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2001: A Space Odyssey
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last updated December 17th, 2004 and is permanently morphing...
(3 Ix (Jaguar) / 17 Mac - 94/260 - 12.19.11.15.14)
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HAL 9000
- (HAL = one step ahead of IBM) *unintentional
- film _Sleeper_
(vhs/ntsc)
(1973) directed by Woody Allen, - Douglas Rain is the voice of the evil
computer. Rain provided the voice of HAL in _2001: A Space Odyssey_
DVD
(1968) and _2010_ (vhs/ntsc)(1984).
- predicted accurately the surface conditions of the moon
before the Eagle landed.
- the monolith dimensions:
1x4x9
- ambient
track _One By Four By Nine_ MP3 (192k)
by Bad Data off of _E:MIT 5595_ CD on E:MT (1995)
- "my god...it's full of stars..."
- David Bowman from _2010: The Year We Make Contact_
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John Lennon once said that _2001_ should be shown
every day in a cathedral.
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_2001_ in one minute using legos (quicktime)
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Tom Hanks named his production company Clavius Base
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video footage (vhs/ntsc)
of Roger Ebert on 2001: A Space Odyssey - his favorite moviegoing experience
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Monolith
- TMA-1 = Tycho Magnetic Anomaly
1, located on Tycho,
Clavius, Moon
- the Academy Of Motion Pictures
did not nominate this film for best makeup and constume because they assumed
the apes in the film were real (they weren't). instead, they awarded
it to _Planet Of The Apes_ (vhs/ntsc)
released the same year (1968).
- It is rumored that the image
of the star-child came to Stanley Kubrick from the "Spirit of the Earth" in
Shelley's _Prometheus
Unbound_: "Within the orb
itself, Pillowed upon its alabaster arms, Like to a child o'erwearied with
sweet toil, On its own folded wings and wavy hair The Spirit of the Earth
is laid asleep..."
- 604
track _Starchild_ by Prana off of _Cyclone_ CD
on Matsuri
Productions (1996)
- funk track _Mothership Connection (Star Child)_ MP3
by Stanley Clarke off of _The Bass-ic Collection_ (1997)
- Kubrick planned to have Alex
North (who wrote the score for Kubrick's _Spartacus_ (1960) write a musical
score especially for the film. During filming, Kubrick played classical music
on the set to create the right mood. Delighted with the effect, he decided
to use classical music in the finished product. North's score has subsequently
been released as "_Alex North's 2001_
- Kubrick had several tons of
sand imported, washed, and painted for the moon
surface scenes.
- The chess
position and moves that we see are from a game played in 1913 in Hamburg between
two undistinguished players named Roesch and Schlage.
- sample: "would you like to
play a game of chess?" by HAL on track _Suasive Chess Strategy_ MP3 (192k)
by Venetian Snares off of _Shiver In Eternal Darkness_
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According to Douglas
Trumbull, the total footage shot was some 200 times the final length
of the film.
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Clarke once said: "If you understand
2001 completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than
we answered."
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According to Isaac
Asimov, Stanley Kubrick wanted to get an insurance policy from Lloyd's
of London to protect himself against losses in the event that extraterrestrial
intelligence were discovered before the movie was released. Lloyd's wouldn't
insure him.
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The song _Echoes_ MP3
from the album _Meddle_ by Pink
Floyd can be perfectly synchronized to the _Jupiter
And Beyond The Infinite_
sequence. The song runs the precise length of the sequence and was deliberately timed
and arranged to follow the events occurring in this portion of the film.
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film _A Clockwork Orange_ also
directed by Stanley Kubrick - soundtrack to _2001_ highly
visible in record store.
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By the year 2001, some of the
product placements had become outdated. RCA Whirlpool, the maker
of the zero gravity
food preparation unit on the moon shuttle, had become Whirlpool. The Bell
System had been divested and the long distance service became AT&T.
Pan Am had ceased operations as an international air carrier.
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The name David Bowman may be
the an homage to Homer’s epic poem _The Odyssey_,
whose hero Odysseus, was an expert archer
(bow-man).
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Richard Strauss’ music was based
on Friedrich
Nietzsche’s book _Also Sprach Zarathustra_, which concerned the teachings
of the Persian prophet Zoroaster and included the idea that someday man
would evolve
into a "superman" or higher
being. This theme is also central to 2001, making the choice of music
extremely appropriate.
