Kubrick explains the ending of 2001 A Space Odyssey

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  • @myself3209
    @myself3209 Před rokem +4236

    I like how his own explanation is way more rational and easy to follow then any of those film analyst guys

    • @twenty99
      @twenty99 Před rokem +117

      those guys always have at least 3 videos on Wes Anderson & why it looks so unique too

    • @pizzaparkerhotdogmaguire3225
      @pizzaparkerhotdogmaguire3225 Před 11 měsíci +94

      Because they are projecting their own ideas on it.

    • @twenty99
      @twenty99 Před 11 měsíci +17

      @@pizzaparkerhotdogmaguire3225 yep & need to rake in those views

    • @kang6914
      @kang6914 Před 11 měsíci +51

      I’ve been saying for years that I think Kubrick was more about visual storytelling and I really don’t think his films had hidden meanings like a lot of fans speculate, although I’m sure Kubrick had deeper personal meanings for his art as all people do. However over time I do think Kubrick may have had some extra layer of meaning or subliminal messaging to some degree, just being a masterful film maker and photographer I’m sure he had a few tricks up his sleeve. So basically I have no idea and I think Kubrick may have just been a mad man lol

    • @twenty99
      @twenty99 Před 11 měsíci +5

      @@kang6914 I think you’re right on but a little more in the middle. Personally I feel the same ways, but at this point in my life I believe he probably had a good understanding of the potential deeper meanings to his visuals & realized if he didn’t pick one in particular to bolden over another, it leaves it very open to interpretation. I mean he’s said that many times before with his films. but it’s hard not to feed into the conspiracies & deeper meanings / narratives

  • @honkeykong9563
    @honkeykong9563 Před rokem +1102

    I always loved the very last line of Arthur C Clarke's novelization of 2001: "For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something."

    • @mohandasjung
      @mohandasjung Před rokem +25

      At least he stops the nuclear Armageddon.

    • @johnw1954
      @johnw1954 Před rokem +4

      apotheosis is fun

    • @michaelschramm1064
      @michaelschramm1064 Před 9 měsíci +16

      Just as “Moonwatcher” in the “Dawn of Man” chapters thought basically the exact same thing.

    • @TheTrentReznor
      @TheTrentReznor Před 6 měsíci

      None of that carried over into 2010 film, even though Kubrick wasn’t a part of it( though he could have, unless he was just out at that point.

    • @Will-dn9dq
      @Will-dn9dq Před 3 měsíci

      Sounds like the god of modern religion. Made a zoo to watch an worship himself. Got bored what ego

  • @1TakoyakiStore
    @1TakoyakiStore Před rokem +2840

    I remember in the novel that the aliens make water too well as it tastes like absolutely nothing since it's so pure, unnaturally pure to the point of not even taking on the flavor of the container it's in. That really helped illustrate the alien's intellectual superiority but that there were still gaps in their knowledge of us.

    • @dickbutt7854
      @dickbutt7854 Před rokem +96

      But it's the hydrogen and oxygen themselves that have flavor. RO/DI water will have 0TDS, but still have a taste.

    • @elissitdesign
      @elissitdesign Před rokem +47

      @@dickbutt7854 - this is actually true and I agree as I get 0ppm out of my system for my saltwater aquarium.

    • @g3nj1
      @g3nj1 Před rokem +39

      if they were truly intelligent, they wouldn't have missed that one... so they're advanced technologically, or energetically, or whatever... but intelligent? obviously not.

    • @TimPortantno
      @TimPortantno Před rokem +1

      Pure water kills you by destroying your kidneys... Weird the author missed that fact.

    • @eviljohnnybravo7575
      @eviljohnnybravo7575 Před rokem

      @@g3nj1 they're obviously intelligent I mean come on. I think the word that you are looking for is alien, and also they are not omnipotent/perfect in their conception of terrestrial life, let alone human life. They are foreign to us in every conceivable way, literally more alien than most aliens in science fiction since they wouldn't have a natural respect for the notion of taking on a physical form. With that in mind they bridged the gap pretty decently all things considered.
      If you want to know what it would look like if the aliens weren't intelligent/interested in human wellbeing but were just as powerful and capable. Look at the hellraiser series. The humans who are turned into abominations in hellraiser are also made that way by a giant alien rhombus thing.

  • @OurFantasyLife
    @OurFantasyLife Před rokem +3694

    For everyone arguing:
    Kubrick had decided he wanted to make a science fiction film after finishing Dr. Strangelove. He was inspired by "To The Moon and Beyond", after seeing it at the NY World's Fair. He reached out to Clarke because he thought (based on his writing) that Clarke seemed like a "nut and a recluse"; he was surprised and a little disappointed when they met and Clarke was a quite normal guy.
    Clarke showed a collection of as-yet unpublished stories to Kubrick. Clarke suggested they do a short-film treatment of one, with Clarke writing and Kubrick directing.
    Kubrick ended up selecting a previously published piece called "The Sentinel", but suggested they expand it into a film and work together on the script. Kubrick's only writing rule was "no monsters, no sex".
    Clarke didn't begin work on the novel until they had finished a first script treatment of about 130 pages. That's why the final novel and the film are so different - the script went through over a dozen more drafts before shooting but Clarke had already started on the novel, so his editor rejected the idea of making any major structural changes.
    Clarke said later that both the script and the novel should be credited as "written by Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick", but the publishers of the book wouldn't go for it.
    Kubrick and Clarke also contacted Carl Sagan to consult on the film. The final scenes of an "alien super-intelligence beyond our understanding" were a compilation of Sagan's input, and he said he was "quite pleased" to see they included his ideas, but was glad they didn't credit him since he felt his involvement was minimal.
    By all accounts, while Clarke respected Kubrick’s genius, he disliked him personally and, eventually, professionally. Clarke had apparently recorded long voiceover narratives for the breaks in the film, explaining things in great scientific and dramatic detail. Kubrick encouraged these and any time Clarke brought them up, he would nod approvingly.
    Clarke had spoken glowingly of the voice-over to his colleagues and lauded Kubrick for including it. He would pitch the film to people by saying “it’s like a documentary of mankind’s future”.
    He went to the red carpet premiere…and was shocked not to hear himself during the opening minutes of the film. He left at the intermission, angry and embarrassed, upset that Kubrick cut his voice over but left in seemingly irrelevant and boring things like an 11 minute sequence of Poole doing nothing more than running on a treadmill. Later he would admit he was more upset that Kubrick changed the film without telling him than he was about the missing voiceover.
    Hope that clears up any confusion on who was responsible for what.

