2001: A Space Odyssey Official Trailer #1 - (1968) HD
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2001: A Space Odyssey movie clips: http://j.mp/1CLiHsJ BUY THE MOVIE: http://amzn.to/vOAv1r Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6pr FILM DESCRIPTION: A mind-bending sci-fi symphony, Stanley Kubrick's landmark 1968 epic pushed the limits of narrative and special effects toward a meditation on technology and humanity. Based on Arthur C. Clarke's story The Sentinel, Kubrick and Clarke's screenplay is structured in four movements. At the "Dawn of Man," a group of hominids encounters a mysterious black monolith alien to their surroundings. To the strains of Strauss's 1896 Also sprach Zarathustra, a hominid invents the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey. As the hominid tosses the bone in the air, Kubrick cuts to a 21st century spacecraft hovering over the Earth, skipping ahead millions of years in technological development. U.S. scientist Dr. Heywood Floyd (William Sylvester) travels to the moon to check out the discovery of a strange object on the moon's surface: a black monolith. As the sun's rays strike the stone, however, it emits a piercing, deafening sound that fills the investigators' headphones and stops them in their path. Cutting ahead 18 months, impassive astronauts David Bowman (Keir Dullea) and Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood) head toward Jupiter on the spaceship Discovery, their only company three hibernating astronauts and the vocal, man-made HAL 9000 computer running the entire ship. When the all-too-human HAL malfunctions, however, he tries to murder the astronauts to cover his error, forcing Bowman to defend himself the only way he can. Free of HAL, and finally informed of the voyage's purpose by a recording from Floyd, Bowman journeys to "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite," through the psychedelic slit-scan star-gate to an 18th century room, and the completion of the monolith's evolutionary mission. With assistance from special-effects expert Douglas Trumbull, Kubrick spent over two years meticulously creating the most "realistic" depictions of outer space ever seen, greatly advancing cinematic technology for a story expressing grave doubts about technology itself. Despite some initial critical reservations that it was too long and too dull, 2001 became one of the most popular films of 1968, underlining the generation gap between young moviegoers who wanted to see something new and challenging and oldsters who "didn't get it." Provocatively billed as "the ultimate trip," 2001 quickly caught on with a counterculture youth audience open to a contemplative (i.e. chemically enhanced) viewing experience of a film suggesting that the way to enlightenment was to free one's mind of the U.S. military-industrial-technological complex. CREDITS: TM & © Warner Bros. (1968) Cast: Keir Dullea Director: Stanley Kubrick Producers: Stanley Kubrick, Victor Lyndon Screenwriters: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke WHO ARE WE? The MOVIECLIPS channel is the largest collection of licensed movie clips on the web. Here you will find unforgettable moments, scenes and lines from all your favorite films. Made by movie fans, for movie fans. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MOVIE CHANNELS: MOVIECLIPS: http://bit.ly/1u2yaWd ComingSoon: http://bit.ly/1DVpgtR Indie & Film Festivals: http://bit.ly/1wbkfYg Hero Central: http://bit.ly/1AMUZwv Extras: http://bit.ly/1u431fr Classic Trailers: http://bit.ly/1u43jDe Pop-Up Trailers: http://bit.ly/1z7EtZR Movie News: http://bit.ly/1C3Ncd2 Movie Games: http://bit.ly/1ygDV13 Fandango: http://bit.ly/1Bl79ye Fandango FrontRunners: http://bit.ly/1CggQfC HIT US UP: Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1y8M8ax Twitter: http://bit.ly/1ghOWmt Pinterest: http://bit.ly/14wL9De Tumblr: http://bit.ly/1vUwhH7
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wow the special effects are better than a lot of movies in 2016
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Wow! I don't think I've ever seen the trailer before!
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After reading her remarks, Kubrick stated the following:
"Margaret Stackhouse's speculations on the film are perhaps the most intelligent that I've read anywhere, and I am, of course, including all the reviews and the articles that have appeared on the film and the many hundreds of letters that I have received. What a first-rate intelligence!"
What follows is the text of Ms. Stackhouse's commentary....
I. The monolith - source of infinite knowledge and intelligence
A. Perfection represented in its shape; its color -- black --
could symbolize:
1. Evil and death, which result from man's misuse of knowledge;
2. The incomprehensible -- man, with his limited senses, cannot
comprehend the absence (perfect black) of color or light.
B. Its first appearance.
1. Movie implies that life has reached the stage when it is
ready for inspiration, a divine gift, perhaps. [It is interesting
that the apes are expectant, waiting for something.]
2. Maybe apes become men when this inspiration is given.
[Question: Is man really a separate entity, with something (soul?)
that no other form of life possesses, or is the difference merely in
quantity (rather than quality) of intelligence? Is the evolution
gradual and continuous or in defined levels? Does the difference in
quantity become in fact this difference in quality?]
3. Inspiration is given:
a. When men (apes) need it; or,
b. When they seek it; or,
c. At the whim of the force giving the gift; or,
d. In various combinations of these three.
4. The purpose of the gift may be to allow man to create
life- sustaining forces. [In this "cycle," he creates only death;
interesting -- death from death (bones).]
