Hello people I hope you all are having a great day at your work place :) Today I am coming up with a super duper sci-fi flick which paved the path for breathtaking visual effects. It is called '2001 A Space Odyssey' released in the year 1968...that is more than 40 years back this Stanley Kubrick (director) analysed how the future gonna be and made this movie...sounds interesting right! lets enter into his Space Odyssey.
This movie is divided into three parts...'The Dawn of Man' which tells the evolution of man and his desire to take the power....'Dr. Floyd' which gives the overview on future technology...'Jupiter Mission' where our humanity has to fight against Computer which we ourselves invented.
The films starts near a tribe of herbivore apes is foraging for food. One of them is attacked and killed by a leopard. They are driven from their water hole by another tribe. Defeated, they sleep overnight in a small exposed rock crater. Waking at sunrise, they find that a mysterious black, rectangular monolith has appeared in front of their shelter. They approach the monolith shrieking and jumping. Subsequently, one of the apes, played by Daniel Richter, realizes how to use a bone as both tool and a weapon while having mental flashbacks to the monolith, indicating that the monolith has either "taught" or inspired him to this knowledge. The apes are now able to kill animals and eat meat. Next morning they wrest control of the water hole away from the other tribe, killing their leader in the process. Exultant in victory, the ape leader throws his bone into the air which switches via match cut to a shot of an orbital satellite millions of years in the future, circa 2000. This satellite and three more immediately following it are generally identified as orbiting nuclear weapons.
This is followed by the second part..'Dr. Floyd'....A Pan American space plane takes Dr. Heywood R. Floyd (William Sylvester) to an orbital rendezvous with Space Station 5 in an elaborate space flight and docking sequence. (See Music) Upon disembarking, Floyd is greeted by an old colleague with whom he chats before making a videophone call to his daughter, played by Vivian Kubrick, to wish her a happy birthday, expressing regrets he cannot come to her party. Strolling down the main corridor, he comes upon a group of Soviet scientists and mentions that he is on his way to Clavius Base, a U.S. base on the moon. The Russians query him anxiously about the “great big mystery” of what has been going on there, questions that Floyd initially shrugs off. Floyd refuses to discuss the subject further when they press him about the rumor that a serious epidemic has broken out in the base.
Floyd travels to Clavius base in a moon shuttle. There he heads a debriefing session, beginning by apologizing for the epidemic cover story, mentioning he had been personally embarrassed by it. The actual purpose of Floyd’s mission is to investigate an artifact dug up on the moon, initially detected by its anomalous magnetic signal and subsequently named "TMA-1," for "Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One." Geological evidence shows it was deliberately buried four million years ago. Floyd and his men ride in a Moonbus to the archeological site in a journey illumined by earthlight, chatting idly. In a large rectangular pit dug around it, the artifact is revealed to be another monolith similar to the one encountered by the apes millions of years ago. Floyd’s staff examine the monolith and pose for a photo with it. As they do, the sun rises over the top of the monolith, which then emits an ear-piercing high-pitched radio signal.
Now comes the most interesting one....'Jupiter Mission' where Bowman and Poole watch a BBC television story about the mission, in which the TV audience is introduced to the ship’s on-board computer HAL 9000, addressed as "Hal" and voiced by Douglas Rain, who has human-like intelligence and runs most of the ship’s operations. The BBC announcer notes that Hal seems supremely self-confident, as if he has emotions. This is followed by another broadcast of a birthday message from Frank’s parents during which Frank Poole seems indifferent.
Later, while Dave is showing Hal some sketches of the hibernating astronauts, Hal asks Dave some pointed questions about suspicions he has about the air of mystery and secrecy surrounding the mission. Hal then interrupts himself to state that the AE-35 unit, which controls the antenna that provides communications with Earth, is going to fail in 72 hours. Dave takes an excursion outside of the ship in an EVA pod, the hatches of which are rigged with explosive bolts, to replace the unit with a spare. After returning to the ship, Frank and Dave examine the unit Hal claimed was defective, but they are unable to find anything wrong with it. They contact Earth-based ground control, who tell them that their own HAL computer states that their on-board HAL 9000 computer is in error predicting the fault. This is striking--and shocking, since the 9000 series has a perfect operating record.
hmmmmm nice twist, will our two astronauts able to survive in the mission....will they ever comeback to eartch...will human intelligence dominate the AI or not is the remaining climax.
As per Vish: A wonderful movie in all aspects. This one defenetly standsout as the best visual effects movie of all time. But you need to have patience to watch this movie as it runs for over 2 and half hrs with only limited dialogues. Background music and cinematography makes this movie a special one. Pick this flick when you are in leisure or else you will get bored of sitting 2 and half hours. But make sure you watch this flick before you die...it just tells us how creative and effective is film making...Hats off to 'Stanley Kubrick'.
