Write about one scene from the movie and describe why it is particularly brilliant. (I won't accept any negative complaining or whining.) How does the scene relate to the larger meaning of the movie?
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The scene that shows the ape picking up the bone of the dead livestock and bashing it against the rest of the bones. This scene is brilliant because the music and the action make a very simple physical thing seem revolutionary, which it is. The discovery of something new and the progression of our being is the theme of this movie and that is exactly what this scene portrays. The ape discovers a bone, which turns into a weapon and eventually he becomes destructive, all in a matter of 2 minutes. This is brilliance!!!
I think the scene where the bone is thrown into the air and suddenly changes into a space ship is a particularly important. In this short snippet of the movie, the entire time the human race has been on the planet is covered, from one extreme to another. I also think this is important because the scene is over in a split second of the movie. This is ironic because the time humans have been on the planet could be considered a split second in comparison to the enormous amount of time the earth has actually been around.
I found the scene where the monkey's are competing against eachother for "top rank" was very important to the movie and human civilization today. Competition is a major reason why we have came so far today. Throughout history and many human advances we have built "life-changing" devices and tools in order to better improve our lives. This scene should play an important part throughout this movie in the fact that humans are always competing against eachother to be the best at everything. It is only human nature to be the best.
The scene in which a monkey had killed an animal with a bone and was eating it is very important to the overall themes of the film. First of all it represents Charles Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest where the species that will prevail over others are stronger physically and mentally than the failing species. Also it represents natural selection, another very important theory which I'm sure will occur in the film more. Not to mention the idea of adaptation was portrayed in that simple scene. Due to the fact that there is little vegetation in the habitat the apes lived in, they changed themselves or their behaviors to be able to survive. For example they figured out how to use tools to kill other animals living there for nourishment because nothing else was available. Molly Riegel
The scene in which a monkey had killed an animal with a bone and was eating it is very important to the overall themes of the film. First of all it represents Charles Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest where the species that will prevail over others are stronger physically and mentally than the failing species. Also it represents natural selection, another very important theory which I'm sure will occur in the film more. Not to mention the idea of adaptation was portrayed in that simple scene. Due to the fact that there is little vegetation in the habitat the apes lived in, they changed themselves or their behaviors to be able to survive. For example they figured out how to use tools to kill other animals living there for nourishment because nothing else was available. Molly Riegel
I like the scene where the one guy is on the spaceship and he is talking to the computer and the computer is so smart that he can tell that the guy is having second thoughts about the mission. It is brilliant because it is showing how developed the director thinks that man kind can be. It is brilliant to think that someday computers will be able to tell our feelings and be able to council us on them. I am enjoying the movie so far!!!!
The very first scene when the gorrillas touch the wall is important to the entire essence of the whole movie because the wall is the most important piece to the movie but we do not find this out until it is all over. At the very end the astronaut touches the wall again and ends up going through "time" almost traveling through a bunch of nows that take place. And then again at the very very end the the wall shows up in the bedroom of dave and he sees himself as he gets old. Also, then with the wall they end up with the embrio floating in space showing how people evovle and the essence of time.
I liked the scene where the man was traveling through all the colors, which symbolized traveling through time. I thought it was really cool to look at and had an interesting meaning as well. And then when he stopped traveling he saw himself getting older and older. But then he never really died but was reborn. I thought this scene really did a good job of summing up the movie and getting the point of the movie across. It was really well done and connected the movie to the article we read on time.
One scene that i found most interesting was when Dave was in the room and he saw all of the different stages of his life. It made me think back to that idea of time. I thought of time as snapshots that could randomly happen at any time and this movie fit that idea exactly. I thought that it was interesting how there was an image of Dave and then it showed him looking at himself at an older age, and then the older age that he had previously been looking at became his existing self. It was as if it put life into those small snapshots and then put them all into the same scene. I thought that it was a good portrayal of time and how we change over time.
I think the scene in which the computer malfunctions is really powerful. It shows how technology is taking over humans, becoming an important role in their lives. It was a silent death, and they didn't have a chance because they were in hibernation, the screens just were shown shutting down and the monitors going from active to a straight line. I think this symbolism continues when Dave asks Hal to open the door to let his friend whom Hal killed in and he refuses. The ability of Hal to manipulate Dave shows the position of technology as a strength compared to the simplicity of the lives as Apes and how they have evolved throughout life.
I thought the final scene where Dave could look back and see every part of his life, especially the aging, was quite important. It made me think of our different representations of time and about how it is a mere man-made thing, and how each part of his life was happening in that one room at that one moment, and then it went full circle to the beginning of life.
One scene that i liked was when the one group of apes were at the waterhole and then all of the sudden the other group came and just took over the waterhole by just yelling and screaming. And then later when they used the bones of a dead animal to knock out the other apes was also a great scene. It really showed the advancements of tools and how quickly a group can gain an advantage over another by new technology.
I enjoyed the opening sequence of the movie showing the evolution of the ape-men to using tools. The using in the background added more to the scene by creating suspense and shows how a simply change, like the addition of tools can help to progress a species so far. As the movie progressed, the monolith that caused the genius idea of using a bone to help fight off their enemies to made them much more efficient in killing their prey, and feeding their people. This is important to the plot of the whole story, and the effect of the monolith of the people who touch it since it shows up later, as the movies progresses.
