I couldn't stop laughing at this... the image of a bunch of Black Friday shoppers, still in their pajamas, eyes bleary from lack of sleep, slinging $40 DVD players at each other as the theme from 2001 plays over the loudspeakers.
This is how you open a film. This is the kind of stuff that leaves a lasting impression and really sticks with your audience. Kubrick was phenomenal at opening his films and setting the tone.
I saw this when I was young and even at that age the bone sequence really resonated with me. We are shown the most significant event in the history of the planet when that monkey does something no other Earth life has ever done: he _Has An Idea._ Just like that, the game is changed forever.
@Doctor Octagon all those technologies were invented independently by various peoples on the Earth. Metal work were invented independently in africa, middle east and by the Native Americans. The idea that all technologies were invented in a single place is called hyperdiffusionism and widely rejected by all modern archaeologists.
I never noticed until just recently that the leader of the apes who touched the monolith and discovered weapons stands. Different. He keeps his arms to the side and doesn't jump around to show dominance. He moves like a human. It's brilliant and terrifying.
@snitchbstudios “An ape that acts like a human.” Haha that is a human dressed in an ape suit in the year 1968 when apes made it to the silver screen. The introduction of A I The metrics of 1 : 4 : 9
I love how this shows the sudden emergence of conscious thought, of imagination, of reasoning.... "If this bone smashes skulls on the ground, it can smash the skulls of the living animals... and, of course, rival apes."
Actually they took like 2 shots of it because the first one failed and when they got the version that was in the movie they were okay with it not being perfect because all of the crew had major anxiety because of the risks
@@Hampo03 and kubrick, who was safe in a cage shooting the scene, was very worried about the possibility of the animal to kill someone. It would led to the end of the shooting and to the interruption of a project three years in the making (the "Dawn of Man" part was the last to be shot). The mimic who plays the ape wanted to do one more take, but the director refused.
@@SamuelBlack84 as long as there are resources and human greed and etc. war will never stop. even when we go to space it'll be like the new world all over again.
Such a powerful scene. I love how when the monolith shows up, they're all freaking out and afraid to approach it, but little by little they begin to irresistibly come together around it. By the end of the scene, they almost look like religious worshippers huddled around something sacred. Deep stuff.
Nah, it’s a Trump rally! Those are the supporters , uh, worshipers, getting conned into becoming True Believers & then spreading the Conspiracies and the Sacred Covid-19 after the worship service ends.
@@CidYoung-REALTOR me when bring politics into discussion about monkies and the monolith from the scene "Dawn of Man" in the 2001: A Space Odyssey god fuck the internet just shut the fuck up and stop bringing your filthy political pollution everywhere
A lot of films back in the day had a black screen, which would play music called an overture, Lawrence of Arabia had one, while some would just say Overture on the screen like Ben Hur and How The West Was Won.
And thats exactly what we have been doing for 2019 years... but now we beat the shit out of us with guns a bombs.. we humans are a circle... we repeat the same history for millions of years...
This scene is symbolic because the first ape realized that his tribe could defeat another by using weapons. The first battles were fought with sticks and stones. The victorious ape threw the weapon in the air and it became a pen that landed on a space traveler’s lap. Hence, the pen is mightier than the sword because physicists used the pen to develop weapons of mass destruction. The pen also put us space. This scene is magnificent!
No. The bone becomes an orbiting nuclear weapons platform. This is explained in the book. In the movie, three satellites are shown - one USA, one USSR, and one Red China. (In 1968, no one imagined that in 2001 there wouldn't be a USSR). Only after that do we see the Pan Am shuttlecraft and Dr. Floyd's floating pen.
+Federico Pacheco You're so right. That's probably the best cut scene ever. Not including it is either a cruel joke or not understanding the brilliance of it.
0:36 Camera Guy: OMG I think that Cougar is actually attacking him, we should do something Director: No, keep filming, this is great footage we're getting for the movie Guy in suit: *Screaming for help*
Ivent seen barbie but it actually looks pretty cool. If it's turning people onto absolute gems that Kubrick has created, than I'm honestly really happy future generations are appreciating this 😁
People say the stargate scene or HAL is their favorite part of the movie, but mine is when that single ape is looking at the bone and tilts his head. That eureka moment when the music kicks in. Magical. It all stems from that one moment.
Probably would've been cooler if it's an image of a terror bird being clubbed by an ape. To show a almighty predator of that time have finally meets it's match and leads to the end of that age.
@@okamijubei It actually does show that in the book, only it's the leopard, not a terror bird. There's a scene where the leopard tries to attack them in the cave at night and Moon Watcher fights back with his new understanding of weaponry and actually fights the cat off. I think maybe he even kills the cat, but I can't remember, it's been a long time since I read it. The book is quite brilliant.
@@tuanjim799 They all have bones and they beat the living tar out of the leopard, who isn't used to prey fighting back. The leopard panics and bolts out of the cave - forgetting that it's up high on the side of a cliff, with only a narrow path for access - and falls to its death.
I just saw this film for the first time yesterday. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this opening scene. It is amazing to me that something can have zero dialogue, yet have such a massive impact to the viewer.
not really the black obelisk explain that to a 4 year old never meant to be watched by childeren. make your own conclusion what this movie represent and let them watch it when they are 18 and tell them that this movie propelled the sci fi genre to a next level plus its a mindfuck movie . how better can it get
The cinematography in this opening sequence is flat out remarkable. Gorgeous color, composition, and depth of field. That moment of realization, ushered in by a deep and sustained organ note… nothing else like it!
The first time I watched this film I ingested THC tea for the experience. After watching I drove out to an abandoned farm house that is free from light pollution. Viewing Orion's Nebula for the first time since the previous winter, and watching the sunrise, with the film still resonating in my mind ,is a moment I will cherish until the day I die.
I remember seeing this when I was 7 or 8 and being so unnerved I had nightmares. 30 years later and it evokes the same feelings. That is what the best movies do though - they make you feel something.
@@ulysses6863 It is, He is being taught by the monolith that appeared in shot 2 seconds before, how to use the bone as a tool/weapon. This is whole point of the sequence and the whole movie too, I believe.
Trev Johns In Arthur C Clarke’s simultaneously written novelization, the monolith actually tinkers with our biology to introduce the needed intellect. But I like to think that the monolith itself just sparked a rare abstract thought or idea that we were already capable of
tony sabell It sucks that there are people that do not value human life, their OWN lives, they would think of ending their lives, or want to watch the world burn. It’s just evil thoughts that cannot be forgiven. We are our own enemies and we must learn from ourselves and become our friends. That’s how we can gain respect and peace, not by fear or intimidation like these primates have millions of years ago. Scenes like these make me so touched and love humanity, love earth, even with the scary things that trigger my fears, even with the dangerous oceans, the microbial threats, and natural disasters, we still survived and even tamed some of the deadliest. No animal can tame another or anything else like humans have been doing for centuries, for millennia’s
@@MrSebboxxx I've always struggled to say what my favorite piece of music is. But I can confidently say that this one is right up there. It is one of the most powerful pieces I have ever heard, and I like to close my eyes and listen to it without any preconceptions and past uses, including this movie. I get chills every time.
