Louise Banks Arrival Sparknotes

Last Friday, some form of alien life was found for the first time in history, and on our own Planet. The Extraterrestrials were found 150 miles Northwest of Charleston, in a pasture. Here’s what the owner of the pasture, Jonathan Tiger has to say, ‘ I was outside in the pasture, feeding me goats when all ut’a sudden there was a crashing noise, to me v’ry ‘prise it was a UFO! After many aliens poured out, I offered the one who seemed to be the alpha a can of Mountain Dew Code Red, the bubbles seemed to be too much for him.” We haven’t learned much about the new species however, because communication is quite difficult.

Alien abduction stories have always held a strong interest among people all over the world, captivating our attention and curiosity as they propose yet another unsolved mystery of gigantic proportions and unthinkable consequences for humanity to contemplate. More so in modern times, and especially in the western world, where the media is a more significant part of culture, many science fiction novelists and screen writers brought out the issue to the public in the form of entertainment. This, due its widespread appeal, gave these stories a certain level of credulity among the masses, and sparked curiosity for closer investigation.

After the team’s first visit inside the alien’s ship, Louise creates a diagnoses that could

The low-key lighting makes everything in the ship seem like shadows; the drastic change of the set and lighting leaves the audience uncomfortable and tense. In the office scene, the props behind the main character are books and computers, which depicts that he is intelligent and holds some importance. Another element telling the audience that the character speaking to us is of importance is his microphone since he is appearing ‘front and center’ in this “documentary”. The setting of Johannesburg sets a different expectation for the viewer, as most Hollywood alien movies take place in major American cities; the foreign setting automatically distinguishes the film’s unique

Artificial intelligence and first contact with an alien species are two popular science fiction topics. They are popular because they deal with something humanity might very well experience in the future. That raises an important philosophical question; How will humanity react when faced with a completely alien intelligence either man-made or extra-terrestrial? Iris Murdoch essay, “The Idea of Perfection” explains how humanity interacts with the unknown, or the sublime, by masking the sublime with knowledge and experiences already obtained previously instead of approaching it as incomprehensible. This theory is presented in the film “Ex Machina” and Mary Doria Russell’s novel “The Sparrow”.

For example, Austin mentions and even includes a video from a popular YouTube channel in which the pyramid’s potential background and purpose is assessed. A final thing that solidifies that the article is targeted towards those with no prior knowledge but a fascination in aliens is the title; the inclusion of the words alien, ET, and UFOers all act as click bait to grab the attention of people who are merely interested in learning more about space life forms.

Recently some students of an English class watched a short film called Arrival, directed by Denise Villeneuve. One of the main stars of the film was Dr. Louise Banks, the hetapods that are actually called aliens. Arrival is about how these aliens called hetapods come down and land one of the 12 spacecraft’s on Earth. In the film they create world chaos to the point where the military is involved and the military needs Dr. Louise to help answer the citizens questions? “ Why are the hetapods here?” Due to them being aliens Dr. Louise job assigned by the military is to use her career skills as a language expert to understand these hetapods language and to communicate with them. Eventually she can communicate with the hetapods, considering reality how likely do you believe it is to have aliens or other intelligent beings would be on Earth? Thinking about their language, habitat lifestyle and how would the world react to them being here. How would we contact them? Could the world afford to use money for scientific tools and resources attempting to find and listen for space aliens?

The possibility of life outside of our own planet has been boggling the minds of the human race for more years than anyone can truly know, however in the summer of 1947 new information made these already known suspicions even more apparent. A leery encounter with what a local farmer would identify as a UFO would quickly arise complications with the government and mysterious men who would threaten his family if any knowledge of this got out. These men would later coin the name “The Men in Black” due to their odd task of making sure no extraterrestrial information reached the public. The importance of these unexplainable men and their habits come to the surface when you truly begin to realize

Another thing that makes Arrival a great film is that Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner do an amazing job portraying Ian and Louise in Arrival. “Amy Adams is a miracle worker of an actress – she makes us believe in whoever and whatever she's playing” (Travers). That quote can’t be truer. Amy Adams really makes the viewer believe that she is a linguistics professor who has previously worked for the military and is now acting as a liaison between the aliens and the humans. The first encounter with the aliens when Amy Adams is experiencing all of this for the first time, you can tell it is suspenseful because she is not sure what is going to happen making all these questions arise within the film. During the third encounter with the aliens Adams and Renner take off their hazmat suits. Adams touches the glass to try to almost connect with the

The movie begins with an expert linguist Louise Banks, (Amy Adams) losing her only daughter to cancer at a young age. This is an important key to the storyline but is set aside as soon as twelve gigantic unidentified space craft ’s appear in different places around the world. Within a day Louise is summoned by the United States Military to decipher the language of the aliens. Shortly after arriving at the base, Louise was sent into the large black “shell” along with a team of men and psychic specialist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner).

The Australian Aboriginals did not have written languages when first encountered by Europeans. Individual words were collected through oral means. The songs, chants, legends and stories of the Aboriginals constituted of a rich oral literature. The Aboriginal tribes had no common language and therefore their creations were diverse. Their oral tradition appears to be quite complex to the non Aboriginals who misunderstood

Director Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece is a visual and auditory sensation, the likes of which had never been seen before its creation. The plotline, if such a straightforward word could be used as a description, spans millions of years, and the first word of dialogue is spoken twenty-five minutes into the film. Arthur C. Clarke, the film’s screenwriter, said “If you understand

Another communication concept that “Arrival” integrates into the film is cultural relativism. For one to understand this concept, one must begin with the understanding that the methods by which humans communicate are abstract and therefore meaningless. “Cultural relativity, then, denies any inherent meaning to any communication but predicts instead that when two people share a similar enough frame of reference, they will interpret a linguistic event similarly” (Villareal.) In other words, a communicative expression from one reference point can have an entirely new meaning from another. The concept’s significance with respect to the film can be shown by how the humans react to the alien’s use of the word weapon. From most of the world’s reference

The film Contact was an incredible story about the mysteries and possibilities of life outside of our galaxy. Although science has been proving its possibilities through our advancements and increases in technology, the discovery of these other worldly extraterrestrial civilizations has proven to be more fictitious than fact to some now. Though many do believe this outside universal communication is possible now, we just need to wait for them to contact us. Discovering these civilizations and this information could affect our life on Earth substantially in both positive and negative ways. The Largest Discovery in Human History The possibility of extra-terrestrial life has sparked the hearts and mind of people worldwide since the mid-20th century.

In reality, many scientists were skeptical of both UFOs and of alien life in general; they contended that interstellar travel would be easy for advanced civilizations, so the lack of overt contact disproved alien existence. Yet most UFO opponents do believe alien life exists out in the universe, just not here. So they defend the near impossibility of interstellar travel, which contradicts a considerable portion of the scientific community (Thompson, 1990).