The very last scene in the movie where Dave sees himself getting progressively older is one of my favorites. I felt like there were two meanings to it. The one where he is eating, and sleeping is very simple. It shows the natural course of things as one gets old. Then he returns to space, but this time as a fetus circling the Earth. This is symbolic because it sort of says that people will come back after death, reborn, to finish tasks on Earth.
I thought the scene near the end where the spaceship was spying on the two astronauts was particularly brillant. In this scene, the two astronauts have been blamed for the errors that are going wrong in the mission. They decide to sit in one of the smaller ships and discuss possible ways to overcome the problem with the ship. The ship, being unable to hear what the astronauts are saying, watches their mouths and reads their lips to find out what they are planning. I think this scene is particularly brillant because it shows how man can be outsmarted by a machine. It also plays into the larger role of the movie in explaining the evolution of man. Here it shows how man made machines but he made them too sophisticated that they outsmarted him and took over. This may be hinting at how a majority of our society today is based around machines.
I would say that the scene where the astronaut travels and sees himself as an old man and then as an older man and then finally as a fetus baby is brilliant especially because it relates to the theme of time that we have been studying in class. It relates to the rest of the movie because they are continuously traveling through time and they are always aware of it. I also like how it relates to the plays and books that we have been reading in class, because I think it is easier to understand the director's interpretation of everything after learning about time.
The most brilliant scene, in my opinion, was near the end when the computer was taking over. I found this significant because it shows how technology is becoming overpowering in our society and on the verge of taking over. Even though this movie was produced in 1968, they predicted that computers would become more intelligent and we would depend of them in many ways. I do not like how powerful "HAL" becomes and fear the overtaking of technology in our lives. It was very powerful when Hal cut off the life of all of the hibernating astronauts as well as when he would not let Dave and Dave's friend in the spaceship and ends up disconnecting Dave's friend as well. In the end, however, it still shows the strength of mankind because Dave gets in to the spaceship through the emergency exit and overtakes Hal 9000. This symbolizes that even though computers have become very strong and in a way overpowering, humans did create them and they should still be superior. This scene relates to the larger meaning of the movie because it shows how technology has become overpowering and controls most of the movie. This scene is also a turning point in the movie, when Dave "Kills" the computer and shows superiority and the struggle between technology and mankind.
The scene where the computers shut down is important because it represents the end of life. Back when this movie came out, this scene was probably very surprising for audiences because technology had never been made to control human beings. Seeing the straight lines was very powerful and represents the end of time. The sounds added also helped make it much more meaningful. This scene is very different from the simple life that we saw in the first scene of the movie with the apes where there was no technology present.
The scene where Hal is being shut down and he reverts to the time of his creation. He sings "Daisy" and slowly dies. This is brilliant because as the computer is dying it is like his entire "life" flashes before his "eyes."
I will be honest and say that I was truly puzzled for more than half of the movie- but one thing I really enjoyed was the Cosmic Fetus at the very end. I suppose that it could easily relate to how we have been looking at Sidhatha and how he believed that things are eternal at every moment. The cosmic fetus signified the beginnign of something as well as the end of it.
My favorite scene was the ending scene when Dave is shown as he ages. Dave progresses to old age and then a fetus, which represents the passing of time throughout one's life. I think it is interesting that in the ending scene time seemed to move much faster than it did in the rest of the movie. To me, the majority of the movie moved at the normal speed of time, which appears to be very slow in comparison to action movies. However, in the end Dave ages very quickly, which shows another interpretation of time. This scene brings the movie to a close by connecting Dave's birth and death, with his time on the space ship included between.
One scene that i liked was when the one group of apes were at the waterhole and then all of the sudden the other group came and just took over the waterhole by just yelling and screaming. And then later when they used the bones of a dead animal to knock out the other apes was also a great scene. It really showed the advancements of tools and how quickly a group can gain an advantage over another by new technology.
I believe the ending scene was particularly brilliant. Where the man had come back down to earth aged quite a bit and then saw himself around age 70 eating and having to walk with a walker and then again at age 80 lying in bed barely able to move and then the scene ending with a fetus and showing almost a sense of rebirth. This movie although i thought it was quite boring had a good ending.
I enjoyed the scene where the man was cutting the wires/system off of the talking hole (Hal) and slowly yet surely, Hal was "dying". As a robot, it was able to take lives, but in the end it was overturned by humanbeings. The upperhand of mankind is potrayed in this movie periodically (apes dying, etc.)and this theme is very parallel with the scene stated above.
The scene in the movie I thought was the most brilliant was in the space ship where the lady was walking around the revolving floor that never ended. This remonded me of the piece in the article about the "Now's". The idea that every frame in life is part of a film strip that is never ending. The past is the future and the future is now and always repeating themselves.
One scene that I thought was very interesting was when one of the men was running in circles. It was brilliant because he was defying gravity. Other times during the movie people would go through doors and completely change their orientation. It was neat because as a viewer you would think that they would fall or at least notice the change but they did not.
