Space Odyssey series Essays

  • 2001 Space Odyssey

    566 Words  | 2 Pages

    How 2001: A Space Odyssey makes you think about what mysteries lie beyond the world around us is exhilaration because it brings you into the setting and makes you want to learn more about what is happening to the characters. This extrordinary book was written in a time when it was hard to see us going to any planet much less the moon, but the detail in which is told to the reader is so real that anyone back when the book was made would believe it could happen, even now when it still can't happen

  • Impact of Pulp Magazines on American Culture

    598 Words  | 2 Pages

    Impact of Pulp Magazines on American Culture “The story is worth more than the paper it is printed on.” Frank Munsey’s words symbolized the history of the pulp magazine. Frank Munsey started the pulp magazine craze with his first magazine, the Argosy, in 1896. The Argosy was a revamping of his children’s magazine, the Golden Argosy, shifting its focus from children to adults. The Argosy offered large amounts of fiction for a low price, because these stories would be printed on cheap pulpwood

  • A Clockwork Orange Essay: A Movie Analysis

    1699 Words  | 4 Pages

    and murder. Kubrick was both writer and director. Stanley Kubrick was born July 26, 1928 in the Bronx, New York. He is an accomplished director with other ground breaking movies under his belt, such as The Shining, Paths of Glory, and 2001 A Space Odyssey. His films have one common theme- the dehumanization of mankind. He is also known for his symmetric image composition and long "zooming out" and/or "zooming in" sequences. Kubrick constructs three-way conflicts and utilizes the techinique of extreme

  • 2001 Space Odyssey Analysis

    723 Words  | 2 Pages

    “2001: A Space Odyssey,” directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1968 shows the audience the evolution of humans from when they were apes. The apes learned how to use tools such as bones and rocks to better compete against other apes, which directly reveals that the tools lead the evolution of these creatures into civilized humans. As people continued to evolve and advance their intelligence, they also advanced their primitive tools throughout the years into computers. However, these computers were no ordinary

  • Life without Technology

    941 Words  | 2 Pages

    keeping in touch with family, getting back and forth to work, protecting our homes from intrusion, and propelling the economy, just to name a few. As marvelous as technology is it can have unintended consequences that can be profound. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a science fiction film released in 1968 directed by Stanley Kubrick. The film examines the human relationship with technology in depth. Arthur C. Clark wrote a short story called The Sentinel on which the film was based. It is an epic story

  • James Cameron

    2128 Words  | 5 Pages

    Kapuskasing, Ontario in Canada August 14 (16) 1954. His family later moved to Chippewa Falls near Niagra Falls. James Cameron was during his youth years always very fascinated with movies. He was mezmerized when he saw Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, and he drew himself crazy trying to figure out how they had shot that film. Cameron also wrote sci-fi stories and fantasized a lot instead of doing his school work. It was actually during one boring biology class that Cameron wrote a short story

  • Alan Turning: A Sad Mystery

    1970 Words  | 4 Pages

    great importance since they suggest useful lines of research” (Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”) In his thorough biography of Alan Turing, Alan Turing:The Enigma, Andrew Hodges described the self-destruction of HAL in 2001 A Space Odyssey in the following way:“He was only aware of the conflict that was slowly destroying his integrity – the conflict between truth, and concealment of truth” (Hodges, 533). Apparently the authors of 2001, Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick had based

  • Descartes Man vs Animal

    2060 Words  | 5 Pages

    Movies and novels such as “Planet of the Apes” and 2001: A Space Odyssey are called Science Fiction because they portray situations that seem extremely unrealistic concurrent with contemporary philosophy. “Planet of the Apes” depicts a world where apes rule while humans are subjected to servitude and confinement. These apes speak intelligibly and are human-like in appearance and behavior. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the highly advanced computer, HAL 9000, an acronym for “Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic

  • Comparrison Donnie Darko, 2001: A Space Odyssey

    1285 Words  | 3 Pages

    Donnie Darko and 2001: A Space Odyssey has central meanings that focus on science and religion. Richard Kelly's, Donnie Darko, introduces the protagonist as a teenage boy who is given the chance to live for twenty-eight more days after the mysterious jet engine crash that was intended to kill him. Donnie is plagued by visions of a giant sized evil-looking rabbit named Frank. Frank orders Donnie to commit acts of violence, warns of the impending end of the world, and is his guide throughout the movie

  • A Response to 2001: A Space Odyssey

    1240 Words  | 3 Pages

    A Response to 2001: A Space Odyssey I love having the Blue Danube waltz in 2001; it's my favorite part of the movie. What I find most amusing about it is that it ties in so well with the smoothness of a space orbit. In the first space scene, anything that is free floating, like the pen or the ships themselves, is perfectly in balance with the music. Nothing in orbit is ever rushed, and at no time does it ever falter from its halcyon state of existence. The Blue Danube matches this perfectly

