2001 - A Space Odyssey (1968) - Best Cut in the History of Cinema

[MrSilenxe]

This is an illuminati film, made by the masons stenly kubrick and arthur clarke, 33 years before 2001. As some of us know 33 is one of the most important numbers in the mason folklore.

[neo5551000]

@MrSilenxe this is a film made by artists.

[happosai27]

wierd how the spaceshuttle in this 40 year old movie looks way more modern than the real one

[razeezar]

This film reminds me of why CGI turns me off modern movies.

[ellbo2]

This is not a movie, it is a film. There is a difference. A movie is entertainment. A film is something more deeper, and this is one of the greatest films ever made.

[1956mds]

I hate to muddy the waters any further, but no one seems to have commented that with the bone, the direction of the spin has reversed with the cut, as if filmed from the other side while falling. Every time I watch this film, I notice something new (like this). Has anyone done a frame-by-frame analysis to determine this? The images would need to be superimposed, possibly rotated. Just a thought. Thanks.

[pacific707]

Duh.........

[graceofbaal]

I spent thirteen years as a Catholic, then spent another year or so researching other religions before settling down as an atheist. This film is the closest I've ever been to a religious experience.

[drfreebird777]

@graceofbaal Forgive me, but wouldn't an AGNOSTIC have a greater "experience" with this film: After all, Kubrick uses a giant black box to indicate the beginning of consciousness in primates we now call human beings. What could that block box be???? Could be God, couldn't it?

[omgstfulolzbrb]

@drfreebird777 imho, it represented order, in the loose sense that a monolith or 3-dimensional rectangle suddenly appearing to pre-humans would be something totally out of place and extremely unnatural to them, seeing as a straight line, much less a perfect monolith basically never occurs in "nature" (physically speaking). globes mother nature has a plenty, straight lines not so much. the monolith shocked them out of their stupor as they were suddenly confronted with something "higher".

[OroborusFMA]

@graceofbaal It's one long homage to Nietzsche when you get down to it.

[mhalawany]

@graceofbaal

I hope to spend just 30 minutes checking if Islam is correct creed or not from an Islamic sources ,I hope to check depending on logic and science ,you will find the simple answer

NO God But Allah and Qur'an is his book and Muhammad is his last messenger just check if you're searching for truth

[coredor]

I had to read the book before I understood the wider significance of the cut. I just took it to be some kind of satellite. One of the best films ever made IMHO.

[juresaiyan]

it IS the best cut

[kimskis]

GOAT movie and timeless ideas...thank you mother nature for bringing us Kubrick and his talents to amuse and entertain us

[hardcorefakes12]

CRAP FLOATING IN SPACE

this isnt a movie.

[LoKimLinProject]

@hardcorefakes12 Your right it's Art.

[neomaxizoomdweebie1]

Every time I watch this I am completely overwhelmed with both awe and astonishment of the brilliant cinematic vision of a man whose genius is beyond comprehension

[facecheek]

@Identityis , @roachy333 I personally belive its the argument you two present that keeps mankind going, haha!

[CHAOSin8bits]

i wish the bone bit was cut off before it comes down, and it is more appearent that the orbiting thing in space is a nuclear weapon.

[9540525]

you are all stupid....not smart enough to understand that this movie is about your hidden life...which is beyond understanding because you think it can not be real!> especially that journey through consciousness in the end...and then those scenes in the flat...pure blessed open free mind experience...you are too blocked to realise the truth. Kubrick!>great respect!

[borntobewildpascal]

HEEENN C Bein Hot .... Ca Va Etre Cool En 2001 ....

[kellytm3]

movies like this make drugs more enjoyable

[MovieMaster0001]

One person couldn't grip the pen floating in mid-air...

[Oxpost]

This is art at a very high level. Although it sucks as a movie!

[pinboyjorf]

the SCOPE of this movie was incredible. thats why it's so great. and stands the test of time.

[random55256]

People miss the point.

The writers THEMSELVES said there is no deeper meaning to this film. as much as I LOVE The Shining I hate this film.

In the immortal words of confused Matthew, Shit floats in space

[LynnJynh9315]

@random55256 Where did the writers say this. I would like to see this for myself.

[rhcpbroncos]

@random55256 So Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke explicity stated this? Find some proof for that

[Mindtage]

The aspect is fucked up. Try using the Mindtage.