Fun little detail I think I'm the only one who noticed. The first time they attack the lake (1:05) both sides are on all 4 legs. The second time around (7:46), the attackers use their bones/"tools" to help them win. *But they also stand on their back 2 legs and walk around on them, showing a small step of man's advancement.* Just something I noticed that I thought was cool.
i saw it as the future. somtimes in spore when you advance to tribal the moon or a other planet in the background which symbolises the achievments of your species in the future the same happens here
This scene pretty much is the duality of us as a species: flawed (due to our destructive nature) but also flourishing (in our ability to turn an idea into reality)
Greta Gerwig making the analogy to show how Barbie changed the doll industry and girlie entertainment forever when the first one showed up in the market, she's a genius
Agreed. Some say the parody is played out (see History of the World Part 1, Wall-E, others), but I thought she did it really well, with Barbie as the monolith giving 50s girls an entirely new idea, changiung things forever.
@@care9540 That's absurd. What the heck are you talking about? I'm not discrediting her. I just said the facts that both Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig co-wrote the Barbie movie, together.
they butchered it though when the sun went down, the deposed clan huddled together for shelter with fear in their eyes as they hear the sounds of predators in the night before waking to find the Monolith had come to them in their time of need. and the end when the bone transitions into the space station (modern technology). that's the whole point of the scene, edited out.
@@steveweiss7191 IMO it isn't 'entertaining' enough to say its the best film from every angle. It's better than most sci-fis, but most sci-fis suck. IMO something like Back to the Future is entertaining, has broad appeal, and well made in every aspect. Or perhaps The Ten Commandments 1956.
this explanation of the using the tool (and thus standing on back feet) by grabing a carcass bone and thus to have the superiority on a greater number of rival apes ; the correlation between evolution and evil (notice the use of same low angle shot at 7:15 and the exact same angle in A clockwork orange in the Marina scene when Alex fights with his droogs and offers his hand to Dim while taking the dagger out of his stick) is pure genius ! No wonder why Kubrick made a movie on the A-Bomb (Dr Strangelove, 1964)
Well... On a personal level, I believe "higher education" is unfortunately looked up to instead of looking up to education (lectures, papers, articles, and other works... sometimes free material) that brings one's understanding or experience with concepts and ideas to a new level. I do acknowledge that a college or university curriculum forces students to engage in areas of study that might otherwise be overlooked, either out of lack of desire or out of pure accident. Also, primatology is more often overlooked by dudes, so it is a female dominated arena. I have not studied primatology or apes for any lengthy amount of time, but I do have access to technology (sometimes via touch), and I have been using plenty of material provided by graduate schools, undergraduate programs, and sometimes K12 schools to further my insatiable curiosity upon which all effective learning is based. I do admit that I do not have a graduate degree though. The naive, highly curious, mystical and enchanted nature of these apes I do not consider to be necessarily a negative personified trait, providing downward social comparison to juxtapose myself or others with. I do recommend watching the RUclips video with the title "Isolated tribe man meets modern tribe man for the first time - Original Footage full". It provides an excellent example of how a modernized human can communicate (in a respectful nature) to a tribe of people who aren't tainted with all of the ailments and distractions of modern technology. More specifically, that video I just mentioned has the tribe members reacting with great curiosity and wonder towards simple items like mirrors, audio recordings, and various objects. They then share their tools. And thanks for the comment on my comment... I consider it to be a well composed message, especially for the public arena of RUclips. [-Official RUclips Ph.D holder]
This is a timeless scene from a timeless movie. After all these years, this scene still shows well and comes across in all of its profoundness. As another commenter mentioned, these 'early humans' look better than a lot of the modern day CGI stuff.
+Oğuz Bulut The monolith (The rectangular object) is an alien machine that helps species evolve. After the apes interacted with the monolith, they developed tools and soon evolved into modern day man. If you haven't seen the film I HIGHLY recommend it.
I showed this to my film class and we were outraged that the iconic final cut was excluded.... just warning people if you were expecting that transition you won't find it here.
I think this is not only the greatest opening in the history of cinema, but that it is surely one of the most succinct statements on the human condition ever made. No poem nor social scientific treatment has ever described how little we have evolved--that we are really just apes with much more sophisticated clubs as does this wordless bit of cinematography. Thank you for posting this. Now I must watch the movie.
What I mean is that in spite of our technological advancements we are still fighting with each other over land, religion, mates, etc. I hope that our species lasts long enough for our moral selves to catch up to our amygdala--for everyone to have peace, love, and understanding.
@@michaelmisanthrope Props for explaining the point you made 5 years ago, I agree with what you are saying. I think this theme in particular is quite prevalent in the works of Kubrick. The gangs in clockwork orange and the secret societies in eyes wide shut are more similar to the apes shown here than some of us would like to admit.
Neil Pirelli the film is a cinematic masterpiece. I’ve been studying film for 3 years now and what this film does and what it did in its day and age is revolutionary. A lot of hard work was put into it.
***** Man, I haven't the slightest clue. You're better off just googling for an explanation. I'm sure someone, somewhere in some corner of the Internet has answers to all your questions.
+Gunther360 The Monolith is a tool made by aliens used to advance humans through evolution. The first time an ape touched it, he learned how to use the tool, when man touched it millions of years later, he stepped through another piece of evolution and evolved into a higher dimensional being. Some people think he turned into the next "God" helping humans advance.
jose casillas. In the streets of detroit they don't use missiles, as sad as it is humans hadn't achieve the society we want because we keep being pushed back by the ones who still want to act like savages
Yeah and they also cut out when the sun went down, the deposed clan huddled together for shelter with fear in their eyes as they hear the sounds of predators in the night before waking to find the Monolith had come to them in their time of need. Both key elements of this sequence edited out.
This scene is magnificent, but in the original novel by Arthur C. Clarke there is much more going on (several weeks with the monolith), you even get an insight into what the main primate is thinking, i recommend everyone to read it.
Clarke co-wrote the script with Kubrick while writting the novel, so i wouldnt call it "the original novel", the story WAS inspired by one of his short stories, about finding a pyramid on the moon though. This is a weird case where the novel and movie are both their own thing having been created simultaneously.
I also have ALWAYS loved the use of Requiem by Ligeti in this scene. It matches the idea of apes not only seeing a perfectly flat object for the first time in their entire lives but are receiving intelligence and knowledge beyond their comprehension, they just gather around in awe and wonder, as all audio cuts out and we only hear the ghastly alien voices of the choir build to a high climax
This film has always and will always give me a feeling of real awe. Kubrick was the da Vinci of cinema. He was more than just a man. He was an anomaly of artistic history, one that we only see every few centuries.
2:40 Gyorgi Ligeti’s Requiem, second movement. Unless you’ve sung this music (as I have), it’s hard to imagine how a chorus of human voices can produce this sort of sound.
No man you didn’t get it. they are licking it. taking vitamins and minerals from there via sublingual absorption. Mostly Iron. Which is known to be came from Jupiter or somewhere to the Earth. Children who have iron deficiency lick rocks and irons around. Maybe that iron started to increase mental capacity, little by little.
