![]() Kubrick finds expression for the mystery and awe of being alive in this universe, at this time, by invoking images of the unimaginably distant past ("The Dawn of Man") and the unimaginably near future ("Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite"). I saw "2001" at the Cinerama Theater in Seattle when I was 10 years old. And then, in the last few moments of the film, the spherical, planet-sized Star Child drifts into view. In case you guys are wondering, I saw the 70mm re-issue of this film earlier today (which follows really close to the OG 68 release from what I know) and it. When we see the image of the planets and the monolith in alignment at the beginning of the film's last movement (the psychedelic star trip into inner/outer space), we have that momentous sense that this is the climax of the picture, and it could take us anywhere - even if we don't understand exactly what's going on. (I've said it before: " Eyes Wide Shut" is ridiculous if seen as a straight narrative it's magnificent when you look at it as a musical composition, using imagey the way musicians use sounds - thematic statements, colors, tempos, structure, repetition, development, variation.) The opening to Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' in my opinion, one of the greatest movies of all time which the best opening of all time. ![]() ![]() Clarke ’s 2010: Odyssey Two, and its 1984 film adaption. ![]() Kubrick composed his films with a thoroughly musical technique unlike any other director I can think of. The landscape shots were filmed in Namibia, southwest Africa, the worlds second most sparsely populated country is famous for its desolate beauty Namib. Lucifer Edit Lucifer Appearances 2010: Odyssey Two 2061: Odyssey Three 3001: The Final Odyssey Lucifer is a mini-sun that is created by an anomalous event, at the closing of the Jupiter mission, in Arthur C. ![]()
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