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2001 : A Space Odyssey (1968) - Screenplay - Written by Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke: Scénario complet, Full original script - 65 pages
2001 : A Space Odyssey (1968) - Full screenplay - 65 pages - Written by Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke
Synopsis : Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
Synopsis : Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
66 pages, Paperback
Published April 3, 2022
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July 7, 2025
2001 – A Space Odyssey screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke, based on the story of the latter http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/08/2... a classic of the genre
10 out of 10
There are many themes, ideas of this narrative and film that have caused puzzlement, challenges and books have been written about aspects, with sages wondering what is the significance of the monolith, awed by the creativity, accuracy of some predictions, the talent of both Arthur Clarke and Stanley Kubrick.
What made me take to the computer to scribble down was the fabulous manner in which we have Hal, the super computer act in the way that luminaries say that Artificial Intelligence could evolve in the next period, especially now that ChatGPT and some other models have proved how far the technology has advanced, and how unpredictable (hence a paradox, experts predict on something that is escaping constraints, it is difficult, if not impossible to see which path it will take) the AI will get and dangerous.
The computer in 2001 starts doing the wrong things, Hal does not listen to human commands from one point on and becomes not just a danger, but a real enemy of the men that are on board the space ship and it becomes a struggle to see who gets the upper hand, will the earthling win, or the superior intelligence (of the ‘prosaic’ IQ kind, for we have another species, which is more important, The Emotional EQ type, of which the machines have none, at least not yet) of the adversary will prevail…
Yuval Harari is the author of a few extremely successful and majestic books, one of them is Homo Deus – A Brief History of Tomorrow http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/h... a magnum opus in which the author looks at the future, with an optimistic perspective, evident from the title, Deus refers to the belief that humans will live ever longer (indeed, life expectancy has increased dramatically in the last century, albeit it has been affected by the covid pandemic, obesity and other factors lately) and that advances in science and technology will bring wondrous improvements
Nonetheless, Yuval Harari has written an article in The Economist and has lectures on the subject of Artificial Intelligence and the threat to the future that it represents, he has mentioned in his books that we have traded so much data, and in exchange we have free videos with cats on the internet, and we are so dependent on technology, that we can get into serious trouble – the example of the Japanese tourists that have followed in their car the instructions of the navigation system, only to drive into the ocean is given.
ChatGPT aka the New Hal has proved that it has reached a very advanced stage, and AI has been used to create art (the latest issue of The Economist looks in the Books and Arts section at the trends it follows, how it is apt to produce vintage, art that belongs to another period, seeing as it uses a lot of archive material for its deep learning) photography – as in the Pope wearing an extravagant Balenciaga outfit, which is a fake created by AI – texts, music and so much more, the potential is unlimited.
Unless, of course, legislators intervene and curb the enthusiasm of the advocates, there is a backlash, many calls have been heard, Elon Musk among others – only the latter is a brilliant inventor and entrepreneur (except for his Tweeter venture) but as a thinker in other domains, he leaves much to be desired, take the latest endorsement of a mini Trump, aka De Sanctimonious, who is probably better than the orange fool (with the caveat that a more intelligent scoundrel could do more damage than an idiotic one)
What kind of a judgment is that, will it encourage others to avoid the calamity of another mad four years, or just one of those arrogant, silly attitudes of the once richest human, and now on second or third place, making one think of Intellectuals http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/06/i... by Paul Johnson, a book that details the ugly, often horrible side of great thinkers, writers, such as Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway, Henrik Ibsen, Jean- Jacques Rousseau…the latter left his children at the door of an orphanage, at a time when nine out of ten died in the circumstances, albeit death rates were high anyway…
There is the chance that Artificial Intelligence would bring about some extraordinary, crucial discoveries, such as a cure for cancer, or, more vital still, a solution for the catastrophe of Climate Change, keeping animal species alive, and why not, improve things for them, speed the arrival of meat grown from cells, which then would spare the billions of animals that are tortured and killed – something that is condemned in Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind http://realini.blogspot.com/2021/02/s... by the same outstanding Yuval Harari
We have already fallen for our computers, in the form of the smart phones that we keep permanently in our faces, Artificial Intelligence appears to have won the fight on that score already, we are addicted to these machines and spend a lot (is it most) of time looking at them, staying away from ‘reality’…I would fall in love with an OS or AI that has the voice and allure of Scarlet Johansson http://notesaboutfilms.blogspot.com/2... and if they make robots that use the future advancements in biotechnology, with tissues that replicate skin, and so on, then it is easy to see a trend there
We may have a better solution, if the future imagined in Limitless http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/04/l... is viable, the discovery of potent, accessible drugs that increase our thinking capacity to the point where we learn a foreign language, play the piano and so much more in hours, instead of years (Limitless is a well-chosen title) and then we do not need AI to be damn smart, the alternative is inserting accessories that will help the brains rival supercomputers or just be a mix of the two, AI and Human Intelligence, merged in one…
Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/u... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
10 out of 10
There are many themes, ideas of this narrative and film that have caused puzzlement, challenges and books have been written about aspects, with sages wondering what is the significance of the monolith, awed by the creativity, accuracy of some predictions, the talent of both Arthur Clarke and Stanley Kubrick.
