2nd draft (only 1st section revised)

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. It starts out with the beginning of man and the development of the “1st tool” and then all of the sudden it shift to the year 2001, I really dislike Kubrick’s vision. I really don’t think the start of man is needed, and just adds to the two and a half hour movie.
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.