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SETI [Contact: Vega System Forum:] Jodie Foster's DVD Commentary
Larry Klaes ( lklaes@bbn.com )
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:24:49 -0500
>Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 23:22:58 -0500 (EST)
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> MESSAGE #391: Jodie Foster's DVD Commentary
> AUTHOR: John Nelson <Docjonel@concentric.net>
> DATE: Thursday, 21 January 1999, at 11:19 p.m.
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>I finally listened to the end of Jodie Foster's commentary track which you
can
>play while watching this movie on DVD. As her character gazes out over the
>canyon in the end Jodie states,
>
>"Another thing I liked about this movie is that it is just as in awe of the
>galaxies and the stars and all the possibilities of what’s out there as it
is
>in what’s on earth. The natural beauty of our environment, of our place, of
>who we are, even the beauty and the complexity and the mysteries contained
in
>a single grain of sand or a single strand of hair. There’s just so much that
>we don’t know, and this film has a very romantic and beautiful and poetic
>feeling about that. It says to you, ‘Isn’t it wonderful and wondrous how
much
>we don’t know.’
>
>Carl has this great statistic that he liked to talk about, and he said all
of
>the energy that has been... all the radio signals that have actually been
>perceived from the universe are as small as the energy of a single
snowflake.
>I love how wondrous the big things are, and how wondrous the small things
are,
>how small we are, how big we are, how much we know, how much we don’t know.
>
>More than anything else this movie speaks in Carl Sagan’s voice and I
think it
>does it with his spirit of poetry and romance and incredible adventure, and
>with his sharp and literary mind. It was a long time coming-- it was 10, 12,
>14 years on his part thinking about this movie and bringing it to
fruition. It
>was only three on my part, but it took a lot of people and a lot of
visions to
>bring this one singular vision to its glory.”
>
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