    • @guciowitomski3825
      @guciowitomski3825 Před rokem +636

      I mean, Thank God there is no voice over
      Seems like an absurd idea

    • @igodreamer7096
      @igodreamer7096 Před rokem +85

      This was amazing, thanks

    • @theGanj
      @theGanj Před rokem +329

      @@guciowitomski3825 can you imagine? It'd be like Bladerunner with a voiceover.

    • @magicalpencil
      @magicalpencil Před rokem +192

      I forgot I was reading a youtube comment while reading this 😅
      Cheers for the info though 👍🏻

    • @geinikan1kan
      @geinikan1kan Před rokem +245

      I can see how Clarke would be upset. But Clarke’s voiceovers would have guaranteed a crappy boring movie.

  • @manofbeard
    @manofbeard Před rokem +1857

    I glad he explained what the ending was about. Because I hadn’t got a damn clue when I watched it back in the day.

    • @natmanprime4295
      @natmanprime4295 Před rokem +35

      Lol same

    • @ZamboniZone
      @ZamboniZone Před rokem +114

      Same we were all sitting there going, what the hell did we just watch?

    • @orlandoguerra75
      @orlandoguerra75 Před rokem +52

      It's been stuck in the back of my brain for years FINALLY some clarity 🤣

    • @eliashernandez9879
      @eliashernandez9879 Před rokem +28

      FINALLY I GET SOME SORT OF ENDIGN EXPLAINED TO ME LMAO

    • @blockminingsolutions
      @blockminingsolutions Před rokem

      @@ZamboniZone what Kubrick means by human zoo is a simulated matrix that humans call reality until our consciousness passes onwards or renters the matrix system of control likely operated by quantum technology. Those black rectangle
      Cubes are quantum computers like DWAVE, they are able to alter reality of access different matrix dimensions. The frequency may be coming from Saturn, which is the god of time which all man is born into SIN or frequency of “SINE” which means time.

  • @SeaBreeze2247
    @SeaBreeze2247 Před rokem +1310

    The most frightening thing in the film was his realization that he was alone forever in a cold, claustrophobic, alien environment, a prisoner. I am sure he went mad. As much as I admired the story and brilliant production, was relieved to leave the movie theater. I wanted to immediately kiss Mother Earth, find a living thing to hug and feel the sun on my face.

    • @nicknelson9450
      @nicknelson9450 Před rokem +65

      Well I wouldn't say that's an unworthy set of emotions to elicit from a viewer, is it? I wouldn't be surprised if that's exactly the reaction the makers were going for.

    • @matthewberner9732
      @matthewberner9732 Před rokem +27

      I did that after watching the movie “Brazil” but the first thing I came upon out side the theater was an artificial waterfall with a small creek.

    • @sarahbreisch4750
      @sarahbreisch4750 Před rokem +13

      ​@@matthewberner9732 how incredible, to see Brazil when it first came out! I saw it in college in 2002. Changed me.

    • @bryfunkenstein
      @bryfunkenstein Před rokem +19

      In the end....we find out that the monolith is just a super duper hyper mega quantum computing machine. Dave didn't stay crazy as he and HAL basically merged into The monolith. They both have studied the 'interior' of the monolith for over a thousand years...our time....

    • @man.itz.ashton
      @man.itz.ashton Před rokem +4

      that’s a weird takeaway from this movie almost the opposite

  • @kellycoleman715
    @kellycoleman715 Před rokem +505

    I went to see the movie with my late cousin in Dallas when it first came out. I’ll never forget us looking at each other in confusion after we left the theater. “Did you understand any of that?” “No, did you?”

    • @amygeyer1166
      @amygeyer1166 Před rokem +9

      Same

    • @anniebodyhome1000
      @anniebodyhome1000 Před rokem +42

      I thought it was boring and pretentious. And although I was a kid at the time, I just don't see myself rewatching in fear of wasting three more hours of my life.

    • @jesustovar2549
      @jesustovar2549 Před rokem +51

      @@anniebodyhome1000 It was ahead of it's time, Apollo 11 didn't landed in the moon yet, some of the things of the movie became true, like tablets or Artificial Intelligencies now. Not for everybody.

    • @roccosfondo8748
      @roccosfondo8748 Před rokem +13

      The 1st time I saw it I fell asleep.
      Plus, I didn't get why the computer decided to mutiny.

    • @nicknelson9450
      @nicknelson9450 Před rokem +11

      @@anniebodyhome1000 I was a kid when I first watched it too and didn't get it either. Now I'm middle-aged and somewhere along the line, I watched it again, and again, and gradually it has become one of my favourites...that's where we differ. 😉

  • @yoqse486
    @yoqse486 Před rokem +221

    I don't know if this truly was Kubrick speaking but he literally explained it better than many other CZcams videos, and in less time Lol

    • @cleanthessamouilides4441
      @cleanthessamouilides4441 Před 11 měsíci +35

      I was wondering the same, it turns out it is a recording made for an unreleased 1980 documentary on Kubrick by Japanese director Jun’ichi Yao.

