What's the Difference between Story of Your LIfe the Book and Arrival the Movie?
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In the Movie |
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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No violent action is ever planned by anyone towards the aliens. |
Some of the soldiers that support the scientist's work in the shell are driven by fear and provoked by various news reports and commentary to take violent action against the aliens by planting a bomb in the shell. The bomb explodes, but Louise and Ian are pushed out by Abbott before they can be seriously injured. |
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Does not happen in the book. |
After the bomb explodes the Shell goes to a higher altitude. It later sends a small vessel down to the ground where it retrieves Louise. Costello communicates with her one last time. She learns Abbott is dying.
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By learning to how to communicate in the heptapod's language, Louise is able to see her future. |
Costello tells Louise that her knowledge of their language enables her to see her future, her visions are of her future, not flashbacks. |
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This does not happen. |
The Chinese are planning on attacking the Shell in their country. Louise is able to convince General Shang to halt the attack after she tells him his dying wife's final words to him.
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Louise has past tense recollections of her life with her daughter and husband throughout the book. |
Louise has visions of her (future) daughter while she is learning the heptapods language. |