2001: Space Odyssey Best Scenes - The Monolith At The Moon
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- The astronauts go to the moon to check on the monolith. I almost shit my pants the frist time I saw this. Eerie music.
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There's something utterly bone-chilling about the idea of discovering something that is unquestionably a product of sentient beings, but having no idea whatsoever what it could be.
Humanity of today would call it "fake"
I recommend the novel "His Master's Voice" by Stanisław Lem. It takes this concept to another level its truly great.
In the original shorty story it’s surrounded by a force field. They blow it open with atomics and then it sends a signal. It was an alarm to let someone know that the monkeys had nukes.
hard to believe this was made in 68... damn this movie is amazing
1968 was the height of post-war western culture. We are living well into its decline now in a garbage pile of IPhones.
Holy fucking shit no way
I dont believe you :*
@@dmf41 Truth to that.
David Faubert are you comparing a movie with a phone?
This scene, in a G rated movie about ascension, is probably the scariest thing I've ever seen.
If anything, the human species is _descending_
where is the silver line? ..
Scary? I was confused and then they switched to the Jupiter mission 18 months later and bored me for the rest of the movie. The only scene that I liked was when Bowman came through the emergency airlock without his space helmet, although my friend who is an MD believes he would have been killed doing that. Actually we now know that the entire crew would have been killed by the Jovan radiation belt, and the electrical systems would have been destroyed along with HAL 9000.
The soundtrack alone is scary enough...
@@Joey3s If you like watching this movie you're probably not fun
I love it how every time we see the monolith the human kind takes a step forward in the evolution, either it's learning the usage of tools, Traveling to a new planet, or becoming a new being. It was a pure genius of putting the consept of god, evolution and aliens, into an object without finding out almost anything about what it is, or what it actually does.
RageJoona
I don’t get it god, evolution and aliens? Where did you bring all of these
@@Gnomelander1400 The monolith seems to bring evolution to humans. When the apes first found the monolith on Earth, they gained the intelligence to use tools. In this scene, when the humans have uncovered the monolith on the moon, it sent out a signal to its creators to notify them that humans are now capable of space-travel. It also sends a more directional signal to a massive monolith orbiting Jupiter, basically telling humans "GO HERE NEXT."
The monoliths are obviously created by aliens, but we don't know exactly for what purpose, that's the scary part that's supposed to make you question these concepts.
@@Gnomelander1400 Arthur C. Clarke makes it clear in the novel version of the film that during the sequence called "The Dawn Of Man", the reason why the monolith is there is in order to facilitate the evolution of this particular group of proto-humans. In the book, a target appears on the front face of the monolith for Moon Gazer (the head of the troop) to throw stones at. We don't see this in the film...but what we do see is a sequence in which Moon Gazer is contemplating a pig skeleton then picks up.a bone and quickly realizes that it can be used as a club to kill the pigs for food. As Moon Gazer examines the skeleton, we see a very brief shot of the monolith...the implication being that what Moon Gazer is thinking has at the very least somehow been affected or maybe even instigated by his troop's encounter with the monolith.
Maybe this December
It's not that, it's symbolism of saturn. Look at the millennium Hilton that overlooks ground zero in NYC, it's the same thing. The memorial fountains are black cubes as well.
The music makes it feel like you are watching something that has a supernatural presence, god, aliens, whatever, it is beyond our plane of understanding
I agree Pierce, Best Wishes. Sincerely, Tom
Or is it just a lifeless communication screen. Putting out high frequency sound?
@reapthewhirlwind4166 No, it's so much more. Watch the movie and you'd see.
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I love how at 2:26, the reflection on the monolith looks like there is someone on the other side touching Floyd's hand.
Reminiscent of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam. A supreme force propelling them to the next phase of evolution.
Wow, I haven't notice that before
There is someone on the other side, it's God...
good catch.
Reminds me of the first handshake in interstellar
This scene alone justifies why this is one of the greatest movies ever made.
