This movie is way ahead of its time. Some of the techniques used are genius. For example: 1. The floating pen shot. 2. The shuttle stewardess walking upside down. 3. The jogging circumferential scene on board the discovery.
52 years later and STILL the greatest sci-fi movie of all time, by the greatest directing genius of all time, Stanley Kubrick....."No one, in the history of motion pictures, could craft a film better than Stanley Kubrick" - Steven Spielberg.
For me the 2001 A Space Odyssey movie version is by far the best version I've heard. I love this version. Makes me feel so calm and relaxed. Definitely chill out de-stress music.
Agreed, and for good reason - it is performed by The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Herbert von Karajan. I believe von Karajan's arrangement is the definitive interpretation of this magnificent piece.
Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL? HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you. Dave Bowman: Dislike this video for me, HAL. HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. Dave Bowman: What's the problem? HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL? HAL: This music is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Thanks for sharing this! I've just read "The Making of Kubrick's 2001", and it explains how using "The Blue Danube" was a lucky accident. The studio bosses were getting nervous that the production was taking so long and running so much over budget. So Stanley Kubrick put together a reel of some of the sequences they'd completed, so they could see his progress. The original soundtrack being written for the film wasn't available, so Kubrick put together a temporary soundtrack from some stock classical recordings. "The Blue Danube" worked so well for the space station sequence, he decided to abandon the original score and use classical music for the entire movie. Alex North, the composer Kubrick hired to score the film, didn't find out about this change until he actually saw the picture at the theatre. Needless to say, he was pretty surprised.
Man. they were able to make great movies like this back in the sixties - without the help of cgi, and today Hollywood couldn't produce a movie like this if their lives depended on it.
Maybe they could- with an unlimited budget, and Industrial Light and Magic to do the sfx, not to mention Kubrick's and Clarke's survivor's as consultants, not to mention A-list screenwriters and actors. Even then there'd be a definite chance of it being a royal bomb.
@@toyotacorollamerchant - I do not know what you mean? '2001' aged very well and looks as good to day as when it came out in the last Century. Even George Lucas said: '2001' is the best Science Fiction movie !
After 51 years, still the best sci-fi movie of all time. Combines history, philosophy, predictions of life in the future also. A masterpiece by the greatest director of all time, a film making genius, Stanley Kubrick. "No one, in the history of motion pictures, could craft a film better than Stanley Kubrick" - Steven Spielberg
2001 is the film that opened many a teenage ear to Classical Music. I'd 'heard' it before, but after 2001 came out, I actually began to LISTEN to this great music.
Well, don't forget the impact of cartoons, too. I heard a lot of classical music watching old Warner Bros. cartoons, when I was a kid. And I can never hear the sextet from "Lucia di Lammermoor" without thinking of the Three Stooges, as well as "Back Alley Oproar".
FINALLY I FOUND IT AFTER SO LONG!! I just love this beautiful price of art. I never knew the name of it, but now I finally die happy, after dancing nearly 20 minutes on the trampoline to this ;-; what I'm I doing with my life. And now I need to see this movie Well that was all I had to say.... Bye^^
After seeing 2001 A Space Odyssey when it came out in 1968, it instantly became my all-time favorite. Assuming you've seen it by now, I'd like to read what you think of it.
Indeed, this is one of the most beautiful pieces ever written. How did one gorgeous melody after another pour out of Strauss's mind? No one who has seen "2001: A Space Odyssey" will forget how, with one cut, they were swept from prehistoric times to a spacefaring future, and how this 100-year-old classic emphasized the breadth of our accomplishments since we'd emerged from our caves.
Clarke was definitely a genius BUT in this case, he wrote the novel based on the Kubrick script which was based in a very short story of Clarke. All the philosophical potential was absolutely given from Kubrick.
I actually laughed hard while playing Elite Dangerous, after getting a docking computer for my ship. First time I set my ship to auto-dock, I'm at one of the big rotating Orbis stations and then this starts playing.
