2001: A Space Odyssey

Many of the space themed science fiction movies contain underlying planetary archetypes within the plots that add to the movie such as Jupiter, the Moon, Saturn, Mars, and Mercury. Specifically, in this paper the planetary archetypes will be assessed in the films of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Interstellar (2014), and The Martian (2015).

     The discussion about science leads into the second point of monoliths and technology. www.dictionary.com defines a monolith as something, such as a column or monument, made from one large block of stone. This is first portrayed in the first couple of scenes in the movie. As the gorilla finds the monolith, picks it up and uses it as a weapon to kill prey. Next, when the gorilla throws the bone up in to the air, it becomes a space ship over Earth. As I researched, this was the longest time change in history of all the movies. Considering the bone became the spaceship just shows that even though technologically people have progressed, the minds still stayed relatively the same with the same goals. As a saying my mother once told me, Men are like children, but when they get older they change their toys. I find this to be relevant in “2001” as the time change only portrays a different time period but more or less the same content. Because the movie is very slow paced, in my opinion, it gives the viewer a lot of time to question everything that is happening and make sure to understand everything. There is not much conversation there either which is not serving as another distraction. Makes the theme of the movie very clear. Stanley Kubrick also includes the

Around the globe, each nation’s culture defines us while social factors impact our lifestyle causing us to be feel far from one another while constructs that rule our behaviors are much the same. The novels, 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline have more in common than both being predicted outcomes of America's future later documented on the big screen. Both of these science fiction stories include the psychology behind social and cultural expectations seen throughout their multiple states of reality, surge in technological usage, and companionship.

There are an abundance of similarities found in the visual and audio representations in Arthur C. Clarke's short story, "The Sentinel", and those found in director Stanley Kubrick's film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Clark actually aided Kubrick in writing the script for the movie, which was in no small part based on the work of literature the author had previously written (Soriano, 2008). To that end, Kubrick's film functions as an example of many of the concepts originally denoted by Clark in "The Sentinel". While many of these ideas were mere thoughts and strands of notions that were not fully developed within the short story, Kubrick's work had the length and budget to fully actualize many of these concepts that both works of art are ultimately based on. 2001: A Space Odyssey functions as a way to elucidate many of the important concepts that Clarke initiated in "The Sentinel", some of the most important of which are the ineffable nature of existence and man's finite role in it.

Star Wars is a series that has been around since the late 1970s. When you watch the very first one “Star Wars A New Hope” which was released in May of 1977 and compare it to the new one “Star Wars The Force Awakens” which was released last year you will notice that there storylines are very similar. When it comes to similarities of these 2 films it isn't just the characters that are the same. In “The New Hope” R2D2 has a map that shows them how to blow up the Death Star. Their main focus is to keep the droid “R2D2” alive because he is the only one who has a map that shows them how to set off a chain reaction and blow up the Death Star.

The supercomputer Hal, in Stanley Kubrick’s 2007: A Space Odyssey, begs with Dave Bowman, an astronaut who is disconnecting memory circuits controlling Hal’s brain, to stop because Hal can feel the disconnection. Nicholas Carr, seems to know what his disconnection to staying focused on reading is, he has been spending more of his time on the web. Since he does not have to go to a library and spend time researching for information, he can stay at home and quickly search the internet for what he needs. The internet being our main source for information, there are advantages to having it at our fingertips, but there is also a price that comes with

Recently, our class read the book and watched the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. The book is written by Arthur C. Clarke and the movie was directed by Stanley Kubrick. The book was written as a framework for the movie, so the two are mostly the same. But, while there were similarities, there were also some major differences.