The scene that I found to be the most brilliant was where you are watching the ship travel through time. Not only was it visually appealing with it's vibrant colors and patterns, it had symbols throughout the journey that represented larger themes. As Mr. Schindler pointed out to us during class, there were shapes that resembled sperm and eggs which would make sense because of the scene with the fetus at the end of the movie. The time travel scene was a fascinating lead up to the end scene where you experience the effects of time.
I found the final scene in the movie to be of most significance to the rest of the story. When the astronaut sees himself age continuously, this thought represents time not having any measurement and therefore being an illusion. Finally, when he turns into the fetus and returns back to the earth, it represent knowledge gained in the past that is passed on to a new generation. This theme was reflected throughout the entire film when great advances in human knowledge occur.
Since I have missed the first part of the movie on last Friday, the scene that I think is particularly brilliant is the one where it shows the people in habiting the spaceship (the circular spaceship one). I think that it is pretty cool that wherever you walk to, you will still feel that the opposite side is the ceiling although it can be either the ceiling or the ground. But especially the scene where it shows the three people inhabiting in the space coverage (coffin-box) can shows that time does not exist or that it has no longer exists, because these people have stopped functioning as well as with time its self.
The scene in the end of the movie when Dave sees himself aging was an intriguingly brilliant scene. He first sees an older version of himself then he becomes that older version and sees and even older version and becomes that version of himself until he eventually dies and is reborn in the very last scene of the movie. This scene related very much to the article that we read in class about time consisting of many “nows” that all exist at the same time and that our consciousness jumps from “now” to “now”. This reflects the theme throughout the movie of time and how time changes and creatures evolve by the influence of time.
The scene that i would pick isnt really a single scene its more of a couple scenes. When he finally lands in the black and white room after traveling through the colors of light, he starts to see himslef through different staes of life. First he sees himself as he is, then when he is a little older, after that when he is getting pretty old and he is sitting at the table in the room eating dinner. The next stage is when he is very old and laying in a bed. I think it was showing him as dead but im not sure so it was either when he was dead or very old and sleeping. The last image of the movie i believe was also a stage of his life being shown. The final scene shows a baby in the earliest stages floating above the earth and looking down at it. This is where the movie ends. I think that this is an important scene or set of scenes because it shows that maybe what was on the planet and what was going to be explored and revolutionary was the actual cycle of life being discovered. the scene showed that whole cycle and that it keeps going with rebirth and death always happening.
One scene I thought was really good was when Dave went to retrieve his friend and came back determined to save him. When he approaches the ship, he says to the supercomputer HAL "Open the pod bay doors HAL," and there is a pause and HAL finally responds that he cannot do that because he thinks Dave would compromise "the mission". All of the different scenes that dealt with Dave and HAL led up to this one, because HAL had kept on saying how he was perfect and never made mistakes as if he was better than humans. It was neat to see the determination in Dave's face as he snuck in through the emergency entrance and shut off HAL all while HAL tries to negotiate with him since he knows he is helpless at that point. This relates to one of the secondary themes of the movie, which is that we should not become over-reliant on technology.
The scene when the computer is being broken down so it would stop being a nuisance is a really good scene because it depicts how something so as clever as it can be will always have a flaw and is vulnerable for destruction. It relates to the meaning of the movie because as time progresses and as intelligent mankind can become in the end there can and will be something that will destroy us no matter how hard we try to fend it off. In the end the guy sees himself growing old and dying which is something that cannot be stopped. Death can be evaded for an amount of time, but when it comes down to it death is the ultimate winner.
An important scene in the movie was the second time that the audience sees the monolith. During this scene there are many similarites between the monkeys coming across the monolith and the humans seeing it for the first time. The same music is playing and the humans appear to have similar reactions, to seeing it, to the monkeys. They start out hesitantly at first and then one of them decides to touch it and once they all realize its safe everyone joins in. This is important because it furthers the idea of evolution and that despite being in space and using human technology they still act just as the monkeys did when making a discovery. This also fits into the continuing idea of a higher beings involvement being too mysterious for even our more advanced brains to comprehend, which is why everyone's brain began to hurt during the encounter.
Like a lot of other people I thought that final scene of the movie was absolutely brilliant. I found it very interesting that his younger self would look upon his older self, but when the movie switched to the older self's point of view, the younger one was gone. His final "space fetus" stage was very cool because it showed the evolution of the human race once again with help from the monolith. The monolith represented a change in the thought process of the human race. Humanity is constantly striving for a better way of life that eventually leads to pivotal moments in our evolution, which are represented by the monolith. This theme of change over a (relative) period of time and what this change brings and is responsible for is a huge part of the movies message.
I thought the most interesting scene was when the monkey's were competing with one another for who could be in the certain area. I kind of shows survival of the fittest in the most simple form.
The scene of the spacecraft that was taking the scientists across the moon's surface from the moon base to the dig site and the scene of the Jupiter craft right outside the Jupiter system and the scene of the Jupiter craft right as Dave went outside to repair the AE35 and meteors went whizzing by all have one thing critically in common: they depicted the spacecraft in a tiny corner of the screen. None of the shots had man's creation in the center of the picture, they had the cosmos occupying the majority of the screen. I think this was a huge statement of Kubrick's showing that man is small and insignificant. Even with monumentous accomplishments of mankind, he is nothing by comparison.
