2001: A Space Odyssey

One day, David Bowie watched “2001: A Space Odyssey” while stoned, and was inspired to write a song titled “ Space Oddity,” a song about an astronaut named Major Tom who is lost in space. The song was released days before the first moon landing and became an instant hit. Even though he got recognition for that song, David Bowie set out to have his named recognized. Bowie took inspirations from Iggy Pop and Lou Reed and would incorporate it onto his own image. In an interview he stated that he…

Survival, the security of life, is the basic instinct of all creatures. A chameleon camouflages to survive, a porcupine flares its needles to survive, and an artificial intelligence learns to survive. In Stanley Kubrick’s, 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL 9000, the computer program running the ship, becomes fearful and even hateful of humans once he discovers that the astronauts on board plan to shut him down. He attempts to eradicate them, but to no avail. A.I.s such as this one are being developed…

books have been published by various authors on their speculations as to the meaning of the symbolism contained in Stanley Kubrick’s recondite, enigmatic, philosophical, science fiction epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. Most obviously from the title, much of the symbolism is derived from Homer’s The Illiad and The Odyssey. Other authors theorize that the film is an allegory to Arthur Clarke’s (novelist of the literary version of the film and co-writer of the script) theory that man and machine will…

adult who teaches them how to ask nicely. Several grown adults will throw a punch the first moment they can when they are intoxicated. Looking at the film “2001- A Space Odyssey”, when the two tribes of monkeys are at the watering hole, they resort to violence to settle who wins the space. There is no asking nicely or calmly sharing the space, the only way to settle something such as this in their minds is to fight for it. The movie proves that diplomacy is not something humans are born with,…

Visions of space, time, and technological progress Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey relies on simple editing and sound to create an epic story of space, time, and technological progress. Kubrick sets the film in three different places: the African desert, inside a space station in orbit, and in space itself. When Dr. Heywood Floyd reaches the outpost station on the moon, Kubrick uses a wide angle lens to exploit the distortion of the lines. Such distortions make the station appear…

costumes, make-up and actors and their behavior. In a clip from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, mise-en-scene is used heavily to convey the major elements of the two sequences without the use of dialogue. The first sequence is of a space ship moving through outer space, heading towards Jupiter. It is immediately easy to notice how the spaceship stands out against the darkness of space. All sides of the space ship become visible as it moves out towards Jupiter.…

Movies of the 60’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubick) To me, the film raised more questions than it answered. Roughly it shows humans have conquered the outer space. On the moon, a monolith is mined whose origin and material are unknown, this monolith sends a signal to Jupiter. The space ship Discovery is sent to advance to the destination of the signals. Two of the team are awake, the rest of the team is sleeping. The board computer HAL 9000 is becoming more and more of a threat. For me…

The Stanley Kubrick Theory is a theory involving Stanley Kubrick approached by the United States government years before the moon landing mission to hoax the moon landing and his film 2001: A Space Odyssey was a practice run for him (Foxx). Another route to the theory engages Stanley Kubrick as he approached by the United States government after his making of the film to hoax the event of the 60 's considering the accuracy and quality of the…

Great combination. It’s also why when I consume any form of fiction I obsess over the physical possibility of the situation. Did you know that the spaceship in “2001 a Space Odyssey” isn’t spinning fast enough to produce artificial gravity equivalent to that of the earth? Or that over the course of the 1996 Justice League of America comics Batman would have dislocated his shoulder forty three times while using his grapple…

In Arthur C. Clarke’s space epic , 2001: A Space Odyssey, two men are on a spaceship alone with an advanced AI computer HAL 9000 who maintains the ship's stability and mental health and well-being of the crew. HAL being a computer he couldn’t be completely trusted and caused him to lie about a mechanical failure and killed the crew. Dave, the main crew member, knew that “ I am so much more capable than you are of supervising the ship”(187) than HAL after he said that he would control the ship.…