3001 The Final Odyssey- Prologue [SUBTITTLED PT-BR]

Call them the Firstborn. Though they were not remotely human, they were flesh and blood, and when they looked out across the deeps of space, they felt awe, and wonder— and loneliness. As soon as they possessed the power, they began to seek for fellowship among the stars.


In their explorations, they encountered life in many forms, and watched the workings of evolution on a thousand worlds. They saw how often the first faint sparks of intelligence flickered and died in the cosmic night.


And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped.


And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.


The great dinosaurs had long since passed away, their morning promise annihilated by a random hammerblow from space, when the survey ship entered the Solar System after a voyage that had already lasted a thousand years. It swept past the frozen outer planets, paused briefly above the deserts of dying Mars, and presently looked down on Earth.


Spread out beneath them, the explorers saw a world swarming with life. For years they studied, collected, catalogued. When they had learned all that they could, they began to modify. They tinkered with the destiny of many species, on land and in the seas. But which of their experiments would bear fruit, they could not know for at least a million years.


They were patient, but they were not yet immortal. THere was so much to do in this universe of a hundred billion suns, and other worlds were calling. So they set out once more into the abyss, knowning that they would never come this way again. Nor was there any need: the servants they had left behind would do the rest.


On Earth, the glaciers came and went, while above them the changeless Moon still carried its secret from the stars. With a yet slower rhythm than the polar ice, the tides of civilization ebbed and flowed across the Galaxy. Strange and beautiful and terrible empires rose and fell, and passed on their knowledge to their successors.


And now, out among the stars, evolution was driving towards new goals. The first explorers of Earth had long since come to the limits of flesh and blood; as as soon their machines were better than their bodies, it was time to move. First their brains, and then their thoughts alone, they transferred into shining new homes of metal and gemstone. In these, they roamed the Galaxy. They no longer built spaceships. They were spaceships.


But the age of the Machine-entities swiftly passed. In their ceaseless experimenting, they had learned to store knowledge in the structure of space itself, and to preserve their thoughts for eternity in frozen lattices of light.


Into pure energy, therefore, they presently transformed themselves; and on a thousand worlds, the empty shells they had discarded twitched for a while in a mindless dance of death, then crumbled to dust.


Now they were Lords of the Galaxy, and could rove at will among the stars, or sink like a subtle mist through the very interstices of space. though they were freed at last from the tyranny of matter, they had not wholly forgotten their origin, in the warm slime of a vanished sea. And their marvelous instruments still continued to function, watching over the experiments started so many ages ago.


But no longer were they always obedient to the mandates of their creators; like all material things, they were not immune to the corruption of Time and its patient, unsleeping servant, Entropy.


And sometimes, they discovered and sought goals of their own.


[ENGLISH] Prologue of 3001 The Final Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke, read by Garrick Hagon

[PORTUGUÊS] Prólogo de 3001 A Odisséia Final de Arthur C. Clarke

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[0d0i0a0n0e0L0a0]

they came from Andromeda? or Pledeians? i like this script so much! Long Live Annunaki! LOL

[erikhouston]

If you read the Odyssey series, you will realize that every book is a universe of its own. Author C. Clark wrote each book based on the prevailing scientific knowledge of the time. That is why each book is not a sequel or prequel, it is supposed to be read on its own. Personally I like both the movie version of 2001 and the novel. The movie is mystical science fiction and the novel is 'hard' core sci fi, and I respect both styles and mediums.

[d3p3ch3mod3]

@killzonerome Tom Hanks wanted to do it and play Heywood Floyd.. his prodcution company is called Clavius base.. Think Morgan Freeman wanted to do Rama also... But why would anyone make something like that when you have to compete with the Star Wars prequels... Anyway 3001 was completely bonkers, the monoliths get wiped out by a computer virus, Pool gets resurrected and flies around in a giant mechanical Dragon, etc

[UridonTheMaster]

@killzonerome u do realize 3001 is a sequel to the book series, and the 2001 movie is not based on the books at all?

[RafaChannel3001]

Wow, 3001 views!!

[JustinSuhr4]

@Destro7000 I think it's opinion-based, I like the movie, because the movie has its own formula to it, however the novel still is better in man senses

[Destro7000]

@JustinSuhr4 The book's better than the film. The film of 2010 skips soooo much. 2061 and 3001 (read in this video) are the sequels.

[SupaPoopaScoopa]

@killzonerome I gotta say that I doubt a movie like that would go down well with todays mtv generation. If Space Odyssey was done today it would probably be akin to movies like Solace & Moon... and they didn't do so well, but I'm sure space odyssey fans appreciated them. Space Odyssey 3 would really have to be something special - like the original was in it's time - to be a success.

[JustinSuhr4]

@killzonerome you should look up 2010 first contact or something like that

its the sequel to 2001, and its a great movie

not as good as 2001, but its still phenomenal

[killzonerome]

why the fuck hasn't this movie been made yet? if they could get a great kubrickesque director and make 3001 the trademark movie like 2001 was.. this has potential.