The 60's vibe. I was happy to find something that was hitting all cylinders. Remember, the 'space race ". Going to the moon was on everybody's radar. We always believed that we could shoot for the moon, and satisfied with reaching the stars.
It's staggering visual impact. I read the novel as a kid before the movie was re-released, so my favorite thing about the film is how visual it was, how "show don't tell", when Clarke (playing to his own strengths as a writer) is the opposite, with the book. Clarke's writing certainly has deeply moving imagery in it, but he's nuts and bolts in a different way than Kubrick was. It was an amazing collaboration.
It's one of my favorite movies of all time, and I loved the somewhat realistic design of the Discovery spaceship. Just two minor criticisms. There is no place inside that "ball" at the front of the ship where the centrifuge would fit, regardless whether the "spindle" is in line with the stem of the ship or perpendicular to it. Dave would have had to be an utter moron to go out into space in one of those modules without taking a space helmet with him. That makes no sense that he would do that! Plus, that must be a violation of all kinds of NASA safety regulations!
Not simply a masterpiece of filmmaking but the most influential movie of its generation. It inspired future directors George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and countless others to explore their own visionary paths. Also, the opening credits with the scarcely heard " Also Sprach Zarathustra " is the grandest opening of any movie ever.
Incidentally, the English translation of the song title is "Thus Spake Zarathustra." And I agree with the op that this piece of music *IS* the most grand opening of any movie that ever hit the theatres. Such grandeur and radiance
My 12-year-old self saw 2001 when it was released in Cinerama in 1968. My jaw dropped at the beginning and stayed that way until the end. Finally! A very credible hard science fiction movie. Shortly afterward I bought and consumed a thick volume on the making of 2001. I was, and still am, amazed at the technology and creativity that went into that film. As to critics, hard sci-fi isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. Unless you were a fan to begin with you would be hard pressed to appreciate what a monumental work this was.
I read the book at age 8 (a little overwhelming for my young mind), then saw the movie at 12 in 1972. There is nothing about this movie I'd seriously criticize. It's as awesome now as fifty years ago.
Surprisingly, when I watched the movie for the first time a few years ago, I forgot it was made in the 1960s, it is so well made! I felt like I was watching a modern day movie, instead!
I went to see this the week it was released. I was 13 yrs old if I remember feeling so emotional, I'd never seen a movie like it. The opening scene at the dawn of man had me straightaway. I don't know how many times I've watched this movie now but the visuals, the music and the story still pull me in. Most sci-fi movies about space were laughable but 2001 set the new standard. It was perfect.
I wanted to see it as a child as well but decided to wait until 2001. On January 1, 2001, I went to Blockbuster and rented it. The first thing that came to mind when I saw the monolith was the World Trade Center. The World Trade Center was destroyed in 2001. Interesting fact: Kubrik began working on 2001 the year construction of the World Trade Center began and completed it the year the World Trade Center was finished, and in the year 2001 the World Trade Center was destroyed. The year 2001 represented a major paradigm shift in the solidification of the security state. In the movie, HAL the computer, through an announced need for increased security, tried to expand his authority to the very limits of official censorship, concealment, and murder.
I was the same age as you when I saw it in 1968. I rarely watch the film nowadays as a small TV just kills it, unfortunately. The screen upon which I saw it then in 1968 was huge; large enough (and curved enough) to accommodate the wonderful 70mm print. The cinema was packed but most were baffled by it. Me included, as but a naïve teenager.
It's a hard choice. Yes the 2001 ape costumes were more realistic but the Planet costumes had to do way more stuff for the actors to express emotions and dialogue. Apparently the 2001 apes were played by a group of French impressionist actors, like out of the Mime world of acting.
Yes, I find it odd the ape costumes in 2001 did not receive more recognition as well. I thought they were extremely realistic, especially in the face area. Maybe the Academy thought Kubrick had trained real apes to act in the movie and hence there were no costumes involved.
There is a myth that they didn't win because the voters thought the 2001 pre-humans were real trained apes. Trivial fact:- The ape that was attacked by the leopard was acted by Terry Duggan who was a regular actor in the Brtish sitcom On The Buses and also the real life husband of Anna Karen who played Olive in the same series.
Yep me too. Watch it at least once per year. Occasionally it plays in local rep theatres and I get to see it on the big screen with an audience. Many I'm sure are old hippies lol
I love that I can watch the movie and take something different away from it each time. I love that I learn new things about the movie even to this day. It’s like a moving painting equal to Rembrandt or Van Gogh, with the best villain of all time.
My 7th grade science teacher Mr Shippy took the whole class to that movie. It was an amazing movie and I will never forget it. What a great guy. That movies was a head of its time
@@KDuckworthh I was 8 when I first saw it on release and I loved it. As a kid there were a number of things I didn't understand in the movie but I got the basic ideas. I was a science nerd even back then so that helped. Also grew up watching Thunderbirds and stuff like that..same SFX crew.
@@CaptApril123 very cool hearing back from you man! It would of been very cool to see it at that age and have that young perspective. Hope all is well!
Nice reference to Arthur C Clarke's quotes "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” and “Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.”!
Upon my first viewing many years ago several scenes in particular blew my mind; The open sequence from Thus Spake Zarathustra thru to the bone/satellite transition. The docking sequence beautifully set to The Blue Danube. (gives me chills every time) The attendant server walking around the circular passage. This Kubrick / Clarke collaboration ranks in my top five all time. A monumentally groundbreaking film in every respect.
Back then a lot of us felt it was possible to have the future that was on screen. Now we are 21 years since the year this happened. Except for space nerds like me most people don't think 2001 reality would be possible. 2001 did one thing along with Star Trek. Back then most sci fi movies ships were either modified V-2 or flying saucer. After them ships changed and I love what we ended up with.
One of my all time favourite movies. It was actually based on an earlier Arthur C Clarke short story called ‘The Sentinel’ written in 1948. As a massive AC Clarke fan I love this movie - I was born the year it came out so only saw it in a cinema during its 40th anniversary
There was a book titled "The Lost Worlds of 2001, A Space Odyssey " that included sections of alternate story variations for the movie that Kubrick and Clarke wrote and rewrote. I wish I still had a copy of it.
I've heard it called and I myself refer to it as "the first serious adult science fiction movie". I stand by that today, having seen it on its theatrical debut. Still an amazing movie: Arthur C. Clark wrote many seminal books that are every bit as good today as when they were written.
Im only 25 and hearing you saw it when it came out is just amazing. I’m wondering what where your first impressions when you saw it when it first came out and how old were you the ?
@@KDuckworthh I was about 8 years old when I saw it with my parents. My dad was like, "What the hell was that?" But I was overwhelmed by it. It was so stunning. I couldn't stop thinking about it. It remains my number one favorite movie.
I was in Seattle recently and went to the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPop) where, to my delight, I saw the model of the Discovery One Space ship hanging from the ceiling I had watched the film the night before which was perfect timing and I have seen it over 70 times
Shamefully, I had never seen this movie until I found it on a VHS cassette in a charity shop in maybe 2014. I rushed home and watched it straight away, then immediately rewound the tape and watched it again. Absolutely iconic cinematography. A masterpiece.
I was born in '69 so missed the original run of the movie but my mother owned the soundtrack LP. I remember as a young child being fascinated by the album cover and losing myself looking at it for hours on end - it showed a pan-am rocket taking off from the large circular space station with the earth, moon and stars in the background (and you could even spot tiny astronauts dotted around the partially completed section of the space station). To this day I'm a huge hard sci-fi fan and this is definitely what started it all off! I will never tire of watching the sequence that shows Heywood Floyd traveling on the spaceship before coming in to dock.
