I love that little moment when she says, “I wish Kent were here.” Ellie had no trace of hubris and acted with such integrity. Not an ounce of glory seeking, just wanted her colleague and friend there to assist and support. Juxtaposed with the Tom Skerritt character who is a slimy weasel par excellence, the purity in Ellie’s search for truth is so inspiring.

I loved how Jodie Foster used index cards to get all of the terminology correct. She gave the guys at SETI Mountain View, California an autographed photo from Arecibo before the movie was completed.

@gluecksdrache2054

11 ай бұрын

She took a deep dive into science and learnt about the details. 👍 Also the contrast between this scene and the hearing at the Senate is very interesting and shows personal development.

I know this is a movie so things need to move quickly, or appear to, but if I recall in the book Jodi Fosters character spent weeks if not months tracking down every single alternative source it could be. Had other scientists see if they could figure out where it was coming from, and basically make every attempt to assume they were wrong and this wasn't an alien signal. Makes perfect sense with Carl Sagan writing it that he would want to keep that kind of scientific rigor in his story.

@vikramgogoi3621

4 ай бұрын

I don't think so. The movie is very close to the book, except for the pulsing. In the book, they were cautious, but they had almost immediately closed it down to Vega.

Greatest real-life 'what if' science/first contact movie ever made. Never gets old or boring. Tremendous performance by all actors.

There's even more math in the book ending. Ellie's told by the aliens there's a "message" hidden within the digits of Pi. Far downstream in the seemingly random digits they eventually turn into just 0's and 1's - binary. And when rastored in a square block the 0's form a perfect circle. This is said to be "proof" by the creators of the universe that it was created on purpose and by intelligent design. This ending was completely omitted in the movie version.

@williamzame3708

11 ай бұрын

Of course, this "proof" is complete nonsense. If the digits in pi are random then every finite pattern will appear eventually.

@jimbodimbo981

11 ай бұрын

Nah, if it ends in a double zero it ends for good, as there’s nothing left to divide by, so an impossibility, and that is real maths

@1st2nd2

11 ай бұрын

​@@jimbodimbo981 "zeroes and ones" meaning it doesnt ever end.

@jimbodimbo981

11 ай бұрын

@@1st2nd2 you can’t get a zero on a division, nor can you have a division that makes a repeat of two different numbers. For example, 10.0 / 5.0 = 2.0, or 2.000000 for ever. No repeat. This is basic maths and provable. Find a division that for me that ends in 0101 for ever…it does not exist…it’s called maths.

@1st2nd2

11 ай бұрын

@@jimbodimbo981 dude. Its 0100101110101100011001000 in some strange order. Read the book for the full explanation.

This scene was one of the most exciting scenes in the whole movie

@EtzEchad

6 жыл бұрын

I agree. I love the science parts of the movie. The political and religious parts were mostly garbage. The book was better, especially the part about Pi in the end. That gave me chills. (I'm not saying what it was to avoid spoilers. Read the book!)

@jasonchurilla5176

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed! I love the thrill of discovery!

@GrapeFlavoredAntifreeze

Жыл бұрын

@@EtzEchad I don’t think those scenes were garbage at all because they perfectly juxtapose the intelligence of the science. It makes the religion of it seem futile, like something WAY bigger than anything we’ve thought of here is going on, and it’s not religious. I think those parts were necessary to parable the human condition in the face of first contact

Such a great movie.

Brilliant Movie!! Loved it!

What happened in Vega didn't stay in Vega.

I love a beautiful film like that.

THIS IS WHAT WELL CRAFTED SCIENCE FICTION CINEMA SHOULD BE !!! Too bad this kind of movie is in the minority today :-(

@danielvalenzuela8814

11 ай бұрын

Apparently you haven't seen the most recent Avengers movie. 🤷‍♂️

@danielvalenzuela8814

11 ай бұрын

@robrs8631 Apparently you haven't heard about "Blue Beetle" which releases today. I've heard nothing but positive reviews about the film.

Signals that pass the specified complexity criteria for information.

There's an error here regarding the sequence of primes. By 3:19, the first four prime numbers (2, 3, 5, 7) have been established. The next prime number, 11, starts at 3:20. After a gap, the next number at 3:35 should be 13, and last until 3:49. Unfortunately, there is no gap after 13 beats, nor after what should have been the next 17 beats at 4:08. At 4:11, we cut to a video correspondence with Australia, by which time the signal is spouting out prime #101.

@williammaddock9179

5 жыл бұрын

You've never done any video editing, have you? ;-)

@warioman91

11 ай бұрын

@@williammaddock9179 It's simple continuity checks that at an easy minimum could have kept the sound of it correct even if per se we still visually saw the wave peaks--- either way though there were solutions to this error in production.

that would be so exciting

what do you mean "everbody"? EVEERRRYYBODYYY

@kingcobrajfsofficial

5 жыл бұрын

The line is "everyone".