Videos like this send my mind down a rabbit whole thinking of the infinite amount of struggles and misery life has gone through to eventually get to us and the no doubt extreme teetering on the edge of billion year set backs or complete annihilation that thankfully didn’t and hopefully don’t happen until we secure survival on multiple star systems
Assuming we ever do get to a point of colonizing other star systems, human nature being what it is, the possibility of us destroying ourselves is still there, and even if we somehow don't, the eventual heat death of the universe will make it all pointless anyway.
even if you have not had the chance to watch this movie , you have watched it ,after watching it i then realised how much presence it has on nowadays tv shows and movies , how much has been used from it , how much the scenes have been included in other films and tv productions , how much the music was used used in the same way , this movie , no words can describe it , the single perfect sci fi film ever created
The fact that someone has captured this contrast in such a spectacular and breathtaking manner to me is... Truly astounding. To show THE moment in which we evolve as a species, that we can USE tools that will accelerate the evolution of human kind in film is a marvel. It is the tool that gave us the edge, to allow us to hunt more effectively, increase our survivability and expand as a species. It was the first step. I wish the next scene was part of this video too, as that shows the JUMP that we have made as a species. To have gone from bone smashing monkeys in the dirt to the creation of AI and space travel. This in hand with the masterful soundtrack proves to me to be something truly epic. Bravo, and thank you for this piece :)
@@jackpowrie3 My argument is simple, Kubrick made a dozen of masterpieces without Clarke, Clarke none without Kubrick. One compares Clarke´s situation with that of Nabokov or Thackeray and one sees the difference))
@@townsendYT Your argument makes no sense. You're comparing a film maker to an author. How is Clarke nothing without Kubrick? Clarke was a successful author without Kubrick. Kubrick was a successful film maker in his own right. In this instance (2001: Space Odyssey), Kubrick made a great film because Clarke wrote a great story.
Darwanism states we share a common ancestor but we dont come from a primate. It's kind of like spiders and crabs. They are both similar but evolved in different ways. One has nothing to do with the other. Which makes this scene of apes incoherent with Darwinism. But I think Kubrick wanted to portray a mental state. When the apes find the "knowledge" they evolve to something more
All you really need to understand is that one day a long, long time ago, a creature that was an ancestor to primates and humans both got an idea and this idea, whether it was picking up a bone and hitting other bones or whatever it might have been, changed things. The rest is quite literally history.
We do come from primates and are still considered primates, as well as still being considered great apes. We share a common ancestor with the modern apes, but did not evolve from these extant apes. they are our cousins. These scene is coherent with Darwinism, but does not have to be since this film is science fiction.
Ted Fundy nobody in the public would even be able to finish his film.. it appeals only to wannabe intellectual Kubrick fans who have no fun in life apparently.
C'mon, Kubrick did beautiful work providing a look at how long-distance space travel might be accomplished. And this in 1968, long before computers were of any use in filmmaking, and even before man stepped on the Moon. And don't think the Moon landing was a sure thing just a year later; a landing computer failure placed Apollo 11 off course, forced Armstrong to take manual control and find a suitable landing place and to do so with only second of fuel remaining. People took great risks, and even in 2001, success was not a sure thing.
I will never forget flipping this movie on for the first time seeing the black screen with the chaotic orchestra music (right before this) and this scene right after... in 10 minutes you know you’re watching one of the best movies ever made
To anyone who doesn't understand this scene: Basically, the two monkey tribes are competing for resources. One tribe comes into contact with this alien monolith (we can tell it's from an "alien" source because it's precisely cut). The monolith triggers the next step of evolution by enhancing their mental faculties, leading them to start using tools. Having learned to use the bones as tools, they defeat the rival tribe, gain resources, and continue to evolve. Fast forward many years, and there's us, having built space ships. In the latter half of the movie, the monolith appears again. This time, it grants sentience to the artificial intelligence HAL. It starts to disobey orders and makes questions for itself. Again, it's the alien monolith doing things to trigger the next step of evolution. In the end, the monolith triggers the astronaut, and near the end of the movie, we see the signature scene where he sees himself progressively getting older in a room from multiple camera angles. He becomes really old, and then sees himself as this new baby floating on the bed. Then there's a scene with a lot of lights flooding in. This scene is telling us that humankind has reached its next step in evolution - some transcendent form of sentient life - just as human beings progressed from the apes in the beginning of the movie.
Love your comment just wanted to add to the first part. There diet also changes from the use of the bone tool. They now introduced meat into there diet. That extra protein must of made them stronger than there rivals. And is a key turn in mans evolution during the movie.
Thanks for your comment. It has also triggered the introduction of warfare and the idea of using tools as both weapons and hunting. But clearly there is a question, as the leader holds and contemplates the bone, as to which will be more important, as it was in fact or fantasy the first murder weapon.
Teeny tiny correction: it’s not that the monolith triggers the next step in their evolution, it just gives them the chance. The book goes into beautiful detail on this entire opening sequence.
I watched this when i was 9 and remember the music so well i almost shed a tear watching this because of how well stanley kubrick uses sound to trigger emotion and turn a good scene into one of the greatest scenes ever to be shown in theaters
@@buca9696 yes there will. But the world as we understand it will not be the same. The 4th world war humans fight in will be with sticks and stones because the 3rd will be fought with something we have not yet discovered. Possibly dark matter weapons or some form of housing of extra dimensional particles, maybe dematerialisation weapons or who knows? Maybe all of it? It could be that we don't even get to fight a 3rd world war against other humans but rather aliens or ai. Ai being the scarier of the two as we have no understanding of inorganic life as it does not exist here... Yet.
When the ape realized he could use the bone he had an epiphany. Epiphysis is the name of the bone he grabbed and the Epiphysis Gland is your Pineal Gland.
Who else came from watching some news about a biologist found a piece of metal in the desert of utah and they mentioned this movie so they are creeped out about it
Im not creeped out since the monolith in Utah seems to be a sculpture by an artist, but the article made me revisit this scene on RUclips. I’m still not sure what the monolith symbolizes, though.
They conquer and destroy history.. it was here before European ppl came.. own by Indians probably.. notice they have all the history of the world.. research Russia old kings or museum history.. soak it up it’s truth in it... everything on this side of the ice wall is a mystery into we become one again.. everybody is mixed blood.. only the royal family will survive if we continue to ack like race matter it’s blood, there soldiers mixed everybody it’s almost endgame... you taking the vaccine... the queen will die and then the new king will rule... whipping most of the world out leaving few slaves behind look up Georgia milestones... look up the queens/king crowns we at war as a ppl and don’t understand.. USA is mixed blood no nationality we gone die first y’all white privileged running out (blm) wake up ppl after the civil war at home it’s a wrap we all die only leaving them left and the sale outs and ppl who want to slave in there new world... IBM made a commercial years ago do your research about rfid chips for the future to buy goods which is over seas already
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It's crazy to think we could have gone from bone tools to smartphones, space travel, cloning. Yet on Black Friday this shit happens all over again
If you watch a Marvel movie in it's First day in the movies, probally you Will see that again
@The North Rises oh shut up , I can see you're one of those obnoxious people that cannot see past race
The North Rises Ever been to Detroit?
I couldn't stop laughing at this... the image of a bunch of Black Friday shoppers, still in their pajamas, eyes bleary from lack of sleep, slinging $40 DVD players at each other as the theme from 2001 plays over the loudspeakers.
Ironic
This is how you open a film. This is the kind of stuff that leaves a lasting impression and really sticks with your audience. Kubrick was phenomenal at opening his films and setting the tone.
This, and the "shift change" in "Metropolis."
Officer Meow Meow Fuzzyface this has stuck in my head since 8 years I was 5
When I was 8 and first saw this movie I was bored out of my mind during this scene
@@thebutterytoster5721 That's because it's not really a movie for 8 year olds
@@thebutterytoster5721 I think the themes here might be a little too heavy for the average 8 year old
I saw this when I was young and even at that age the bone sequence really resonated with me. We are shown the most significant event in the history of the planet when that monkey does something no other Earth life has ever done: he _Has An Idea._ Just like that, the game is changed forever.
