't already.

That smile, at the end!

@ChrisWolff2013

Жыл бұрын

Such a sweet smile

Hadden took her seriously, because she herself seriously!!!!

Jodie has beautiful eyes that director's love.

LOVE when the Good Doctor makes sure to smile and say "Thank You" towards the camera!

@mikemesser4326

11 ай бұрын

I can just imagine Hadden grinning back on the other end.

@TheStuport

11 ай бұрын

@@mikemesser4326 Absolutely Mike! Cheers

This scene makes me cry for some reason.

@sergeymeshkov

7 жыл бұрын

for some reason i get very emotional when she says : you wanna hear something nutty?

@RawhideProductions1

7 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@LTDANMAN44

7 жыл бұрын

best comment

@Broadwaymungo

6 жыл бұрын

We walked on the Moon from 1969 to 1972, and then we just...stopped. It's time to go back. To stay. And to go further...I feel you.

@Julio-fz8xj

4 жыл бұрын

It's courageous and visionary individuals what make me cry.

Loved it when the guy say yes sir. YESSS SSSIIIRRR then Yes sir. lol Dr. you have your money. lol

What a table!

I hope to God when it happens.. It's like this

S.R. Hadden. The REAL hero of this story.

@youarepredictable

8 ай бұрын

@@paultruesdale7680 ???

@youarepredictable

8 ай бұрын

@@paultruesdale7680 True..but I for one am glad he has. One of the few in big tech that is *against* using their power to censor.

this is one of my favorite movies

“What did you see Clarice?”

@Cutiejuliya

2 ай бұрын

😂👌🏾

...and that is what the American Psychiatric Medical Industry has told me, Milner Benedict III, since the beginning 😞

A very well executed scene

I would give a lot for at least SOME people to experience the drive to discover and the wonder for the universe that real people like Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson have found within themselves, even as fictional astronomer Ellie Arroway did within the confines of an entertaining movie. Would that such things could be taught in our schools, along with reading, writing and 'rithmetic I think we need it ... a lot. Thank you for posting this.

@theodorepike3173

6 жыл бұрын

What a superb comment. What saddens me is I'm likely to die before anything so amazing happens, if ever it does. It's the not knowing that hurts. If only.

@amoskowitz0103

4 жыл бұрын

Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn't warrant a mention at all - especially not in the same paragraph as Carl Sagan. Sagan was a genius, deGrasse Tyson is an arrogant, vacant idiot.

I Loved the film . Fantastic .

I watched this at first when I was maybe twelve or thirteen. Watching it now as an adult makes me instantly remember how this scene made me feel as a girl- and how I knew in my heart that one day I wanted to impress someone that much.

@IIISentorIII

11 ай бұрын

Then why do you do Porn now?

The repeated stepping sounds at the beginning really got me

Why did Haddon make her endure 13 months of begging for funding? If he was always keeping an eye on her , he could have saved her a lot of wasted time.

@vulcan2519

3 жыл бұрын

he said when he met her and told her biography that she came to his attention when the funding for the SETI program was over, so this was when he noticed her, and only took interest when she showed passion and confronted the executive who said it was all science fiction...

@transmutationdotse

Жыл бұрын

❤

@HALLish-jl5mo

Жыл бұрын

No point paying if someone else would. And if we discount the worse line in cinema history "18 hours of static", he needed time to convert his fake teleporter design into a fake alien code.

@darwinjina

11 ай бұрын

probably not the only one that was seeking to build it.

I know the feeling.

THANK YOU !!!...:)

2:25 my heart melts

Wonderful movie😊

That's called Juice.

@Pepelopolus

8 жыл бұрын

+Mike Jones Bravery!

@scarroll625

5 жыл бұрын

Join Us In Creating Enthusiasm

@petersonlafollette3521

3 жыл бұрын

Is so typical in closing a contract- having to prostrate self to sell what for the common good should sell itself.

If you like this scene and want to see the romantic comedy version of it, then check out the pitch meeting scene with Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffith in Working Girl.

Infected Mushroom's Intelligate brought me here

WE WILL CLEAN THE OCEANS UP !!!!! PERIOD !!!!

Smart ladies are so beautiful.

@sitkasate

10 ай бұрын

You can't fcบk her. She got sperm bank.

Jhody,s same ages I ike it all..

I need a bigger... desk. 😸

It would have been amazing if Ellie had looked up at the camera at the end and jumped into the air, shouting, "FAIRY GOD PARENTS!"

IAM HOLLY KELLEY AND THE UNITED STATES IS THE BEST PLACE FOR YOU TO GET A NICE CAR. HE PUT THIS IN MY PHONE BOX.

PUT ME AND MY TWIN SISTER ON S.N.L

A mission to mars (that isn’t one-way) is science fiction

@DavidOfWhitehills

11 ай бұрын

Sure it is, and will remain so. Until someone does it. Might not happen this century even, but it will happen.

Ok putin definitely took a leaf out of this clip.

Is the woman sitting to the right of the panel Jennifer Balgobin? i.e. Debbi from Repo Man.

@GustavoSantos-uh5yl

10 ай бұрын

I don't know 🤷🏻‍♂️

Anybody remember larry bird

@josebro352

13 күн бұрын

The Celtics player? What does he have to do with Contact?

@seandenzelrhymer760

13 күн бұрын

@@josebro352 ask uncle gary

The film contact is good.... but Sagans book is far far better.

Now that's a worthy boardroom table for Covid times.

Not cool, Jodie. She ought to have skipped the monologue, thanked them for their time and walked out :-)

She's passionate and everything but she does come across as pretty arrogant and condescending

U r wasting ur time dr, its not ur fault its ours, SORRY, changing

The ending was terrible

I wouldn’t fund her science fiction either. And the generic crap about aeroplanes wouldn’t have worked.

She handled this like a woman lol