In 1968, furious and bewildered audiences fled the cinema, a bizarre sci-fi film was released on this day, and no one understood what it was making, and there were also film critics and practitioners who did not know why. Ironically, this is a foolish play on the audience, the whole film is full of meaningless content, and finally the commercial ending is that the film is lucky to rely on the popularity of the hippies who are overdone smoking marijuana to save the box office. Is it really so? As a latecomer, we already know that this is the greatest science fiction movie in film history, Kubrick's god-given work, its significance is no less than 1902 George Méliès's "Journey to the Moon" (the world's first film Science fiction film) Today, fifty years after the film was released, there are countless interpretations of the film, and it is difficult to detail the breadth of disciplines involved. The following is just my personal opinion. For us living in the 21st century, this movie released in 1968 is naturally a very old movie, but in the timeline of the entire movie history, the movie has gone through more than seventy years, especially In the 1930s and 1940s, the production model of the Hollywood assembly line was basically formed. As an important part of commercial films, sci-fi films stood in the forest of movies, but in an era when the special effects technology was not mature and mainly depended on special photography to achieve the desired effects, sci-fi films Films are often classified as B-grade films, and many of the themes are similar to the special-shot monster films headed by King Kong in the 1930s, or the earlier Frankenstein series, or even a little later in 1954, Japan on the other side of the ocean. Also taking advantage of the craze of monster movies, director Eiji Tsuburaya shot the masterpiece "Godzilla". The theme and content of monster movies themselves are purely visual sensory stimulations. You must know that what modern people think is fake can't be fake anymore. The leather case was enough to scare the audience out of the cinema at the time. The popular science fiction theme corresponding to monsters is naturally the aliens. Since the Roswell incident in New Mexico, the United States in 1946, the alien craze has never faded out of people's field of vision. There were even a lot of sci-fi movies that served politics. A few years before Apollo 11 landed on the moon, the person the U.S. official looked for was Kubrick, and Kubrick also found a super boss Arthur Clark, one of the greatest science fiction writers of the 20th century, began to conceive this unparalleled script, and the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" was born in such a special historical environment. Moving into the feature film, the structure of 2001 A Space Odyssey can be divided into four parts: "Planet of the Apes", "Moon Quest", "9000 Mutiny" and "The Birth of a Star Child", and the clues of the movie are connected by a huge black stone tablet. "Planet of the Apes" is a quick summary of the ancient and interstellar age process - using tools. When the stone tablet fell from the sky, the orangutan learned to use tools. The bone rod lifted into the sky pierced the sky and turned into the starry sky with an ingenious montage, turning it into a spaceship. Human civilization is highly compressed into this one shot. In fact, a lot of space is devoted to depicting the daily life of aerospace, which is not unrelated to the tone of this film. What is the most intuitive look and feel of this film? ——Reinforcement, do not let the emotions leak in the slightest, if you can't do this, it is easy to collapse this grand narrative pattern, human beings are self-centered, and it is impossible to make an objective discussion from the subjective perspective of the human group, so no matter what. Whether it's the black screen at the beginning or a lot of space life and spaceship travel, they all serve such a big theme, so as not to make it nondescript. Although it sacrifices the audience's patience and desire to watch, it is perfect in terms of the theme. At this time, the powerful artistic ability of the film is unobstructed at a glance. In terms of color, blue and white technology sense, red is a metaphor for mystery and danger, the contrast of light and dark, and the epic storyboard once again freezes the turning point of human history - the first human being The second time I saw the stone tablet, what did I find this time? More than ten months later, human beings sent five astronauts (three of them are scientists dormant) and a supercomputer 9000 with the best performance. The theme of this section is easy to understand - the relationship between man and computer. Stakes. The artificial intelligence Hal made a mistake, causing the suspicion of David and his companions, and conspiring to shut down Hal. Hal designed to protect himself and threw David's companions out of the space capsule, and cut off the dormant three through the collision accident. The survival device of a scientist. In the end, David took a huge risk to forcibly cut off Hal's system. The footage about the death of the three scientists and Hal is quite thought-provoking. The death of the scientist is expressed in digital lines. , and Hal begged hard before "dying", and even sang a song (the world's first song played by a computer), "died" in an extremely "human" way, and people became It is becoming more and more like a machine, and artificial intelligence is becoming more and more like a human being. It is rare that humans act as the rational side, while artificial intelligence is extremely emotional, and a pre-stored message indicates the relationship between the black stone pillar and the aliens. The last part, "The Birth of a Star Child" is the most fantastic part of the whole film. David arrived at Jupiter and met the stone tablet again. David started interstellar roaming and shuttled through the colorful tunnels. Wei entered a humanistic hut, aged quickly, and then turned into a fetus and drifted in the interstellar forever, this is the star child. The last part of the movie is an unsolved mystery because Kubrick never explained the intention of his movie, but it can be guessed that this is the epitome of human destiny, the core of which is difficult to summarize in words, and there is a civilized kind of shock