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Contact	label	Contact
Contact	page	Contact
Contact	comment	Contact is a 1997 movie directed by Robert Zemeckis and based on astronomer Carl Sagan's novel of the same name, although in an odd case, Sagan wrote it first for the screen, then turned it into a book after it ended up in Development Hell. Unlike most Hollywood science fiction adaptations, this attempted to stay true to the original and get the science right. Sagan died some months before the film was finished, so we don't know what he would have thought of it.Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway (Jodie Foster) is a driven yet gifted scientist on the failing SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project, who confounds her critics when a powerful signal is received from Vega, 26 light years away. The signal is encoded with technical instructions for building a Faster-Than-Light Travel device which can send a single ambassador to the stars. The film explores issues of science vs. faith, and whether the two are mutually exclusive.Not to be confused with the unrelated game Contact, the unrelated pinball Contact, or the trope First Contact. Or 3-2-1 Contact.
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Contact / int_106f1a77	type	A Form You Are Comfortable With
Contact / int_106f1a77	comment	A Form You Are Comfortable With: The Vegan takes the form of Arroway's dead father, and the meeting takes place on a Floridian beach. The vision ends with the meteor shower she and her father were supposed to see together. The Florida beach isn't even a real one, but a more realistic rendering of the one Ellie imagined and drew in one of the flashbacks to before her father died. Every single exterior to the transit capsule after it enters the second wormhole is a picture previously shown somewhere in the film. For example, the alien city below four suns first appears in a poster in her quarters at Arecibo.)
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Contact / int_10a262e4	type	Headphones Equal Isolation
Contact / int_10a262e4	comment	Headphones Equal Isolation: Ellie listens on her headphones at the Very Large Array. It is when she first hears the Signal.
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Contact / int_11e0d645	type	Arc Symbol
Contact / int_11e0d645	comment	Arc Symbol: When Ellie arrives on the "beach" to meet the Vegans, she picks up a handful of sand, and a few particles shimmer brighter than others. The shape formed by these shimmering grains is the same as the shape made by the popcorn her father dropped when he collapsed. They also appear once again in the final scene, as the first stars to appear in the sky as the sun slowly sets.
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Contact / int_16dad7a7	type	It May Help You on Your Quest
Contact / int_16dad7a7	comment	It May Help You on Your Quest: The toy compass Ellie is given by Palmer before her journey first looks like a Gentleman's Favour but later becomes a plot point. In the scene where she separates herself from the restraint chair in the pod to retrieve said compass, which had come loose from her neck, the chair breaks violently apart from its fastenings, fulfilling Palmer's prediction that the compass would one day save her life.
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Contact / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Contact / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Hadden again. He's the reclusive billionaire who bankrolled the continuation of Ellie's SETI work and treats her as a personal protÃ©gÃ©. He's also instrumental in helping decipher the Vega codex and ensuring Ellie is the one who takes the trip through the backup Machine.
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Contact / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Contact / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: The Vegans, arguably. "It's been done this way for millions of years." Although it's heavily implied, all throughout the film, that they know what they're doing and are benevolent. As both her father and the Vegan himself tells her, "Small moves".
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Contact / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Contact / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Hadden thinks that rules and laws don't exactly apply to him... turns out he's right, but that's only because he owns half the damn planet.
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Contact / int_234bd900	type	For Science!
Contact / int_234bd900	comment	In some ways, Ellie Arroway is this herself, except her cause is For Science!. Critically, she has sufficient self-awareness to recognize this tendency in herself, and acknowledge that she might, in fact, be mistaken: "Is it possible that it didn't happen? Yes. As a scientist, I must concede that, I must volunteer that."
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Contact / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Contact / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Ellie brings up Occam's Razor (All things being equal, the simplest explanation is usually the correct one) to Palmer as an explanation of her skepticism. In the Senate hearing at the end, Occam's Razor is brought up to Ellie regarding the most likely explanation to her claims.
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Contact / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Contact / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Sort of-Ellie speculates that the message could be Tome One of an Encyclopedia Galactica. She also mentions the term Technological Adolescence, both of which are seen in Carl Sagan's series, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. When Ellie first arrives at Hadden Industries, she's dressed in a turtleneck and beige suit similar to what Carl Sagan often wore.
