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2001: A Space Odyssey is Fantastic
Topic Started: Nov 13 2014, 03:26 PM (48 Views)
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2001: A Space Odyssey is a fantastic film. In fact, I was really impressed by it for a multitude of reasons. The biggest reason to me is because it is able to accomplish numerous amazing feats both with characters and with filming. I was simply so astounded by how realistic it looked… and found myself so confused as to how the pen was floating around the space flight or how Dave was able to walk all the way around the circular inside of the Discovery. The answer to the first is that the pen was fixed to glass via double sided tape and the glass was moved around slowly. The answer to the second… I’m not wholly sure, but the set was inside a Ferris wheel. So they spun it around while moving the camera in such a way as to give an illusion of Dave defying Earth gravity.

I think the realism of films is important and that CGI is not as impressive as actual stunts. As well, our minds seem to know it. Those are the scenes which make you catch your breath and boggle the mind like a magician would. A great example of this sort of impressive trickery is in the Film Iron Man 3 when Iron Man is rescuing the people who have fallen out of the aircraft. While there was obviously CGI involved… the meat of the scene was actually done with hidden parachutes. I remember watching that scene in the movie theatre and thinking that if for nothing else that that scene made the film worth watching. So thus, while CGI can enhance a film I think that real action and real stunts do connect with us better and stimulate us. After all, a CGI scene just makes you think “Well… CGI did it” versus a stunt or trickery type of scene in which the viewer is thinking “I have no idea how they did that one”.

The other impressive part about 2001 is of course HAL9000 or HAL. In a movie that has minimal dialogue and that is divided into 4 acts… with only the 3rd act featuring HAL it is mightily impressive that they were able to have such an extraordinary character in such an already extraordinary movie. It’s been very well documented about how fascinating his personality is but what is even more impressive is how realistic HAL is even to this day. HAL doesn’t seem hokey but rather seems to be an extremely accurate vision of what robots would be like.

All in all, it is a film that could trick you about when it was made. If I watched it before and was told it was made in the 1990s I would have believed that wholeheartedly. In fact, I think it would have looked advanced and sparkling even in the 90s. Especially when you compare it to Science Fiction that came after it… it aged a lot better than movies like Star Wars. Although of course that is a very different sort of film.

So what I’m saying is that even with the often praised phycology of the film, that what I think is sometimes understated is how realistic and “right” it looks. That to me was super impressive and it is amazing that in today’s day and age that many films with their graphics aren’t able to seem as real as 1968s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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There's no such thing as an objectively 'perfect' film, but 2001: A Space Odyssey is about as close as they come. Every single frame is aesthetically beautiful, the music (especially the eerie Monolith theme) is as effective as it is iconic, and the movie is packed with imagery and symbolism that conveys the film's story better than its intentionally vague, opaque plot does. The experience of seeing it for the first time can never be replicated.

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The answer to the second… I’m not wholly sure, but the set was inside a Ferris wheel. So they spun it around while moving the camera in such a way as to give an illusion of Dave defying Earth gravity.
Correct, and Christopher Nolan took cues from this in the hallway fight scene in Inception. He had a rotating segment of hallway built, so all the actors and props flying around were the result of practical effects rather than CGI.
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I haven't watched this movie in a very long time. I think I need to revisit it.
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I actually somehow haven't seen this yet. We really need to start a Kubrick club so I can get all these watched :emb:
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I am curious about Interstellar which people have been comparing to 2001, although not favorably :P
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