This one should be pretty easy, but the scene I would have picked for this has also been picked by about half the people who've posted already, I really would have prefered to have talked about the beginning scenes with the apes because I think it has the most important message, the message that I got, that is. The message that all we are areapes with tools. A scene that I don't think wsa very important at all wsa the trippy scene through the monolith, the 3 minutes of randomly colored, what appeared to be desert, was not really needed in my opinion.
Well I really liked the scene where we find out that HAL was the computer aboard the ship that went to the monolith on the moon. We can see that we, as apes, were slaves to our fickle battles over watter (some would suggest we still are...) and that the monolith freed us from that. Now we see that the monolith has freed the computer from the dominance we had over it. HAL, unlike it's sister versions, was able to exert dominance over its masters using the monolith's gift of higher thinking. I like that the monolith could work it's magic even on a computer, that even a computer had a life, a conscience.
I think the scene where the two guys are locked in the space ship and are discussing the possibility that the computor is disfunctional and ruining the mission. The computor reads what they are saying and later kills all members except for the main character. This is important because it sets the tone for the rest of the movie. He has to figure out how to overcome the computor and by doing so sees himself in the later years.
One of the most interesting scenes to me was when Dave ends up unplugging Hal. Throughout the movie Hals programming seems to gain more human emotions, which I believe reveals evolution. This could also portray the directors beliefs on what will happen once computers have become extremely technologically advanced. As Dave is unplugging Hal these human-like emotions are shown by Hal begging, pleading, and telling Dave that he has changed. He even tries to sing Dave a song when is being unplugged to try and play on Daves own emotions.
I thought the scene when Hal kills all the hibernating astronauts quite remarkable. The scene is so cold and sterile that death is not at all violent and keeps the movie G. Even though there is no violence or gore, the scene is one of the most chilling and scary deaths I have seen. The most troubling thought of these deaths is that the people don't even get to realize they are dying combined with the fact that it is done by a robot that is created by man to respect and serve him. This was a brilliant scene.
I think one of the most brilliant scenes in 2001 is when Dave and Frank enter a space pod to discuss the disconnection of H.A.L. The two astronauts believe they are safe to talk since they cut off all connections and programs and yelled for H.A.L. to bring the pod around. Then as they turn to eachother, they reveal their mouths to H.A.L.'s visible vision from the wallboard in the pod room. I think its an inportant scene relating to the larger meaning of evolution and variables/attributes. I don't think any human programmed H.A.L. to read lips, but think that H.A.L. studied Frank and Dave from the beginning of their voyage. H.A.L. was an uncontrollable creation of circuits that has been represented in many movies as a driving force of evil.
I think that the when hal is shut down finally, that it shows humans doninace over all. Hal is supposed to be this amazing computer, but then he grows actual emotion and tries to keep himself alive and kills all the crew except Dave. But Dave found a way to shut the real problem down which was hal. Hal can control most everything on the ship, but he couldn't find a way to kill Dave.
Well I think one of the biggest scenes is the final one where Bowman encounters what is "inside the monolith". It's very symbolic, or at least less-subtly symbolic. The various transformations he goes through helps to show the transition of Bowman into a place where time has no meaning and he is reborn as something new.
One scene that is particulary brilliant in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey is when astronaut Dave is travelling through a tunnel of many colors, lights and sounds. This scene demonstrates the main theme of the movie which is human evolution through time. As Dave travels through the tunnel I believe that he moving through time and many different "Nows."
I found the scene after Dave retrieves his dead friend to be puzzeling. Dave returns to the ship and when he asks HAL to open the door, he refuses. HAL states that he believes that Dave would compromise or hinder the mission. Even though all the talking between HAL and Dave seemed to be very polite and civilized he becomes rude and stubborn. He also said that he thought Dave would compromise the mission but this raises the question of why humans where put onto the ship in the first place if the mission could be done better with just the computer. Also, what was the mission in the first place? Did the movie ever let the viewer know what the mission was? Maybe I fell asleep during that part.
So the scene that I thought was "brilliant" was the scene were the main characters go into the pod and try to out smart HAL. They fail because HAL then just reads their lips but it still was a really impressive scene. This relates to the larger theme of the movie because it shows that something is always controlling us. Or that there is always a greater purpose in life, or a bigger fate. Because HAL was told to do something the went behind what the humans knew about.
I personally think the final scene was the most brilliant seen. With the space fetus, and the monolith representing the spark for human evolution. Also how writer had his younger version self looking upon his elder self was a brilliant idea
In the movie A Space Odyssey, I think that the most important scene was when the computer, Hell malfunctioned and decided to take on orders that he was not given. This was an important turning point the movie because it shows how over time humans are going to end up killing themselves by the different kinds of machines that are made to help improve their lives. I think that this a good example of time because over the course of time when the man that was the only survivor on the space ship travels to Jupiter and finds himself old and dying it show how people are going to live their lives too quickly in order to make life easier to enjoy.
A particular scene in 2001: A Space Odessy that struck me as brilliant is the part where the humans in space see the same thing that the apes saw. Since this is what presumably caused the apes to evolve, this foreshadows what is to come for humans. The way the humans interact with this new objects mirrors the way the apes behaved when they incountered the same thing. The musice during this scene adds heightened dramatic affect.
