2001: A Space Odyssey "Star Gate" sequence

[@MicahFleischman]

h o w d o y o u m a k e t h i s i n t h e 6 0 s

[@kushgoddoe]

Around 2 years to make.

[@billymays5175]

Slit-scan, aerial skyshots, etc. The slit-scan alone took several months to do, almost about a year, and litteraly almost nonstop shooting.

[@SteelShroom256]

Kubrick found a way.

[@chialaboof7229]

This is the most boring shit I've ever seen.

[@Andrew-zb8fn]

because youre 12

[@Charlie-us8rm]

I cant explain why but the monolith just completely scares the life out of me, its subtly terrifying

[@owenhorecny9596]

maybe the fact that it's silently observes and cause humanities, birth, death, and transcendence?

[@Lorlic1138]

+Edward Charles You really want your mind blown? The monolith has the proportions 1x4x9. All 3 were different sizes yet it was always in that ratio. Now get ready for this: that's the same ratio of a movie theater screen. A lot of fans suggest that its meant to mean that we are essentially watching the movie through the monolith itself.

[@Sektion9]

+Lorlic1138 Wow...that's the most meta thing i've ever heard.

[@ewan.cartwright]

+Lorlic1138 1x4x9 was actually just the squares of the first three intergers (1^2=1, 2^2=4, 3^2=9) But I really *really* want to believe this theory.

[@faterock9876543]

+TheRecreator It also comes from the fact that this movie is sort of an Anti-Propaganda Propaganda movie. That comes into play with the Monolith as the Movie Screen level of the film. That's why there's monolith music over the black beginning, intermission, and after the credits, we're looking at the monolith filling the screen, about to present us with the movie. In an early draft of the script the monolith had images showing on it that would instruct the apes, but it was cut for being too blatant.

[@darmus8928]

1:28 that image of Dave in pain as he experience something far superior than anything that he ever experienced caught me off my guard.

[@Patrix8558]

funnily, done only so they could stitch two stargate shots together without one too obvious cut

[@plasticweapon]

he's not "in pain". there's no description for what he's experiencing.

[@noahletwinski6955]

​@@plasticweapon the most logical explanation would definitely be fear and being absolutely terrified by what he is experiencing before being put in the French room by the aliens.

[@MyNameIsOzymandias]

I thought he fell into a black hole and froze to death when I first saw this scene. Terrifying.

[@KSxGUAPO]

This right here is real horror, even though this isn't a horror film.

[@elijahd.techgnostic]

Cosmic horror, as H.P. Lovecraft would put.

[@amethysttgame]

It is. These kind of movies that scare you like this are called Thrillers.

[@patoniku4300]

Obviously This is a romance film in the sense of reaching to unknown.

[@21minute]

This seems more like an existential horror.

[@scitsalcoryp]

fuck horror ......

[@bloopy6166]

When you accidentally take an extra flintstones vitamin

[@micheledipierri]

Ottimo esempio di cinema sperimentale

[@xxcinemaxx]

Ha

[@bobdavis4848]

When I was a child and Flintstones watcher, I made sure my folks only got me a different kind of vitamin, because I was afraid eating one would force me to say "yabba dabba doo!" like the boy in the commercial. So it's probably a good idea I did not see this great movie until many years later on a VHS tape.

[@PrivateerJimmy]

not funny kid

[@MapleMaf1a]

​@@PrivateerJimmyyes it was. Go be miserable somewhere else.

[@jahscnviv]

Nothing will EVER recreate the feeling of watching this at 2-3 am for the first time, no words can describe it

[@BattlerUshiromiya01]

Watch Twin Peaks Season 3 Episode 8.

[@ychopek]

3 am on the clock, just watched 2001:Space Odyssey first time. You're absolutely right

[@actionsub]

Only thing that might surpass it is watching this clip through VR goggles where you're totally immersed in the scene.

[@ouijapcb]

@@actionsub Ambient backlight on the monitor works just fine.

[@majesticfool]

I adore the frozen shots of Bowman's horrified face. Such a fantastic scene.

