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“Good Morning Dave!”
Kiddies! We are so excited around here! For once, we really have a great movie for your entertainment pleasure! Starting this weekend, Movie Madness with Dr. Praxis will be presenting the spectacular, the stupendous, one of the greatest motion pictures of all time, 2001: A Space Odyssey. That’s right, that’s right. Stanley Kubrick’s Science-fiction Masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey!
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, and co-written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, partially inspired by Clarke’s short story “The Sentinel”. The story deals with a series of encounters between humans and mysterious black monoliths that are apparently affecting human destiny, and a space voyage to Jupiter tracing a signal emitted by one such monolith found on the moon. Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood star as the two astronauts on this voyage, with Douglas Rain as the voice of the sentient computer HAL who seems human and has full control over their spaceship.
Financed and produced by the American studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film was made almost entirely in England, using both the studio facilities of MGM’s subsidiary “MGM British” (among the last movies to be shot there before its closure in 1970) and those of Shepperton Studios, mostly because of the availability of much larger sound stages than in the United States. The film was also co-produced by Kubrick’s own “Stanley Kubrick Productions”. Kubrick, having already shot his previous two films in England, decided to settle there permanently during the filming of Space Odyssey. Though Space Odyssey was released in America several months before its release in England, and Encyclopedia Britannica calls this an American film, other sources refer to it as an American, British, or American-British production.
Thematically, the film deals with elements of human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life. It is notable for its scientific accuracy, pioneering special effects, ambiguous imagery that is open-ended to a point approaching surrealism, sound in place of traditional narrative techniques, and minimal use of dialogue.
The film has a memorable soundtrack the result of the association that Kubrick made between the spinning motion of the satellites and the dancers of waltzes, which led him to use The Blue Danube waltz by Johann Strauss II, and the famous symphonic poem Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss, to portray the philosophical evolution of Man theorized in Nietzsche’s work of the same name.
Despite initially receiving mixed reviews, 2001: A Space Odyssey was a box office smash (the highest grossing picture of 1968) and today is recognized by many critics and audiences as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made; the 2002 Sight & Sound poll of critics ranked it among the top ten films of all time. In addition, in 2010 it was named the #1 greatest film ever made by The Moving Arts Film Journal. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, and received one for visual effects. In 1991, it was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
I’m not certain how we’ve been able to swing getting permission to show this film on our budget, but I have been assured this is the film that we will be setting up in our control room. And if we’re setting it up in our control room, that means that’s what we’ll be showing you. Right Kiddies?
2001: A Space Odyssey. That’s starting this weekend on Movie Madness with Dr. Praxis.
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