What's the Difference between Story of Your LIfe the Book and Arrival the Movie?
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Dr. Louise Banks
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Dr. Louise Banks
Portrayed by: Amy Adams
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Colonel Weber
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Colonel Weber
Portrayed by: Forest Whitaker
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Dr. Gary Donnelly
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Ian Connelly
Portrayed by: Jeremy Renner
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This Character does not appear.
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General Shang
Portrayed by: Tzi Ma
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This Character does not appear.
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Captain marks
Portrayed by: Mark O'Brien
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Hossner
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This Character does not appear.
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Burghart
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This Character does not appear.
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In the Movie |
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Hossner, a State Department representative shows up to brief the scientists about establishing trade with the heptapods. |
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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.
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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. |
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The arrival of the alien crafts causes panic throughout the world.
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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. |