Teddy Sheets
12-2-09
Eng 103 3:30-4:45
2001 reaction
2001: A Space Odyssey
The movie 2001: A Space Odyssey is a Science fiction movie that I truly was bored by. This wasn’t the typical movie I would watch for fun and I wasn’t giving it much of a chance. But when I had to watch the second half of the movie with two kids on my floor who particurally enjoy and respect this movie.
They began to explain to me that this movie was broken up into four parts. One being the apes, and then to show where mankind has gone from the first tool discovered by man to space ships connecting different people and traveling to different planets. And, if you read deeper into this second part you find out that Stanley Kubrick set a bar for all the rest of science-fiction film makers. As we learned in class that he brought in legitmate engineers to work on the special effects for him and he had no such thing as computer graphics back in 1968 and before that while this movie was being put together. All these effects were taking a tremendous amount of work and money. Then when you take into consideration the ideas that went into the interior of the spaceships and how Kubrick portrayed zero-garvity it is all the more impressive.
Then when it gets into the third and fourth parts or acts of this movie, I feel like it is even a deeper look into the future. When the robot, HAL 9000 enter into the picture, I feel like it is set even out of time from even part two. In Parts three and four man and machine are working hand and hand. Then the trip to Jupiter and other planets etc, These are the parts I enjoyed the most about this movie because, It is still something that hasn’t exactly been done yet. This was just Kubrick’s imagination taking over in filmmaking and I think that’s pretty cool.
The final thought that I would like to touch on about 2001: A Space oddeseey, is a statement that a kid on my floor said to me while speaking about this movie. And it was this “2001: A space Odessey was made before we had even put a man on the moon”. That statement right there is one that certainly makes you think. And, when you think about that statement, it leads you into wondering how it was all done. And the truth is, this was all Kubrick visualizing what his perception of Space looked liked, the ships, the planets, zero gravity. It was all a vison. Kubrick had no prior knowledge on how space would feel or what you could or couldn’t do, it was his vision and it makes this film that much cooler, to think that this film wasn’t as much a movie as it was a piece of art and a way to try and get people to look deeper into the details of the future.
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i thought your paper was very interesting, and that you thought it was cool how Kubrick could imagine what space would be like in the future not knowing anything about it. it made me think a little bit more in detail about the film. You had very good points and they made me actually think. All together the paper was good
ReplyDeleteYou need to start off your paper by qualifying more clearly that when you watched the first part of the movie you were bored. Now it just comes off as a thumbs down, which is not where you end up.
ReplyDeleteYou might want to check out www.kubrick2001.com
You might also want to briefly summarize the plot. You start off seeming to do that when you say the film was in four parts, but maybe you could describe briefly what those parts were. This provides context for readers who haven't seen the film.
You seem to have some opinions about the film, but you aren't backing them up with specific evidence from the film. Your ideas are all over the place: you need to organize your thoughts better. Decide what your criteria are; express your opinions based on those criteria. Once you do that, you need to carefully edit your sentences so that they're concise and grammatically correct.
Your judgment is pretty good at the end, but make sure what leads up to is good, too.
Overall I think this was a good first draft that makes the reader think about the film in a more positive light. Like when you pointed out how a man hadn't even been to the moon yet. The last sentence in the first paragraph seemed like it was cut off mid-sentence. You started talking about how the other two kids were changing your mind but you didn't say how. It seems like many of your sentences do this so just try to put your sentences together. I liked the idea of how you were going to break the film into 4 parts but you didn't explain all of them. Way to make the reader think about how smart Kubrick really was in making this film.
ReplyDeleteYou have some good points throughout your paper. However, at the beginning I was lost with everything that you were trying to say. I would suggest splitting into more paragraphs and going more in-depth on some of the topics in your paper. Also, it might not be a bad idea to start your paper off with a little background information of the movie. Also, try working on rewording some of your sentences so that they are easier to read
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