in addition to the shock. haunted from beginning to end. 2001 A Space Odyssey used its absolutely objective camera voice and restrained narrative style to sing a poem of human destiny, which has already touched the ceiling of the artistic theme field. But no need to copy. But there are still people trying to make a personalized 2001 Space Odyssey. In the Japan mentioned above, the waves of alien culture also bear fruit in the 1960s - still Eiji Tsuburaya's "Otto Q" ", this kind of culture has deeply influenced the Japanese for decades, and the best tribute to the Space Odyssey and Ultraman series is the Japanese animation director Hideaki Anno, who paid tribute to these two with his "eva". An immortal masterpiece in the history of science fiction, the same religious metaphor, the same stream of consciousness, Hideaki Anno uses an absolutely personal story of a teenager to interpret the trend of human civilization, if Kubrick raised a puzzle for mankind. The problem, Naanno Hideaki gave the answer in the most Japanese way - "human completion", the wall between people's hearts is the fatal wound of this group. Well, it's very Japanese. But the Western world, which is accustomed to rationality, will naturally not recognize this kind of answer, but the interesting coherence of history makes me a little fascinated by the various understandings of these guys. Although the movie is difficult to understand, the director will not give up his art and pattern for this. Art does not need to accommodate anyone or any group. The mystery of human destiny is great, and it will not appear because we have to worry about firewood, rice, oil and salt every day. It doesn't matter. Someone has to look up at the stars, and someone has to give them wings. (More details about the film can be coordinated with Arthur Clarke's original book, and book reviews will be published in the future.) It is difficult and unnecessary for the latter to touch again, so 2001: A Space Odyssey is unique but does not need to be copied. But there are still people trying to make a personalized 2001 Space Odyssey. In the Japan mentioned above, the waves of alien culture also bear fruit in the 1960s - still Eiji Tsuburaya's "Otto Q" ", this kind of culture has deeply influenced the Japanese for decades, and the best tribute to the Space Odyssey and Ultraman series is the Japanese animation director Hideaki Anno, who paid tribute to these two with his "eva". An immortal masterpiece in the history of science fiction, the same religious metaphor, the same stream of consciousness, Hideaki Anno uses an absolutely personal story of a teenager to interpret the trend of human civilization, if Kubrick raised a puzzle for mankind. The problem, Naanno Hideaki gave the answer in the most Japanese way - "human completion", the wall between people's hearts is the fatal wound of this group. Well, it's very Japanese. But the Western world, which is accustomed to rationality, will naturally not recognize this kind of answer, but the interesting coherence of history makes me a little fascinated by the various understandings of these guys. Although the movie is difficult to understand, the director will not give up his art and pattern for this. Art does not need to accommodate anyone or any group. The mystery of human destiny is great, and it will not appear because we have to worry about firewood, rice, oil and salt every day. It doesn't matter. Someone has to look up at the stars, and someone has to give them wings. (More details about the film can be coordinated with Arthur Clarke's original book, and book reviews will be published in the future.) It is difficult and unnecessary for the latter to touch again, so 2001: A Space Odyssey is unique but does not need to be copied. But there are still people trying to make a personalized 2001 Space Odyssey. In the Japan mentioned above, the waves of alien culture also bear fruit in the 1960s - still Eiji Tsuburaya's "Otto Q" ", this kind of culture has deeply influenced the Japanese for decades, and the best tribute to the Space Odyssey and Ultraman series is the Japanese animation director Hideaki Anno, who paid tribute to these two with his "eva". An immortal masterpiece in the history of science fiction, the same religious metaphor, the same stream of consciousness, Hideaki Anno uses an absolutely personal story of a teenager to interpret the trend of human civilization, if Kubrick raised a puzzle for mankind. The problem, Naanno Hideaki gave the answer in the most Japanese way - "human completion", the wall between people's hearts is the fatal wound of this group. Well, it's very Japanese. But the Western world, which is accustomed to rationality, will naturally not recognize this kind of answer, but the interesting coherence of history makes me a little fascinated by the various understandings of these guys. Although the movie is difficult to understand, the director will not give up his art and pattern for this. Art does not need to accommodate anyone or any group. The mystery of human destiny is great, and it will not appear because we have to worry about firewood, rice, oil and salt every day. It doesn't matter. Someone has to look up at the stars, and someone has to give them wings. (More details about the film can be coordinated with Arthur Clarke's original book, and book reviews will be published in the future.) , but the director will not give up his art and pattern for this. Art does not need to accommodate anyone or any group. The mystery of human destiny is great, and it will not appear irrelevant because we have to worry about firewood, rice, oil and salt every day. Someone has to look up at the stars, and someone has to give them wings. (More details about the film can be coordinated with Arthur Clarke's original book, and book reviews will be published in the future.) , but the director will not give up his art and pattern for this. Art does not need to accommodate anyone or any group. The mystery of human destiny is great, and it will not appear irrelevant because we have to worry about firewood, rice, oil and salt every day. Someone has to look up at the stars, and someone has to give them wings. (More details about the film can be coordinated with Arthur Clarke's original book, and book reviews will be published in the future.)
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