A mind-bending sci-fi symphony, Stanley Kubrick's landmark 1968 epic pushed the limits of narrative and special effects toward a meditation on technology and humanity. Based on Arthur C. Clarke's story The Sentinel, Kubrick and Clarke's screenplay is structured in four movements. At the "Dawn of Man," a group of hominids encounters a mysterious black monolith alien to their surroundings. To the strains of Strauss's 1896 Also sprach Zarathustra, a hominid invents the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey. As the hominid ...
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A mind-bending sci-fi symphony, Stanley Kubrick's landmark 1968 epic pushed the limits of narrative and special effects toward a meditation on technology and humanity. Based on Arthur C. Clarke's story The Sentinel, Kubrick and Clarke's screenplay is structured in four movements. At the "Dawn of Man," a group of hominids encounters a mysterious black monolith alien to their surroundings. To the strains of Strauss's 1896 Also sprach Zarathustra, a hominid invents the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey. As the hominid tosses the bone in the air, Kubrick cuts to a 21st century spacecraft hovering over the Earth, skipping ahead millions of years in technological development. U.S. scientist Dr. Heywood Floyd (William Sylvester) travels to the moon to check out the discovery of a strange object on the moon's surface: a black monolith. As the sun's rays strike the stone, however, it emits a piercing, deafening sound that fills the investigators' headphones and stops them in their path. Cutting ahead 18 months, impassive astronauts David Bowman (Keir Dullea) and Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood) head toward Jupiter on the spaceship Discovery , their only company three hibernating astronauts and the vocal, man-made HAL 9000 computer running the entire ship. When the all-too-human HAL malfunctions, however, he tries to murder the astronauts to cover his error, forcing Bowman to defend himself the only way he can. Free of HAL, and finally informed of the voyage's purpose by a recording from Floyd, Bowman journeys to "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite," through the psychedelic slit-scan star-gate to an 18th century room, and the completion of the monolith's evolutionary mission.With assistance from special-effects expert Douglas Trumbull, Kubrick spent over two years meticulously creating the most "realistic" depictions of outer space ever seen, greatly advancing cinematic technology for a story expressing grave doubts about technology itself. Despite some initial critical reservations that it was too long and too dull, 2001 became one of the most popular films of 1968, underlining the generation gap between young moviegoers who wanted to see something new and challenging and oldsters who "didn't get it." Provocatively billed as "the ultimate trip," 2001 quickly caught on with a counterculture youth audience open to a contemplative (i.e. chemically enhanced) viewing experience of a film suggesting that the way to enlightenment was to free one's mind of the U.S. military-industrial-technological complex. Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
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Douglas Rain, Frank Miller, Keir Dullea, William Sylvester, Gary Lockwood, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack,... 1998 Run time: 148. Brand new. Ships from Friends bookstore to benefit Beaverton (Oregon) library.
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Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Douglas Rain. Brand new. Run time: 139 mins. Originally released: 1968. 2 discs. Language: English. Brand new. 2 day delivery.
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I saw this movie in my youth and I decided to share it with my wife and daughter. This was a remarkable movie with the fascinating Strauss symphonic poem making it quite an experience. And the ending? How do you see it? What do you make of it? This is a cult movie from a cult director, a must see!
Eddywiregeek
Oct 28, 2010
A Prelude...
I was young when this one came out,and never got to see it in the theaters till I was 23 when it came out as a prelude to 2010. It's true that all the answers to this first movie were answered in the second..but wow! What a parody.Frankly it changed my mind about being an astronaught-before I thought..what could go wronge?An excellent film.Brings a whole new point of view to outerspace! Very Happy with it.Buy it you'll love it!
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