12/3/2023 0 Comments Explain 2001 space odyssey![]() It seems to be the way Kubrik liked to work. This isn’t to disparage the film in any way, it just creates a different feel and in the way that the film and book of The Shining are different but still both great, so is 2001. What the monoliths are, and what subsequently happens to Bowman when he reaches Saturn’s moon Iapetus and makes his final transmission to earth of 'The thing's hollow – it goes on forever – and – oh my God – it's full of stars!', is what the novel is really built on rather than a psychotic computer. However, in the novel, although the plot is very similar, the spaceship and HAL aren’t focused on to the same extent, and the reason for what happens is explained. As disaster befalls the crew, the film leaves the cause unexplained as a warning that the technology we build may then move beyond our control, with the reason only being revealed in the sequel, 2010, released in 1984. The film focuses heavily on the voyage and HAL's personality and interaction with the crew, and the growing uneasiness Bowman feels in the face of HAL’s unblinking red eye and unemotional demeanour. As the alien intelligence influenced humankind so long ago, humans have created their own intelligence in a computer that is vastly superior to any human brain, but which has its own failings. HAL has been built to sound as human as possible, as well being powerful enough to run the entire ship. Unfortunately this discovery of the monolith is concealed from Frank Poole and David Bowman, who are the two members of the Discovery crew which are awake for the voyage, and who are at the mercy of the most advanced computer of the age - HAL 9000. It is the same as the monolith on the moon, which once uncovered, sends out a pulse into space aimed at Saturn. What the book explains, which the film does a lot more abstractly, is that this monolith has been sent by, and contains, alien intelligence, and it kick-starts the development of the apes down a path towards becoming human. The book, like the film, begins with the beginning of mankind, hundreds of thousands of years ago, and a monolith that appears out of nowhere near a group of apes. However, the unearthing of a strange black monolith buried on the moon will have significant consequences for the crew of the Discovery as it makes its way deep into the solar system. Developed from a short story Clarke wrote called The Sentinel, where an alien artefact is found on the moon, 2001 A Space Odyssey expands this into a frontier-exploring novel where mankind, which has managed to build a space station above earth and set up a research base on the moon, is now expanding even further out into the solar system and sending men to Saturn. Kubric wanted a story to then form a script for the 1968 film of the same name. ![]() The novel version of 2001 A Space Odyssey came to be because the director Stanley Kubrik wrote to Arthur C Clarke in 1964 to ask him if he had any ideas for a 'proverbial good science fiction movie'.
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