2001: A Space Odyssey Movie Script

by Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke

104 pages. Student Unbound Loose Leaf edition.

Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.

Genres: Science Fiction

104 pages, Unbound

About the author

Stanley Kubrick was an influential American filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and sometimes controversial films. Kubrick was noted for the scrupulous care with which he chose his subjects, his slow method of working, the variety of genres he worked in, his technical perfectionism, and his reclusiveness about his films and personal life.

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick

Reviews

[Anisha Inkspill · Rating 4 out of 5]

the screenplay was better than how I remember the movie. the opener with early man and the scenes with Hal and the crew were my favorite. I did get lost towards the end, as a very long narration, and I mean really, really long, ties up loose ends.

Arthur C Clarke had a hand in writing this screenplay, for some time now I've been meaning to read his novels, so this was a good intro for me to his work.

[Owlseyes]

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[Lyuba🐯 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Definitely worth reading- helps to understand the movie better.
The first part (Moonwatcher) is just epic.

[Realini Ionescu · Rating 5 out of 5]

2001: A Space Odyssey Movie Script by Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke – you find this exceptional feature on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made site – which you could check to see where you stand, how many of these oeuvres you have seen, I have 737 - and other prestigious lists, indeed, this is one of the top five or ten best Science Fiction works, hundreds of reviews of films and books are posted on my blog, here https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20...



10 out of 10

We live in the age of AI, the Economist has an article on Sam Altman (I think that is the name) in the most recent issue, 23rd of April, they have this fight over there, Elon Musk is suing Open AI, has his own gizmo

Arthur C Clarke has written another fabulous novel, Childhood’s End https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... also one of the best Science Fiction novels one can read
In Childhood’s End, the aliens have arrived, they are called the Overlords, they are much more intelligent than us, human beings - let us put the spoiler alert here, for I do not know what I may reveal – although the Overmind is somewhere even higher on that spectrum, and they try to protect our race, as much as they can

It is difficult to anticipate what will happen in the future – correction, we are in such a tragicomic situation that you find the present baffling, the free world has an idiot as leader – but we have some inspiration
Limitless https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... is the film in which the hero has access to a new drug, which helps the human brain reach full capacity of processing power

As it is, we only use some percentage of that, I forgot how much, but in this scenario, the protagonist is able to play the piano within hours, learn Portuguese in about the same time, and has such a fast, brilliant mind that he gets to the top
The reverse could very well happen, The Economist has selected its word of the year 2024, and it is kakistocracy – just like we have aristocracy, democracy, aka power to the people- kakistocracy means something bad:

- Power to the stupid

Idiocracy is a film in which the stupid humans have taken over, the situation is so absurd as to have the lawyer of the main character asks for his condemnation, they are so moronic that…well, they would vote for a corrupt scoundrel
Confidence Man https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... is a book by one of my favorite journalists, Maggie Haberman, insulted by Orange Woland with the nickname Maggot

This swindler has just taken a plane from Qatar, he has had a special dinner last night, at the White House, with those who paid the most for his ‘corrupto’ crypto currency, text book corruption, at the banana republic level
Not only that, but when an ABC journalist asked about this, the would-be tyrant attacked the man, calling him idiot and so on – he has that press secretary, who looks so well, but it is as awful as a devil from hell
She was asked about this dinner, who is coming, maybe there are foreigners, getting to [pay the leader to have their own way, and she was as abrasive and terrible as ever ‘it is absurd to presume the president is not as ethical, bla, bla, bla…’ Jimmy Kimmel gave the right response ‘it is absurd to say it is absurd’ when we are dealing with this figure!

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... – 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

There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

[E. C. Koch · Rating 3 out of 5]

Inasmuch as they are different media, a screenplay is an aesthetic object distinct from the film it eventually leads to in the same way that a blueprint is not that same as a building. Here, then, the instinct to compare or contrast the screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey, written principally by Arthur C. Clarke, to Kubrick's masterpiece isn't really fair; one should read these (i.e., the screenplay and the film) independently, on their own merits. That said, for superfans at least, reading the screenplay of a significant film offers a lot of insight into how the film was originally conceived, what ideas ultimately made it into the film, what ideas never made it, and how subtle differences have great effects. This screenplay indicates that there was originally meant to be a narrator (!) explaining everything throughout the film, that the scenes with dialogue were much longer, and that the monolith was unambiguously a teaching tool. There's nothing here about the stargate sequence or Dave's awakening in the apartment or his deathbed-to-rebirth transition. So the screenplay is actually pretty clear about what the film's about, and it's tempting, perhaps for that reason, to use it as definitive evidence for one's reading of the film (e.g., "Aha! The monolith IS an evolutionary catalyst."). But this, still, shouldn't be done. Part of what makes the film so great is that it doesn't offer easy answers, and is enigmatic, and does demand a lot of work of the reader-viewer to come up with a sound interpretation (making the film itself, yes, a kind of evolutionary catalyst). The film's better by about a thousand times, it's just not immediately satisfying. Read the screenplay if you're already a big fan of the movie, but don't lose sight of what it is.

[Frederic Provencher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ceci est un chef d'oeuvre! Quel bon livre. Je le recommande fortement.

[Steven · Rating 4 out of 5]

The original and much superior Interstellar.