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Contact / int_2726d167	type	The World Is Just Awesome
Contact / int_2726d167	comment	The World Is Just Awesome: As well as the awe-inspiring sequence that contains the page quote (which even was a former Trope Namerinvoked) — a staggering symphony of visual effects and music built around Jodie Foster's note-perfect performance — the movie opens with an amazing pullback that, starting from Earth orbit, proceeds to give you the faintest hint of just how INCREDIBLY HUGE the universe is, complete with a kind of audio time-travel, backwards through the history of broadcasting as the signal travels away from Earth at the speed of light.
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Contact / int_280333d4	type	Hollywood Heart Attack
Contact / int_280333d4	comment	Hollywood Heart Attack: Ellie's father suddenly died from one when she was a child.
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Contact / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Contact / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Ellie's mother died in childbirth. Her father died of a heart attack in her childhood.
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Contact / int_2b5ab7c1	type	Analogy Backfire
Contact / int_2b5ab7c1	comment	Analogy Backfire: When Kitz asks Ellie why she thinks the aliens have to be benign, Ellie answers that the human civilization poses no threat to them, and that it would be like us being hell-bent on obliterating some microbes on an anthill in Africa, to which Drumlin replies: "Interesting analogy. And how guilty would we feel after obliterating some microbes on an anthill in Africa?" Which makes this film a reversal of the first Species.
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Contact / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
Contact / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: There's no way the fact that the recording held 18 hours of static from a one-second flight, thus proving the core of Ellie's claims beyond question, wouldn't have come out in the hearing at the end. The idea that even Ellie wasn't aware of this is especially ludicrous.
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Contact / int_351e7cf9	type	Romanticism Versus Enlightenment
Contact / int_351e7cf9	comment	Romanticism Versus Enlightenment: Ellie for Team Enlightenment and Palmer for Team Romanticism.
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Contact / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Contact / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: The opening sequence shows a pull-back from Earth where we hear 10-year-old music before we've even left the solar system, completely missing the real propagation times for the radio signalsnote moving at the speed of light, radio signals would pass the outer planet Neptune in only a little over four hours, but not reach the nearest extrasolar star system (Alpha Centauri) for about four years but it doesn't matter because it gets the message across so powerfully.
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Contact / int_3866ab91	type	Deceased Parents Are the Best
Contact / int_3866ab91	comment	Deceased Parents Are the Best: After her father instilled a passion for astronomy in Ellie Arroway and passed away, her life's mission revolved around the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. This culminates with Ellie meeting an alien disguised as her father.
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Contact / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Contact / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Possibly unintentional, but Ellie's father calls her "Sparks" as a nickname. Young Ellie is played by Jena Malone, who is from Sparks, Nevada.
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Contact / int_3b497d31	type	Historical Figures in Archival Media
Contact / int_3b497d31	comment	Historical Figures in Archival Media: The film famously used Bill Clinton's speech on microbe fossils purportedly found on Martian rock to depict the President talking about the discovery of the Vega message. The producers never asked for Clinton's permission for the footage, and the White House was, to say the least, not happy.
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Contact / int_420081bf	type	Alien Sky
Contact / int_420081bf	comment	Alien Sky: The aliens create a beach based on the picture Ellie drew as a child.
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Contact / int_43a831db	type	Epic Tracking Shot
Contact / int_43a831db	comment	Epic Tracking Shot: Young Ellie running up the stairs to fetch medication for her father who has collapsed. The front image of her running then phases through the bathroom mirror as she opens the cabinet. A similar shot passes through a window as Ellie uses the HAM radio.
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Contact / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Contact / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In a movie making money for Hollywood by portraying aliens, Ellie says, "Beg for some of that Hollywood money! They've been making money off aliens for years."
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Contact / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Contact / int_4e7c4536	comment	Integrated with the Wham Line above, Hadden shows Ellie satellite photos of Hokkaido Island, the Machine systems integration site. Then zooms in far enough to show the secret second Machine.
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Contact / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Contact / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Integrated with the Wham Line above, Hadden shows Ellie satellite photos of Hokkaido Island, the Machine systems integration site. Then zooms in far enough to show the secret second Machine. When Ellie reaches her destination on the alien beach, for a moment a group of stars arranged in a crescent shape stands out. When she sifts some sand with her fingers back at the telescope at the end of the movie, the same crescent of stars briefly glitters — in the palm of her hand.