Ok, old timer here. I was 18 when I went to see the initial release of this movie. There are two scenes edited out that I never see anymore. 1. After Dave re-enters the spacecraft after being locked out by Hal, Hal sucks all the air out of the vessel - the final blow, but Dave manages to get his helmet on in time and that’s why you see him disconnecting Hal’s memory with his helmet on. 2. When he flies to Jupiter’s moon there’s a light show sequence that went on for maybe ten minutes...seemed like more. The marijuana smoke in the theater rising up from the front rows was pretty thick...sometimes second hand smoke can be interesting...my twelve year old cousin fell asleep and was snoring during this scene. I haven’t been able to find these deleted scenes.
After the movie made the run of main theaters (including in Mexico City where I lived from 1967 - 1971) it ended up 'in residence' at a small theater within a single bus ride from my house. My best friend from high school and I would meet there once a week and did so for over a year, every week until the film moved on (replaced by "McKenna's Gold" if I remember correctly - another movie we enjoyed many times). Good times. Fast forward a few years, visiting my family in Toronto on Christmas break from LA, my father, grandfather, uncle, and I all went to see "2001: A Space Odyssey" at the newly built Cinesphere on the waterfront at Ontario Place in IMAX. The theater was a geodesic dome and the screen was glued on the inside of the wall (until it fell off sometime after). What an experience that was too! I just couldn't get enough of that movie! Strangely though, perhaps, even as a voracious reader of Sci-Fi back in those years, I was not a fan of anything that Arthur C. Clarke wrote, preferring Heinlein, Asimov, Norton, Simak, White...I still have an extensive collection of paperbacks (including many of the Ace doubles - read the story from one cover, then flip the book around and there's another story from the other cover). Formative years.
What an extraordinary accomplishment this film was. It's one of the few films that truly takes you out of your world and places you in a completely different and believable one. The attention to detail makes it unique.
I will never forget the opening scene as it got engraved in my mind 50 years ago. What a genius of a film maker! Contrast a lot with todays productions.
The thing that sets this movie apart from everything is no CGI. Such a stunning visual movie. I don't think anyone will ever make anything that compares to this.
After all these years I'd consider it to be still a top shelf sci-fi that they got a lot of things right and effects and props have stood the test of time.
The movie of _2001: A Space Odyssey_ is a masterpiece overall. So many details were captured and told in ways only possible in film. Even the running time; the scenes on the long journey out to Jupiter tried to capture the feeling of time and distance from life on Earth. If you then watch the movie _2010: The Year We Make Contact,_ it's still a good movie, but it doesn't have the same epicness or presence as 2001. But then it's done in a different style, almost a narrative. Talking is fine, the special effects are fine, it's even more grounded in reality. I own copies of both movies, enjoy them, and recommend them to others. I have found that those more science or science-fiction oriented people will enjoy 2001, while more general viewers will like 2010 better.
1968 my dad and i sitting in our car watching 2001 at a drive in theater was great time for me as a 8 year old boy. I remember well here in Sydney Australia. I still have a complementary magazine given to us at the ticket sales box as a keepsake . Take care everyone ❤️
Dear Charliepearce8767, I enjoyed reading Your memory of the first time you saw "2001 - A space Odyssey" at the drive - in cinema, when You were 8. I was 10 when it came out, and My grandpa - an Appreciator of good Sci-Fi Stories went to see it with his son(my Uncle) and my Dad - When the Film first came out. I asked my Dad If I could go with them, but he said I Probably wouldn't understand it; So I was disappointed not to go - then Next day - when I asked My Dad about The movie, He replied "I didn't Understand it" And my Dad was Motor Engineer and Very practical - Logical; so I guess b'coz the Movie was So Different IN IT'S SCOPE And SO TECHNICALLY REALISTIC - Far Beyond Most things of it's Time - Is Why It took a While for people to Appreciate - that That should be appreciated about It!! Also Charlie, Thanks For Your Well - Wishes!!
The impact this movie had on science fiction movies cannot be overstated. Before this there was cheesy Buck Rogers serials, and low budget crap from the '50s. This movie made science fiction believable and inevitable in the minds of many. 55 years later it still looks contemporary with none of the "guy in a rubber suit hanging from a visible wire" that so much old sci-fi suffered from. I remember seeing it in the theater in '68 and was just blown away by the spectacle.
Saw it as a kid. Made me a life long lover of sci fi and sparked a lasting interest in space and space travel. The effects, the story, totally blew my mind.
My dad took me and my brother to see it when I was twelve, and I had the honour to do the same with my children when it was shown in theatres again recently. My daughter didn’t like it though!
"I believe that the trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades, and that it has no real value--certainly no large value...However, let it go. It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden." - Mark Twain
Love this video I read the book 1st, and then saw the film having only been born in 1970. I so didn’t realise some of these facts and was tickled to learn them. Thank you
I don't know how many times I've watched this masterpiece since first seeing it with my dad in its original release cinema run. It stands, nay it towers, above most of the movies that are generally considered to be "classic". It is a work of the most exquisite art.
My dad took me and my brother to see this movie in 1968. I was 8 years old. I was fascinated by the film. When I asked my dad what the ending meant........he really didn't know. That was the first time my dad couldn't answer one of my questions. Great memories !!!
I was 8 in 1968 when my Dad took me to see the movie. It was eerie, brainy, mesmerizing and mysterious. I later read the novel in high school about 7 years later and it made more sense to me then.
I was 12. My 15 yr old bro went and spent the rest of the week rambling about meanings until HE read the book. He convinced me to watch it. It blew my mind🤯 Starchild?✨
I saw the poster for this on the front of the local Laundrette in 1968. I have it on BluRay, and it is like watching it for the first time, but better! (The same goes for 'Dr Strangelove')
It’s said that NASA approached Kubrick on faking the moon landing video, but being such a perfectionist, Kubrick would not agree unless they let him film on location.
The way they got the view of earth and the moon still boggles the mind. When it was filmed in 1966-1967, how many color cameras had been in space to see how i& what it would look like in such detail? And when it came out on the screen in 1968 in cinemascope, it was like you were there!
Romeo and Juliet won for Best Costume Design, not Planet of the Apes. 2001 was not even nominated, and I read somewhere that it was because many people thought they used actual apes and not actors in costume.
Looper, it seems you missed the significance in the bone-throwing scene. That is not merely an orbiing satellite, it's a nuclear weapon; hence, two weapons are shown millennia apart.
Kubrick and Clarke met in New York City in the early 1960s - after Spartacus and before Dr. Strangelove - to discuss science fiction ideas, to make, as Kubrick said, "the essentially good science fiction movie." Clarke presented several short stories for Kubrick to consider for adaptation, and the short story "The Sentinel" was chosen from the pile that had been submitted. Kubrick and Clarke worked together for several years to develop the film, but they didn't always see things eye to eye. At one point Kubrick fired Clarke from the project, only to hire him back shortly thereafter, which no doubt helped maintain the vision of the film as it turned out for the screen. The graphical computer displays seen in 2001 didn't exist in the mid-1960s; in fact, computer data at the time was read on paper printouts that sometimes ran for several feet, consuming up to dozens of sheets of paper that spooled out from rolls that were fed through electronically-operated typewriters or printers. What we see in 2001 was the result of months of hand drawings that were filmed by animation cameras to produce the desired effects which were then displayed on screens in the different spacecraft and other devices by 16 millimeter projectors. Several years ago, in a lawsuit between Apple and a rival computer manufacturer over the rival's version of the iPad, it was argued in court that Apple didn't have an exclusive lock on the appearance and function of the iPad since the concept appeared originally in 2001. Young filmmaker and special effects creator Douglas Trumbull is responsible for nearly all of the visual effects and models in the movie, most notably the "stargate" sequence near the end of the film. Trumbull, who was about 25 at the time, designed the cameras, lighting and visuals for this from the ground up. For the spacecraft models, Trumbull purchased several hundred plastic model kits - mostly tanks, cars, ships - and applied the various small parts in different combinations and patterns to provide enhanced details to the spacecraft exteriors. This is called "greebling," a technique still used today in special effects model building, whether it's an actual physical model or computer render. The company that Kubrick hired to build the centrifuge set for the Discovery I spacecraft was Vickers Engineering, which also designed aircraft. Because the interior of the rotating set was so cramped, Kubrick watched the action on closed-circuit monitors from outside while the camera moved on a track hidden in the middle of the floor that the actors walked on. Lighting was supplied on a trolly that rolled on the same track, but opposite the actors and cameras, at the top of the set. This created a hazard for the actors, because when a light blew out, it would shower broken glass on anybody who was at the bottom of the set. 2001 was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. But the movie only won the Oscar for Best Special Effects. Even though Douglas Trumbull was mainly responsible for the effects, he was part of a virtual army of people who worked for over four years on the effects for the film. However, only Kubrick was nominated for the Oscar, which was awarded to him. This resulted in some feelings by Trumbull and the other members of the effects team who felt they were cheated out of the Oscar. Budget for 2001 was originally intended to be modest and the finished film was to be a very low-key product. But as development progressed, the budget grew accordingly. The final cost of the movie was close to $12 million, which would barely cover the meals for a Tom Cruise movie today, but it was the most expensive movie to be released in 1968.