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The scene that shows the ape picking up the bone of the dead livestock and bashing it against the rest of the bones. This scene is brilliant because the music and the action make a very simple physical thing seem revolutionary, which it is. The discovery of something new and the progression of our being is the theme of this movie and that is exactly what this scene portrays. The ape discovers a bone, which turns into a weapon and eventually he becomes destructive, all in a matter of 2 minutes. This is brilliance!!!
I think the scene where the bone is thrown into the air and suddenly changes into a space ship is a particularly important. In this short snippet of the movie, the entire time the human race has been on the planet is covered, from one extreme to another. I also think this is important because the scene is over in a split second of the movie. This is ironic because the time humans have been on the planet could be considered a split second in comparison to the enormous amount of time the earth has actually been around.
I found the scene where the monkey's are competing against eachother for "top rank" was very important to the movie and human civilization today. Competition is a major reason why we have came so far today. Throughout history and many human advances we have built "life-changing" devices and tools in order to better improve our lives. This scene should play an important part throughout this movie in the fact that humans are always competing against eachother to be the best at everything. It is only human nature to be the best.
The scene in which a monkey had killed an animal with a bone and was eating it is very important to the overall themes of the film. First of all it represents Charles Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest where the species that will prevail over others are stronger physically and mentally than the failing species. Also it represents natural selection, another very important theory which I'm sure will occur in the film more. Not to mention the idea of adaptation was portrayed in that simple scene. Due to the fact that there is little vegetation in the habitat the apes lived in, they changed themselves or their behaviors to be able to survive. For example they figured out how to use tools to kill other animals living there for nourishment because nothing else was available.
Molly Riegel
The scene in which a monkey had killed an animal with a bone and was eating it is very important to the overall themes of the film. First of all it represents Charles Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest where the species that will prevail over others are stronger physically and mentally than the failing species. Also it represents natural selection, another very important theory which I'm sure will occur in the film more. Not to mention the idea of adaptation was portrayed in that simple scene. Due to the fact that there is little vegetation in the habitat the apes lived in, they changed themselves or their behaviors to be able to survive. For example they figured out how to use tools to kill other animals living there for nourishment because nothing else was available.
Molly Riegel
I like the scene where the one guy is on the spaceship and he is talking to the computer and the computer is so smart that he can tell that the guy is having second thoughts about the mission. It is brilliant because it is showing how developed the director thinks that man kind can be. It is brilliant to think that someday computers will be able to tell our feelings and be able to council us on them. I am enjoying the movie so far!!!!
The very first scene when the gorrillas touch the wall is important to the entire essence of the whole movie because the wall is the most important piece to the movie but we do not find this out until it is all over. At the very end the astronaut touches the wall again and ends up going through "time" almost traveling through a bunch of nows that take place. And then again at the very very end the the wall shows up in the bedroom of dave and he sees himself as he gets old. Also, then with the wall they end up with the embrio floating in space showing how people evovle and the essence of time.
I liked the scene where the man was traveling through all the colors, which symbolized traveling through time. I thought it was really cool to look at and had an interesting meaning as well. And then when he stopped traveling he saw himself getting older and older. But then he never really died but was reborn. I thought this scene really did a good job of summing up the movie and getting the point of the movie across. It was really well done and connected the movie to the article we read on time.
One scene that i found most interesting was when Dave was in the room and he saw all of the different stages of his life. It made me think back to that idea of time. I thought of time as snapshots that could randomly happen at any time and this movie fit that idea exactly. I thought that it was interesting how there was an image of Dave and then it showed him looking at himself at an older age, and then the older age that he had previously been looking at became his existing self. It was as if it put life into those small snapshots and then put them all into the same scene. I thought that it was a good portrayal of time and how we change over time.
I think the scene in which the computer malfunctions is really powerful. It shows how technology is taking over humans, becoming an important role in their lives. It was a silent death, and they didn't have a chance because they were in hibernation, the screens just were shown shutting down and the monitors going from active to a straight line. I think this symbolism continues when Dave asks Hal to open the door to let his friend whom Hal killed in and he refuses. The ability of Hal to manipulate Dave shows the position of technology as a strength compared to the simplicity of the lives as Apes and how they have evolved throughout life.
I thought the final scene where Dave could look back and see every part of his life, especially the aging, was quite important. It made me think of our different representations of time and about how it is a mere man-made thing, and how each part of his life was happening in that one room at that one moment, and then it went full circle to the beginning of life.
One scene that i liked was when the one group of apes were at the waterhole and then all of the sudden the other group came and just took over the waterhole by just yelling and screaming. And then later when they used the bones of a dead animal to knock out the other apes was also a great scene. It really showed the advancements of tools and how quickly a group can gain an advantage over another by new technology.
I enjoyed the opening sequence of the movie showing the evolution of the ape-men to using tools. The using in the background added more to the scene by creating suspense and shows how a simply change, like the addition of tools can help to progress a species so far. As the movie progressed, the monolith that caused the genius idea of using a bone to help fight off their enemies to made them much more efficient in killing their prey, and feeding their people. This is important to the plot of the whole story, and the effect of the monolith of the people who touch it since it shows up later, as the movies progresses.