The control of the thinking is the key for a successful life.
Doctor Octagon watching to much National Geographic and Plant Earfs.
@Doctor Octagon all those technologies were invented independently by various peoples on the Earth. Metal work were invented independently in africa, middle east and by the Native Americans. The idea that all technologies were invented in a single place is called hyperdiffusionism and widely rejected by all modern archaeologists.
uncletigger
Agreed.
I think the idea was somehow given to it
I never noticed until just recently that the leader of the apes who touched the monolith and discovered weapons stands. Different. He keeps his arms to the side and doesn't jump around to show dominance. He moves like a human. It's brilliant and terrifying.
@snitchbstudios
“An ape that acts like a human.”
Haha that is a human dressed in an ape suit in the year 1968 when apes made it to the silver screen.
The introduction of A I
The metrics of 1 : 4 : 9
Moon-Watcher was a genius. The others couldn't get it.
Maybe the actor forgot to act like that
ape Ed Witten
@@jonhowe2960 an international treasure
I love how this shows the sudden emergence of conscious thought, of imagination, of reasoning.... "If this bone smashes skulls on the ground, it can smash the skulls of the living animals... and, of course, rival apes."
lol so true
Aaaand there are still apes around…
@@Fellowrser As long as none of them get near a monolith, we're good.
@@Fellowrser What's your point?
@@BiggyJimbo Macaque
How could you miss the bone-spaceship jump?! That's the crux of this entire segment.
Moreover, it is a ICBM delivery satellite.
Crux of the Entire Movie Dritan. The uploader is an idiot. But at least a well intentioned idiot.
Wasn't his fault, blame the studio that cut the scenes onto DVD. They put the chapter break there.
the uploader clearly did not see the monolith
true, the must famous cut ever made.
Knowing Kubrick, he probably filmed the ape-gets-attacked-by-leopard shot fifty times.
Actually they took like 2 shots of it because the first one failed and when they got the version that was in the movie they were okay with it not being perfect because all of the crew had major anxiety because of the risks
@@Hampo03 and kubrick, who was safe in a cage shooting the scene, was very worried about the possibility of the animal to kill someone. It would led to the end of the shooting and to the interruption of a project three years in the making (the "Dawn of Man" part was the last to be shot). The mimic who plays the ape wanted to do one more take, but the director refused.
@@Carlozandre Yes, and well it’s all about the shooting of the production, not human lives! Filmmakers Logic…
Just to get it exactly right
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It’s crazy how we’ve gone from hitting each other with bones to threatening each other with nuclear weapons.
Also to using swatting as a way to get someone unfortunately.
Our capacity for bloodshed never ends
Speed of time by comparison to the opening scenes
The bones got bigger, is all
@@SamuelBlack84 as long as there are resources and human greed and etc. war will never stop. even when we go to space it'll be like the new world all over again.
Such a powerful scene. I love how when the monolith shows up, they're all freaking out and afraid to approach it, but little by little they begin to irresistibly come together around it. By the end of the scene, they almost look like religious worshippers huddled around something sacred. Deep stuff.
It looks like a huge I phone. Now I get it..
I hate that stupid monolith
Nah, it’s a Trump rally! Those are the supporters , uh, worshipers, getting conned into becoming True Believers & then spreading the Conspiracies and the Sacred Covid-19 after the worship service ends.
@@CidYoung-REALTOR me when bring politics into discussion about monkies and the monolith from the scene "Dawn of Man" in the 2001: A Space Odyssey
god fuck the internet just shut the fuck up and stop bringing your filthy political pollution everywhere
@@CidYoung-REALTOR Your TDS is at a level unlikes of which I have never seen before
Grug feel old, Grug remember when monolith first came.
Dammit Grug, we told you to stay dead at the museum
You could have learned to speak properly since then.
These real boom-booms. Grug just dummy zoomgrug.
If grug no remember when trading caves collapse then grug are zoomer.
30000 year old boomer
more like 4 million years old
It’s crazy how they can make a black rectangle feel so ominous.
agree, but its mainly because of the music
@@tsuchinoko01 Even without the music it's still incredibly strange, imposing and pretty creepy. The soundtrack certainly adds to the epicness though
Cause there is nothing in nature that is even close to this in anyway. So it is outta place.
The robot resembles the one in mathew movie.
I ask my self that question each time Apple indtroduces a new iPhone
Ah yes, one of the greatest sci-fi film sin existence starts with 3 minutes of blank screen and a further 9 minutes of
*M O N K E*
The blank screen is the monolith. I always thought
Wait, the black screen was actually part of the movie? Huh, didn’t realize.
A lot of films back in the day had a black screen, which would play music called an overture, Lawrence of Arabia had one, while some would just say Overture on the screen like Ben Hur and How The West Was Won.
Who summoned me
Yes
The Bone of a dead animal becomes the First Practical Tool....and the Survival of Man is Assured.
actually the beginning of the weapon industry.
@@vader8867 the beggining of war and suffering... Thats the sad truth
@Damp Toasted Bread If they were anything like modern apes, then those first three things aren't unlikely actually.
Man's future is equally assured. This is what we are going to return to. Already on our way....
Not without fire
They learn how to use tools and the first thing they do with it is beat the shit out of each other with it lmao.
That’s exactly the point.
This one.
No, the first thing they did with it was eat. Beating the shit out of the other tribe came next.
And thats exactly what we have been doing for 2019 years... but now we beat the shit out of us with guns a bombs.. we humans are a circle... we repeat the same history for millions of years...
@@Cuenta-ry4bm humans have been around for far longer than 2019 years
This scene explained the theme of the entire movie. Fear, discovery, development, violence/war, hope
It explained the theme of man. Of humanity.
@@trellz17 and also it explained existence
Curiosity
This scene is symbolic because the first ape realized that his tribe could defeat another by using weapons. The first battles were fought with sticks and stones. The victorious ape threw the weapon in the air and it became a pen that landed on a space traveler’s lap. Hence, the pen is mightier than the sword because physicists used the pen to develop weapons of mass destruction. The pen also put us space. This scene is magnificent!
The scene of the flying bone cuts to the spaceship or satelite, no pen.
@@quebrandomitos5910watch the scene where Dr. Floyd is sleeping on the spacecraft and the attendant catches a pen and puts it on his lap.
@@deltabravo1969 You're right! It's undeniable that the floating pen is meant to be the (yet-to-happen) fall of the thrown bone!
what a fabulous comment
No. The bone becomes an orbiting nuclear weapons platform. This is explained in the book.
In the movie, three satellites are shown - one USA, one USSR, and one Red China. (In 1968, no one imagined that in 2001 there wouldn't be a USSR). Only after that do we see the Pan Am shuttlecraft and Dr. Floyd's floating pen.
How could you not include the famous cut from the bone to the spaceship?
+Federico Pacheco I know, right?? That's like one of the most famous transitions in movie history.
+Federico Pacheco i would have inserted the monty python parody scene of the spaceship falling back and hitting the ape.
+Federico Pacheco Right? It's the reason I'm here in the first place.
+Federico Pacheco You're so right. That's probably the best cut scene ever. Not including it is either a cruel joke or not understanding the brilliance of it.
+Federico Pacheco OMG I thought the exact same thing just now too!!! haha, Really should have added that transition at least!!