@@nickrich56 No cutting and pasting was used in the posting of my comment. I have followed 2001 since I was a kid and even got a book called The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey which laid out all the details of the movie. I have a couple copies of the book somewhere in my collection, but didn't need to refer to them. It's a great book but is out of print, though I think they show up for sale every now and then on eBay. I also had the privilege of meeting Douglas Trumbull in person at the debut of his own directorial effort Silent Running. He was such a kind and decent person who was basically too good for Hollywood and all the nonsense the studios put people through to make a movie. Nice try at being a snarky a-hole though.
Dear RReese, Thank You ever so much!! For All that Amazing INFO!! Not many years After "2001' came out, I acquired the book that detailed. The Making of the Film, and I remembered how Interesting lt was structured (although - a little difficult to read rather occasionally) part of it being a diary of phone -calls And actual Meetings between Stanley and Arthur C on the development of the film. The Range of Information And the accuracy of Your Communication was Brilliant - and a pleasure to read! From "ArtyAstro" - an autoLogo - I've given myself. Cheers! And All The Best!
@@stephenwilford919 Thanks. Somebody snarked that my comment was all cut and paste - do I wish it was. But I'm not that lazy. I actually stole everything I wrote from some homeless people living down by the river.
When MOVIES were MOVIES; A soaring story with Speciial Effects out of their time. Still relevant and I bet when and if we get out to Jovian space will probably be very close to what we saw in this insane movie. Humbled by the talent.
As a scientist, I always liked that 2001 seemed the most realistic and possible for near future technology. If you like realistic space technology, be sure to watch the Sci Fi series The Expanse.
Although 2001 is realistic, the single MOST realistic science fiction movie about space has to be the 1950 film Destination Moon. Even today, it is painfully accurate.
Prepare first and watch it in complete darkness non stop . Also went too Liverpool Empire where they have an old school cinema set up , front row seats just awesome. If you can truly take onboard the storyline it's a mind blowing art form , closest experience too it is Interstellar another awesome film.........
Watched 2001 on its cinema release as a 10yr old lad in 1968 Sleima Malta 🇲🇹 👍 absolutely loved the movie and it is always in my all time top 10 movies .
One detail in 2001 impresses me every time I see it: flat screens and nice fonts. While most SyFy movies of that era are featuring curved CRT screens spaceship control room in 2001 is looking much more modern and believable.
in 1968 my Father took my brother and i to see this magnificent piece of work , at 8 years old i sat aghast at the size of the screen, it was without doubt the widest film i have ever seen at a cinema. it was many years later before it dawned on me that i had witnessed a landmark in cinematography, made possible by Kubricks amazing skills and the writing of the script with Clarke. and a big big shout out to Douglas Trumbull. it will forever be in my top 5 five films of all time' along with Dr Srangelove and A clockwork orange.
I dont recall when i saw 2001 first, as i was 8, in 68, but when i did, WOW, this is the future, and by the time i am 41, (2001) we will living on Mars, but even now, and i watched it only 6 months ago, yet its still feels modern, are there any producers out there now than can emulate this film as i cant name any
I saw 2001 at Gruman's chinese theatre (basically cinerama) when I was 11. Now, each time a new level of TV resolution comes out, DVD, then HD, then 4k, I get a new copy of the movie. The bad part is that the original film was left to deteriorate, and some of the reproductions show it. Its still an amazing movie, if you ignore the plot line. Still, the good thing about the abstract and frankly unresolvable plot line is that it is timeless and anything but trite. In the years after 2001, I got a book of tickets to a downtown theatre where Starwars was playing. It brought back that same experience, and indeed Lucas said he was inspired by 2001. Now, we have the technology to do this in TV shows (the expanse). 2001 lives on.
Amazing movie. I always see something new when I view it. $10 million is probably $100 million in 2022 USDs. You cannot put a price tag in sheer genius and courage.
I was 12 when I first saw it and it was my first experience of Cinerama. 2001 in Cinerama! Puberty took a backseat (for a year or so). My favorite film of all time - VHS, Laserdisc, DVD Blu ray whatever, I have then all and can never see this film too often. Most enchanting parts definitely when Blue Danube or Ligeti accompanies the action. All hail Kubrick, he never did better than this.
Random factoids: (1) The guy who played Moon Watcher (Daniel Richter) was later John Lennon's assistant of some kind. (2) It's the front projector that lits up the big cat's eyes. (3) The front projection technique was reused in "Blade Runner" as a way to make the actors' eyes glow red. Of course there was no slide being projected in that case, just plain white light. (4) Dr. Floyd uses an American Express card to buy the bushbaby.
@@jayfredrickson8632 Yes, Vivian, I think. Here is the purchase in the screenplay from around January 1966: OPERATOR: Good morning, Macy's. FLOYD: Good morning. I'd like the Vision Shopper for the Pet Shop, please. OPERATOR: Just a moment. _[THE PICTURE FLIPS AND WE SEE A WOMAN STANDING IN FRONT OF A SPECIALLY-DESIGNED DISPLAY SCREEN]_ VISION SALES GIRL: Good morning, sir, may I help you? FLOYD: Yes, I'd like to buy a bush baby. VISION SALES GIRL: Just a moment, sir. _[THE GIRL KEYS SOME INPUTS AND A MOVING PICTURE APPEARS ON THE SCREEN OF A CAGE CONTAINING ABOUT SIX BUSH BABIES, BEAUTIFULLY DISPLAYED AGAINST A WHITE BACKGROUND]_ VISION SALES GIRL: Here you are, sir. Here is a lovely assortment of African bush babies. They are twenty Dollars each. FLOYD: Yes, well... Pick out a nice one for me, a friendly one, and I'd like it delivered tomorrow. VISION SALES GIRL: Certainly, sir. Just let us have your name and Bank identification for V.P.I., and then give the name and address of the person you'd like the pet delivered to and it will be delivered tomorrow. _[SOME TIME DURING THIS CONVERSATION, FLOYD SEES ELENA, SMYSLOV AND THE OTHER TWO RUSSIANS PASS HIS VISION PHONE WINDOW. ELENA TAPS ABD MIMES "HELLO", GESTURING TOWARD A TABLE BEHIND FLOYD WHERE THEY ALL SIT DOWN]_ FLOYD: Thank you very much. Floyd, Heywood, R., First National Bank of Washington. Please deliver to Miss Josephine Floyd, 9423 Dupre Avenue, N.W.14. VISION SALES GIRL: Thank you very much, sir. It will be delivered tomorrow.
Actually the source material was an A.C. Clark short story called the Sentinel. The book was written during their collaboration on the film. Biggest differences were the different destinations of Saturn (the book) and Jupiter (the film.