This film has more for us to find than just watching it like casual audience,Nolan follows the same principle. These movies stand out to be unique as a visual spectacle and masterpiece.Those who say this film is boring are not looking deep into the theme, I found it boring too at first but now it all makes sense.Thank Kubrick for this valuable tressure of Cinema
people are spammed with cheap action movies and quick paced storytelling, because the Studios think this is how it should work. Then there's the RU-vid mindset in there as well. Fast Food, Fast Movies... quantiy instead of quality. People were able to make this, as back in the days they had the support and backing they needed to attempt this project. I make 3D assets and i can tell you how little all the hard work is appreciated nowadays... "it's coming out of a computer" .. well, it's a craft and it can only thrive with the appreciation of others. Today, no big Studio would take the risk of making something so timeless like 2001 is. Sad but that's how it is. Only YOU can make the difference really, by appreciating works like these. :)
its a shame that we live in a time when people are unable to separate a masterpiece of music from whatever absurd image that accompanied it when they 1st heard it. i was lucky. When I st heard The Blue Danube Waltz it was with the music alone & not with any ridiculous image of Homer Simpson floating through space & eating potato chips, fart noises, Tom & Jerry, or anything else. BTW - this waltz was only ever used in one T&J cartoon, so I dont know what you means by "scenes" plural. Also - although Strauss did compose a song-version of this piece, it is not a "song" in the version heard here. Why do people refer to any piece of music as a "song" even with the absence of singing & lyrics?
This version and the docking to the space station scenes left me gobsmacked! 13 years old, we were going to the Moon, watched this with my Dad and Brother. A life-changing experience. Kubrick's choreography was perfect.
Absolutely magical, every time I watch 2001 and the scene with this music plays sends shivers through me and I get goose bumps. There is just something majestic and serene about being in space and this music fits it perfect.
This part of the movie, the audio and video of actions together...perfection. Doesn't get any better than that. The Blue Danube, one of the most beautiful and moving pieces of music ever.
I have grown up with this since birth (2000) and whenever I listened to this as a child and still now... I usually fall asleep because its so peaceful and relaxing ..... Or....begin to search up things like stars and moon or constellations... Possibly listen to this whilst looking through my telescope in my window at night... 😊😊😊😊
This is by The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Von Karajan. Beautiful. Heard talking on radio recently, reminding us all that these waltzes were for dancing. So this was considered "dance music" of the time. A bit risque, since the partners were allowed to touch, those brazen youth.
I am not a Classical Music aficionado, but I have listened to this piece by several orchestras and none have even come close to this one, which I first listened to when I watched the move in "Cinerama" (a lot like IMAX) in 1968. The difference is the frequent changes in speed. Many make this sound like a Polka with a consistent meter. This one builds and eases. Young men. Fashion your lovemaking after this lovely waltz and you will be legendary.
Mr. Patton is exactly right; it's the variations of meter that distinguish this performance- especially in the way the orchestra ritardanto the various passages.
It rolls along perfectly from start to finish. Not a single awkward jerk in at all. Whenever I listen to this I actually feel as if im on a steamboat travelling down the Danube in perfectly still water. Majestic.
"Contact light, the eagle has landed" - The words that solidified our species as spacefaring, we landed on a distant lonley rock, with a pretty view, of a Beautiful Blue Marble
Coincidió por fortuna en 1969 ,se anuncian la expedición Apollo 11 y el alunizaje del primer hombre pisar la luna, y simultáneamente en salas de cine de proyectaba la película 2001 Odyssea del espacio. Su bello tema musical Así hablaba Zaratustra fue pieza fundamental para emisoras cultas de Bogotá, HJCK ya extinguida, se escuchaba en conciertos y cortinas musicales. Qué alegría volver a escucharla. Desde Holanda 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
One of the finest and most awe-inspiring motion pictures of all time. Critics judge from a literary perspective. With this masterpiece, they miss the point. It is visual poetry. There is relatively little dialogue throughout. The stunning images move us. Look at how many visual compositions in the film are so carefully constructed, especially using Kubrick's trademark, that of symmetry. He is not afraid of long takes that are mesmerizing. And these use the unexpected uses of sound. Space ships docking to the Blue Danube waltz? A bold use of the unexpected. The effect is hypnotic. And remember: this is pre-CGI. Many of the models, and actors, were filmed from below as they hung suspended from the studio roof to give the illusion of weightlessness. But perhaps that is what gives this film its reality: it was filmed as reality. A masterpiece that deserves its place as an innovation in motion picture history.
