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2001: A Space Odyssey Notes

 



  • -  Just the icon, no big lion, meant to look futuristic; a removal of life

  • -  "All of the planets"

    The dawn of man

  • -  Warm colors

  • -  First sign of life is a skeleton

  • -  Monkeys are just chilling

  • -  Cheetah attacks a monkey

  • -  Watering hole war

  • -  Cold colors as night falls

  • -  The apes huddle in a cave, afraid of the cheetah

  • -  Creepy music and monolith

  • -  Sun rises over the monolith as the music reaches its peak- then it's silent

  • -  The monkey realizes it can use the bone as a tool; the birth of technology

  • -  Imagining killing another animal as he strikes the skeleton; kills and hurts and gets

    meat

  • -  This time, they are bipedal and have weapons at the watering hole, they kill and

    win the territory

  • -  Bone to the space station

\

  • -  Blue Danube

  • -  Personal screens; an empty plane flying through space

  • -  Grip shoes to combat zero gravity

  • -  Facial and voice identification

  • -  Cold and white; Hilton hotel

  • -  Cool chairs

  • -  Picture phone booth

  • -  Missing his daughter's birthday

  • -  "big mystery" on Clavius

  • -  No outward communication; 10 days of a recording; no

  • -  No permission to get an emergency landing; violation of the IAS

  • -  Epidemic of an unknown origin

  • -  American not talking with the Russians, watering hole war in a new way

  • - In-flight meals are in little boxed trays with tubes


  • -  "big mystery" on Clavius

  • -  No outward communication; 10 days of a recording; no

  • -  No permission to get an emergency landing; violation of the IAS

  • -  Epidemic of an unknown origin

  • -  American not talking with the Russians, watering hole war in a new way

  • - In-flight meals are in little boxed trays with tubes

  • -  Zero gravity toilet

  • -  The epidemic is a cover story for a new and important discovery

  • -  Magnetic field; something was deliberately buried 4 million years ago

  • -  Was it put there to be found or forgotten?

  • -  Music is experimental and horrifying

  • -  Man touches it, like the apes discovering it for the first time

  • - High-pitched noise

    The Jupiter mission, 18 months later

  • -  Space ship looks like an eyeball or spine

  • -  Hal is the brain and central nervous system of the ship

  • -  "foolproof and incapable of error" - what happened to the unsinkable ship? It

    sank

  • -  "Conscious entity"

  • -  "acts like he has genuine emotions" because he's programmed like that; no one

    knows if he has genuine emotions

  • -  Losing chess to Hal

  • -  IBM, after that comes HAL

  • -  Weird shit is going on with the mission

  • -  Hal is working on his psychological report

  • -  Hal prints things in binary code instead of English

  • -  A satellite will be failing in 72 hours

  • -  Scanning with a helmet; screen inside the helmet which Hal also sees

  • -  Hal wants them out of communication

  • -  Hal is in error according to the people on earth

  • -  "it can only be attributable to human error"

  • -  They have to go hide in the pod to talk

  • -  All aspects of ship operation are under his control; they would have to

    disconnect him if he was wrong

  • -  Hal can read lips

  • -  Hal fucking killed a guy; he sent him spinning into the silence of space

  • -  "Life functions terminated"

  • -  He killed everyone that was in hyper-sleep

  • -  The brain is the last thing to die

  • -  Hal can read lips

  • -  Hal fucking killed a guy; he sent him spinning into the silence of space

  • -  "Life functions terminated"

  • -  He killed everyone that was in hyper-sleep

  • -  The brain is the last thing to die

  • -  Hal reads him but he's not fucking answering

  • -  "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."

  • -  Dave lets the corpse of his friend go; just letting it float into Outerspace

  • -  He gets in through the emergency airlock

  • -  Into the brain of Hal

  • -  Hal: I'm afraid; I can feel it

  • -  "Daisy, Daisy"

  • -  18 months ago they found evidence of intelligent life; a radio transmission aimed at Jupiter

    Jupiter and beyond the infinite

  • -  Back to the scary choir music

  • -  There's another monolith floating around (maybe it's the same one?)

  • -  Shot of the planets in alignment; monolith in between them

  • -  Eyes; into the eye; into space;

  • -  New dimension

  • -  He's aged; rococo and modern mixed

  • -  Did Mr. Stanley Kubrick just imply that god is a white man???

  • -  It seems to be Dave but even older?

  • -  He's just having dinner; just chillin

  • -  Knocks the glass over

  • -  Even older grosser; dying man in bed

  • -  Dawn to dusk of man

  • -  I would literally throw up if I saw this on acid

  • -  The monolith stands over him on his deathbed

  • -  A white light; a fetus

  • -  We touch the monolith through the camera

  • -  It's a circular plot

  • -  Fetus among the planets 

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