Arrival: The Nature of a Question (Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner) 4K HD Sci Fi Clip 

I love that Colonel Weber asks Louise questions and ACTUALLY LISTENS. It was so refreshing to see a military authority character in a sci-fi film that didn't say, "uhh, in English please??" and didn't just want to blow everything up immediately.

"Help me understand" was such an awesome line for that character. He didn't belittle her or trivialize what she was doing. He asked her to explain why it was important.

That was such a good movie. It addressed the real issue of a hypothetical first contact which was how we could communicate. And Amy Adams is a wonderful actress.

I was so engrossed in the scene that it was a complete shock to me when it stopped. I think that's an indication of how well this was done.

"Help me understand." I love Col. Weber's character here. Just because a military type isn't a trained scientist doesn't mean they can't think analytically. He doesn't see the point of Dr Banks' approach, but instead of shutting her down, he asks probing questions. Reminds me of General Mann's relationship with Dr Forester in The War of the Worlds (1953). "Joined magnetically? Is that possible?" "If they do it, it is." One of the touches that gives Arrival its feeling of plausibility, versus movies like Day of the Dead (1985) where the military are just idiots who won't listen to the very scientists that they themselves recruited.

Apparently the white-board scene was actually an interaction that occurred in the writers room, and it was such a great explanation that they put it in the movie.

The fact that they nickname them Abbott and Costello is hilarious because Abbott and Costello's most famous bit was "Who's On First", a gag that centers around miscommunication, specifically about people's names.

This movie wasn't perfect, but as a linguist, I really appreciated how this movie explored the what-ifs of making contact with intelligent beings whose method of communication would involve so many unknowns. The actors also conveyed very well how truly frightening this experience would be.

Arrival, The Martian and Interstellar really capture a sense of "realness" with their science fiction

That "proper introduction" gave me some serious goosebumps!

This film sparked my interest in linguistics. I've always had a thing for literature, but I'm increasingly realizing that language is actually very complex. It is so embedded in being human that we don't realize this complexity. Recently I started the book 'For the Love of Language: An Introduction to Linguistics', a very nice and intruiging read.

one of the best scifi movies i've seen. not space opera, not scfi action fantastic story and cast

So many aspects of language that each and every one of us take for granted. Sometimes it helps to mull over why they are what they are, what they mean, and how our thought processes mix with them or interpret them.

This is one of my favourite movies. Space , time , and evaluation.

Slow paced, cerebral, quiet. Captivating, astoundingly smart, and brilliantly told.

BRILLIANT movie. Its a real tragedy it didnt win more awards

love this part! Looking back and watching it again you realize it was never about them understanding but the humans understanding, specifically Louise.

This movie was painfully overlooked. Amy Adams was great.

A wonderfully subtle thing at the end: "Costello" is the first to leave after the introductions. -- SPOILER!! -- His partner, Abbott, dies saving Louise and Ian from the rogues' bomb. And because of how the heptapods perceive time, he knew it would happen. For Abbott this was a suicide mission, and he came anyway. And Costello knew he would be going home alone.

this is one of the greatest movies of all time

Arrival and interstellar...great movies that just break me every time

Fuck, I forgot how *absolutely incredible* this movie is! Guess I know what I'm doing tonight...

The pictures, the plot, Amy, Forest, Jeremy, this was a fantastic movie in every aspects. All Hail Denis ;)

Doctor: Takes suit off. Aliens: "Nice".

Scenarios/movies/scenes like this are delightful to the brain.

For me the best movie about first contact ever.

I need to watch this movie again. So good

Top tier sci fi movie. One of very few best, imho.

I love this movie. I loved it more the second and third time I watched it. I understood it better.

This might be the selling point for me to convince my wife to watch this! Amazing!

Smart movie. Unpredictable. Octopus aliens. I wonder what Carl Sagan would say about the movie.

This scene is unbelivable

Louise: "what is YOUR purpose" Aliens: *you're Louise: -_-

I've watched this scene several times since Arrival played in theaters. Sad.

As I recall there's a memory scene with a guy that is the heart of the whole story toward the end.

I watched this movie only once and it was really fantastic. Recommended for everybody

Amy is very good in every movie.

This was such a good movie. I dont know why this was not called as an Amy Adams movie.

this movie is so good

i love this movie...

I love movies with nerdy dialogue.

Endless blue by wen Spencer was a really good example of this. Ideas and habits that we think are universal, really aren't. They are just so far.

Not a great detail, but that incessant bird caw in the background makes the scene even more eerie.

The standout best scifi movie of recent memory

Crazy to think that for the heptapods the sounds, gestures and writing made by humans are as uninteligible as their sounds and circle thingies are to us.

A great movie where its not about aliens being silly invaders who want our water or something dopey like that

Why is there, what looks like calculus/differential equations/matrices, on the white board???

Hope Jeremy Renner is doing better these days.

This movie is SO fucking good but I don’t know if I can watch it again, the ending crushes me.

The difference between these alien (if exist as here in movie ) and us, some difference between the human and apes.