The greatest in my opinion. My favorite at least. You should read the book for reference as well.
*the greatest
Does it tho?
No question the Masterpiece of all films
How? I'm greatly confused how this scene makes one of the greatest movies ever? Someone enlighten me
This scene was the first one filmed in "2001." Principal photography began here on December 29, 1965.
CORRECT!! It's still, and always will be a Masterpiece.
Really? That’s my birthday...about twenty years earlier
Wow it took 3 years to film? That's forever by modern standards.
@@AleisterMeowley That must mean something
cant believe they actually filmed it on the moon
Ligeti's music is 50% of the unsettling power of this sequence. Kudos to Kubrick for having the knowledge to find it and the insight to use it.
This movie scared the ever-living shit out of me when I was a kid. Still one if the best movies I've ever seen though.
Damn, this is really scary. And nothing happens, there's just a slab of stone standinf there doing nothing.
It scared the ever-living shit out of me, too, when I saw it the first time. And I was 23.
same
Seen it when I was 13 or 14 .. never scared me but it was hard as hell to figure out
Me too
The score will just seen chills up your spine. It wouldn't have the same effect for any worldly, relatable situation either. The amount of curiosity and fear about space during that time in society, would have loved to experienced this in theaters.
I was totally engrossed at age 17 . it was when we were approaching landing on the moon ; Everything was stunning yet believable . How Kubrick depicted all this was mind blowing ...... I am disappointed that once we reached 2001 . We were sadly behind this movie as far behind in not communicating with alien life ...
The only movie to actually use the "fear of the unknown" concept to its full potential.
Alien 1979 does that as well
Just saw the 50th anniversary screening of this in a theater. The audio of the signal from the monolith was much more piercing.
I saw it in Imax and I think I went deaf from this scene alone
What?
Oh sorry *ahem* I SAID I THINK I WENT DEAF FROM THIS SCENE ALONE!
@@yukohiei18 WHAT?!
I never seen this movie.
Every time I watch a clip from 2001 I'm simply amazed at the quality of the futurism. Someone put a great deal of effort and thought into conceiving what future technologies might actually be like.
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Didn't predict the demise of AT&T or Pan Am though! n At the time of the movie, these were such icons you couldn't really imagine them disappearing, but disappear they did.
That's the brilliance of Arthur C. Clarke.
The Monolith doesn't want a selfie/groupfie. That's why it made a beaming sound ! 😉
Thats actually just a coincidence, albeit a crazy one. It's because of the light of the sun hitting it for the first time in 4 million years, letting them know that we're ready.
The shot at 2:23 is one of the greatest shots ever composed for a movie and one of the greatest moments in any movie ever. There is so much going on in this one shot- it’s a little hard to comprehend.
What do u mean there’s so much going on? It’s the exact opposite
..to me its dr floyd doing the exact same thing that our prehistoric ancestors did...four million years ago!
putting their hands on the monolith.
that gives me goosebumps!!
It's a guy touching an object. If you're going to point to excellent cinematography, point to the light tunnel/stargate scene.
I agree with you @hmdwgf
I think it requires some more viewing to be able to see it, but I see exactly what you mean. Don't feel disregarded. It is quite honestly, quite insane.
The 2001 spacesuits look "real" in so many ways - the plugable modules for the helmets
that detail procedures and manual documents- likes todays flash drives, the backpacks that follow the design of the Apollo suits. Every Sci Fi film since I compare to these suits and they still appear more real than the later creations. And the walk down the ramp with the hand held camera (unheard of the time) takes the viewer into the mystery with Floyd.
I had just turned 12. My mother took me, my brother, and some school friends to The Windsor Cinerama Theater in Houston to see this movie. I was riveted when the pit scene was on. I still think this might be the Greatest sci fi film ever. Best Wishes. Sincerely, Tom
The first day of shooting on 2001 - 50 years ago today, 29 December 1965.