[@azathoth0820]

he was more like when you're on a cosmic roller coaster, but at the speed of light

[@channingbloom7125]

That's my brain dealing with college algebra.

[@worldofhunter1636]

Well I think it's scary

[@StanleyLikesCyan]

I don't know how you adore those shots but for me it's terrifying in two ways A. It just shows us how much Dave is going through this weird time gate B. Just the brief appearance of a disturbed/disturbing face appearing at random moments accompanied with ominous music is just straight up terrifying and creepy I'm sure some people can agree

[@MattPryze]

@@StanleyLikesCyan that's why it's great

[@0Paronomasia0]

I can't be the only person that felt massive anxiety throughout this scene. Seriously.

[@awkwardartistarchive4826]

Nope. I'm right here with you 0~0

[@MaximilianoChirino]

I know right, when I first watched it I was screaming to stop.

[@3uujh656]

0Paronomasia0 Why the fuck did you feel anxiety

[@TheRealDElkan]

me too. i felt like i was tripping!

[@Sorrowdusk]

Anxiety of I dont know....Lovecraftian MADNESS. That's what I feel.

[@varuntalwar7246]

I mean, what did we do to deserve such a MASTERPIECE? It's flawless. Absolutely flawless.

[@Sokobansolver]

This scene somehow felt much longer in the actual movie than the video of just this scene.

[@5jerry1]

~ It is longer in the movie; it goes into the room where the floor is lit up and Bowman ages, etc.

[@fungifago]

I remember watching this half sleep years ago. It felt like it lasted hours and I was very disorientated when the film ended

[@5jerry1]

Buddypal ~ I don't get your point. The original post said this scene seemed to be much longer in the actual movie. It was, as this scene continues. It has nothing to do with the monkeys at the beginning of the movie, it was about this particular sequence. This clip stops before the entire sequence ends.

[@starwarsroo2448]

@Smokey 420 people would die

[@starwarsroo2448]

@Smokey 420 in VR, 3D and in a vibrating chair

[@nickch_80]

I don't think any other movie since has captured the fear of realizing how small humanity is in the universe like this. Interstellar tried but 2001 still freaks me out!

[@Valleyraven007]

Interstellar was a movie about hope though, this is purely existential horror

[@zemxxi2765]

@@Valleyraven007 Interstellar was trying too hard to win Oscars. 2001 couldn't care less about that.

[@mavenowa]

@@Valleyraven007 boo ....denied

[@milkwalker.pngv2]

when you rub your eyes too hard

[@wanamawan6249]

Underrated

[@HoustonRoderick]

💀

[@rr7firefly]

It's amazing how terrifying the still shots of Dave screaming were when I first saw this movie (and are still unsettling). Then his blinking eye in solarized color -- Dave trying to fathom what is unfolding before him. Kubrick was a genius in every aspect of this cinematic landmark. Update June 2024: seeing this sequence now brings back how Dave was shaking violently as he flew through space at super high velocity. Having that experience would have killed most of us, I think. Being an HSP, had I seen this in an IMAX as a kid I would have been traumatized.

[@WKADESIGNS]

Thank you for mentioning the still shots, a lot of people in the comments seem to have glazed over them. It makes the whole experience twice as uncomfortable, knowing that the character we're holding onto for dear life is losing his own grip. It's terrifying, and genious editing.

[@luthermcgee4412]

His eyes blinking with those colors in my opinion was the prelude to his recapitulation(rebirth) he was living his life within a moments time seeming ready to die, then being reborn into the indestructable starchild.

[@NeatherBen221]

The shots of Dave's face and the solarized eye scenes were actually meant to be transitions. I think that they did a good job.

[@thaterasound]

The eye shot is probably the new enlightened david

[@hextarvigar6905]

Go through something like that and try saying it wouldn't reduce you to screaming madness and I'll call you a fucking liar.

[@Samuel-b]

Without a doubt one of the creepiest scenes from a non horror film.

[@JackoBanon1]

Samuel Black Yeah man, I was fucking scared when I saw that scene for the very first time.

