...Introduction The movie of Stanley Kubrick: A Space Odyssey base on Clarke’s short story “The Sentinel”. The core theme of the movie was fiction and the story of Clarke reflects the same. “The Sentinel” provided the original basis for Kubrick’s film version and the story itself published after the film’s release. “A Space Odyssey” book reviews discuss the plot, characters and themes found in the story. One can learn more about the different literary elements that should be examined in the story. According to the plot of the movie the space navigators David Bowman and Frank Poole, along with three frozen hibernauts and a talkative computer named Hal, are aboard the spaceship Discovery on a mission to Saturn. They told that the purpose of the mission is to enter and explore the atmosphere of the planet. Trouble arises, however, when Hal announces that the computer's Fault Prediction Center indicates failure of one of the units within seventy-two hours (Angelo, 2003). Although the faulty part, that is not the end of the astronauts' problems. Hal still insists there is trouble ahead. Faced with an increasingly frustrating and odd-behaving Hal, Bowman threatens to turn the computer off. Before long, navigator Poole, working outside the ship, disconnected from his safety lines and drifts off into space. The sleeping hibernauts also disconnected from the pods that maintain their bodies and die. Bowman left alone with Hal (Angelo, 2003). Realizing that the computer killed the others...
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...i’ve watched 2001 along with other Kubrick films over ten times and as a prime of what I state of what my interpretion of the monolith it would be useful to highlife some details, one of them being that there are no aliens in the movie and there is no dialogs specifically describing dialogs. this is as close as we get “18 months ago the first evidence of intelligent life off the earth was discovered.” The briefing scene on the moon contains no cryptic references to the aliens, and may very well be talking about anything and humans flying around in space could also be considered intelligent life off the earth. Our assumption that an alien intelligence is guiding the whole movie is primarily based on the monolith. In the exacted screening of the screen Kubrick had included a voice over narration that explained the presence of an alien intelligence throughout the film, and after the investors of the movie had watched he thought to remove it in the general release. Kubrick then explained that the surface plot line that an alien intelligence is contacting the human race and guiding it’s revolution was the film’s “simplest level” and when asked to elaborate on the film he would flat out refuse or make cop out excuses not to talk about it at all, just being able to say what the viewer’s own subjectivity brought to the film. The film was very loosely inspired by Arthur C. Clarke’s “The Sentinel” the full novel of the movie was written as the film was being shot and was therefore was...
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...Abstract Within the pages of a book, authors are able to create great visual images of locations and landscapes by using elaborate and descriptive words. Sometimes these images are transferred into an actual visual by the subsequent creation of films based upon these great works. “2001: A Space Odyssey” by Stanley Kubrick is an example of such as it is based upon the literary short story, “The Sentinel” by Arthur C. Clarke. Kubrick has done an astounding job at developing the original short story by combining music with visual images way before it’s time. The film allows its viewers to see the original short story told by Clarke, creatively expanded and elaborated upon in comparison with great detail. Table of Contents Introduction The Sentinel (Arthur C. Clarke), 1951 • Descriptive Elements • Theme – First contact 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick, 1968 • Style, Visual and Music Elements • Theme – Evolution Conclusion References The Sentinel and 2001: A Space Odyssey Introduction “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) has been called, “The most spectacular vision of the future,” and “Eerily accurate and wild with suspense” (Nashawaty, 2011). It is an epic science fiction film based on the short story, “The Sentinel” (1951), written by Arthur C Clarke. Comparing the literary work from Clarke, to the fully elaborated film by Kubrick, it can be said that there is very little similarities. Kubrick has managed to develop Clark’s ideas into an epic movie that must...
