Ahem. “Arrival” is a short story — by the incomparably talented Ted Chiang, entitled “Story of Your Life” and published in 1998 as part of the Tor series “Starlight” (volume 2) edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden. It won a Nebula for best novella in 2000.
The ‘melodrama’ was NOT added for the film, IMHO.
Reading before…

I’m with you on Gurney. If you want to see at least a bit of how I think that interaction was handled appropriately, you need to watch the Netflix film “The King” as written by David Michod and Joel Edgerton, and directed by Michod. It’s the “behind the scenes” of Shakespeare’s “Henry V” — with Chalamet as Hal, and…

Steam! Steam! Steam! Young, small, tender, and steamed, steamed, steamed over a nice brine!

Given that mug, I think he really meant he wanted to be the next “Turdblossom” in the White House.

"serious pressure to get married young."

Dear WaeGook et. al.: