HGrubbs: 2001 A Space Odyssey

 Class Notes: 

Long, musical intro - black screen

“The dawn of man” - sunrise shots

Apes, one attacked by cheetah

Ape scream-off??

Monolith black rectangle box thing appears

Apes are scared but try to intimidate it 

They try to understand it - this “abstract” added to their life changed them, they no longer were scared little monkeys

Ape starts hitting things, not afraid → leads to technology, hunting

Uses imagination to foresee how to live

Kill enemy ape by beating it with bones 

Bone becomes space tech (one piece of tech evolved to modern tech) 

Airplane in space

Zero gravity grip shoes

Another rectangle in ship shot

Voice and face recognition to enter meeting room on spaceship - in hilton hotel on ship

“Picturephone” = facetime

Talking to Russians, cold war ?

The war between the apes = the conflict between the the men and nations

Zero gravity meals, toilets

Big dome opening - sphere lands in it 

Little ship landing is circle square thing 

Was it there to be intentionally found or not ?

SAME black rectangle monolith, same music playing, astronauts walking to it - reflective of the ape scene

High pitched ringing from box 

Running is sideways circle

Hibernation chambers - reminds me of sleep tanks in beyond the aquila rift 

Hal - computer running the human brains of the hibernating men - sounds like Hell and Hel

“We are incapable of error” yeah like the Titanic 

They can’t truthfully say whether or not Hal is capable of real emotions

Vitamin D treatment

Hal says happy birthday

Plays game of chess with frank - “thank you for a very enjoyable game”

HAL - IBM (creator of HAL) EVERYTHING references something already done in the past

Hal asks to see Bowman’s art - Hal asks very personal questions

Hal admits to having doubts about the mission - and he holds responsibility 

Questions rumors - doubts the intentions of the leaders

Sudden failure of certain parts of the ship

Siri and Alexa are the closest we have to Hal

Loud breathing - taking the man’s perspective - inside the helmet

Stopped at 01:18:10

Destroyed all models used in the film

Camera in helmet means Hal sees 

Hal recommends putting the failing unit back and letting it fail, cutting off communication temporarily

“I make no error” - Hal = human error

Everseeing eye of Hal - even when they went somewhere he couldn’t hear, he read their lips 

Hal overrides pod and kills one of the men, disconnects the three “hibernating” people thus killing them

Hal refuses to let Dave back in the ship

Dave gets in and begins to disconnect Hal - Hal fights for Dave to stop

Dave enters the “brain” of Hal - “Stop, Dave” - Hal starts saying he’s afraid, he can feel what Dave is doing to him

Hal’s voice starts to get slow, deep, muffled - sings “Daisy”

Hal starts playing pre-recorded briefing meant to be seen when landed

The black monolith floating in Jupiter’s space

Weird rainbow lights, like tripping on acid

Extremely strong color contrasts

Pod is now in some fancy house?

Dave is trembling, looking at himself, aged version, outside the pod

Then the pod is gone, aged version of himself is still in spacesuit and walking in fancy house

Old man in black eating at table, sees/hears dave, turns out it is dave (the old man) 

Knocks white wine off the table, then Dave sees himself even older, dying in bed

Movie began with “dawn” of man and ends with “dusk” of man → black monolith appears in his room

From monolith’s view: Dave baby in womb → perspective switches to ours, we go up and touch 

Dave baby in womb is looking at the world from space, the end?

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