From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 13:51:30 MST
Do you know where the name 'Arroway' originates?...I am marrying Jill
Arroway in fifteen day's time...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Amara Graps" <amara@amara.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 09:27
Subject: Contact's Arroway character (was Re: My Review A.I. the Movie )
>
> 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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