    • @cleanthessamouilides4441
      @cleanthessamouilides4441 Před 11 měsíci

      czcams.com/video/zaR2pJjL08g/video.html

    • @harold3165
      @harold3165 Před 4 měsíci +4

      Of course that's Kubrick.

    • @deangelisdata
      @deangelisdata Před 3 měsíci +1

      It’s clearly Mike Menzel talking about what it is like to lift to pure muscular failure.

    • @ecsix
      @ecsix Před 4 dny

      It is Kubrick. It's a telephone interview from a Japanese production, you can find the whole thing on youtube. They tour the sets of The Shining with his daughter, he also explains the ending of that to them. It's funny at the beginning of the conversation he clearly doesn't want to explain the endings but he feels bad because of the language barrier.

  • @noneofyourbusiness1114
    @noneofyourbusiness1114 Před rokem +79

    Man kubrick was just a different kind of director.

  • @tcuisix
    @tcuisix Před rokem +100

    Its like they put him in a 4 dimensional pocket universe without an arrow of time so the entire timeline of his life in the room is one static object

  • @MCCABEWORLD
    @MCCABEWORLD Před rokem +95

    This movie was so 20 years ahead of his time and still looks fantastic even today :) Classic!

  • @arcadiaberger9204
    @arcadiaberger9204 Před rokem +216

    I first saw 2001 when I was seven years old and it made perfect sense to me. What happened at the end was what happened at the beginning: they came and gave us a boost.

    • @Laurencemardon
      @Laurencemardon Před rokem +20

      Yeah that’s my impression as well. And o was probably about the same age as you when I saw it. There’s some big obelisk at the start that gets all the chimps arguing right?

    • @arcadiaberger9204
      @arcadiaberger9204 Před rokem +27

      @@Laurencemardon And using tools, and organizing.
      And at the end, Bowman returns to Earth in the form of the Starchild.

    • @Aria432
      @Aria432 Před rokem +29

      I was six and understood it better. I win.

    • @JonSmith-cx7gr
      @JonSmith-cx7gr Před rokem +63

      @@Aria432 I was in the womb and it made perfect sense.

    • @lastofthe4horsemen279
      @lastofthe4horsemen279 Před rokem +22

      ​@@JonSmith-cx7gr l was a pure energy pulse and it made perfect sense to me

  • @magocu82
    @magocu82 Před rokem +348

    He was "the rat" in that laboratory, They transform him and then send him back to earth, i guess his DNA is transform because he died from old age and the one that return is an upgraded babe, wow after 20 years i finally understand the finale

    • @krazykrumz3
      @krazykrumz3 Před rokem +28

      I was initially perplexed by the ending, but I think the ‘star child’ could be an emblem of human advancement (as the main character does die) and we’re always wondering and speculating on what other forms of life may exist out in space but the movie is saying while we may possibly never encounter it, life/civilization/technology as we know it are monolithic through the universe and we’re so preoccupied looking outward that we miss observing the mystique, innovation, and the universe itself as it exists in our own human race old as hundreds of thousands of years. The star child he is reborn as is as old as the stars themselves, it’s a symbol of life and human advancement seeking to survive and continue no matter what, and is something inimitable that even advanced AI couldn’t overtake.

    • @unturbe
      @unturbe Před rokem +4

      You mean DNA.💀

    • @andrewhg1323
      @andrewhg1323 Před rokem +11

      You know every human is recycled after dead? this movie is actually telling the truth

    • @bryfunkenstein
      @bryfunkenstein Před rokem +6

      ​@@krazykrumz3 he biologically dies....but he's still 'living'......

    • @Redwhiteblue-gr5em
      @Redwhiteblue-gr5em Před rokem +17

      @@bryfunkenstein he dies and is reborn again to return to earth and live another life. It’s reincarnation

  • @clemtoe
    @clemtoe Před rokem +88

    This is basically how I had interpreted it up to the part about returning to Earth as a super-being. I thought the idea was that, as he slips his mortal coil, he achieves perfect enlightenment and becomes a cosmic being under the tutelage of the monolith beings.

    • @SHNASTDOG
      @SHNASTDOG Před rokem +14

      Of course.and yet also a babe. Because he is brand new in that new form. But it also seems to be a science version of reincarnation and heaven. But substituting heaven for space and angels/gods for aliens. And making the process of reincarnation a scientifically possible one with some unseen technology.

    • @julianmitchell5776
      @julianmitchell5776 Před rokem +1

      Does the novelization ever describe the aliens beings who put the monolith on Earth ?

    • @shlecko
      @shlecko Před 11 měsíci

      @@SHNASTDOG A babe, sort of like Lao Tzu (the old child) in Taoist literature

    • @klaushassen3954
      @klaushassen3954 Před 11 měsíci

      ​@@julianmitchell5776 read the entire series.

    • @sf7862
      @sf7862 Před 10 měsíci

      Jesus 2.0 ....only his father is Aliens not God

  • @lokmanmerican6889
    @lokmanmerican6889 Před rokem +58

    That ending sequence in the hotel room is pure cinematic genius.

    • @scorpionwins6378
      @scorpionwins6378 Před měsícem +1

      I found it deeply unsettling. He was a prisoner being kept for observational purposes, until the end of his natural life.
      And it was never explained exactly who or what was keeping him in that prison.

    • @nosuchthing8
      @nosuchthing8 Před 23 dny +2

      ​@scorpionwins6378 that's the point. Our primitive brains could never comprehend what was keeping him there.
      We can just call it God if need be.

  • @raymesquite
    @raymesquite Před rokem +259

    In Slaughterhouse Five, at least the aliens gave him a mate.