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- film _Saturday Night Fever_
(vhs/ntsc)(1977)
- the disco where all the dancing takes place is called "2001 Odyssey"
- _2010: The Year We Make Contact_ -
the scene in the hospital, a receptionist is reading _Time_
Magazine. on the cover it says "war?" referring to the cold war
era depiction of the u.s. vs. soviets. the Russian Premier rendering is that
of Stanley Kubrick and the US President is a drawing of Arthur C. Clarke
- also in _2010_, a young soviet officer
is played by Natasha Schneider. in the nineties she went on to form a band
called Eleven, which is a hard rock grunge band with some connection to members
of Pearl Jam & Soundgarden
- film _Star
Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace_ (vhs/ntsc)
- A pod from the Discovery can be seen behind Qui-Gon in Watto's junkyard.
film _2001: A Space Odyssey_ DVD
directed by Stanley
Kubrick
based on the short story by Arthur
C. Clarke - _The Sentinel_
"And now, out among the stars, evolution
was driving toward new goals. [They had] long since come to the limits
of flesh and blood; as soon as their machines were better than their bodies,
it was time
to move. First their brains, and then their thoughts alone, they transferred
into shining
new homes of metal and plastic.
"In these they roamed
the stars. They no longer built spaceships. They were spaceships.
"But the age of the Machine-entities
swiftly passed. In their ceaseless experimenting, they had learned
to store knowledge in the structure of space itself, and to preserve their
thoughts for eternity in frozen lattices of light.
They could become creatures of radiation, free at last from the tyranny
of matter.
"Into pure energy, therefore, they
presently transformed themselves, beyond the reach of time...They could rove
at will among the stars, and sink like a subtle mist through the very interstices
of space."
"I tried to create a visual experience, one that bypasses
verbalized pigeonholing and directly penetrates the subconscious with
an emotional and philosophical content...I intended
the film to be an intensely
subjective
experience that reaches the viewer at an inner level of consciousness, just
as music does...You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical
and allegorical meaning of the film." - Stanley Kubrick
"Roger Waters (bassist for Pink
Floyd), yet to balk at the sci-fi
association, went so far as to say his 'greatest regret' was that they
didn't do the score for 2001: A Space Odyssey -- parts of which, particularly
in the long, mind-blowing hallucinatory
sequence near the end, nonetheless sound remarkably Floydian..."
-- (_Saucerful Of Secrets_,
by Nicholas Schaffner, pg. 142)
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_Dawn Of Man_
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604 track _Dawn Of Man_ MP3 (192k)
by Masa off of _Sacred Sites_ compilation on Return
To The Source
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Directed by
Stanley
Kubrick
Writing credits
Arthur
C. Clarke
(story ...)
Stanley Kubrick
Tagline: The Ultimate Trip.
Plot Outline: Mankind finds a mysterious, obviously
artificial, artifact buried on the moon
and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest.
Full Cast and Crew for
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Directed by
Stanley Kubrick
Writing credits
Arthur C. Clarke
(story The Sentinel)
Stanley Kubrick
Arthur C. Clarke
Cast verified as complete
Keir Dullea ....David
Bowman
Gary Lockwood ....Frank
Poole
William Sylvester ....Heywood
Floyd
Daniel Richter ....Moonwatcher
Leonard Rossiter ....Smyslov
Margaret Tyzack ....Elena
Robert Beatty ....Halvorsen
Sean Sullivan ....Michaels
Douglas Rain ....HAL
9000 (voice)
Frank Miller ....Mission
Controller
Bill Weston
Ed Bishop ....Lunar
shuttle captain
Glenn Beck
Alan Gifford ....Poole's
Father
Ann Gillis (I)
Edwina Carroll ....Stewardess
Penny Brahms ....Stewardess
Heather
Downham
Mike Lovell
John Ashley
Jimmy Bell
David Charkham
Simon Davis
Jonathan Daw
Péter Delmár
Terry Duggan
David Fleetwood
Danny Grover
Brian Hawley
David Hines
Tony Jackson
John Jordan
Scott MacKee
Laurence Marchant
Darryl Paes
Joe Refalo
Andy Wallace
Bob Wilyman
Richard Wood
rest of cast listed alphabetically
Vivian Kubrick ....Squirt
(uncredited)
Produced by
Stanley Kubrick
Music by
Aram Khachaturyan
(from "Ballet Suite Gayane")
György Ligeti
(from "Atmospheres")
Richard Strauss
(from "Also sprach Zarathustra")
Johann Strauß
(from "Blue Danube Waltz")
Cinematography by
John Alcott
(additional photography)
Geoffrey Unsworth
Costume Design by
Hardy Amies
Production Design by
Ernest Archer
Harry Lange
Anthony Masters
Film Editing by
Ray Lovejoy
Other crew
H.L. Bird ....sound
mixer
Colin Cantwell ....special
photographic effects unit
Derek Cracknell ....first
assistant director
