1/11/2024 0 Comments Opening theme 2001 space odyssey![]() ![]() Well, a bunch of actors dressed up in furry costumes and prosthetics. We’re a few minutes in when my partner, sitting next to me on the couch, asks if we can watch this at 2x speed. ![]() Some people had warned me that 2001 is pretty slow-moving, but it is slooow-moooving. We slink from shot to shot of the landscape. (It’s “ Also Sprach Zarathustra,” by the German composer Richard Strauss.) The sun rises over a flat, grassy plain. The movie kicks off with orchestral music that you’ve probably heard whether or not you’ve seen 2001, a heart-thumping and foreboding melody, with that dramatic bum … bum … BA-BUM. (If you’re suddenly compelled to watch 2001 first, you can rent it for $3.99 on YouTube.) Even though the movie has been out for 54 years, I feel a duty to warn you that there are major spoilers ahead. What follows is my real-time reaction to watching 2001 on a recent evening, edited for length and clarity. Surely a space reporter should see it-and surely a reporter should take notes. The 1968 film is considered one of the greatest in history and its director, Stanley Kubrick, a cinematic genius. This is an enormous oversight, apparently. But I have never seen 2001: A Space Odyssey. ![]() I’ve seen people blast off on rockets with my own eyes. I’ve watched a livestream of NASA smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid on purpose. I’ve watched footage of a helicopter flying on Mars. As the outer-space correspondent at The Atlantic, I spend a lot of time looking beyond Earth’s atmosphere. ![]()
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