From: spike66 (spike66@attglobal.net)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 23:22:10 MST
Ken Clements wrote:
>I read _Contact_ when it came out in the mid 80's, and I liked it very
>much until I got to the Pi stuff at the very end, at which I felt
>embarrassed for Carl.
>
I thought he was stretching a little too hard for a plot device.
Perhaps after the book came out he was taken to task by
a number of mathematics nerds, and so decided to drop
that gag for the movie. This story was close enough to
hard sci-fi that he needed to have all those picky little
details exactly right. He would hafta know there would
be a veritable army of nerds who would memorize the
script, reciting it verbatim at nerd parties.
>It seems to me he could have had ET ask Ellie what happens when such and
>such particles collide at mumble energy level, so that when she gets
>back and talks some particle physics friends into looking they find
>something that opens a new age.
>
I agree that woulda been cool.
>I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. It was one of the first I went out and
>got on DVD.
>
That was my first DVD as well. But I didnt realize there was a directors
cut with Foster speaking. I know what I will be doing for the next couple
hours.
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