movie story 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
In a sere African landscape, a set of ape-like hominids and a few tapirs compete for the meagre inexperienced plants. A leopard assaults an ape. Whilst one organization of apes is consuming at a waterhole, any other institution techniques; the 2 companies scream at every different and one party is driven off. At night the apes huddle in worry among the rocks. Inside the morning a tall, skinny, rectangular black monolith stands the various rocks. The apes are excited however touch the object and calm down. (Soundtrack: György Ligeti's "Requiem.")
An ape (Daniel Richter) lifts a femur bone from a skeletal pile and realizes it makes a satisfactory weapon. (Soundtrack: "accordingly Spake Zarathustra" once more.) The ape realizes that it is able to spoil different bones with the club. Three turning factors in evolution occur simultaneously: proto-people discover ways to kill with weapons, to seek the usage of weapons and devour meat, and to walk upright. Club-sporting apes method the group that drove them faraway from their waterhole. The club-carriers bludgeon the alternative institution's alpha male to demise and chase off the relaxation. The successful alpha male throws his club and it spins into the air.
TMA-1, or the Monolith at the Moon
(No name card introduces this section of the movie)
The spinning bone segues to spaceships above Earth. A Pan-Am space trip methods a massive spinning space station, its revolutions mirroring those of the ape's spinning bone. As a single passenger dozes in his seat, a flight attendant with Velcro shoes recovers his floating pen. The go back and forth pilots cautiously match rotation and steer the go back and forth into the station's valuable docking bay. (Soundtrack: Johann Strauss' Blue Danube waltz.)
Dr. Heywood Floyd (William Sylvester) meets an antique pal in the arrivals lounge. They undergo a voiceprint safety test wherein Floyd identifies his vacation spot: the moon. The men chat; Dr. Floyd has a connecting flight in a single hour. Floyd calls domestic from a video payphone booth and talks to his younger daughter (Vivian Kubrick), whose birthday is the following day. He is sorry he will miss her birthday celebration but asks her what sort of gift she wishes; she asks for a bush-child. The fee of the decision is $1.70.
In the Hilton lounge, Floyd stops to speak with a few Russian scientists on their way back to Earth. While Floyd mentions he is going to Clavius, the Russians say no person has had touch with Clavius for 10 days and there are rumors of an endemic. Floyd says he cannot speak the problem and goes on his way.
A smaller spaceship techniques the moon. A flight attendant serves meals trays that include many cubicles of liquid nourishment labeled with photos -- carrots, peas, and so forth. Floyd sips his meal, talks in brief with one of the flight officials, then contemplates the long list of instructions for the 0-G rest room. He watches the moon method. The craft lands in a domed landing pad then descends underground to the principle complex, all over again to Johann Strauss' stately Viennese waltz.
Floyd is brought to a collection of humans in a convention room. He congratulates them on their discovery. He attempts to explain the need for secrecy and the epidemic cover story. Floyd has come to get extra records and write a file for "the Council."
A commute skims over the lunar landscape. Inside, Floyd and scientists enjoy sandwiches and overview the findings. A magnetic object was discovered and excavated. They're now not positive what it's miles, handiest that it become intentionally buried 4 million years ago.
On the dig website online, a tall, thin, black rectangular monolith -- same to the only the apes encountered -- is examined by six people in spacesuits. (Soundtrack: György Ligeti's "Requiem" once more.) As they pose for a picture the object emits a noisy, excessive-pitched noise and the astronauts clutch their heads in ache.
Jupiter mission 18 Months Later
A protracted slender spacecraft moves through area, its parabolic antennae pointing backwards. In the crew compartment, Dr. Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood) jogs around the artificial gravity wheel. Alongside the slim hall fashioned via the threshold of the wheel, he runs past paintings stations, communications gadget, and five huge, coffin-like lifestyles help chambers with glass covers. Two are unoccupied and three keep white, sarcophagus-fashioned pods containing hibernating contributors of the group.
Frank is joined via Commander Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea). The 2 guys have a meal and watch a BBC news video from earlier that day. The news report is ready them and their ship, the invention, eighty million miles from Earth. The file mentions the 3 astronauts who are in hibernation to store air and food; they'll be wanted at the vacation spot for a survey. The 6th member of the team is the HAL9000 laptop, which could talk and mimic the human brain. The newscaster interviews Dave and Frank collectively after which speaks to Hal (Douglas Rain), who states he is foolproof and incapable of mistakes.
Frank catches a few UV rays on a tanning mattress and watches a video birthday greeting from his mother and father. Hal also wishes Frank a glad birthday. Frank and Hal play chess -- Hal wins. Dave sketches and shows his art work to Hal. The computer expresses a few problem approximately the project and secrecy. Hal then announces there may be a trouble with the AE-35 unit and it will fail with a hundred% certainty inside seventy two hours. Dave and Frank talk the hassle with venture control; they want to "pass EVA" (out of doors the deliver -- more-vehicular activity) to replace the unit. Dave is going out in a spherical EVA pod to the parabolic dish antennae inside the center of the long deliver. He leaves the pod and swaps out the black box from a service panel.