The musical choices in this film must be among the top 5 ever!!!! The pairing of Ligeti and Richard Strauss fucking MAKES this movie!!!
...this scene alone gives such an unbelievable feeling ...
Not mentioning tinnitus leads people to suicide. No cure or relief.
It does!
Love how they use the same angles and music synced with how the monkeys also discovered it, approached it, and touched it. Opening shots are gr8 as well, best movie ever
Kevin Hillary That’s the beauty of how meticulous Kubrick is.
@@hamilton9651 u shut up donkey
@@hamilton9651 bad take
@@hamilton9651 lol very bad take
I remember when I watch this scene for the first time, I paused at 1:20 and I asked myself : "How is this possible than a scene of a movie can have so much tension ?!" Kubrick was truly a genius !
This soundtrack sounds like there was a huge choir of people making strange and scary sounds, which seems quite impressive on its own...whoever made this was a genius!!!👍👍👍
It still gets me - the simple elegance of the machine, combined with its sophistication. Engineered to last millions of years, yet activated by sunlight falling on it.
Notice it’s a metaphor harming back to when the apes revered the original?
Simply one of the most brilliantly conceived and executed motion pictures ever. And many would argue....one of the most prophetic.
Many have tried to analyze the meaning of the monolith.
For me this is simple.
It's a presence. Just that...a presence. It made itself known at the dawn of human intelligence and again as humans took their first steps into the unknown of space.
I've seen this film at least a dozen times in my lifetime and I never fail to be mesmerized by it.
Thank you A.C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick. You set the standard. And no one has matched it yet.
The most frightening scene I remember seeing as a kid! Still truly don’t understand what the monolith is or what it represents. The fact that it is inpenetrable is a clue.
@Pedro Ortega " then helped Man become one of them." That is not evident in the movie, distinctly not true in the book.
@@glavardera It’s actually as reasonable an interpretation of the film’s conclusion as any, and Clarke’s novel, while a fine and interesting work in its own right, should not be used as a sort of roadmap to describe Kubrick’s film, which is far more ambiguous and mystical than the book.
This monolith let the aliens know we graduated to landing and mining our moon. The human race is evolving and getting smarter.
It is like a Swiss Army knife.
The aliens could use it for multiple purposes, in fact it was the only tool they needed when influencing or just monitoring humanity.
Movie was made in 68.....we didnt land on the moon til 69.
Scary how accurate this is.
We wouldn't have known what was up there...
Makes sense it was accurate since the "real" moon landing was filmed by the same studio. This scene/movie was just a practice run.
JBroMCMXCI Shut the fuck up.
@@JBroMCMXCI Please, shut up...
Esquivel Paulin Jordi Mariano TDK you really believe we went to the moon 🤦♂️
There’s no helping people like you
The way this scene made me feel when I first watched it is indescribable. No amount of words can justify the existentialism in this scene.
For me it was pure dread. It was a mixture of belief gone wrong, and understanding - only to the point where that understanding was too much.
@3:43 monolth , sun & moon are in alignment & there are other alignments with the sun in the movie _- yip there's an alignment vibe going on
I watched this in theaters today. The sound it made was so loud I had to actually cover my ears. I thought it was the theater’s actual alarm going off!
Watching this by yourself at night is pure terror.
Had the opportunity to see this film yesterday in a cinema, and let me tell you, that loud squeal at the end of the scene is not done justice on a tinny laptop speaker, or even headphones. The ENTIRE audience practically jumped out of their seats. It's deafeningly loud through a surround sound system.
I’ve never been so afraid of a rectangle in my life 😂
That's something like what I said to my mom when she picked me up after I first saw the film. I was nine years old. "What did you think of it?" she asked. I said, "I'm not sure, but I'll never not be afraid of a steel slab again."
@@racooksterJust don't be afraid of your remote!
Never have the meeting between humans and a totally unknowable alien presence been so dramatically depicted.
Choosing a stark black non reflective object to symbolize an alien intelligence instead of some guys in a rubber suit was nothing short of genius.