While in the air, the bone is transformed into a spaceship and it seems we have arrived in 2001. So begins the Moon sequence. We meet Heywood Floyd, a scientist who is traveling to the moon to address this mysterious new object that suddenly appeared. Obviously we have humans by this point and they are much more intelligent than the monkeys (according to the film they evolved) and still have the same response to the monolith. They are a bit more eager but for the most part, the viewer can still sense the frustration at the lack of understanding when it comes to this monolith. The audience feels the frustration. They want an explanation, but the film does not offer one, leaving the audience to decide for themselves what exactly the monolith is. That is perhaps one of the most irritating things a film can accomplish. We see how technologically advanced this society is and it doesn’t take the audience long to realize that something new will be coming. The scene ends with our scientist and his little entourage touching the monolith. We expect something like the end of the Dawn sequence but then the monolith lets out a shrill piercing scream. And a new era begins. Hal 9000 would soon be

In my third journal entry about the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, I read pages 171 to 240. Contained in these pages was the climax of the novel. Hal informs Poole and Bowman that the new AE-35 unit is faulty. Upon inspection, it was found that Hal had made yet another mistake, and the unit was fine. However, when Poole was retreating to his pod to return to the ship, Hal released his safety mechanisms holding Poole safe. He then drifted off to space, where he passed away. He would be the first man to reach Saturn, as the title of that chapter implied. Soon following this, Hal opens the airlock doors of the ship Discovery, shuts off the life-support systems of the three hibernating astronauts that would have replaced Poole, and also tried to

In the science fiction film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. The director, Stanley Kubrick, portray his masterpiece in an ambiguous understanding where he examines topics such as extraterrestrial life, the dealings with technology and the human evolution. Throughout the movie, Kubrick depicts the facade, monolith as an instrument in awakening intelligence. Moreover, the protagonists go through a drastic change of struggle to explore on the idea of technology and extraterrestrial life.

In the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, its creator, Arthur C. Clarke, construct the novel in light of a screenplay he wrote in conjunction with Stanley Kubrick in 1964. The book, which was discharged a couple of months after the motion picture, fills in many subtle elements left unsettled in the motion picture. In 1968, the novel was distributed. Arthur C. Clarke distributed a novel in 1951 called "The Sentinel," which motivated Stanley Kubrick to help with 2001: A Space Odyssey. In 1968, Stanley Kubrick distributed the film of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The two space travelers that remained wakeful amid their whole voyage are David Bowman and Frank Poole. The risk of innovation takes a curve when our inability to totally grasp and predict the delayed

I have optimistically held this understanding of technology and the internet for a long time.

Office space is a movie that is directed and written by Mike Judge. The movie is about employees who are not very happy in their jobs. The movie is set in a firm that is called Initech. The movie has a character name Peter Gibbons. He works for the company Initech. His job is not very exciting for him. On top of his job not being very exciting, he also has outside factors that are in his life. The other characters in the movie are Milton, Samir, Bill, and Michael. Bill is the boss and does not have very good leadership. He does not really try to help with tasks that the company has to do. Also, he does not treat the employees like he really should. The next character Milton is not technically an employee of the company anymore, but still gets

The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind is an Oscar winning alternative U.S. film released March 19th 2004(IMDb 2015). It was produced by Focus Features and follows the dysfunctional love story of Joel and Clementine. The film itself despite being strongly influenced by Hollywood pays homage to other film movements such as surrealism and Soviet montage. The film in itself was a struggle to be categorised, thought it has been described as a romance, black comedy and many others that will later be explored. The director aimed to make this film timeless and still stands to be as effective today as it was when it was released.

Literature can, at times, have a fascinating connection with film. Whether it is a film or a piece of literature, both are written by someone that wants to leave an impact on an audience. However, movies and books have different roles. They each have different strong points wherein books give better characterization, stronger revelations, and inner conflict, but movies create a better mood with music and visuals, showing much more emotion. It's a totally different kind of experience, of course, and there are a number of differences between the book and the movie. The novel of 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke, for example, attempts to explain things much more explicitly than the film does, which is inevitable in a verbal medium. The movie version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, on the other hand, is essentially a visual, nonverbal experience. It avoids intellectual verbalization and reaches the viewer's subconscious in a way that is essentially poetic and philosophic. The film thus becomes a subjective experience, which hits the viewer at an inner level of consciousness, just as music does, or painting. Utilizing its verbal medium, Clarke is able to explain his narrative, whereas Kubrick creates a visual and audial experience, through means of ambiguity, in which the viewer sees everything, is told nothing, and in which one cannot detect the presence of the film as one at all.