Dr. Dave Bowman
Search results
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
2001: A Space Odyssey stars Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, and Douglas Rain and follows a voyage by astronauts, scientists, and the sentient supercomputer HAL 9000 to Jupiter to investigate an alien monolith.
2001: A Space Odyssey: Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter. When a mysterious artifact is uncovered on the Moon, a spacecraft manned by two humans and one supercomputer is sent to Jupiter to find its origins.
- Manthorpe
- 2 min
- Stanley Kubrick
Arthur C. Clarke. Novel, Screenplay. Stanley Kubrick. Screenplay. Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
- The Plot, in Detail
- The Monoliths
- Religion/ Existentialism
- Man and Technology
This visual poetry began its journey millions of years ago. Apparently, apes are the most evolved species at the time. But, they aren’t modern enough to hunt their preys. They seem to be living off what the predators leave behind. The apes live in groups as several different tribes, and often, there are (nonviolent) conflicts among them over wateri...
The monoliths are objects left by some intelligent extra-terrestrial species to somehow trigger the advance of human beings. In other words, they represent evolutionary leaps. Who exactly left it there? God(s)? Flying spaghetti monster? Some alien kid who is coding up a vastly interactive program in which we are random variables that (s)he kills of...
Although it doesn’t say anything about the anthropomorphic God/Gods that most of our religions put forth, the film portrays a powerful imagery of a superior force that leads mankind. A parent figure who is holding our hands while we take baby steps. According to the movie, that mysterious power enabled us to evolve to become who we are today. Our e...
Remember the bone? It was a milestone in the evolution of mankind. Hunting using tools. But it didn’t take them long to use it to fight and fatally injure one another. Misuse of technology 101. Millions of years later, we see a satellite after the cut. Although it isn’t explicitly stated in the film, the satellite is intended as a weapon platform c...
2001: A Space Odyssey. A year before the first moon landing, Stanley Kubrick envisioned an outer space where vast spacecraft revolve weightlessly to the strains of Johann Strauss’s Blue Danube waltz. 2001 revolutionised the depiction of the cosmos on film, at the same time – with the HAL-9000 computer that fatally malfunctions during a ...
People also ask
Was 2001 A Space Odyssey as far out as the movie?
Is 2001 A Space Odyssey based on a true story?
When did 2001 A Space Odyssey come out?
Why is 2001 A Space Odyssey called 2001?
What is the theme of 2001 A Space Odyssey?
Who wrote 2001 A Space Odyssey?
May 24, 2024 · Notice that Kubrick still referred to the movie as Journey, short for the original title Journey Beyond the Stars. So the concept of it being an odyssey predates the actual change to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Clarke and Kubrick first met in April of 1964. The New Yorker profile came out in April of ‘65.