Stanley Kubrick's finest horror film. More creepy music and onscreen murders than The Shining.
The way Kubrick filmed parts of this going from a sterile, static camera view to the astronauts POV is just another reason he was such a great filmaker. Its totally unnerving in the same way the little girls in The Shinning were.
The first time I saw this film I must have been around eleven years old and this scene has always stuck in my mind , absolutely brilliant from start to finish, a peace of complete art and why I still love watch this film , so ahead of its time and still is , you feel the indefinite vastness of space and how frightening that fact is ……
The music alone is enough to give one the heebie jeebies.
the tension in this music must hit that range in our hearing that produces anxiety, no matter how many times I have seen this it makes me feel like bugs r crawling on me, and as it slows and intensifies in the monkey scene, jist brilliant
Damn. It's a frickin' iPhone 7S!
Cre8tvMG Good comment...
Dominoes pizza
That'll be Despacito 2
no step on snek
0:49 is the one of the greatest iconic science fiction scenes ever! It is the 2nd most iconic in 2001. Second only to the scene of the "Starchild" looking down at the Earth at the end of this magnificent movie.
2:29 - Imagine this is real. That historic moment would be absolutely incredible.
Less marijuana
There'd be no moment: the public would never hear about it. Too important for 'national security.'
@@digitalwayfarer7404 Impossible to conceal a radio signal from the Moon.
One of the greatest movies ever made and a true masterpiece! They don't make movies like this anymore. The big monolith block just gets me every time. So many bizarre elements.
The Monolith is the aliens calling card.
Basically it says (without words) “Some form of intelligence buried this here, it was us.”
In reality, discovery of the Monolith is in fact first contact.
listening to that loud high-pitched noise in the theater on a huge screen with 70mm projected onto it is a whole new level of "Thats loud" Ive never heard anything louder in my entire life.
The vocal music is perfectly haunting. Reminds me of that Bjork album.
which Bjork album?
Just glad there was a camera guy there with them to film this ground breaking evolutionary event.
I wish I would have gotten to see this on the big screen when it came out for it's anniversary last year. That would have been so fucking cool. Seeing this gorgeous masterpiece of a movie on an imax screen.
Same, then again I only saw this masterpiece for the first time a few hours ago!
I am 100% convinced that Stanley intended this to be a extenitial horror film. everything about it is off putting and a bit unsettling.
Interesting to note that MGM execs were upset that Kubrick didn't have a finished score for the picture. Alex North, a talented composer was hired and collaborated with Kubrick. When North attended the screening of the movie, he was justifiably angry to find Kubrick hadn't used any of his music in the film. However, in retrospect, the Ligeti and Strauss music were perfect for the visuals shown. The mood of the mystical, mysterious monolith scene is proof.
Props to Kubrick for dissing Alex North
I know this wouldn’t have been easy in 68, but I’d have loved to see the monolith as pitch black as it’s described in the book. It’s solid, but it’s so dark that no light even reflects off of it. It’s like someone carved out a block of spacetime and left it empty
There are photos of the uncovered monolith set being built that show a black pyramid down in the centre of the floor of the set.
Apparently, according to a book published just after the movie was released, that a huge and very expensive block of Lucite was cast as well, but could not be made clear enough or consistent enough to have the transparent block look needed for the 'teaching machine' sequence.
They went with a very black block with a rubbed-down matt surface that would photograph almost completely black and almost completely non-reflective.
Woah, that camerawork at 1.14 is just amazing, can't believe it is a 1968 shot
the hand-held camera in this sequence was, as always in all his films, operated by Kubrick in person.
@@tristano1984 ohh
I forgot how absolutely bone-chilling this scene was until I did some research on the movie for a scene study class. My heart is racing now. The musical score is simultaneously incredible and unsettling. The cinematography -- next level.
