Film: 2001 :: Papers

pack 2001 2001 is a masterpiece of cinema that still influences movie t rouseer makers nearly cardinal years after it was made -- but what does it actually mean? in that lies the enigma. Of course, 2001 is open to patchy interpretations and probably even Kubrick couldnt provide the correct one. The movie is very different from the book Kubrick reduced the original script to its pillage essentials making the actors part of the communicative , but not telling the narrative through the script. making it a lesser part of the hole experience. Where on that point is speaking it is almost always symbolic The first words talk signal the decay of hu valet language to empty phrases Here you are, sir. primary(prenominal) level, please. The opening of 2001 is the Dawn of Man sequence which dovetails neatly with end of Dr. Strangelove Well attend again, some sunny day First image in the film is of a rising Sun Obviously, Kubrick pondered deeply the aston ishing reality, that idea that man was alacrity enough to blow up the earth, but not smart enough to stop that from happening (kubric)(man doesnt want to nail himself, but he does). How could such a phenomenon occur? With such strong symbolic events and vision in the opening seen it is hard to see them all as various(prenominal) events, kubric uses these to tell the narrative of the story. The Sun is not near light, but heat (a desert). Making the Sun not necessarily good, the Sun is usually seen as positive in relation to dark, but not in a desert. This makes the sun a negative, with the use of water as a positive. The leopard sidesplitting the zebra Is a key element to the opening scene representing the behaviour of man the Zebra is a coexistence of black and white? Good an bad together just like man, making the leopard the destruction of man kind maybe symbolising the bomb. To echo the directors words ,QUOTE youre free to speculate as you wish more or less the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film but