0:36 Camera Guy: OMG I think that Cougar is actually attacking him, we should do something
Director: No, keep filming, this is great footage we're getting for the movie
Guy in suit: *Screaming for help*
The best laugh I've had in a minute!
Oh really?!😹
Kubrick was indeed a mad lad.
That was probably how it going down, Kubrick was purist for realism I think.
that's what I was thinking 🤣🤣
This movie was so ahead of its time that it's still ahead of its time.
Lmao so true. Wish he had gone further than 2001 with the title.
I agree. This movie may have flaws, but it is so original and unique that it doesn't become uninteresting.
No, it is or was not ahead of its time - it reveals things that are timeless and clairvoyant ...
Their is nothing futuristic about this
@@princemichael4708 ahead of its time doesn't mean futuristic
"Barbie movie brought me here" is not something I thought I'd say.
PHHAHA SAME BRO
It's life ..
Ivent seen barbie but it actually looks pretty cool. If it's turning people onto absolute gems that Kubrick has created, than I'm honestly really happy future generations are appreciating this 😁
Yet here we are
Same that was so funny and creative to put in the barbie movie
People say the stargate scene or HAL is their favorite part of the movie, but mine is when that single ape is looking at the bone and tilts his head. That eureka moment when the music kicks in. Magical. It all stems from that one moment.
Probably would've been cooler if it's an image of a terror bird being clubbed by an ape. To show a almighty predator of that time have finally meets it's match and leads to the end of that age.
@@okamijubei
It actually does show that in the book, only it's the leopard, not a terror bird. There's a scene where the leopard tries to attack them in the cave at night and Moon Watcher fights back with his new understanding of weaponry and actually fights the cat off. I think maybe he even kills the cat, but I can't remember, it's been a long time since I read it. The book is quite brilliant.
@@tuanjim799 They all have bones and they beat the living tar out of the leopard, who isn't used to prey fighting back. The leopard panics and bolts out of the cave - forgetting that it's up high on the side of a cliff, with only a narrow path for access - and falls to its death.
Basically the RUclips-comment-section.
LOL So true!!!!
Raahh Roooooaah Raaah oraaah... (clears throat).... I mean yes, indeed.
ON POINT LOL.
XDDDDDDDDDDDDD
You nailed completely
This is like watching some distant documentary from the future... very eerie...
Omg you are so right
I just saw this film for the first time yesterday. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this opening scene. It is amazing to me that something can have zero dialogue, yet have such a massive impact to the viewer.
Dad made me watch it when I was 7 it freaked me out. Now I realise it is probably the best sci-fi movie ever. Cant wait till my kid is 6.
Oh man, same here! i remember watching this and thinking what the hell is going on.
not really the black obelisk explain that to a 4 year old
never meant to be watched by childeren.
make your own conclusion what this movie represent and let them watch it when they are 18 and tell them that this movie propelled the sci fi genre to a next level plus its a mindfuck movie . how better can it get
somot olovo Stealing other people's work? How? You're calling KUBRICK of all people unoriginal?
Yeah, and all the girls loved Davy Jones.
OK, so Disney's "Fantasia" should have landed him in prison?
The cinematography in this opening sequence is flat out remarkable. Gorgeous color, composition, and depth of field. That moment of realization, ushered in by a deep and sustained organ note… nothing else like it!
Wanky Hank's by your deep and meaningful comment, I can tell you're a very intelligent person.
You know I N T E R S T E L L A R also manages the same impact with the same method?
Mindblowing homage by Zimmer
The first time I watched this film I ingested THC tea for the experience. After watching I drove out to an abandoned farm house that is free from light pollution. Viewing Orion's Nebula for the first time since the previous winter, and watching the sunrise, with the film still resonating in my mind ,is a moment I will cherish until the day I die.
I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO.
DEEP AMEN
So TeaHC?
Too real
Nicholas Grimaldi jesus christ. And you couldn't git something in there like "and there's nothing like a horse in full gallop"??
I remember seeing this when I was 7 or 8 and being so unnerved I had nightmares. 30 years later and it evokes the same feelings. That is what the best movies do though - they make you feel something.
The moment when he tilts the head at 6:02 gives me chills every time
Yeah i know, It's like something is awakening on his brain
@@ulysses6863 It is, He is being taught by the monolith that appeared in shot 2 seconds before, how to use the bone as a tool/weapon. This is whole point of the sequence and the whole movie too, I believe.
Trev Johns In Arthur C Clarke’s simultaneously written novelization, the monolith actually tinkers with our biology to introduce the needed intellect. But I like to think that the monolith itself just sparked a rare abstract thought or idea that we were already capable of
That moment reminds me of the moment I decided to get clean and sober 15 years ago. Life has been beautiful for me ever since.
tony sabell
It sucks that there are people that do not value human life, their OWN lives, they would think of ending their lives, or want to watch the world burn. It’s just evil thoughts that cannot be forgiven. We are our own enemies and we must learn from ourselves and become our friends. That’s how we can gain respect and peace, not by fear or intimidation like these primates have millions of years ago. Scenes like these make me so touched and love humanity, love earth, even with the scary things that trigger my fears, even with the dangerous oceans, the microbial threats, and natural disasters, we still survived and even tamed some of the deadliest. No animal can tame another or anything else like humans have been doing for centuries, for millennia’s
I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.
What if Kubrick was the Alien?
Is such a thing even possible?
No, it's a joke on that ridiculous TV show Ancient Aliens.
Robert Miles I know, mang. I was quoting the guy with the crazy hair from that show :D
**HILLBILLY ALIENS FROM OUTER SPACE!!** They're going to steal all our moonshine, for sure! Watch the Skies! (ROFL)
The music says it all no need for dialogue. Kubrick was a Pure genius
Ricardo Quintero films that can pull off a plot with little or no dialogue whatsoever is pure gold!
but without Richard Strauss ? The composer ...
@@MrSebboxxx I've always struggled to say what my favorite piece of music is. But I can confidently say that this one is right up there. It is one of the most powerful pieces I have ever heard, and I like to close my eyes and listen to it without any preconceptions and past uses, including this movie. I get chills every time.
Strauss is the real genius. Kubrick just put it to a film of a fake monkey.
d this scene would be boring without Strauss. The only reason people remember it is because pf the music...
Fun little detail I think I'm the only one who noticed.
The first time they attack the lake (1:05) both sides are on all 4 legs. The second time around (7:46), the attackers use their bones/"tools" to help them win. *But they also stand on their back 2 legs and walk around on them, showing a small step of man's advancement.*
Just something I noticed that I thought was cool.
The sun emerging from behind the clouds as he brings the bone down is symbolic of leaving ignorance behind, i.e. enlightenment.
It’s also a nod to the Eye of Providence, also a symbol of enlightenment.
I always saw it as a new horizon coming from their discovery
i saw it as the future.
somtimes in spore when you advance to tribal the moon or a other planet in the background which symbolises the achievments of your species in the future
the same happens here
Shut up
@@bingo4519 what did he do?
First major battle in the history of man was over a water hole and lasted 10 minutes LOL
Has much really except the length of time and weapons
The only thing worth to fight for, WATER
@Devilman_ I understand you.... with atomic bombs... sad...
Why not let them take too this water and making a fucking party??