[@largol33t1]

Samuel Black Um, why did you find it creepy? When I saw this the first time, it blew me away and left me speechless. I was even more shocked to learn that the movie was filmed in the very late 1960s. This truly is the grandfather of modern sci fi films.

[@averageo2343]

+Samuel Black It is a horror film.

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

+Samuel Black 50th like dude!

[@ciro_costa]

+Samuel Black it`s not creepy it`s beautifull

[@BelleEmoFuss]

just image the intensity of watching this on the cinema at its first screening back in the 60's...

[@hebneh]

I did, at the age of 14. It was marvelous. There had never been anything like it in movies before.

[@SamShortzYT]

@@hebneh That must have been one hell of an experience!

[@Future_Phoenix]

@@hebneh I'm so jealous.

[@jlcotton19681]

In 70MM too...

[@RockyRailroadProductions_B0SS]

I always get a strange feeling when this scene comes on. I have no words to describe it accurately. It's this strange goosebumps, endless dark corridor, echoing voices, cold feeling.

[@alucarda4357]

I just watched this last night and this is the most surreal thing I have ever seen in my entire life

[@noahclark7603]

I rented this movie last night. Believing if anyone could decipher it would be me and my buddies. We thought wrong.

[@Spaceopticsguy2010]

This scene is truly horrifying. Dave knows he is never going home, is going God knows where, to meet up with God knows what. I saw this movie in the theater when I was 8 years old, didn't creep me out then but it does now. Still hands down the BEST science fiction movie ever made.

[@niebuhr6197]

Only Kubrick is mad and brilliant enough to put a 10 minute psychedelic image footage on a film and still finding logic where there's only no sense. Only Kubrick.

[@paperbag1259]

Niebuhr And also David Lynch.

[@luthermcgee4412]

Hardly mad, but i get your point.

[@Guitcad1]

And there's no indication that he ever did drugs! I do have to wonder, however, if he ever partied with Salvador Dali.

[@crimsondynamo615]

Imagine being someone in the audience who decided to drop acid before this scene happened

[@tastyloaf5487]

@@crimsondynamo615 Allegedly, after the premiere, a man came up to Arthur C. Clarke and gave him an envelope of powder, saying "This'll give you a great trip" or something like that. Clarke flushed it down the toilet!

[@miguelpereira9859]

This is perhaps the closest Hollywood has gotten to Lovecraft, the monolith just screams cosmic horror.

[@johnduncan4387]

Miguel Pereira this was filmed in England except for the helicopter shots and a scene of a couple in a car that plays on a tv screen which was filmed in the outskirts of Detroit.

[@jimtreebob2096]

John Duncan it’s still an American movie made by an American director.

[@johnduncan4387]

jim treebob I think he was using Hollywood as a blanket term for the English speaking film industry

[@peterjoyfilms]

@@johnduncan4387 It's not a useful term though

[@ripplegaming7393]

I think people who like soad also like Stanley :)

[@wrctube]

Doctor: You have ten minutes left to live. Me: Let me watch the Star Gate sequence.

[@stealthunter14]

How it feels to chew 5 gum

[@stormcloudtheory]

+stealthunter14 Stimulate your senses....

[@damnjoon2808]

+stealthunter14 that would be such a cool advert!!!

[@EugeneOneguine]

Omfg hahahahaha ! I lost it to your joke thank you.

[@jeremiahdemiurgos1505]

stealthunter14 I

[@thesatanosaurreigns2448]

Did they put a high dose of LSD in the gum?

[@LetsPlayGames2Day]

Kubrick is the greatest imagrey-based director in cinema history. A tremendous shame he died early.

[@JohnBinarBrainClaim]

LetsPlayGames2Day This iconic director died right after he warned us (Eyes Wide Shut --> content of his last movie)

[@andres65080]

+LetsPlayGames2Day I think that Kubrick, Bergman, and Tarkovsky, are without a doubt the greatest imagery based directors, without question.

[@paulaannajackson6542]

+Brad McIntosh many black people die at around 50. So 70 IS a long life. WTF

[@uyy7uhy]

+Paula Anna Jackson How do many black people die around 50? And Stanley Kubrick is white so what is your point?

