Fifty Years Later, the World Is Finally Catching Up With ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’

Variety ^ | 4/3/2018 | Owen Gleiberman

[Borges]

Beethoven didn’t write melodies in the strictest sense of the word. Not to mention Stravinsky etc...

[Future Snake Eater]

There’s a difference between slow pacing and deliberate pacing. “Drive” for instance is an outstanding movie that is deliberately paced, almost hypnotic. Kubrick’s issues go beyond mere pacing, though.

[Borges]

2001 is hypnotic. Try Antonioni films on for size!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

If you can whistle it, it is a melody.

Can you whistle Beethoven? Yep.

[Borges]

Try whistling the first mvt of the moonlight sonata. Or the famous opening of the fifth symphony. Those are not great melodies. It’s still great music.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Both can be whistled.

So sorry.

Your attempted brainwashing does not work in my case.

Kubrick still produced dreck.

[Borges]

The first mvt of the Moonlight cannot be whistled to the point where someone else could identify it. It’s two long notes a half step apart most of the time. Leonard Bernstein wrote an article about how Beethoven did not really write melodies very well.

[Borges]

The alien technology at the end is not meant to be understandable to humans in their current state.