#2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY SCENES MOVIE#
#2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY SCENES PLUS#

Floyd tells the viewer what the purpose of the mission is, revealing that no one on board had any idea of why they were traveling out to Jupiter. We will see Heywood one more time, right when Dave finally eliminates HAL and we hear HAL sing 'A Bicycle Built for Two'. Then the monolith screams, and we cut to Discover One, en route to Jupiter. In an organization, a lot of your time is spend assuring your superiors they deserve their positions, and the rest is spent clarifying to your subordinates that they certainly deserve theirs.įloyd then goes to the site of the excavated monolith, where he touches it, an oddly humanizing gesture, showing the man beneath the functionary. Maybe what boosted morale was the fact that no one was actually detained for interrogation.

HALVORSEN: I'm sure it beefed up morale a hell of lot.įloyd told a crew if high-level professionals they couldn't tell anyone the truth about what was going on, and then ordered them to sign loyalty oaths. HALVORSEN: You know that was an excellent speech you gave us, Heywood. Here we have as blandly corporate a piece of toadying as I have ever had the bad luck to live through: Then Floyd takes another spaceship to the terrible discovery, along with a subordinate named Halvorsen and a guy who hands out sandwiches. After all, the airlocks all have breathable air on only one side, if you catch my drift.

But here he just stands behind a podium and tells everyone they need to sign security oaths, penalty for not doing so unstated but obviously pretty bad. He has killed men with his bare hands, we just know it.

#2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY SCENES MOVIE#

In general, the movie alternates vividly realized scenes of space travel with mundane, even boring sequences of people being people in a technological civilization, Unlike the terrified ape men of the opening sequence, they doze off, eat at Howard Johnson's, get tans, and lie blandly to their fellow evolved apes: the ultimate goal of our striving. We then see a sequence of the technological sublime, as Floyd flies from the space station to the surface of the Moon-where he goes to a conference room to give a briefing. It has no real characters, a plot whose main motive force comes late in the movie from a piece of malfunctioning industrial equipment crossed with a bad employee ('Open the pod bay doors, Hal.this is going on your performance review'), and ends in a strange sequence that telescopes a man's life into a few minutes of accelerated senescence. After all, you're just sitting in a darkened room, eating popcorn and staring at it. Unlike pretty much ever other science fiction movie, it doesn't seek to meet your expectations, charm you, or to make you feel good about yourself. What's wonderful about it is how unconciliating it is.

#2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY SCENES PLUS#

Plus the theater still has a curtain, which remained closed until the famous Also Sprach Zarathustra. At the Somerville the speakers are huge, and you felt it in your chest. I'd forgotten it started with an actual overture, Atmospheres, by Ligeti. A couple of weeks ago, I took my son to see the restored 2001: A Space Odyssey in 70 mm at the Somerville Theater.

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