[siliguritube]

Go to 05: 10 sec of the video. The space ferry and Space station, both are perfectly sync at their rotation on own individual axis. Go to 05: 15 sec. despite the synchronization, the graphical image of the landing pot of the space station between the two pilots inside the cockpit of space ferry appears to be rotating.

Editing glitch or Stanley had any explanation of this? After everything- the best movie of all time.

[panqueque445]

i wish i could see this movie in a theater...

[peterell10]

can someone please explain what is so great about this edit? I recognize and understand the absolute brilliance of the IDEA, but the execution is terrible. The bone goes completely out of the frame, and not at the time that it might work (between going up and coming back down), but while still on its way up. And the actual cut does not match the position of the bone with that of the satellite. If I were editing this I would say that people would think I'm an amateur if they saw this.

[HUNDOLOS]

@peterell10 My thoughts exactly.

[NakedCreep]

@peterell10 I think you're missing the point.

I think what the uploader is trying to say that it's the best cut because it's ironically a cut with almost no detail, but causes so much emotion in the viewer.

IMO, it is the best cut in the world due to it's sheer simplicity.

[ozziemckenzie]

The visual effects are just so perfectly simulated although it's too hard to believe that it's the year 1968.

[pokorny2]

I love the tension between the music, the camera speed, and the zero gravity effect. They are all timed out seamlessly, which mades for a fantastic scene. Bravo

[JetMechMA]

At 2:55....they envisioned flat panel screens in the seat backs. We only just got them recently. How could they have known this more than 30 years ago?

[IlersichProductions]

I'm surprised how one edit can have so much depth and generate so much controversy, even among Youtube commenters. Imagine if the entire movie was breathtaking edits. Oh, wait...

[reedunculous]

To Ackez1989 - why do you think 2001 is "deeply pessimistic"? It couldn't be MORE optimistic! Humans use their intelligence(with a booster from the monolith) to survive, eventually making their way into space...and encounter an extraterrestrial civilization which helps humans take the next step in evolution -- seems like a win-win to me.

[googlexxxxxxx]

I hate the way this film has been hijacked by misanthropes.

[UmusBejokeene]

@googlexxxxxxx

Still throwing things, I see. You and me both.

[TeamBlackster]

call me narrow minded but I thought the clip was long and monotonous. There have been plenty of other ways people have told the same message

[hwright3766]

I love this too... BUT... I've always regretted that tiny jump cut beforehand, to keep the bone in shot. it's uncharacteristically clumsy for Kubrick. I'm surprised that a man legendary for getting it right didn't get a perfect take of bone rising and falling in one shot.

[d4z3d1]

@hwright3766 I agree the cut is distracting since the bone floating up into the sky is sort of memorizing... before the sudden cut but it got me looking at the scene and it looks as if the first toss up of the bone is actually the bone falling and being recorded upside down. If you notice at the end of the first bone shot it appears to lift up out of the sky... gravity would slowing the bone down by that point not "pulling it up" as it appears to do so before the cut and seeing the bone fall.

[Bassbait]

@hwright3766 Obviously Kubrick didn't let something like that slide; after all, he did do constant takes, over and over again, so it's quite possible that there was something intended with the shot. Also, the second bone shot is still moving up when we see it, so it would be pretty obvious to Kubrick. Anyway, Kubrick does bizarre, "clumsy" things all of the time, and they can easily be explained when you consider thematic elements of the movie and Kubrick's habit of ultra-perfectionism.

[reedunculous]

@hwright3766 - first of all, it's a match cut, not a jump cut. Second - the whole point of a match cut is to match visually two different objects on either side of the cut. Kubrick did this beautifully, there is nothing "clumsy" about it.

[simon271088]

@reedunculous he's not talking about the match cut, he's talking about the jump cut before it (when the bone is still spinning, there is a jump cut as it goes out of screen).

[Jayurba]

that cut said EVERYTHING

[LordOfTheGnus]

I don't agree that the cut is meant to imply that there has been no progress. Rather, it compares tools: the bone and the space devices. The sudden jump suggests that on a cosmic scale, all this has happened in the blink of an eye.

