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Not to be confused with the unrelated game ''[[Contact (video game)|Contact]]'' or the trope [[First Contact]]. |
Not to be confused with the unrelated game ''[[Contact (video game)|Contact]]'' or the trope [[First Contact]]. |
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* [[Alien Sky]]: The aliens create a beach based on the drawing Ellie drew as a child. |
* [[Alien Sky]]: The aliens create a beach based on the drawing Ellie drew as a child. |
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* [[Aliens Speaking English]]: Averted. The so-called 'Vegans' make contact with a signal based on mathematics. When the National Security Advisor asks why these [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] don't just communicate in English, Arroway responds that 70% of Earth's population speak other languages. "Mathematics is the only true univeral language." Also the schematics for the FTL machine don't match up {{spoiler|until it's realised they're three-dimensional.}} |
* [[Aliens Speaking English]]: Averted. The so-called 'Vegans' make contact with a signal based on mathematics. When the National Security Advisor asks why these [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] don't just communicate in English, Arroway responds that 70% of Earth's population speak other languages. "Mathematics is the only true univeral language." Also the schematics for the FTL machine don't match up {{spoiler|until it's realised they're three-dimensional.}} |
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* [[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 signals, but it doesn't matter because it gets the message across so powerfully. |
* [[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 signals, but it doesn't matter because it gets the message across so powerfully. |
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* [[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. |
* [[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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* [[Stealth Pun]]: Buried in the [[Arc Words]]: "If it was only us, that would be an awful waste of space." |
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* [[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 experience, where the alien beings are God. |
* [[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 experience, where the alien beings are God. |
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* [[Surveillance Station Slacker]]: Basically Jodie Foster plays a protagonist version of this. See also her |
* [[Surveillance Station Slacker]]: Basically Jodie Foster plays a protagonist version of this. See also her two colleagues at SETI. |
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* [[They Should Have Sent a Poet]] (former [[Trope Namer]]): As well as the awe-inspiring sequence that contains the page quote -- a staggering symphony of visual effects and music built around Jodie Foster's note-perfect performance -- the movie opens with a amazing[[Epic Tracking Shot|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. |
* [[They Should Have Sent a Poet]] (former [[Trope Namer]]): As well as the awe-inspiring sequence that contains the page quote -- a staggering symphony of visual effects and music built around Jodie Foster's note-perfect performance -- the movie opens with a amazing[[Epic Tracking Shot|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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* [[We Come in Peace, 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. |
* [[We Come in Peace, 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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