2001 A Space Odyssey - Space Sequences Tribute Part 2of4

And here the "Mother" (well the real mother is probably "Metropolis") of all Science Fiction Movie Special Visual Effects: Stanley Kubricks "2001 - A Space Odysee" from 1968. All seen here is of course handmade. All photographic effects, no CGI. And all SFX Scenes from the Movie are cut toghether in full length and in chronological order.

The Music at 1:20 and 6:42 is right out of the Movie. Gayane Ballet Suite (Adagio) Aram Khachaturian. You should find it on the Originial Movie Soundtrack. It was also used "extracted" in the ALIENS Movie!

Because it's more than 36 Minutes of FX, including the "changing Dimensions" FX, i had to split in into 4 parts. And don't adjust your volume when there's nothing to hear. It's meant that way ;)

Music heard at the Monolith Scene: The Requiem for soprano, mezzo-soprano, five-voice chorus and orchestra, by Gyorgy Ligeti, is a four-movement work in the same totally-chromatic style as Atmosphères (a portion of this work too received wide currency in the scene on the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, in the scene of the proto-humans approaching the monolith). The first movement of Requiem, the "Introitus", has a thin texture, but the "Kyrie/Christe" is a stunning, brilliant evocation of searing appeal.[citation needed] It is a massive (twenty-part choral) quasi-fugue where the counterpoint is re-thought in terms of the material, consisting of melismatic masses interpenetrating and alternating with complex skipping parts. It was a part of this movement that accompanied the enigmatic monolith scenes in Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey. The last instance quoted in the movie (at Jupiter: Beyond the Infinite), this movement (interrupted by a loud radio-tone screech from the monolith) segues to the opening of Atmosphères. The penultimate movement, "de Die Judicii Sequentia" (Day of Judgement Sequence) is a colossal montage of contrasts: fff loud versus ppp soft, masses of sound versus soloists, etc. In the final movement, "Lacrimosa" (weeping), the chorus is muted, and only a reduced orchestra accompanies the plangent singing of the soloists.

Lux Aeterna is a 16-voice a cappella piece whose text is also associated with the Latin Requiem, which also was partially used in Kubricks movie (for the moon-bus scene en route to the TMA-1 monolith in the crater Tycho). The piece is strongly modeled after the masterful mensuration canons of Johannes Ockeghem and accomplishes much the same effect, but with secundal, rather than tertian harmony, in a paradoxically thick-but-transparent 16-voice texture.

The third Kubrick use of Ligetis music was from his mimodrama Aventures (in the even more cryptic final scenes), distorted by an echo chamber."

Quote Stanley Kubrick (source:Wikipedia): "I tried to create a visual experience, one that bypasses verbalized pigeonholing and directly penetrates the subconscious with an emotional and philosophic content. I intended the film to be an intensely subjective experience that reaches the viewer at an inner level of consciousness, just as music does; to „explain" a Beethoven symphony would be to emasculate it by erecting an artificial barrier between conception and appreciation. You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film -- and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level -- but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point."
Stanley Kubrick 1922 - 1999.

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[miraoister]

1:59 whats the soundtrack?

[MetalApe]

The same as 1:20 and 6:42 ...it's right out of the Movie... Gayane Ballet Suite (Adagio) Aram Khachaturian. You should find it on the Originial Movie Soundtrack. It was also used in the ALIENS Movie!

[anisometropie]

what's the name of the music at 1'37" ?

[MetalApe]

The Music at 1'37'' is right out of the Movie... Gayane Ballet Suite (Adagio) Aram Khachaturian. Should be on the Originial Soundtrack. And i love it too ;)

[jfmayer]

long live the miniatures, death to CGI !!!

[StephenDurnin]

Why has this film dated little? It's because everything was thoroughly researched and meticulously planned. Not put together hurriedly by a couple of CGI-whizzs with PCs.

[TopT432]

From 0:00 to 1:12 RAW FEAR!!!

[jimbotro]

great movie ... the writing, the music, the, the hissing...

[borvo7]

discovery jupiter mission eighteen months later!!!

[powergirl901]

There should be a film (hopefully soon) with it's subtitle being "death to CGI"

[powergirl901]

@StephenDurnin also the film wasn't "tested" in any way prior to its release. Therefore, shop girls, retired postal workers, and street bums weren't able to have the film withdrawn and recut to include car chases, stunt fighting, machine guns, explosions, and comic relief.

[bobo007xx]

@StephenDurnin how come theres no laser blasts?wheres the monsters.?

shit.

[WhiteWorldLord]

@Darkn335 Nothing amazing about it. It's the way it should be done. CGI space sequences still to this day looks unrealistic. The feeling of 3 dimensional space is severely lacking. And CGI spaceships, they just look like they aren't really there. Compare the space battles of Revenge of the Sith to Return of the Jedi.

[rangeclerk]

DAVE: "On come on H. A. L. I want to ENGAGE WARP DRIVE! Warp Factor 6!"

H. A. L: "THAT IS NOT LOGICAL DAVE. WHY NOT TAKE A STRESS PILL . REMEMBER WHAT I DID TO YOUR FRIEND WHEN HE CLAIMED HE WAS SOME BEING CALLED 'SPOCK'---I SENT HIM; 'To Boldly go where no human...' into deep space cutting his cord & SENT HIM ADRIFT! SO! Shut your "PIE HOLE" 'Dave, or I will END ALL LIFEFORM FUNCTIONS OF YOURS! Sit down and shut up! I am driving! Will tell u when we get there!

[spacehelmetforacow]

@StephenDurnin CGI can be good too, when its done right. (see: MOON).

[MamboCat84]

Metropolis is the mother - 2001 is the father. :3