[Bassbait]

@LordOfTheGnus On terms of philosophical elements, you could debate the meaning. In terms of the movie, however, the edit is quite simple: The entire story revolves around the monolith, and so we don't need to see anything between. The fact that the edit is there in the first place does, however, communicate that there IS a meaning to that scene, or at least that it was an interesting edit. The implications of this scene are far beyond the plot itself, but I just felt like adding that...

[JetMechMA]

@Bassbait I thought it was curious that the bone rises...and then starts back down again, before the cut to the more modern times. I would have thought that you would want the bone to seem to rise as if to outer space....he threw it so hard in absolute victory.....that moment of learning virtually guarantEEING man's rise to outerspace. But the bone starts to fall again. What goes up must come down? Is that the signifigance? And is that meaning then assumed for the rise of the space travellers?

[Bassbait]

@JetMechMA Well, first of all, the jump cut shows a weapon with a bone, falling down. In fact, it could be a tie in to Dr. Strangelove. The bone could represent a bomb, just as it does when it cuts away to space. The weapon that made man is also going to be used to destroy man. The triumph of throwing the bone up is also the downfall. Sort of a "what comes up must go down". The bone represents tools, weapons, but also the start of creativity, and creative minds are also destructive minds.

[JetMechMA]

@Bassbait I can see all of that being true. Well said.

[therealdjcammONUTUBE]

i'm a big fan of this film and i do understand at least some of the interpretations ect ect but i never understood how you can tell that the object floating in space is actually a weapon? have i missed somthing? please can someone explain?

[therealsaintseiya]

best cut in the history of cinema but the worst HD youtube clip in the history of youtube.

[shotdonkey]

@ some of the retarded comments regarding "2001" posted here.

best cut in the history of cinema from the best film ever made.

if you don`t understand what kubrick is saying here, then don`t try to:

one of the best things about being dumb is most of the time you don`t don`t know you`re dumb simply because you`re...dumb.

as for 2001`s "meaning", here`s a hint: this classic film clearly shows that, as a part of "greater humanity", being stupid will never see you in the minority ;-)

[3536mj]

im sorry but this movie was retarded, there was a bunch of dramatic music and loud annoying sounds, nothing happened in the movie at all, and near the end the guy had some freaky acid trip and ended up in a room, please tell wtf happened in this movie, because it made no sense to me at all.

[gonzomaniac71]

@3536mj there is no way you can describe what happened in this movie. Its supposed to be a bit weird? If you don't get it then you don't get it. Besides what its about. Its just great film making.

[TAYLORROXS3]

@3536mj Read the books.

[integral]

@3536mj you poor thing

[Niracasso]

@3536mj To put it simply, YOU are fucking retarded. Don't just assume the movie got it wrong when, clearly, it was you. Watch it again when you grow a pair of balls and start understanding the world.

[Marco007Marco007]

@3536mj Your not suppose to "get" it. That's what makes it so great and weird. The whole movie represents something, so there is no plot.

[Hubbleknarf]

I wonder what this movie would have looked like if it was directed by Michael Bay.

[jingleheimer0]

it'd be about half the length, totally revamped soundtrack, a sexual interest, and the monolith would have exploded into a million pieces, showering the universe and clouding out the sun to end the movie

[integral]

@Hubbleknarf bite your tongue (:

[roachy333]

the cuts worth isn't so much about the technical aspect of it...but what it represents.

that human history, up until this point from bone weapon to nuclear...warrants only 1/24th of a frame...why?, because their is no real progress in humanity between these 2 points!!!

[ZiggyTrek]

good point. Technology has very little to do with the condition of the human spirit and his attitude

[tomasql]

@roachy333 agree!

[DaBigEgg]

@roachy333 i dont see how there isnt any real prgress :L

[roachy333]

@DaBigEgg

Well...if you can call killing people more efficiently than we used to 'progressive'...I guess you may have a point...but not in my book. Basically we're still left with violence as the main organising factor on planet earth...which is my point and hence, no real meaningful progress between the edit...outlined herein.

oh and I meant 1/24th of a second...not a frame. (typo in my original post)

[DaBigEgg]

@roachy333 what about our whole civilisations, the power to harness electricity and use it to our advantage, AI, weve progressed alot since the dawn of man

[Ofinfinitejest]

@roachy333 To add to the observation, with the Blue Danube section that follows, both the music and the visuals indicate that Mankind is simply waltzing in an elegant dance of circles, but going no place, and we are overdue for the next level of inspiration. Man is a bridge between the ape (no conceptual knowledge) and the Nietzsche's ubermensch (all conceptual knowledge). Both the apes and the humans find themselves "starving" amidst plenty, and needing inspiration.