Definitely not a movie for those with a short attention span. It will take a few viewings to grasp it fully. Purchased it a couple of years ago on the 4K Blu Ray format. The ultra-high clarity & pristine crisp imagery do it the justice it deserves for a movie that's 54 years old to look like it was only released 6 months ago is a testament to Kubrick's fastidious filmmaking.
It's wrong to say the movie is an adaptation of the novel. The two were developed together. Kubrick insisted that the movie be premiered before the novel became available. Both were inspired by several of Clarke's short stories, particularly by one called The Sentinel.
A Space Odyssey was the ultimate Sixties movie, in that -- like the ethos of that decade, it was experimental, and unrepeatable. And eternally provoking of debate.
I loved this as a kid, and still love it today. The first gen2 LumenCache product codenames included: Stan, Dave, Bowman, and Hal. There's a string resemblance to the HAL9000 brain/memory modules.
2010 was a good sequel. Not a game-changer like its predecessor by any means, but it brings the story to a comprehensible (while still fantastic) conclusion.
Great video. Nice juxtapositioning of 2001’s Oscar loss with Charlton Heston’s Planet of the Apes. 2001 remains a real sci fi classic, regardless what its nay sayers may think or claim to the contrary. The slow pacing and narrative and tale was an obvious influence on 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
I was born in 1963 and in 1969 (I think) went to a Coventry cinema to see this film.... 2001 a Space Odyssey... needless to say I couldn't understand it but I surely remember it almost all of it.....
i could have watched this movie when it first came but missed it, only recently watched it for the first time it blew my mind as to just how dam good it is some way glad it saw i latter in life as no way would i have appreciated the genius of Clark & Kubrick
When I turned 8 I caught 2001 with my dad during its first run at Seattle's Cinerama Theater and at the intermission everyone poured out onto the sunny matinee sidewalk to smoke a quick cig and discus what we were witnessing. It was the first time I had been in a crowd of grown adults completely flabbergasted at what they were witnessing.
I took a trip while watching this movie and was filled with anxiety nearly the entire way through. Your psyche is fragile in that moment, and I wasn’t willing to trust the movie to become immersed in it. I’ve had movies cause a bad trip and I was a little nervous to be smacked around because it’s happened before. Ironically my favorite movie to watch during a trip so far has been apocalypse now redux which will definitely smack you around.
At the time the space race was at full tilt - constantly in the news was the latest Russian or American mission, space rendezvous, docking, space walks, and the prospect of a lunar landing. With the pace of progress projected forward, we were really expecting 2001 to be like this. The future, now we’re here, is disapointing.
The pods were made by U.K. aviation firm “Hawker Siddley”, makers of the famous Harrier. The spacesuits were made by “Siebe Gormann”, manufacturers of deep sea diving and breathing apparatus. I saw it aged about six or seven in 1977, before I saw Star Wars. 2001 was the film that made me wonder about the cosmos, Star Wars was a bit of fluff made to sell lunch boxes
Many ideas from movies actually transmit into real-life situations, some scifi movies probably are close to the actual events. UFOs technology is off limits, it's so far ahead of our own, it's why they make sure we don't get ahold of their tech, we'd turn it into weapons immediately and catastrophy would ensue.
I saw it when released in 1968. I was 10 years old at the time. When I saw it it was just before Apollo 8 went to the moon and a few months later with Apollo 9,10 and the actual moon landing in July 1969 a huge achievement for mankind. My uncle Ron was the projectionist in my city and it was not on the usual 35 millimeter motion picture film rather it was on special 70 millimeter film for special motion picture projectors on a wide screen.
Interesting fact: Kubrik began working on 2001 the year construction of the World Trade Center began and completed it the year the World Trade Center was finished, and in the year 2001 the World Trade Center was destroyed. The year 2001 represented a major paradigm shift in the solidification of the security state. In the movie, HAL the computer, through an announced need for increased security, tried to expand his authority to the very limits of official censorship, concealment, and murder.
I'm old, I saw 2001 in its original theater release, and again on 50th anniversary run; plus maybe a dozen times in between on DVD, and while I may be going ga-ga I recall the Pan Am logo and BBC 12 references but I have no memory of any reference to NASA. Please produce your evidence for that!
Kubrick took ALL the credit (and the Academy Award) for the film's ground-breaking special effects even though this was largely the work of Douglas Trumbull.
Film Critic Gene Siskel once got the opportunity to ask Neil Armstrong what he thought about the movie. Armstrong said that if you want to know what it's like to travel in space, watch 2001.
I saw in another UA-cam video that Kubrick originally intended to show the aliens, but the costuming and designs never really materialized he certainly better off without actually showing an aliens
The film was also inspired by the Arthur C Clarke short story "The Sentinal" written in 1948 which covers the second part of the film where the monolith is discovered on the moon
2001: A Space Odyssey was released on April 2, 1968, more than a year before a single human landed on the moon. Conspiracy theorist say that Stanley Kubrick actually filmed the moon landing. As proof, they point out that in The Shining Danny is wearing an Apollo 11 sweater as Kubrick's subtle confession. 😲
Also the origin of a bunch of "Apollo 11 was a fake" conspiracy theories saying that Kubrick directed it. To what some clever funny guys answer that Kubrick was such a perfectionist that he shot Apollo 11 moon landing on location.
I saw it on its initial release in Melbourne when I was in my teens. I must admit that I thought it good but rather slow and ponderous. As the years rolled on it rose in my estimation as I grew used to seeing art films that were paced at that speed.
It is true the when I was a lad it seemed a bit slow but not bad though, and understand it watching it more, I'd love to see it again, maybe people talked through it as it is a film for grown-ups also showing no respect for those viewers who wanted not to miss something important detail later in the film, they may had run out of pop-corn.
What did you like most about 2001: A Space Odyssey?
It didnt check all the diversity boxes and teach me about sexuality. also didnt lecture me on how white straight men are evil.
The 60's vibe. I was happy to find something that was hitting all cylinders. Remember, the 'space race ". Going to the moon was on everybody's radar. We always believed that we could shoot for the moon, and satisfied with reaching the stars.
It's staggering visual impact. I read the novel as a kid before the movie was re-released, so my favorite thing about the film is how visual it was, how "show don't tell", when Clarke (playing to his own strengths as a writer) is the opposite, with the book. Clarke's writing certainly has deeply moving imagery in it, but he's nuts and bolts in a different way than Kubrick was. It was an amazing collaboration.
The Mistery around the Monolith
It's one of my favorite movies of all time, and I loved the somewhat realistic design of the Discovery spaceship.
Just two minor criticisms.
There is no place inside that "ball" at the front of the ship where the centrifuge would fit, regardless whether the "spindle" is in line with the stem of the ship or perpendicular to it.
Dave would have had to be an utter moron to go out into space in one of those modules without taking a space helmet with him. That makes no sense that he would do that! Plus, that must be a violation of all kinds of NASA safety regulations!
Not simply a masterpiece of filmmaking but the most influential movie of its generation. It inspired future directors George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and countless others to explore their own visionary paths. Also, the opening credits with the scarcely heard " Also Sprach Zarathustra " is the grandest opening of any movie ever.
Agree!! BUT still even today sooo influencial.
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@01 was the most boring movie of all time.
I still love the movie!!
Incidentally, the English translation of the song title is "Thus Spake Zarathustra." And I agree with the op that this piece of music *IS* the most grand opening of any movie that ever hit the theatres. Such grandeur and radiance
My 12-year-old self saw 2001 when it was released in Cinerama in 1968. My jaw dropped at the beginning and stayed that way until the end. Finally! A very credible hard science fiction movie. Shortly afterward I bought and consumed a thick volume on the making of 2001. I was, and still am, amazed at the technology and creativity that went into that film. As to critics, hard sci-fi isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. Unless you were a fan to begin with you would be hard pressed to appreciate what a monumental work this was.
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I read the book at age 8 (a little overwhelming for my young mind), then saw the movie at 12 in 1972. There is nothing about this movie I'd seriously criticize. It's as awesome now as fifty years ago.
