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Title: 2001 - A Space Odyssey
Post by Sprintcyclist on Sep 26^th, 2015 at 10:16pm

For me, this is The Movie

Title: Re: 2001 - A Space Odyssey
Post by Sprintcyclist on Sep 26^th, 2015 at 10:31pm

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.................. Why is there so little dialogue?

KUBRICK: It's not a message I ever intended to convey in words.
2001 is a nonverbal experience; out of two hours and 19 minutes of film, there are only a little less than 40 minutes of dialogue.
I tried to create a visual experience, one that bypasses verbalized pigeonholing and directly penetrates the subconscious with an emotional and philosophic content.
To convolute McLuhan, in 2001 the message is the medium.
I intended the film to be an intensely subjective experience that reaches the viewer at an inner level of consciousness, just as music does; to explain a Beethoven symphony would be to emasculate it by erecting an artificial barrier between conception and appreciation.
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........

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/faq

Title: Re: 2001 - A Space Odyssey
Post by Sprintcyclist on Sep 26^th, 2015 at 10:33pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rzDXNQxjHs

Title: Re: 2001 - A Space Odyssey
Post by double plus good on Sep 27^th, 2015 at 10:14am

Sprint, what the f%&k is this movie about? Does David go through a worm hole? Does he meet himself in the future in an alternate reality? What is the significance of the foetus? Only David Lynch movies are harder to work out than 2001.

Title: Re: 2001 - A Space Odyssey
Post by bogarde73 on Sep 27^th, 2015 at 10:25am

Don't worry about working it out, just enjoy it.

"I'm sorry I can't do that Dave". How prescient.

Title: Re: 2001 - A Space Odyssey
Post by Sprintcyclist on Sep 27^th, 2015 at 10:46am

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................ Dave: Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL. Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL. Hello, HAL, do you read me? Hello, HAL, do you read me? Do you read me, HAL? Do you read me, HAL? Hello, HAL, do you read me? Hello, HAL, do you read me? Do you read me, HAL?
HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you.
Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dave: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it...........

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_%28film%29

Title: Re: 2001 - A Space Odyssey
Post by Jovial Monk on Sep 27^th, 2015 at 10:57am

That spaceship looks like a sperm, deliberately so I guess.