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* VisualPun: The use of [[SpaceshipSlingshotStunt the slingshot effect]] while in the wormhole causes Ellie to look like she's being stretched back in one direction then sent flying in the opposite.
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* CluelessAesop: A subplot that didn't make it into the movie was Ellie's rocky relationship with her mother and [[StayInTheKitchen chauvinist]] stepfather - especially as her mother [[ParentWithNewParamour remarried]] just two years after her doting father died. [[spoiler:Turns out that her mother ''cheated'' on him with said future stepfather, resulting in Ellie's conception. Sagan describes this as a massive shock to Ellie's worldview, but when one considers how her father did all he could to encourage Ellie to enrich herself and her GlorifiedSpermDonor ''refused to pay for Ellie's college because he thought women were too stupid to be scientists'', many adoptees would think that Ellie was completely justified in adoring the man they betrayed and giving them the cold shoulder. That her mother was too ashamed to admit it while she was alive just makes both of them even more despicable]].
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* CluelessAesop: A subplot that didn't make it into the movie was Ellie's rocky relationship with her mother and [[StayInTheKitchen chauvinist]] stepfather stepfather, John Staughton - especially as her mother [[ParentWithNewParamour remarried]] just two years after her doting father father, Ted Arroway, died. [[spoiler:Turns out that her mother ''cheated'' on him with said future stepfather, resulting in Ellie's conception. Sagan describes this as a massive shock to Ellie's worldview, worldview - that she had spurned her "real" father in favor of a "fake" - but when one considers how her father Ted did all he could to encourage Ellie to enrich herself and her GlorifiedSpermDonor John ''refused to pay for Ellie's college because he thought women were too stupid to be scientists'', many adoptees would think that Ellie was completely justified in adoring the man they betrayed and giving them the GlorifiedSpermDonor the cold shoulder. That her mother was too ashamed to admit it while she was alive just makes both of them even more despicable]].
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** Palmer is every bit as unhelpful and obstructive of Ellie as Kitz or Drumlin, for both unscientific and selfishly personal reasons, but gets away with it because he's [[LoveInterest Matthew McConaughey]].
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* MagnificentBastard: Hadden. There's no other way to put it.
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* MagnificentBastard: S. R. Hadden. There's no other way to put it.
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* CluelessAesop: A subplot that didn't make it into the movie was Ellie's rocky relationship with her mother and chauvinist [[StayInTheKitchen chauvinist]] stepfather - especially as her mother [[ParentWithNewParamour remarried]] just two years after her doting father died. [[spoiler:Turns out that her mother ''cheated'' on him with said future stepfather.stepfather, resulting in Ellie's conception. Sagan describes this as a massive shock to Ellie's worldview, but when one considers how her father did all he could to encourage Ellie to enrich herself and her GlorifiedSpermDonor ''refused to pay for Ellie's college because he thought women were too stupid to be scientists'', many adoptees would think that Ellie was completely justified in adoring the man they betrayed and giving them the cold shoulder. That her mother was too ashamed to admit it while she was alive just makes both of them even more despicable]].
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* CluelessAesop: A subplot that didn't make it into the movie was Ellie's rocky relationship with her mother and chauvinist stepfather - especially as her mother [[ParentWithNewParamour remarried]] just two years after her doting father died. [[spoiler:Turns out that her mother ''cheated'' on him with said future stepfather. Sagan describes this as a massive shock to Ellie's worldview, but when one considers how her father did all he could to encourage Ellie to enrich herself and her GlorifiedSpermDonor ''refused to pay for Ellie's college because he thought women were too stupid to be scientists'', many adoptees would think that Ellie was completely justified in adoring the man they betrayed and giving them the cold shoulder. That her mother was too ashamed to admit it while she was alive just makes both of them even more despicable]].
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* NightmareFuel: The Hitler speech video. The noise from the message are in sync with chanting "Seig Heil! Seig Heil! Seig Heil..."
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* During the opening trip through the solar system, the chorus from the {{disco}} standard "Boogie Oogie Oogie" is played at the exact same time we see the planet Mars. This is somewhat funnier after ''Literature/TheMartian'', with the running gag that the only music left with Mark Watney on Mars is disco.
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* OvershadowedByControversy: Most people recognize the film due to its high-profile TroubledProduction as well as the negative publicity surrounding then-president UsefulNotes/BillClinton making an unauthorized cameo as well as those of real-life Creator/{{CNN}} personalities.
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* PanderingToTheBase: Atlus marketed this game as a quasi-''VideoGame/EarthBound''ish title due to the "quirky" {{Retraux}} art style and humor, although the actual game is...a Suda51 game.
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* PanderingToTheBase: MisaimedMarketing: Atlus marketed this game as a quasi-''VideoGame/EarthBound''ish title due to the "quirky" {{Retraux}} art style and humor, and although the actual game is...a Suda51 game.tone is indeed quirky, it's not quite Earthbound-y.
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* Narm/NarmCharm: When Drumlin says Ellie won't be taken serious as a scientist with her SETI work, she shouts back "So What?! It's my life!" It makes her sounds more like a petulant teenager than a respected scientist. It actually got a laugh when this troper saw the movie in a theater.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
** Even in-universe, nobody's sure what Hadden was really after, especially [[spoiler:considering how close to death he was]]. Money? A charitable contribution to mankind's future? [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulation for its own sake]]? Scientific discovery? All of the above?
