Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey - The Dawn of Everything | A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) #132

Queen is Dead - A Film, TV and Culture Podcast

It's no longer Kubrick Month because we're late recording and uploading this and P4, but regardless, we're here to complete our Kubrickian Odysseys!

Dhruv, Amartya, and Hemant have spent the entirety of July (and will now spend the last week of August and the first week of September) revisiting and discussing 10 (of 13) Kubrick-directed films (the Horror and Noir films will be discussed in October and November, respectively!) plus one conceptualized and obsessed over by him but eventually directed by his dear friend, Steven Spielberg.

In Part 4 (of 4), we focus primarily on the monolith of Kubrick's filmography and hard science fiction itself: "2001: A Space Odyssey." Everything from Ridley Scott's "Alien" to Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" to Denis Villeneuve's "Arrival" to Werner Herzog's philosophy, and most importantly, Michael Bay's "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" is referenced here, as the three of us try to make sense of Kubrick's enigmatic masterpiece.

We go through the film chapter by chapter, detailing our interpretations of each of its mysterious, short-story-like building blocks before leaping its two "real" offsprings—"2010—The Year We Make Contact" and, more extensively, Steven Spielberg's "A.I. Artificial Intelligence"—to, hopefully, provide some legitimate answers to 2001's enduring, endless mysteries.

TIME CODES

Our Monolith's Disclaimer: [00:00 - 02:06]

“2001: A Space Odyssey” & Its Legacy - [02:06 - 43:14]

"The Dawn of Man": [43:14 - 50:53]

"The Dawn of PanAm": [50:53 - 01:15:47]

"The Dawn of HAL9000": [01:15:47 - 01:49:07]

"The Dawn of the Superchild": [01:49:07 - 02:02:25]

"2010 - The Year We Make Contact": [02:02:25 - 02:13:57]

"A.I. Artificial Intelligence": [02:13:57 - 02:45:22]

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AUDIO EXCERPTS

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey Trailer - ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR_e9y-bka0⁠.

2. 2001: A Space Odyssey 4K HDR | The Shutdown of Hal - ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwCFY6pmaYY⁠.

3. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Overture-Atmospheres - ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSOoM2ih5Is⁠.

4. Requiem for Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Two Mixed Choirs& Orchestra (2001: A Space Odyssey) - ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcC6B-i28YE⁠.

5. 2001 A Space Odyssey Opening - ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-QFj59PON4⁠.

6. 2001: A Space Odyssey - ‘The Blue Danube’ (waltz) scene - ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZoSYsNADtY⁠.

7. Transformers 3 - Sam’s Job Interview with Brazos - ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTWJCgxBQwY⁠.

8. All Spoken Lines of HAL 9000 from 2001 - ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wrjl-H4Hs8⁠.

9. Grizzly Man - Werner Herzog on Nature - ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWYaC5YBaJk⁠.

10. 2010: The Year We Make Contact Official Trailer #1 - ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dQH_WNvL3Y⁠.

11. The Reunion - ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sDvUPRjwHo⁠.

12. Godzilla 2014 H.A.L.O. Jumping Scene - ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmZJiBZtahk⁠.