The last major battle in the history of man is going to be over the last remaining resources and it's going to last 10 minutes. 🤣🤣🤣
This scene pretty much is the duality of us as a species: flawed (due to our destructive nature) but also flourishing (in our ability to turn an idea into reality)
Greta Gerwig making the analogy to show how Barbie changed the doll industry and girlie entertainment forever when the first one showed up in the market, she's a genius
Noah Baumbach also wrote Barbie movie as well with Greta Gerwig.
Agreed. Some say the parody is played out (see History of the World Part 1, Wall-E, others), but I thought she did it really well, with Barbie as the monolith giving 50s girls an entirely new idea, changiung things forever.
@@ajpat9620 this just sounds like you’re trying to discredit her
@@care9540 That's absurd. What the heck are you talking about? I'm not discrediting her.
I just said the facts that both Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig co-wrote the Barbie movie, together.
@@care9540if anything the original commentator was discrediting her co writer seeing as he only mentioned her
8:59 Man, that was savage af.
Absolute madlad
Mmmmmmm-bish!
Keep in mind that this was achieved long before CGI.
It was just a bunch of guys in costumes
@Guilherme C. Probably teenagers
who would've guessed... you don't need CGI to make good writing. I know, crazy, right?
@@llVIU wtf lol in what way does the comment have to do with the writing?
@Perry Ellis This was the 60's; Detroit wasn't a complete wasteland yet.
In my opinion, this is genuinely the greatest sequence in the history of film
they butchered it though when the sun went down, the deposed clan huddled together for shelter with fear in their eyes as they hear the sounds of predators in the night before waking to find the Monolith had come to them in their time of need. and the end when the bone transitions into the space station (modern technology). that's the whole point of the scene, edited out.
Bruh who cares about ur opinion. Dumbass. You just listed what every other mf in the comment section is saying.
Simply the best film ever made from every angle. And the Time Machine 1960 was also excellent
@@steveweiss7191 IMO it isn't 'entertaining' enough to say its the best film from every angle. It's better than most sci-fis, but most sci-fis suck. IMO something like Back to the Future is entertaining, has broad appeal, and well made in every aspect. Or perhaps The Ten Commandments 1956.
Dawn of Man is without competition.
this explanation of the using the tool (and thus standing on back feet) by grabing a carcass bone and thus to have the superiority on a greater number of rival apes ; the correlation between evolution and evil (notice the use of same low angle shot at 7:15 and the exact same angle in A clockwork orange in the Marina scene when Alex fights with his droogs and offers his hand to Dim while taking the dagger out of his stick) is pure genius !
No wonder why Kubrick made a movie on the A-Bomb (Dr Strangelove, 1964)
I'd say the first 5 or 6 that touch the monolith get all the way through graduate school.
we're you expecting a response like that?
YouDareNotSpeakMyName im confused
youdarenotspeakmyname ... Lighten up, dude.
Well... On a personal level, I believe "higher education" is unfortunately looked up to instead of looking up to education (lectures, papers, articles, and other works... sometimes free material) that brings one's understanding or experience with concepts and ideas to a new level. I do acknowledge that a college or university curriculum forces students to engage in areas of study that might otherwise be overlooked, either out of lack of desire or out of pure accident.
Also, primatology is more often overlooked by dudes, so it is a female dominated arena. I have not studied primatology or apes for any lengthy amount of time, but I do have access to technology (sometimes via touch), and I have been using plenty of material provided by graduate schools, undergraduate programs, and sometimes K12 schools to further my insatiable curiosity upon which all effective learning is based.
I do admit that I do not have a graduate degree though. The naive, highly curious, mystical and enchanted nature of these apes I do not consider to be necessarily a negative personified trait, providing downward social comparison to juxtapose myself or others with. I do recommend watching the RUclips video with the title "Isolated tribe man meets modern tribe man for the first time - Original Footage full". It provides an excellent example of how a modernized human can communicate (in a respectful nature) to a tribe of people who aren't tainted with all of the ailments and distractions of modern technology. More specifically, that video I just mentioned has the tribe members reacting with great curiosity and wonder towards simple items like mirrors, audio recordings, and various objects. They then share their tools. And thanks for the comment on my comment... I consider it to be a well composed message, especially for the public arena of RUclips. [-Official RUclips Ph.D holder]
Or at least they're descendants
This is a timeless scene from a timeless movie. After all these years, this scene still shows well and comes across in all of its profoundness. As another commenter mentioned, these 'early humans' look better than a lot of the modern day CGI stuff.
@jabba da hutt They weren't even apes in the script. They were proto-humans.
Proto humans are apes, humans are apes.
@@treyburro5525 Homosapiens
Planet of the Apes War
This might be the greatest movie ever made as far as intelligence and relevance to the human race. I think everyone should see this movie.
+Oğuz Bulut The monolith (The rectangular object) is an alien machine that helps species evolve. After the apes interacted with the monolith, they developed tools and soon evolved into modern day man. If you haven't seen the film I HIGHLY recommend it.
The monolith is more or less a symbol, a parable for evolutionary steps...
Best bet is to just watch the movie.
Already Did (10000000001 times)
_"If you haven't seen the film I HIGHLY recommend it."_
The problem is that he would probably need the Monolith to understand this movie :q
I showed this to my film class and we were outraged that the iconic final cut was excluded.... just warning people if you were expecting that transition you won't find it here.
I think this is not only the greatest opening in the history of cinema, but that it is surely one of the most succinct statements on the human condition ever made. No poem nor social scientific treatment has ever described how little we have evolved--that we are really just apes with much more sophisticated clubs as does this wordless bit of cinematography. Thank you for posting this. Now I must watch the movie.
How little we have evolved? What?
What I mean is that in spite of our technological advancements we are still fighting with each other over land, religion, mates, etc. I hope that our species lasts long enough for our moral selves to catch up to our amygdala--for everyone to have peace, love, and understanding.
@@michaelmisanthrope Props for explaining the point you made 5 years ago, I agree with what you are saying. I think this theme in particular is quite prevalent in the works of Kubrick. The gangs in clockwork orange and the secret societies in eyes wide shut are more similar to the apes shown here than some of us would like to admit.
We are consciousness itself.
When God leaves his smart phone behind.
Fortunately it's not Note 7.
allah akbar
PeopleCallMe Daddy243 *internet blows up.
After a little trial and error the apes figured out the touch screen interface and within 15 minutes they were all watching galactic cat videos.
Progress!
And...that's about it.
This film is a masterpiece...
It made me depressive this mystic shit.
Is better if you know the philosophie of Nietzsche
A masterclass in how to make a shit movie
Thomas Reid you have shit taste. This movie is true art.
Neil Pirelli the film is a cinematic masterpiece. I’ve been studying film for 3 years now and what this film does and what it did in its day and age is revolutionary. A lot of hard work was put into it.
From bones to nuclear weapons...this film was on my mind after seeing Oppenheimer this weekend. I'll have to see Barbie next.
by far the trippiest movie to exist
You clearly haven't seen The Wall
Appacolypse Now is trippy
Saw on 2 hits of LSD with me bandmates... what a trip haha
Ever seen The Butterfly Effect while high?
The Milk Man I haven’t. Sober tho
Seeing the scene where our ancestors started using weapons still fill me with wonder and awe
+Gunther360 I love the smell of napalm in the morning...
Oh wait, sorry. Wrong movie.
*****
Man, I haven't the slightest clue. You're better off just googling for an explanation. I'm sure someone, somewhere in some corner of the Internet has answers to all your questions.
