Space Odyssey 2001 - Encounter with monolith (movie scene)

[CityofButterfly]

I was listening to this on headphones and had to glance over my shoulder a few times.

[Lukemuse]

1.13 to 1.36 is some of the best filming ever 

[atom608]

fuck this music is creepy

[WTFuneral]

veil of maya

[kailing79]

mmm.... cool :D

[chrisblue77]

Whear can I get this music?

[beneaththeroses]

I LOVE KUBRICK 

[hitchhiker00Z]

real version of 2001 were sucks, crap, and something like that

1968 version of 2001 were epic, SCARY, and something like that

[MyThingsRedux]

Sounds like a thousand North Koreans weeping.

[theproducerspart2]

Still creeps me out to this day :/

[theindecisiveness]

3:31 RIP headphone users

[rewq92384]

This is my new ring tone...

[ssbphotography]

An interesting fact: the sounds here are real music, look up Gyorgy Ligeti. This is the kyrie section from his requiem. The singers are actually singing kyrie eleison, kyrie eleison, Christ have mercy ... I think Kubrick just chose it for its suspenseful sound though.

[GhostPlanetFilms]

I think there was a story Clarke wrote; something about a strange artifact in the sea? Can anyone tell me what that was, please?

[rewq92384]

@GhostPlanetFilms Are you talking about Dolphin Island?

[GhostPlanetFilms]

@rewq92384 I dunno. In "The Making of Jaws 2," producer David Brown said something about Arthur C. Clarke writing about a mysterious artifact found in the ocean. I don't remember if it said what story it was, though.

[rewq92384]

@GhostPlanetFilms Arthur C. Clarke actually found an undersea artifact in real life, it was called the taj mahal sunken treasure. Maybe he was recalling that.

[GhostPlanetFilms]

@rewq92384 perhaps. I'll have to re-watch the making of thing again.

BTW, looked up "Dolphin Island." Sounds AWESOME!

[hamstergeisha76]

@DrSunshineAOD Jurassic Park scared me shitless of any movie, and I was fifteen when I first saw it.

Just last year I had to watch 2001 in film class, and though I smirked and laughed at the strange beginning scenes of the ape people, I grew bored afterwards and started to doodle in my notebook.

[PLeasureJet]

@hamstergeisha76 this commentt made me lol, i thought it was gonna lead up to you realizing how great of a movie it was, but it wasnt that kind of comment at all.

[hamstergeisha76]

@DrSunshineAOD My mother took me when I was eight to a drive in where a new movie was shown along with an old one, and that time the old movie was this one. I fell asleep after the scene with the monkeys because HAL's voice sounded so boring and sonorous. I guess it depends on the kid as I found this movie quite boring and not scary.

[facecheek]

omfg that is just the most awesome shit ever.

[addison2110]

This movie was so technologically advanced for it's time.....1968 wow.

[thepocarisweat]

It's not like I need sleep or anything. Thanks, Mr. Kubrick!

[redplague]

What is the scene where the baby appears from behind the monlith, or am I thinking of the sequel they did.

[DoktorAlanGrant]

1:02 "Seriously, I'm gonna have to go down first?

Fuck you guys.

Fuck you right in the ear"

[tijuanotj]

wtf?



[YuhStoopid]

This goes perfectly with "the end" that was recently added to the game minecraft.

[carpentry8]

the monolith must have watched dumb and dumber because it knows what the most annoying sound is

[caprianders]

THIS is exactly why 2001 is the best movie ever created. Absolutely fucking breath-taking.

[SteveOSpielberg]

I wonder is this an account of the real moon landing and the one in the history books a fake one but both done by Stan the man!

[jaimewastv]

a phukin anunakki msjj like if you see there's well you are too close -for parking jajaja when you touch with your UFO" - kubrick most hide some of it ...

[AlfredsVisions]

Great scene. The acting style is almost as if we are watching a documentary. I like the guy with the camera, tilting it as if winding it, who knows what he is doing but he seems so naturally caught up in the activity but this is all staged. Hand-held photography, shooting into light source, Kubrick was a great artist.

