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Topic: 2001 a space odyssey exhibition
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Philip
Member Posts: 3902
From: Brussels, BELGIUM
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted May 03, 2005 08:53 AM
   
Any 2001 or 2010 fans on collectSpace.com ?Check this; http://www.stanleykubrick.de/eng.php?img=img-l-6&kubrick=news-eng
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gliderpilotuk
Member Posts: 2132
From: London, UK
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted May 03, 2005 11:05 AM
I've lost count of how many times I've seen that film. It's timeless.
Spent some great time chatting with Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood at the Burbank show. In the 30+ years since the film was released I think I've aged more than Dullea!Paul Bramley |
spaceuk
Member Posts: 2112
From: Staffs,UK
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted May 03, 2005 12:52 PM
2001 is out on DVDI got a copy some time ago (2001?) thru Amazon UK.
Phill
UK
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Gilbert
Member Posts: 479
From: Carrollton, GA USA
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted May 03, 2005 01:57 PM
2001: A space Odyssey remains my favorite movie 37 years after I saw it for the first time. 2010 is another favorite. |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 1912
From: Renton, WA USA
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted May 03, 2005 03:45 PM
That movie is about as old as I am, but it's also one of my favorites. I still don't understand the ending of 2001 one though. I had once just read the book, and was watching it again when I nearly had it figured out!
....the phone then rang and blew my concentration. Hehe!
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dss65
Member Posts: 631
From: Sandpoint, ID, USA
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted May 03, 2005 09:09 PM
2001 is a great movie--the ultimate good science fiction flick. Sorry, 2010 is not nearly so good.As I recall, the paperback edition of 2010 that I bought a long time ago explained what that final scene of 2001 was all about. I didn't fully "get" it until then. It all makes perfect sense to me now. I don't really know if I would have figured it out without help, though. ------------------
Don [This message has been edited by dss65 (edited May 03, 2005).] |
Rob Joyner
Member Posts: 1017
From: GA, USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted May 03, 2005 10:46 PM
Teg,
On the DVD copy I have there is an extra bit with Arthur C. Clarke. It's short, but he says whenever he's asked what the monolith really is, he tells them something like there is the book and there is the movie and they are here for you to read and watch over and over again.
A great answer!
A lot of people have their own opinions as to what the monolith is and what the ending of the film means. I have mine too, but I won't talk about what it means to me here right now, except that I think the monolith ties into everything the film is about.
Wonder! |
Astro Bill
Member Posts: 1329
From: New York, NY
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted May 04, 2005 06:02 PM
2001, 2010 and all of the works of Arthur C. Clarke are the only science fiction that I read because Clarke is a visionary. He includes a great deal of science in his books. He has correctly predicted many things in his works. The only problem I have is when I get to the end of one of his novels. I want more about the same characters. Then I start another of his books and it begins again. 2001 is of course a classic. Even the music is world famous. I was in the hospital in 1977 when I first saw 2001 on TV. The music was very soothing and restful. Note: Arthur C. Clarke lives in Sri Lanka. He communicates by computer with his publishes. Was he involved in the recent tsunami? I have not heard that he was injured, so he was probably out of the country at that time. |
Philip
Member Posts: 3902
From: Brussels, BELGIUM
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted May 05, 2005 03:03 AM
He was on Sri Lanka at that time I believe ... here's his account;
http://www.planetary.org/news/2004/clarke_1229.html
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derek
Member Posts: 282
From: N.Ireland.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted May 05, 2005 04:48 AM
For the nth time,will you all try to get Leonard F.Wheat's "2001;A Triple Allegory"(Scarecrow Press,2000)or look up extracts on the Blurred Horizon Press site.He clearly shows how all the events and characters are taken from Homer's Odyssey and Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra-which also opens with sunrise,and ends with the hero's interrupted last supper! Central to this atheistic work by atheist Kubrick is AL,symbolising not just the Cyclops slain by Odysseus-another "Bowman"-but God,created-as Nietzsche wrote-in MAN's own image.Once man "switches off" God,according to the story,MAN will be the supreme being-the overman/Starchild-in the hotel room/womb finale.Dave ages as he's the maturing fetus,his 5 appearances symbolise the 5 stages of life accoring to Nietzsche,worm,ape,lower man,higher man,finally overman-a "light-surrounded" being.Yes,it's heavy stuff,but this work does clear up a lot of the symbolism.------------------
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jleslie48
Member Posts: 20
From: Monsey, NY USA
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted May 05, 2005 08:59 AM
they say timing is everything. I just released
a new model of the the orion spaceplane:
http://www.lhvcc.com/egiftshop/agf00004a.jpg
<img src="http://www.lhvcc.com/egiftshop/agf00004a.jpg">  http://www.lhvcc.com/egiftshop/ can't beat the price, $0.00. and that includeds shipping and handling. 8). |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 1912
From: Renton, WA USA
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted May 05, 2005 01:32 PM
There is a new DVD box set out of 2001 that I've seen in the stores, but haven't bought yet for about $50. I guess the sound is all remastered and the video quality cleaned up. Does anyone here have that version? I'm just wondering if it's worth getting. I do have it on an older DVD, but I'm not sure if the sound is really 5.1 surround like it claims, it sounds pretty flat to me. |
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