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...atmospheric intensity of the ballade if the music playing was ascend, which was a reversed version of a Romanian Liturgy. However, there must be a key element that distinguishes Kubrick from his contemporaries. Perhaps a secret formula? In my opinion a pattern of his style can be observed throughout his movies which is essentially staging to both convey an ambiguous narrative through visuals and add an overall visual aesthetic and beauty. This can also be identified as mise-en-scene. We can see that Kubrick was so keen on the on staging of the film that his movies took many shots until the perfect and satisfactory result was achieved by Kubrick. As one of the special photographic effects designer Douglas Trumbull in the movie ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ indicates in his essay: “One of the most serious problem that plagued us throughout the production was simply keeping track of all the ideas, shots, and changes and constantly re-evaluating and updating designs, storyboards and script itself.” (158) Kubrick was so tedious and perfectionist in the production of his movies that his cast was often frustrated. The shooting of ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ for example took four hundred days, which is an all-time high in the film history. This shows Kubrick’s dedication to the staging and performance of the...
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...In 1968, science fiction scribe Arthur C. Clarke and movie director Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey came to the silver screen. The movie wasn't a space opera like Flash Gordon or Captain Video, a series in which Clarke had served as a writer and consultant. Rather, 2001 was Kubrick and Clarke's unique vision that was unlike any other movie of its genre. Less than a decade after the film's release, Jacob Kurtzberg, better known as Jack Kirby, added his unique style to the motion picture and its universe in the comic book pages upon his return to Marvel Comics, the publisher for whom he had co-created such iconic characters as the Fantastic Four and the Incredible Hulk. This article will explore The King of Comics version of 2001: A Space Odyssey and how he brought it from celluloid to panel. THE ODYSSEY'S HISTORY After making the 1964 film Doctor Stranglove, director Stanley Kubrick became fascinated with the possibility of extraterrestrial life....
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...2001: Una Odisea del Espacio Ya había tenido la oportunidad de ver esta película con anterioridad y desde la primera vez que la vi me gusto la variedad de temas que aborda y como juega con las teorías de la evolución y la vida en otros planetas. Este último punto en especial es un tema controversial en el mundo, el cual ha dado pauta para muchas especulaciones y conjeturas. Stanley Kubrick presenta una existencia de vida inteligente que además de ser superior a la nuestra, al parecer es gracias a ella que somos quienes somos actualmente y quienes seremos en el futuro. Esta película me sorprendió mucho además por sus efectos especiales e ideas futuristas, la verdad no pensé que se pudieran lograr cosas así a finales de los 60’s. Algo que se me quedó grabado es el inicio de la película, cuando observamos al grupo de monos, inmediatamente me vino a la mente la posibilidad de que fueran antepasados del ser humano y efectivamente así lo fue, en sus actitudes podemos ver que el grupo es diferente a un grupo normal de monos por sus habilidades y astucia, lo que atrae el interés de la raza superior y lo que marca el inicio de su “experimento” si podemos llamarlo así. De la misma manera es importante resaltar que es esta escena la que se ha hecho famosa por así decirlo, recientemente uno de mis artistas favoritos de Kpop uso esta escena en su video, aunque obviamente modifica algunas cosas para adecuarlo a lo que él quiere transmitir, la idea está ahí y podemos observar la misma...
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...Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" is an ideological mess, a paranoid right-wing fantasy masquerading As an Orwellian warning. It pretends to oppose the police state and forced mind control, but all it really does is celebrate the nastiness of its hero, Alex. I don't know quite how to explain my disgust at Alex (whom Kubrick likes very much, as his visual style reveals and as we shall see in a moment). Alex is the sort of fearsomely strange person we've all run across a few times in our lives -- usually when he and we were children, and he was less inclined to conceal his hobbies. He must have been the kind of kid who tore off the wings of flies and ate ants just because that was so disgusting. He was the kid who always seemed to know more about sex than anyone else, too -- and especially about how dirty it was. Alex has grown up in "A Clockwork Orange," and now he's a sadistic rapist. I realize that calling him a sadistic rapist -- just like that -- is to stereotype poor Alex a little. But Kubrick doesn't give us much more to go on, except that Alex likes Beethoven a lot. Why he likes Beethoven is never explained, but my notion is that Alex likes Beethoven in the same way that Kubrick likes to load his sound track with familiar classical music -- to add a cute, cheap, dead-end dimension. Now Alex isn't the kind of sat-upon, working-class anti-hero we got in the angry British movies of the early 1960s. No effort is made to explain his inner workings or take apart his society...
