Part of what makes 2001 so intriguing is the chance to see 1968’s vision of futuristic space travel. Recommended and written by Inverse readers. The ASAP Awards is a celebration of the best sci-fi movies streaming right now. They collaborated on the film's screenplay and Clarke also expanded the story into a novel, which was published after the film's release. Clarke in 1964 with a view to developing Clarke's short story “The Sentinel” into what would become 2001: A Space Odyssey. Strangelove, contacted science fiction writer Arthur C. There is, however, an undoubtedly alien presence: A precision-engineered black monolith of indeterminate material.ĭirector Stanley Kubrick, who had recently completed his Cold War satire, Dr. This represents a remarkable achievement considering the film has sparse dialogue, no big box office stars, and certainly no scary aliens in the conventional sense - no belly busters, facesuckers, or spindly limbed eggheads. As yet, these pretenders and would-be usurpers have yet to produce a legitimate heir apparent, despite many worthwhile efforts. It's oddly a very simple answer for a film whose meaning has been debated for a half a century.In the 50+ years since my all-time favorite sci-fi movie was released, there have been numerous attempts to take its crown. It is the pattern of a great deal of mythology, and that is what we were trying to suggest. We have to only guess what happens when he goes back. Anyway, when they get finished with him, as happens in so many myths of all cultures in the world, he is transformed into some kind of super being and sent back to Earth, transformed and made into some sort of superman. Just as we’re not quite sure what do in zoos with animals to try to give them what we think is their natural environment. They choose this room, which is a very inaccurate replica of French architecture (deliberately so, inaccurate) because one was suggesting that they had some idea of something that he might think was pretty, but wasn’t quite sure. It just seems to happen as it does in the film. They put him in what I suppose you could describe as a human zoo to study him, and his whole life passes from that point on in that room. The idea was supposed to be that he is taken in by god-like entities, creatures of pure energy and intelligence with no shape or form. When you just say the ideas they sound foolish, whereas if they’re dramatized one feels it, but I’ll try. While we don't see Kubrick in the footage, we do hear all of an hour-plus phone interview between Yaio and Kubrick, during which the filmmaker offers his explanation of 2001: I’ve tried to avoid doing this ever since the picture came out. The documentary was never released, but footage was sold on eBay in 2016 and conveniently appeared online this week timed with the movie's 50th anniversary. It comes from a Japanese paranormal documentary from TV personality Jun'ichi Yaio made during the filming of The Shining. Stanley Kubrick himself was always hesitant to offer an explanation of the ending, once telling Playboy, "You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film-and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level-but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point."īut, in a bizarre video, which has appeared on Reddit this week, the director seems to provide a very simple and clear explanation of the 2001: A Space Odyssey ending. There are a number of interpretations about this ending, which include theories about rebirth and human transcendence. David Bowman gets sucked into a Star Gate, trapped in a neoclassical French room then turned into a fetus known as the Star Child. Yet, still, people find themselves wondering exactly what happened at the end of the movie, where Dr. Now, 2001 is regarded not just as a sci-fi masterpiece, but as one of the greatest films of all time. In fact, 250 critics walked out of the New York premiere, literally asking aloud, "What is this bullshit?" When it was originally released in 1968, audiences didn't really know what the hell to think of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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