Surprisingly, when I watched the movie for the first time a few years ago, I forgot it was made in the 1960s, it is so well made! I felt like I was watching a modern day movie, instead!
without FX it looks even more realistic than the modern ones
I went to see this the week it was released. I was 13 yrs old if I remember feeling so emotional, I'd never seen a movie like it. The opening scene at the dawn of man had me straightaway. I don't know how many times I've watched this movie now but the visuals, the music and the story still pull me in.
Most sci-fi movies about space were laughable but 2001 set the new standard. It was perfect.
I wanted to see it as a child as well but decided to wait until 2001. On January 1, 2001, I went to Blockbuster and rented it. The first thing that came to mind when I saw the monolith was the World Trade Center. The World Trade Center was destroyed in 2001.
Interesting fact: Kubrik began working on 2001 the year construction of the World Trade Center began and completed it the year the World Trade Center was finished, and in the year 2001 the World Trade Center was destroyed.
The year 2001 represented a major paradigm shift in the solidification of the security state. In the movie, HAL the computer, through an announced need for increased security, tried to expand his authority to the very limits of official censorship, concealment, and murder.
I was the same age as you when I saw it in 1968. I rarely watch the film nowadays as a small TV just kills it, unfortunately. The screen upon which I saw it then in 1968 was huge; large enough (and curved enough) to accommodate the wonderful 70mm print. The cinema was packed but most were baffled by it. Me included, as but a naïve teenager.
It’s a crime the ape costumes didn’t win Best Special Effects as, imo, they’re far superior to those of ‘Planet of the Apes’.
It's a hard choice. Yes the 2001 ape costumes were more realistic but the Planet costumes had to do way more stuff for the actors to express emotions and dialogue. Apparently the 2001 apes were played by a group of French impressionist actors, like out of the Mime world of acting.
It’s a stupid award show anyway.
Yes, I find it odd the ape costumes in 2001 did not receive more recognition as well.
I thought they were extremely realistic, especially in the face area.
Maybe the Academy thought Kubrick had trained real apes to act in the movie and hence there were no costumes involved.
I agree, absolutely.
There is a myth that they didn't win because the voters thought the 2001 pre-humans were real trained apes. Trivial fact:- The ape that was attacked by the leopard was acted by Terry Duggan who was a regular actor in the Brtish sitcom On The Buses and also the real life husband of Anna Karen who played Olive in the same series.
I watch it at least once a year, truly an amazing piece of filmmaking and storytelling
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Yep me too. Watch it at least once per year. Occasionally it plays in local rep theatres and I get to see it on the big screen with an audience. Many I'm sure are old hippies lol
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same here...on every device is a copy....I will be watching 👀 on my death bed...
Not bad for a film about food.
I love that I can watch the movie and take something different away from it each time. I love that I learn new things about the movie even to this day. It’s like a moving painting equal to Rembrandt or Van Gogh, with the best villain of all time.
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My 7th grade science teacher Mr Shippy took the whole class to that movie. It was an amazing movie and I will never forget it. What a great guy. That movies was a head of its time
What a cool teacher!
What where your first impression when you saw it genuinely curious I don’t know anyone that saw it then personally
@@KDuckworthh I was 8 when I first saw it on release and I loved it. As a kid there were a number of things I didn't understand in the movie but I got the basic ideas. I was a science nerd even back then so that helped. Also grew up watching Thunderbirds and stuff like that..same SFX crew.
@@CaptApril123 very cool hearing back from you man! It would of been very cool to see it at that age and have that young perspective. Hope all is well!
Mr Shippy never told you but he was tripping out at that screening.
Virtually everything about this film still seems indistinguishable from magic.
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Nice reference to Arthur C Clarke's quotes "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” and
“Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.”!
well said
Everyone needs to remember this film was made in the 1960’s and still looks great today.
Upon my first viewing many years ago several scenes in particular blew my mind;
The open sequence from Thus Spake Zarathustra thru to the bone/satellite transition.
The docking sequence beautifully set to The Blue Danube. (gives me chills every time)
The attendant server walking around the circular passage.
This Kubrick / Clarke collaboration ranks in my top five all time. A monumentally groundbreaking film in every respect.
Special effects that are still ahead of their time, a masterpiece
Back then a lot of us felt it was possible to have the future that was on screen. Now we are 21 years since the year this happened. Except for space nerds like me most people don't think 2001 reality would be possible.
2001 did one thing along with Star Trek. Back then most sci fi movies ships were either modified V-2 or flying saucer. After them ships changed and I love what we ended up with.
One of my all time favourite movies. It was actually based on an earlier Arthur C Clarke short story called ‘The Sentinel’ written in 1948. As a massive AC Clarke fan I love this movie - I was born the year it came out so only saw it in a cinema during its 40th anniversary
One of the best SciFi stories ever written
Verry believible
One of the finest films in history.
There was a book titled "The Lost Worlds of 2001, A Space Odyssey " that included sections of alternate story variations for the movie that Kubrick and Clarke wrote and rewrote. I wish I still had a copy of it.
I have this book but have never read it, will now!
The Making of 2001 is also excellent.
I've heard it called and I myself refer to it as "the first serious adult science fiction movie". I stand by that today, having seen it on its theatrical debut. Still an amazing movie: Arthur C. Clark wrote many seminal books that are every bit as good today as when they were written.
Im only 25 and hearing you saw it when it came out is just amazing. I’m wondering what where your first impressions when you saw it when it first came out and how old were you the ?
@@KDuckworthh I was about 8 years old when I saw it with my parents. My dad was like, "What the hell was that?" But I was overwhelmed by it. It was so stunning. I couldn't stop thinking about it. It remains my number one favorite movie.
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This, along with Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, are among my absolute fav books and movies of all time
I was in Seattle recently and went to the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPop) where, to my delight, I saw the model of the Discovery One Space ship hanging from the ceiling I had watched the film the night before which was perfect timing and I have seen it over 70 times
Shamefully, I had never seen this movie until I found it on a VHS cassette in a charity shop in maybe 2014. I rushed home and watched it straight away, then immediately rewound the tape and watched it again. Absolutely iconic cinematography. A masterpiece.
I was born in '69 so missed the original run of the movie but my mother owned the soundtrack LP. I remember as a young child being fascinated by the album cover and losing myself looking at it for hours on end - it showed a pan-am rocket taking off from the large circular space station with the earth, moon and stars in the background (and you could even spot tiny astronauts dotted around the partially completed section of the space station). To this day I'm a huge hard sci-fi fan and this is definitely what started it all off! I will never tire of watching the sequence that shows Heywood Floyd traveling on the spaceship before coming in to dock.
Ok, old timer here. I was 18 when I went to see the initial release of this movie. There are two scenes edited out that I never see anymore.
1. After Dave re-enters the spacecraft after being locked out by Hal, Hal sucks all the air out of the vessel - the final blow, but Dave manages to get his helmet on in time and that’s why you see him disconnecting Hal’s memory with his helmet on.
2. When he flies to Jupiter’s moon there’s a light show sequence that went on for maybe ten minutes...seemed like more. The marijuana smoke in the theater rising up from the front rows was pretty thick...sometimes second hand smoke can be interesting...my twelve year old cousin fell asleep and was snoring during this scene.
I haven’t been able to find these deleted scenes.
After the movie made the run of main theaters (including in Mexico City where I lived from 1967 - 1971) it ended up 'in residence' at a small theater within a single bus ride from my house. My best friend from high school and I would meet there once a week and did so for over a year, every week until the film moved on (replaced by "McKenna's Gold" if I remember correctly - another movie we enjoyed many times). Good times. Fast forward a few years, visiting my family in Toronto on Christmas break from LA, my father, grandfather, uncle, and I all went to see "2001: A Space Odyssey" at the newly built Cinesphere on the waterfront at Ontario Place in IMAX. The theater was a geodesic dome and the screen was glued on the inside of the wall (until it fell off sometime after). What an experience that was too! I just couldn't get enough of that movie! Strangely though, perhaps, even as a voracious reader of Sci-Fi back in those years, I was not a fan of anything that Arthur C. Clarke wrote, preferring Heinlein, Asimov, Norton, Simak, White...I still have an extensive collection of paperbacks (including many of the Ace doubles - read the story from one cover, then flip the book around and there's another story from the other cover). Formative years.