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...Introduction When was the last time you held still and read the same book or article for thirty minutes, an hour, two? Living in a modern world means many great inventions filled with interesting information all at the touch of a screen. Anything a person can think of can be “Googled” and thousands of results will come up in a near instant; Google even helpfully informs how long it takes to retrieve the information. With so much material at one’s fingertips the possibilities are endless. In his paper Nicholas Carr addresses the issue, how much of this information is processed by the brain and how much do we surf past like a wave in the ocean? Summary In his essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” author and member of Encyclopedia of Britannica’s...
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...Summary The man-apes of the world, who lived by gathering berries and nuts, were facing a lack of food. A giant monolith appeared on Earth one day and began to experiment with many of them, probing and developing their minds. Among those in whom the monolith took an interest was Moon-Watcher, the only man-ape who walked fully upright. At night, a few select man-apes were taught and during the day, they innovated. Moon-Watcher discovered that he could fashion tools with which to kill animals for sustenance—the man-apes' hunger problem was solved. Time passed and the man-ape evolved. His brain grew, he invented language and organized into civilizations, and he invented weapons—first knives, but then guns and finally nuclear missiles. Such innovations had been central in man's dominion over earth, but "as long as they existed, he was living on borrowed time." Eager to embark on another space mission, Dr. Heywood Floyd arrived at the Florida launch location after meeting with the president. He offered no comment to the press, nor would he reveal the details of mission to the crew that served him so faithfully on board or to his Russian friend whom he encounters at the joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. space station, a stop on his journey to the Moon. Upon his arrival, Floyd is greeted by a top official of the Moon colony and whisked off to a meeting. A lead scientist explains that they had found a magnetic disturbance in Tycho, one of the Moon's craters. An examination of the area had revealed...
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...Reginald Beauvoir Mrs. Pellegrini IM1401 10/14/2012 Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo While researching film made in the Nineteenth Century I found that the use of technology brought new idea and cause a revelation that effected movie goer worldwide. The following time line shows how each innovation had an effect on the technology that was introduce in that time period. The expectation of movie goers was high as a result the film makers came up with new way of composing motion picture on the big screen. The thought process was open to new possibility. The use of movie projection called magic lantern was introduce in the Seventeenth Century. The use of different filming technique was on the rise. The thought process of movie composer consists of what they were exposed to and to shoot at different perspective. It was well thought out. A movie that was directly influenced by a technological advancement was Alfred Hitchcock, “Vertigo”. To achieve my point, I have organized my paper into four main sections, two of which have sub-sections. In the first section, there is a record of three important events in twentieth century motion picture history: technological changes, the information revolution, a film by Alfred Hitchcock. The techniques he used and how it paved the way for movie director that came after him. It discuss articles a about how the movie Vertigo played an important role and how it impacted the twentieth century film making producer and filming in connecting...
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...Company Innovation through Collaboration Scott Damassa Amy MacKinnon Alisher Saydalikhodjayev April 14, 2007 Harkness Consulting Table of Contents Executive Summary ................................................... 3 Company Background ................................................ 5 Competitive Analysis.................................................. 7 Internal Rivalry ................................................................ 8 Entry .............................................................................. 12 Substitutes & Complements ........................................... 13 Buyer & Supplier Power ................................................. 14 SWOT Analysis ..........................................................15 Strengths ....................................................................... 15 Weaknesses ................................................................... 15 Opportunities ................................................................. 16 Threats........................................................................... 16 Financial Analysis .....................................................16 Strategic Issues & Recommendations .......................21 References…………………………………………………………25 Harkness Consulting 2 Executive Summary Harkness Consulting has been asked by Callaway Golf to assess its strategic market position and to make recommendations for improving the company’s performance. There...