[apocalypse123]

Alien: "Oh THAT'S where I left my coffee table! Wait why are the legs missing?"

[UncleSam884]

@apocalypse123 ну и чё смешного чувырло ёбаное? Твой семейный альбом ебал!

[myguitardidyermom12]

fuckin Ligetti

[EatitHarvey]

WOULD IT BE SO F****** CREEPY IF YOU HEARD THIS WHILE GOING DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS TO THE BASEMENT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND THE MUSIC ONLY GETS LOUDER THE DEEPER YOU GO.

[NightsofToledo]

The bees had too much crack.

[Pigganon]

I love this song. I listen to it every night, it helps me sleep. So soothing.

[Abasuto]

This is filmmaking.

Today we get pure CG shit from people like James Cameron and Michael Bay.

[ienjoyapples]

@Abasuto ay dont shit on james cameron. he's no stanley kubrick but he knows how to make a movie. shit on michael bay all you want ;)

[Abasuto]

@ienjoyapples

OK, I'll give Cameron some credit. He's got some masterpieces under his belt. Bay, yeah, pure trash.

[gschupfter]

Scares the fuck out of me!

[fireguy789]

In my opinion, the best scene in cinema history. Kubrick truly scored gold on this one. I would truly like to see someone top this film.

[AZ09astrophysicist]

@fireguy789 never!

[Zh0rik]

@fireguy789 There isn't. In philosophical and ethical way. There are other movies with other meanings... Some of them are just close to Earth, but none of them are so far away from Earth, like in this movie. Kubrick was most out of this planet director in the history of the film making. Too bad he died so early, he could make such great movies with our new technology and progress.

[0onirvanao0]

I know this ain't a horror-film, but this is the most creepy movie scene i have seen so far. even just the voices. damn

[bidroid]

@0onirvanao0 creepier than today "horror" films lol

[pudster420]

...a precursor to the 1969 moon landing..a kubrick production :)...watch "Kubrick's Odyssey"

[hanzocloud]

i bought this movie on DVD and did not understand it at all.. i fell alseep half way through the movie.. hmm

[JPSoviet]

@hanzocloud Talk about weak minds, ey?

[bradywahl]

The deliberate comedy moments in this movie often get overlooked. Here they are looking at definitive proof of advanced alien life, which should be mind blowing, and all they can think is, "Okay, guys. Group photo. Say cheese." Like a bunch of fishermen with a prize winning catch.

[totalcinemania]

Ligeti's music is incredible. I love the moment with Floyd's hand caressing the monolith, he is absolutely astonished... a video with a high image quality, thank you very much!!!

[Violenteers]

How much you wanna bet people were pissed that the year 2001 didn't kick as much ass as this film portrayed it to be?

By the way--just had to throw this out there--this movie ROCKS!!!!

[poxire]

thats the monolith's way of trying to do a photobomb

[hush00]

I've seen this movie a few days ago for the first time (yes I know, shame on me!) But I've definitely heard the chanting somewhere before.... I just cant remember where

[BledZeppelin]

@hush00 Did you ever watch the 70s British kids TV show 'The Children of the Stones' filmed around the stone circle at Avebury (not far from Stonehenge)? This music always reminds me of that...

[hush00]

@BledZeppelin Hmm no, i've not seen that show before. I saw someone mention the sound being in a spongebob episode... It might be that... but I'm pretty sure it's also in some other media

[Quelquefois1793]

@hush00 the shining perhaps?

[Bassbait]

@Quelquefois1793 The Shining does NOT have this music. The most likely place for this music to be is in reference to 2001. For example, maybe Hush heard it from Futurama?

[Quelquefois1793]

@Bassbait hence the word PERHAPS. geez

[Bassbait]

@Quelquefois1793 I'm just saying that The Shining doesn't have music like this at all, so if they're thinking of somewhere else, it's probably NOT The Shining.

[Bassbait]

@fromthenorthwest Ya, I don't remember any music similar to this in the opening, although I do remember the melody of that song being strikingly similar to the opening song to A Clockwork Orange. But it's possible that they would sound KIND of similar, but not enough to make the connection, if you were to ask me.

[fromthenorthwest]

@Bassbait Theres a piece on the Shining by this same composer, it plays during one of the kids hallucinations, has a similar feel to this

[hotelmario510]

Lyrics of this sequence: 'Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.'

[Powgow]

@hotelmario510 Obviously, its eEeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEeeeEeeeEeeee­eeEeeeeEeeeEeeeEeEEEEeeeeeeEEE­EeeeEEEEeeEEEEeeEEEeEEEEEEEEee­EEeeeEeee.

[hotelmario510]

@Powgow Of course, my mistake. Sorry, everyone. God, that was such a glaring error, wasn't it?

[kortexsirvasil]

No other movie achieved the same level of connection between the visuals and the music.

[LeaveMeAlone99a]

Ligeti's "Requiem" for the background sound of the Monolith.

No alien race's device should sound THIS frightening!

Thousands of moaning/wailing voices from another plane of existence is just disturbing.

Gotta love that Kubrick!

[anamarvelo]

@LeaveMeAlone99a what if that opra to them?

[ulfhirtha]

In the presence of the grandly ineffable...and when Floyd touches it and there is that extra hum (which stops when he takes his hand from it)....just incredible

[snufleufugus]

They definitely used that chanting in a scene in Sponge Bob, but I can't remember what was happening...

[WarriorsOfRy]

@snufleufugus I remember that!

[hotelmario510]

@snufleufugus It's during the scene in which Sponge-Gar discovers fire, a parody of how the Monoliths advanced human evolution. And stuff.

[tm1776]

MY favourite scene from any movie..ever

[LewizX90]

This scared the shit outta me when i was a kid...

[mrbrianmccarthy]

Wow,instead of us continuing our journey into space in the year 2001,we had a nice little war on terror to keep us busy.Damn,sometimes fiction is better than reality.

[swartsanager2]

it be really creepy and scary to see a big random dark black monilith that didnt reflect light wat so ever on a lawn in ur school with the choir singing louder and louder everytime u get closer......

[LB74]

God, that just when on and on.

[idgarad]

And here I thought the monolith was just a metaphor, a stand in for something alien rather then a specific actual monolith....

[SkaterDrummer678]

@idgarad The monolith represents many things. The apes at the beginning of this movie represents the very beginning of human existence. From the moment they discover physics and how to survive, that all represents the beggining of human thought. The monolith at the beginning represents the ability to measure, the ability to think, the ability to evolve... the beggining of LIFE... the beginning of every humans life.

[LevaniaDaemon]

@SkaterDrummer678 curiosity!

[LevaniaDaemon]

@SkaterDrummer678 Curiosity!

[0asparagus0]

and the modem goes crazy at the end... :)

[lrcdert2010]

What's scary is it didn't reflect light.

[coodoo17]

You show Stanley Kubrick a black rectangle, and he'll show you the creepiest scene in cinema history.

[Inuit68]

the music is Requiem for Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, two mixed choirs and orchestra by Lygeti

[mcamoran]

The whole thing is staged by Heywood Floyd (defy hollywood) , the fact is that there is no alien monolith, this is a staged event to cover up the existence of an unknown virus that killed the people on the moon base. The monolith is a cinematic wide screen.

[moo3ieeva01]

Beautiful!! just plain beautiful!!

[generalcircle]

Dave, don't touch the Wonka Bar Dave.

[VermiIion]

what is this music?

[randomuserguy]

@VermiIion A piece called Requiem by composer, Gyorgy Ligeti.

[mrvendetor]

Only Kubrick could make a big black rectangle evil

[AaronMk91]

@mrvendetor I wouldn't say its evil per se. But it is imposing and rather scary. But not very evil.

[eldelasonic]

monolith didnt reflect the light!