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Contact / int_506fd96c	type	Tears of Awe
Contact / int_506fd96c	comment	Tears of Awe: Ellie Arroway sheds a few tears as she witnesses a magnificent celestial event in the transport pod.
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Contact / int_50f848cc	type	Technology Porn
Contact / int_50f848cc	comment	Technology Porn: Great focus is given to different radio telescopes, mid-90s computers and lots of audio and signal equipment. Then there is the Machine, a fantastic piece of engineering with five cylindrical rings that spin faster and faster.
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Contact / int_53b6ab6a	type	Jumped at the Call
Contact / int_53b6ab6a	comment	Jumped at the Call: Humanity eagerly jumps to the challenge of building the Machine, despite the cost mounting in the Trillions. It's even admitted during the first test, they still don't know what it'll actually do.
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Contact / int_545d100b	type	Intelligence Equals Isolation
Contact / int_545d100b	comment	Intelligence Equals Isolation: There are a lot of scenes of Ellie alone, or isolated from other people. Despite this, we see she gets along well with other scientists. Haddon even plays a Happier Home Movie of Ellie's birthday party at the Arecibo Observatory.
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Contact / int_5541da8c	type	Lotus-Eater Machine
Contact / int_5541da8c	comment	Lotus-Eater Machine: When Ellie is knocked out, she awakes in her personal paradise. Apparently, the aliens used her childhood painting and the image of her late father as the setting for their first contact.
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Contact / int_5aa9fe2a	type	Raster Vision
Contact / int_5aa9fe2a	comment	Raster Vision: Featured frequently, with a whole scene dedicated to showing a science team trying to make sense of a TV signal from deep space.
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Contact / int_5da3f522	type	Big Brother Is Watching
Contact / int_5da3f522	comment	Big Brother Is Watching: S.R. Hadden is "introduced" watching Ellie through a video camera, albeit one in a building he owns, right before approving her funding. He also gets access to Happier Home Movies from Ellie's past, including a birthday party filmed during Ellie's time at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
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Contact / int_5e544ae6	type	We Come in Peace — Shoot to Kill
Contact / int_5e544ae6	comment	We Come in Peace â€” Shoot to Kill: It's suggested by Kitz that the machine might be a Trojan Horse doomsday device, meant to eliminate any potential rival civilization.
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Contact / int_6004e99c	type	Activation Sequence
Contact / int_6004e99c	comment	Activation Sequence: There's a long sequence showing The Machine being activated for Ellie's flight. The rings are slowly spun up, the control center keeps checking for updates as to their status, and Ellie tries to inform them how the Machine is behaving with each new phase. They almost call it off, but finally go through with it when they barely make out Ellie's "OK to go" through the storm of interference the thing is producing.
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Contact / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Contact / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Ellie herself before The Message arrives. Everyone agrees on her brilliance, but her SETI ideas are pretty out there. Some rumors about her behavior don't help.
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Contact / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Contact / int_627264e0	comment	The religious fanatic Joseph gives a Death Glare to Ellie during protests against SETI's machine project. This is the same glare he delivers again while at Kennedy Space Center, just before blowing up the machine.
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Contact / int_6363937b	type	Cyanide Pill
Contact / int_6363937b	comment	Cyanide Pill: Jodie Foster's character is given a suicide pill to use if anything goes wrong, such as being marooned or an incomprehensible Fate Worse than Death. According to the film, every NASA astronaut and test pilot is given one of these, for emergencies where dying quickly would be a mercy. In his book Lost Moon, Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell mentioned that this had been a rumor for some time, and that it was not true — it would be much easier simply to open the main hatch and depressurize the spacecraft. Sagan insisted that they've "been giving these to the astronauts since the beginning of the space program, itâ€™s never been made public, of course."
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Contact / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Contact / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Eleanor's mom, not just her dad, is gone from her life but is mentioned much less than her dad. Justified, as it's noted at one point that she died in childbirth, so Ellie has no memories of her, while having many loving memories of her father.
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Contact / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Contact / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Dr. Drumlin is a consummate politician, and he admits as much to Ellie, stating that in a fair and just world idealists like her rather than hypocrites like him would be in charge of things, but that's not the world we inhabit. He's also correct in saying that if taxpayers fund scientific research, scientists should be accountable to the public in showing that their work has some benefit to those who pay for it. Drumlin says this as a cynical ploy to score political points, but what he's saying is still correct in principle.
