Arrival [4K Ultra-HD + Blu-ray]

Was this price on Amazon back in February but deal expired after a day. Well, it seems to be back again! Also, Pacific Rim and 2001 A Space Odyssey 4K for the same price.

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Louise Banks (Amy Adams) “The story of Arrival is about Louise Banks, a linguist working at a university in the northeast United States,” says Villeneuve. “She has been hired by the US government to go inside one of those spaceships to get in contact with the aliens and to try to translate and understand the purpose of their visit. It's about a relationship with another civilization.”

“We are introduced to Louise's character through the story with her daughter, which is one of my favourite parts of the movie,” says Villeneuve. “[Adams] brought a lot of humanity, profoundness and a beautiful vulnerability to her character, a melancholia that I was looking for. We see a woman who is going through a mourning process, having lost her daughter. You feel that she’s someone who has nothing to lose. It's very beautiful to see, sad and at the same time beautiful. She has nothing to lose so she's ready for this adventure.”


Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) "It’s a very insular story told through the eyes of Amy Adams’ character, a linguist who’s hired to try to communicate with the aliens,” says Renner. “I’m hired on as the other side of this team, as a physicist to deal with communication through mathematics. Part of the character that was interesting to me was that it was very far from anything I’ve ever done. It was very left-brain, very mathematical and scientific.”

Louise and Ian’s relationship evolves throughout the movie. “They come from different schools of thought,” says Renner, “but through the progression of time they learn to embrace each other’s thoughts, especially as they go speak to Abbot and Costello (the aliens). They both learn something really quite beautiful.”


Colonel Weber (Forest Whitaker) “Colonel Weber’s in Military Intelligence and when we first meet him, he’s in the process of trying to find a replacement for a linguist that wasn’t able to deal with the pressure,” explains Whitaker. “He goes to talk to Louise to see if she’s capable of doing this job. That’s the first, the first time we get to know him. He’s putting together a team, a linguist to break through the language barrier and a physicist to see if you can communicate through numbers, so that he has the proper tools to understand [the aliens].”

“Colonel Weber is a character that was difficultly written, because he is in scenes as an obstacle, as an abrasive character. He didn’t have a lot of depth on the page and Forest was able to bring a gravitas, wisdom and dimension to this character in a way that I was very impressed by”


Denis Villeneuve (Director) “I've dreamed of doing science fiction since I was ten years old,” explains director Denis Villeneuve, who fell deeply in love with the short story ARRIVAL is based upon, Ted Chiang’s ‘Story of Your Life.’ “It’s a genre that I feel has a lot of power and the tools to explore our reality in a very dynamic way.”

What I love about the short story is that it has a lot of layers,” explains Villeneuve. “One of them that deeply touched me is this idea that someone is in contact with death. What would happen if you know how you will die, when you will die? What will your relationship with life, love, your family and friends, and with your society be? By being more in relationship with death, in an intimate way with the nature of life and its subtleties, it would bring us more humility. Humanity needs that humility right now.”







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