The Monolith was solar powered so they would know when man had the nuclear bomb coinciding when they could detect the trans-magnetic anomaly signal and excavate around it. A lunar day is two-weeks, the same for a lunar night. The sun was rising when they landed. When the sunlight lit the monolith, it sent a narrow beam aimed radio signal to Jupiter so powerful the signal bled across multiple channels on their UHF/VHF radio intercoms in their helmets.
Yes and their was a camera man who farted and another camera man who was with them on the moon filming this boring ass movie
when I was younger I wondered what mistake on script as sound and vibration does not propagate in vacuum. Later I read somewhere the obvious: the monolith was made by such evolved technology it could modulate in any frequency and any mode and really deafened the astronauts on their own rf intercoms
After 50 years the set designs still felt futuristic, this is flippin epic
People, remember... this movie is from Nineteen Sixty-Eight!
Are you watching this on your monolith?
the hand hald shots are just amazing
Perfect voicemail message.
this is still the scariest thing i’ve ever seen
調査隊が直接モノリスの穴に入らず、入り口で並び立ちそれをカメラが見上げるシーンは最高です。
Another thing: this set is completely symmetrical, with two little diggers, two sets of lights, and two ramps and sets of boxes and spheres at the walls, so that the camera didn't have to be moved around much, and a hand-held shot could be done facing in any direction and capture the action in a slightly-disorienting way.
Such a simple object, a perfect cuboid, and it's location is so intriguing - placed to deliberately attract our attention.
Just goofing around one day in High School shop class, a couple of us made a “monolith” to the 1:4:9 dimensions, although somewhat smaller than in the movie. The next day in class, I brought in a can of ultra-flat black paint. At first the teacher was upset, but then he started laughing. It was all in good fun. I still have it in my basement, but my wife thinks it needs to be thrown out! 😅
Superb, epic and chilling moment about the power of the unknown. The most incomprehensible thing is why the apes obtained wisdom after touch the Monolith but in this time it revealed threatening
According to the concept of the film, these guys in spacesuits would look like apemen to an advanced race a million years from then
This is the best scene I have ever seen in a film ever, nothing even comes close.
Ligeti's music is a huge part of what makes this scene feel so mysterious and mesmerizing.
"Ages on ages roll'd over him!
In stony sleep ages roll'd over him."
-William Blake
November 2020... a mysterious metal monolith that no one had any idea about have been found in the dessert of Utah, United States
with rivots on the side...
In someone's apple pie with ice cream?
The scene starting at 3:00 shows the black monolith with a red light in the top middle, just like HAL.
Sus
Probably due to the lights
good catch! It does look like HAL-9000
@@johndough-jr6od HAL's red eye and which planet?
Rewatching this in the theater I had the same anticipation and dread as the Trinity test in Oppenheimer, but 2001 has no deafening blast, only that high pitched ringing.
The fact that somebody was capable of making such a thrilling scene 50 years ago is oustanding
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Archaeologists discover the iPhone 20, 3000 C.E . (Colorized)
Watched this masterpiece in Split, Croatia in the summer of 1968. I was 12 years old. It made quite an impression on me, especially the photography and score.
Just noticed this after all theses years...Kubrick deliberately shows the 'site' on the dark side of the moon.
haha
+Jte Callaway (Social Observer) ?
Actually this was in the crater tycho
That's what there really is, now let's laugh.
You can see Earth in the Moon's sky here and sunlight on the hills.
0:43 this shot, this shot right here is the best shot in cinema history
Damn! Thanks for making me notice that beauty
You mean how is creates parallel lighting, just like he did for faking the moon landings and which anti-conspiracy people think was impossible for him to do?
@@deefakir9335 will you shut up, man?
The gravity seems incredibly earth like for a scene taking place on the freaking moon.
That was probably because nobody had seen people walking around on the moon.
@@nkuniverse7856 At that point, no. I think, though, that the Apollo astronauts had some inkling during the course of their training - and became obvious once on the moon - that the usual human walking gait would make for very slow locomotion on the moon and so they resorted to a kind of offset bunny hop instead.