[AcolyteOfDeath]

This scene scared me shitless seeing it as a kid.

[DLWormwood]

Wait, I thought I didn't press the vuvuzela button...

[tragicblackness]

Reminds me of Dead Space, only they called it "The Marker".

[charlesgsqc]

.......Freak.......Just fucking freak.....Hell what is that fucking freaking movie!?

[crazynintendoguy]

How come the astronauts aren't hoping around the moon like in real life?

[chonomakona]

@crazynintendoguy cuz they didnt know thats what actually happened on the moon. this movie came out 3 or 4 years before the moon mission.

[thisvideowillbeflagd]

@chonomakona Only one year before the moon mission. Well, only one year before Apollo 11, that is.

[rulz492]

@crazynintendoguy because they're not on the moon.

[henrikmk]

@crazynintendoguy

Because this movie was made before the first men landed on the Moon.

[thegafferlives]

This happens to me every bloody morning.

[narrator89]

What happen to the guys? Did they bring the Monolith back to earth?

[danniice]

@narrator89 it isn't explained until in 2010.. watch it, many questions from 2001 are explained there.. probably to many

[iDanMan94]

this site obviously represents a movie theater, evidence such as the projector and the walkway

[rish987]

u spelled monolith "monolit"

still great vid, though

that movie is awesome

[Faztlan]

Why aren't they armed? -TX

[s4ujcd]

Guns on the moon?!

[Aeolus777]

....outrageous!!!

[azaptyE]

u misspelled monolith twice

[cheezonator]

the music for the monolith scenes is genius. It's so eerie and unknown. It gives me goosebumps.

[azaptyE]

lol what r u talking about

[Ronin228]

I would be scared shitless if I found the Monolith...

[KillcumShot]

@Ronin228 my god, it's so creepy! i definetelly agree! especially if I heard that sound...

[GodsGayLover]

@Ronin228 In space no one can hear the spooky music.

[signsoftwentytwelve]

@Ronin228 .. yeah and here's one really good reason why, pls watch my APW series (A Poisoned World - Pt 105) to find out... and spread the entire ongoing APW series, go viral with it...

Peace.

MB

[IAmGenericEric]

Can't wait until the year 2001, its gonna rock!

[blindmansarrow]

@IAmGenericEric so dope

[crazynintendoguy]

@IAmGenericEric actually you missed 10 years of it you're in 2011 :)

[Zh0rik]

@IAmGenericEric Pretty funny. Although mysterious, because it's already 2011 now, but still 2001 doesn't mean real 2001 year in our life. Wow. So crazy. AAAAAAAAAA. Kubrick..... Monolith is behind me, I can sense it. Is it you Dave? What do you want? Pizza? What kind?

[potter0067]

@IAmGenericEric Elenin 2011

[XChupacabras]

fantastic scene

[TheRedIdentity]

best film ever made

[pipecub83]

cmsahe, yep that is a flaw, and both clarke and kubrick knew that at the time, but they wanted the nearly full earth in the background during the scene when the astronauts walked down to towards the monolith, and they wanted the crescent moon like with the man apes and the monolith. Art won in this scene, not science. But it looks way cool.

[yugtafkwitme]

This scene was supposed to represent an emerging level 1 civilisation (humans), first contact with an alien level 3 or higher civilisation.

[cmsahe]

How come?? The Earth over the Monolith?? if only just a pair of minutes before it was over the horizon.

[tronuD2]

what is a monolit.

you mean monolith right?

i need to rent this movie.

[spiralshaman]

I love this scene. And I agree with the person who said that this is one of the scariest scenes of all time.

[subzero4you]

This is definitely one of my top movie scenes ever. Everything is melded perfectly together, the music, the actor's motions, the scenery. Kubrick really was a master at what he did. Thank you for posting this video! :)

[firefekds]

Very beautifully done scene, gritty, suspenseful, and the cinematography and score is breathtaking. Definitely my favorite sci fi scene of all time.

