Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey - In Discussion (2014 BBC)
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A panel discussion on the history of Stanley Kubrick's film, 2001 A Space Odyssey. Featuring Dr. Brian Cox, with actors Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood. To mark the UK re-release of Stanley Kubrick’s iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey, on 30 November 2014 BBC Arts broadcast a 90-minute live discussion from the BFI exploring its influence on art, culture and science. Radio 3's Matthew Sweet welcomed to the stage a stellar panel including the film’s two stars Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, Professor Brian Cox and Sir Christopher Frayling. Celebrated for its breathtaking beauty, dazzling visual effects and powerful use of music, Kubrick’s film proposed a new kind of pure cinema, set a new benchmark for the aesthetic of sci-fi films and challenged audiences to contemplate its meaning. The programme was recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking on Tuesday 2 December at 10pm.
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HAL
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lockwood grouchy here?
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Gary Lockwood sounds like Dennis Hopper
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Sidebar: I haven't watched the entire interview yet, but as they're discussing the film's technical accuracy and logic and so forth, does anyone have anything to say about the fact that the sequence involving Floyd's speech on Clavius implies full Earth-gravity on the moon? It's a peculiar lapse and I always wondered about it.
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There's something wrong with Keir. Is he gay?
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Nature, the sun and the reason and creation of humanMother nature has been here since the earth was created. Nature was given the seed of life by the sun, the two have created everything living on the earth. In a way our true father is the sun and our mother is nature. nature can be described as a current and everything on earth has this current running through them. Even things we class as dead has this current, this vibe of natures dna. She is our energy and our energy is nature.living is easy to understand, it loves to spread in high volume and spread as far as possible. It's like a disease, you can tell this just by looking out your window; Trees, grass bugs and the big one us!everything on earth shares the same mother and father, living wants to spread as far as possible and this is where humans come in. She created us who have the knowledge of time, we can create invention and have a understanding to keep humans alive, also beginning to look after other creationswe are all ready researching how to bring back the dead in some cases just from Dna in bone for example they are doing this in found bones of dinosaur's we are finding new sources of energy and renewable energy that we can usewe have scientists testing theory's and discovering the universe we have science mechanics building ships for the purpose of space travelthe list goes on of what we are all ready doing as nature intended of us. And why we were created by herwe are her tool to spread her gene, current vibe everywhere. By this I mean we are to travel to planets in our solar system travel to other solar systems, galaxy's eventually other universes. This is why we were created by the current needing to spread and grow. Everything on this earth is us and we are itOur job and reason of life is to go and start new civilization, society in other planets in the universe naturally bring nature with us.
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Gary talks too much.
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This was excellent because time went real quick.
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Brian Cox is first to answer.....then everyone else prefer to talk about drugs.
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Everything in space experiences time.
Another interesting thought I had is about a human body traveling at the speed of light. Since the human body is regulated by Earths core, traveling at the speed of light might throw the regulated heartbeat out of sync causing the heart to stop.
Would death occur or would the body go into a state of stasis?
Death is determined to have taken place when the body processes cease to function and natural decomposition sets in. If traveling at the speed of light stops the processes in the human body then traveling at the speed of light would also stop or stasisfy the bacteria that are responsible for natural decomposition.
Decomposition would not take place. All life in the module should go into a form of stasis or would be frozen in time.
The question is when the module dropped out of light speed and encountered normal gravity and the human was placed on a planet, would the planets core jump the humans heart like a defibrillator that is used in a hospital to restart a non-beating heart?
Would the human retain all memory of itself at the point it went into stasis and continue where it left at after coming out of stasis? -
35min in Dullea mentions a quiet voice stating a blue sweater was found. I re-wated the Blu Ray version of that scene, on loud, and cannot hear it. Has anyone else heard it ?
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Piers Bizony would have been a better choice than Brian Cox. I like BC but this really was not his speciality.
Superb film that is before its time is best example of when research (by Kubrick) pays back in spades of authenticity and believability. Interesting chat especially about changing the idea of the "orbiting bomb" to a "spaceship" to aim for an optimistic take on technological advancement -
What does Brian Cox have to do with this? F off!
You can't understand 2001 without knowing that Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke were high-level Freemasons. 2001 is a masonic film. -
"Reworking of homer" 1:02 ! Amazing insight....hmmmm.
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It would've been cool if a younger version of Keir Dullea walked up onstage with him too.
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Great post!! Thanks 4 uploading this!
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STANLEY CUBRICK....STAN...LEY.....CU.....BRICK......SATAN LAY CUBE BRICK
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I was 3 when I saw tis.. And I remember it.. But think of this................. If Stanley had produced a combination of 2001 and Planet of the Apes in one movie. I think all movie production would cease. There would be nothing else to do . If I could have Stans BRAIN and Budget and Technologyand I could be 25 in the early 60s. This would be my life journey for me. STAN YOU ARE THE FUGGIN MAN.
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