2001: A Space Odyssey

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Brian Eno's theme for Dune completely mashes Thus Spake Zarathustra's fanfare in terms of simulatenous pomp and terror. It's fucking brilliant, actually. As are the OTT end credits with the crystal piano barf and the actors in costume standing next to their names. Totally sweet.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Is there anything you DON'T remember about Dune?? End credits? Piano barf??

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

But as films go, Stence, you must admit that 2001 has the edge, no?

well yeah, i did post earlier that it's my favorite film.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Joshua??? Haha, is that the WarGames computer? You'd put a killer of astronauts up against something programmed by Matthew Broderick?!?

Hello! JOSHUA was totally designed by Dr. Stephen Falken. He, like, named it after his dead son or whatever. Sheesh.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

but when has Kubrick come up with a joke as good as the WOPR

The entire screenplays for Strangelove and Lolita? Well, in having Terry Southern and Nabokov write them, anyway.

― monkeybutler, Thursday, 1 December 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

That is to say, both screenplays are full of great jokes, but Kubrick didn't "come up with" them so much as he had great collaborative writers.

― monkeybutler, Thursday, 1 December 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Nabokov later published his screenplay of Lolita -- because the movie script was written by Kubrick. Vlad receiving solo screen credit was apparently purely contractual.

Kubrick is described as an enthusiastic black jokester in conversation.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 December 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Didn't know that about Lolita, Dr. M. Learn something every day.

"She's having a cavity filled next week by your Uncle Ivor" is at least a good a joke as "WOPR," in either case.

― monkeybutler, Thursday, 1 December 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Okay, the spacebaby thing: Think of all the billions of sperm that get produced in your balls over your lifetime. They're all swimming around in there thinking this is all there is to life, probably not even able to suspect that they serve a vital function to a much more massive and complex lifeform. Maybe only one of those billions goes through the whole process of sex/orgasm/fertilization/birth to transform into, or facilitate the next form of life. That is kinda what happens to Kier Dullea. Of the billions of humans that have been created, he is the one who becomes the catalyst to create the Starbaby. He approaches VENUS(which he is heading towards after receiving mysterious ELECTRONIC SIGNALS). Unfortunately most of his travelling buddies die off during the journey but he gets to go through a mysterious process, possibly as trippy as being fired up a uerethra and into a throbbing twat, ultimately creating/becoming the Starchild - aka. the next level of life/conciousness/whatever. The film is partly asking if we aren't all just like sperm, somehow knowing there is a meaning to life but obviously not equipped to comprehend it? And only one of us is needed to make the whole journey.

By the way, she did get her bushbaby - they even filmed a scene where you see it getting purchased but it got cut.

― everything, Friday, 2 December 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

does everyone know about this place?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 2 December 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

that Mark Crispin Miller 2001 essay illustrates why I like the last two the best. to the extent you see them all as the same movie, I prefer the sympathy, affection even (read: humor), found in FMJ and EWS to the great out-the-airlock zing of 2001.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 2 December 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

it is science fiction, i suppose

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 2 December 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

We're heading for Venus
and still we stand tall
cause maybe they've seen us
and welcome us all
with so many light years to go
and things to be found
I'm sure that we'll all miss her so
It's the final countdown
The final countdown
We're leaving forever
It's the final countdown
But still it's farewell

It's the final countdown

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 2 December 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

We're the future and the past, we're the only way you're gonna last
We're just pawns in a funny game, tiny actors in the oldest play
It's an angry sea we face, just to get the chance to join the race
Gotta make it, gotta try, gotta get the chance to live and die

We must, we must, we must leave from here
We must, we must, we must, we must leave from here
Gotta make our play, gotta get away
Gotta make our play, gotta get away
Gotta make our play, gotta get away
Gotta make our play
Let us out of here, let us out of here, let us out of here

We just want to feel the sun and be your little daughter or your son
We're just words that lovers use, words thaat light that automatic fuse
When that love explosion comes, my, oh my, we want to be someone

― everything, Friday, 2 December 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

It's my way
Or the old space highway

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

i was gonna watch 2001 while writing my memo tonight, but Major League is on

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 2 December 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

now Major League, there's a movie we can all get behind, am I right or am I right?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 2 December 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

that movie could've used Gabe Kapler.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 2 December 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

Or Oliver Platt as the manager.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 2 December 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

Ray Liotta.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 2 December 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

Major League is perfect as-is.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Friday, 2 December 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

Being a fan who knows all baseball movies suck, I've never seen it (cept the first 10 minutes once on cable).

