Abbott has been mortally injured as a result of the explosion (which Costello refers to as the "death process") Costello explains that they have come to help humanity, for in 3,000 years they will need humanity's help in return.
Communications between the international research teams are terminated as worldwide panic sets in.īanks goes alone to the Montana craft, and it sends down a transport pod. Banks suggests that the full message is split among the twelve craft, and that the aliens want all the nations to share what they learn.Ĭhina's General Shang issues an ultimatum to his local alien craft, demanding that it leave China within 24 hours. When they wake, the military is preparing to evacuate in case of retaliation, and the craft has moved beyond reach.ĭonnelly discovers that the symbol for time is present throughout the message, and that the writing occupies exactly one twelfth of the 3D space into which it is projected. Just before the bomb explodes, one of the aliens ejects Donnelly and Banks from the vessel, knocking them unconscious.
Unaware, Banks and Donnelly re-enter the alien vessel, and the aliens give them a more complex message. Rogue soldiers plant a bomb in the Montana craft. Banks argues that the symbol interpreted as "weapon" can be more abstractly referred to the concept of "means", "tool" China's translation likely results from interacting with the aliens using mahjong, a highly competitive winner-take-all game. China interprets this as a "use weapon", prompting it to break off communications, and other nations follow. When Banks is able to establish sufficient shared vocabulary to ask why the aliens have come, they answer with a statement which could be translated as "offer weapon".
As Banks studies the language, she starts to have flashback-like visions of her daughter. Banks and Donnelly research the complex written language of the aliens, consisting of palindromic phrases written with circular symbols, and share the results with other nations. On board, Banks and Donnelly make contact with two cephalopod-like, seven-limbed aliens, whom they call 'heptapods' Donnelly nicknames them Abbott and Costello. Affected nations send military and scientific experts to monitor and study them in the United States, US Army Colonel Weber recruits Banks and physicist Ian Donnelly to study the craft above Montana. Twelve extraterrestrial spacecraft hover over various locations around the Earth. Linguist Louise Banks's daughter Hannah dies at the age of twelve from an incurable illness. The score by Jóhannsson was nominated for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media at the 60th Grammy Awards. The film was awarded the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation and the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 2017. For her performance, Adams received nominations for a BAFTA, SAG, Critics' Choice, and at the 74th Golden Globe Awards, Adams was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and Jóhann Jóhannsson was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. It received eight nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Adapted Screenplay, and won for Best Sound Editing. Considered one of the best films of 2016, Arrival appeared on numerous critics' year-end lists and was selected by the American Film Institute as one of ten "Movies of the Year". It grossed $203 million worldwide and received critical acclaim, with particular praise for Adams's performance, Villeneuve's direction, and the exploration of communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Tzi Ma appear in supporting roles.Īrrival had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 1, 2016, and was released theatrically in the United States by Paramount Pictures on November 11, 2016.
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The film stars Amy Adams as Louise Banks, a linguist enlisted by the United States Army to discover how to communicate with extraterrestrial aliens who have arrived on Earth, before tensions lead to war. Arrival is a 2016 American science fiction drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve and adapted by Eric Heisserer, who conceived the project as a spec script based on the 1998 short story " Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang.