Comparing and Contrasting 2001: a Space Odyssey and “the Sentinel”

‘The Dawn of Man’ sequence is based in a prehistoric time period and the most important theme of this sequence is nature. Kubrick shows the two stages of nature before showing us as the audience how humans evolved as a species. The various shots of land are staged in altered settings within different time zones, which express the Earth as a large place. With no characters and no type of dialogue, the non-diegetic sound of birds chirping is a representation of nature. The sound of the birds in this sequence created a natural atmosphere and made it believable for the viewer.

     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

“2001: A space Odyssey” opens in the African Rift Valley, where a tribe of hominids encounter a stone monument which has obstructed on their domain. This stone monument transmits radio waves that end up expanding their IQ 's, teaching them weaponry and other tool uses to help them live, as they proceed to defeat a rival tribe. Four million years later, we see the luxurious space travel that the vintage science fiction of the 1960’s, with space stations for air terminals and such. Dr. Heywood Floyd is heading to Clavius Base, a United States lunar station. Along the way, he finds out about gossipy tidbits about an unidentifiable disease going around on the Clavius Base and his responsibility to study a four-million-year-old structure. Floyd

We all dream of an ulterior world, a world in which we picture a perfect life with no struggles, problems, or pandemics. Both Interstellar, by Christopher Nolan, and Station Eleven by Emily Mandel, depict their characters as struggling not only with survival, but their sense of their own identity and security. Within Station Eleven, the saying, “survival is insufficient” is a recurring theme of Interstellar as well. While there are some differences in the characters and themes within Interstellar and Station Eleven, the similarities are the connections to their identity in which they adapt to the force of change within their world. As the characters struggle with adapting, they cling to certain things that allow them to remain sane. As a result, the characters feel like they have a purpose again due to their struggle for survival.

It seems that War has found a home in Afghanistan. The people of Afghanistan have

The films Drive and The Avengers are two strikingly different films that display violence in two different lights. In The Avengers violence is portrayed in a fun, entertaining way that doesn't cause anxiety or apprehension while Drive, on the other hand, portrays violence with intense emotion and realistic violence. These differences are evident throughout both of the films before, during, and after violent actions that take place in the story.

Seeing areas in space that parallel those on Earth initiates a feeling of comfort and safety in the audience, allowing them to view space as an extension of home rather than something eclectic and foreign. Lucas makes space seem inviting by presenting space and time in outer space to be similar to space and time on Earth. The events are placed in chronological order and due to this the movie feels like it’s in “real time”, unlike Kubrick’s 2001: The Space Odyssey.

In the movie/short story 2081: Everyone Will Finally Be equal, it talks about how everyone is finally equal. No one person is prettier, stronger, faster than anyone else. It is how people wanted it for years, yet some people think it was better unequal. Although there are many differences in the short story and movie, I think the movie is way more interesting and action packed.

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.

The science-fiction film genre serves as an excellent medium for examining shifting power structures, social paranoia and Cold War politics during the 1950s. A number of films released during this period, including: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Them (1954) and Attack of the 50ft Woman (1958), are particularly symptomatic of the social and political atmosphere of the time. These films navigate not only narrative based issues such as the threat of aliens and science experiments gone wrong; but also wider issues of the time, such as the Cold War, changes in the US film industry, urbanisation, politics, the growing power of women and most significantly, social concern about nuclear energy.

“2001: A Space Odyssey” is another case of script collaboration between source material author and screenwriter / director, but it’s an even more interesting situation because the novel was written at the same time. And, Clarke sees the novel as being heavily influenced by the script. So, the film can be considered an adaptation from “The Sentinel” but not from the novel. While this is not a novel or a film I enjoy, I recognize that I’m the viewer in the Act Triangle Model, and I do give the film more value now that I know it was inspired by “The Sentinel”, a piece I liked

This was the second movie in a row for the protagonist in which he was an astronaut in a distant planet trying to survive. The main difference between this movie and "Interstellar" is that in this movie he is alone most of the time. There is almost no suportcast. It could be considered the new "Gravity", but set on Mars. During their mission on Mars, a team of astronauts is hit by an unpredicted storm and have to abort their mission and leave for Earth. During the evacuation one of the crew members, Mark Watney, is hit by a projectile due to the storm and is thrown away. The crew is forced to leave him thinking he died due to rupture in his space suit. However, Mark survives and now has to find ingenious ways to make it till the next scheduled Mars mission fours years later with the remaining meager supplies. Being a botanist, he manages to cultivate food and survives by scavenging parts of previous missions. NASA soon learns about him and attempts a daring and dangerous mission to bring him back. Will they succeed in bringing him back alive? Only time will tell.

The novel I have selected for this Independent Novel Study is 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke. I selected this novel based upon the movie adaption that was made in 1968. It peaked my interest when I saw it on the approved list and selected it immediately. The information required to read this novel was minimal in my case due to the fact that I had previously watched its movie adaption. For other individuals however, it is required that they have a general understanding of space and the physics surrounding it. It is also required that the individual enjoys science-fiction. The information regarding the real world in 2001 is not accurate because this novel was written in 1968, along with the creation of the movie. Prior to the actual

This adaptation is about reclamation. What exactly are we reclaiming? Space. The space to belong, the space to express ourselves and our ideas, the space to consider our bodies in spaces traditionally not accessible to us. It is about modernizing social movements to serve all members of the community, not just those privileged enough to have a platform of power. To that end, An (Un)American Daughter is not a celebration of how far we have come as a society. But, more importantly, it is about revealing how far we have left to go and how much is left to accomplish. When Wasserstein first wrote this play, it was seen a play that lacked a concrete sense of direction and simplistically regurgitated social values in the mid-1900s (CITATION). Ben Bradley for The New York Times wrote that neither the direction nor the dialogue could “conceal the feeling that she doesn’t know entirely where she’s heading or how to get there” (CITATION).

Whether is it Michael Bay’s signature explosion scenes or Quentin Tarantino’s way of expressing his thrilling movies, you cannot deny that everyone enjoys watching movies. Let it be Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Animated or even plain old classic films. Talking about genre, Fiction, in literature terms, refers to a class that comprises works of imaginative narration (“Fiction” n.d.,), basically things which are not real and true. Science fiction on the other hand, is the sub-genre of fiction in which the movie illustrates the science and technology of the future. It is noted that science fiction has a relationship with the principles of science, meaning that the story usually involves partially true & partially fictitious laws and theories of science. Plots of science fiction would usually create scenes and environments that are set in the future. (“Definition of Science Fiction”, n.d.). These