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Contact / int_6b723294	type	Techno Babble
Contact / int_6b723294	comment	Techno Babble: When the signal comes in, Arroway is shouting all sorts of scientific instructions into her walkie-talkie.
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Contact / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Contact / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Arroway's father used his catchphrase "small moves" to call upon her patience when operating the CB radio. During the Alien projection, the phrase is used to call upon the patience of humankind in moving ahead with the contacting:
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Contact / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Contact / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Arrow-way.
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Contact / int_6dd49338	type	Invisible President
Contact / int_6dd49338	comment	Invisible President: News footage of Bill Clinton was expertly spliced into the film, much to the annoyance of the White House. Averted in the novel, in which the President is a woman, and implied not to be the first.
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Contact / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Contact / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Rob Lowe was already known for his liberal causes when he was cast as Richard Rank, head of the Conservative Coalition.
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Contact / int_6fc21d06	type	Fiction 500
Contact / int_6fc21d06	comment	Fiction 500: S.R. Hadden seems almost ridiculously wealthy-toward the end he reveals he bought up all the companies that got subcontractor deals for the FTL Machine, in order to build his own backup copy and choose who gets to go. In the book, he even builds a duplicate of ancient Babylon in upstate New York and arranges to have prostitution legalized so that he can run an adult theme park.
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Contact / int_72e54916	type	Retired Monster
Contact / int_72e54916	comment	Retired Monster: Possibly. Hadden has made enemies of a lot of people, industries, companies, and governments. One of the possibleinvoked reasons why he is helping out with the Machine is to give something back to a world he has taken a lot from.
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Contact / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Contact / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "If it was only us, that would be an awful waste of space."
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Contact / int_7b4cbce1	type	Headbutt of Love
Contact / int_7b4cbce1	comment	Headbutt of Love: Ellie and Palmer do this right before she is about to travel from the ship to the Machine.
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Contact / int_859bbabc	type	The Cassandra
Contact / int_859bbabc	comment	The Cassandra: Arroway. To add to this, Palmer Joss is representative of Apollo.
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Contact / int_8605f0c0	type	Promoted to Love Interest
Contact / int_8605f0c0	comment	Promoted to Love Interest: Palmer Joss in the movie. In the book, Ken der Heer (the President's science advisor) serves as the Love Interest, while Joss is something of a minor character.
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Contact / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Contact / int_87504252	comment	The Big Board: Both as a child and as a professional astronomer, Jodie Foster's astronomer character relies on sticking pins into maps to keep track of locations in the universe she has made radio contact with.
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Contact / int_8970d739	type	The One That Got Away
Contact / int_8970d739	comment	Palmer Joss in the film takes on aspects of several characters from the book. The first was a musician Ellie dated in college that she was quite fond of and disappointed it didn't work out. The second was Der Heer, a science advisor that she started seeing as the message and machine project started up, but it's implied they broke up as needs of the project kept them separated. Then there is the book Palmer Joss, a religious leader Ellie comes to respect for his more nuanced and open-minded take on the message, and by the end confides with him the events of the trip with a little Ship Tease.
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Contact / int_8d6ecc32	type	Dropped-in Speech Clip
Contact / int_8d6ecc32	comment	Dropped-in Speech Clip: The film opens with a long shot pulling away from Earth into deep space while audio representing radio transmissions are heard going from newest (at the time) to oldest as we move further away. Amid the period music and television audio are snippets of some of the landmark speeches from various time periods, including: Audio from the Challenger disaster. Richard Nixon's "I am not a crook" statement. Martin Luther King, Jr's "I Have A Dream" speech. JFK's first inaugural address. The "Day of Infamy" speech. Hitler's remarks at the Berlin Olympics (which become more significant later in the film).
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Contact / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Contact / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Dr. Drumlin. In the novel, he died saving Ellie, causing greatly mixed feelings in her. He was still a jerk, but she remembers that she wished he was dead. In the film, he is killed along with several others by a suicide bomber disguised as a mechanic, and even though he gets a funeral, he's still hard to sympathize with given he tried to screw over Ellie.
