Arrival linguist review8/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Let’s start with what a language from another planet would be like. I know this movie is science fiction, but let’s try for a minute to pretend it is real and see what conclusions we can draw from it. Professors Lisa Travis, Jessica Coon and Morgan Sonderegger were the chosen ones to assist in providing linguistic accuracy for the movie script. ![]() However, for the making of Arrival the film producers consulted three real linguists from McGill University in Canada. We need to remember that Arrival is a sci-fi movie so we are not necessarily expecting it to be 100% fact-based. Whenever we see a movie containing scientific or historical facts, we usually ask ourselves how accurately those facts were portrayed on the screen. What catches our attention is the fact that the whole plot is based on deciphering an unknown language, and that a linguist is the hero of the movie. WILS is not going to do a traditional review of the movie since there are other blogs and websites specialized in that. The film has already premiered in the US, Canada, Mexico and on December 7th, it will be released in France under the name Premier Contact. Her job is to “crack the code” of the alien language in order to communicate with the aliens and asses their real intentions before it is too late for mankind. The main character, Louise Banks (Amy Adams) is a linguist recruited by the US government to lead a group of experts attempting to determine the intentions of these outer space visitors. ![]() The film is about 12 alien ships simultaneously touching down across our planet. Arrival is the latest film by Quebecois director Denis Villeneuve starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker. ![]()
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