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I read the book too and still don't know what the heck that thing is. I was told it's a being/entity that has evolved as far as can be. Great flick though, I love the serious(and almost frightening)undertone that Kubrick put into a lot of his films. Sort of like a boogey man hiding around the corner, you never see his actual face but you just know he's there.
Most of the time in movies alien encounters are vey straight forward and all questions are answered. it's like the aliens are basically human with a different look and we can fully relate to them and visa versa. I think Clarke gets the idea across that an encounter with an alien entity would almost certainly be incredibly wierd and leave us with more questions than answers. just consider the time and effort that goes into understanding the comunications and social orders of other animals here on earth then consider how much more difficult it would be ti understand and relate to advanced beings that evolved in an entirely different envirement. i hink all we are supposed to understand about the monolith is it is of an alien entity.
The monolith was a teaching tool.
The teaching aid of an intelligent designer perhaps?
Primary School - It taught the trogs to use tools and, if you like, accelerated their evolutionary development.
High School - A magnetic field anomaly is detected on the surface of the moon
High School Graduation - The monolith is found and excavated on the moon. When exposed to light, it blasts off and is tracked so somewhere near Saturn.
University - The monolith inspires the first interplanetary journey.
University Graduation - The giant monolith is found and the weirdness begins :~)
Cheers,
John K
Or perhaps it is a bio lab and our development is it's project. Or maybe it is comunication device and mere comunication with these aliens is so profoundly affecting that it changes the course of mankind. Or maybe they are just there for other reasons and our chance encounters with them have such an effect. Or maybe something else. That is the beauty of it. It leaves us with questions or at least our own interpretations. It is weird which is what such a real life encounter could only be as opposed to the conventional straight forward understandable (because they are fully explained) alien encounters one finds in most scifi. And when you think about it, before 2001 just about all alien encounters were with aliens invading us in flying saucers. This movie was soooo far ahead of it's time that we are still catching up.
Seattle and, supposedly, they showed an old 135 mm print of 2001.
I'm moving back to Portland and I'll make that trip to see it again if its available.
Easily one of the best films of all time, not only showing the best depiction of man's development but of his ultimate fate.
Though they called it Cinerama it was really Ultra Panavision 70 using one camera and one projector.
I can handle a movie that takes its time to get going, but my lord this movie is sooo boring. I've had root canals that were less painful.
Rob CThe world was made for people not cursed with self-awareness
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You may recall her comments in "Trash, Art, and the Movies" (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, 1969) that there was more life and vitality, more sense of what death in space could really be like, in the opening ten minutes of "You Only Live Twice" than in all of "2001". She wrote that after being given all those toys up on the screen, Kubrick didn't know what to do with them.I'll admit I disagree with her on this one, but back in the late 60s, critics were much more divided over "2001"'s merits than they seem to be today.
Many critics initially disliked the film but later changed their minds. "Time" magazine re-published a set of reviews over a three year period which deliniated this change over time.
Allen said he disliked 2001 when he first saw it - just couldn't get into it. After a year, he watched it again and realised how brilliant it was. Allen said it was THE classic case of a film being so far ahead of its time and the audience having to catch up.
Cheers,
John K
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"Where are we going? And what am I doing in this hand basket?"
..this could snowball?
Even the people who feel obliged to say it's a masterpiece can now say, with tears in their eyes, "well, frankly, it bored me."
And I can still remember the gasp from many members of the audience as they realized what was happening at the end of Part One.One of my fondest memories of movie-going.
Absolutely loved it from the get go. I don't believe it was in Cinerama, but I can't remember those pesky details like I used to. It was a unique experience regardless
just dropped about 1500 mikes of primo window-pane immediately before. I believe the movie was etched into my neurons.
When we exited, into a wintry, very sub-zero Minneapolis night, we found out our keys were lost. That problem being solved, the damn '59 Cadillac hearse wouldn't start.
Finally, a friendly cop jump started it and off we went. The Nordic goddess I dated at the time probably had something to do with the fact we weren't pistol-whipped and arrested.
They've also helped me out a time or too...uh...not like your girlfriend helped you that night, but, it was help, I did need it, and it was appreciated!
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