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Contact / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Contact / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Dr. Drumlin's death at the hands of the fundie suicide bomber. Drumlin and Arroway have been rivals for years - Arroway attains high-end positions at SETI projects, and Drumlin uses his connections and charisma to criticize and ultimately shut those projects down so the equipment can be used for his own conventional radioastronomy projects. When the Message arrives, Drumlin then uses those same connections to take Arroway's hard-earned place heading the team deciphering it. And when the Machine is built and the selection hearings are choosing the candidate to be sent, where Arroway simply states her case as if testifying before a jury, Drumlin approaches it like a job interview and easily beats her. Arroway's atheism makes her unpopular as a candidate, while Drumlin claims a belief in God he showed no indication of before to help gain the spot. He then rubs it in, saying that though Arroway deserves the position more, Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!
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Contact / int_92286f7f	type	Precursors
Contact / int_92286f7f	comment	Precursors: Whichever alien race built the Portal Network. It wasn't the Vegans.
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Contact / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
Contact / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: One that is never pointed out, but at different points Ellie wears a ring with a blue gem in it that belonged to her father. It's one of two personal effects she brings with her on the trip, the other being the compass Palmer gave her. The image of her father has him wearing the ring too, as it is taken from her memories. Both rings can be seen when he holds her hand.
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Contact / int_9c224098	type	Deliberately Bad Example
Contact / int_9c224098	comment	Deliberately Bad Example: Joseph to Palmer Joss. Joss is the Love Interest and his position in the "science vs. religion" arguments he has with Ellie is along the lines of "you believe in the possibility that aliens exist, so why can't you widen your mind just a little bit more?" Joseph is an incredibly creepy antagonist who kills several people and causes billions of dollars worth of damage in a suicide attack because he believes people meeting aliens will make them forget God (or something similar).
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Contact / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Contact / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The religious fanatic Joseph gives a Death Glare to Ellie during protests against SETI's machine project. This is the same glare he delivers again while at Kennedy Space Center, just before blowing up the machine. While traveling through the second wormhole, a ghostly image of Ellie's face manifested from her three times. The first two were "I had no idea" and "They're alive", which she said a few minutes later when she saw an alien city ("They're alive.") and upon seeing a beautiful cosmic sight ("I had no idea."). The third was "Oh God!", which she's already said at the start of the journey.
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Contact / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
Contact / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: Ellie and Joss kiss, then are seen talking in bed together after they clearly had sex offscreen.
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Contact / int_a46881f2	type	Believer Fakes Evidence
Contact / int_a46881f2	comment	Believer Fakes Evidence: Discussed in the finale. Kitz suggests that the whole alien contact situation was concocted by the late Hadden to stir belief, pointing out he had the means, motive, and opportunity. Subverted, as Kitz is later informed that while Arroway's device did only record static, it recorded several hours worth of static when her trip seemed to be an instant failure.
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Contact / int_a62dca03	type	Year Inside, Hour Outside
Contact / int_a62dca03	comment	Year Inside, Hour Outside: Dr. Arroway's trip through the Portal Network, conversation with an alien, and return home seemingly took about 18 hours. But as it took less than a second as time is reckoned here on Earth, quite a few people ended up strongly doubting that she actually traveled anywhere at all, since no one on Earth saw Arroway's pod disappear and her recording equipment displayed only static. This suggests that what Arroway experienced was All Just a Dream, but unknown to her and the general public it turns out that the camera recorded a full eighteen hours of static. This may be actually foreshadowed - on her way there we see flashes of Ellie speaking lines she's going to say in a couple of minutes, which suggests some serious temporal distortion.
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Contact / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Contact / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: The Vegans. They aren't from Vega at all (nor are they shown to have an aversion to eating meat), as it is pointed out that the system is far too young to have created life. It's just that one of the hubs for their Portal Network is located there, which is how they became aware of humanity's presence.
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Contact / int_a7caa5b5	type	First Contact
Contact / int_a7caa5b5	comment	First Contact: Although as the Vegan points out, Humanity contacted them. They are the ones replying.
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Contact / int_a87b8c8c	type	Typeset in the Future
Contact / int_a87b8c8c	comment	Typeset in the Future: The logo of the International Machine Consortium (IMC) is typeset in Eurostile Bold Extended.
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Contact / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
Contact / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: The workings of SETI are realistically depicted, and the character Eleanor Arroway is loosely based on Real Life SETI director Jill Tarter. Of course, everything following the eponymous First Contact is, obviously, not based on a true story (at least until we've calculated sufficiently down into pi, we won't know).