[@paulaannajackson6542]

uyy7uhy he lived a long ass life. many people dont live nearly that long.

[@torinshaw1084]

2001 A Space Odyssey is peak Ambition when it comes to any work of cinema or art. To create this with such primitive tech is mind boggling.

[@Noodles37UK]

This is when art gets scary

[@cloverthesilenthorse5928]

ikr

[@eardrumbuzzer4672]

Isn't that what "art" is all about?

[@cloverthesilenthorse5928]

Eardrum Buzzer ikr

[@slateflash]

The best art is always disturbing

[@DeepScreenAnalysis]

Art should always challenge us. If it just gives us pleasure it's not really art, it's a facade.

[@LeeliusSounds]

When it's still dark and you have a long drive ahead to work... And you are tired as shit.

[@hectordanielsanchezcobo6457]

Leelius lol

[@nedd.8479]

Possibly the most beautifully shot scene in film history.

[@ELHIPPO]

Yes all movi have shot scene beatiful

[@eclipsesonic]

This whole sequence is transcendent. The first time I watched it, I felt something akin to an out-of-body experience. It's unlike anything I've ever felt before, but man was it mind-blowing!!

[@TheAXXELLALAN]

Dude, I experienced the exact same thing. I truly went beyond the infinite, it was like a meditative, mystical state.

[@TheAXXELLALAN]

I was in a mystical state from beginning to end of this film. If you watch it correctly and surrender your whole mind and eyes to this film, you will have a spiritual orgasm.

[@smash016]

eclipsesonic You'd think they took some keta when designing this part of the film, or some other dissociative psychedelic. If it's an allegory of anything, it's that. At least judging from my experiences with psilocybin and others' reports of ketamine.

[@smash016]

***** I think I know what you mean... The nervous system acting as a filter by default, right? With psychedelics removing that filter. As much as I like the idea, especially from a disenchantment perspective, I don't believe it's true. But maybe that's the thing... we can never be sure about what's real and what's not, so we might as well believe in the things we like, that soothe us most. Create our own truth. If that's more satisfying to us, then it is truer for all intents and purposes. "Dissociative" merely means the mental experience gets disconnected from the physical. It doesn't hold a negative connotation by itself.

[@smash016]

A more sober way to put it, yes.

[@gcHK47]

Now I know what that monolith was: The Biggest Dose of LSD in the Universe!

[@oxowl23]

+gcHK47 Kids thats how LSD was created

[@TheAxlrose44]

Dude nah DMT helped Kubrick create this

[@user-zl5gi8sv7u]

+gcHK47 Not. Even. Close

[@PMW3]

+gcHK47 all these squares make a circle.

[@ewan.cartwright]

+gcHK47 Believe it or not, 2001 didn't do too well in the box office until all the young people found out about this sequence and started to buy tickets just to watch it whilst they were high.

[@YaleKolin]

Jeez, those still shots of Bowman's terrified face kinda give me the creeps...

[@johnmalonejr.5962]

@Bee Zo I think he was just moving so fast through everything he didn't really have any control over his facial expression. I mean it's a basic human being like you and I traveling at probably light-speed if not faster through the cosmos. He was aware of what he was seeing for sure, probably just moving too fast and in too much of shock to not look scared. His face was just stuck basically.

[@marlonmosley]

I noticed years later he pukes twice. The speed.. the visual..alchemy. Im almost certain Dookey was additionally present.😲

[@bibniebt]

I miss Kubrick. He was a visionary artist decades ahead of his time. Just imagine what he could have accomplished with modern technology

[@gloinsonofgorin8617]

SnivyDroid , Eleventh Oscars

[@derdritte7957]

