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raspurtin
Apr 18, 2005

PianolasonMars posted:

I wonder what creative decisions led to the design of the visuals that indicated alien language.

film is a visual medium. characters just talking at each other is boring.

I liked the idea that the aliens' sounds were unrelated to the messages in the symbols. like a person knowing sign language carrying on two separate conversations at the same time, one vocally and one with signs.

speculating: when humans learn the aliens' language, the language shapes the brain so the humans can experience non-linear time (cf. Sapir-Whorf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity). If so, what amazing ability would the aliens gain in return from learning the human language? The power of ....?

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