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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 12:52 am
mr_sledgeka
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Here's some basic Info about this film:
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The film deals with themes of human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, and is notable for its scientific realism, pioneering special effects.
A tribe of prehistoric man-apes is struggling to survive in the dry desert. One morning, a mysterious black rectangular monolith appears near their habitation and is nervously examined by the apes. The man-ape picks up a bone and plays with it, finally crushing the other bones, as with a club. The man-ape who created the tool.
the film jumps forward to the future, matching the image of the tumbling bone to that of a man-made orbital satellite. Aboard the spaceship Discovery One, bound for Jupiter, are the mission pilots, astronauts Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood), and three scientists "sleeping" in cryogenic hibernation.
Mission controllers back on Earth assert that HAL is "in error in predicting the fault", something unheard of for the 9000 series. HAL suggests another EVA mission to restore the part and wait for it to fail, to determine the problem. Hiding their concern, Bowman and Poole retreat to an EVA pod to discuss HAL's questionable reliability in secret, finally agreeing to "disconnect" him should the AE-35 not fail, as HAL predicted. Unbeknownst to them, HAL is reading their lips.
After Poole exits the pod, HAL takes control of the empty pod and accelerates it towards Poole, murdering him. Bowman sees both Poole and the pod careening away from the ship. He hurriedly exits the ship in another pod to rescue Poole (forgetting to bring his space helmet). While Bowman is outside, HAL kills the three hibernating scientists by deactivating their life support systems.
directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke.
I have only seen a few scenes of this film which really didn't grab my attention as I found the plot hard to understand. I may have another attempt watching it in full in the near future.
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