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Contact / int_a91078ea	type	Adaptational Jerkass
Contact / int_a91078ea	comment	Adaptational Jerkass: The book is a meditation on the complexities of human society and is largely told from Ellie's point of view. Many characters still fulfill their basic roles but without the nuance of Ellie's thought process. Kitz was initially a skeptic of the signal but lent his full support once the clarity of the message was being translated, with his more hostile response to Ellie's story in the third act both more surprising while Ellie becomes aware that he is covering his bases after a two trillion-dollar project. The movie has him more of a continually hostile figure throughout, with only a couple hints that he is playing into a particular role. Ellie in the book is well educated on religious texts, especially the Bible, but considers herself agnostic compared to more militant atheists around her, even saying she considers herself Christian based on moral respect for the teachings of Christ but doesn't view him as a god. In the film she is more confrontational over religious topics, done largely to exaggerate her character development.
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Contact / int_b2d8059f	type	Innocent Aliens
Contact / int_b2d8059f	comment	Innocent Aliens: Ellie believes the Vegans are this without question, and gets frustrated when anyone considers otherwise, ignoring their good points about being cautious or her being too trustinginvoked. She turns out to be right.
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Contact / int_b6ca8bd	type	If Jesus, Then Aliens
Contact / int_b6ca8bd	comment	If Jesus, Then Aliens: Invoked. A member of the group of participators outside the VLA has a cutout of Jesus with a UFO above his head in place of his halo and a banner saying "Jesus is an Alien".
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Contact / int_b97c2cfb	type	Maybe Ever After
Contact / int_b97c2cfb	comment	Maybe Ever After: At the end of the movie, we don't get a good look at Ellie's hand to see if she's wearing a wedding or engagement ring.
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Contact / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
Contact / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: Joseph, the blond-haired fundamentalist who blows up the first FTL device with a Suicide Attack. In some ways, Ellie Arroway is this herself, except her cause is For Science!. Critically, she has sufficient self-awareness to recognize this tendency in herself, and acknowledge that she might, in fact, be mistaken: "Is it possible that it didn't happen? Yes. As a scientist, I must concede that, I must volunteer that."
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Contact / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Contact / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Kent Clark.
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Contact / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
Contact / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: There's a certain amount of alarm when the signal turns out to be a retransmitted television broadcast of Adolf Hitler giving a speech. Kitz even suggests it comes from Scary Dogmatic Aliens who find his views appealing. Cooler heads point out that aliens wouldn't understand the context of the transmission — the speech is Hitler opening the 1936 Olympics, which would have been the first strong TV signal sent into space. Sending it back is simply their way of showing the message was received. But that doesn't stop the Neo-Nazis from believing "Hitler lives on Vega".
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Contact / int_c515d358	type	America Saves the Day
Contact / int_c515d358	comment	America Saves the Day: Lampshaded by showing some of the background politicking and controversy over the US dominating the construction of the Faster-Than-Light Travel machine. In an attempt to alleviate this an international committee is used to select Earth's ambassador, but it's mentioned that the Japanese (who are also contributing significantly to the half-trillion-dollar project) are bought off from insisting on their own candidate by promising them a significant percentage of the technological spin-offs from First Contact. Presumably, other behind-the-scenes deals were made to ensure an American candidate was sent.
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Contact / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Contact / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: William Fichtner's character in the film, a blind astrophysicist with enhanced hearing as a result of his condition, is named Kent Clark, a play on the name of Superman's alter ego, Clark Kent. The character is based on a real-life blind SETI scientist, Kent Cullers.
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Contact / int_c9aea8c8	type	Armies Are Evil
Contact / int_c9aea8c8	comment	Armies Are Evil: National Security Advisor Michael Kitz comes closest to filling this role. The director stated he had fun with this characterinvoked. In E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial he'd be a Card-Carrying Villain, in Independence Day he'd be a Reasonable Authority Figure. The point being that his viewpoint is necessary.
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Contact / int_d20b3e5d	type	First-Contact Math
Contact / int_d20b3e5d	comment	First-Contact Math: The alien signal starts with prime numbers.
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Contact / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
Contact / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: Arroway's mother died from complications during childbirth.
