From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 02:27:49 MST
Reminder:
Ellie Arroway was a _character_ in a movie. If you knew or met Sagan
(some of us here did), and you know something of his history, his friends,
colleagues, life, or have even read some of the biographies, then this
is what you would know about this character:
Sagan's character Ellie Arroway was a female-personified view of himself
plus Ann Druyan + Jill Tarter + women-astronomer-scientists that he
knew/admired/supported. Sagan supported women in science to the nth degree,
but if you want to understand that character, then you need to study Sagan.
The book and the movie have some differences, not huge differences though
(the largest might be removing pi). Since Sagan was minutely involved
in the making of Contact from the movie's beginning in the early 80s
to its premier in summer 1997 (only 1/2 year after his death), then
you should consider the movie Contact his whole baby, and not a film
that was sidetracked by Hollywood interests (that, in my mind is one
of the most remarkable things about the film: it's a smart film that
didn't fall to media stupidities.)
Amara
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