    • @62Cristoforo
      @62Cristoforo Před rokem +27

      Film starlet Montana Wildhack. She made him a far out macrobiotic soufflé while on the planet Tralfamadore

    • @bugglemagnum6213
      @bugglemagnum6213 Před 9 měsíci +4

      no monsters no sex

  • @jekw23
    @jekw23 Před rokem +97

    “We just have to guess what happens next”.
    I used to debate Kubrick films but grew to lean towards maybe Kubrick doesn’t give all the answers. That his films aren’t puzzles to solve but a story to experience and that individuals will have their own interpretations. I don’t think Kubrick was being difficult in not spelling out his movies.
    In this clip he is explaining the surface narrative not any of the deeper themes. Great director

    • @STho205
      @STho205 Před rokem +3

      Agreed. He just wanted to produce a story as a slice of humanity in the middle.
      In the 30s, Margaret Mitchell did that with Scarlett OHara. A great final act scene but no epilog or sequel intended. What happens to both of them is your business. The writer and Selznick were done with them.

    • @jekw23
      @jekw23 Před rokem +5

      @@STho205 yes. David Lynch does something similar. Once he releases a film he doesn’t tinker with it. He stated once released the film is in the realm of the audience and it’s with them….he was implying there’s no underlying meaning other than what the audience interprets. I’ll take a bet this is why Kubrick burned/destroyed all the deleted scenes from his movies post release. The released version is what it is. It’s for you to take from it what you want.

    • @ColdWarShot
      @ColdWarShot Před rokem +7

      Kubrick was very big on leaving things open to interpretation. Some films, like The Shining, were deliberately crafted to have multiple possible interpretations with contradictions and no clearly defined solution, and he genuinely enjoyed that.

    • @ViolettaD1485
      @ViolettaD1485 Před 2 měsíci +1

      I saw 2001 at the age of 9. I didn't understand it; I just experienced it. I suspect that is exactly what Kubrick wanted.

  • @remaguire
    @remaguire Před rokem +44

    I remember seeing 2001 when it first came out. I was the only person in the theater. It was awesome!

    • @abyssano78
      @abyssano78 Před rokem +6

      In 1968 ? The day when it came out ?

    • @wooahh17
      @wooahh17 Před 8 měsíci

      @@abyssano78I know right? Lol

    • @abyssano78
      @abyssano78 Před 8 měsíci +7

      @@wooahh17 it means the dude is 55 and he was alone in the theatre of Kubrick movie, kinda weird to me

    • @Maganushiv
      @Maganushiv Před 7 měsíci +1

      Wow, man.❤

    • @gerardocuevas3330
      @gerardocuevas3330 Před měsícem

      now u have 80 years old ?

  • @edkeaton
    @edkeaton Před rokem +76

    I had to see "2001:A Space Odyssey" several times in order to figure out the plot and explore the themes that it leaves for the viewer to try and figure out.

  • @alechoes
    @alechoes Před rokem +83

    Kubrick’s idea was based on Nietzsche book “Thus spoke Zarathustra”, regarding the “superman” .
    Also, the main theme song is called:
    “Also Sprach Zarathustra”, which is obviously also inspired by Nietzsche’s work. Such brilliant work.

    • @jesustovar2549
      @jesustovar2549 Před rokem +25

      Another fact, when John Williams composed the "Superman Theme" for the 1978 movie, he used the same notes from Also Sprach Zarathustra's introduction by Richard Strauss.

    • @rexfreeman4981
      @rexfreeman4981 Před rokem +6

      Yes, and Homers Odyssey (many similarities to that tale).

    • @csw3287
      @csw3287 Před rokem +2

      Then The Nature Boy said. WOOOOO!

  • @jakebee7205
    @jakebee7205 Před rokem +352

    Where is this whole interview?!

    • @rusemode
      @rusemode Před rokem +94

      Jun'Ichi Yaoi's 1980 interview for a documentary that was never released, I can't check around right now but since we're hearing this you probably might be able to find it

    • @Alolan.Vulpix.Getting.Railed
      @Alolan.Vulpix.Getting.Railed Před rokem +1

      @@rusemode Find deez nuts mf

    • @rusemode
      @rusemode Před rokem +4

      @@Alolan.Vulpix.Getting.Railed can't find em

    • @danieljarvis9117
      @danieljarvis9117 Před rokem

      czcams.com/video/Gdbh_FiRLyw/video.html

    • @jakebee7205
      @jakebee7205 Před rokem +2

      @@danieljarvis9117 thanks bro 💜

  • @Cantbuyathrill
    @Cantbuyathrill Před rokem +18

    When a movie is beyond a movie.

  • @99123d
    @99123d Před rokem +529

    Damn Kubrick what the hell where you on when you came up with this idea? Like dude it totally blew my mind

    • @a_m5115
      @a_m5115 Před rokem +95

      The film is an adaptation of a novel by Arthur C Clark. The ending is the same, only a bit less intuitive.

    • @jackl629
      @jackl629 Před rokem +82

      @@a_m5115 The movie and the novel were made at the same time and Kubrick co-wrote the novel with Clarke.

    • @saintniccage2818
      @saintniccage2818 Před rokem +12

      Dude needs a sky beam and cameo from a superhero to make a good film I bet

    • @lewstone5430
      @lewstone5430 Před rokem +5

      The film was an adaptation of a short story by Clarke which has similarities and differences from the film. The endings are not the same though. The novel is a separate publication.

    • @joelglanton6531
      @joelglanton6531 Před rokem +10

      @@jackl629 Gotta love how people just see that there's a book and assume that it was written before the film was.

  • @escapevelocity8092
    @escapevelocity8092 Před rokem +7

    Kubrick was an enigma. A true creative person, not always nice but most often on point with his art. Gone are those types nowadays, replaced by obvious narrative, predictability and dilution

    • @YeahWellShutUp
      @YeahWellShutUp Před rokem +1

      Not entirely. We still got the likes of Sam Esmail.

