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
   After Louise sets up a video screen to display English words to communicate with the heptapods, they do the same. The aliens draw symbols on the barrier in the shell with an inky substance that shoots forth from their limbs.
   Louise nicknames the two heptapods Flapper and Raspberry. She names them Abbot and Costello.
   The humans studying the hetapods were trying to learn and teach language and physics. They are only trying to learn to communicate verbally and in writing.
   The exchange of information regarding physics was eased when Fermat's Principle was communicated back and forth between the humans and the aliens. Nothing about Fermat's Principle.
   Gary and Louise are able to get away from the military camp into town occasionally for breaks. They are kept in the military camp next to the Shell at all times.
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