The very last scene in the movie where Dave sees himself getting progressively older is one of my favorites. I felt like there were two meanings to it. The one where he is eating, and sleeping is very simple. It shows the natural course of things as one gets old. Then he returns to space, but this time as a fetus circling the Earth. This is symbolic because it sort of says that people will come back after death, reborn, to finish tasks on Earth.
I thought the scene near the end where the spaceship was spying on the two astronauts was particularly brillant. In this scene, the two astronauts have been blamed for the errors that are going wrong in the mission. They decide to sit in one of the smaller ships and discuss possible ways to overcome the problem with the ship. The ship, being unable to hear what the astronauts are saying, watches their mouths and reads their lips to find out what they are planning. I think this scene is particularly brillant because it shows how man can be outsmarted by a machine. It also plays into the larger role of the movie in explaining the evolution of man. Here it shows how man made machines but he made them too sophisticated that they outsmarted him and took over. This may be hinting at how a majority of our society today is based around machines.
I would say that the scene where the astronaut travels and sees himself as an old man and then as an older man and then finally as a fetus baby is brilliant especially because it relates to the theme of time that we have been studying in class. It relates to the rest of the movie because they are continuously traveling through time and they are always aware of it. I also like how it relates to the plays and books that we have been reading in class, because I think it is easier to understand the director's interpretation of everything after learning about time.
The most brilliant scene, in my opinion, was near the end when the computer was taking over. I found this significant because it shows how technology is becoming overpowering in our society and on the verge of taking over. Even though this movie was produced in 1968, they predicted that computers would become more intelligent and we would depend of them in many ways. I do not like how powerful "HAL" becomes and fear the overtaking of technology in our lives. It was very powerful when Hal cut off the life of all of the hibernating astronauts as well as when he would not let Dave and Dave's friend in the spaceship and ends up disconnecting Dave's friend as well. In the end, however, it still shows the strength of mankind because Dave gets in to the spaceship through the emergency exit and overtakes Hal 9000. This symbolizes that even though computers have become very strong and in a way overpowering, humans did create them and they should still be superior. This scene relates to the larger meaning of the movie because it shows how technology has become overpowering and controls most of the movie. This scene is also a turning point in the movie, when Dave "Kills" the computer and shows superiority and the struggle between technology and mankind.
The scene where the computers shut down is important because it represents the end of life. Back when this movie came out, this scene was probably very surprising for audiences because technology had never been made to control human beings. Seeing the straight lines was very powerful and represents the end of time. The sounds added also helped make it much more meaningful. This scene is very different from the simple life that we saw in the first scene of the movie with the apes where there was no technology present.
The scene where Hal is being shut down and he reverts to the time of his creation. He sings "Daisy" and slowly dies. This is brilliant because as the computer is dying it is like his entire "life" flashes before his "eyes."
I will be honest and say that I was truly puzzled for more than half of the movie- but one thing I really enjoyed was the Cosmic Fetus at the very end. I suppose that it could easily relate to how we have been looking at Sidhatha and how he believed that things are eternal at every moment. The cosmic fetus signified the beginnign of something as well as the end of it.
My favorite scene was the ending scene when Dave is shown as he ages. Dave progresses to old age and then a fetus, which represents the passing of time throughout one's life. I think it is interesting that in the ending scene time seemed to move much faster than it did in the rest of the movie. To me, the majority of the movie moved at the normal speed of time, which appears to be very slow in comparison to action movies. However, in the end Dave ages very quickly, which shows another interpretation of time. This scene brings the movie to a close by connecting Dave's birth and death, with his time on the space ship included between.
One scene that i liked was when the one group of apes were at the waterhole and then all of the sudden the other group came and just took over the waterhole by just yelling and screaming. And then later when they used the bones of a dead animal to knock out the other apes was also a great scene. It really showed the advancements of tools and how quickly a group can gain an advantage over another by new technology.
I believe the ending scene was particularly brilliant. Where the man had come back down to earth aged quite a bit and then saw himself around age 70 eating and having to walk with a walker and then again at age 80 lying in bed barely able to move and then the scene ending with a fetus and showing almost a sense of rebirth. This movie although i thought it was quite boring had a good ending.
I enjoyed the scene where the man was cutting the wires/system off of the talking hole (Hal) and slowly yet surely, Hal was "dying". As a robot, it was able to take lives, but in the end it was overturned by humanbeings. The upperhand of mankind is potrayed in this movie periodically (apes dying, etc.)and this theme is very parallel with the scene stated above.
The scene in the movie I thought was the most brilliant was in the space ship where the lady was walking around the revolving floor that never ended. This remonded me of the piece in the article about the "Now's". The idea that every frame in life is part of a film strip that is never ending. The past is the future and the future is now and always repeating themselves.
One scene that I thought was very interesting was when one of the men was running in circles. It was brilliant because he was defying gravity. Other times during the movie people would go through doors and completely change their orientation. It was neat because as a viewer you would think that they would fall or at least notice the change but they did not.
The scene that I found to be the most brilliant was where you are watching the ship travel through time. Not only was it visually appealing with it's vibrant colors and patterns, it had symbols throughout the journey that represented larger themes. As Mr. Schindler pointed out to us during class, there were shapes that resembled sperm and eggs which would make sense because of the scene with the fetus at the end of the movie. The time travel scene was a fascinating lead up to the end scene where you experience the effects of time.