Later the two astronauts test the eliminated AE-35 unit however cannot locate any defects. Hal suggests putting it returned in carrier to permit it fail. Task control believes Hal has made an mistakes due to the fact their HAL9000 unit, a twin to the one aboard Discovery, unearths no flaw within the AE-35. Hal says that similar issues within the past have always proved no longer to be his fault ("it could simplest be due to human blunders") and denies any danger of computer blunders. Dave and Frank go to a pod to have a personal chat under the ruse of looking at a communications problem.
Dave turns off all of the pod's communications switches and the two guys share their issues approximately Hal. If the AE-35 unit does not fail as expected, the astronauts decide to disable Hal's better capabilities with out disturbing the automated deliver manage functions, which Dave says will be difficult to do. Dave also wonders how Hal will react, due to the fact no 9000 unit has ever been disconnected before. Hal can see the guys thru the pod's window and reads their lips.
This time Frank goes out inside the EVA pod. As Frank methods the dish assembly the pod sneaks up at the back of him. Suddenly Frank is spinning off into area fumbling for his air hose, that's disconnected, and the pod is drifting in the other direction. As Frank tumbles away, his voluntary moves sluggish and stop. Dave is going to the pod bay as Hal says he would not know what befell. Dave makes use of a pod to recover Frank's frame. Whilst he is away, a pc malfunction alert is going off and the existence signs and symptoms of the three hibernating astronauts flat-line. A show reads "existence functions terminated." Hal refuses to open the pod bay doorways for Dave, explaining that he is aware of Dave is planning to disconnect him due to the fact he turned into capable of read Frank and Dave's lips after they discussed it. He says the mission is too essential to permit human beings to jeopardize it. Dave says he'll return to the deliver via the airlock; Hal replies that Dave will locate that difficult without his helmet -- which, certainly, Dave forgot in his hurry to move after Frank. Hal ends the verbal exchange.
Dave releases Frank's frame and maneuvers the pod to the emergency airlock hatch. He makes use of the pod's hands to open the door, then traces up the pod's hatch with the outlet. Dave holds his breath and jumps over to the deliver, where he's tossed round by escaping air earlier than he is capable of near the hatch. Now in a helmet, Dave goes to the laptop room and climbs into an get right of entry to compartment. Hal pleads for himself as Dave pulls crystals from the memory middle. Hal's voice receives decrease and slower as he sings "Daisy Bell" (Daisy, Daisy, give me your solution do, i'm half of loopy desirous about the affection of you), and fades out as he's completely close down. (Hal's overall performance is a nod to a speech synthesis task at Bell Laboratories wherein an IBM 704 become programmed to sing the same music.) all of sudden a video display comes on and performs a recording of Dr. Floyd explaining the secret motive of the challenge: "that is a prerecorded briefing made prior to your departure and which for security reasons of the very best significance has been recognized on board all through the undertaking best with the aid of your HAL9000 laptop. Now which you are in Jupiter's space and the complete group is revived it could be instructed to you. Eighteen months ago, the primary proof of shrewd existence off the Earth turned into determined. It became buried 40 feet below the lunar floor near the crater Tycho. Except for a unmarried very powerful radio emission aimed at Jupiter, the 4-million-year-vintage black monolith has remained absolutely inert. Its beginning and reason are still a total thriller."
Jupiter and beyond the endless
Near Jupiter, some other black monolith floats a number of the many moons. We hear György Ligeti's "Requiem" once again. Bowman leaves the discovery in any other EVA pod. Because the monolith and moons align, a psychedelic light display starts offevolved and the pod enters a wormhole to the tune of Ligeti's "Atmosphères." Dave sees a series of oddly-coloured landscapes as though he was flying over them. The pod ends up somewhere in time and space in a bed room with a luminous white ground and furniture inside the fashion of Louis XVI. Dave gets out, now a trembling gray-haired man. Next door in a in addition styled rest room, Dave seems at himself in a reflect. Back within the bedroom a person is sitting at a desk eating. It's Dave again, now a lot older and dressed in a darkish velour robe. Old Dave has a drink of wine; the glass falls to the floor and breaks. Any other man lies sleeping at the bed. It's miles a nonetheless older Dave, who stirs and increases an arm. The black monolith appears in the middle of the room. Dave is transformed into a fetus in a sac. Floating in area, the huge open-eyed fetus -- the big name baby -- gazes on the nearby Earth. Soundtrack: "accordingly Spake Zarathustra."
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Trailer
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