What an extraordinary accomplishment this film was. It's one of the few films that truly takes you out of your world and places you in a completely different and believable one. The attention to detail makes it unique.
I will never forget the opening scene as it got engraved in my mind 50 years ago. What a genius of a film maker! Contrast a lot with todays productions.
The thing that sets this movie apart from everything is no CGI. Such a stunning visual movie. I don't think anyone will ever make anything that compares to this.
After all these years I'd consider it to be still a top shelf sci-fi that they got a lot of things right and effects and props have stood the test of time.
The movie of _2001: A Space Odyssey_ is a masterpiece overall. So many details were captured and told in ways only possible in film. Even the running time; the scenes on the long journey out to Jupiter tried to capture the feeling of time and distance from life on Earth.
If you then watch the movie _2010: The Year We Make Contact,_ it's still a good movie, but it doesn't have the same epicness or presence as 2001. But then it's done in a different style, almost a narrative. Talking is fine, the special effects are fine, it's even more grounded in reality.
I own copies of both movies, enjoy them, and recommend them to others. I have found that those more science or science-fiction oriented people will enjoy 2001, while more general viewers will like 2010 better.
1968 my dad and i sitting in our car watching 2001 at a drive in theater was great time for me as a 8 year old boy.
I remember well here in Sydney Australia.
I still have a complementary magazine given to us at the ticket sales box as a keepsake .
Take care everyone ❤️
G'day Charlie! I watched it the first time in a theatre in 68🇨🇦
55 years of dreams from that flick! 👍
Dear Charliepearce8767, I enjoyed reading Your memory of the first time you saw "2001 - A space Odyssey" at the drive - in cinema, when You were 8. I was 10 when it came out, and My grandpa - an Appreciator of good Sci-Fi Stories went to see it with his son(my Uncle) and my Dad - When the Film first came out. I asked my Dad If I could go with them, but he said I Probably wouldn't understand it; So I was disappointed not to go - then Next day - when I asked My Dad about The movie, He replied "I didn't Understand it" And my Dad was Motor Engineer and Very practical - Logical; so I guess b'coz the Movie was So Different IN IT'S SCOPE And SO TECHNICALLY REALISTIC - Far Beyond Most things of it's Time - Is Why It took a While for people to Appreciate - that That should be appreciated about It!! Also Charlie, Thanks For Your Well - Wishes!!
I've watched this movie umpteen times and it never gets old.
The impact this movie had on science fiction movies cannot be overstated. Before this there was cheesy Buck Rogers serials, and low budget crap from the '50s. This movie made science fiction believable and inevitable in the minds of many. 55 years later it still looks contemporary with none of the "guy in a rubber suit hanging from a visible wire" that so much old sci-fi suffered from. I remember seeing it in the theater in '68 and was just blown away by the spectacle.
2001 was so good, so genius and timeless, the best film ever made of all times, and that was too much for some critics of the time.
Saw it as a kid. Made me a life long lover of sci fi and sparked a lasting interest in space and space travel. The effects, the story, totally blew my mind.
How could some critics not like ? When I saw it when it came out it blew my mind 🎉
My dad took me to it when it came out, he thought it was cool but didn't really like it. Eight year old me loved it.
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My dad took me and my brother to see it when I was twelve, and I had the honour to do the same with my children when it was shown in theatres again recently. My daughter didn’t like it though!
In the late 60's and into the 70's for many it was if the critics panned a movie then go see it, if the critics liked it then don't bother.
"I believe that the trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades, and that it has no real value--certainly no large value...However, let it go. It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden."
- Mark Twain
Love this video I read the book 1st, and then saw the film having only been born in 1970. I so didn’t realise some of these facts and was tickled to learn them. Thank you
I don't know how many times I've watched this masterpiece since first seeing it with my dad in its original release cinema run. It stands, nay it towers, above most of the movies that are generally considered to be "classic". It is a work of the most exquisite art.
My dad took me and my brother to see this movie in 1968. I was 8 years old. I was fascinated by the film. When I asked my dad what the ending meant........he really didn't know. That was the first time my dad couldn't answer one of my questions. Great memories !!!
I was 8 in 1968 when my Dad took me to see the movie. It was eerie, brainy, mesmerizing and mysterious. I later read the novel in high school about 7 years later and it made more sense to me then.
I was 12. My 15 yr old bro went and spent the rest of the week rambling about meanings until HE read the book. He convinced me to watch it. It blew my mind🤯 Starchild?✨
Excellent retrospective, thank you.
I saw the poster for this on the front of the local Laundrette in 1968. I have it on BluRay, and it is like watching it for the first time, but better!
(The same goes for 'Dr Strangelove')
Prescient of the current technology: electronic tablets, glass cockpits, digital cameras, video phones, there's probably more.
Just amazing.
It’s said that NASA approached Kubrick on faking the moon landing video, but being such a perfectionist, Kubrick would not agree unless they let him film on location.
The way they got the view of earth and the moon still boggles the mind. When it was filmed in 1966-1967, how many color cameras had been in space to see how i& what it would look like in such detail? And when it came out on the screen in 1968 in cinemascope, it was like you were there!
Romeo and Juliet won for Best Costume Design, not Planet of the Apes. 2001 was not even nominated, and I read somewhere that it was because many people thought they used actual apes and not actors in costume.
We all know/or should know, that the movie '2001' was an expansion of Clark's short story titled ' The Sentinel '
Looper, it seems you missed the significance in the bone-throwing scene. That is not merely an orbiing satellite, it's a nuclear weapon; hence, two weapons are shown millennia apart.
Kubrick and Clarke met in New York City in the early 1960s - after Spartacus and before Dr. Strangelove - to discuss science fiction ideas, to make, as Kubrick said, "the essentially good science fiction movie." Clarke presented several short stories for Kubrick to consider for adaptation, and the short story "The Sentinel" was chosen from the pile that had been submitted.
Kubrick and Clarke worked together for several years to develop the film, but they didn't always see things eye to eye. At one point Kubrick fired Clarke from the project, only to hire him back shortly thereafter, which no doubt helped maintain the vision of the film as it turned out for the screen.
The graphical computer displays seen in 2001 didn't exist in the mid-1960s; in fact, computer data at the time was read on paper printouts that sometimes ran for several feet, consuming up to dozens of sheets of paper that spooled out from rolls that were fed through electronically-operated typewriters or printers. What we see in 2001 was the result of months of hand drawings that were filmed by animation cameras to produce the desired effects which were then displayed on screens in the different spacecraft and other devices by 16 millimeter projectors.
Several years ago, in a lawsuit between Apple and a rival computer manufacturer over the rival's version of the iPad, it was argued in court that Apple didn't have an exclusive lock on the appearance and function of the iPad since the concept appeared originally in 2001.
Young filmmaker and special effects creator Douglas Trumbull is responsible for nearly all of the visual effects and models in the movie, most notably the "stargate" sequence near the end of the film. Trumbull, who was about 25 at the time, designed the cameras, lighting and visuals for this from the ground up. For the spacecraft models, Trumbull purchased several hundred plastic model kits - mostly tanks, cars, ships - and applied the various small parts in different combinations and patterns to provide enhanced details to the spacecraft exteriors. This is called "greebling," a technique still used today in special effects model building, whether it's an actual physical model or computer render.
