(9/13) 2001: A Space Odyssey - NOTES

  • director originally worked on satellites but then used his imagination in sci-fi
  • reference to Clock Work Orange 
  • long black screen with only creepy music (like an opera)
  • MGM lion but only icon not moving 
  • starts with, "most famous sound track ever made"
  • empty desert scene 
  • animal and human bones visible on the surface 
  • ant eaters and monkeys coexisting but fighting over resources 
  • monkey heard meets another monkey heard and goes crazy (scares other heard off)
  • monkeys hide during the night 
  • monkeys wake up to find monolith emitting ominous angelic bumble bee music 
  • cuts to silence of the surroundings 
  • monkey makes hammer using animal bones 
  • monkeys with bone bats are standing on two feet and the other monkeys are not 
  • evolved monkeys kill one of the not involved as example
  • bone transfers to space ship 
  • "Blue Danube" by Strause 
  • Pan American flight trying to land on satellite  
  • voie recognition 
  • "Hilton" hotel 
  • Picture Phone 
  • American speaks to Russians 
  • two groups of monkeys and two groups of humans 
  • long instructions for zero gravity toilet 
  • headed to the moon 
  • Ligetti (experimental vocal work; 20 people on stage all doing different vocals)
  • buried 4 million years ago but not sure what it is 
  • Space 1999 influenced the design of the lunar space ships 
  • put away to never find it or only find it if you had the advanced technology?
  • "same 6 little monkeys"
  • Jupiter 18 months later 
  • hibernation chambers 
  • HAL 9000 computer, "conscious" = reference to IBM
  • talks with HAL but is interrupted by something wrong with the space ship that they have to fix within 72 hours 
  • inside the helmet with the actor because of the breathing sound 
  • 1:18:10
END OF CLASS (9/13)
  • IBM on his arm computer 
  • screen inside helmet lets him see through material 
  • let it fail and see what the problem is -HAL
  • says it's due to, "human error"
  • speak secretly in an escape pod 
  • HAL is reading their lips 
  • HAL kills yellow ranger 
  • computer malfunction and kills people in sleep chambers 
  • HAL thinks the human will jeopardize the mission = cuts communication 
  • "I am afraid Dave"
  • Sings, "Daisy"
  • prerecorded message plays 
  • long techno aurora light display 
  • emerges old and in fancy/futuristic traditional room 
  • old man eating in his room 
  • old man checks on noise in the bathroom 
  • up to poetic interpretation 
  • old version sees even older version in bed 
  • movie starts with dawn of man and ends with dusk of man 
  • old man sees monolith in his room 
  • infant in glowing halo 
  • giant fetus floating above earth 
  • ends with fetus staring at audience 

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