>finally watching 2001: A Space Odyssey
>movie begins with a black screen for a full three minutes while ominous music plays
I thought my TV was broken. This man is a fucking psychopath.
>finally watching 2001: A Space Odyssey
>finally watching 2001: A Space Odyssey
>movie begins with a black screen for a full three minutes while ominous music plays
I thought my TV was broken. This man is a fucking psychopath.
Wait until it gets to the mandatory colonoscopy scene. It's as graphic as you would imagine, and lasts longer than you would like.
Well I have continued to watch the movie and I can confidently say I am watching kino the likes of which has never been seen before.
The black screen meaning is that you're staring at the monolith and you're not realizing it you're an ape and you're taking a journey
no
the black screen at the beginning represents the monolith, it's the same dimensions. That's why the monolith sounds are playing during it
t. brainlet
it's an occult treatise, sorry you're not at that level
well that is kino. i never thought of that
deepest lore
>This man is a fucking psychopath.
thats right zoom!
kys
It's called an overture you idiot. It would play before the curtains parted.
Overtures before a movie starts haven't been a thing for nearly 50 years or so, so I sorta give anon a pass for not knowing what the fuck it is
>movie begins with a black screen, I thought my TV was broken.
you are looking at the Monolith... let that sink in.
Don't worry champ, it's not for you. There's millions of other movies out there you can enjoy.
>Don't worry champ, it's not for you. There's millions of other movies out there for the tarded
thats exactly right. this movie had 2 or 3 memorable scenes but almost everything else is boomer nostalgia goggles about that movie with the talking computer. arthur c clarke was a bad writer and a pedophile
begins with a black screen for a full three minutes while ominous music plays
I recently watched Star Trek the Motion Picture (1979) on blu ray and realized the movie is a ripoff of 2001. It also begins with a black screen and music for several minutes. Then there are long endless special effects shots where music plays and the plot of the movie is that humans are confronted with an super advanced incomprehensible aliens that in the end want to join with humans to create a new life form.
The plot of the movie is it pays to be an asshole.
Kirk is an asshole and used the V'Ger crisis to take back command of the Enterprise. At the end, he's captain again.
V'ger is an asshole and threatens to destroy Earth unless it gets to meet its creator. It gets to join with Decker and move on to ahigher plane of existance.
Spock is an asshole and leaves the ship without orders to meet with Vger, assaulting an Enterprise crewman along the way, just because he can't cope with his human feelings. In the end, he meets with V'ger and learns he can be Vulcan AND human at the same time.
Decker is an asshole because he wants to get back with Ilea despite breaking her heart and uses V'ger as a way to join with the "soul" of Ilia even though she doesn't get a say in the matter.
the spock arc is the real meat of the TOS films anyway, so it checks out
yes to all of that. btw kubrick was a photographer, which is why your autistic brain was able to type out #3. that nagger did hundreds of takes in the shining to both torment shelly duvall but also get the exact shot he wanted and made extensive use of steadicam and more or less popularized it. he even went to the length of buying a lense from nasa so he could film barry lyndon solely using natural light. kubrick was an auteur wise beyond his years and generation and still shits on every modern filmmaker.
>It also begins with a black screen and music for several minutes
read and learn, anon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_overtures
The overture and its music function on a few different levels:
1) The music is "Atmospheres", by Gyorgy Ligeti. This piece of music is heard three times throughout the film. The first two times, the overture and the intermission (the latter announced only by a simple card), the screen is totally black while the music plays. This is both normal for "overture" music in theater productions (no one is acting on stage, nothing much to look at, etc), and it is also a SETUP for a PUNCHLINE. The THIRD time that you hear the music, the "big thing" finally happens: Dave enters the stargage, and now there's LOTS AND LOTS OF VISUALS AND COLORS AND CRAZY SHIT HAPPENING. It is the sharpest possible contrast with the first two times that we heard the music.
2) As a modern piece, the music itself is enigmatic and weird, and it sounds kind of ominous, like something momentous is about to happen. This lines up exactly with how it is used in the body of the film.
3) A perfectly black theater screen is an excellent approximation for a frontal view of a monolith's broad side, which is a 9:4 (or: 2.25:1) rectangle. I one hundred per cent guarantee that Kubrick thought of this while making the thing, even if the overture black screen was not meant to "literally" depict a monolith. At the end of the film, the camera zooms in on the broad side of an upright monolith, so that the black frame does literally depict a detail of the entire object. The film was shot at 2.20:1, which while not exact, is certainly as close as makes no difference to a viewer. Today, we are surrounded by these black monoliths, many of them quite small, and which show us moving images. Even the humans have a type of small monolith of their own which has since come to pass (the tablet).
2001 is not a deep movie
The parts of this movie that don't take place on the moon or on the spaceship with HAL are asinine nonsense.
Based. Most pretentious ending to a movie ever.
>t. brainlet that can't appreciate anything more abstract than a muh mysterious artefact or muh evil AI
>Whoa flashing lights and shit! How profound, I'm so smart
>I-it's pretentious
>It's just like... flashing lights and stuff! Not high IQ enough for me!
Classic midwit stuff
meant for
My favorite movies are Barton Fink and Naked Lunch. There is a time and a place.
When I was a kid I found Dawn of Man a bit tedious (but not overmuch!) because I just wanted to get to the cool space shit (the standard midwit take), but as I got older I realized that it is a good short film in its own right with the simplest possible conflict, a magical dramatic device or contrivance which allows the conflict to be solved, and a decisive ending. Also the long desert shots are pretty when you watch them on a nice big setup. It only runs like 15-17 minutes, doesn't overstay its welcome.
take my chart on the music.
At a premiere the overture ran not for the usual three minutes, but for an extra-special 8-9 minutes, allowing the full piece to play out. People were getting antsy and Kubrick was really testing them. Greatest Generation-era people didn't dig it and it was very shaky at first how people were going to react to it, but literal boomers caught on to it and dug it, they "got" it.
very nice chart anon, i will repay you in kind with one of the best mashups ever made, the last segment of the film with pink floyd's echoes.
rumors flew around for years that the band was contracted to make music for the film and that's how the song came about. roger waters admitted that they were approached by kubrick about doing music for a clockwork orange but never for 2001. that being said, the fact that the song mashes up almost seamlessly tells me that they somehow got their hands on a reel and recorded to the footage.
>off by one from quints
GOD FUCKING DAMN IT
moron
I've always thought 2001 was Kubrick's weakest film. So weak, that I think it lends to the conspiracy theory that 2001 was a special effects test demo for creating the moon landing footage.
Holy shit zoomer just fucking kill yourself.
Overtures were a standard thing in classic film, especially in epic films. You'd have 2 or 3 minutes of nothing but a song playing. It was about setting the mood and letting the audience know that the movie was starting. They went out of style in the 70s as the golden age of Hollywood came to an end.