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Contact / int_d3f8ad06	type	Close on Title
Contact / int_d3f8ad06	comment	Close on Title: The title card and the rest of the opening credits immediately precede the closing ones.
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Contact / int_d49f90ea	type	Western Terrorists
Contact / int_d49f90ea	comment	Western Terrorists: Joseph, who suicide bombs the interstellar travel machine at the Kennedy Space Center due to his Christian beliefs.
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Contact / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Contact / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: One of Dr. Drumlin's most unsavory qualities is that he feigns religious belief in order to be the committee's selection for the interstellar voyage, knowing that Ellie was disqualified as a representative of the human species due to her atheism. In reality, Drumlin is also an atheist, as is clear from his earlier contemptuous remarks towards Palmer Joss about his vocation as a religious minister and a writer on religious subjects. Ultimately, he suffers Death by Irony at the hands of The Fundamentalist suicide bomber.
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Contact / int_d53acc8a	type	You Are Not Ready
Contact / int_d53acc8a	comment	You Are Not Ready: When Ellie insists that everyone on Earth should know about what she experienced. The Vegan who takes the form of her father tells her, "Small moves, Sparks. Small moves."
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Contact / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
Contact / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Ellie, ever since her father's death. After the funeral, a priest tries to comfort her by saying it's "God's will" to help her accept it. Ellie only responds that she could have saved him.
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Contact / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Contact / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	The machine was designed to hold five people, most of whom are introduced before the passengers were selected, and Ellie comes to see them all as family after sharing the experience together. The movie has space for just one person.
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Contact / int_dd7127d1	type	Benevolent Precursors
Contact / int_dd7127d1	comment	Benevolent Precursors: The Vegans. They've been doing this for a long time. It's actually played straight twice, because even the Vegans don't know who built the transportation network they're using.
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Contact / int_e0207930	type	Humans Are Special
Contact / int_e0207930	comment	Humans Are Special: "You are an interesting species, that are capable of such wonderful dreams and such horrible nightmares".
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Contact / int_e085feeb	type	Broken Record
Contact / int_e085feeb	comment	Broken Record
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Contact / int_e0937841	type	Commended for Pushback
Contact / int_e0937841	comment	Commended for Pushback: Ellie. The potential funder S.R. Hadden, instead of taking offense when she flips her lid at a meeting with his short-sighted employees, is so impressed with her passion he writes her a check.
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Contact / int_e0e8cce6	type	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!
Contact / int_e0e8cce6	comment	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: After Drumlin is selected over Arroway because her atheism turned off the selection panel (he learned from her mistake and professed a hitherto-unseen belief in God), he tells her that he wishes the world were a place where her honesty were rewarded, not taken advantage of as he did. Arroway answers: "Funny. I've always believed that the world is what we make of it."
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Contact / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Contact / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Palmer Joss in the film takes on aspects of several characters from the book. The first was a musician Ellie dated in college that she was quite fond of and disappointed it didn't work out. The second was Der Heer, a science advisor that she started seeing as the message and machine project started up, but it's implied they broke up as needs of the project kept them separated. Then there is the book Palmer Joss, a religious leader Ellie comes to respect for his more nuanced and open-minded take on the message, and by the end confides with him the events of the trip with a little Ship Tease. The machine was designed to hold five people, most of whom are introduced before the passengers were selected, and Ellie comes to see them all as family after sharing the experience together. The movie has space for just one person.
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Contact / int_e99b48c5	type	Space Travel Veto
Contact / int_e99b48c5	comment	Space Travel Veto: The first attempt at launching the wormhole device obtained by aliens is stopped stone cold by a fundamentalist suicide bomber destroying the facility. He rants in the Video Will he leaves behind that his actions make no sense right now but they will in the future, after mankind has endured Doomsday and regained its faith in God.
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Contact / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Contact / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Hadden tells Arroway that many people would like to see him depart this world, and says he'll grant them their wish soon enough. Next time we see him, he's staying in the MIR space station. Though he does actually die not too long after.
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Contact / int_ef20d7bc	type	A Minor Kidroduction
Contact / int_ef20d7bc	comment	A Minor Kidroduction: Eleanor, for the first several minutes of the movie.
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Contact / int_f13a0451	type	Suicide Attack
Contact / int_f13a0451	comment	Suicide Attack: Joseph, a Christian fundamentalist, blows up the machine with a suicide vest believing that it's somehow against God.
