2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

[starman7]

Great film!

 

[MG1962]

JD mentioned it but if you read the novelization it does make the film easier to follow. But then I've always thought books were better than films and communicating ideas. Perhaps that is just me.

The problem 2001 had - the script called for scenes no one could visualise well enough - All the book did was put the star gate journey into context. Today, as evidenced by Contact, the technology is there

 

[Joe Meils]

For one thing, the novel was written at the same time as the film was being made. Sure, they based the film on Clarke's short story "The Sentinel" but they went far and away from where that story did.

The film is meant to be an art peice. Kubrick wanted to take the audiance on a mindblowing journey through time, and space. For the most part, he succeeded. The only parts of the film that don't seem to hold up are the "stargate" sequences where they used various chemicals in a tank to simulate stellar scenes.

Make of it what you will... great art should be interpreted by the individual viewer.

 

[Metryq]

Comments on 2001 by Margaret Stackhouse