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"The Arrival" is a movie adapted by Denis Villaneuve from the Short Story by Ted Chiang, "Story of Your Life".
Its story follows a Lingiust that uses her studies to communicate with Aliens who speak in a language that manipulates memories from the future to speak to those from the present. It is then that that Linguist, Louis Banks, sees into her tragic future to aid the present.
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Film.
Why?
You should definetly watch the film first and read the book afterward to understand the book.
"My primary goal has to do with engaging in philosophical questions and thought experiments, trying to work out the consequences of certain ideas."
Who is Tom Chiang?
(On Blade Runner 2049) "The thing I will say is that making movies is a laboratory. It's an artistic process. You cannot plan things."
Who is David Villeneuve?
Film: "The first forty minutes of “Arrival” consumed me utterly. I gave up taking notes and resorted to scrawling sketches in the dark, as one prodigious image followed another. So sure is the stride of the narrative, and so bracing the air of expectation, that you feel yourself, like Louise, beginning to spin, and barely able to catch your breath. "
Book: "Chiang has mastered an extremely tricky type of SF story. He begins with a startling bit of oddity, then, as readers figure out what part of the familiar world has been twisted, they realize that it was just a small part of a much larger structure of marvelous, threatening strangeness.
Film: "But sci-fi stories like Arrival and Blade Runner lean into the unknown, Yaszek says. "You get a sense of wonder about how big and amazing the universe is, but you also start to realize that humans aren't the center of everything." "
Conclusion: "The Arrival" and "Story of Your Life" are both built for audience that want to think deeply and be presented with philosophical thoughts and themes. Both the book and the movie do not follow linear modes of storytelling, but rather share memories (much like Big Fish) to portray a story of communication between two entities foreign to each other.
In the textbook, "A Companion to Literature, Film, and Adaptation", Thomas Leitch writes in "Adaptation and Intertextuality, or, What isn’t an Adaptation, and What Does it Matter?" that:
"7. Adaptations are performances."
Villeneuve, with a reputation of making more complex messages with a vague mode of storytelling, takes on this complex tale in a manner befitting of the themes and message of the book. The non-linear representation of the story gives us a similar sense of distorted time and communcation through science and emotion as was presented in the short story "Story of Your Life" by Chiang.
-Brian, Truitt and TODAY USA. "Smart Sci-Fi Struggles to Find a Willing Audience." USA Today, n.d. EBSCOhost, library.collin.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=J0E370699805518&site=ehost-live.
-Staff, Wired. “WIRED Book Club: 'The Story of Your Life' Is Making Us Weep, Sometimes in Public.” Wired, Conde Nast, 3 June 2017, www.wired.com/2017/02/wired-book-club-story-of-your-life/.
-“Fiction Book Review: STORIES OF YOUR LIFE AND OTHERS by Ted Chiang, Author . Tor $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0418-6.” PublishersWeekly.com, www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7653-0418-6.
-Rothman, Joshua. “Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction.” The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 19 June 2017, www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/ted-chiangs-soulful-science-fiction.
-Lane, Anthony. “The Consuming Fervor of ‘Arrival.’” The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 18 June 2017, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/14/the-consuming-fervor-of-arrival.
-“Denis Villeneuve.” IMDb, IMDb.com, www.imdb.com/name/nm0898288/.