Talk:Contact (1997 American film)

message: As a reader, I wanted to know more about several things: 1) The editing by Arthur Schmidt is superb, and it really makes the film work.  What kind of input did Schmidt have in the process?  Or, does he just edit at the direction of Zemeckis?  Is it collaborative? I'm curious about the production methods, and the filming section seems a bit short for any future FAC.  2) The Bill Clinton and CNN controversy seems like a homage to The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), as that film used real journalists to give it added authenticity.  However, when I saw Contact during its initial release, I and many others that saw it at the time were very surprised to see the President in the film, so it may have had the intended effect. 3) Coppola's lawsuit doesn't make any sense.  He must have known (or his attorneys must have known) that the case would go nowhere after waiting two decades since the book was originally published.  Suing a dead man?  It just doesn't add up and the whole thing is just completely bizarre.  It would help to get Coppola's take on the incident. Viriditas (talk) 12:08, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Unanswered questions

message: It seems very pedantic, and even wrong, to say that the shape of the capsule was changed from a dodecahedron to a sphere for the film; as can be seen, the pod (shown clearly when dropped, and again when it hits the water on its “return”) is a lattice-work doecahedron cage, in which the sphere sits. There may be a question of æsthetics, but it isn’t so much a change from the book as a design choice in not filling in the faces of the dodecahedron.Jock123 (talk) 14:17, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shape of the capsule… 

message: Hello, I today started reading a polish translation (from 1987) of the James E. Gunn's book "Listeners" ("Słuchacze"), which was released in the 1972 or 73. It is very similar to the story in this film. It is even to Carl Sagan (and others)! For sure film have few plots which are different, to make it more Hollywood production and having more action, but backstory, many topics, philosophical questions, background and many details are in agreement. I would like to know what people thinks about it. Gunn isn't a thirdparty author, he written many hard-science fiction books and articles about it, for sure his works was known to Sagan.--149.156.82.207 (talk) 06:22, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Per wp:talk page guidelines, we are not supposed to talk about that here. This is where we discuss the content and format of the article. Of course, if you can find a reliable source that actually explicitly says that Sagan's and Gunn's books show notable similarities, then we could add a little remark in this article. Without a source such a comment would be wp:original research. Cheers - DVdm (talk) 08:22, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Look at the talk page for Contact (novel). Look at the paragraph "save Similiar Books information". Here is mentioned "Listeners" and other books. --GroveGuy (talk) 19:57, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  James E. Gunn influence 

message: The introductory segment of the article states that the "release of Contact was publicized by controversies...", which I think should probably be "plagued" rather than "publicized", unless the controversies mentioned were part of a deliberate marketing campaign strategy - unlikely.
Changing this as suggested, unless anyone can show that the use of the original is justified. 
Extenebris (talk) 23:58, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: That looks like an accurate summary of the article to me. Good work! Rebbing 01:36, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
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