  • @jacksparrow-yd4ei
    @jacksparrow-yd4ei Před rokem +9

    Saw the film when I was about ten years old and have pondered and been confused about the ending ever since. Having clarity now makes me realise that this film was decades ahead of its time and to some extent prophetic

  • @the.parks.of.no.return
    @the.parks.of.no.return Před rokem +21

    The coloured liquid scenes that precede the room always remind me of conception, the egg being fertilised. He fertilises what's waiting for him and he becomes a new entity.

  • @readyreckoner1592
    @readyreckoner1592 Před rokem +23

    Many thanks, to whoever found the audio and put this video on the computey. I appreciate you.

  • @hehehorf782
    @hehehorf782 Před rokem +31

    this reminds me of the movie Mr. Nobody, its a movie about a child who supposedly never had his memories of heaven/what happens before you are born, erased, so he spend the entire movie looking into all possible futures of his life.

    • @jonnydanger7181
      @jonnydanger7181 Před rokem +4

      These non-linear time movies make me queezy 😂

  • @robpolaris5002
    @robpolaris5002 Před rokem +86

    How anyone would deduce what he is saying from the end of 2001 is beyond me.

    • @antonioscalcione7921
      @antonioscalcione7921 Před rokem +30

      I deduced it as something else more symbolic rather than actual. But now I’m glad I can also look at the ending in a different more matter-of-fact perspective.

    • @ZeroESG.goopootoob
      @ZeroESG.goopootoob Před rokem +2

      It wouldn't be a deductive matter.
      Induce, or abduce, etc.
      I think you simply mean "guess," or, "get."

    • @couchman-sw6jy
      @couchman-sw6jy Před rokem +1

      Exactly 😂 like what?

    • @etalex7074
      @etalex7074 Před rokem +6

      I mean, the trippy lights sequence very much conveys that David is traveling through some kind of wormhole, something that is bending time and space around him. From there, it’s easy to conclude that the room he ends up in is some kind of place beyond the confines of the universe, a location that our human brains could never possibly understand or perceive. From there it’s much more up to interpretation, which adds to the cosmic horror element.

    • @jfkst1
      @jfkst1 Před 9 měsíci

      It actually connects well to 2010: The year we make contact.

  • @onelove1968
    @onelove1968 Před rokem +62

    He returns to earth and is given the name Jack Torrence.

  • @nepntzerZer
    @nepntzerZer Před rokem +37

    Kubrick was something else. There's been no one quite like him before or since. The huge wide lens still cinematography he pioneered is still influencing modern cinema today. Perhaps maybe Nolan would be a close modern cerebral equivalent, but there's this pervasive feel to Kubrick films. there is little or no character exposition you're just dropped into a world left up to the viewer to make sense of.

    • @eustacequinlank7418
      @eustacequinlank7418 Před rokem +6

      Nolan’s films aren’t ‘cerebral’.
      Pretentious AF, however.

    • @darkyknight9788
      @darkyknight9788 Před rokem +2

      @@eustacequinlank7418 yes they are. You're a hater.
      And Kubrick's time, his films were also seen as pretentious and were not the masterpieces they are considered today.
      A genius usually doesn't get their work fully realized until much later.

    • @nepntzerZer
      @nepntzerZer Před rokem

      @@eustacequinlank7418 they arent if one has trouble understanding how to wear trousers. *pro tip* if the zipper is at your arse you have then back to front. ;)

    • @eustacequinlank7418
      @eustacequinlank7418 Před rokem

      @@nepntzerZer That was quite nice of you, to repeat the parental advice that has kept you stable all this time. Did they have to call you back in when you ran out like that?

  • @keirfarnum6811
    @keirfarnum6811 Před rokem +12

    Keir Dullea: the guy I was named after! 👍🏻

  • @billbommarito
    @billbommarito Před rokem +11

    "you must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star" - Friedrich Nietzsche

  • @robjohnston1433
    @robjohnston1433 Před 7 měsíci +2

    I had absolutely NO IDEA that's what was happening!

  • @Alexander-tj2dn
    @Alexander-tj2dn Před měsícem +1

    I saw 2001 when I was 10 and it was the most awesome thing I had seen. And it still is.

  • @lightningrodstudios2441
    @lightningrodstudios2441 Před 6 měsíci +3

    My favorite analogy that read in a comment from another video like this was “It’s similar to when we trap a bug in a jar, and we put a leaf and a stick in the jar to give the creature a feeling of home”

  • @theyearwas1473
    @theyearwas1473 Před rokem +9

    It's like a drunk guy wrote this after trying to remember a hard night out

    • @MeowmeowAlexandra
      @MeowmeowAlexandra Před 2 měsíci

      This is a world-famous movie director explaining the end of a movie he thought up.

    • @theyearwas1473
      @theyearwas1473 Před 2 měsíci

      @@MeowmeowAlexandra yeah? Doesn't change what I said.

  • @Workerbee-zy5nx
    @Workerbee-zy5nx Před měsícem +2

    Stan left us hanging with the very end.

  • @JuliusCaesar888
    @JuliusCaesar888 Před rokem +1

    I had essentially understood what he explained here up until the character started seeing himself inside the room. It made no sense to me how he kept seeing himself and at that point the abstraction of the idea had been lost by me. Good to know I was mostly tuned in. The first maybe 60 minutes of this movie is EXCELLENT science fiction.

  • @thermalegoogle
    @thermalegoogle Před rokem +16

    Is that really Kubrick or just some dude drunkenly analyzing the movie on an answering machine ?

  • @JonathanVachon777
    @JonathanVachon777 Před rokem +6

    Good thing he explained because i never saw it that way at all lol

  • @StephenS-2024
    @StephenS-2024 Před rokem +2

    I got it the first time. Brilliant direction. And the colors......my God, the colors.....

  • @KGBeast.
    @KGBeast. Před rokem +10

    "My God it's full of stars!"

