troycmonk ([info]troycmonk) wrote in [info]film_stills,
@ 2008-04-23 17:04:00
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Stanley Kubrick






















































































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[info]dehumidifier
2008-04-23 09:08 pm UTC (link)
I like stills from this movie better than the movie itself. Amazing to look at, tedious to actually watch.

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[info]conspirator12
2008-04-23 09:23 pm UTC (link)
did you watch it sober?

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(no subject) - [info]dehumidifier, 2008-04-23 09:43 pm UTC

[info]troycmonk
2008-04-24 09:40 pm UTC (link)
I admit I thought this film ran on too long as well. The thing is, this sort of imagery would have been absolutely amazing and revolutionary for movies at that time, and I can understand why certain shots are so long-- to allow the audience to marvel at it all. It still looks very good, but we've become jaded by all the special effects that regularly innudate what we watch that "2001" is not necessarily special in that way anymore.

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[info]ijeremy
2008-04-23 09:14 pm UTC (link)
Simply beautiful stills.

I'm actually working on using Hal's final speech as a monologue for auditions. It's pretty intense.

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[info]troycmonk
2008-04-24 09:09 pm UTC (link)
Glad you like the stills! It's awesome you chose that speech for a monologue :D

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(no subject) - [info]ijeremy, 2008-04-24 09:12 pm UTC

[info]airings
2008-04-23 09:19 pm UTC (link)
I always feel so stupid when I admit this but I didn't understand this movie at all.

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[info]jimmyeatworld79
2008-04-23 09:49 pm UTC (link)
you have to see 2010 and read books to understand.

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(no subject) - [info]automation, 2008-04-23 11:06 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]salsburysteakjr, 2008-04-24 05:11 am UTC
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[info]salsburysteakjr
2008-04-23 10:05 pm UTC (link)
Aw you shouldn't ever think that. Nor use the books, on account of the fact 2001 was written around the same time 2001 the film was MADE, so both are meant to be entierly taken as separate creatures. And considering Arthur C Clarke considers Kubrick to be smarter than him, I'd say this is the work to deem the one worth truly UNDERSTANDING.

And that's why it IS so great. I don't think there is any ONE meaning, I think he made it for whoever to watch it to try and figure their own opinions of it out. I first saw it as a little kid and adored it passionately, a little kid, and I thought I knew exactly what it was all about, and I still think that opinion formed then is the proper one.

EVERYBODY IS RIGHT!

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[info]arcadiaego
2008-04-24 12:47 am UTC (link)
The way I see it is that the monolith represents some kind of power that has been watching over humans and their ancestors since the days at the start of the movie, and sometimes moves them on to a new stage - from the monkey using the bone as a tool (which also seems rather a threatening scene, so who knows what knowledge is really being imparted) to the man becoming the new form of life at the end. I know that Clarke wrote other books in the same universe, but just from looking at this one movie on it's own, that's what I get from the story. But that's just looking at it in the most simple and literal way - who knows what exactly the monolith is, or what it's influencing at the end? Could it all be in the astronaut's mind once he "passes through" it? There's no one right answer!

Edited at 2008-04-24 12:57 am UTC

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[info]toddalcott
2008-04-24 02:33 pm UTC (link)
Maybe this will help.

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[info]say2
2008-04-23 09:25 pm UTC (link)
I love watching this film. Especially the silent scenes.

HAL is one twisted motherf*****. Fortunately, I don't think we'll ever create such a high level of AI. On the other, in hundreds of years, I bet irony will hit me hard.

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[info]salsburysteakjr
2008-04-23 09:52 pm UTC (link)
Easily my favorite sci-fi film of all time, and half the time I don't even know if I should call it a sci-fi film.

And YES I watched it the first, and every other time entierly sober and was FASCINATED and in TOTAL LOVE every second. And I saw it for the first time as a very small boy. So those of you who needs drugs to enjoy brilliant films, poo on you. This film more then any in history warrants a 100% sober mind to get any kind of appreciation, feeling, understanding, or love for.