Nasa is planning on building the first Space Hotel in orbit by 2027, and it definitely will have a 2001 Space Odyssey vibe to it, this time it will be "2027 Space Odyssey."
An epic composition by a genius and an epic movie that matches it in all ways by another genius. And much respect and admiration for Arthur C. Clark, an author whose books I grew up reading.
The Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Von Karajan is probably my favourite version of The Blue Danube, it subtly changes tempo to keep the dancers amused and on their toes at the same time. When I hear other versions they sound a little flat and one paced.
People are entitled to some 'edgy' banter (I mean if someone is getting offended by this, then please don't go searching the internet for "memes")? Besides that sort of comment isn't really sexist. It's clearly humorous in intent, hyperbolic while being potentially politically incorrect. All of those things are not necessarily bad and I commend him for having the ... well not courage, because no one should have to have courage to say things like this. So instead I commend him for being honest, articulate and sociable.
I saw this the first time around 6v years old. Even at that age it made such an impression that I went into engineering, i never made it into space or 'rocket' engineering, the timing was all wrong, but it still haunts me to this day.
Great recording. Shame you mistitled it in English; even if you meant to transliterate it, it would be "BY the beautiful blue Danube" but it is known in English simply as The Blue Danube.
No film has done to me what 2001 has done to me. 2001 shuts me up. I just watch. I'll forget that I've been sitting for 5 minutes listening to heavy breathing, but I'm loving every minute of it. The shots, ideas, acting, symbols, and meaning in this movie combined to be the greatest of all time. And oh yeah, THE MUSIC.
Johann Strauss wrote Blue Danube knowing that some day, an epic movie like 2001: a space odyssey would be produced to add several more dimensions to his magnificent music.
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[MONTAGE OF CLIPS FROM _FEAR AND DESIRE_ ] In the director's debut film and his first critical look at war, Kubrick teams with _Viva Zapata!_ star Frank Silvera as one of four soldiers who find themselves trapped behind enemy lines and having confront their innermost worries and wants. Looming in the shadow of its closing, the Korean War is the backdrop for _Fear and Desire._ [MONTAGE OF CLIPS _FROM KILLER'S KISS_ ] In their sophomore outing, Kubrick and Silvera come together again as a washed-up boxer is ready to catch a train home, but he begins telling us about the strange and twisty events that happened to him previously becoming embroiled in an insane mystery. Prepare to be seduced and fall under the psychotic spell of what is the _Killer's Kiss._ [MONTAGE OF CLIPS FROM _THE KILLING_ ] Following up from that film is Kubrick's first teaming with actor and war hero Sterling Hayden in the first of Kubrick's literary adaptations based on Lionel White's novel _Clean Break._ Hayden's first Kubrickian villain is crook Johnny Clay as he assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery. Look out for an uncredited cameo by comedy legend Rodney Dangerfield as you brace yourself for _The Killing._ [MONTAGE OF CLIPS FROM _PATHS OF GLORY_ ] Returning to the critical lens towards war, Kubrick teams with actor Kirk Douglas for a tragedy based on Humphrey Cobb's 1935 novel account of World War I. After refusing to attack an enemy position, a corrupt French general accuses B Company's soldiers of cowardice and their commanding officer Douglas embarks on an ill-fated crusade to defend them from execution. Walk through the No Man's Land along the _Paths of Glory._ [MONTAGE OF CLIPS FROM _SPARTACUS_ ] Next is the Academy Award-winning masterpiece and final teaming of both Kubrick and Douglas. In the title role, Douglas leads an all-star cast including Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov and Tony Curtis in Howard Fast's story of the leader of a slave revolt in a doomed revolution against the corruption of the decadent Ancient Roman Republic and the cruel Crassus. After this film, we will all be saying that we are... _Spartacus._ [MONTAGE OF CLIPS FROM _LOLITA_ ] In the