** Drumlin is very politically savvy and much of what he does lampoons Ellie. However he never does anything bad and unlike Ellie who is very condescending to those (pretty much everyone) who don't understand the science as well as she does he is very good at explaining things so regular people can understand.
** Kitz is the National Security Advisor. He would be blatantly derelict in his duties if he wasn't skeptical and cautious about everything going on. It is a theme of the movie of course, but Ellie puts a lot of faith in the aliens.
** Even in-universe, nobody's sure what Hadden was really after, especially [[spoiler:considering how close to death he was]]. Money? A charitable contribution to mankind's future? [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulation for its own sake]]? Scientific discovery? All of the above?
** Drumlin is very politically savvy and much of what he does lampoons Ellie. However he never does anything bad and unlike Ellie who is very condescending to those (pretty much everyone) who don't understand the science as well as she does he is very good at explaining things so regular people can understand.
** Kitz is the National Security Advisor. He would be blatantly derelict in his duties if he wasn't skeptical and cautious about everything going on. It is a theme of the movie of course, but Ellie puts a lot of faith in the aliens.
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** Creator/MatthewMcConaughey is in this film, and seventeen years later, it would be [[{{Film/Interstellar}} his turn to take a ride through a wormhole]]. WebVideo/HonestTrailers even lampshaded it, dubbing the film "Creator/ChristopherNolan's ''Contact''".
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!!YMMV tropes and audience reactions for the novel by Carl Sagan ''{{Literature/Contact}}'':
* HeAlsoDid: Creator/CarlSagan, astronomer and famous for the scientific documentary ''Series/CosmosAPersonalVoyage'', as well as essays and books of scientific and skeptical nature, writing a novel might sound alien for some. Indeed, it's possible to notice common points in this book which are later repeated (or are repeated from) his other works.
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* HeAlsoDid: Creator/CarlSagan, astronomer and famous for the scientific documentary ''Series/CosmosAPersonalVoyage'', as well as essays and books of scientific and skeptical nature, writing a novel might sound alien for some. Indeed, it's possible to notice common points in this book which are later repeated (or are repeated from) his other works.
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* PanderingToTheBase: Atlus marketed this game as a quasi-''EarthBound''ish title due to the "quirky" {{Retraux}} art style and humor, although the actual game is...a Suda51 game.
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* PanderingToTheBase: Atlus marketed this game as a quasi-''EarthBound''ish quasi-''VideoGame/EarthBound''ish title due to the "quirky" {{Retraux}} art style and humor, although the actual game is...a Suda51 game.
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* DeusExMachina: one of the best examples. All is lost after the destruction of the first machine. No wait! We just happened to build a second one!
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* Deux es Machina: one of the best examples. All is lost after the destruction of the first machine. No wait! We just happened to build a second one!
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* HilariousInHindsight: When the Vegan first walks towards Ellie, his blurry form bears a strong resemblance to [[Manga/TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault the DRR DRR DRR creature]].
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**When the Vegan first walks towards Ellie, his blurry form bears a strong resemblance to [[Manga/TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault the DRR DRR DRRcreature]].creature]].
** If the film is really taking place around the time it was made, Hadden's trip to ''Mir'' oddly predicted [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Tito Dennis Tito]]'s visit to the ''ISS'' 3 years ahead.
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** If the film is really taking place around the time it was made, Hadden's trip to ''Mir'' oddly predicted [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Tito Dennis Tito]]'s visit to the ''ISS'' 3 years ahead.
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* TearJerker: TheStinger at the end might do this for you.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint[=/=]WrongGenreSavvy: Kitz is a total jerkass, but when you think of it, his fears aren't that stupid as they sound [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism in context]].
** At one point he even asks Ellie directly about why she thinks the aliens ''must'' be benign.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint[=/=]WrongGenreSavvy: Kitz is a total jerkass, but when you think of it, his fears aren't that stupid as they sound [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism in context]].
**context]]. At one point he even asks Ellie directly about why she thinks the aliens ''must'' be benign.
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*** In the movie, it comes full circle: [[spoiler:Kitz discovers definitive evidence that the aliens are real, but suppresses it to maintain the status quo. But he also gives Ellie a blank check for future SETI research. He's a ''politician'' - he's playing all the angles.]]
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* MagnificentBastard: Haddon.Hadden. There's no other way to put it.
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Subjective, but there was a scene when the heroine passes through a crowd of all manner of loonies, from tinfoil-hat neohippies to "Jesus was an alien" cults to a Chevrolet Vega fanclub.
** The ElvisImpersonator chanting "Viva Las Vega" was kinda awesome, too.
** Everyone's "{{oh crap}}" look when the deciphered signal turns out to be a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] broadcast.
** The ElvisImpersonator chanting "Viva Las Vega" was kinda awesome, too.
** Everyone's "{{oh crap}}" look when the deciphered signal turns out to be a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] broadcast.
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!!YMMV tropes and audience reactions for the 2006 video game ''{{Game/Contact}}'':
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* PlayerPunch: Done absolutely MAGNIFICENTLY.''magnificently''.
