Friday, 20 April 2018

“2001: A Space Odyssey”: What It Means, and How It Was Made

quote [ Hippies may have saved “2001.” “Stoned audiences” flocked to the movie. David Bowie took a few drops of cannabis tincture before watching, and countless others dropped acid. According to one report, a young man at a showing in Los Angeles plunged through the movie screen, shouting, “It’s God! It’s God!” ]

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[SFW] [tv & movies] [+6 Interesting]
[by Paracetamol@6:49pmGMT]

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stv179 said @ 7:23pm GMT on 20th Apr
I watched the re-release in the cinema (as I was too young to see the first release). Mind blowing, especially the graphics at the end.
PS: Due to the 70 mm film material it really makes sense to get the highest resolution release you can get. Video vs. DVD vs. HD really makes a difference.
knumbknutz said @ 7:34pm GMT on 20th Apr
I loved that movie - I was a kid when it was in the theaters. I saw it at least 6 or 7 times, and even brought my lunch with me into the movie theater so that I could eat when the characters in the film were eating. It pretty much pushed me toward the genre of serious science fiction.

Then 2010 came out in 1984 and **womp-womp** Although - that heart-breaking scene between HAL and his creator (Arthur C. Clarke never actually put that into his book, but he should have) was a definite highlight in an otherwise dismal film.
Ankylosaur said @ 10:27pm GMT on 20th Apr
If you study the image compositions and use of audiochromatic tone poetry in 2001, it becomes unquestionably clear that Kubrick was using the film to expose the Carolingian Dynasty's role in creating the Phoebus Cartel, which Kubrick learned of while astralprojecting himself into history while in the employ of the Department of Energy, who killed Jackie Kennedy in a freak accident involving teleportation experiments, and had to replace her with a gender-reassigned JFK, whose assassination then needed to be faked, which Kubrick was in charge of directing. Why they don't mention this well known fact in the article is the real mystery.
rylex said @ 9:35am GMT on 21st Apr
I missed you madpride
robotroadkill said @ 12:58am GMT on 21st Apr
Saw it first in the late 90s, a rental in high school. Found myself fast forwarding through the psychedelic montage, but mostly liked it otherwise.
Hugh E. said @ 1:35pm GMT on 21st Apr
Saw it first in the late 90s
Did you, though?
robotroadkill said @ 3:23pm GMT on 21st Apr
'I first saw it in the late 90s' https://media.giphy.com/media/KB49W1a1Ut2Hm/giphy.gif
robotroadkill said @ 3:23pm GMT on 21st Apr
Bleh.
mechanical contrivance said @ 2:10am GMT on 21st Apr
I watched it in my film class in college. I remember thinking how unnecessarily long the psychedelic scene near the end was.
arrowhen said @ 4:53am GMT on 21st Apr
I remember thinking how unnecessary the psychedelic scene near the end was.
mechanical contrivance said @ 1:41pm GMT on 21st Apr
That too.

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