I found the final scene in the movie to be of most significance to the rest of the story. When the astronaut sees himself age continuously, this thought represents time not having any measurement and therefore being an illusion. Finally, when he turns into the fetus and returns back to the earth, it represent knowledge gained in the past that is passed on to a new generation. This theme was reflected throughout the entire film when great advances in human knowledge occur.
Since I have missed the first part of the movie on last Friday, the scene that I think is particularly brilliant is the one where it shows the people in habiting the spaceship (the circular spaceship one). I think that it is pretty cool that wherever you walk to, you will still feel that the opposite side is the ceiling although it can be either the ceiling or the ground. But especially the scene where it shows the three people inhabiting in the space coverage (coffin-box) can shows that time does not exist or that it has no longer exists, because these people have stopped functioning as well as with time its self.
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The scene in the end of the movie when Dave sees himself aging was an intriguingly brilliant scene. He first sees an older version of himself then he becomes that older version and sees and even older version and becomes that version of himself until he eventually dies and is reborn in the very last scene of the movie. This scene related very much to the article that we read in class about time consisting of many “nows” that all exist at the same time and that our consciousness jumps from “now” to “now”. This reflects the theme throughout the movie of time and how time changes and creatures evolve by the influence of time.
The scene that i would pick isnt really a single scene its more of a couple scenes. When he finally lands in the black and white room after traveling through the colors of light, he starts to see himslef through different staes of life. First he sees himself as he is, then when he is a little older, after that when he is getting pretty old and he is sitting at the table in the room eating dinner. The next stage is when he is very old and laying in a bed. I think it was showing him as dead but im not sure so it was either when he was dead or very old and sleeping. The last image of the movie i believe was also a stage of his life being shown. The final scene shows a baby in the earliest stages floating above the earth and looking down at it. This is where the movie ends. I think that this is an important scene or set of scenes because it shows that maybe what was on the planet and what was going to be explored and revolutionary was the actual cycle of life being discovered. the scene showed that whole cycle and that it keeps going with rebirth and death always happening.
One scene I thought was really good was when Dave went to retrieve his friend and came back determined to save him. When he approaches the ship, he says to the supercomputer HAL "Open the pod bay doors HAL," and there is a pause and HAL finally responds that he cannot do that because he thinks Dave would compromise "the mission". All of the different scenes that dealt with Dave and HAL led up to this one, because HAL had kept on saying how he was perfect and never made mistakes as if he was better than humans. It was neat to see the determination in Dave's face as he snuck in through the emergency entrance and shut off HAL all while HAL tries to negotiate with him since he knows he is helpless at that point. This relates to one of the secondary themes of the movie, which is that we should not become over-reliant on technology.
The scene when the computer is being broken down so it would stop being a nuisance is a really good scene because it depicts how something so as clever as it can be will always have a flaw and is vulnerable for destruction. It relates to the meaning of the movie because as time progresses and as intelligent mankind can become in the end there can and will be something that will destroy us no matter how hard we try to fend it off. In the end the guy sees himself growing old and dying which is something that cannot be stopped. Death can be evaded for an amount of time, but when it comes down to it death is the ultimate winner.
An important scene in the movie was the second time that the audience sees the monolith. During this scene there are many similarites between the monkeys coming across the monolith and the humans seeing it for the first time. The same music is playing and the humans appear to have similar reactions, to seeing it, to the monkeys. They start out hesitantly at first and then one of them decides to touch it and once they all realize its safe everyone joins in. This is important because it furthers the idea of evolution and that despite being in space and using human technology they still act just as the monkeys did when making a discovery. This also fits into the continuing idea of a higher beings involvement being too mysterious for even our more advanced brains to comprehend, which is why everyone's brain began to hurt during the encounter.
Like a lot of other people I thought that final scene of the movie was absolutely brilliant. I found it very interesting that his younger self would look upon his older self, but when the movie switched to the older self's point of view, the younger one was gone. His final "space fetus" stage was very cool because it showed the evolution of the human race once again with help from the monolith. The monolith represented a change in the thought process of the human race. Humanity is constantly striving for a better way of life that eventually leads to pivotal moments in our evolution, which are represented by the monolith. This theme of change over a (relative) period of time and what this change brings and is responsible for is a huge part of the movies message.
I thought the most interesting scene was when the monkey's were competing with one another for who could be in the certain area. I kind of shows survival of the fittest in the most simple form.
The scene of the spacecraft that was taking the scientists across the moon's surface from the moon base to the dig site and the scene of the Jupiter craft right outside the Jupiter system and the scene of the Jupiter craft right as Dave went outside to repair the AE35 and meteors went whizzing by all have one thing critically in common: they depicted the spacecraft in a tiny corner of the screen. None of the shots had man's creation in the center of the picture, they had the cosmos occupying the majority of the screen. I think this was a huge statement of Kubrick's showing that man is small and insignificant. Even with monumentous accomplishments of mankind, he is nothing by comparison.
