2001 - Film Notes

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And he had made it in a way that invited us to contemplate it--not to experience it vicariously as entertainment, as we might in a good conventional science-fiction film, but to stand outside it as a philosopher might, and think about it.”</div> <div> (Roger Ebert, http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/greatmovies/space_odyssey.html)</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>The film is composed of four sections</U></b>:</div> <div> I.  The Dawn of Man</div> <div> II. Lunar Mission, year 2000 (untitled segment)</div> <div> III. Jupiter Mission, 18 Months Later</div> <div> IV. Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Themes:</U></b></div> <div> Consciousness</div> <div> <B>     Its origins, development and consequences</b></div> <div> Enlightenment, awakening, awareness, self-awareness</div> <div> Human needs and nourishment:  physical and spiritual</div> <div> Materialism vs. Idealism - do ideas or material circumstances determine our behavior?</div> <div> Technology - tools and weapons</div> <div> Creation and destruction - creativity and insight, violence and destructiveness </div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Techniques to look for:</U></b></div> <div> Sound and music - how do the sounds and music in the film function?  What purpose do they serve in developing the themes?</div> <div> Perspectives - how does camera angle and perspective help to tell the story?</div> <div> Dialogue - why does the film have so little dialogue?  Is any of it important?</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Questions to Consider:</U></b></div> <bR> <div> 1.  How would you describe the life of the primates? </div> <div> 2.  What is their relationship with their neighboring creatures?</div> <div> 3.  What is their relationship with each other?</div> <div> 4.  What is the monolith?  What are its distinctive qualities?</div> <div>    What might the monolith symbolize; what is so appealing about it for the primates?</div> <div> 5.  What does the monolith sound like?  Does sound come from it, or is that just the soundtrack?</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="90020820.jpg" border=0 width="288" height="130" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 6.  What changes occur after the appearance of the monolith?</div> <bR> <div> 7.  The tool used by the primate is a bone, which means it used to be part of a living organism.  What does that say about the development of humans… about the nature of progress?  … about the relationship between life and death?</div> <bR> <div> 8.  The fact that life on earth already existed at the time of the monolith's appearance suggests what about the movie's themes?  (Is it concerned with the origins of life on earth?  If not, then what IS it concerned with?) </div> <bR> <div> 9.  What connection does the filmmaker establish between the primate's tool and the spaceship?  What is similar about both of them?</div> <bR> <div> 10. Why does the film linger so long on the approach of the shuttle into the station, and the lowering of the ship into the base?  It's obviously important or else the filmmaker wouldn't spend so much time on it.  In most films, the spaceship is merely a </div> <div> vehicle to transport characters to the next situation; what is the function of the </div> <div> long scenes of space travel in this film?</div> <bR> <div> 11.  Similarly, why does so much of the dialogue seem insignificant?  In most films, the dialogue is (supposed to be) important; is all of this dialogue important?  Why does the filmmaker hide very important statements in the middle of seemingly empty and trivial dialogue?  </div> <bR> <div> 12.  The epidemic is a cover story; people should not know the real reason for the mission.  But the scene raises a more important question for the movie as a whole:  What kinds of knowledge should people not be made aware of?</div> <bR> <div> 13.  What is noteworthy about the way that the monolith on the moon is buried?</div> <bR> <div> 14.  Who or what created this monolith?</div> <div> 15.  Plato theorized that we live in an imperfect reflection of a more perfect world.  What about the physical nature of the monolith suggests that it could be a manifestation of Plato's conception of ideal forms?</div> <bR> <div> 16.  Speaking of classical Greece, what classical theater technique is evoked by the sound of the monolith?</div> <bR> <div> 17.  What happens at the monolith on the moon?</div> <div> 18.  What happened between then and the start of the Jupiter Mission?</div> <bR> <div> 19.  Why does the filmmaker spend so much time on the astronauts' choice of sandwiches?  Come to think of it, why are there so many scenes devoted to food and eating?  How does human food change over time in the film?  What other kinds of nourishment do humans need to be truly human?</div> <div> <IMG SRC="902795b0.jpg" border=0 width="121" height="91" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="904ac450.jpg" border=0 width="172" height="69" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="906ac450.jpg" border=0 width="172" height="69" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 20.  Speaking of truly human, what is special about HAL 9000?</div> <div> Do you think that the filmmakers deliberately named the computer HAL because it's the first letters after I,B,M?</div> <div> His intellect is independent, but he is dependent on humans nonetheless - for what?</div> <div> That means that for HAL, humans are a kind of _______</div> <bR> <div> 21.  Do you think that HAL has emotions?  What evidence would you use?</div> <bR> <div> 22.  Why are there so many birthdays in the movie?  Dr. Floyd's daughter, then Frank.  Are there any other kinds of births?</div> <bR> <div> 23.  Describe and compare the two types of sounds, especially with regard to frequency-</div> <div> Human / organic:</div> <div> Computer / spaceship: </div> <bR> <div> 24.  HAL is omniscient (all-knowing), omnipotent (all-powerful) and omnipresent (present everywhere); to what entity have these qualities traditionally been attributed?</div> <bR> <div> 25.  Is there more than one monolith?</div> <bR> <div> 26.  Is HAL's “insanity” coincidence, or human error in creating a computer, or something else?</div> <div> Does HAL have a mission separate from the stated mission of the crew?  If so, what could it be?</div> <bR> <div> 27.  What happens to Dave?</div> <div> Is he in real time and on Jupiter, or has entered some other kind of dimension (or both?)</div> <bR> <div> 28.  Notice the food again.  What does it mean?  What is the significance of the glass?</div> <bR> <div> 29. What does the final imagery mean?</div> <bR> <div> 30.  Is evolution / development of humankind best measured by advances in technology or advances in consciousness?</div> <bR> <div> 31.  What films were influenced by this one?</div> <bR> <div> 32.  Is this a good film to show in a philosophy class?  Why/why not?</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="908ac450.jpg" border=0 width="172" height="69" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>