[pipecub83]

Incorrect. The music is "Requiem" by Gyorgi Ligeti

[greenmountian]

awesome

[synclavier123]

The music is a choral work called "Lux Aeterna" by the Hungarian composer Gyorgi Ligeti

[marcher87]

one of the scariest scenes of all time... brilliant

[thebuckingfasted]

You're right, and it didn't need much to be scary. No CGI or any other form of smoke and mirrors. Just the human fear of the unknown.

And that FUCKING music!

[legrandchene]

Dans Kubrik tout est bon. Dans l'Odyssée de l'Espace, miraculeux même : la musique de György Ligeti : Lux Æterna (1966), tellement dodécaphonique tendance crispante, trouve sa place idéale dans cette scène angoissante. Une trouvaille géniale de Stanley K. Comme dans bien d'autres scènes dans ce chef d'œuvre du cinéma.

[Thunderfvck]

I fvcking love this film. One of the best ways to spend time ever. I wish they'd made the sequel as epic though.

[ugowar]

I'm personally fond of 2010. Both movies were done with a very different approach in mind and I don't think 2010 should be compared to 2001. It was never meant to try and live up to the original, instead a different, much more narrative approach was chosen. It does leave the viewer with less material to think about in the end, but I felt the message the movie sent was powerful nonetheless.

I kinda wish they filmed 2063 as well.

[danielrep]

That fucking music...

[jumper86]

genius at work

[TNkid414]

Epic just epic

[theCrypticRain]

This one of my favorite scenes from any movie. The cinematography is phenomenal.

[nnikb7]

love this music! (scares my sister though)

[Eiselberg]

scares my cats, too!

[Beelzeboogie]

Scares the hell out of me! It's the most haunting sound i've ever heard!

[Velociraptorblade]

Awesome

[VEGETARIEN75]

the music was composed (not for the movie) by György Ligeti, whom Kubrick fas fan

[EastBroadTop]

It's "monolith" from the Latin meaning, "One Stone".

[pipecub83]

Can't believe this movie is over 40 years old, April 2, 1968!

[Logrunif]

this is bullshit, they didnt land on the moon

its fake

[callumginty]

YOU ARE AN IDIOT

[ZemplinTemplar]

You sir, are a great example of a typical conspiracy nut. :-P Anyway, the film rulezzz... :-) The australopithecuses tried touching the monolith the same way, as these modern humans on the Moon. Very symbolic. :-)

[sumdumfoo1]

that's what I got from this scene...from the dawn of man all the way until man is in outerspace, they had the same reaction. does it show how far we've come? or that we haven't gone anywhere at all? or that I'm thinking too hard over nothing? lots of thoughts, love the movie.

[ZemplinTemplar]

Yup.

[1tacoplease]

are you retarded.watch the discovery chanels mythbusters episode about the moon landing

now what??

[DrCrabfingers]

How was it?

[bstep13]

i'm going to be watching this movie in a few minutes.

[bstep13]

Strange Eerie Music!!!!!!!

[mikesey1]

Wonderful!!

[rjs9]

watch out dudes, apparently the moon is home to approximatley one billion bees

[pol192]

estom es una mierda

[killabot2]

arrogance of men, turned their back to knowledge

[IluvfaTCHIX]

beautifull

[TTDMFfreak4590]

i love this movie, you have to watch it alot to get it.

[WanderingPaladin]

Am I the only one who was absolutely terrified by this sequence?

[sas147741]

no,i was too!

[fooooseball]

they've now entered sovereign territory and are now about to get schooled.

[advancedatheist]

This goes to show the blown opportunity in the "Stargate" movie scene when the archeologists excavated the Stargate.

[durhay]

This would be my "entrance music" if I was a baseball player :)

[LapGrizzly]

Or a pro wrestler. My music would be "Drink Kool-Aid in Camel piss" by Wesley Willis. Check it out.. it's on youtube :D:D.

[greekdragon]

This movie is so amazing, it brings a sense of confusion to you. I love this music too because it cuts off sudddenly at the end and into nothing.