    • @farrider3339
      @farrider3339 Před rokem +1

      Thats the second part , isn't it?
      The year of contact 2022

    • @KGBeast.
      @KGBeast. Před rokem

      @@farrider3339 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) Directed by: Peter Hyams

    • @farrider3339
      @farrider3339 Před rokem +1

      @@KGBeast. ah, OK. Was too lazy checking for correct title.
      Thanks 👋°•.

    • @KGBeast.
      @KGBeast. Před rokem +1

      @@farrider3339 it's okay! Have a nice day 😊😊

    • @Jeremiah7-ox2nj
      @Jeremiah7-ox2nj Před 7 měsíci

      That's what the Super Baby exclaimed upon seeing the Hollywood Walk of Fame for the first time.

  • @callamastia
    @callamastia Před rokem +5

    aren't zoos supposed to encourage mating?

  • @cardinalbob1
    @cardinalbob1 Před 2 měsíci

    I’m glad for this post including Kubrick’s description of the movie. 🎥 I have seen many videos done by people who are guessing what the movie was about. Usually when I watch this again, I skip the Stargate scene and ending.

  • @denisebacher5040
    @denisebacher5040 Před rokem +2

    I remember writing an essay about this movie in a class I took, “Film As An Artform”. I was to take 3 films from a certain genre and compare them.
    I picked this, “Empire Strikes Back” and “Alien”.
    I got an A+ for convincingly showing Alien was the best movie of the 3.

  • @yourdad9168
    @yourdad9168 Před rokem +27

    I have waited a long time to understand what the hell that ending was supposed to represent.

  • @whiqeddik7615
    @whiqeddik7615 Před rokem +16

    When you realize it was actually just show and not for digestion

  • @Nappyfox
    @Nappyfox Před rokem +4

    That's exactly what I thought watching the ending.

  • @AnthonySmith-sc4zs
    @AnthonySmith-sc4zs Před rokem +1

    This is one of my favorite movies ever. I love the atmosphere and the feel. It was ahead of its time.

  • @kfjexit16w
    @kfjexit16w Před rokem +1

    I was 8 years old when I saw this and it scared the crap out of me!!

  • @LeMayJoseph
    @LeMayJoseph Před rokem +3

    That’s how I always saw it too, thanks for sharing this, I feel so validated!

  • @doreendaykin6693
    @doreendaykin6693 Před 7 měsíci

    Thank you for sharing this. I absolutely loved that movie. Kubrick …absolute brilliance. Clark also brilliant. I have watched 2001 every two years since it came out ( I am in 2023) and each time it still thrills me but the end always mystified me….so again gratitude for sharing this!
    🙏💙

  • @Trendkill213
    @Trendkill213 Před 3 měsíci

    An absolutely brilliant film. I saw it as a little kid, with my uncle who loves sci-if and horror films, and didn’t understand it. However, my not understanding it I think is what caused me to keep watching it again and again until I matured and finally got it.👏

  • @TheRealNormanBates
    @TheRealNormanBates Před rokem +16

    There are those who theorize that when Bowman is transformed into the Space Baby, he goes back to Earth during the Dawn of Man. Bowman is the Monolith, and he goes back in time to create himself, that the entirety of the movie is an Ouroboros or time loop.
    PS: when the film begins, the black screen with the wailing music is the Monolith speaking to the audience.

  • @CSelH
    @CSelH Před rokem +9

    The part of the story is 100% hero's journey a la Campbell. The crossing over, apotheosis, and return across the threshold.

  • @dj1NM3
    @dj1NM3 Před rokem +2

    That's pretty much what I though was going on, but some people really need it all spelt out for them

    • @seansummers1066
      @seansummers1066 Před rokem +1

      Speaking of spelling...lol

    • @dj1NM3
      @dj1NM3 Před rokem +1

      @@seansummers1066 Obviously, ENGLISH spellings are not US specialities.

    • @nicknelson9450
      @nicknelson9450 Před rokem

      @@dj1NM3 It's unlikely he was calling you out on that. Check it again.

  • @MarbSoda
    @MarbSoda Před 9 měsíci +1

    His explanation makes it seem “well of course” because it’s so good, you couldn’t understand it any other way
    I just saw it as a bunch of random stuff happening

  • @ronniet71
    @ronniet71 Před rokem +6

    I really really really appreciate this. Since a kid, this movie left me wondering. The film also incorporated a great deal of silence which added great depth to the film.

  • @Dontleavemedimi
    @Dontleavemedimi Před rokem +4

    If Mr Kubrick came up with all that he is a genius on a different level.

    • @ianbrewster8934
      @ianbrewster8934 Před rokem +8

      He came up with this along with Arthur C Clarke it is based on a shirt story called the Sentinel....it is what Clarke thought might happen if we made contact with a vastly superior alien life form.... If you pay attention carefully at the beginning of the movie it is literally a retelling in long form of what happens at the beginning with the dawn of man sequence.... One of the ape men have contact with the monolith and it transforms him into something else a tool user and from the point of view of the other ape man he's almost like a god.
      I believe there's a line in the novelization that says after he defeat the other ape men from the other tribe there's a line that goes something to the effect of he has all these god-like powers but he didn't know what to do next but he would think of something....
      Later on in the novel when Bowman is transformed into the starchild there's almost the exact same line about having all of this power but he would think of something to do next bookending the story.....

    • @endorbr
      @endorbr Před rokem +5

      @@ianbrewster8934 Clarke himself took exception to the idea that the film is based on The Sentinel as he said that the film is an amalgamation of several stories with the only idea really coming from The Sentinel being the monolith on the moon.

    • @ianbrewster8934
      @ianbrewster8934 Před rokem +1

      @@endorbr oh wow I did not know that part of it. Thanks for sharing.

  • @tattyshoesshigure5731

    I’ve always loved that ‘light show’ sequence with the great (for the time) visual effects… it still stands up as a terrific sequence today, 55 years on!

