Today I watched this movie. I downloaded this movie long time back but i never found time to watch this. (Maybe because of the opening scenes of the movie)
The film starts with shots of chimpanzees....that seemed odd...what are these chimpanzees doing in space odyssey...
Finally today i found time to watch this movie....oh god what a movie it is....unbelievable...especially considering tat this was made in 1968....great sci fi movie.....the shots of space craft, zero g, space walk....everything was superb...
Although it seems boring in certain areas and certain philosophical aspects are quite difficult to understand, overall the movie is a superb one....a must watch...kudos to Stanley Kubrick (Director, Producer and Co-writer) and Arthur C. Clarke (The movie was based on his short story The Sentinel)
The first spoken word is almost a half hour into the film, and there's less than 40 minutes of dialogue in the entire film. Much of the film is in dead silence (accurately depicting the absence of sound in space), or with the sound of human breathing within a spacesuit.
The film was snubbed by the Academy that instead voted its top accolades to the odd musical Oliver! (1968) based upon the Charles Dickens tale. [In the same year, Planet of the Apes (1968) was given a Special Honorary Oscar for John Chambers' outstanding, convincing makeup (there was no Best Makeup category until 1981) - the Academy members presumably didn't realize the superior, too-believable makeup in the opening scenes of 2001 that included both human actors with life-like masks and infant chimpanzees.
Kubrick's goal in portraying 2001's technology was "absolute realism". Never before (and probably never since) have fictional spacecraft designs with such solid real-world aerospace foundations been portrayed on the big screen. This is due in large part to Harry Lange and Fred Ordway. Both men came from the aerospace field and were green with respect to cinema. Lange designed most of the hardware, with Ordway providing technical support. They tackled the job with even more enthusiasm than Kubrick had hoped.
Once production on the film concluded, Kubrick ordered all the models, sets, and plans destroyed. He'd seen too many quality sci-fi films become trivialized by use of their props by later B-movie productions.
Finally today i found time to watch this movie....oh god what a movie it is....unbelievable...especially considering tat this was made in 1968....great sci fi movie.....the shots of space craft, zero g, space walk....everything was superb...
Although it seems boring in certain areas and certain philosophical aspects are quite difficult to understand, overall the movie is a superb one....a must watch...kudos to Stanley Kubrick (Director, Producer and Co-writer) and Arthur C. Clarke (The movie was based on his short story The Sentinel)
The first spoken word is almost a half hour into the film, and there's less than 40 minutes of dialogue in the entire film. Much of the film is in dead silence (accurately depicting the absence of sound in space), or with the sound of human breathing within a spacesuit.
The film was snubbed by the Academy that instead voted its top accolades to the odd musical Oliver! (1968) based upon the Charles Dickens tale. [In the same year, Planet of the Apes (1968) was given a Special Honorary Oscar for John Chambers' outstanding, convincing makeup (there was no Best Makeup category until 1981) - the Academy members presumably didn't realize the superior, too-believable makeup in the opening scenes of 2001 that included both human actors with life-like masks and infant chimpanzees.
Kubrick's goal in portraying 2001's technology was "absolute realism". Never before (and probably never since) have fictional spacecraft designs with such solid real-world aerospace foundations been portrayed on the big screen. This is due in large part to Harry Lange and Fred Ordway. Both men came from the aerospace field and were green with respect to cinema. Lange designed most of the hardware, with Ordway providing technical support. They tackled the job with even more enthusiasm than Kubrick had hoped.
Once production on the film concluded, Kubrick ordered all the models, sets, and plans destroyed. He'd seen too many quality sci-fi films become trivialized by use of their props by later B-movie productions.
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