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Uploaded by RustyCT1 on Mar 4, 2008
Excerpt from Stanley Kubrick's futuristic 1968 film featuring Arthur C. Clark's bestseller, "2001: A Space Odyssey," starring Keir Dullea.
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@pacific707 However, showing "Life Support" failing, in such a "beautiful" way (if that can EVEN be an apt description) it makes up for the descriptive way that HAL wreaked havoc on the Discovery in the novel.
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@pacific707 Hmm. Something else about discrepencies between the film and the novel. In the book, HAL empties Discovery of ALL oxygen as he tries to thwart Dave from taking the steps to "disconnect" him. I think Kubrick could have spent a little more time focusing on these malevolent aspects of HAL just a little bit more, as did the novel.
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@pacific707 Not to mention "scary as hell!"
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@gbf15hdb12duke It's an incredibly beautiful scene!
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@SuperTennis3 Indeed Super!! But to a lot of people, myself included, it looked like he was taking "in" a big breath before being thrown into vacuum. If he inhaled, his head would have likely "burst" all over the airlock. If he exhaled, and kept nothing in his lungs, he would have survived the brief time between being in an oxygen-rich atmosphere and being thrown into an oxygen-less environment. I think recent scientific research has determined an absolute time of 20 seconds of survival(?)
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@MovieMaster0001 The "Green" helmet was the only helmet available to him, presumably on the "Green" colored emergency space suit that was available to astronauts making an emergency entrance into "Discovery" through the airlock.
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@pacific707 The way he put his head down, i always thought he did exhale. Its only logical if your going to expose yourself to a vacuum. Otherwise wouldn't the pressure try to escape from your lungs in all directions?
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@ 02:45 HAL is impressed.
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@mutatron agree, the sounds are good, or lack thereof (since their in space)
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This is probably one of the most realistic "vacuum" scene in science fiction. If you actually research people who have been exposed to space, your head doesn't explode, and you don't die immediately. You are still fully conscious for up to 30 seconds, which was plenty of time for him to close the airlock. Beautifully done. One of my favorite sci-fi movies.
StreetFighter2010 1 year ago 13
The only flaw in this scene is that Bowman (Keir Dullea) should have exhaled and expunged all oxygen from his lungs before entering the vacuum of space, instead of taking a deep breath in.
pacific707 4 months ago 3