I think it's more a canon than a fugue.

@@FreakieFan Let's just call it a fugato to settle the question = )

I love it.

Guido, did you shoot yourself in the head, or did you not?

+EuroTrasho Productions ...No it isn't.

Xanatos You really felt the need to write such a empty and airheaded comment? Wow.

Xanatos Well, it is true. Now, I know your next troll comment will be something along the lines of "no it isn't", so, just, fuck off.

EuroTrasho Productions Define "troll". You seem to be using it incorrectly. And it actually isn't true. And now, instead of asking how that is so, you're just going to whine and conveniently skirt around defining 'troll' because you don't know the proper meaning.

Practical effects vs CGI i guess

@@davidkolaga8489the film and the book are very different though, and Arthur C Clark had only seen bits and pieces of the movie while he was writing, and Kubrick wanted to emphasize that and point out that the novel is not a direct adaptation of the movie or vice versa.

@@dariselectricincorporated3226 no. Not very different. The filming and the writing were carried out almost simultaneously with much collaboration between kubrick and clarke. There is considerably more exposition in the book. The movie contains just about everything in the book but not vice versa because the movie would then be about nine hours long. Other than that they are very similar.

@@davidkolaga8489 No, Clarke had not seen the entire movie before he finished writing the book, and Kubrick wanted to differentiate the two and demonstrated that by them having 2 completely seperate destinations, film: Jupiter, novel: Saturn, the film goes one direction and the novel in the other. Some of the differences are subtle, but even Kubrick said himself you can’t say “This scene from the movie really confused me, I’ll read the novel for the explanation” one is not a reference to the other, there are major differences, especially when it comes to the hidden narrative of the film.

@@dariselectricincorporated3226 clarke's descriptions of what bowman saw/experienced after he went into the monolith are invaluable aids to understanding the ending. And the more detailed story of the hominids' first encounter with the monolith is crucial to understanding the monolith's apparent (i.e. not hidden at all) purpose.

I’d say not so much creepy and weird as strange and awe inspiring.

rather something like "kyrieeee"

The description really called it atmospheric music.. i listened to the whole 30 min of this requiem it’s not simply atmospheric music

If Kubrick had directed an episode of sesame street...

lol

Yep you can see why he was approached to shoot the Apollo landings 😉🤪

I really doubt that, to be honest.

Zowee, BlackLuke! Yours is the best comment by far. My hat is off to you.

I like this. It's like that weird sense of fear you get when you think about the unknowability of the universe, but it's radiating out of this cold black stone.

So how did your prank go?

I need to know

Please give us an update

@@Kyled78 HE BECAME A STARCHILD

Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have the person responsible for the monolith in that canyon lol

IGameChangerI Scarier for the astronauts: just their own breathing, radio chatter from the others, and the silence of space....

I remember nearly jumping out of my seat during this section when I saw it for the first time. I didn’t see “2001: A Space Odyssey” when it opened in NYC in April 1968, as I would’ve been almost seven; I saw it as a teen. Around that time I also saw Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”. That was scary as well, even though I’d already read Anthony Burgess’ book (which I highly recommend, btw) at my high school in Brooklyn.

Imo the scene would be completely tepid without the music. All of the tension comes from the way the music colors the scene. And good lord what a color.

Sorry for the nectropost, but this is movie suspense technique 101. Beginning with Alfred Hitchcock, the master: 1) Make the audience as uncomfortable as possible during that time, but still wondering when it will happen (first major bird attack scene in “The Birds”, in the diner). 2) Ideally the person(s) are totally unaware it will happen (shower scene in [Psycho”, most notoriously). 3) Then deliver. Nowadays there might also be this: 4) A second shock as well that they didn’t expect; but that is a newer style from the modern horror genre of film. But yeah; the juxtaposition of audience being creeped out as Hell while it’s just another sunny day on the Moon for the astronauts is probably also quite deliberate, and also an expression of Kubrik’s sense of humor about such things. Films can be such powerful things when they manipulate the mood and emotions of the audience so directly and assertively.

@@BlindManBert Interesting.

Something else just occurred to me, an entire excavation team came here to dig this hole, clear out the area around the monolith, shore up the walls, and install the lighting rigs. They even ran power and data lines and built a landing pad. Floyd may not be the first man to touch the object.

That and the fact that the audience has seen that the last time the monolith was touched, apes were enlightened into humanity. So what'll it do the second time?

2001: A Space Odyssey always affirms how a film can make you think about many things that you regularly wouldn’t think about.

+Christian charles True. If all scientists were placed shoulder-to-shoulder around the Earth, they would still never reach a consensus...

+CLASSICALFAN100 I bet someone thought of breaking the monolith in the movie. And in it, it just broke like a Rock and they're still baffled.

The one in the books was invulnerably shielded. Even megaton bombardment failed to so much as warm it.

More like centuries.

Bullshit. Nature does not, as far as we know, produce strait lines/ structures. The ONLY conclusion one could draw is that the monolith was made by an intelligent non human agency.

well put, this movie is ....something else

I got to see it in 70mm recently OH MAN

My uncle was your same age and he watched it as well

yee

I'm very glad they showed this, restored on a decent, cinema here in Brazil this year. It was the first time I watched. Really, I never cried watching any movie, but some scenes like this one, and the portal scene were so intense, that I did. And I can't even know why, it couldn't be tears of happiness, sadness or fear, maybe you can really cry tears of pure Awe.

Its perfect for a burglar alarm, especially the loud sound at the end

Every time I hear it I run to my bedroom, jump under the covers to hide and I do deep breathing to calm down. Sometimes with a rosary in my hand.

Kubrick also considered Penderecki's Dies Irae Auschwitz Oratorio for this and a scene in the Dawn of Man part and the scene in the area of the Planet Jupiter. That piece of music would also fit 2001 A Space Odyssey well. But he decided to go with Ligeti's Requiem. BTW Ligeti had family members who were killed in the Holocaust.

@@nielspemberton59 Ligeti did not receive a single cent for this. He litigated for 6 years and was eventually awarded a one-time payment of $3,500, which didn't even cover attorney's fees.

​@@nielspemberton59glad they didn't go with that, doesn't fit the scene at all.

It's the same stuff. Trailers quite often incorporate music from other films. Plus the films are both owned by Warner Bros. so they have the rights for this.

TheGameHeaven The piece is Gyorgy Ligeti's "Lux Aeterna" Warner Bros. definitely does not own the rights to it.

They used something very similar, not that that's a bad thing.

***** Yeah sorry I literally realized that right after I posted it.

+TheGameHeaven 2001 A Space Odyssey was a Metro Goldwyn Mayer movie

molesticles Very much so.

Yeah I'm pretty sure it's a reference to this scene.

+PopeLando Dude that is freaking insane. I wish I knew this ahead of time! Congrats!

You're right and 55 years later even after seeing 2001: a Space Odyssey dozens of time, you haven't finished to ponder over its complexity and richness!

Oh, it should not be an unknown reason. This scene upsets every possible notion about humanity's superior role in the universe. It clearly should terrify any person who thinks it through.

It means Light eternal. It’s part of a requiem mass.

No, this is Requiem, by ligeti

I hate you🎧

i quite liked it

I would hope so, one of our eternal questions has been if we are alone and this object constructed thousands or millions of years ago by alien hands and left on our doorstep, as it were, just answered that we are not.