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EARLY ACCESS: 2001: A Space Odyssey

🕑 Added 2023-01-19 15:28:58 +0000 UTC

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James Falato

Ashleigh... You nailed it!!! And the movie intentionally shows us how unsettling the SCILENCE is in SPACE...

Richard Sheets

This isn’t my favorite Kubrick movie. That would be Dr Strangelove. But for 1968 the special effects are Outstanding!

Curtis Martin

I'm gonna beg you as well - Bringing Up Baby. Ashleigh will love it.

Michael Tocci

This and Singin' are the oldest ones I have for a bit... but yes, more oldies again!

Michael Tocci

It's one of my faves!

Meredith Shivers

Tochi, Thank you so much for doing the old classics; please, please do more of them pre-dating 1970. There should be more interactions of stars like Humphrey Bogart, Gene Tierney, Errol Flynn, and Angela Lansbury (a belated tribute).

Meredith Shivers

Tochi,

Meredith Shivers

Tochi,

Thomas Ivie

Thank you Tocci for recommending a classic movie!

MechaGai

Trust in me when I say I thought it was an intentional bit.

Dave Atcha

By the 3rd time that happened in the 'talk about it', I was sure I was hallucinatin'!

Michael Parker

So, I don't really 'geek out' about everything but when Kubrick films crash into my music composition degree I just can't help myself! So, here goes: First a few things to know: Music: There was an original score for this film that was written by composer Alex North (the same composer who worked with Kubric on his previous film “Sparticus”, but North had a bit of a breakdown trying to figure out what he wanted to do for the film (but the score was finally finished and can now be heard to re releases online) so Kubrick told his 19 year old assistant just before a big meeting with the big MGM brass to go out into LA and buy all the classical albums he could find and the first time MGM execs saw the film was with basically random classical tracks. It wasn’t until the editing process (and thanks to his wife and another friend) he discovered the music of: György Ligeti (the composer of the ‘creepy’ music both the ‘scary’ singers (Lux Aeterna, and Requiem for Soprano, two Mixed Choruses, and Orchestra) and his ‘Atmospheres’ for String Orchestra) that Kubric felt he had found the ‘voice’ of his film. The center sequence or ACT II of the film uses the ‘Blue Danube Waltz’ by Johann Struass Jr. to be evocative of the ‘dance/waltz’ that the ships in space must do to join and create gravity etc.. Mix that along with the most iconic brass call in all of film, that of the opening planet sequence of Richard Strauss’ ‘Also Sprach Zarathustra’ (or in English ‘Thus Spoke God’ (which is also the title of a book by the philosopher Nietzsche, more on that…now!) Mixing of Philosophy, Science Fiction, and Music: The Music of Struass’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra’ takes it name (and its composition form) from the book of the same title as the book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, for Richard Strauss that ‘brass call’ you hear at the start of the film (and the musical work itself) is the ‘God Theme’ or the sound of God speaking. Now, the work itself mirrors the outline of the book which states that there are three forces at work in the universe at all times: Nature, Man, and God. Each, in turn, takes turns destroying the other. At the start, its a story of a being named ‘Zarathustra’ who goes through a series of events leading to the reasonable basic outline: Nature creates Man, Man creates God, Man destroys Nature, Man becomes God. Now, both Struass was the first and best loved composer of the Third Reich in Germany and his idea of the ‘Superman’ or ‘Man-God’ was exactly what they were looking for and in even the themes from his musical work ‘Death and Transfiguration’ the ‘love theme’ he creates goes on to be ‘ripped off’ by John Williams for his ‘Love Theme - If You Could Read My Mind’ from the soundtrack to the film ‘Superman’ from 1978. So in short, all this music was practically, perfectly, selected for the film Kubrick created about the philosophy of the nature of man, our relationship to nature, evolution, science fiction, the nature of the universe, both inner conscience as well as the expansive universal conscience and the forces that act and react upon it. In short, simply a brilliant film.

Lynette Cummins

Now we need to see 2010 on a sequels poll. 🚀

MechaGai

Hey, just letting you know that your review near the end gets muted every time the subscribe overlay came up, and it came up a LOT. Otherwise, stellar review.

Ashleigh Burton

THANK YOU everyone who reached out about the review audio being cut out. I am currently re-exporting the video and have it re-uploaded. I will share again. Thank you so much for catching this. couldn't do this without you!

Richard Meyer

I was 14 when I saw this in 1968. Even though I didn’t get it at first, I was in awe. Now it’s time to watch the other big hit of 68, “Planet of the Apes”! (You didn’t say “It’s Beans” at the beginning. So disappointed!)