[mtb416]

@roachy333 Eh, I think that's a cop out. There has certainly been more achievement than that, but when you cut it down to weapons and weapons then no, there isn't.

[reedunculous]

@roachy333 - why do people think the satellites are nuclear weapons?

[roachy333]

@reedunculous

Probably written that they are...in the earlier shooting scripts, something like that. It was in Clarke's novel though...as was the planet being Saturn & not Jupiter.

Its definitely not obvious from watching the film though!

[LevaniaDaemon]

@reedunculous

originally kubrick wanted to have a narrator who said that the satelite was a nuclear waepon *and the sth star schild/ dave bowman destroyed them at the end of the movie

[JetMechMA]

@LevaniaDaemon What IS a "Star Child" anyway? ....and how could it destroy all the nuclear weapon satelites? Don't we wish there was a star child to look after us.

[Identityis]

@roachy333 Do you honestly look upon human cities and say there's been no progress? Do you not see that humankind has emerged from a world of misery and destitution, and have moved into a world where mankind may live free, so that each and every living soul may live a happy life. Our society is far from perfect, and we've still have a lot of work left to do, but don't you dare disregard how far we've come, or what human beings have done. Shame on you, and everyone else who liked your comment.

[roachy333]

@Identityis

Actually...If pressed, I'd probably err slighty on the side of regression up to this point....as opposed to no progress.

So I'm sure you'll disagree even more...but hey these are just my opinions, nothing more.

[iloveherforever1]

Jeg er i ett med alt

[Malicorian]

thats an orbiting nuclear launcher satalite

[AragornIsStrider]

I do like the cut, and the movie (a LOT), but I never thought that this jump-cut was very linear. I'd give it a 7 out of 10 as far as editing goes.

[plaidpirate]

hurrrrr durrrrrrrrr

hrrmmm I've taken a creative writing class. let me tell you how I would improve this mediocre shot.

[jemjean]

Superb!

[Superwolf1337]

Bravo,bravo!

[nonameius]

one of the best examples of a "match cut" or "match on action". Representing a passing of a huge amount of time in one beutifull cut. brilliant.

[PIKlynch]

all i can say is i almost cried with that music compass al 0:57. this is the only movie i can see again and again..... that feeling is so strong, so beautiful

[dragoon414]

@PIKlynch are you a girl? why would you cry

[uplifter1000]

@dragoon414

music creates emotion - some of us cry ~ you can be man and cry. it's ok, you know? Peace ~

[uplifter1000]

@PIKlynch

The music speaks to you ~ it touches your soul. It's a good thing. Never resist your emotions ~

Namaste ~

[astronettle]

i like how powerful this transition is without feeling forced or obvious.

[mlretmil5]

Great video here ! As a fan who saw the ahead-of-its-time movie in special theater when it premiered those many years ago, I much enjoy your HD video (& your using Strauss waltz, which the movie did feature). Thank you for sharing.

[shatishje]

It's magnificent to see how the apes(us) throw the bone (satelitecamera) in the air. The Similarity is important

[xlakebeachx]

The space station is supposed to have an orbiting nuke on it. The transition is supposed to represent a jump from the first weapon (a bone club) to the last (the space station nuke).

[soccom8341576]

@xlakebeachx Space-station-nukes would be downright madness.

[reedunculous]

@xlakebeachx - the satellites were not intended by Kubrick to be nukes. Clarke makes them nukes in his book, Kubrick is much more vague about the satellites.

[HeartlessGorre]

@xlakebeachx ahh but far deadlier weapons are possible than nukes.

[dragoon414]

@shatishje apes(you) not me, some of us were created from god, some, well came from apes :P

[spxcmiler]

apes were also created by god :p

[Dtector]

ver nice remark spxcmiler,

simple and sharp

[uplifter1000]

@spxcmiler

of course, after all we Are All ONE.

[BryterJonas]

@uplifter1000 except not really since the world don't run on sensationalist romanticism.

[3536mj]

@dragoon414 good way to put it