My God, i can't hear this "ahead of his time" anymore. He's more ahead of our time than of his time, the sixties were THE decade of visonary artists.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Yeah, CGI was'nt technically that good when it comes to movie making. Except Pixars and Dreamworks. Also, most of Speilberg's film from now was decent and has more CGI that maybe unique in different ways (e.g. Ready One Player where all of the references of movies and video games were fighting each other even Kubrick's films like The Shining). But sadly, we have many explosions and lack of greater tone and CGI must have took over Hollywood. Maybe because Hollywood does'nt allow practical effects to live on because it's not all about money but it's all about things that they say it's "dangerous" and "curse" like Wizard Of Oz, where behind-the-scenes looks tragic as well as Poltergeist. And now, practical effects is'nt safe for actors especially with dangerous materials. And this is how CGI was made... to keep the actors safe from harm. And no one got hurt during the behind-the-scene stories. But I agreed with both modern and practical technology. It was just sad that movies really sucked except most Pixar films nowadays. Pixars does'nt need practical effects to make good movies. This made the animated studio looks like a stop-motion studio other than a CGI that we know we in love.

[@gjw000]

Christopher Nolan has made some epic movies

[@kogucior35]

He could finish Napoleon just imagine that

[@scottnevard1277]

the creepy music for the first minute and a half of this scene gives me goosebumps and makes for great tension!

[@ikshields]

scott nevard - (Music by Gyorgi Ligeti, for those of you scoring at home.)

[@zonesquestiloveunderworld]

The use of Ligeti's "Atmosphères" for this scene was utterly inspired. Perfect choice, especially when combined with that ominous low electronic drone.

[@yat_ii]

It's pretty shocking that he didn't even ask Ligeti for permission though

[@jonathaniel1337]

This scene shows that the Universe is too complex for the human brain to understand.

[@monsieurcandie8894]

+Yoruba Nationalist i always felt that way

[@felixbachiller3550]

+Yoruba Nationalist Or Stanley Kubrick was in LSD.

[@blastromlifyedah]

+Yoruba Nationalist The answer to life, the universe, and everything is............. ......42. THIS VIDEO EXPLAINS THE TRUE MEANING OF 42.

[@MrTherocket127]

+Yoruba Nationalist That's a simple way to explain such a complicated meaning. I like it.

[@MrTherocket127]

***** Unless you're joking, you're not a good listener. This scene represents all the studying done to space and how in the end we will still not understand some things. It's not the scene that's complex it's the idea they're teaching us.

[@mrm64]

This would scare me shtless, based on the fear of the unknown..like, holy crap, I'd be screaming maniacally...

[@mrm64]

***** Yup, same here! The experience is otherwordly, so I couldn't even fathom a correct emotion :s

[@stevencoardvenice]

almost as moving as Jimmy Cameron's titanic

[@patriziopaez6311]

I see you here in yet another outlandish video! And agreed, who knows what you're looking at, and what will become of you ultimately. What must be tearing through your conscious, assuming that were still intact...

[@DemonWarp65]

Absolutely. And I would be like well. i guess i csn kiss esrth goodbye.

[@youarelife3437]

DemonWarp65 This scene introduced me to Kubrick and so...I knew my life purpose.

[@calciumchloride710]

"Requiem, for Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, 2 Mixed Choirs & Orchestra, " - Track: 03 from 2001: A Space Odyssey - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1996 CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered) Music by György Ligeti Performed by the Bavarian Radio Orchestra Conducted by Francis Travis

[@CaptainMorgan_CommanderPotts]

I'm in eighth grade this is what Algebra One feels like

[@3uujh656]

Lavernius Tucker what

[@jameseggeman4102]

i feel ya brother

[@henryolsen6248]

Try differential equations. While at the same time taking computer science (coding). You do not know pain. PS, Algebra 1 is easy.

[@platenoise256]

Seventh grade Algebra 1 "Oh god its full of stars!"

[@juandiegoprado]

Jazz Funny enough I'm putting off those two things so I can watch this video.

