Some people say "dark and long". First of all, congratulations on the good version you bought, but I really don't want you to lose the interest of watching this blockbuster again because of this problem. The 5 minutes of the opening and the 5 minutes of the midfield were dark for a reason at the time. Movies in the 50s and 60s, including the famous "Gone with the Wind" and "Lawrence of Arabia" were all like this. At that time, TV was too competitive. Going to a movie theater to watch such a blockbuster is like watching a drama or an opera to the audience. The first 5 minutes is for the audience to enter the venue, the middle 5 minutes, of course, to solve the physiological problems of the first 1 and 1/2 hours. In these dark hours, there is no subtitle change, only the main melody or soundtrack of the film reverberates. The discs that can be bought today retain the form and taste of the original film and soundtrack.
Is the original novel science fiction? This is a topic worthy of discussion. The baby body that appeared in the scene of rejuvenation until the end of the film is not only the spiritual journey of the protagonist himself, but also an allegory of the relationship between mankind and the universe. Among them, the deep taste, Lao Ku is dead, can only be discovered from the 13 movies that he has taken in his life with no identical themes and genres.
Ku doesn't have too many books to write about, but he uses images to bring shock. 13 films from the 50s to the 90s are hugely produced, and the plots and screens are rich in nuanced details. In this film, Lao Ku personally designed many scenes and furniture inside the spacecraft. Although there will be no stories surrounding them, they are "hard" enough in terms of science fiction. Let’s talk about music. Two carefully selected pieces of classical music show grandeur and magnificence in the soothing, sounding at the right time, just right to render the atmosphere of the endless stage of the universe.
It is recommended that people who do not want to watch it completely because of slowness and black screen use better speakers, larger screens, and enough time to watch "Turandot" in one night, with a less boring mood, slowly savoring, and feeling Would be great. It may make you want to watch more of his films and get to know the greatest filmmaker of the 20th century who has passed away for more than 5 years.
I also added that this movie is based on Clark's short story expansion. Arthur Clark can be described as one of the greatest novelists after Verne, known for his accurate predictions of scientific development. He has a well-known saying: "In the eyes of a backward era, modern science is no different from magic." The most famous fantasy is: in a small paper published in 1945, "Relay Beyond Earth", he proposed the earth. The idea of a synchronous orbit communication satellite system. Based on his fantasy, scientists did not invent a satellite communication system that covers all corners of the world with only three satellites until 1967. To this day, the World Communications Satellite Organization still symbolically pays Clark an annual copyright fee of US$1. Of course, of course, the 2001 Space Odyssey is no exception. Although it is only a short story of several thousand words, encountering Kubrick can derive a masterpiece full of philosophy. (The script was adapted from his short story "The Sentinel") Later, based on the movie script he and Kubrick co-wrote, Clark wrote a series of novels of the same name one after another.
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A little supplement about 5 minutes of darkness:
IMDB mentioned: Some versions have title cards on-screen during the Overture and Entr'acte sections, while other versions omit these titles and simply play the music over a black screen. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/alternateversions) In
other words, there is a version with intermission, but you haven't seen it, just like the opening and midfield of "Lawrence of Arabia" I have seen. Overture and Entr'acte Music was a must-have for this kind of ultra-long movie at the time. Kubrick also arranged an 8-minute black screen and music after his exit. It's just that these have been deleted in many later versions, and the black screens before and after it were all deleted during the early broadcast on American TV.
But the wonderful thing is that Kubrick very cleverly took advantage of these two necessary periods of darkness and subtly blended them with the music and themes of the movie.
There is another person who thinks that this darkness has a very great meaning. It has been 40 years and not many people have discovered it. He thinks that the reason why Lao Ku changed the pyramid-shaped Monolith black stone in the original book to a rectangular shape is due to the two periods of darkness. When the audience thought they were listening to the entrance and intermission music, they didn't realize that, in fact, this Monolith Blackstone, which symbolizes eternity and supreme wisdom, was watching the audience, and even sang to the audience after the speaker. What Chateau Xtra said is its singing. Here is the person’s analysis:
http://collativelearning.com/2001%20chapter%202.html
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