Amen, brother!
Posted on 04/03/2018 2:07:09 PM PDT by Borges
I can understand why some find it slow, but you have to admit that it had perhaps the most iconic opening credits ever, and defined Also Sprach Zarathustra for a generation. Even today, can anyone hear this piece and not think of the movie?
They got clippered.
I LOVED the CINERAMA Theater.
Kubrick has great images and scenes, with accompanying music.
But also lots of corny and pretentious accoutrements.
Like that scary shrill chanting associated with the monolith, which was big in the late 60’s 70’s for setting a creepy mood.
Ultimately it’s also definitely not a space odyssey, but just another occult type story if humans transforming in to some some of super being god-like beings.
That was a theme of Clarke.
As a kid, I loved those sandwiches the astronauts were eating. They looked so tasty.
Well, we no longer have the plate-spinners on the Ed Sullivan Show to expose us to the Sabre Dance! :-)
Bottom line. It’s not a science fiction movie, although it has great science fiction aspects.
John Williams really revitalized the “Classical” sound of Movie Music.
He did a beautiful job on Star Wars.
Indeed. Although I am a Rock Musician, I was raised on classical, and listen to it every night.
I saw it as a nerdy, sci-fi fan boy.
Highly overrated. Some cool concepts, some cool scenes, but overall...
It is like a Carl Sagan back-jacket blurb: a highly romanticized love letter to the heathen god of evolution.
Oh, and the score? The actual original score was unused. However great Richard Strauss was, he did not write it for this film. Without it, the whole film would have had far less cinematic or popular acclamation.
Much ado about very little: style far over substance.
I love good science fiction. This is expensive, pretentious stuff.
I am the obverse: raised (sort of) on rock music, became a classical musician (Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic chorister) at age 44.
The truth is music was background to me. I was a math/science nerd, and an extreme bookworm. I did not develop a deep love of music until late teens.
(My mother was a classical pianist, but she mostly played when we were in another room: more background).
Amen, brother!
Her body count is lower.
So far.
Pauline Karl is the woman who said she didn’t know any Nixon voters.
I find it funny how so many people judge the cultural landmarks of the past by today’s standards. They miss the fact that these landmarks represented seminal and transcendent events in their times.
“2001” was important because it was the first science fiction movie that was a serious and well crafted film. It blazed the way for the Star Wars movies and the other sci-fi films that followed. Prior to “2001” science fiction films and books were a cultural laughingstock.
Interesting in this same time the revolutions that were also taking place in music with works like “Sgt. Pepper’s” and “Good Vibrations”.
The late 1960’s were a wellspring of film and musical innovation whose impacts are still resonating to this day.
I guess so. Fifties science fiction was pretty laughable.
A lot of the audience for 2001 had trouble figuring out what was going on and went because they were told it was a good movie to see stoned.
I actually worked on Ford Motor Company’s computer graphics in 1979, and was amazed at what they did in the movie 11 years earlier.
Are we not men?
It's hard to tell these days.
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