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A Space Odyssey (film)2. A Space Odyssey is a 1. Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay was written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, partially inspired by Clarke's short story "The Sentinel".
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2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science-fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay was written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. Cast and crew information, synopsis, and comments.
Clarke concurrently wrote the novel 2. A Space Odyssey, published soon after the film was released.
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The film follows a voyage to Jupiter with the sentient computer Hal after the discovery of a mysterious black monolith affecting human evolution. It deals with the themes of existentialism, human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life. It is noted for its scientifically accurate depiction of space flight, pioneering special effects, and ambiguous imagery.
It uses sound and minimal dialogue in place of traditional narrative techniques; the soundtrack consists of classical music such as Also sprach Zarathustra, The Blue Danube, and pieces from then- living composers Aram Khachaturian and György Ligeti. A Space Odyssey was financed and distributed by American studio Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer,[8][9] but it was filmed and edited almost entirely in England, where Kubrick lived, using the studio facilities of the MGM- British Studios and those of Shepperton Studios. Production was subcontracted to Kubrick's production company, and care was taken that the film would be sufficiently British to qualify for subsidy from the Eady Levy.[8]: 9. A Space Odyssey initially received mixed reactions from critics and audiences, but it garnered a cult following and slowly became the highest- grossing North American film of 1. It was nominated for four Academy Awards and received one for its visual effects. The sequel 2. 01.
Peter Hyams. Today, 2. A Space Odyssey is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made. In 1. 99. 1, it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.[1. The critics' polls in the 2. Sight & Sound magazine ranked 2. A Space Odyssey sixth in the top ten films of all time; it also tied for second place in the directors' poll of the same magazine.[1.
In 2. 01. 0, it was named the greatest film of all time by The Moving Arts Film Journal.[1. In an African desert millions of years ago, a tribe of hominids is driven away from its water hole by a rival tribe. They awaken to find a featureless black monolith has appeared before them. Influenced by the monolith, they discover how to use a bone as a weapon and drive their rivals away from the water hole.
Millions of years later, a Pan Amspaceplane carries Dr. Heywood Floyd to the huge Space Station V orbiting Earth for a layover on his trip to Clavius Base, a United States outpost on the Moon.
After Floyd has a videophone call with his daughter, his Soviet scientist friend and her colleague ask about rumors of a mysterious epidemic at Clavius. Floyd declines to answer. Literally, Right Before Aaron Full Movie Online Free. At Clavius, Floyd heads a meeting of base personnel, apologizing for the epidemic cover story but stressing secrecy.
His mission is to investigate a recently found artifact buried four million years ago. Floyd and others ride in a Moonbus to the artifact, a monolith identical to the one encountered by the ape- men. Sunlight strikes the monolith and a loud high- pitched radio signal is heard.
Eighteen months later, the United States spacecraft Discovery One is bound for Jupiter. On board are mission pilots and scientists Dr. David Bowman and Dr. Frank Poole, along with three other scientists in suspended animation. Most of Discovery's operations are controlled by the ship's computer, HAL 9. Hal". Hal states that he is "foolproof and incapable of error". Hal raises concerns about the nature of the mission to Bowman, which the latter ignores.
Hal then reports the imminent failure of an antenna control device. The astronauts retrieve it in an extravehicular activity (EVA) pod but find nothing wrong. Hal suggests reinstalling the device and letting it fail so the problem can be found. Mission Control advises the astronauts that results from their twin HAL 9.
Hal is in error. Hal insists that the problem, like previous issues ascribed to HAL series units, is due to human error. Concerned about Hal's behavior, Bowman and Poole enter an EVA pod to talk without Hal overhearing, and agree to disconnect Hal if he is proven wrong. Hal secretly follows their conversation by lip reading.
While Poole is on a space walk outside his EVA pod attempting to replace the unit, Hal takes control of the pod, severs his oxygen hose and sets him adrift. Bowman takes another pod to attempt rescue. Meanwhile, Hal turns off the life support functions of the crewmen in suspended animation.
When Bowman returns to the ship with Poole's body, Hal refuses to let him in, stating that the astronauts' plan to deactivate him jeopardizes the mission. Bowman opens the ship's emergency airlock manually, enters the ship, and proceeds to Hal's processor core.
Hal tries to reassure Bowman, then pleads with him to stop, and finally expresses fear. Watch Their Finest Dailymotion on this page. As Bowman gradually deactivates the circuits controlling HAL's higher intellectual functions, HAL regresses to his earliest programmed memory, the song "Daisy Bell", which he sings for Bowman.
When Bowman finally disconnects Hal, a prerecorded video message from Floyd reveals the existence of the monolith on the moon, its purpose and origin unknown. With the exception of one short but extremely powerful radio emission aimed at Jupiter, the object has been inert. Only Hal had been told of the mission's true objectives. At Jupiter, Bowman leaves Discovery One in an EVA pod to investigate another monolith discovered in orbit around the planet. The pod is pulled into a vortex of colored light, and Bowman races across vast distances of space, viewing bizarre cosmological phenomena and strange landscapes of unusual colors.
Bowman finds himself in a bedroom appointed in the neoclassical style. He sees, and then becomes, older versions of himself, first standing in the bedroom, middle- aged and still in his spacesuit, then dressed in leisure attire and eating dinner, and finally as an old man lying in the bed. A monolith appears at the foot of the bed, and as Bowman reaches for it, he is transformed into a fetus enclosed in a transparent orb of light.
The new being floats in space beside the Earth, gazing at it. Development and writing[edit]Meeting of Kubrick and Clarke[edit]Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke in Kubrick's apartment office on Central Park West, New York, during the writing of 2. After completing Dr.
Strangelove (1. 96. Stanley Kubrick became fascinated by the possibility of extraterrestrial life,[1.
Searching for a collaborator in the science fiction community, Kubrick was advised by a mutual acquaintance, Columbia Pictures staffer Roger Caras, to talk to writer Arthur C. Clarke. Although convinced that Clarke was "a recluse, a nut who lives in a tree", Kubrick allowed Caras to cable the film proposal to Clarke, who lived in Ceylon.
Clarke's cabled response stated that he was "frightfully interested in working with enfant terrible", and added "what makes Kubrick think I'm a recluse?"[1. Meeting for the first time at Trader Vic's in New York on April 2.
Clarke kept a diary throughout his involvement with 2. The Lost Worlds of 2. Search for source material[edit]Kubrick told Clarke he wanted to make a film about "Man's relationship to the universe",[2. Clarke's words, "determined to create a work of art which would arouse the emotions of wonder, awe .. Clarke offered Kubrick six of his short stories, and by May 1. Kubrick had chosen "The Sentinel" as the source material for the film. In search of more material to expand the film's plot, the two spent the rest of 1.
They spent two years transforming "The Sentinel" into a novel, and then into a script for 2. Clarke said that his short story "Encounter in the Dawn" inspired the film's "Dawn Of Man" sequence.[2.