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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.
Dec 11, 2023 · Breaking down the ending to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, including what the Star Child means and what happens to Dave.
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Since its premiere in 1968, the film 2001: A Space Odyssey has been analysed and interpreted by numerous people, ranging from professional movie critics to amateur writers and science fiction fans.
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2001: A Space Odyssey, American science-fiction film, released in 1968, that set the benchmark for all subsequent movies in the genre and consistently ranks among the top 10 movies ever made, especially known for its groundbreaking special effects and unconventional narrative. The complex and thought-provoking film was directed by Stanley Kubrick and cowritten by Kubrick and futurist and novelist Arthur C. Clarke.
One of the most original works in cinema history, 2001 defies simple explanation. The opening section, “The Dawn of Man,” shows apes in the prehuman era discovering a strange stone monolith that appears from nowhere and then using the first tools. The scene subsequently switches to the future, the year 2001. A similar monolith has been found under the Moon’s surface and transmits a signal to Jupiter. The spacecraft Discovery, manned by astronauts Frank Poole (played by Gary Lockwood) and Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea), is sent to Jupiter to investigate. The middle segment of the film takes place on board Discovery and is perhaps the most memorable—and most straightforward. The ship’s computer, HAL 9000, which possesses human intellect and vocal ability, malfunctions and begins to work against the astronauts in a life-or-death battle of wits, leading to questions about humankind’s relationship to machines. In the film’s final section, “Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite,” Bowman travels through a gateway in space opened by the monolith orbiting Jupiter and is reborn as the “Star Child.” This section of the film is the most debated and open to interpretation, because conventional film narrative is suspended, and the story is told solely through images and sound.
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•Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
•Director and producer: Stanley Kubrick
•Writers: Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke
•Music: Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss, Aram Khachaturian, and György Ligeti
•Keir Dullea (Dave Bowman)
•Gary Lockwood (Frank Poole)
•William Sylvester (Dr. Heywood Floyd)
•Daniel Richter (Moon Watcher)
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Oct 19, 2023 · The iconic final shot of 2001: A Space Odyssey – featuring Dave as the Star Child, floating in Earth’s orbit – is deliberately enigmatic to leave viewers scrambling for meaning.
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Apr 5, 2016 · When the first screening of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ was held back in 1968, audiences walked out expressing disgust and chastised the director’s indulgence and lack of a narrative structure. Critics hated it and many even called it the worst film ever made.