+Gunther360 The Monolith is a tool made by aliens used to advance humans through evolution. The first time an ape touched it, he learned how to use the tool, when man touched it millions of years later, he stepped through another piece of evolution and evolved into a higher dimensional being. Some people think he turned into the next "God" helping humans advance.
+JRickTV That was an iphone!
New Technology! It works!
Nice to see some things never change... ever after millions of years.
I was just thinking that we aren't as far removed from these guys as we like to think we are.
We aren't, we just use missles now instead of bone fragments.
jose casillas. In the streets of detroit they don't use missiles, as sad as it is humans hadn't achieve the society we want because we keep being pushed back by the ones who still want to act like savages
SparksFly
That's the secret of immortality
Loved the reference to this scene in Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Can't believe whoever edited this clip cut out the transition at the end, it's the whole point of the scene, jesus christ...
seriously 🙄🙄
Yeah and they also cut out when the sun went down, the deposed clan huddled together for shelter with fear in their eyes as they hear the sounds of predators in the night before waking to find the Monolith had come to them in their time of need. Both key elements of this sequence edited out.
Back when thus clip was uploaded, YT vids had a 10 minute limit, so in effect it really was like a cave man with a stick back tjen
I came specifically for it too
This scene is magnificent, but in the original novel by Arthur C. Clarke there is much more going on (several weeks with the monolith), you even get an insight into what the main primate is thinking, i recommend everyone to read it.
Great book. Ik what u talking about with this scene
Yes but with a movie all that has to be condensed into minutes or seconds of imagery,
Clarke co-wrote the script with Kubrick while writting the novel, so i wouldnt call it "the original novel", the story WAS inspired by one of his short stories, about finding a pyramid on the moon though. This is a weird case where the novel and movie are both their own thing having been created simultaneously.
@@dylanthompson8511 Yes, the short story was called 'The Sentinel'.
I also have ALWAYS loved the use of Requiem by Ligeti in this scene. It matches the idea of apes not only seeing a perfectly flat object for the first time in their entire lives but are receiving intelligence and knowledge beyond their comprehension, they just gather around in awe and wonder, as all audio cuts out and we only hear the ghastly alien voices of the choir build to a high climax
I was blown away by this sequence when I watched the movie high ...felt like eternity and I could just watch it forever
This film has always and will always give me a feeling of real awe. Kubrick was the da Vinci of cinema. He was more than just a man. He was an anomaly of artistic history, one that we only see every few centuries.
agree was 1 of a kind
I think there's no movie in history that is more deserving of the title "ahead of its time."
It's like watching my wife's relatives.
HAHAHA
***** I bet you're a fine looking woman.
+Trump 2016 wow...
***** Go back to Mexico.
***** I don't speak mexican.
Who’s here after the monolith was discovered in Utah
I am.
What could it mean
@@Daniel-gt3zy Either a mighty troll or the end of the world. Make a choice. With the way 2020 has gone I wouldn't be surprised if it's the latter.
@@bandname new world order kinda vibe
Me!!
2:40 Gyorgi Ligeti’s Requiem, second movement. Unless you’ve sung this music (as I have), it’s hard to imagine how a chorus of human voices can produce this sort of sound.
Touching the monolith you gain +1 mental capacity
If somebody touched it today what do u think they will learn?
@@spazz8682 what David experienced at the end of the film.
Not only
It gives you also 1000 social credit
@@antonhallergren588what do you think would happen if a gorilla touched it
No man you didn’t get it. they are licking it. taking vitamins and minerals from there via sublingual absorption. Mostly Iron. Which is known to be came from Jupiter or somewhere to the Earth.
Children who have iron deficiency lick rocks and irons around.
Maybe that iron started to increase mental capacity, little by little.
One of the most brilliant moments in cinema history, its not even funny how iconic and amazing this scene is
Why would it be funny? 😂😂
@@titicaca.cus it’s too good to be TRUE
Meh, Andromeda Strain is better...
7:00 ape hitting bones with other bones accompanied by one of the most amazing musical scores of all time
0:01 i like that they used Tapirs in this scene to represent “prehistoric mammals” because they do look like that.
Videos like this send my mind down a rabbit whole thinking of the infinite amount of struggles and misery life has gone through to eventually get to us and the no doubt extreme teetering on the edge of billion year set backs or complete annihilation that thankfully didn’t and hopefully don’t happen until we secure survival on multiple star systems
I would not be so sure about that last part though
Guzmán M. Petit lmao yeah most humans are trash
Assuming we ever do get to a point of colonizing other star systems, human nature being what it is, the possibility of us destroying ourselves is still there, and even if we somehow don't, the eventual heat death of the universe will make it all pointless anyway.
@@JoshuaRWorkman the only escape is time travel or multidimensional noodling.
even if you have not had the chance to watch this movie , you have watched it ,after watching it i then realised how much presence it has on nowadays tv shows and movies , how much has been used from it , how much the scenes have been included in other films and tv productions , how much the music was used used in the same way , this movie , no words can describe it , the single perfect sci fi film ever created
The fact that someone has captured this contrast in such a spectacular and breathtaking manner to me is... Truly astounding. To show THE moment in which we evolve as a species, that we can USE tools that will accelerate the evolution of human kind in film is a marvel. It is the tool that gave us the edge, to allow us to hunt more effectively, increase our survivability and expand as a species. It was the first step. I wish the next scene was part of this video too, as that shows the JUMP that we have made as a species. To have gone from bone smashing monkeys in the dirt to the creation of AI and space travel. This in hand with the masterful soundtrack proves to me to be something truly epic.
Bravo, and thank you for this piece :)
This isn’t actually the way we learned to use tools btw.
You must have been there@@ruthie8785
@@ruthie8785Just imagine if it was
No puedo entender todavía como esta escena logra emocionarme tanto al punto de hacer que me salga una lágrima, gracias por tanto kubrick
It's the dawn, that moment when light floods the darkness.
It happens every day, it is conception.
Lo mismo siento.....te saludo desde Argentina....film obra de arte ,..abrazo
7:00 and so begins the destruction of Earth.
And its glorious.
@@HellishSpoon same music and everything
This movie was WAY ahead of it's time!
One of the best movies to watch while stoned. You just basically go “whoa” the whole time
I’m fucking blowed and I’m trippin
What about lsd
Lex me and my friends did that one night tripping, it was beautiful and hilarious. also went to the iMax showing stoned to the bone
@@mclovinpo you have some cool friends
You Americans... don't you have anything better to do than consume narcotics all the time?
The genius of Arthur clarke and Kubrick
This is pure genius. Thank you Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick.
Kubrick, not Clarke
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@@townsendYTNo source, no film. Thank both.
@@jackpowrie3 My argument is simple, Kubrick made a dozen of masterpieces without Clarke, Clarke none without Kubrick. One compares Clarke´s situation with that of Nabokov or Thackeray and one sees the difference))
@@townsendYT Your argument makes no sense. You're comparing a film maker to an author. How is Clarke nothing without Kubrick? Clarke was a successful author without Kubrick. Kubrick was a successful film maker in his own right. In this instance (2001: Space Odyssey), Kubrick made a great film because Clarke wrote a great story.