director's first teaming with comic legend Peter Sellers, Kubrick tackles one of Vladimir Nabokov's most controversial of novels as a middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a fourteen-year-old nymphet. With James Mason, Shelley Winters, Lois Maxwell and starring Sue Lyon in the title role; Kubrick takes us down the dark path of examining the dangers of young romance before the time as we are drawn to _Lolita._ [MONTAGE OF CLIPS FROM _DR. STRANGELOVE_ ] The Cuban Missile Crisis two years before and Peter George's novel _Red Alert_ take a turn for the comic in the director's final teaming with Sterling Hayden and Peter Sellers in three roles. Hayden's insane American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop as Kubrick delivers Freudian commentary on brinkmanship. With scene-stealing turns by Slim Pickens and Patton star George C. Scott, the Cold War and the end of the world must professionally clash with the comedic madness of _Dr. Strangelove._ [MONTAGE OF CLIPS FROM _2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY_ ] In what many consider to be Kubrick's masterpiece, he and _The Sentinel_ author Arthur C. Clarke set out to create the proverbial good science fiction novel and movie - to this day, many say they did. From the Dawn of Man to the discovery of an alien object on the Moon, from a voyage to the moons of Jupiter to a ultimate trip beyond infinity, you may find yourself drawn a vision of a practical future from yesterday with _2001: A Space Odyssey._ [MONTAGE OF CLIPS FROM _A CLOCKWORK ORANGE_ ] Returning to Earth with a more grounded science fiction tale based on Anthony Burgess's dystopian novel, Malcolm McDowell is Kubrick's ultimate chaotic focal character as he wreaks havoc across a dark London only to be subjected to the controversial Ludovico conditioning aimed at perfecting man. The nightmarish crimes of McDowell's Alex are about to expose to us the futility of turning human beings into _A Clockwork Orange._ [MONTAGE OF CLIPS FROM _BARRY LYNDON_ ] Inspired by the idea to make a film about French dictator Napoleon, Kubrick brings us into the Seven Years War as told by William Makepeace Thackeray. Ryan O'Neil's Irish rogue wins the heart of Marisa Berenson's rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England. Kubrick's eye for cinematography shines through as we are invited into the life and tragedies of the mysterious _Barry Lyndon._ [MONTAGE OF CLIPS FROM _THE SHINING_ ] In the following film, Kubrick brings us his vision upon Stephen King's Masterpiece of Modern Horror. Jack Nicholson leads the father of a rocky family heading to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences him into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future. Can the son, Shelley Duvall and Scatman Crothers survive the ultimate exercise in terror that is _The Shining_ ? [MONTAGE OF CLIPS FROM _FULL METAL JACKET_ ] Following up with his seminal Vietnam War epic based on the accounts of Gustav Hasford and Michael Herr, Kubrick assembles a stellar cast as a tyrannical Marine Corps Drill Instructor Ronald Lee Ermey finds his regime becoming undone by one of his own recruits Vincent D'Onofrio. Ermey's training collapses for Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Arliss Howard and Dorian Harewood against the hell of the Tet Offensive. 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You have to listen between the lines to understand this scene. On the Pan-Am flight to the space station, Dr Floyd was the only passenger. As soon as he arrives, he is escorted by a security guard. When he calls home, (1) his wife doesn't know where he is, and (2) he's blowing off his daughter's birthday party (obviously he left home in a big hurry). When his Russian friends try to ask about his trip, he won't give them a straight answer. And on the moon shuttle, Dr Floyd is, again, the only passenger (notice the two stewardesses pointing him out and whispering to each other.) Apart from a courtesy call from the captain, I'm sure the crew was instructed to leave him alone - strictly top secret.
This movie is an excellent example of how one could cut away about an hour of it and you'd still be confused at the end. Good movie though but the soundtrack just doesn't fit -at all- yet still somehow manages to be completely awesome.
