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Apr 29, 2024 · Perhaps, even if Palmer Joss truly did not know much about this discovery, it felt as if he was certainly helping guide her thoughts towards the possibilities of contact with the other side.
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But while the film portrays Arroway as journeying into the heavens to meet the dead, it actually leaves out the novel’s most remarkable religious details. For one thing, the novel has two “fundamentalist” characters instead of one. The sympathetic Palmer Joss (played by Matthew McConaughey in the film) is a kind of young Billy Graham figure. He’s p...
Contactmakes that reconciliation happen by establishing careful parallels between religious faith and the scientific enterprise as seen in Arroway’s journey and testimony. For instance, preparing for the trip home, Arroway realizes her experience has become very “theological.” As the novel narrates: “Here were beings who live in the sky, beings eno...
This religious sympathy is dramatized even further in a coda about Arroway’s scientific explorations that never made it into the film. She had been mysteriously encouraged by her alien-father, during her journey into the heavens, to investigate the transcendental number pi. So in the last chapter titled “The Artist’s Signature,” as her oral and wri...
Contact is a 1985 hard science fiction novel by American scientist Carl Sagan. It deals with the theme of contact between humanity and a more technologically advanced extraterrestrial life form. It ranked No. 7 on Publishers Weekly ' s 1985 bestseller list. The only full work of fiction published by Sagan, the novel originated as a screenplay ...
May 3, 2024 · Although Arroway is a frontrunner to go, Palmer Joss is on the panel, and he brings attention to her atheism. The panel selects Drumlin as more representative of humanity—a crushing blow to Arroaway. But when the machine is first tested, a religious terrorist destroys the machine in a suicide bombing, killing Drumlin and several others.
Sep 9, 2019 · In the 1997 film Contact, astronomer Ellie Arroway detects a signal seemingly from the star Vega. It communicates prime numbers and contains an enhanced version of the first human TV signal powerful enough to escape into space: Hitler’s opening speech at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. As clear evidence of extraterrestrial life, news of the signal spreads and turns Ellie's world upside ...
May 24, 2010 · Contact: Palmer Joss is one of my heroes. Contact is the story of a scientist who, through an unexplainable experience, opens up to previously dismissed possibilities about the nature and mysteries of our existence. Ellie Arroway is your garden variety young scientist, pure and noble in her utter trust in science as the path to discovering truth.
The other central character, Palmer Joss (played by Matthew McConaughey) shows up early in the film during Ellie's research at the Arecibo radio telescope site in Puerto Rico. McConaughey is completely unconvincing as a kind of new age ex-catholic theologian who got his Masters of Divinity, dropped out of seminary, and is now working on a book about how technology affects third-world cultures.
