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2001: A Space Odyssey

  • 1968
  • G
  • 2h 29m
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.
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After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins - a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer H.A.L. 900... Read allAfter uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins - a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer H.A.L. 9000.After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins - a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer H.A.L. 9000.

  • Director
    • Stanley Kubrick
  • Writers
    • Stanley Kubrick
    • Arthur C. Clarke
  • Stars
    • Keir Dullea
    • Gary Lockwood
    • William Sylvester
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.3/10
    686K
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    POPULARITY
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    • Director
      • Stanley Kubrick
    • Writers
      • Stanley Kubrick
      • Arthur C. Clarke
    • Stars
      • Keir Dullea
      • Gary Lockwood
      • William Sylvester
    • 2.5KUser reviews
    • 269Critic reviews
    • 84Metascore
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  • Top rated movie #92
    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 17 wins & 12 nominations total

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    Keir Dullea
    Keir Dullea
    • Dr. Dave Bowman
    Gary Lockwood
    Gary Lockwood
    • Dr. Frank Poole
    William Sylvester
    William Sylvester
    • Dr. Heywood R. Floyd
    Daniel Richter
    Daniel Richter
    • Moon-Watcher
    Leonard Rossiter
    Leonard Rossiter
    • Dr. Andrei Smyslov
    Margaret Tyzack
    Margaret Tyzack
    • Elena
    Robert Beatty
    Robert Beatty
    • Dr. Ralph Halvorsen
    Sean Sullivan
    Sean Sullivan
    • Dr. Bill Michaels
    Douglas Rain
    Douglas Rain
    • HAL 9000
    • (voice)
    Frank Miller
    • Mission Controller
    • (voice)
    Bill Weston
    Bill Weston
    • Astronaut
    Ed Bishop
    Ed Bishop
    • Aries-1B Lunar Shuttle Captain
    • (as Edward Bishop)
    Glenn Beck
    Glenn Beck
    • Astronaut
    Alan Gifford
    Alan Gifford
    • Poole's Father
    Ann Gillis
    Ann Gillis
    • Poole's Mother
    Edwina Carroll
    Edwina Carroll
    • Aries-1B Stewardess
    Penny Brahms
    Penny Brahms
    • Stewardess
    Heather Downham
    Heather Downham
    • Stewardess
    • Director
      • Stanley Kubrick
    • Writers
      • Stanley Kubrick
      • Arthur C. Clarke(uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      The movie was not a financial success at first. MGM was planning to pull it back from theaters, but several theater owners persuaded them to keep showing the film. Many owners noticed increasing numbers of young adults attending the film. They were especially enthusiastic about watching the "Star Gate" sequence under the influence of psychedelic drugs. This helped the film to become a financial success.
    • Goofs
      Bowman inhales deeply before attempting to re-enter the ship from the pod. Arthur C. Clarke in an interview later noted that this is incorrect. Bowman should have exhaled, as the vacuum of space would have damaged his lungs had they been full of air.
    • Quotes

      HAL: I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.

    • Crazy credits
      No opening credits for actors, writers, producer, director, etc. are shown, with the story beginning right after the title. Although by the 1990s it had become quite common for major films to not have opening credits, it was still unusual in 1968.
    • Alternate versions
      To create the 35mm general release prints, the Super Panavision image was slightly truncated on the top and bottom to achieve the standard 2.35:1 aspect ratio of 35mm anamorphic ("scope") prints.
    • Connections
      Edited into C'è musica & musica: Nuovo mondo (1972)
    • Soundtracks
      Gayane Ballet Suite -- Gayane's Adagio
      (1941-2)

      Music by Aram Khachaturyan

      Performed by Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra (as the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra)

      Conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

      Courtesy Deutsche Grammophon

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    Nietzsche and 2001
    I'm always surprised, given that the famous title track of 2001 is called "Also sprach Zarathustra", that nobody (nobody I've read, anyway) has noted the parallels between the movie and Nietzsche's famous work, "Also sprach Zarathustra". The idea of man's rebirth into a star child; an infant form of an indescribably more advanced being, is an explicit part of N.'s "Zarathustra"; there is a prominent passage called "On how a camel becomes a lion, and a lion becomes a child", in which N. describes the first incarnation of the overman as a child, transcending both the ascetic, altruistic side of man (the camel; always asking to bear more weight) and the rapacious, brutish, will-to-power side of man (the lion). The fact that the song plays during the star child sequence can hardly be coincidence. And also, Zarathustra said that "man is a rope tied between beasts and the overman." The structure of the movie fits that description: a brief history of man as beast, until we become truly man by mastering weapons and acquiring reason, then a long sequence about man (the rope, as it were), and then a brief glimpse of the overman. The inscrutability of how these transformations occurred, and the suggestion that an external force caused them, is also Nietzschean; in "Zarathustra", he makes it pretty clear that he doesn't have a clue how people are going to be able to enact these changes themselves and suggests that we will have to depend on an outsider (Zarathustra) to show us how to "go under". Bowman's psychedelic sequence at the near-end could be seen as Kubrick's best 1960's-style attempt at depicting the mystical "going under".

    I know these parallels are pretty broad, and almost certainly have been noted elsewhere despite the fact that I have not personally seen it. But I just wanted to mention them, if for no other reason than to try to dispel the myth that Nietzsche was ultimately a gloomy philosopher. Few people find the ending of 2001 to be gloomy, and it is in my opinion, explicitly and unmistakeably Nietzschean. The case could certainly be made that 2001 is above all a dramatization of "Zarathustra" updated for the modern age. Feel free to disregard the outright snobbishness of my tying everything to Nietzsche.
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    • Why did we see 7 "stars" during David's travel into the wormhole and what is the meaning behind it?
    • What became of the hominid monolith?
    • When we see HAL reading the lips of the two men, we don't hear what they are saying. What were they saying to each other, when we couldn't hear them?

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    • Release date
      • June 24, 1970 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
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    • Languages
      • English
      • Russian
      • French
    • Also known as
      • How the Solar System Was Won
    • Filming locations
      • Isle of Harris, Western Isles, Scotland, UK(alien planet surface)
    • Production companies
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
      • Stanley Kubrick Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $12,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $60,481,243
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $202,759
      • May 20, 2018
    • Gross worldwide
      • $66,362,007
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 29 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.20 : 1

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