David De Wilde ....editorial
assistant
Stuart Freeborn ....make-up
artist
John Hoesli ....art
director
Tom Howard (IV) ....special
photographic effects supervisor
Stanley Kubrick ....special
photographic effects designer and director
Bryan Loftus ....special
photographic effects unit
Bruce Logan ....special
photographic effects unit
John Jack Malick ....special
photographic effects unit
Frederick Martin ....special
photographic effects unit
Frederick I. Ordway III ....technical
advisor
David Osborne ....special
photographic effects unit
Con Pederson ....special
photographic effects supervisor
special visual effects supervisor
Kelvin Pike ....camera
operator
Winston Ryder ....sound
editor
J.B. Smith ....chief dubbing
mixer
Douglas
Trumbull.... special photographic effects
supervisor
Wally Veevers ....special
photographic effects supervisor
A.W. Watkins ....sound
supervisor
Also Known As:
Journey Beyond the Stars (1967) (USA: working
title)
Runtime: Germany:133 / Sweden:149 / 139 (final
cut) / 156 (premiere cut)
Country: UK / USA
Language:
English
Color: Color
Sound Mix: 70mm 6-Track (70mm prints)
Certification: UK:U / USA:G / Germany:12 / Norway:11 /
Portugal:M/12 / Sweden:11
Djinn
chairs designed by Olivier Mourgue, 1964-65. Can be seen in the space station
interior in the film _2001: A Space Odyssey_
. Made of a steel frame covered with nylon stretch jersey fabric over rubber
and foam. Manufactured by Airborne in France.
Q: this is the question about the "great attractor"
that you mentioned... did you ever see that movie 2001?
TM: ah, a couple of times [laughter from the audience]
Q: could the great attractor be symbolized in that
movie by the monolith?
TM: yeah, absolutely... that's the myth of what i'm
saying... if instead of having those monkeys jumping around in front of a slab
of linoleum, they had had them cavorting in the presence of the mushroom, then
you would pretty much have my theory in a nutshell... [laughter/applause]
Stanley
Kubrick uses alchemical
allegories through out the film _2001: A Space Odyssey_
DVD
(1968). The obvious analogies are the celestial alignments that proceed each
of the alchemical transmutations in the film. The second main allegory is that
it is a black stone that initiates these transmutations. Again this mirrors
the alchemical lore about the black stone causing the transmutation of the alchemist.
Finally we get to Kubrick's ultimate trick.
He proves that he knows exactly what he is doing with this trick. His secret
is in plain sight. First one must remember that everytime the monolith,
the magical
stone, appears in the film there is a strange beautiful celestial alignment
occurring. And one must remember that every celestial alignment in the film
is followed by a monolith, that is, except for one. That would be the lunar
eclipse that occurs at the very beginning of the film. So the question arises
- if we are to stay within the rules that are prescribed in the rest of the
film - where is the monolith that is supposed to follow that first alignment?
The monolith itself doesn't show up in the film for ten more minutes after that
first celestial alignment, so what gives here? Is Kubrick just showing off his
incredible special effects? Is it just there to impress
the viewer from the beginning? These things may very well also be true,
but the ultimate trick of Kubrick's is embedded in the idea that the monolith
must appear after every one of these magical alignments. Once again, the secret
of the film is completely revealed from the beginning. There is a monolith that
appears right after the opening sequence with the magical, lunar eclipse. But
where is it? It is right in front of the viewer's eyes! The film is the monolith.
In a secret that seems to never have been seen by anyone - the monolith in the
film has the same exact dimensions as the Cinerama movie screen on which 2001
was projected in 1968. This can only be seen if one sees the film in it's wide-screen
format. Completely hidden, from critic and fan alike, is the fact that Kubrick
consciously designed his film to be the monolith, the stone that transforms.
Like the monolith, the film projects images into our heads that make us consider
wider possibilities and ideas. Like the monolith, the film ultimately presents
an initiation, not just of the actor on the screen, but also of the audience
viewing the film. That is Kubrick's ultimate trick. He slyly shows here that
he knows what he is doing at every step in the process.
The monolith and the movie are the same thing.
- _Alchemical Kubrick -
2001: The Great Work On Film_ by Jay Weidner
- 604
release _Ukajin_ by Something Wonderful on Matsuri
Productions (1999)
- probably taken from David Bowman's line in _2010:
The Year We Make Contact_
(vhs/ntsc)
- Floyd: "what's going to happen?" Bowman: "something wonderful..."