What made me take to the computer to scribble down was the fabulous manner in which we have Hal, the super computer act in the way that luminaries say that Artificial Intelligence could evolve in the next period, especially now that ChatGPT and some other models have proved how far the technology has advanced, and how unpredictable (hence a paradox, experts predict on something that is escaping constraints, it is difficult, if not impossible to see which path it will take) the AI will get and dangerous.
The computer in 2001 starts doing the wrong things, Hal does not listen to human commands from one point on and becomes not just a danger, but a real enemy of the men that are on board the space ship and it becomes a struggle to see who gets the upper hand, will the earthling win, or the superior intelligence (of the ‘prosaic’ IQ kind, for we have another species, which is more important, The Emotional EQ type, of which the machines have none, at least not yet) of the adversary will prevail…
Yuval Harari is the author of a few extremely successful and majestic books, one of them is Homo Deus – A Brief History of Tomorrow http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/h... a magnum opus in which the author looks at the future, with an optimistic perspective, evident from the title, Deus refers to the belief that humans will live ever longer (indeed, life expectancy has increased dramatically in the last century, albeit it has been affected by the covid pandemic, obesity and other factors lately) and that advances in science and technology will bring wondrous improvements
Nonetheless, Yuval Harari has written an article in The Economist and has lectures on the subject of Artificial Intelligence and the threat to the future that it represents, he has mentioned in his books that we have traded so much data, and in exchange we have free videos with cats on the internet, and we are so dependent on technology, that we can get into serious trouble – the example of the Japanese tourists that have followed in their car the instructions of the navigation system, only to drive into the ocean is given.
ChatGPT aka the New Hal has proved that it has reached a very advanced stage, and AI has been used to create art (the latest issue of The Economist looks in the Books and Arts section at the trends it follows, how it is apt to produce vintage, art that belongs to another period, seeing as it uses a lot of archive material for its deep learning) photography – as in the Pope wearing an extravagant Balenciaga outfit, which is a fake created by AI – texts, music and so much more, the potential is unlimited.
Unless, of course, legislators intervene and curb the enthusiasm of the advocates, there is a backlash, many calls have been heard, Elon Musk among others – only the latter is a brilliant inventor and entrepreneur (except for his Tweeter venture) but as a thinker in other domains, he leaves much to be desired, take the latest endorsement of a mini Trump, aka De Sanctimonious, who is probably better than the orange fool (with the caveat that a more intelligent scoundrel could do more damage than an idiotic one)
What kind of a judgment is that, will it encourage others to avoid the calamity of another mad four years, or just one of those arrogant, silly attitudes of the once richest human, and now on second or third place, making one think of Intellectuals http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/06/i... by Paul Johnson, a book that details the ugly, often horrible side of great thinkers, writers, such as Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway, Henrik Ibsen, Jean- Jacques Rousseau…the latter left his children at the door of an orphanage, at a time when nine out of ten died in the circumstances, albeit death rates were high anyway…
There is the chance that Artificial Intelligence would bring about some extraordinary, crucial discoveries, such as a cure for cancer, or, more vital still, a solution for the catastrophe of Climate Change, keeping animal species alive, and why not, improve things for them, speed the arrival of meat grown from cells, which then would spare the billions of animals that are tortured and killed – something that is condemned in Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind http://realini.blogspot.com/2021/02/s... by the same outstanding Yuval Harari
We have already fallen for our computers, in the form of the smart phones that we keep permanently in our faces, Artificial Intelligence appears to have won the fight on that score already, we are addicted to these machines and spend a lot (is it most) of time looking at them, staying away from ‘reality’…I would fall in love with an OS or AI that has the voice and allure of Scarlet Johansson http://notesaboutfilms.blogspot.com/2... and if they make robots that use the future advancements in biotechnology, with tissues that replicate skin, and so on, then it is easy to see a trend there
We may have a better solution, if the future imagined in Limitless http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/04/l... is viable, the discovery of potent, accessible drugs that increase our thinking capacity to the point where we learn a foreign language, play the piano and so much more in hours, instead of years (Limitless is a well-chosen title) and then we do not need AI to be damn smart, the alternative is inserting accessories that will help the brains rival supercomputers or just be a mix of the two, AI and Human Intelligence, merged in one…
Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/u... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
August 14, 2025
It's ok, but what are probably the two most important scenes in the film were added after this early version of the screenplay. The scene in the pod where Bowman and Poole discuss possibly disconnecting HAL is completely missing. The scene where Bowman later disconnects HAL's higher functions is de minimus.
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