[@jhibbitt1]

this is my favourite scene in the movie. because its so powerful and for just imagery of the universe it gives u so many ideas. what i find most interesting is that dave is seeing the whole universe and all its complexities, most people would find that idea beautiful and most movies would think of that as a magical scene of wonder. this movie shows that idea to instead be horrifying. dave's terrified senseless at seeing the whole universe and maybe that's more realistic as human beings can only understand so much. i could be wrong but i think he's being captured by aliens here right? they use the monolith to transport him through a tunnel? this scene also feels like an analogy of what wild animals go through when taken out their environment and into a world filled with imagery and concepts they're incapable of understanding. must look something like this to them when they're taken into a building or through a city.

[@ikshields]

Personally, I've never felt comfortable when people keep trying to pull literal "aliens" into explanations of this movie. I know that Arthur C. Clarke's book(s) indulge in detailed technical explanations, right down to painfully geeky constructions like giving the apes cute spacey names like "Stargazer". But Kubrick saw something very different in this material -- something only a film can do. He saw the basic shape of a fever-dream that covers the lifespan of the entire Human race -- a piece of visual and musical poetry that needs no explanation, but goes straight to the back of any brain that lets it in. Kubrick showed no aliens in "2001", and didn't need to. The presence of a higher intelligence that haunts the film could just as easily be emanating from the deep mind of Man, or from the vast universe itself, as from any particular little green monsters. Frankly, my feeling of awe and wonder is eternally thankful that Kubrick made this decision, and left Clarke's rather conventional sci-fi fascinations far behind.

[@SEMIA123]

+Ian Shields we never see the aliens, though. Hell, they're barely even explained, there's 3/4ths of a page with a bare bones bare bones history, a name, a motive (the propagation and protection of intelligent life motivated by cosmic loneliness) and...that's about it. It doesn't matter if you're uncomfortable with it, something built the monolith and Bowman fell through a Stargate. Clark never made it cliché little green men, in fact he avoided it by making the aliens completely absent until 3001 jumped the shark. Personally, think the book (the original book with the monolith orbiting saturn, not the movie-redux version) is better than the film, but the film is still a masterpiece.

[@tommyb4628]

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[@luthermcgee4412]

It's my favourite too. In fact i came to yutube to see it.

[@paulmahony280]

Great insight. Very interesting..

[@russs7574]

I saw this movie in a theater 56 years ago. It is still the best science fiction movie I've ever seen. Kubrick was a cinematic genius....remember, he did this with absolutely no CGI.

[@Supreme896]

Best film ever made

[@sammencia7945]

I agree. It is my #1. Special effects, musical score, open ended narrative. 1966 he made this. Just a stunning achievement

[@ezelkir]

What I like with this sequence is that it's long, nightmarish, dissonant and incomprehensible, which is I think the point of the whole thing - Bowman is seeing the infinite, he's seeing true divine, something that he cannot comprehend, something that he should not be seeing... and that we shouldn't, either! Here the spectator and the protagonist view the action from the same perspective; the narrative point is brilliantly made.

[@-septimus-345]

What makes the whole thing horrifying is that he was left completely alone, as the only survivor of the spaceship, incredibly far away from any other human being, travelling towards a strange planet, where no man had ever been before, seeing things totally different from any previous experience.

[@TheHesseJames]

That's why I could relate when I was all by myself in the big cinema at the age of ten.

[@c0l1n_m45]

I first saw 2001 when I was 4 years old. My parents said that I couldn't take my eyes off the screen and I never got bored by the slow pacing. I remember thinking the ending was both horrifying and visually stunning. It left me thinking about it for many, many, many years until I watched 2001 recently. This film has definitely changed my life and how I think about things.

[@bombergal1]

This movie was so ahead of its time.

[@bluegorilla1014]

Still is today

[@FreeKentHovind]

"Groundhog Day" (1993) is a timeless movie too..... ;-)

[@kiloechocharlie5415]

+Bluegorilla101 true so much crap today couldn't even compare...

[@alicekliewer]

bombergal1 Ahead of what time? Do you really think if it was released now it would receive a different reaction? It would probably be even more negative because of how fast paced everything has become. It wasn't ahead of its time, it just is another part of art innovation in history.