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[info]conspirator12
2008-04-23 10:44 pm UTC (link)
i don't think it's possible to explain the impact of drugs on moviewatching to somebody that isn't really into them, but i can say that while i certainly did not *need* to be super stoned when i saw 2001 for the first time, i will probably treasure the experience forever. that is all.

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(no subject) - [info]huckfinns, 2008-04-24 12:26 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]salsburysteakjr, 2008-04-24 05:10 am UTC
100% agreed - [info]dr_vertico, 2008-04-24 09:27 am UTC
Re: 100% agreed - [info]salsburysteakjr, 2008-04-24 03:49 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]conspirator12, 2008-04-25 01:28 am UTC

[info]conspirator12
2008-04-23 10:49 pm UTC (link)
but that is not to say i think the only way to truly appreciate 2001 is to watch it under the influence.

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(no subject) - [info]salsburysteakjr, 2008-04-23 11:43 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]salsburysteakjr, 2008-04-23 11:52 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]silvercatpaws, 2008-04-24 02:37 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]salsburysteakjr, 2008-04-24 04:19 am UTC
PS- - [info]salsburysteakjr, 2008-04-24 04:58 am UTC
Re: PS- - [info]silvercatpaws, 2008-04-24 10:36 am UTC
Overlong comment posted (then shortened) in response ahead: - [info]salsburysteakjr, 2008-04-24 05:19 pm UTC
Re: Overlong comment posted (then shortened) in response ahead: - [info]silvercatpaws, 2008-04-24 05:53 pm UTC
Re: Overlong comment posted (then shortened) in response ahead: - [info]salsburysteakjr, 2008-04-25 07:14 am UTC

[info]bagu
2008-04-23 10:26 pm UTC (link)
I found 2010 to be more exciting. It might be worth a cap fest to compliment this one.

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[info]howll
2008-04-23 11:16 pm UTC (link)
This film never ceases to amaze me, such a spectacular show!
2010 isn't bad either, but not as good.

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[info]apparatuses
2008-04-23 11:21 pm UTC (link)
the whole book series is good, I haven't seen 2010 but 2001 is my favorite movie

I was about to cap this and probably still will

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[info]apparatuses
2008-04-23 11:22 pm UTC (link)
I read these books and saw the film and a perfect moment in my life...it sort of acted as a affirmation of other ideas that had begun to mix around and I'll never be the same

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[info]sri_angry_angel
2008-04-24 12:04 am UTC (link)
These are some high ass quality stills. Goddamn. I don't actually remember the movie but I've been wanting to see it again.

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(no subject) - [info]troycmonk, 2008-04-24 09:08 pm UTC

[info]arcadiaego
2008-04-24 12:55 am UTC (link)
The shot you use above the cut is actually my favourite in the film. It's just so haunting and strange, as if whatever is happening is beyond the level of knowledge that we are at at the moment - which is why it might as well manifest as a strange bedroom as well as anything else! I just think it's a beautiful, beautiful film, although some parts really scared me when I was a child.

I don't favour an explicitly religious interpretation of the film myself, but I've always found it interesting that the Vatican once named 2001 as one of the best movies of all time!

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[info]fabfunk
2008-04-24 01:40 am UTC (link)
Best film ever?

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(no subject) - [info]silvercatpaws, 2008-04-24 02:40 am UTC
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2008-04-24 02:41 pm UTC (link)

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[info]thewadingegret
2008-04-24 07:23 pm UTC (link)
Oh my, your stills are beautiful.

I remember my Life Science teacher showing this to us in the 7th grade. We were all like "bwuh?". Strange but greatly fascinating.

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(no subject) - [info]troycmonk, 2008-04-24 09:08 pm UTC

[info]xoruglm
2008-04-25 05:11 am UTC (link)
Every shot is memorable.

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[info]grey853
2008-06-15 02:21 pm UTC (link)
Great stills. Thanks.

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