5. Its disappearance (after weapon is made) -- Reasons:
a. It is taken away in punishment for misuse of knowledge; or,
b. It is no longer sought -- apes (men) consider themselves masters
now and try to continue on their own energies after the initial
impulse. Maybe the monolith is always present, but is invisible to
those who don't wish to see it or to whom it does not wish to be
visible; or,
c. It is taken away by the force that gave it, to prevent mortal
understanding of everything.
C. Its second appearance (on Moon).
1. Reasons for appearance:
a. Man is subconsciously seeking it again; or,
b. It is needed to remind him of his insignificance; or,
c. It is given as a new opportunity to create a meaningful
existence for humanity.
2. Men on Moon touch monolith in the same way that the apes did --
this indicates no basic change in man's nature. Then, after
touching it, they have the audacity to try to take photo --
still conceited, still lacking in understanding of the gift.
3. From Moon, there is a strong magnetic field directed toward Jupiter
(this is where man will go next). This indicates that man will still
fail and will need monolith again when he reaches the next stage of
exploration. Monolith is always beyond human scope -- man is still
reaching at death.
4. It is ironic that men on Moon believe that the monolith was made
by a more advanced civilization. This to them is the ultimate --
they can't comprehend that anything could be above the mortal level.
D. The monolith and infinity.
1. After HAL is made, man shows that once again he has refused,
through ignorance and conceit, to take advantage of the chance
to obtain superhuman intelligence. Maybe the system is slowing
down and it is impossible for man to progress any further on
his own energies.
2. Now he is given another chance -- the monolith shows him infinity,
perfect knowledge, and the beginning of the universe, but he can't
comprehend it. Reasons for his being shown all this:
a. It may be truly another chance for man; or,
b. It may already be determined that he must die
[maybe all people are shown perfect knowledge at death]; or,
c. Maybe perfect knowledge (represented by monolith) is always
present, but our understanding of it will always be imperfect.
II. HAL
A. He is evil, but only because he reflects human nature.
B. His uneasiness about the mission implies that even the highest
development of human intelligence is imperfect in ability to
understand.
C. Man, trying to progress independently of divine aid, attempts, either
consciously or unconsciously, to create life, in the form of HAL. This
is not allowed. Man is reaching, or is being forced to reach, a limit
in his ability to progress further.
D. Reasons for HAL's failure:
1. Eternal human error once again in evidence; or,
2. This may be a divine punishment; or,
3. God will not allow man to become subordinate to his own
foolish creations.
E. The fact that man can overcome HAL's evil is optimistic; however,
to do this he must destroy HAL, who is nearly a living being --
again, the theme of death, futility.
[This and triviality are shown in HAL's "song."]
III. The room (at end) death.
A. It is elegant, maybe to show man's cultural achievements,
but it is sterile and silent -- nothing has meaning without
the spirit of the monolith. This is man's universe, that with
which he is supposedly familiar, but even this is hostile to him.
B. Room could represent:
1. All that man can comprehend (finite) of infinity. Even
in this limited scope, he is confused; or,
2. Man's cultural history, as men remember their past before
they die; or,
3. The trivia for which he relinquished the monolith (then at death
he realizes his need for it); or,
4. A reminder of man's failure to draw on past -- it could contain
more wisdom than the present. [Monkeys responded to the monolith
better than modern man -- race is slowly degenerating.]
C. In this room, man must die, because:
1. He has reached his limit; or,
2. He has failed too much; or,
3. He has been shown infinity.
D. Question: Is his death (following degeneration) inevitable after being
shown all knowledge, or is this experience still another chance to
improve? Then, when man returns to trivia, perhaps this is the
breaking point, the end of his opportunities.
E. Maybe he knows what is happening to him but is powerless to change it.
The changes in the man may be a vision shown to him as punishment, or
they may merely represent the various stages in the life of one man or
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too complicate for me, but i love
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What is the name of the awesome Symphony?
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Epic trailer compared to the Star Wars trailer of 77.
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m. night shaymalans better
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Well, I just watched the Interstellar and remember this awesome movie once again, that was just rubbish beside this
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Is there anyone else who didn't like this one? I didn't like it at all. It was Ok till the end. Then it got really annoying and boring. I felt like killing someone when that giant baby appeared.
Don't know why so many people say Kubrick is a genius. -
I did not understand it, wich makes it genius, best "It could be true" movie !
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best movie ever made
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It's a shame that many people don't like 2001. I think it's the most amazing experience ever put on film.
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Worst scifi movie ever. Just plain ol boring. Watching this made me wanna choke the life outta someone
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The year 2000 it's not even close to what they thought it would be back then...
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The trailer doesn't do the movie justice at all!!
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1969?! Man, just look at the special effect
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Watched this masterpiece so many times, And it still gives me goosebumps watching it.
Kubrick was a genius, one of the greatest, may he rest in peace. -
Stan The Man.
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It holds up ridiculously well. I'm still bemused as to how they filmed zero gravity.
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No, it looks better than MOST movies today.
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