Now, in late 2020, one like it appeared in Utah, and then it disappeared.
Well did we evolved? I dont think so lmao
@@readysetgo4468 you’re implying the evolution would happen overnight and be noticeable, which neither are likely
The website Zetatalk explains the purpose of that monolith in one of their newsletters.
Can we just take a moment and appreciate these brave actors for going all the way to the moon just to shoot a movie? That's some real dedication to your craft.
Kubrick does know how to create ambience, and especially in this movie. I think this scene, the one where Dave Bowman gets kicked out of the ship, the whole Star Gate sequence...
Music : György Ligeti, Requiem
Thx buddy
Goosebumps... creepy sound...
Fun day in the recording studio for that choir 😂
It's multiple recordings layered on.
The music is Lux Eterna by Gregor Legiti
This soundtracks and alien(1979) will forever be the most haunting soundtracks of all time. Both movies are geniuses in they’re own craft. Terrifying.
Except "Alien" rips this movie off with the crew sabotage/treason backstory.
@@jamesjwalsh Who cares? Did Kubrick invent film? I guess he ripped off Louis Le Prince, and so Kubrick is a hack.
I saw this film in theaters last summer for its 50th anniversary. IMAX. Was with my dad, who saw it when it was originally released. I was absolutely blown away. I still dont understand how Kubrick filmed some of those scenes! Timeless movie that I will now pass on to my kids.
Check out a channel called CinemaTyler, then look for his vids about how the movie was made. It will amaze you!
The Monolith ... is BLACK MIRROR
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The greatest movie ever made. Period.
I love how the grew of Homo Sapiens is just as hesitant about approaching the monolith as the hominids were in the earlier scene.
2020: FOUND A MYSTERIOUS METAL MONOLITH
PEOPLE WHO WATCH THESE MOVIE 19yrs ago:👁👄👁
This movie was shown in 1968.
Oh really? peace😃
@@jaysonpandong860 you’ve clearly not seen the movie and are just flocking here like sheep. This movie and the books have been out since the 60s.
People that actually watched the movie/read the books 👁👄👁
@@yungbrat8772 THANKS FOR INFORMING ME
The moonscape here is VERY Chesley Bonestell. In reality, the Moon's surface is much more lumpen and rolling.
The shot at 3:40 of sunrise over the monolith, with the slender crescent of the Earth above the slab and he sun, is wondrous, and deservedly iconic. That makes you wonder why, in the establishing shots at the beginning of this scene (from the start of this video until 1:12), showing the broad panorama of this part of the lunar surface, we’re shown that from that point on the moon, they were seeing not a mere slender crescent of the earth’s surface illuminated in sunlight, but over half of the side visible from Tycho crater.
It’s not a fatal flaw that ruins the movie, or anything like that, but it reflects curious inattention to an obvious detail. It’s just surprising that no one involved in making the film was alert to the point, that the Earth would not have gone from gibbous phase to crescent phase, in the few minutes it took this group to walk down from the surface level, to the excavated monolith.
Beyond unsettling the tense atmosphere and ambient of the scene was enough to scare even me one of the most die-hard horror fans. Such an effective scene that lets us know that we really don't know anything about the larger forces at play in our own universe
This scene is a perfect example how to do horror without actually doing horror.
that monolith looks strikingly similar to a modern smartphone
it's an iPhone from the 60s
I saw this film as a child when it was first released at a Cinerama theater.
There are a number of scenes I have always remembered, but the most striking at the time was an early scene where the earth first becomes visible as a planet from space. "The blue marble" effect, except that it was displayed on the huge Cninerama screen.
It wasn't until several years later that such scenes became a routine result of space flight. But at the time, this was a really striking new way of looking at th earth, even though it was a movie.
Later, the filmmakers found out how, from space, Earth appears a darker and sharper blue.
FUUCK! Kubrick was a friggin' Genius.