Film: 2001 :: Papers

Film 2001 2001 is a masterpiece of movie theater that still influences film makers nearly thirty years after it was do -- but what does it actually mean? Therein lies the enigma. Of course, 2001 is open to many interpretations and belike even Kubrick couldnt provide the correct one. The film is very different from the bear Kubrick reduced the original script to its bare essentials making the actors part of the taradiddle , but not telling the narrative through the script. making it a lesser part of the hole experience. Where there is speaking it is almost perpetually symbolic The first words spoken signal the decay of human beings language to empty phrases Here you are, sir. Main level, please. The opening of 2001 is the Dawn of world sequence which dovetails neatly with end of Dr. Strangelove Well meet again, some sunny twenty-four hours First image in the film is of a rising fair weather Obviously, Kubrick pondered deeply the astonishing r eality, that idea that man was smart enough to cuff up the earth, but not smart enough to stop that from possibility (kubric)(man doesnt want to nail himself, but he does). How could such a phenomenon snuff it? With such strong symbolic events and imagery in the opening seen it is labored to see them all as individual events, kubric expenditures these to tell the narrative of the story. The fair weather is not just light, but heat (a desert). Making the Sun not necessarily good, the Sun is usually seen as positive in congress to dark, but not in a desert. This makes the sun a negative, with the use of water as a positive. The leopard killing the zebra Is a key fragment to the opening scene representing the behaviour of man the Zebra is a coexistence of black and gabardine? Good an bad together just like man, making the leopard the final stage of man kind maybe symbolising the bomb. To echo the directors words ,QUOTE youre excess to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical significance of the film but