"Hey Albert, how do you want to do this first contact?" "Let's do the usual awe inspiring jawdrop intro complete with dramatic smoke with ominous, distant views." "Ah, a number 4 job. You'd think with the plethora of radiowaves leaking from this planet, we'd land with all the language business sorted out." "Well, good thing you're not a screenwriter, Alice. Now let me do my 'it's not Us, is it a God' thing."

Hawkeye was really good in this film

LOVED this movie: My only question (Geology/Planetology nit-picking): How could a home planet with such low gravity have such a Thick atmosphere - without being FAR from its star, and therefore COLD as F.

I found the answer to the purpose of life.

I was agreeing with her 100%, but I thought the Colonel was going to say "I hear you, but this will take weeks- maybe even months and time we do not have. We need to know what they want, and we need to know NOW". Alas, color me surprised when he actually understood and accepted her answer.

subtitles please 😭

Poor Jeremy

Can some one explain to me what the bird is for ? Is it have any sciencetivic reason ? Thank you.

I saw somewhere that the hazmat suits in alien space craft scenes were digital effects. Acting in real suits was though to be too limiting.

We all have name(s).

2:15 Louise Lane lol...

did it ever occur to you to learn their language? or use kanji or arabic?

What is that white board. There's General Mechanics top middle with some Maxwells equations, from Electromagnetism. There's some matrix derivatives near the bottom? (Relativistic Particle Physics maybe??) There's just the words 'Buoyancy' and 'Gravitation' just written with little context around it. Some wave function and probability equations near the middle, some function describing an integral on the far left, and volume calculations near it? Nobody does their work like this. It's like a giant stroke.

One of my favourite movies EVER ❤ I don’t know if there’s such a thing as a field of study ‘how to communicate with aliens’/ ‘alienthropology’ but it would have been the dream job for me (not that I would have been any good at it 😂). One thing that is fundamentally wrong here is the (almost) inescapable anthropocentrism. Humans have to put on pause what you think and try to empathise with the aliens, understand first HOW they ‘think’ (which might be very different from what humans call ‘thinking’), not (just) WHAT they think. With aliens who have physical bodies is easier because you have an excellent starting point- you be fairly certain that there’s some embodied cognition there, at least in part. (From a defence perspective, also, is good news, because what is embodied can be physically neutralised or destroyed if they are a threat). Anyway. She/ the other scientists in the film could/ should have started by identifying salient information such as- Embodiment. What are their bodies like- number of limbs, shape, possible function within the system of one individual, patterns of movement, correlation between movements and sounds, how they move in their environment (float, walk, fly, crawl, combination thereof). Effort? Discomfort? Etc. More than one individual. Is there a pattern of interaction amongst them? Social structure? Is there a boss or hive behaviour? Do they synchronise or have individual autonomy? Do they touch each other? Do they have a personal space? Etc. In terms of cognition as such…it’s the most difficult bit because any alien form would operate with different building blocks than human ones. They can be cognitively super intelligent without reasoning; some may be able and willing to dumb themselves down to communicate (like making those patterns in the movie), others may not (if not, why? Is there intentionality? The intentionality is most difficult to assess, first of all because they might not have ‘volition’ and ‘intentionality’ as we understand it. Last, but not least, do they experience something similar to human emotion? Do they have sensory receptors? I guess any embodied creature is able to feel threatened. Given that they are likely technologically superior, it’s not a very good idea for humans to be paranoid, even try to be manipulative (and everything else that makes them their usual awful selves) because these will apriori structure the parameters of interaction. So, any aliens will EITHER withdraw not wanting to have anything to do with such primitive species OR will retaliate because they will think that aggression is the only form of interaction intelligible for humans. Of course, if they are benevolent. If they are hostile, I’d still say that a intelligent-soft approach is recommended; they would most certainly be technologically superior, so humankind flexing its weak muscle will achieve nothing, really. I truly hope that there are intelligent and empathetic people who study these things and prepare humankind for contact with alien species, free from interference from Generals Trigger Happy with IQs of minus 140, ugly character, crap temperament, and proud of their chests covered in blood medals. We should not use any AI trying to understand aliens. It will do more harm than good because it will give unusable data or, worse, throw scientists off- course with false readings(it will never be able to correctly and usefully extrapolate because it is as biased and limited as the available information input and the inherent operating human biases). And it cannot really empathise. Investing in developing human minds through natural means is the very best. I’m pessimistic about humankind’s odds of survival. Heck, it doesn’t need any aliens to wipe them out, humans have excelled at doing that themselves. *I should write a sci-fi book, I know 😄*

I’d settle for understanding why Joe Alien is here vs why thier species is here, especially if it saves time.

I think the saddest part about communicating with aliens would be the fact that since we don't share the same brains, even if we humans came to know how their language works, we wouldn't be able to naturally understand it like how we can understand human language. Perceiving and decoding an alien language would probably be like doing a complicated math equation, you could figure it out but it would take time and not be processed instantly or naturally (hope I'm explaining this well enough) Like if I hear the sentence "Hello how are you?" I know what it means pretty much instantly and can respond instantly, if an alien asked me the same thing, I'd have to decipher it which would take time and then take time to think up a response in their language, no matter how much I grasped how their language works.