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...9-508-076 REV: APRIL 14, 2008 ELIE OFEK Sony PlayStation 3: Game Over? [W]hen you look at the history of the video game industry since the PlayStation was launched back in 1995, we were able to take the leadership position very quickly with the PlayStation. With PlayStation 2 we have more than 110 million gamers and consumers enjoying the PlayStation 2 on a worldwide basis. And I think we have a very loyal following for the PlayStation family of products. So with the PlayStation 3, I believe that we are going to be able to quickly take the leadership position once again and maintain that position for a very long time. — Kaz Hirai, President and CEO, Sony Computer Entertainment of America, November 17 20061 It was a picture that was reminiscent of the launch of the original PlayStation nearly a dozen years before. Some eager customers had arrived as early as 6am and from as far as New Jersey to a video game store in Manhattan with the hope of purchasing one of the newest and most sought after video game consoles. By 9am, the number of customers waiting for entrance to the store exceeded 100 and the line extended down the block. One customer in line had been searching stores across the region for two weeks in order to find a console for her brother’s twenty-fifth birthday. A twelve-year-old and his grandmother were visiting their third store in search of the new console. “I just hate what you have to do just to get one,” the boy said.2 In one sense, long...
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...business plan modelling. Business models were more easily produced and what-if simulations were available at the click of a button. It was a great step up from the pencil and calculator. Seven years ago, I abandoned Microsoft and converted entirely to Apple. Apple Macs, MacBooks, MacBook Air, iPods, iTouch, the iPhone and the iPad, I had to try them all and never looked back This is the case study of Apple in the digital age. The great era of the iPod, the discovery of the digital hub and Apple’s move into the mainstream consumer market with the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. It has many great examples for enthusiasts of marketing, leadership, organization, financial analysis and strategic management. The story begins almost ten years ago. In 2001, Apple sales fell by a third and the company reported an operating loss of $350 million some 6% of sales. The company was thought by many to be in trouble. In the same year the the iPod was launched, the concept of the digital hub emerged, sales have increased from $5bn to $65bn in 2010 and profits have soared to $18 billion. In 2011 sales revenues will exceed $110 billion. I hope you enjoy the case study. John Ashcroft Dr John Ashcroft PhD, Bsc(Econ) CBIM FRSA, is Chief Executive or pro.manchester, a director...
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...business plan modelling. Business models were more easily produced and what-if simulations were available at the click of a button. It was a great step up from the pencil and calculator. Seven years ago, I abandoned Microsoft and converted entirely to Apple. Apple Macs, MacBooks, MacBook Air, iPods, iTouch, the iPhone and the iPad, I had to try them all and never looked back This is the case study of Apple in the digital age. The great era of the iPod, the discovery of the digital hub and Apple’s move into the mainstream consumer market with the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. It has many great examples for enthusiasts of marketing, leadership, organization, financial analysis and strategic management. The story begins almost ten years ago. In 2001, Apple sales fell by a third and the company reported an operating loss of $350 million some 6% of sales. The company was thought by many to be in trouble. In the same year the the iPod was launched, the concept of the digital hub emerged, sales have increased from $5bn to $65bn in 2010 and profits have soared to $18 billion. In 2011 sales revenues will exceed $110 billion. I hope you enjoy the case study. John Ashcroft Dr John Ashcroft PhD, Bsc(Econ) CBIM FRSA, is Chief Executive or pro.manchester, a director...
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...business plan modelling. Business models were more easily produced and what-if simulations were available at the click of a button. It was a great step up from the pencil and calculator. Seven years ago, I abandoned Microsoft and converted entirely to Apple. Apple Macs, MacBooks, MacBook Air, iPods, iTouch, the iPhone and the iPad, I had to try them all and never looked back This is the case study of Apple in the digital age. The great era of the iPod, the discovery of the digital hub and Apple’s move into the mainstream consumer market with the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. It has many great examples for enthusiasts of marketing, leadership, organization, financial analysis and strategic management. The story begins almost ten years ago. In 2001, Apple sales fell by a third and the company reported an operating loss of $350 million some 6% of sales. The company was thought by many to be in trouble. In the same year the the iPod was launched, the concept of the digital hub emerged, sales have increased from $5bn to $65bn in 2010 and profits have soared to $18 billion. In 2011 sales revenues will exceed $110 billion. I hope you enjoy the case study. John Ashcroft Dr John Ashcroft PhD, Bsc(Econ) CBIM FRSA, is Chief Executive or pro.manchester, a director...
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