[@RIOT690]

I like this scene because it showed a greater realm. I feel like this astronaut saw the beginning and end of the universe, he saw the true nature of existence, and observed fractal beings observe him from what Stanley Kubrick tried to show us were perhaps four dimensional beings. He experienced perhaps the evolution of life on Earth, and how eye sight slowly transformed and evolved to pick up greater wavelengths until now.

[@Yusefinas]

+Revrot Cubrick?

[@RIOT690]

*Kubrick, thx.

[@cybernautadventurer]

Quite a lot for someone to take in

[@justinwood8276]

I'm sorry what one more time in English this time

[@SolarisPi1]

"A greater realm." I like that, and everything else that you say. There seemed to be a tribute to life as well. Was that sperm shooting forward? Life itself, which cannot be defeated if given the most minute chance?

[@maheshs4056]

The pictures and the music work together to take you on this journey through the realm of the universe. And that violin burst at 7:30 is just amazing!

[@ianbeck73]

Nearly 50 years old and makes every sci-fi movie since seem puerile or lightweight. A couple of exceptions, maybe.

[@Bravilor]

@Laleen Darshika Grandpa knows best.

[@JeffreyBoles]

@Laleen Darshika Wow, nice

[@Professor_Utonium_]

@jubjub 86 Give examples, please. Not arguing, I just want good movies to watch lol

[@Professor_Utonium_]

@jubjub 86 Sci-fi, specifically things like 2001 or Interstellar

[@cutepuddleslime8201]

Maybe another exception could be the movie, Gravity? Otherwise, I know what you mean.

[@dixieflatline8750]

One of the best things about this sequence is that it doesn't matter if you "get it" or not. It's almost pure qualia. Sorta like a condensed version of Tarkovsky.

[@averyegregiousdinosuar9196]

This gave me an existential crisis

[@andrewcruz7595]

IT GAVE US ALL EXISTENTIAL CRISIS 😅😅😅

[@dallas9397]

@@andrewcruz7595my guy this comment is 7 years old

[@brotherkellymatthewbarnes8882]

@@dallas9397 "I'm as old as I am I suppose." - Old Man (Played by Peter Ustinov 1976)

[@vittoriafoxy3472]

I believe it was meant to do that

[@burgerswithgoys9905]

"Human being is just a bridge between ape and super human." - Friedrich Nietschze

[@CephlonMayngrum]

he is literally, physically the highest human to have ever existed. no one has been further.

[@hopelessent.1700]

I saw this just a couple of hours ago for the first time. Perhaps the most impressive moments in the film i have seen. Besides the other countless epic shots I absolutely loved this sequence...

[@bunnybgood411]

One of the greatest film sequences of all time. I saw it in Denver in 1968 when it first came out.

[@MrYulienskate]

It's a shame I didn't see this at a movietheater.

[@SlamifiedBuddafied]

There was this little dollar theater in Kansas City, MO (gone now sadly) which on Mondays and Tuesdays would show older films on the big screen. Was fortunate enough to see this there and wow! If you've ever the chance to hunt down a theater like that, even if you have to drive hours away, it is worth the experience in every way possible.

[@blueside714]

+SlamifiedBuddafied I just saw this last week at the Hollywood Bowl with the LA Phil playing the Strauss and Ligeti pieces live. It was utterly transcendental

[@kuribayashi84]

+SlamifiedBuddafied I saw it once in a Theater, fittingly enough in 2001 during the films limited reissue. And wow... I can still remember how quiet, even awestruck, the Audience became when the Stargate-Scene started! :O

[@superrmrcool]

+WolfMonsieur i think the next best thing would be ridley Scott's new film The Martian I was an ass and got to lazy to even go and watch Interstellar which was a big mistake considering it's one of the best space films we have, and a big shame on my behalf. Alien Prometheus The martian Interstellar 2001: A space odyssey By far the best space films ever made you can include Star Trek too depending on who you ask

[@TruthinessChibiOtaku]

That would have been a transcendent experience.