  • @user-gm6bp6om7k
    @user-gm6bp6om7k Před 8 měsíci

    2001 A Space Odyssey is such a wonderful, interesting, spectacular, & iconic movie I’m glad my teacher showed us movies like this also just so many more

  • @stormthrush37
    @stormthrush37 Před rokem +6

    Hmm well I guess I feel better, sounds like what he intended is pretty close to what I guessed.

  • @kingmasterlord
    @kingmasterlord Před rokem +3

    I like to imagine it kind of goes like stranger in a strange land

  • @andrewolivetreemixing
    @andrewolivetreemixing Před rokem +2

    He didn’t know what he would do next, but he would do something

  • @saaber95
    @saaber95 Před rokem +8

    Kubrick was way way ahead of his time, a true Genius.

  • @muffassa6739
    @muffassa6739 Před rokem +6

    One of the greatest movies ever made!!! Thank you Mr Kubrick

  • @belbras
    @belbras Před rokem +1

    This is a masterpiece of horror science fiction. And Kubrick just nailed it. It is still as impressive as l watched for the first time.

  • @briancornish2076
    @briancornish2076 Před rokem +2

    Everyone tries everything they can to get out of their room but always comes back to it in the end.

  • @robertcowan7610
    @robertcowan7610 Před rokem +4

    So.....when do we get a movie that explores what happens when he's sent back to Earth?! I'd like to see that.

  • @LBCB94025
    @LBCB94025 Před rokem +22

    THANKYOU!
    I NEVER GOT IT!!??(until now*)
    lol 😆👌🏻🙏🏻👏🏻

    • @moriscoley5328
      @moriscoley5328 Před rokem +3

      Me too, thank you for pointing it.

    • @wessexdruid7598
      @wessexdruid7598 Před rokem

      I found it helped to have read the book, first.

    • @paulamberger319
      @paulamberger319 Před rokem

      Best damn movie I never did drugs watching.😎

    • @LBCB94025
      @LBCB94025 Před rokem

      🧐🤔🤨🤷🏼
      😆😆😆😆
      I mean.... I REALLY was confused about it!?--
      At first, i thought it was an omen of the moment technology will again swt us down a different path. And that perhaps they were NOT always a good thing..
      Like it was the "snake in the garden of eden" sending us down a path that can cause greater harm, perhaps achieving things before theyre ready to exist!?
      Or that it was a time traveler screwing with man for an unknown motiv/goal
      Or that the machine/technology is Alive in itself and will take over/merge with mankind.. but in effect Destroying everything good in the universe..
      Or just the "perils of unchecked technological advancements without a social or industrial infrastructure to safely/responsibly/ethically absorb this into our way of life for an ENTIRELY positive outcome/effect**????
      I was always cycling through that list, then came to the conclusion
      THERE WAS NO PURPOSE
      OR backstory!? Just a trippy movie about a bunch of unrelated things so it may be interpreted as Many things to many people like any abstract modern art piece!? Lmao 😆👍🏻

  • @ChalfantMT
    @ChalfantMT Před rokem +2

    and that’s exactly what I thought happened.
    Good job Mr. Kubrick! 👏

  • @unemployicus
    @unemployicus Před rokem +2

    That is not Kubrick talking. He explicitly tried to avoid giving explanations to his movies because he wanted people to come up with their own.

    • @toothbrushfromnisemonogatari
      @toothbrushfromnisemonogatari Před rokem +1

      If you’ve heard Kubrick in other interviews it’s pretty clear that this is him, unless it’s just a really good impersonator. I think this is from the 80s, so by that time he was probably just fed up with people always asking what it was about and just explained it in the most literal sense.

  • @LqdSanity79
    @LqdSanity79 Před rokem +16

    "My god... It's full of stars." Best line in any movie. It gave me chills when I watched it the first time and it still does every time I think about it.

    • @nickgreen4731
      @nickgreen4731 Před rokem +7

      Interestingly not in 2001! It's in the novel but not the movie. It finally appears (in recorded form) in 2010, the sequel.

    • @LqdSanity79
      @LqdSanity79 Před rokem +2

      @@nickgreen4731 I think you might be right. Maybe I remembered it wrong. Still, it's one of the most chilling lines ever.

    • @ZeroESG.goopootoob
      @ZeroESG.goopootoob Před rokem +1

      Faker

  • @hagerthehorrible1892
    @hagerthehorrible1892 Před rokem +16

    I feel so stupid that I didn't get any of that. I just thought it was some kind of crazy trip into infinity that led to madness

  • @dan797
    @dan797 Před 2 měsíci +1

    It’s in the book. I believe, it really helps. You understand the movie. Much better.

  • @deafgordon2187
    @deafgordon2187 Před rokem +2

    Keep in mind this guy does quantum physics for fun so the movies he makes and the little details all make sense

  • @gaywizard2000
    @gaywizard2000 Před rokem +5

    He is reborn as a millennial, gods perfect traveler! But unaware that he is detested by everyone else around him.

  • @Bushwakbill
    @Bushwakbill Před rokem +2

    Thank you sooo much for real i been wondering for effing YEARS wtf was going on in that whole sht

  • @MarkMirremont
    @MarkMirremont Před rokem

    🤔Thank you for sharing this audio 🇬🇧

  • @ronaldomoura1932
    @ronaldomoura1932 Před rokem +1

    I interpreted the monoliths as human science,and that in the end, i interepreted he is going through genetical alteration, like, the next step of mankind after space. To alter ourselves to be more adaptable.

  • @Sweetmotion23
    @Sweetmotion23 Před rokem +3

    This movie reminds me of soul contracts, we die and then rewatch our life and learn what we could have done better to then be sent back after agreeing on the life we chose. This movie just reminds me of it so much. The star child is going back to hopefully expand and ascend our human form.

