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Originally Posted by ApK
Just finished Carl Sagan's "Contact." Enjoyable, though the Audible product has several glitches that were enough for them to offer to refund my credit. Nice of them.
The movie is among my favorites, and now that I've finished the book, I think it's among the better page-to-screen treatments. I realize it began life as a proposed screenplay, but I suspect the movie was ultimately very different than the original version.
Reading the book also prompted me to watch the movie again. It's still very good....
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The movie is one of my favorites also. I've never read the book, and until I can find it on sale, I won't be reading the audiobook (currently $22.63 at Audible). One of my favorite scenes in Contact was when Jodie Foster first heard the alien signals through her headset. I immediately recognized the series of prime numbers being generated, as Sagan had mentioned primes as a possible way for aliens to announce their presence in other Sagan books I have read as well as his Cosmos PBS series. Of course, I also knew that SETI technicians don't physically listen for signals with headphones, but that was forgivable. Whumphs coming through a headset makes for a much more dramatic cinematic moment than a technician spotting anomalies on a computer printout.