My social studies teacher showed us this then never talked about evolution again
Darwanism states we share a common ancestor but we dont come from a primate. It's kind of like spiders and crabs. They are both similar but evolved in different ways. One has nothing to do with the other. Which makes this scene of apes incoherent with Darwinism. But I think Kubrick wanted to portray a mental state. When the apes find the "knowledge" they evolve to something more
@@ericorenato88 "we are apes" Richard dawkins
All you really need to understand is that one day a long, long time ago, a creature that was an ancestor to primates and humans both got an idea and this idea, whether it was picking up a bone and hitting other bones or whatever it might have been, changed things. The rest is quite literally history.
We do come from primates and are still considered primates, as well as still being considered great apes. We share a common ancestor with the modern apes, but did not evolve from these extant apes. they are our cousins. These scene is coherent with Darwinism, but does not have to be since this film is science fiction.
@@degaussingatmosphericcharg575 yes, sorry I misread your comment
Possibly the most beautiful film ever made.
Threedog43 According to whom?
Michael Edwards uh the public?
Ted Fundy nobody in the public would even be able to finish his film.. it appeals only to wannabe intellectual Kubrick fans who have no fun in life apparently.
C'mon, Kubrick did beautiful work providing a look at how long-distance space travel might be accomplished. And this in 1968, long before computers were of any use in filmmaking, and even before man stepped on the Moon. And don't think the Moon landing was a sure thing just a year later; a landing computer failure placed Apollo 11 off course, forced Armstrong to take manual control and find a suitable landing place and to do so with only second of fuel remaining. People took great risks, and even in 2001, success was not a sure thing.
It's a visual lullaby!
One of the greatest movies of all time and one of the greatest moment in cinema history 06:00
Thank you Stanley Kubrick
I'm not usually given reason to say this, but do read the comments. Pure internet gold.
I will never forget flipping this movie on for the first time seeing the black screen with the chaotic orchestra music (right before this) and this scene right after... in 10 minutes you know you’re watching one of the best movies ever made
To anyone who doesn't understand this scene:
Basically, the two monkey tribes are competing for resources. One tribe comes into contact with this alien monolith (we can tell it's from an "alien" source because it's precisely cut). The monolith triggers the next step of evolution by enhancing their mental faculties, leading them to start using tools. Having learned to use the bones as tools, they defeat the rival tribe, gain resources, and continue to evolve. Fast forward many years, and there's us, having built space ships.
In the latter half of the movie, the monolith appears again. This time, it grants sentience to the artificial intelligence HAL. It starts to disobey orders and makes questions for itself. Again, it's the alien monolith doing things to trigger the next step of evolution. In the end, the monolith triggers the astronaut, and near the end of the movie, we see the signature scene where he sees himself progressively getting older in a room from multiple camera angles. He becomes really old, and then sees himself as this new baby floating on the bed. Then there's a scene with a lot of lights flooding in. This scene is telling us that humankind has reached its next step in evolution - some transcendent form of sentient life - just as human beings progressed from the apes in the beginning of the movie.
Well said.
Love your comment just wanted to add to the first part. There diet also changes from the use of the bone tool. They now introduced meat into there diet. That extra protein must of made them stronger than there rivals. And is a key turn in mans evolution during the movie.
Thanks for your comment. It has also triggered the introduction of warfare and the idea of using tools as both weapons and hunting. But clearly there is a question, as the leader holds and contemplates the bone, as to which will be more important, as it was in fact or fantasy the first murder weapon.
Teeny tiny correction: it’s not that the monolith triggers the next step in their evolution, it just gives them the chance. The book goes into beautiful detail on this entire opening sequence.
@@hello11197 Awesome! Thanks for the clarification! :)
I watched this when i was 9 and remember the music so well i almost shed a tear watching this because of how well stanley kubrick uses sound to trigger emotion and turn a good scene into one of the greatest scenes ever to be shown in theaters
The music in the monolith scene sends serious chills down my spine.
Thanks to the German Composer Richard Strauss and his German Opera
7:48 And here, onwards, is the entire city of Manchester.
r/UsernameChecksOut
1:41 the true creator of the dab
Literally dabbing on his haters.
Actual 11/10 masterpiece. Kubrick is a legend.
2004: A Site Odyssey - The Dawn of the Comment Section
Maxwell Farman 🤣🤣🤣
“Describe this video in one word”
Most people: Inspiring, groundbreaking, gamechanger.
Me: *BONK*
I threw a bone up into the air the other day at work and nothing happened....
where did you get a bone
Didn't throw it high enough. You have to really give it a heave-ho before it turns into a space station.
The Frogzilla KFC
Just wait a few million years
Hehe,what a comment,this is for reward
can’t believe 2001 has a Barbie reference that’s crazy
Harambe should have got an Oscar.
dicks out for harambe
HAHAHA FANTASTIC FUCKING MEME IM DYING
@Phil Harris they're not prehistoric humans you dumbass. They're hominids
What the fuck is a prehistoric human anyways. Either way RIP Harambe
Sigmund Freud get cancer virgin
Interesting how it starts with the little things....
“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
- Albert Einstein.
There will not be a 'world' war if the technology regresses back to sticks and stones.
@@buca9696 yes there will. But the world as we understand it will not be the same. The 4th world war humans fight in will be with sticks and stones because the 3rd will be fought with something we have not yet discovered. Possibly dark matter weapons or some form of housing of extra dimensional particles, maybe dematerialisation weapons or who knows? Maybe all of it? It could be that we don't even get to fight a 3rd world war against other humans but rather aliens or ai. Ai being the scarier of the two as we have no understanding of inorganic life as it does not exist here... Yet.
When the ape realized he could use the bone he had an epiphany. Epiphysis is the name of the bone he grabbed and the Epiphysis Gland is your Pineal Gland.
Who else came from watching some news about a biologist found a piece of metal in the desert of utah and they mentioned this movie so they are creeped out about it
Hahahaha got me.
Im not creeped out since the monolith in Utah seems to be a sculpture by an artist, but the article made me revisit this scene on RUclips. I’m still not sure what the monolith symbolizes, though.
Not creeped out ....probably an old movie prop or a wannabe artist creating some derivative stuff to make people go....Hmmmm...!
They conquer and destroy history.. it was here before European ppl came.. own by Indians probably.. notice they have all the history of the world.. research Russia old kings or museum history.. soak it up it’s truth in it... everything on this side of the ice wall is a mystery into we become one again.. everybody is mixed blood.. only the royal family will survive if we continue to ack like race matter it’s blood, there soldiers mixed everybody it’s almost endgame... you taking the vaccine... the queen will die and then the new king will rule... whipping most of the world out leaving few slaves behind look up Georgia milestones... look up the queens/king crowns we at war as a ppl and don’t understand.. USA is mixed blood no nationality we gone die first y’all white privileged running out (blm) wake up ppl after the civil war at home it’s a wrap we all die only leaving them left and the sale outs and ppl who want to slave in there new world...
IBM made a commercial years ago do your research about rfid chips for the future to buy goods which is over seas already
What if we actuallt return to monke
The only movie with a colon in its name that's ever worth a damn. Stanley Kubrick, I owe my life to you.
booty butts 4 has a colon in its title
Who’s here after Utah helicopters found a monolith in the middle of nowhere? 11/24/2020
Me 😅
There can only be 3 after that Surrey all out
wow what an incredible tribute to the Barbie movie! kubrick really had some great influences
Deepest movie scene ever
8:38
Defeated Ape: "Oh, this is new..."
Apple users when a new phone comes out
No one who saw this film in 1968 will ever forget that experience. It was a revelationary movie for future directors like Lucas and others.