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Running time: 160 min
This movie is divided into three parts...'The Dawn of Man' which tells the evolution of man and his desire to take the power....'Dr. Floyd' which gives the overview on future technology...'Jupiter Mission' where our humanity has to fight against Computer which we ourselves invented.
The films starts near a tribe of herbivore apes is foraging for food. One of them is attacked and killed by a leopard. They are driven from their water hole by another tribe. Defeated, they sleep overnight in a small exposed rock crater. Waking at sunrise, they find that a mysterious black, rectangular monolith has appeared in front of their shelter. They approach the monolith shrieking and jumping. Subsequently, one of the apes, played by Daniel Richter, realizes how to use a bone as both tool and a weapon while having mental flashbacks to the monolith, indicating that the monolith has either "taught" or inspired him to this knowledge. The apes are now able to kill animals and eat meat. Next morning they wrest control of the water hole away from the other tribe, killing their leader in the process. Exultant in victory, the ape leader throws his bone into the air which switches via match cut to a shot of an orbital satellite millions of years in the future, circa 2000. This satellite and three more immediately following it are generally identified as orbiting nuclear weapons.
This is followed by the second part..'Dr. Floyd'....A Pan American space plane takes Dr. Heywood R. Floyd (William Sylvester) to an orbital rendezvous with Space Station 5 in an elaborate space flight and docking sequence. (See Music) Upon disembarking, Floyd is greeted by an old colleague with whom he chats before making a videophone call to his daughter, played by Vivian Kubrick, to wish her a happy birthday, expressing regrets he cannot come to her party. Strolling down the main corridor, he comes upon a group of Soviet scientists and mentions that he is on his way to Clavius Base, a U.S. base on the moon. The Russians query him anxiously about the “great big mystery” of what has been going on there, questions that Floyd initially shrugs off. Floyd refuses to discuss the subject further when they press him about the rumor that a serious epidemic has broken out in the base.
Floyd travels to Clavius base in a moon shuttle. There he heads a debriefing session, beginning by apologizing for the epidemic cover story, mentioning he had been personally embarrassed by it. The actual purpose of Floyd’s mission is to investigate an artifact dug up on the moon, initially detected by its anomalous magnetic signal and subsequently named "TMA-1," for "Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One." Geological evidence shows it was deliberately buried four million years ago. Floyd and his men ride in a Moonbus to the archeological site in a journey illumined by earthlight, chatting idly. In a large rectangular pit dug around it, the artifact is revealed to be another monolith similar to the one encountered by the apes millions of years ago. Floyd’s staff examine the monolith and pose for a photo with it. As they do, the sun rises over the top of the monolith, which then emits an ear-piercing high-pitched radio signal.
Now comes the most interesting one....'Jupiter Mission' where Bowman and Poole watch a BBC television story about the mission, in which the TV audience is introduced to the ship’s on-board computer HAL 9000, addressed as "Hal" and voiced by Douglas Rain, who has human-like intelligence and runs most of the ship’s operations. The BBC announcer notes that Hal seems supremely self-confident, as if he has emotions. This is followed by another broadcast of a birthday message from Frank’s parents during which Frank Poole seems indifferent.
Later, while Dave is showing Hal some sketches of the hibernating astronauts, Hal asks Dave some pointed questions about suspicions he has about the air of mystery and secrecy surrounding the mission. Hal then interrupts himself to state that the AE-35 unit, which controls the antenna that provides communications with Earth, is going to fail in 72 hours. Dave takes an excursion outside of the ship in an EVA pod, the hatches of which are rigged with explosive bolts, to replace the unit with a spare. After returning to the ship, Frank and Dave examine the unit Hal claimed was defective, but they are unable to find anything wrong with it. They contact Earth-based ground control, who tell them that their own HAL computer states that their on-board HAL 9000 computer is in error predicting the fault. This is striking--and shocking, since the 9000 series has a perfect operating record.
hmmmmm nice twist, will our two astronauts able to survive in the mission....will they ever comeback to eartch...will human intelligence dominate the AI or not is the remaining climax.
As per Vish: A wonderful movie in all aspects. This one defenetly standsout as the best visual effects movie of all time. But you need to have patience to watch this movie as it runs for over 2 and half hrs with only limited dialogues. Background music and cinematography makes this movie a special one. Pick this flick when you are in leisure or else you will get bored of sitting 2 and half hours. But make sure you watch this flick before you die...it just tells us how creative and effective is film making...Hats off to 'Stanley Kubrick'.
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Running time: 160 min
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