I love it too, one of my favourites of any genre; I was lucky enough to get to see it in the cinema during a Kubrick season a few years ago. I love that so many people hate it too, it makes me love it more... it transcends cinema and qualifies as high art for me.Kmarion wrote:
<3 2001 A Space Odyssey. . I just watched it again last week.
If Earth had a 'National' anthem 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' would have to be it.Kmarion wrote:
They need to play the theme music to 2001 A Space Odyssey at his funeral.
Did they mention if Hal would be attending?
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I don't think most people realize how ground breaking that movie was. We have become complacent in our world of CGI, gut wrenching, high def cinema. It was 1968! Exploring topics like Human evolution and opposable thumbs was nearly blasphemy back then (Even Star trek veered away from that line). He was a talented and ambitious pioneer.Braddock wrote:
I love it too, one of my favourites of any genre; I was lucky enough to get to see it in the cinema during a Kubrick season a few years ago. I love that so many people hate it too, it makes me love it more... it transcends cinema and qualifies as high art for me.Kmarion wrote:
<3 2001 A Space Odyssey. . I just watched in again last week.
Also Sprach Zarathrusta isKmarion wrote:
They need to play the theme music to 2001 A Space Odyssey at his funeral.
Did they mention if Hal would be attending?
Wow. Nevermind he happened to write the book too.Braddock wrote:
The mind behind one of the greatest science fiction films in cinema history, 2001 A Space Odyssey, rest in peace Arthur.
Greatest work ever by Ricard Strauss. Also Sprach Zarathustra.Kmarion wrote:
They need to play the theme music to 2001 A Space Odyssey at his funeral.
Did they mention if Hal would be attending?
Kmarion wrote:
They need to play the theme music to 2001 A Space Odyssey at his funeral.
Did they mention if Hal would be attending?
yea good movieKmarion wrote:
<3 2001 A Space Odyssey. . I just watched it again last week.
Read the book. It's not as ambiguous. It will hold your attention.LaidBackNinja wrote:
I actually hated that film. HAL was cool, but so much of the film was just outright boring. Now, don't think I'm some sort of action-addicted ADD junkie, I can watch slow films and read long books, no problem. But 2001 was just... too much. Especially the ten-minute ending scene of landscapes flying by in all sorts of stupid color filters made me hate the film beyond redemption. "Rebirth" my ass.
Anyway, utmost respect for Arthur C. Clarke regardless. Rest in Peace, good man.
... A central theme of his fiction was the “spiritual” rebirth and the search for man’s place in the universe but he has also been credited with predicting and contributing to technological advances in his writing.
The son of a farmer from Minehead, Somerset, his achievements were rewarded with a knighthood in 1998, formally conferred by Prince Charles in his adopted home in Colombo two years later. …
He was credited with the concept of communications satellites in 1945, decades before they became a reality. Geosynchronous orbits, which keep satellites in a fixed position relative to the ground, are called Clarke orbits.
Clarke and Stanley Kubrick almost completely redefined the science-fiction experience with their groundbreaking and ultimately puzzling 2001. This was much more true of the film than of the nove, written at the same time as the screenplay. Clarke tried to strike lightning twice with a sequel in the mid-1980s, 2010, but despite a high-powered cast, it fared much less well in critical terms.
But by that time, Clarke’s genius had already been established. The computer sequences in 2001 entered the global consciousness immediately and remained there. Even people unfamiliar with the film understand references to HAL and the potential for danger in artificial intelligence. The scene where Keir Dullea disables HAL while the computer begs for its life, eventually reduced to singing Daisy Bell, remains one of the most honestly chilling scenes in science fiction.
Clarke long ago achieved immortality in his life’s work. Now he explores the mysteries on which he so captivatingly conjectured in his writing. Godspeed, Mr. Clarke.
Life mimics art.Kmarion wrote:
This was well put.... A central theme of his fiction was the “spiritual” rebirth and the search for man’s place in the universe but he has also been credited with predicting and contributing to technological advances in his writing.
The son of a farmer from Minehead, Somerset, his achievements were rewarded with a knighthood in 1998, formally conferred by Prince Charles in his adopted home in Colombo two years later. …
He was credited with the concept of communications satellites in 1945, decades before they became a reality. Geosynchronous orbits, which keep satellites in a fixed position relative to the ground, are called Clarke orbits.Clarke and Stanley Kubrick almost completely redefined the science-fiction experience with their groundbreaking and ultimately puzzling 2001. This was much more true of the film than of the nove, written at the same time as the screenplay. Clarke tried to strike lightning twice with a sequel in the mid-1980s, 2010, but despite a high-powered cast, it fared much less well in critical terms.
But by that time, Clarke’s genius had already been established. The computer sequences in 2001 entered the global consciousness immediately and remained there. Even people unfamiliar with the film understand references to HAL and the potential for danger in artificial intelligence. The scene where Keir Dullea disables HAL while the computer begs for its life, eventually reduced to singing Daisy Bell, remains one of the most honestly chilling scenes in science fiction.
Clarke long ago achieved immortality in his life’s work. Now he explores the mysteries on which he so captivatingly conjectured in his writing. Godspeed, Mr. Clarke.
Art mimics life...could it be any other way?ATG wrote:
Life mimics art.