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Although they've found no aliens thus far, Leigh says that Horowitz did manage in part to inspire the Jodie Foster character, Ellie Arroway, in the Carl Sagan novel Contact, which was subsequently turned into a popular movie of the same name...
Leigh says Sagan, who co-authored a paper with Horowitz in 1993 and published the best-selling Contact in 1995, had the fictional Arroway work on some of the same projects Horowitz worked on in real life...
This is not, frankly, a place at which one is rooting for Jodie Foster's Ellie Arroway to end up. Foster has always been an actress who gives intelligence a good name, and she's very attractive here as a stubbornly obsessive scientist, convinced there are brainy beings out there in deep space trying to get in touch with us, then triumphantly picking up their mysterious signals from the void...
Jodie Foster is ideally cast as Ellie Arroway, a brilliant astronomer who has devoted her life to attempting to communicate with the extraterrestrial life she feels sure must exist somewhere among the billions of stars. Battling continual funding problems and other setbacks, her search is finally vindicated when a radio transmission arrives from the distant star Vega. It is decoded to reveal instructions for building a machine believed to be capable of transporting its occupant through deep space...
...protagonist is Eleanor Arroway, director of Project Argus, a Government- sponsored undertaking to comb the universe for alien messages. The time is 1999, when, in Sagan's irrepressibly progressive vision, the President of the U.S. is a woman, and the world's smartest man is a Nigerian. The aliens, however, are stereotypical. By the time their cosmic call is returned, it is clear they are vastly more intelligent and wiser than we are; among other things, they do not seem to have deregulated their telephone system...
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