    • @jonnydanger7181
      @jonnydanger7181 Před rokem

      They don’t make em that way anymore that’s for sure!

  • @TheChristianNomad
    @TheChristianNomad Před rokem +4

    See, I always thought that he was taken by inter- dimensional beings and shown the meaninglessness and cyclical nature of life from their perspective.

  • @antonhallergren588
    @antonhallergren588 Před rokem +4

    Kubrick is the undeniable Goat of directors. There are many greats but none can match Kubrick imo. Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Tarkovsky, Fellini, Coppola, and many others. But no one has achieved the horror of the shining, he truly tormented Duvall to give of one of the most unsettling performances of all time. He visualised horror not through monsters but angles, camera work and the normal. This girls in the hallway man... He set the standard for science fiction films, his work in the unknown of space was so great millions of people to this day believe he directed the moon landing... A clockwork orange is a masterpiece and a vastly underrated film when it comes to any cinema depicting mental illness in a society gone mad (cough, cough today). He made all sorts of films and most only once as he left no stones unturned with anything.
    Having not won an Oscar is not a valid argument for him not being the goat. Again his work on a movie about space travel of many things before we had even stepped on the surface of our own moon it literally made people believe he was in on faking the fucking moon landing! I know film enthusiasts who talk about 2001 as being only comparable to a religious experience like finding ones faith or using things like dmt.

    • @jesustovar2549
      @jesustovar2549 Před rokem

      He did only won an oscar to personal name, for "best visual effects" in 2001, and Barry Lyndon got 4 oscars (best soundtrack I think, costume design, photography, and I don't remember the other). Many scientists, physicits and astronomers owe something to this movie, it also predicted some invents like tablets, it's still a movie that respects physics laws.

    • @sportkid1547
      @sportkid1547 Před rokem

      He makes movies unbearable with drawn out, pointless scenes. Not impressed that he knows how to move a camera. You should be giving the credit to the writers and special effects team. Kubrick is a big time fraud.

    • @antonhallergren588
      @antonhallergren588 Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@sportkid1547go watch marvel dude

  • @DigitalDuelist
    @DigitalDuelist Před rokem

    This is so cool. I'm glad I got to experience his movies growing up. I feel lucky to have lived when I did

  • @enumaelis5048
    @enumaelis5048 Před rokem +1

    Friederich Nietzsche - Richard Wagner - Stanley Kubrick
    What a nice mash-up!

    • @RRonco
      @RRonco Před rokem +1

      Strauss, no? Is not Strauss the composer?

    • @enumaelis5048
      @enumaelis5048 Před rokem +1

      @@RRonco I probably got confused, but Wagner was Nietzsche's best friend and idol 😅

    • @johnnewman1819
      @johnnewman1819 Před rokem +1

      @@RRonco Strauss composed the Blue Danube Waltz - what you hear during the docking sequence with the space station, early on in the film, before we ever see the Discovery or Meet Bowman or Poole. The Wagner piece the movie is famous for is Also Sprach Zarathustra. If you look for these titles on yt you'll know which is which.

    • @johnnewman1819
      @johnnewman1819 Před rokem +1

      @@enumaelis5048 you didn't, the movie has both Strauss and Wagner compositions in it, and is famous for both.

    • @alfredochofre3169
      @alfredochofre3169 Před rokem

      ​@@johnnewman1819 that is Johann Strauss. 'Also sprach Zarathustra' was composed by Richard Strauss

  • @gilligan80
    @gilligan80 Před rokem +5

    Kubrick created basically the concept of ai art about 54 years before it became real

  • @kamillgran9408
    @kamillgran9408 Před rokem +2

    By far the greatest movie ever made. It is a work of spectacular visuals and spectacular ideas. The film that brings cinema to its glorious medium, visual, sound and ideas. engaging all the senses. No one has come near Kubrick, with Orson Welles in Citizen Kane.

    • @Sups614
      @Sups614 Před rokem

      Agree

    • @SSFYHHH
      @SSFYHHH Před rokem

      Yet, there have been so many who surpassed Kubrick in terms of story telling

  • @WATCHMYCLIPSZ
    @WATCHMYCLIPSZ Před rokem +1

    They sent him to New York in September.
    Reminds me of that tragedy.

  • @KotalTotal
    @KotalTotal Před rokem

    I love that thought both of these movies, we're kept in an ominous mystery regarding the monoliths. The music gives a vibe that it's either amazing or terrifying or both. It'd be interesting to actually see the aliens themselves but only a ship, with the myself aspect as the monoliths, we can see the ships but not what's inside or who is flying it/them.

  • @Keefus88
    @Keefus88 Před rokem +3

    Maybe there's a phone call about how the moon landing really ended too

  • @Thomas-ni1jn
    @Thomas-ni1jn Před rokem +4

    Pure brilliance!

  • @jeremyhenderson5917
    @jeremyhenderson5917 Před rokem +2

    Best film ever made.

  • @klattimer
    @klattimer Před rokem +2

    Read the damn book people. Don't ever criticise Kubricks visual representation of what was written.

  • @davidchase9424
    @davidchase9424 Před rokem +10

    I have 2 words for you...
    "Space Baby"

  • @captainjj7184
    @captainjj7184 Před rokem +3

    Finally. But, the explanation is crazier than the ending itself.

  • @user-ex9en7du9x
    @user-ex9en7du9x Před 2 měsíci

    I saw this movie in the 1970s.Could not understand the ending.And finally do.Thank you stanleyKuberick

  • @FamiliarAnomaly
    @FamiliarAnomaly Před rokem +1

    Eyes wide shut was Kubrick trying to warn us

  • @alexandrefrancofilho5041

    Never ever did I come even close to understanding this

  • @uNkLeRaRa4
    @uNkLeRaRa4 Před rokem +4

    I've never seen this movie..... Now I HAVE to see it lol