What's the Difference between Story of Your LIfe the Book and Arrival the Movie?

Science Fiction

Story of Your LIfe

37%
Released: 1998
Author: Ten Chiang

Arrival

63%
Released: 2016
Director: Denis Villeneuve
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In the Book In the Movie
Dr. Louise Banks
Dr. Louise Banks
Portrayed by: Amy Adams
Colonel Weber
Colonel Weber
Portrayed by: Forest Whitaker
Dr. Gary Donnelly
Ian Connelly
Portrayed by: Jeremy Renner
This Character does not appear.
General Shang
Portrayed by: Tzi Ma
This Character does not appear.
Captain marks
Portrayed by: Mark O'Brien
Hossner
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Burghart
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Arrival Book vs Movie
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In the Book In the Movie
   Hossner, a State Department representative shows up to brief the scientists about establishing trade with the heptapods. This does not happen.
   The humans and the heptapods exchange gifts; the humans receive information on organic chemistry and the aliens receive images of the Lascaux Cave paintings. The heptapods also gave a xenobiology lecture which indicated that they were more similar to humans than other species they had interacted with on other worlds. The heptapods give humans the gift of their language.
   The final gift from the aliens was a description of a new class of superconducting materials, but was something the Japanese had just developed. This does not happen.
   This does not happen. The arrival of the alien crafts causes panic throughout the world.
   This does not happen. The message (info about a weapon) from the hetpapods is interpreted differently by other countries which causes them to cut off communication between the teams.
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