The company that Kubrick hired to build the centrifuge set for the Discovery I spacecraft was Vickers Engineering, which also designed aircraft. Because the interior of the rotating set was so cramped, Kubrick watched the action on closed-circuit monitors from outside while the camera moved on a track hidden in the middle of the floor that the actors walked on. Lighting was supplied on a trolly that rolled on the same track, but opposite the actors and cameras, at the top of the set. This created a hazard for the actors, because when a light blew out, it would shower broken glass on anybody who was at the bottom of the set.
2001 was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. But the movie only won the Oscar for Best Special Effects. Even though Douglas Trumbull was mainly responsible for the effects, he was part of a virtual army of people who worked for over four years on the effects for the film. However, only Kubrick was nominated for the Oscar, which was awarded to him. This resulted in some feelings by Trumbull and the other members of the effects team who felt they were cheated out of the Oscar.
Budget for 2001 was originally intended to be modest and the finished film was to be a very low-key product. But as development progressed, the budget grew accordingly. The final cost of the movie was close to $12 million, which would barely cover the meals for a Tom Cruise movie today, but it was the most expensive movie to be released in 1968.
R Reese ... sheesh 😉 thanks for the info but that was quite the cut and paste 👀
@@nickrich56 No cutting and pasting was used in the posting of my comment. I have followed 2001 since I was a kid and even got a book called The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey which laid out all the details of the movie. I have a couple copies of the book somewhere in my collection, but didn't need to refer to them. It's a great book but is out of print, though I think they show up for sale every now and then on eBay. I also had the privilege of meeting Douglas Trumbull in person at the debut of his own directorial effort Silent Running. He was such a kind and decent person who was basically too good for Hollywood and all the nonsense the studios put people through to make a movie. Nice try at being a snarky a-hole though.
@@RReese08 my apologies 😐 When comments carry on for what seems like pages it appears "generated". You have a mind and your using it!👍
Dear RReese, Thank You ever so much!! For All that Amazing INFO!! Not many years After "2001' came out, I acquired the book that detailed. The Making of the Film, and I remembered how Interesting lt was structured (although - a little difficult to read rather occasionally) part of it being a diary of phone -calls And actual Meetings between Stanley and Arthur C on the development of the film. The Range of Information And the accuracy of Your Communication was Brilliant - and a pleasure to read!
From "ArtyAstro" - an autoLogo - I've given myself.
Cheers! And All The Best!
@@stephenwilford919 Thanks. Somebody snarked that my comment was all cut and paste - do I wish it was. But I'm not that lazy. I actually stole everything I wrote from some homeless people living down by the river.
When MOVIES were MOVIES; A soaring story with Speciial Effects out of their time.
Still relevant and I bet when and if we get out to Jovian space will probably be very close to what we saw in this insane movie. Humbled by the talent.
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The whole movie simply existing is a fact out of this world
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As a scientist, I always liked that 2001 seemed the most realistic and possible for near future technology. If you like realistic space technology, be sure to watch the Sci Fi series The Expanse.
Although 2001 is realistic, the single MOST realistic science fiction movie about space has to be the 1950 film Destination Moon. Even today, it is painfully accurate.
Prepare first and watch it in complete darkness non stop . Also went too Liverpool Empire where they have an old school cinema set up , front row seats just awesome. If you can truly take onboard the storyline it's a mind blowing art form , closest experience too it is Interstellar another awesome film.........
Watched 2001 on its cinema release as a 10yr old lad in 1968 Sleima Malta 🇲🇹 👍 absolutely loved the movie and it is always in my all time top 10 movies .
One detail in 2001 impresses me every time I see it: flat screens and nice fonts. While most SyFy movies of that era are featuring curved CRT screens spaceship control room in 2001 is looking much more modern and believable.
Those iPad like displays were actually cameras underneath the desks reverse projecting up to the desktop.
And then somehow in the sequel the flat screens were replaced by curved CRT screens. When I saw those in 2010 I just started laughing.
@@smartasasackofhammer I just watched 2010 and yeah, it’s step backwards
in 1968 my Father took my brother and i to see this magnificent piece of work , at 8 years old i sat aghast at the size of the screen, it was without doubt the widest film i have ever seen at a cinema. it was many years later before it dawned on me that i had witnessed a landmark in cinematography, made possible by Kubricks amazing skills and the writing of the script with Clarke. and a big big shout out to Douglas Trumbull. it will forever be in my top 5 five films of all time' along with Dr Srangelove and A clockwork orange.
The first time I saw 2001 I was stoned and it was on BBC2, so no ad breaks.
The voice over is Issac Arthur who has a space-related channel under his name.
I dont recall when i saw 2001 first, as i was 8, in 68, but when i did, WOW, this is the future, and by the time i am 41, (2001) we will living on Mars, but even now, and i watched it only 6 months ago, yet its still feels modern, are there any producers out there now than can emulate this film as i cant name any
I saw 2001 at Gruman's chinese theatre (basically cinerama) when I was 11. Now, each time a new level of TV resolution comes out, DVD, then HD, then 4k, I get a new copy of the movie. The bad part is that the original film was left to deteriorate, and some of the reproductions show it. Its still an amazing movie, if you ignore the plot line. Still, the good thing about the abstract and frankly unresolvable plot line is that it is timeless and anything but trite. In the years after 2001, I got a book of tickets to a downtown theatre where Starwars was playing. It brought back that same experience, and indeed Lucas said he was inspired by 2001. Now, we have the technology to do this in TV shows (the expanse). 2001 lives on.
Amazing movie. I always see something new when I view it. $10 million is probably $100 million in 2022 USDs. You cannot put a price tag in sheer genius and courage.
The only thing Kubrick got wrong on this movie was the date. A film masterpiece!
I was 12 when I first saw it and it was my first experience of Cinerama. 2001 in Cinerama! Puberty took a backseat (for a year or so). My favorite film of all time - VHS, Laserdisc, DVD Blu ray whatever, I have then all and can never see this film too often. Most enchanting parts definitely when Blue Danube or Ligeti accompanies the action. All hail Kubrick, he never did better than this.
The follow on film, 2010, is also pretty good.
All these worlds are yours, except Europa.🤔
It is exquisite work and movie
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Random factoids: (1) The guy who played Moon Watcher (Daniel Richter) was later John Lennon's assistant of some kind. (2) It's the front projector that lits up the big cat's eyes. (3) The front projection technique was reused in "Blade Runner" as a way to make the actors' eyes glow red. Of course there was no slide being projected in that case, just plain white light. (4) Dr. Floyd uses an American Express card to buy the bushbaby.
Didn't I read somewhere the little girl who wanted a bushbaby was Kubrick's granddaughter?
@@jayfredrickson8632 Yes, Vivian, I think. Here is the purchase in the screenplay from around January 1966:
OPERATOR: Good morning, Macy's.
FLOYD: Good morning. I'd like the Vision Shopper for the Pet Shop, please.
OPERATOR: Just a moment.
_[THE PICTURE FLIPS AND WE SEE A WOMAN STANDING IN FRONT OF A SPECIALLY-DESIGNED DISPLAY SCREEN]_
VISION SALES GIRL: Good morning, sir, may I help you?
FLOYD: Yes, I'd like to buy a bush baby.
VISION SALES GIRL: Just a moment, sir.
_[THE GIRL KEYS SOME INPUTS AND A MOVING PICTURE APPEARS ON THE SCREEN OF A CAGE CONTAINING ABOUT SIX BUSH BABIES, BEAUTIFULLY DISPLAYED AGAINST A WHITE BACKGROUND]_
VISION SALES GIRL: Here you are, sir. Here is a lovely assortment of African bush babies. They are twenty Dollars each.
FLOYD: Yes, well... Pick out a nice one for me, a friendly one, and I'd like it delivered tomorrow.
VISION SALES GIRL: Certainly, sir. Just let us have your name and Bank identification for V.P.I., and then give the name and address of the person you'd like the pet delivered to and it will be delivered tomorrow.
