2001 Space Odyssey Notes



2001: Space Odyssey

** first trip to the moon was in 1968  believed going to space would be the same as flying to another state by 2001  thought the technology would have evolved within 33 years 
**1961: first man in space; orbited Earth
** SYMBOL: recurring orange luminating circle (beginning – sunset, HAL – red light in camera)
 Arthur Clarke:
- Lived out dreams through science fiction 
1960:
- Different speed in narrative; people were either high on LSD, shrooms
- Beginning music similar to opera 
Dawn of Man
- Multiple pictures of sunrise, then of desert 
- Monkeys eating, fighting for their space for their food to survive 
- Cheetah v. monkey
- Monkeys group together to warn of danger or ritual 
- Mono  rectangle 
- Gospel music  rectangle almost something they praise, symbol of a cross 
- Abstraction 
- Before met foreign object; watering hole was full, now dry and bones 
- Using a bone as a hammer to smash  new technology; extinction of other mammal (IMAGINATION)
o Foresee what is going to happen next
- Baby monkey playing with bone  early exposure to new technology
- With bone, now standing on two feet and beating each other 
TRANSITION: One piece of technology (bone)  becomes new technology space ship  
- Drawing parallels between what was as advanced as a spaceship for humans, was the discovery of bones for monkeys 
- Plane (Pan Am)
o Americans are fluiing out to the moon 
o Personal screens in aircraft much like to what planes are today 
o Plane is empty (only one person) 
o Flight attendant wearing grip socks to stay on ground in weightless air 
“Space Station”
- Multiple offices
- So far no talking only instrumental orchestral music 
- Facial and face recognition 
- Voice print 
- Hilton  hotel 
- Futuristic furniture (red model chairs)
- Walking around space station as if gravity is how it is on earth; spins to create gravity 
- Photophone 
o Evolution of facetime 
o Video and call at the same time 
o Only a “traveling”; as if it is normal airline, business trip
- Americans talking to Russians 
Clavius: 
- Epidemic has broken out
- Two groups of prehuman’s recreated 
Conference: 
- No people of color 
- Concern of anxiety of epidemic cause concern for family and relatives 
- Epidemic  cover story
- Cultural shock  if information (what information, not said) released too quickly
Spaceship
 getting better at making space food (advancement)
 something buried under (millions of years ago) 
- Explicitly buried for no one to find forever or was it there for people who had the technology to find it and uncover it 
o A test of whether 
Arrival on site: 
- Eerie music  feel scared or frightened; raise anxiety; instill fear 
o Kubrick does this in a lot of his movies especially The Shining 
- Monkeys have created a home “base” in the area 
- Same rectangular structure or statue 
o After touching, monkeys discovered technology, after humans touched 
- Same rise of the sun to the moon after touching the rectangular structure 
Jupiter Mission (18 months later)
- Pod beds (hibernation chambers)  similar to “Beyond the Aqua” 
- Refers to HAL 9000 computer as the sixth member of the crew
o See really just as another person
o Same data as human brain 
o Spoke with HAL the computer 
o “youre the brain and central nervours system of the ship”
o Same red orange circle  sunrise in beginning  red light in camera of HAL 9000s
o Says foolproof and most reliable  
o Programmed emotions but don’t truly know if has feelings 
HAL
- Playing chess with HAL  app; playing against a computer, not a real person 
- HAL  human articficial language 
o I B M  international business machine IBM; always references something 
- Metropolis  Machine Hel 
- Perspective through HAL lens (circular) 
- Closest thing to HAL is Siri and Alexa 
- Heavy breathing whole time working on fixing the instrument that is broken 
- IBM on the spacesuit where buttons are 
- Top of helmet has two dots (looks like bug or even alien)
- 0:1:18.10
- Screen inside helmet  seeing right through machine  seen through HAL
- HAL has made a fault and said had never made a mistake before
- Always been due to human error 
o Never a computer error 
- Every seeing eye of HAL
- Not a single thing not under HAL’s control 
o Only way to stop and let humans controls and disconnecting computer 
- Silence in outer space; Kubrick is the only one who doesn’t have any music  makes for a more dramatic tragedy
- Compuer malfunction
o Life support critical for those in hibernation 
o HAL does nothing to fix 
o Life functional terminated 
- HAL is one of the most famous killing machines 
- He is inside the brain of HAL
o Machine saying hes afraid 
o Mind is going as he unscrews and tapes come out 
o Keeps repeating “I can feel it” and “I’m afraid”
JUPITER and BEYOND
- Instead of eye of HAL eye of Dan in yellow and blue and he goes through Jupiter and all the different colors 
o Purple and light blue (bright teal, almost neon
o Blue and orange 
o Purple and blue
o Red and blue 
o Green and red/ back to original human eye 
- All frames have a sphere around them  circle lens with blurred out sides (spherical aberration)
- Dan has aged tremendously  no longer young, old with gray hair and wrinkled 
- Dusk of man  same heavy labored breathing  same black monolith 
- Us touching the black monolith 
- Baby in sphere looking at earth hinting that the next generation will bring a new age of technology more complex than the last 
 



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