Why does the aliens sound like my hungry stomach?

step one for first contact... keep the military as far away as possible

Thank bob they ended up with cephalopod type creatures instead of any other type.

Would I be correct in assuming that perception of time varies with the intensity of ambient gravity ? Meaning, if Earth was somehow much closer to the sun ( without getting burnt ) or closer to a Star much larger than the sun we would perceive time differently ? My question is based on the understanding that the closer you get to a black hole, the slower the time passes in comparison to earth?

The only drawback to this movie was the lighting, besides that it was great.

A good, test run, us humans should do is on that hostile tribe on the island. Just learning their language, no interacting so we don't make them sick with our germs. But helping us try to understand a near foreign language.

See the thing about Aliens (1986) that I loved the most was that breaking protocol is what brought the danger to the entire crew. And the character that insisted they don't break it, is the person who survived.

Are they floating in a gas, or liquid?

Where's Doctor Jackson when you need him

This movie was so good. And I hated Jeremy Renner's character in the end.

bruh that was seven minutes? went for like only 30 seconds

I never understood why they try to teach them writing, it would be like learning a language written on stone with no context.

Alien to Louise: "hey hey hey young lady! we've got some synthetics in our hosehold, cleaning staff, nothing special, hard workers, it's funny though you mentioned it but, there names are all Joe?!" Huh?!

giant octopuses that sound like whales, got it

I know it's somehow moot point, because winning awards doesn't mean to be an better actor than your fellow nominees. That said, it's a shame that Amy Adams hasn't yet won an Oscar, because she is simply brlliant in ANY movie she's ever been in. Be it Junebug, Enchanted, Sunshine Cleaning, Arrival or whatever. Again, very time she was nominated and someone else won, this someone else did a brilliant performance and also deserved the win. But it bugs me, that she has been nominated like 6 times(IIRC) and has never won.

Can someone convince the same director to make Arrival-2 ? I would love to see what happens 3000 years after this event where humans will help the HeptaPods.. Maybe we visit their home-world with some form of knowledge or technology that they would need to survive ? ARRIVAL- 2 PLEASE !!!

Those mus their names! Uhuh ... or maybe ... Man - Woman Husband - Wife Translator - Soldier Leader - Subject Father - Son Older brother - younger brother In favor of war - debating peace Or an actual question or sentence ...

too dark

It's a great movie but the only pickle is that when someone indeed need to talk to Aliens they'd use a psychic. There is no language in the universe. That's just human translation. All beings talk to each other in silence through light and vibration.

interesting the aliens are very octopi ish. Octopi are the aliens on planet earth. Please don't eat one, And I noticed the appendage resembled a starfish. Interesting but not original. Could the symbols in "ink" also denote gender as well as personal "names"?

This is a dark movie. Not in tone or anything, I just can’t see wtf is going on

While I realise what she says is more for the audience. It always bothered me that teaching basic words first came into question at all. Anyone learning a second langauge knows you begin with basic short sentences, the kind of thing children do. And that's knowing how the language is structured. So of course you're going to use these same basic ideas when approaching a different species who you know nothing about.

ME MILITARY GUY, ME STUPID

I love this movie ....and Denis villenuve is a Crackhead! also the Sound , and OST by Johan Johansson is beyond this world literally.. ntm Amy Adams is a Top actress... and so is Hawkeye. the casting is top notch. the VFX team and all the background artists did a wonderful job!

I remember this scene. They hired a language person, but then didn't want to do anything the language person said to do. So why hire a language person? Probably so the writers could show off their ideas about how communicating with aliens would work. You always gotta have the dummy asking questions for the audience.

These backup guards are ridiculous aborting every 5 seconds lol

I thought this was a fantastic movie right up until they went with that dumb temporal effect aspect (unnecessarily weird) and and psycho soldier (just plain tired and overdone). First half or 2/3rds is very much the 10/10 movie everyone says it is, but the last part just lost me like a M. Shylaman ending.

I love the random bullshit physics equations that are completely unrelated to the topic lol

A mixed movie. Star Trek got Contact right: machine learning and machine translation. The movie sidestepped this by creating a language the learning of which would have time travel effects, an intrinsic or bioengineered quality of the heptapods, which nonetheless could be learned by a non-heptapod sentient organic. The only real question for me was not whether the language reshaped the good doctor's cognitive and metaphysical abilities, the latter of which at least is impossible to the extent depicted, but whether they bioengineered her brain during the visits so that she was better adapted to do so. A secondary interesting issue was the extent to which the US director showed the US 'solution' beat out rival philosophical systems' approaches,.

I loved this movie but I’m really tired of the “grizzled military man butting heads with the scientist” trope. This movie does it a bit better but his disbelief in her process does seem a bit unrealistic

I get that forest's character is the audience stand in so that stuff can be explained. But my god he is dumb. For some reason he thinks you can translate an Alien language in about 5 mins.

The Aliens are going to be confused once they introduce pronouns.

Wouldn't it have been easier to teach the aliens English?

hate this movie