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Soundtrack
"2001: A Space Odyssey"
© Turner Entertainment Co.
Year of Release: 1968
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track listing
The Music As It Appears
In The Film:
Overture: Atmospheres
Main Title:
Sprach Zarathustra
(Thus Spoke
Zarathrusta)
Requiem For Soprano,
Mezzo Soprano,
Two Mixed Choirs &
Orchestra
The Blue Danube (Excerpt)
Lux Aeterna
Gayane Ballet Suite
(Excerpt)
Jupiter And Beyond
Also Sprach Zarathrustra
(Thus Spake
Zarathrustra)
The Blue Danube (Reprise)
Supplemental Material:
Also Sprach Zarathrustra
(Thus Spake
Zarathrustra)
Lux Aeterna
Adventures (Unatltered)
HAL 9000
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"2001: A Space Odyssey"
This is in the cagtegory of "I never saw the movie, but loved the music."
2001: A Space Odyssey was originally released in 1968:
A science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Kubrick and Arthur
C. Clarke. The film deals with themes of human evolution, technology, artificial
intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, and is notable for its scientific realism,
pioneering special effects, and provocatively ambiguous imagery and sound in place
of traditional narrative techniques.
Description:
This Discovery University Production examines the making of a true cinema classic,
the Stanley Kubrick-directed, Arthur C. Clarke-penned 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. An eerie
and intense prediction of the future, the 1968 film brought Clarke`s sci-fi vision to
the big screen in epic proportions. In this program, film historians and artificial
intelligence experts discuss the film`s production and legacy. Clips from the film take
on new meaning as biographers of Clarke and Kubrick offer commentary on the pair`s
collaboration, and the technical challenges that came into play during the film`s creation.
2001: A SPACE Odyssey also features interviews with Sir Arthur C. Clarke himself
After learning more information about this movie, it was ahead of it's time. After
a Google search of this movie, a very interesting website was fascinating to watch to
understand the movie: http://www.kubrick2001.com.
You have to watch this Flash movie -- it's very hypnotizing, and since I've never seen
the movie, I very tempted to watch this movie, as well as it's sequel, 2010: The Year
We Make Contact in 1984. Arguably one of the best films ever made, this movie almost
has a horror movie effect, with the comprimising future characteristics of the apes, and
the space planets, and monolith.
What makes this movie even more interesting, is the fact that a computer, HAL 9000,
dealt with artificial intelligence, interacting as a human. The whole concept of computers,
even the actual existence of AI didn't surface till decades later. People who understand
and work with computers will definitely be interested in this movie, as they watch it in
today's technology.
But as for the soundtrack, it's a wonderful assortment of Classical music, which includes
Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube." A very interesting collection of music, easily fitting
the soundtrack mold, some of its tracks have a very eerie effect, making the movie almost
seem like a horror one. The CD has 9 tracks originally taken from the film, with 4
supplemental tracks. The most interesting supplemental track is "HAL 9000,"
where a conversation with HAL, the supercomputer. HAL has a normal speaking voice,
and being a computer, it was eerie that a computer could act as normal as a human being,
where Artificial Intelligence could easily be defined this way, 30 years later at the time
of the movie's release.
Again, watch the Flash movie on
http://kubrick2001.com. This website will hypnotize you, and for those who have
never seen the movie like myself, will want to find the DVD and watch it, and most likely,
watch it's sequel. The sequel wasn't as good as the original as told, but the original
was ahead of it's time, and would be very interesting to watch the movie (for those) again,
almost 40 years later. (2008 would be the 40th anniversary of the release of the film.)
UPDATE: After this review, I did see the movie. It was ahead of it's time.
Knowing this, the movie was quite boring, in context. Maybe this was because what was in
the movie back then, was just what would be the start of the future of technology.
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