@starguy2718

2 жыл бұрын

Gary Oldman

@dakkefernet8585

2 жыл бұрын

Typo sorry

As a math muppet and a astrophysicist in a dream I once had I tell you I love this movie based on my false belief that everything in the movie is real. I have hated math since before the universe was created. I have seen Contact about 200 times and each time he says, “Not if they use their laser blasters and photon torpedoes.” I laugh and say they should have added them in the movie. I love Jodie Foster.

As the primer just keeps going forever

When Vegans sent the remedial math equations they were gauging us, trying to determine our level of advancement, conscience and power of reasoning.They wanted to make sure we would be able to construct the transporter. We almost couldn't in fact we hardly figured it out correctly how to test the darn gizmo, but somehow we managed. I don't think aliens will be that generous, but this movie recreated that possible scenario for us to study... ourselves.🌹

@SyriusStarMultimedia

2 жыл бұрын

But it wasn’t Vegans. The alien said they didn’t know who built the machine. It was already there. The unnamed aliens that met with Jodie used it to contact Earth. Right?

@Swarm509

11 ай бұрын

My understanding is that the aliens in the book made the instructions work for exactly our level of technology at the time of book. People would follow the processes and not understand them but get results/materials/products that perfectly worked for the transport device. I think they knew were we were technology wise and knew we would be listening.

Yes i love this little moment too and the signal is a mere 156 trillion mls away from us hell its just like poping across the road for a refreshing lolly😅😅😅😅

Netscape Navigator on screen dates this movie

@allenvikramchochinov5940

9 жыл бұрын

So does bill Clinton

@Jasonificatiation

8 жыл бұрын

+twistedlot so do the CRT monitors lol we can do this all day

@DancingSpiderman

8 жыл бұрын

+Jason McCann waht are all those big boxes they are staring at?

@Jasonificatiation

8 жыл бұрын

+Dancing Spiderman fishtanks filled with colorful water ^_^

@Geo408

6 жыл бұрын

Grew up in Sunnyvale, right down the street from Netscape. Small world.

dat skype pre-cursor doe

Skip the bullshit and jump ahead to 0:33 . You're Welcome.

Kotyo

Netscape!!!

I pretty much have noticed that the best parts of films since the 70's (estimate) are the beginnings...then they trail off into nonsense.

@haweater1555

11 ай бұрын

That goes with the saying, film projects are never really released in a "finished" form, they are more or less "abandoned" .

@grisslebear

11 ай бұрын

Drugs.

Fibonacci numbers

EVERYBODY!!!! :D

1:55 I’m not sure why, but that scene always annoys the shit out of me!

@ronaldvernon788

Жыл бұрын

Same here

pinche amarillo enil y enki y la chava nicole ya se lo van hacer

Well they forgot the "1" ^_^

@twistedlot

8 жыл бұрын

+Jason McCann . 1 is not considered a prime number by most mathematicians

@Jasonificatiation

8 жыл бұрын

+twistedlot then I see no errors lol

@_ShaDynasty

8 жыл бұрын

you wish.

“Whatever it is it ain’t local”.... and yet at the end of the film the Inquiry decides it was a local source. If it was that obvious.... PS. It’s a shame this vid can’t even get simple subtitles right.

I LOVED THIS MOVIE UNTIL I REALIZED "NOTHING OUT THERE" WE'RE ALL ALONE

@Gorgoil313

5 жыл бұрын

And how did you get this realization?!

@UNSCPILOT

3 жыл бұрын

No, quite unlikely, Earth is just a mote of dust relative to the mind bending scale of the universe, it's statistically unlikely we're alone and it'd be an aweful waste of space if we were

@jimherbert007

Жыл бұрын

@@UNSCPILOT but due to the either the massive distances, the Great Filter, or the Dark Forest it probably means we are effectively alone. Alternative is we are surrounded or in a simulation

@SilentKnight43

Жыл бұрын

@@jimherbert007 But that's what makes the concept of warp drive (speed of light) in Star Trek so intriguing and optimistic that someday we just may discover it. Or travel through wormholes. Yes, the distances are massive and seemingly insurmountable by today's technology - but it can be equated to the first explorers who sailed the vast oceans to arrive on other continents. Now we can fly over them in a matter of hours.

@jeffaitken7287

11 ай бұрын

Just us and dogs, birds, whales, lobsters, redwoods, roses, horses, beetles, pike, fungi, etc etc all alone together

Belch....

@DancingSpiderman

8 жыл бұрын

+Bullfarts1 I sharted

That guy the glasses is A jerk or doesn't believe in space aliens or want to I mean Elliey just spent the entire day outside trying to find A outerspace signal, As soon as she got an alien 👽 signal from outerspace she brought it back to the station and everything she asks him about about different part of the solar system he doesn't believe it like ("the white sands") no it can't be there or ("Vega") it can't be it 26,00 miles away". The other guy is so happy like her like wow we just made contact with something from outerspace then then the guy with the glasses he just thinks it's one of their own human space crafts giving off that signal that they encountered something

You screwed up the aspect ratio. Do you even know what it is? It’s math. Duh.