_[SOME TIME DURING THIS CONVERSATION, FLOYD SEES ELENA, SMYSLOV AND THE OTHER TWO RUSSIANS PASS HIS VISION PHONE WINDOW. ELENA TAPS ABD MIMES "HELLO", GESTURING TOWARD A TABLE BEHIND FLOYD WHERE THEY ALL SIT DOWN]_
FLOYD: Thank you very much. Floyd, Heywood, R., First National Bank of Washington. Please deliver to Miss Josephine Floyd, 9423 Dupre Avenue, N.W.14.
VISION SALES GIRL: Thank you very much, sir. It will be delivered tomorrow.
Richter used to buy Heroin for John and Yoko.
@@indigohammer5732 Haha!
nice editing.. most impressive
Actually the source material was an A.C. Clark short story called the Sentinel. The book was written during their collaboration on the film. Biggest differences were the different destinations of Saturn (the book) and Jupiter (the film.
And that change was prompted by the images returned from Voyager.
Definitely not a movie for those with a short attention span.
It will take a few viewings to grasp it fully. Purchased it a couple of years ago on the 4K Blu Ray format.
The ultra-high clarity & pristine crisp imagery do it the justice it deserves for a movie that's 54 years old to look like it was only released 6 months ago is a testament to Kubrick's fastidious filmmaking.
It's wrong to say the movie is an adaptation of the novel. The two were developed together. Kubrick insisted that the movie be premiered before the novel became available. Both were inspired by several of Clarke's short stories, particularly by one called The Sentinel.
I thought Childhood’s End was the primary influence.
This was great info. Lots of trivia I didn’t know.
A Space Odyssey was the ultimate Sixties movie, in that -- like the ethos of that decade, it was experimental, and unrepeatable. And eternally provoking of debate.
Thems the obstacles a production has to overcome, having a feel for the prospective audience would be a huge asset
I loved this as a kid, and still love it today. The first gen2 LumenCache product codenames included: Stan, Dave, Bowman, and Hal. There's a string resemblance to the HAL9000 brain/memory modules.
Great video.
I know I'm in a minority, I loved this movie but loved the sequel even more. Just saying :)
2010 was a good sequel. Not a game-changer like its predecessor by any means, but it brings the story to a comprehensible (while still fantastic) conclusion.
Actually, agree with u.
Great video. Nice juxtapositioning of 2001’s Oscar loss with Charlton Heston’s Planet of the Apes.
2001 remains a real sci fi classic, regardless what its nay sayers may think or claim to the contrary.
The slow pacing and narrative and tale was an obvious influence on 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
A great movie that still sticks in my mind, it just gets better with age,
This is one of the best sci-fi movies
read the david casagrande review then watch the movie
It was and still is the best. A modern-day classic. People will still see it 200 years from now.
I was born in 1963 and in 1969 (I think) went to a Coventry cinema to see this film.... 2001 a Space Odyssey... needless to say I couldn't understand it but I surely remember it almost all of it.....
Let me guess, The Paris, Odeon, Theatre One, or Stanley’s?
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Theatre 1 feels right.
It was a school outing
i could have watched this movie when it first came but missed it, only recently watched it for the first time it blew my mind as to just how dam good it is
some way glad it saw i latter in life as no way would i have appreciated the genius of Clark & Kubrick
read the david casagrande review then watch the movie
When I turned 8 I caught 2001 with my dad during its first run at Seattle's Cinerama Theater and at the intermission everyone poured out onto the sunny matinee sidewalk to smoke a quick cig and discus what we were witnessing. It was the first time I had been in a crowd of grown adults completely flabbergasted at what they were witnessing.
I took a trip while watching this movie and was filled with anxiety nearly the entire way through. Your psyche is fragile in that moment, and I wasn’t willing to trust the movie to become immersed in it. I’ve had movies cause a bad trip and I was a little nervous to be smacked around because it’s happened before. Ironically my favorite movie to watch during a trip so far has been apocalypse now redux which will definitely smack you around.
At the time the space race was at full tilt - constantly in the news was the latest Russian or American mission, space rendezvous, docking, space walks, and the prospect of a lunar landing. With the pace of progress projected forward, we were really expecting 2001 to be like this. The future, now we’re here, is disapointing.
The pods were made by U.K. aviation firm “Hawker Siddley”, makers of the famous Harrier. The spacesuits were made by “Siebe Gormann”, manufacturers of deep sea diving and breathing apparatus. I saw it aged about six or seven in 1977, before I saw Star Wars. 2001 was the film that made me wonder about the cosmos, Star Wars was a bit of fluff made to sell lunch boxes
Many ideas from movies actually transmit into real-life situations, some scifi movies probably are close to the actual events. UFOs technology is off limits, it's so far ahead of our own, it's why they make sure we don't get ahold of their tech, we'd turn it into weapons immediately and catastrophy would ensue.
I won't lie it's very slow but worth watching at least once
I saw it when released in 1968. I was 10 years old at the time. When I saw it it was just before Apollo 8 went to the moon and a few months later with Apollo 9,10 and the actual moon landing in July 1969 a huge achievement for mankind. My uncle Ron was the projectionist in my city and it was not on the usual 35 millimeter motion picture film rather it was on special 70 millimeter film for special motion picture projectors on a wide screen.
The silent "Dawn of Man" sequence was longer than 10 minutes. The first words weren't spoken until almost 30 minutes into the picture.
Interesting fact: Kubrik began working on 2001 the year construction of the World Trade Center began and completed it the year the World Trade Center was finished, and in the year 2001 the World Trade Center was destroyed.
The year 2001 represented a major paradigm shift in the solidification of the security state. In the movie, HAL the computer, through an announced need for increased security, tried to expand his authority to the very limits of official censorship, concealment, and murder.
I'm old, I saw 2001 in its original theater release, and again on 50th anniversary run; plus maybe a dozen times in between on DVD, and while I may be going ga-ga I recall the Pan Am logo and BBC 12 references but I have no memory of any reference to NASA. Please produce your evidence for that!
Nope, no references to NASA whatsoever.
Now I gotta watch it again, darn. Thanks Ray. Gonna do a deep dive!😉👍
Kubrick took ALL the credit (and the Academy Award) for the film's ground-breaking special effects even though this was largely the work of Douglas Trumbull.
There is NO NASA LOGO IN THE FILM!!!
I wish someone would make Rendezvous with Rama
Film Critic Gene Siskel once got the opportunity to ask Neil Armstrong what he thought about the movie. Armstrong said that if you want to know what it's like to travel in space, watch 2001.
I saw in another UA-cam video that Kubrick originally intended to show the aliens, but the costuming and designs never really materialized he certainly better off without actually showing an aliens
The film was also inspired by the Arthur C Clarke short story "The Sentinal" written in 1948 which covers the second part of the film where the monolith is discovered on the moon
2001: A Space Odyssey was released on April 2, 1968, more than a year before a single human landed on the moon. Conspiracy theorist say that Stanley Kubrick actually filmed the moon landing. As proof, they point out that in The Shining Danny is wearing an Apollo 11 sweater as Kubrick's subtle confession. 😲
Also the origin of a bunch of "Apollo 11 was a fake" conspiracy theories saying that Kubrick directed it. To what some clever funny guys answer that Kubrick was such a perfectionist that he shot Apollo 11 moon landing on location.
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I saw it on its initial release in Melbourne when I was in my teens. I must admit that I thought it good but rather slow and ponderous. As the years rolled on it rose in my estimation as I grew used to seeing art films that were paced at that speed.
I also saw it in Melbourne on its release
I think it was at the Plaza theater
The sad thing about 2001 is the Orion space craft with the PanAm logo. No-one could have possibly predicted Lockerbie. 😥
Pan Am went bankrupt regardless
It is true the when I was a lad it seemed a bit slow but not bad though, and understand it watching it more, I'd love to see it again, maybe people talked through it as it is a film for
grown-ups also showing no respect for those viewers who wanted not to miss something
important detail later in the film, they may had run out of pop-corn.