2001: A Space Odyssey - great movie, but please explain...
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...the ending to me.
I must have watched the movie half a dozen times, plus the sequel - "2010" - a similar number. Both great movies. On holiday recently I read the third book by Arthur C Clark - "2063".
However, I still can't get my head round the ending of 2001. Can anyone explain it to me in 'Janet & John' terms?
I must have watched the movie half a dozen times, plus the sequel - "2010" - a similar number. Both great movies. On holiday recently I read the third book by Arthur C Clark - "2063".
However, I still can't get my head round the ending of 2001. Can anyone explain it to me in 'Janet & John' terms?
srebbe64 said:
...the ending to me.
I must have watched the movie half a dozen times, plus the sequel - "2010" - a similar number. Both great movies. On holiday recently I read the third book by Arthur C Clark - "2063".
However, I still can't get my head round the ending of 2001. Can anyone explain it to me in 'Janet & John' terms?
Done the same, watched and own the first two so watched alot, then read the 3rd book.
Kinda ruins it imho. I think the 3rd book really goes off on a tangent from what the original books were about?
I'm gonna have to read 2001.
Dave
Read the novel 2001 - it explains a lot.
I was a real 2001 nut 20 odd years ago and devoured as much as I could about the film and book.
If you can get hold of it 2nd hand, Clarke wrote a very interesting book called "The Lost Worlds of 2001" which goes into loads of detail as to how the book and film co-evolved at the same time over the 1964-68 time period. It also goes into a lot of the original drafted scenes in both book and film that in the end, were left out as both Clarke and Kubrick thought they might be OVER explanatory.
Also, more easily obtainable are the short stories "The Sentinel" and "Encounter in the Dawn". Both were written in the 1950s and both provided the springboard for the concepts used in "2001". I have seen a new collection of Clarke's short stories currently on sale and I'm pretty sure both these stories are included.
Interesting stuff.
>> Edited by Eric Mc on Thursday 25th August 12:35
I was a real 2001 nut 20 odd years ago and devoured as much as I could about the film and book.
If you can get hold of it 2nd hand, Clarke wrote a very interesting book called "The Lost Worlds of 2001" which goes into loads of detail as to how the book and film co-evolved at the same time over the 1964-68 time period. It also goes into a lot of the original drafted scenes in both book and film that in the end, were left out as both Clarke and Kubrick thought they might be OVER explanatory.
Also, more easily obtainable are the short stories "The Sentinel" and "Encounter in the Dawn". Both were written in the 1950s and both provided the springboard for the concepts used in "2001". I have seen a new collection of Clarke's short stories currently on sale and I'm pretty sure both these stories are included.
Interesting stuff.
>> Edited by Eric Mc on Thursday 25th August 12:35
There are some interesting differences between the movie and the book. Clarke originally intended that Saturn be the target planet of the Discovery space mission. Kubrick balked at the idea of having to provide special effects for the rings of Saturn (this was 1964 after all) so selected Jupiter as the target planet instead.
Clarke stuck with Saturn for the novel - because he wanted to incoporate the weird brightness difference which was always associated with the moon Iapetus into the plot. By pure coincidence, it's only in the last few months that we have had our first close up views of this odd two tone moon - and it really is strange.
Clarke stuck with Saturn for the novel - because he wanted to incoporate the weird brightness difference which was always associated with the moon Iapetus into the plot. By pure coincidence, it's only in the last few months that we have had our first close up views of this odd two tone moon - and it really is strange.
Some suspicious things happening in the background are finaly explained here:
www.prometheus-music.com/audio/2001-movie-parody.mp3
www.prometheus-music.com/audio/2001-movie-parody.mp3
Eric Mc said:
Clarke stuck with Saturn for the novel - because he wanted to incoporate the weird brightness difference which was always associated with the moon Iapetus into the plot. By pure coincidence, it's only in the last few months that we have had our first close up views of this odd two tone moon - and it really is strange.
Got any piccies Eric?
andy mac said:
Was that a reply to my asking for piccies? If not ignore me, if it was, thanks, but was a request for piccies of Iapetus!
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=iapetus&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images
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