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      • The Arrival movie is based on a book, a short story, called Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang. The story deals primarily with why the alien crafts have arrived and what they want.
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  2. Nov 7, 2016 · Ted Chiang is that genius, and Arrival is based off of his acclaimed 1998 story, "The Story of Your Life," about a woman who is tasked with decoding an elaborate alien language.

  3. Jun 28, 2024 · Arrival is based on the Ted Chiang short story 'Story of Your Life', which director Villeneuve was inspired by. "What I love about the story is that it has a lot of layers,"...

  4. Nov 11, 2016 · But the story Arrival is based on — the award-winning novella Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang — was published in 1998, almost two decades ago, which indicates its central themes were...

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    • The Gift: Arrival Movie Alien Language

    The punchline in the movie Arrival or the revelation in the climax is that the scenes where Louise Banks (Amy) is shown with her daughter, is not the past. Those are her visions ofher own future. Yes, they are. You can hear Louise narrating this as a recollection. She is recollecting the events of the “arrival”. I’ll get to how she has these vision...

    Dr. Louise is a single teacher who is a linguistic expert. At this point, she is neither married nor has a daughter. She is known to have helped the US Army once before in deciphering a Farsi text. One day when Louise is teaching, 12 alien ships arrive and position themselves around the world. She goes back home, where she stays by herself, and doz...

    Government orders a nationwide shutdown and as a result the university is closed. Louise goes to an empty college and follows the news there. US Army Colonel – Weber (Forest) appears there seeking help from Louise. They have a recording of the sounds of the alien. He needs her to help understand what they are trying to say. She tells him that she n...

    They reach the alien craft and enter it from an opening below. The gravity in the craft is altered and is perpendicular to that of the Earth. This has no significance except to let us know that the aliens are quite clearly an advanced civilization. The team goes wearing radiation suits. On Louise’s first trip onboard, she’s unable to say anything a...

    On her second trip into the craft, Louise takes with her a small white board to help write what she is trying to say to the aliens. She first writes the word “Human” on the board to tell them what they are. The pods perceive the written English to be a form of communication and respond with a circular symbol. This shows that they have written text....

    They go through a series of back and forth communication with the aliens over a period of time that appears to be about a month. The objective is to ask them – “What is the purpose of your visit to Earth?”. Language and communication is complex, especially with some advanced alien species, hence the process is long. Humans are obviously paranoid an...

    Hearing this information about “use weapon”, few of the army guys decide (on their own) that they are going to bomb the craft. This group of four army guys jumps to a conclusion that the aliens intend to attack. They secretly place a bomb inside the craft. Louise and Ian are persistent and enter the craft because they feel their interpretation of t...

    We need to take a moment to understand what Louise is going through during her interaction with the aliens. Ian mentions a theory about how immersing oneself in a language can rewire the brain. We can see that Louise has been really connecting with the alien language by trying to interpret the nuances of each of the symbols. She’s immersing herself...

    The alien vessel, after the human attack, goes up higher. They lose the ability to enter the craft now. Ian has a breakthrough. He isolates 12 repeating symbols that match with the number of alien crafts. They feel that the aliens are trying to tell them that all 12 countries have to unite their knowledge to understand the reason for their visit. W...

    The aliens have come to gift their language to the humans. They say that 3000 years later, they will need the human’s help. There is no clarity on the nature of that help that they will need from the humans. But they have identified that gifting the humans with non-linear time vision is important and this will somehow enable the humans to help 3000...

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  5. Arrival is based on the Nebula-winning 1998 science fiction novella "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang. The novella involves Earth's first communication with heptapods who speak in a cryptic language.

  6. Dec 5, 2016 · Was there anything in the original short story that could inform you of what the aliens and their ships should look like? Actually, the spaceships were not described in the short story.

  7. Nov 12, 2016 · That's the premise of the film Arrival, based on the short story, Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, opening in cinemas this week. The protagonist, linguist Louise Banks (played by Amy...

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