This one should be pretty easy, but the scene I would have picked for this has also been picked by about half the people who've posted already, I really would have prefered to have talked about the beginning scenes with the apes because I think it has the most important message, the message that I got, that is. The message that all we are areapes with tools. A scene that I don't think wsa very important at all wsa the trippy scene through the monolith, the 3 minutes of randomly colored, what appeared to be desert, was not really needed in my opinion.
Well I really liked the scene where we find out that HAL was the computer aboard the ship that went to the monolith on the moon. We can see that we, as apes, were slaves to our fickle battles over watter (some would suggest we still are...) and that the monolith freed us from that. Now we see that the monolith has freed the computer from the dominance we had over it. HAL, unlike it's sister versions, was able to exert dominance over its masters using the monolith's gift of higher thinking. I like that the monolith could work it's magic even on a computer, that even a computer had a life, a conscience.
I think the scene where the two guys are locked in the space ship and are discussing the possibility that the computor is disfunctional and ruining the mission. The computor reads what they are saying and later kills all members except for the main character. This is important because it sets the tone for the rest of the movie. He has to figure out how to overcome the computor and by doing so sees himself in the later years.
One of the most interesting scenes to me was when Dave ends up unplugging Hal. Throughout the movie Hals programming seems to gain more human emotions, which I believe reveals evolution. This could also portray the directors beliefs on what will happen once computers have become extremely technologically advanced. As Dave is unplugging Hal these human-like emotions are shown by Hal begging, pleading, and telling Dave that he has changed. He even tries to sing Dave a song when is being unplugged to try and play on Daves own emotions.
I thought the scene when Hal kills all the hibernating astronauts quite remarkable. The scene is so cold and sterile that death is not at all violent and keeps the movie G. Even though there is no violence or gore, the scene is one of the most chilling and scary deaths I have seen. The most troubling thought of these deaths is that the people don't even get to realize they are dying combined with the fact that it is done by a robot that is created by man to respect and serve him. This was a brilliant scene.
I think one of the most brilliant scenes in 2001 is when Dave and Frank enter a space pod to discuss the disconnection of H.A.L. The two astronauts believe they are safe to talk since they cut off all connections and programs and yelled for H.A.L. to bring the pod around. Then as they turn to eachother, they reveal their mouths to H.A.L.'s visible vision from the wallboard in the pod room. I think its an inportant scene relating to the larger meaning of evolution and variables/attributes. I don't think any human programmed H.A.L. to read lips, but think that H.A.L. studied Frank and Dave from the beginning of their voyage. H.A.L. was an uncontrollable creation of circuits that has been represented in many movies as a driving force of evil.
I think that the when hal is shut down finally, that it shows humans doninace over all. Hal is supposed to be this amazing computer, but then he grows actual emotion and tries to keep himself alive and kills all the crew except Dave. But Dave found a way to shut the real problem down which was hal. Hal can control most everything on the ship, but he couldn't find a way to kill Dave.
*complains and whines*
Just kidding.
Well I think one of the biggest scenes is the final one where Bowman encounters what is "inside the monolith". It's very symbolic, or at least less-subtly symbolic. The various transformations he goes through helps to show the transition of Bowman into a place where time has no meaning and he is reborn as something new.
ie the cosmic fetus.
One scene that is particulary brilliant in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey is when astronaut Dave is travelling through a tunnel of many colors, lights and sounds. This scene demonstrates the main theme of the movie which is human evolution through time. As Dave travels through the tunnel I believe that he moving through time and many different "Nows."
I found the scene after Dave retrieves his dead friend to be puzzeling. Dave returns to the ship and when he asks HAL to open the door, he refuses. HAL states that he believes that Dave would compromise or hinder the mission. Even though all the talking between HAL and Dave seemed to be very polite and civilized he becomes rude and stubborn. He also said that he thought Dave would compromise the mission but this raises the question of why humans where put onto the ship in the first place if the mission could be done better with just the computer. Also, what was the mission in the first place? Did the movie ever let the viewer know what the mission was? Maybe I fell asleep during that part.
So the scene that I thought was "brilliant" was the scene were the main characters go into the pod and try to out smart HAL. They fail because HAL then just reads their lips but it still was a really impressive scene. This relates to the larger theme of the movie because it shows that something is always controlling us. Or that there is always a greater purpose in life, or a bigger fate. Because HAL was told to do something the went behind what the humans knew about.
I personally think the final scene was the most brilliant seen. With the space fetus, and the monolith representing the spark for human evolution. Also how writer had his younger version self looking upon his elder self was a brilliant idea
In the movie A Space Odyssey, I think that the most important scene was when the computer, Hell malfunctioned and decided to take on orders that he was not given. This was an important turning point the movie because it shows how over time humans are going to end up killing themselves by the different kinds of machines that are made to help improve their lives. I think that this a good example of time because over the course of time when the man that was the only survivor on the space ship travels to Jupiter and finds himself old and dying it show how people are going to live their lives too quickly in order to make life easier to enjoy.
A particular scene in 2001: A Space Odessy that struck me as brilliant is the part where the humans in space see the same thing that the apes saw. Since this is what presumably caused the apes to evolve, this foreshadows what is to come for humans. The way the humans interact with this new objects mirrors the way the apes behaved when they incountered the same thing. The musice during this scene adds heightened dramatic affect.
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