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    881 Words  | 2 Pages

    2001: A Space Odyssey Three million B.C. The gunpowder for a smashing evolutionary hit was amassing for a long time, but the necessary spark came from an outside help, which soon set the whole world ablaze. From this heated inferno, came the most proficient species ever to grace the planet. And now man has to be prepared for what comes next. Arthur C. Clarke skillfully proves the point that 'truth is stranger than fiction' in his remarkable book - 2001: A Space Odyssey. He also carefully

  • Metropolis: An Influential Film Masterpiece

    2243 Words  | 5 Pages

    has become a significant influence on the film industry in many ways. Metropolis is considered by many to be a landmark German film. This film set many standards for today's science-fiction films such as Star Wars, Blade Runner, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Lang's use of mob scenes, providing a possible glimpse at the future, creating the model for robots, and elaborate scenes involving hundreds of workers have been used in many films since. This film not only contains beautiful sets, but also

  • Arthur C. Clarke: Visionary of Future Technologies

    1106 Words  | 3 Pages

    Would you destroy the first, most advanced, new iPhone to exist for decades if Siri killed all of your friends? Arthur C. Clarke was an English science fiction author and astronomy enthusiast who wrote in the 20th century. The Space Odyssey series by Arthur C. Clarke tells the fictional stories of spacemen as they try to find out the truth about life away from Earth. Arthur Clarke writes the way he does because he has been interested in science all his life, he writes about things that he believes

  • 2001 A Space Odyssey Analysis

    919 Words  | 2 Pages

    2001: A Space Odyssey The following paper will analyze the movie, “2001: A Space Odyssey” by Stanley Kubrick” and “The Centinel” by Arthur C. Clarke. Although there are many themes present between the story and the film, the following are the most dominant. I will be discussing Scientific themes, Religious and Moral Themes, and Clarke’s development of the short story into a full-length film. The first issue, I will be discussing the scientific themes of the movie. The movie, “2001: A Space Odyssey

  • 2001 A Space Odyssey

    703 Words  | 2 Pages

    the different ways that 2001 has been interpreted by its audience over that time, it reveals a great deal about evolving cultural attitudes toward issues such as technology, spirituality, and the commercialization of American society. 2001: A Space Odyssey was the third biggest box office hit of 1968 (after Mike Nichols’ The Graduate and William Wyler’s Funny Girl) and, upon the completion of its initial theatrical run, was one of the top twenty grossing movies of all time.[1] Over the next 30 years

  • Violence, a theme in the Movie "The Shining"

    726 Words  | 2 Pages

    Technical Essay Director: Kubrick, Stanley Movie: The Shining Sources: “Understanding Movies” For my technical essay I am going to talk about the movie "The Shining". I will explore in this essay I am going to set to prove that Stanley Kubrick is trying to prove that violence can happen when you are lefted alone and isolated. I use a screen from 1:43:44 to 1:53:08 to prove this point. This scene is about when Wendy looks though Jacks work and is scared though the whole

  • A Clockwork Orange, by Stanley Kubrick

    1090 Words  | 3 Pages

    Adaptation, or the conversion of historical or fictional narratives into film, has been a common practice for many years. It is this very practice that has bound the two medias of film and narrative together. It has brought readers and viewers together in understanding a similar storyline with a similar structure. Sometimes, filmmakers have adapted films from novels successfully because of their ability to accurately portray the structure, characters and plotline from the novel throughout every

  • Clockwork Orange

    1116 Words  | 3 Pages

    victim is a drunk homeless man. This is where Kubrick showed his audience why they were beating people for apparently no reason. Just before they beat the old man to death, he complained that there was no law or order anymore. And that everyone was in space "…circling around the earth and living on the moon…" This gives the simple reason that these four young gentlemen were beating people simply because they could.Alex is the leader of their clan. But along the way his other three "droogs" grow tired

  • Free Essays - Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange

    1209 Words  | 3 Pages

    "A Clockwork Orange" is a very different movie.  It has everything a movie should have, but the plot is quite disturbing, especially for the time it came out.  I have personally watched this film several times to find the meaning, and every time I watch it I come up with a different one.  I am going to try to explain what this film contains as well as try to explain the plot. "A Clockwork Orange" is a story of a young man whose principle interests are rape, ultra-violence, and Beethoven.  It's about

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    970 Words  | 2 Pages

    The genius in not the music used in "2001: A Space Odyssey", but what Kubrick does with that music. He reduces each musical score to its essence, and leaves it playing long enough for us to contemplate it, to listen and watch as the movie progresses, which is mostly silent; this technique helps it inhabit it in our imaginations. Among science-fiction movies, perhaps “2001" is the only movie in which the director, in this case Kubrick, is not concerned with thrilling us with his music choice, but