Space Odyssey Notes
Space Odyssey film
- Science fiction
- Stanley Kubrick
- 1969: post-civil rights
- Lsd and psychedelics
- Monkeys in the desert
- Two different tribes of monkeys fighting-----survival
- Monolith appears-----monkey learns intelligence---imagination----technology is imagination---a tool----evolution-----is technology a means to survival and needed to evolve??
- Famous transition-----bone(tool) becomes a spaceship(tool)
In the 60s how they viewed 2001
- Individual screens on plane tvs
- Facetime with 3 year old
- Russians are the enemies----tensions with Americans---same tensions as monkeys
- People are obsessed with food just like the monkeys---bond over food
- Humans years later find the monolith as well----same music as when the monkeys found it
- Very tense music during these scenes
- Monolith makes a high pitched noise
- Artificial intelligence
- HAL computer----speaks like a human---runs the ship---says its incapable of error----movie trope-----we know it will fail
- HEL----metropolis
- HAL-------space odyssey
- Next letters----IBM computers
- Computer blames a mistake on human error
- HAL killed one of the astronauts
- HAL is an evil entity created by man
- Killing the people on the ship that are sleeping
- Evil eye camera shot
- Similar to WALL-E movie
- HAL becomes nervous when Dave goes to turn him off-----tries to act nice again and pleads with Dave----asks him to stop----says hes afraid---humanlike emotions
- As Dave gets shut down-----he gets a deeper scary voice----sings a scary song
- Red colors displayed throughout film----symbolize evil
- Suddenly audience goes on a trip filled with colors
- Astronaut appears aged in the Victorian era
- Before we know it a man dies-----the monolith appears------baby is born and brought to earth?
- cycle of life ????
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