In theater viewings, I always find the StarChild shot tremendously moving. As I do Nicole Kidman's "Fuck" (his second-most optimistic ending).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

...cept the first 10 minutes...

the only good part is the opening credits set to randy newman's "burn on."

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

And I don't even remember that!

Any opinions on the discarded Alex North score that Kubrick dumped for the Strausses? I know it came out.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

I do remember reading in Michael Caine's autobio some story about Kubrick borrowing records from the public library until he found that Zarathustra thing.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

I like Tarkovsky's criticism of 2001 - that it ridiculously overdramatized
things that would be trivial in that time. ie: too much of a time-traveler's
perspective in it.
As for Dune... it would have been fucking INCREDIBLE if the original plan
to have Jodorowsky direct had panned out.

― shieldforyoureyes, Friday, 2 December 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Any opinions on the discarded Alex North score that Kubrick dumped for the Strausses? I know it came out.

i still haven't heard it, but i'd like to. anybody got a copy?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

lol @ tarkovsky, u cd say the same thing about 'andrei rublev'.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

U cd, but u'd b wrong.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

er, how? tarko just doesn't like drama anyway, is his problem.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

Tarkovsky was like the impressionists - you'd never guess that he thought
he was being an ultra-realist.

― shieldforyoureyes, Friday, 2 December 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

i still haven't heard it, but i'd like to. anybody got a copy?

Yes! But, it's packed away along with 2000 other CDs (DYS?) awaiting this mythical house move.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

Jodorowsky on Dune and David Lynch on Return of the Jedi would have made '83-'84 a different time.

― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Yes, Captain Obvious. It would.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Just me or is ILX pretty damn cranky lately?

― Frogm@n Henry, Friday, 2 December 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

sergei eisenstein on 'paris, texas' and ingmar bergman on 'beverley hills cop' would have made '83-'84 a different time.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

goddammit Ally, i got promoted past captain sometime last year. get with the times, mang.

― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

I like Tarkovsky's criticism of 2001 - that it ridiculously overdramatized
things that would be trivial in that time. ie: too much of a time-traveler's
perspective in it.

That's kinda the point (or one of them) -- the characters are all caught up in being concerned with their phones and their zero-g toilets and their Hilton lounge meetings and their turkey sandwiches that they can't be bothered to spare a moment to be amazed by the fact that they LIVE IN OUTER SPACE. None of the 21st-century humans in the movie have learned yet to look beyond their mundane tools and machines to something transcendent, and when they do find something amazing -- the Tycho monolith -- they line up to take touristy pictures in front of it.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Enrique, how does Solaris fit in your scheme?

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

what phil d. said. Maybe if Tarkovsky ever had MGM footing the bill he'd have grokked it.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Oh come on. They're doing exactly what the aliens who left TMA-1 expected -
they're progressing technically and scientificly, and when they reach the
moon and start to study it, they find TMA-1 and dig it up to see what
it is. They're not excited about "being in SPACE" because that simply
isn't exciting. Unless of course, you're shooting your film from a
dawn-of-the-space-race perspective. Everything's exciting if you're primitive enough.
Sadly, when Tarkovsky got good funding, he produced garbage (Sacrafice).

― shieldforyoureyes, Friday, 2 December 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

For excitement in space, see the zero-gee Van Halen dancing in the otherwise unmemorable Mission to Mars.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

oh its memorable, just not in the way intended

― latebloomer: The Corridor (Yes, The Corridor) (latebloomer), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

Enrique, how does Solaris fit in your scheme?
-- k/l (lauter...), December 2nd, 2005.

i liked it!

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

2001 >> Dune >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Solaris

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

altho I gotta say the Jodorowsky Dune version (incl. designs by Giger and Dali as the Emperor) sounds and looks like the greatest movie never made.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

HI DAVE

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

dude solaris is good! but then again you gave me your copy, so i guess it makes sense that you don't care for it.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

Aside from the stupid Twilight Zone ending Tarkovsky added, the original
Solaris was great. It maintained a reasonable amount of the book's focus
on the scientific community surrounding Solaris.

― shieldforyoureyes, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

I like all 3 Solarises fine (Lem > Tark > Soderbergh), The Sacrifice too.

Just remembered this recent news about the jettisoned prologue:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/news/article321643.ece

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

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