EARLY ACCESS: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Added 2023-01-19 15:28:58 +0000 UTCWhen I tell you this is a wild ride for me... Just wait until my review of it.
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iMPORTANT TIME STAMPS:
Preview review: 00:00 - 2:47
Watch With Me: 02:48 - 32:56
my review: 32:57 - 37:49
Comments
Ashleigh... You nailed it!!! And the movie intentionally shows us how unsettling the SCILENCE is in SPACE...
James Falato
2023-01-20 16:49:15 +0000 UTCThis isn’t my favorite Kubrick movie. That would be Dr Strangelove. But for 1968 the special effects are Outstanding!
Richard Sheets
2023-01-20 02:27:04 +0000 UTCI'm gonna beg you as well - Bringing Up Baby. Ashleigh will love it.
Curtis Martin
2023-01-19 23:24:28 +0000 UTCThis and Singin' are the oldest ones I have for a bit... but yes, more oldies again!
Michael Tocci
2023-01-19 21:03:49 +0000 UTCIt's one of my faves!
Michael Tocci
2023-01-19 21:02:10 +0000 UTCTochi, Thank you so much for doing the old classics; please, please do more of them pre-dating 1970. There should be more interactions of stars like Humphrey Bogart, Gene Tierney, Errol Flynn, and Angela Lansbury (a belated tribute).
Meredith Shivers
2023-01-19 20:48:12 +0000 UTCTochi,
Meredith Shivers
2023-01-19 20:45:19 +0000 UTCTochi,
Meredith Shivers
2023-01-19 20:45:08 +0000 UTCThank you Tocci for recommending a classic movie!
Thomas Ivie
2023-01-19 20:43:17 +0000 UTCTrust in me when I say I thought it was an intentional bit.
MechaGai
2023-01-19 19:55:45 +0000 UTCBy the 3rd time that happened in the 'talk about it', I was sure I was hallucinatin'!
Dave Atcha
2023-01-19 19:44:42 +0000 UTCSo, I don't really 'geek out' about everything but when Kubrick films crash into my music composition degree I just can't help myself! So, here goes: First a few things to know: Music: There was an original score for this film that was written by composer Alex North (the same composer who worked with Kubric on his previous film “Sparticus”, but North had a bit of a breakdown trying to figure out what he wanted to do for the film (but the score was finally finished and can now be heard to re releases online) so Kubrick told his 19 year old assistant just before a big meeting with the big MGM brass to go out into LA and buy all the classical albums he could find and the first time MGM execs saw the film was with basically random classical tracks. It wasn’t until the editing process (and thanks to his wife and another friend) he discovered the music of: György Ligeti (the composer of the ‘creepy’ music both the ‘scary’ singers (Lux Aeterna, and Requiem for Soprano, two Mixed Choruses, and Orchestra) and his ‘Atmospheres’ for String Orchestra) that Kubric felt he had found the ‘voice’ of his film. The center sequence or ACT II of the film uses the ‘Blue Danube Waltz’ by Johann Struass Jr. to be evocative of the ‘dance/waltz’ that the ships in space must do to join and create gravity etc.. Mix that along with the most iconic brass call in all of film, that of the opening planet sequence of Richard Strauss’ ‘Also Sprach Zarathustra’ (or in English ‘Thus Spoke God’ (which is also the title of a book by the philosopher Nietzsche, more on that…now!) Mixing of Philosophy, Science Fiction, and Music: The Music of Struass’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra’ takes it name (and its composition form) from the book of the same title as the book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, for Richard Strauss that ‘brass call’ you hear at the start of the film (and the musical work itself) is the ‘God Theme’ or the sound of God speaking. Now, the work itself mirrors the outline of the book which states that there are three forces at work in the universe at all times: Nature, Man, and God. Each, in turn, takes turns destroying the other. At the start, its a story of a being named ‘Zarathustra’ who goes through a series of events leading to the reasonable basic outline: Nature creates Man, Man creates God, Man destroys Nature, Man becomes God. Now, both Struass was the first and best loved composer of the Third Reich in Germany and his idea of the ‘Superman’ or ‘Man-God’ was exactly what they were looking for and in even the themes from his musical work ‘Death and Transfiguration’ the ‘love theme’ he creates goes on to be ‘ripped off’ by John Williams for his ‘Love Theme - If You Could Read My Mind’ from the soundtrack to the film ‘Superman’ from 1978. So in short, all this music was practically, perfectly, selected for the film Kubrick created about the philosophy of the nature of man, our relationship to nature, evolution, science fiction, the nature of the universe, both inner conscience as well as the expansive universal conscience and the forces that act and react upon it. In short, simply a brilliant film.
Michael Parker
2023-01-19 19:44:32 +0000 UTCNow we need to see 2010 on a sequels poll. 🚀
Lynette Cummins
2023-01-19 19:32:15 +0000 UTCHey, just letting you know that your review near the end gets muted every time the subscribe overlay came up, and it came up a LOT. Otherwise, stellar review.
MechaGai
2023-01-19 19:22:25 +0000 UTCTHANK YOU everyone who reached out about the review audio being cut out. I am currently re-exporting the video and have it re-uploaded. I will share again. Thank you so much for catching this. couldn't do this without you!
Ashleigh Burton
2023-01-19 19:14:09 +0000 UTCI was 14 when I saw this in 1968. Even though I didn’t get it at first, I was in awe. Now it’s time to watch the other big hit of 68, “Planet of the Apes”! (You didn’t say “It’s Beans” at the beginning. So disappointed!)
Richard Meyer
2023-01-19 19:12:28 +0000 UTC