- 604 release _Angel Ice/Lunar Attraction_ 12"
by Asia 2001 on Koyote (1996)
- 604 track _Full
Moon Project_ MP3 (192k)
by Asia 2001
- 604 track _High Energy Protons_ MP3
by Juno
Reactor off of _Transmissions_ on Nova Mute
- sample: "Everything is going extremely
well..." from _2001: A Space Odyssey_
- 604 track _3001_ MP3 (vK)
by Sugardaddy off of _Free As_ CD
on Edgecore
- uses the melody from _Thus Sprach Zarathustra_
- 604 track _Reboot_ by Kopfuss Resonator
- sample: "It can only be attributed to human
error." - HAL 9000
- 604 track _2001_ by Eupsychia off of _Stereopoly_
compilation 12"x3
on Hadshot
(1997)
- 604 track _2001_ MP3 (192k)
by S-Range
- sample:"Personally, I am convinced that there
are many many higher civilizations in this enormous and incredibly ancient
universe of ours." - _Arthur
C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe_ episode
- 604 track _Stratofierce 2001_ by Kox
Box off of _Dragon
Tales_ 12"x2
on Blue
Room Released
- track _2001 Spliff Odyssey_ MP3
by Thievery Corporation off of _Sounds From The Thievery Hi-Fi_
- underground hip hop track _Evolution Of Man (Intro)_
MP3 (192k)
by Binary Star off of _Masters Of Universe_ on Subterraenous (2000)
- _Evolution
Of Man_ MP3 (160k)
- possible inintentional reference to the storyline
of _2001: A Space Odyssey_
& _2010: The Year We Make Contact_
both written by Arthur C. Clarke (solar system becomes part of binary
star system when Jupiter ignites into a sun
triggered
by the evolution of man)
- track _Murder_ MP3
by New Order off of _Substance_ (1987)
- sample: "I'm afraid" ; "my mind is going...
there is no question about it" - HAL
- track _Monolith_
by Delerium off of _Spheres_
- samples from the film _2001: A Space Odyssey_
DVD:
- "This is a pre-recorded briefing, made prior
to your departure. For security reasons of the highest importance, it has
been known on-board during the mission only by your H A L 9000 computer.
Now that you are in Jupiter
space, and the entire crew is revived it can be told."
@ 0:23
- "My mind is going." @ 0:58
- "We are reviewing, ah, telemetric information
in our mission simulator and will advise. Roger. You are planned to go EVA
and replace Alpha-Echo 35 unit prior to failure." @
2:30
- "The first evidence of intelligent life off the
earth was discovered. It was buried 40 feet below the surface." @ 4:09
- [alarm] @ 6:39
- 604 track _Bad News (New Way)_ MP3
by Sandman off of _Witchcraft_ 12"x3
on Matsuri Productions (1998)
- sample: "my mind is going... i can feel it..."
- HAL 9000 in the film _2001:
A Space Odyssey_ DVD
(1968)
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- space rock track _Unexplained Transmission Repair_
MP3
by Fuxa off of _Very Well Organized_ on Mind Expansion (1996)
- track _Shockwave_ MP3
by Delerium off of _Spheres II_
- "The 9000 series is the most reliable computer
ever made." @ 0:31
- "We are, by any practical definition of
the words, foolproof and incapable of error." @ 0:46
- techno track _The Final Frontnose (Tinrib Mix)_ MP3
(192k)
by The Captain vs. The Weirdo
- uses the melody line from _Thus Sprach Zarathustra_
- track _Claustrophobic Sting_ by The Prodigy
- sample: "My mind is going" ("My mind is glowing")
- track _Hypoxia_ by Delerium off of _Spheres II_
- "X-ray delta
one, this is mission control: roger you're two zero
one three." @
1:28
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- minimal techno track _Space Odyssey_
MP3
by Michael Burkat off of _Inconstant Places_ 12"x2 on Fine Audio
- tech-house track _2001 Jack
(mixed)_ MP3
by Trevor Rockcliffe off of _Jack Ya'self EP_ on Mentor (2001)
- track _Welcome To Voice Print Identification_ MP3
(192k)
by Pete Namlook & DJ Criss off of _Deltatraxx_ CD on FAX (1993)
- title of track sampled and in reference to Heywood
Floyd entering the Space Station
- release _From Bone To Satellite_
by Tarentel on Temporary (1999)
- title of release refers
to the most famous editing sequence in motion picture history
- _Steede Bonnet_
- _When We Almost Killed Ourselves_
- _Ursa Minor, Ursa Major_
- _For Carl
Sagan_ MP3
- _Strange
Attractions_ MP3 (256k)
- track _2001 Beats_ MP3
by Luke Vibert off of _Big Soup_ promo cassette
on Mo Wax/FFRR
- ethnic classical fusion
release _2001_ 12" by Ananda Shankar & His Orchestra on Gramophone
Of India (1984)
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