2001 A Space Odyssey – Space Sequences Tribute Part 4of4
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.
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 
The Music: (thanks door2yourheart for your comment) QUOTE WIKI: “Atmosphères (1961 – by György Ligeti) is written for large orchestra and is not musically related to the earlier electronic piece of the same name, although some of its aesthetic intentions are similar. It is seen[who?] as a key piece in Ligeti’s output, laying out many of the concerns he would explore through the 1960s. Out of the four elements of music — melody, harmony, rhythm and timbre — the piece almost completely abandons the first three, concentrating on the texture of the sound, a technique known as sound mass. It opens with what must be one of the largest cluster chords ever written — every note in the chromatic scale over a range of five octaves is played at once. Out of the fifty-six string players ushering in the first chord, no two play the same note. The piece seems to grow out of this initial massive, but very quiet, chord, with the textures always changing. For this compositional technique not only used in the aforementioned work, Atmosphères, but also in Apparitions and his other works of the time, Ligeti coined the term “micropolyphony”.[citation needed]
The Requiem for soprano, mezzo-soprano, five-voice chorus, and orchestra 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.”
Last Music, at 5:00, is of course “Also sprach Zarathustra” (Thus Spoke Zoroaster), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 30 (TrV 176) Opening. Composed by Richard Strauss, performed by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan.
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.
Duration : 0:6:23
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
it’s would be a …
it’s would be a blak hole! to trip in the space and time!
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
so this is the …
so this is the inside of a vagina
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
@GameOST The ending …
@GameOST The ending makes sense if you read the original novel by Arthur C. Clarke. He pretty much explains everything.
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
If you want …
If you want understand the end of this movies, you can read the novel of Arthur Clarke “2001 A Space Odissey”. It is the novellisation of this movies and all that explain inside.
Sorry for my awfull English…I ‘m French, and what you see my level isn’t very good.
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
@estupido7490 It …
@estupido7490 It was pretty mind blowing…this part was a trip. And the sub woofers took a beating, lemme tell you. The audience pretty much couldn’t grok the meaning of this sequence. Best thing to do is get a good video projector for your house, invest in some xlnt speakers and ballsy subs and a bad amp, like a QSC RMX series, seat yourself close to the screen and burn a fatty about 5 minutes before you hit play. You won’t wanna answer the phone or get a drink or interrupt the film. mout
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Oh, and anyone elce …
Oh, and anyone elce see a fetus/ creation of life from 2:21 to 4:28?
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
“Is it realy that …
“Is it realy that time again Mr.Freeman?”
- Ive been playing way too much Half-life.
But i can just see G-man intront of this, talking and confusing me.
But thats just how my weird mind works,
what does this make you think of?
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
How I wish I …
How I wish I could’ve seen this movie on the big screen.
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
it´s a death
it´s a death
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
wow yea art !! …
wow yea art !! love this part!!!!
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
I know, i just …
I know, i just commented on what it looks like.
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
@MproductionsMovies …
@MproductionsMovies No, this is what you see when you travel through the galaxy at relativistic speeds…
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Looks like a INSANE …
Looks like a INSANE mind trip.
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
yea i am plain..ima …
yea i am plain..ima im an uneducated black nigger
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
2001 was 15 years …
2001 was 15 years ahead of it’s time. Not even Alien which came 11 years afterward, could match the SFX in 2001.
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
it’s allegorical, …
it’s allegorical, for fuck’s sake.
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Agreed. In fact, …
Agreed. In fact, think of another movie, Blade Runner. The intended version didn’t have a voice over or a ‘happy ending’ (taken from off cuts from the Shining too!). Take out those and we have an intriguing movie that makes you think. I wouldn’t have someone that didn’t make me think as a friend. By the same token, I wouldn’t watch a movie that didn’t give me something back.
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
@IfIfsandands
well …
@IfIfsandands
well I think the best thing kubric did actually was holding some mistery, not explaining people by dialogs whats happening, something that 2010 awfully does.
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
@SuPaMaNallday
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@SuPaMaNallday
yer ‘re so plain ter understand it, do u?
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
¿que le parece este …
¿que le parece este final ministra Aido?
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
why the is a …
why the is a giant baby floatin in the middle of space!!! what the is this shit
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
definitely
definitely
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
same here
same here
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
You guys know Clark …
You guys know Clark co-wrote the screenplay right? Says so in the book.
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
For 1968, This is …
For 1968, This is completely AMAZING.