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Contact / int_f4a3140c	type	Survival Mantra
Contact / int_f4a3140c	comment	Survival Mantra: A brief one when Ellie is about to be launched by the Machine, as the structure begins shaking violently around her and it seems like it's going to go horribly wrong, she at first shouts over the noise, then quietly whimpers over and over again "Okay to go. Okay to go." half through muscle memory, half through sheer terror. It allows Kent to hear her over the radio and stop Mission Control from aborting the launch.
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Contact / int_f69a0d07	type	Surveillance Station Slacker
Contact / int_f69a0d07	comment	Surveillance Station Slacker: Basically Jodie Foster plays a protagonist version of this. See also her two scientist colleagues at SETI.
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Contact / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
Contact / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: Joseph. The first time we see him, he's preaching fire and brimstone and decrying that Science Is Bad to the crowd surrounding the radio telescopes. In the Video Will discovered by the FBI after he blows himself (and the machine, and Drumlin among others) up he says that why he did this is incomprehensible right now, but in the times to come before God passes judgment to mankind people will eventually understand him.
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Contact / int_f7b32015	type	Sufficiently Advanced Alien
Contact / int_f7b32015	comment	Sufficiently Advanced Alien: This is the central conflict of the film. The main character is an atheist and believes in rational explanations for everything, but at the end her journey to the center of the galaxy is revealed to be in every respect a religious experiencenote Except for the little matter of the eighteen hours of static on Ellie's recorder, proving that time did pass for her, where the alien beings are like God.
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Contact / int_f8394279	type	Happier Home Movie
Contact / int_f8394279	comment	Happier Home Movie: Hadden shows Ellie video footage of her happy childhood.
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Contact / int_fcd9b657	type	Gallows Humor
Contact / int_fcd9b657	comment	Gallows Humor: Imagine getting a video signal from aliens in outer space and the first thing you see is a Nazi swastika.
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Contact / int_fdad3753	type	When Things Spin, Science Happens
Contact / int_fdad3753	comment	When Things Spin, Science Happens: The Machine is a giant gyroscope that generates a wormhole by spinning its rings at tremendous speed. The last ring is brought to speed via rocket propulsion.
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Contact	hasFeature	Aliens Steal Cable / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	All of Them / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	America Saves the Day / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Astronomic Zoom / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Believer Fakes Evidence / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Black Boss Lady / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Black Box / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Close on Title / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Commended for Pushback / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Cyanide Pill / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Deceased Parents Are the Best / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Dropped-in Speech Clip / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Epic Tracking Shot / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Faster-Than-Light Travel / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Fiction 500 / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Films of 1995â€“1999 / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	First-Contact Math / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Happier Home Movie / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Historical Figures in Archival Media / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Hollywood Atheist / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	I Wished You Were Dead / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	If Jesus, Then Aliens / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Invisible President / int_44014b66
JodieFoster	seeAlso	Contact
JohnHurt	seeAlso	Contact
Contact	hasFeature	Leaning on the Fourth Wall / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Leno Device / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Little Green Men / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Lost Technology / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Lotus-Eater Machine / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Making a Spectacle of Yourself / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	New Tech Is Not Cheap / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Newscaster Cameo / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	One-Liner, Name... One-Liner / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Or Was It a Dream? / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Our Presidents Are Different / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Our Wormholes Are Different / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Politician Guest-Star / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Portal Crossroad World / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Power Glows / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Precursors / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Raster Vision / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Science Hero / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Sexy Discretion Shot / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Space Travel Veto / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Stealing the Credit / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Straw Vulcan / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Sufficiently Advanced Alien / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Suicide Attack / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Surveillance Station Slacker / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Take Back Your Gift / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Tears of Awe / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	The Big Board / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	The World Is Just Awesome / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	The Xenophile / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Typeset in the Future / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Unusual User Interface / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Video Wills / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Western Terrorists / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	What Year Is This? / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	When Things Spin, Science Happens / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Year Inside, Hour Outside / int_44014b66
Contact	seeAlso	Contact
Contact (Video Game)	seeAlso	Contact
contact	sameAs	Contact
Contact	hasFeature	It Always Rains at Funerals / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	Perspective Magic / int_44014b66
Contact	hasFeature	The Lifestream / int_44014b66

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