Episode 131: Contact

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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The BTS team discusses Contact’s strong themes, the fairytale-like quality to Robert Zemeckis’ films, Jodie Foster’s amazing performance, and the notorious “mirror shot.”

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast for each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.
0:13.9	Today we are talking about Contact, the 1997 film directed by Robert Zemeckis, screenplay by James V. Hart and Michael Goldenberg.
0:23.2	I'm joined by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Arand.
0:27.0	Hello, everyone. Brian Bittner.
0:29.1	Hello, hello.
0:30.2	And Alex Cayeros.
0:31.8	Hi.
0:32.9	All right. So, Contact is one of my favorite movies, and I love it.
0:39.4	It's one of these movies that I remember going to the theater, like sitting in the theater
0:44.4	next to my dad as a kid when it came out and just being like blown away by the whole experience
0:50.9	of it.
0:51.3	And then I'm watching it again and again as I got older and appreciating it
0:55.9	in more and deeper ways and I hadn't seen it probably in six, seven years and revisiting it,
1:06.2	I was just, I still love it. There's just so much, there's just so much that I love about this movie and
1:12.8	the themes of, you know, science versus religion or even just like science versus like being
1:19.4	human. Like, I feel like it dramatizes so many of these like, you know, thoughts and feelings that
1:25.5	I have. The filmmaking is great.
1:28.1	I feel like this is Robert Zemeckis at some of his best.
1:31.3	There are just some sequences that are so tense or so emotional.
1:36.7	The design of the protagonist is great.
1:39.3	Like, Jody Foster is just a gift, and I love her to death.
1:44.8	And, like, Ellie and this character is maybe my all-time hero.
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