2001: bone to spaceship

[izumi168]

I find the juxtaposition of the bone to the spaceship very poetic. Its the scene in this film which I find the most memorable

[tttooommm123]

why did he use such a sloppy cut????!?!!!!



[nownezz]

the greatest person in the history of cinema. huge inspiration, huge love - rest in peace

[SingHouse]

Models look 100x times better than crappy CGI

[fabamatic]

@SingHouse Agreed, most movies now look like playstation 2 games.

[tcatn0c]

whats the music that starts at 1:54 ?

[eeg10]

@tcatn0c Blue Danube waltz

[eeg10]

@tcatn0c by Strauss

[vabilas28]

Clearly, one of the best scenes in the history of cinema... R.I.P Stanley Kubrick

[SardaukarPrime]

It{s 2011 and we barely have an orbiting space station Kubrick and Clarke wouldnt like this future.

[KKarkaz]

@SardaukarPrime because we destroyed communism... and now fck each other with capitalist system

[dynagravitomagnetic]

awesome cut. thank you for the post.

[callhelpwnage]

Holy shit. I just understood that the spaceship could be a metaphor for the bone... it's just a more "advanced" bone... cause at 1:08 to 1:16 it seems like the floating ship is just like the bone..

DAT ShITS DEEP.

[DjangoVanGogh]

@callhelpwnage

Also the floating pen at 2:12. Same thing.

[vabilas28]

@DjangoVanGogh that s a good point you have there. I d mention that via the pen (which is something which we ordinarily use today), is actually suggested a connection to our time. Past (bone) --> Future (spaceship) --> Present (pen))

[DjangoVanGogh]

@vabilas28

Yes. It's like a timeline for human advancement.

[Jacnas]

@callhelpwnage There's more. Because it's not just any spaceship; it's an orbital platform with nuclear warheads. So we have the first, most primitive weapon turning into the latest most advanced one.

[radtech21]

I've always loved this cut.

I was reading about it one time, and the article writer claimed that the spacecraft the scene cut to is actually a nuclear weapon pointed at Earth.

He proposed that Kubrick's meaning was a contrast: How far we have advanced, and yet still use that technology to kill one another, as we did with the most simple weapons so long ago.

[barfingjake]

@radtech21

I heard it was an orbital defense cannon.

[TravoltaNewtonJohn]

Ca c'est du film.

[RandomCodeX]

Encapsulating hundreds of thousands of years of evolution in one transition. Genius.

[LydKidforPres]

Where is another example of a Form cut like this???? Where it turns from one thing into another and changes scenes?

[popaddict]

@LydKidforPres In Hitchcock's Psycho in the shower scene - there's a shot of the blood going down the drain hole and it cut's to her eye. Similar circular shapes.

[TitaniumToothpaste]

that was fucking retarded

[caribeandude1]

@TitaniumToothpaste You're the first person to ever think that was retarded. This movie is a masterpiece of the science fiction genre. But what could one expect of a person whose handle here is Titanium Toothpate. Talk about retarded. Good Lord.

[TitaniumToothpaste]

@caribeandude1 i will give the movie the credit it deserves

the movie is fucking genius

but that cut with the bone and the ship is fucking terrible

on a metaphorical/symbolic level i understand it and think it is pretty good

but just on a filmmaking point of view it looks retarded

and while we are talking about names

1.) you spelled caribbean wrong

2.) you have the word dude in your name, one doesn't really expect a 'dude' to have great taste or any intellectual ability

[cloudidogz]

Definitely ranks up there! Very dramatic, contrasting cut.

[jgrab1]

Fascinating the sophisticated and elegant way the future is depicted in this film...versus how it really turned out.

[mehdinadif]

that specific cut is wat i remember the best from this movie. breathtaking:)

[Velvia27]

A jump-cut of 4 millions years!

I love this film.

[gabel1337]

@Velvia27 I had the luck to recently see it in the cinema (not a 70mm print but still) and today it still holds up in every way. Kubrick was an absolute master and in my opinion the greatest director to have ever lived.

[Plantum21]

this ist the best??

[LordOfTheGnus]

@Plantum21 It's all about context.