[@grandbluepianistofthesky9469]

I like this movie. It's unlike alot of other science fiction movies. It builds up an eerie, mysterious atmosphere out of almost nothing ( just the silence of space ). Many science fiction movies use spooky music to heighten the suspense of their scenes, but this movie uses the silence of space and the unnerving calmness of the characters ( especially in their dire circumstance ) to make us feel a little uneasy. I like how there are no aliens seen in the movie, although they technically are in the movies plot, they are unseen. That's a good thing, at least for me. I never personally was interested in the idea of aliens or the hope that we aren't alone in the universe. I like the use of classical music instead of an original score, it just seems to fit the movie. The characters also are my favorite characters in any science fiction movie. They don't have annoying panic attacks in dire situations and they don't show any fear. The HAL 9000 computer is a far better villain than any other in history and sets the rather eerie ( though soft ) tone through nothing more than a red light staring dead at the viewer. His voice is calm and monotonous in every line he speaks. It doesn't rise or fall, even when he turns against the crew, No he may not be the most memorable or engaging villain for many, but in my opinion he does more to make me feel uneasy than say, the Joker.

[@arekusu.]

Heffman55 Tomlinson From what I understand, Kubrick used those classical pieces because he said satellites spinning in space reminded him of twirling dancers in a ballroom during a waltz.

[@tvsilex1830]

Probably one of the most beautiful and profound scenes in the history of cinema and human experience with the essence of being.

[@maya-kc3wf]

what goes on in my head during class

[@thespacedinos4037]

The eerily loud chorus just suddenly stopping at 1:27 when Dave’s horrified face pops up and is replaced with a low, deep humming is one of the scariest transitions I’ve ever seen

[@ThisbeofBabylon]

"I"ve seen things you people wouldn't believe". That's what i kept thinking while watching this video.

[@IronMan-tk8uc]

Roy Batty meets Dave Bowman.

[@vinnym6734]

It’s just unbelievable. Kubrick, with this one sequence here, demonstrated his place as an important filmmaker/artist/human. We all remember our feelings watching Kubrick’s films for the first time. Man oh man, I’d love to experience that again.

[@trollhunter8842]

In the director's cut there's a millisecond timer that slows down and then just stops because he is traveling so fast that time stops.

[@bagggers9796]

What other differences are there in the director's cut?

[@trollhunter8842]

@@bagggers9796 That's the onloy thing I remember from the laser disc which I watched over 10 years ago. I have never seen that cut again.

[@eardrumbuzzer4672]

No Question.One of The Best films of the 20th Century!

[@adamtimmo875]

Wrong. It's the best film of all time!

[@eardrumbuzzer4672]

Well, yes.But feature films were a product of the 20th Century more or less....It will stand the test of time.

[@profblack]

+Adam Timmo No, Avengers Age of Ultron was better.

[@adamtimmo875]

LOL

[@eardrumbuzzer4672]

The 3 of us should meet up and watch this film together, go have a few drinks afterward and talk about what we just saw.

[@moonknightproductions]

Effects depo: What effects do you want boss Kubrick: YES

[@user-uo8mx3cv5k]

This is how your pet feels when they've only been in your house their whole life, then you take them with you in a car ride.

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

My God. It's full of stars.......

[@kolbytriplett4644]

Apparently, MGM was planning to pull this movie from theaters as it was not proving to be a financial success until several theater owners persuaded them to keep showing the film once they noticed there were an increasing number of young adults attending the film who were especially enthusiastic about watching this sequence under the influence of psychedelic drugs, and this is what helped the film to become a financial success.

[@srb-ef3zs]

Poor Dave. How alone he must have felt. Brave man.

[@ech78928]

I remember watching it in the theater, confused, scared, yet strangely hypnotic to the nature of the scene. It is just so damn brilliant. A scene that encapsulates cinema at its purest.

[@bastienpabiot3678]

In the theatre it felt like 30 min, now i realise how short it really is

[@Pontius888]

This sequence is fucking insane, my brain melted down when I saw it for the first time, just epic!!!

[@arekusu.]

I'm scared, Dave.

[@notsureiL]

Kind of ironic Hal got his revenge. I guess Dave was scared now 😱

[@crimsondynamo615]

We all are

[@professionalsoccerplayer]

Don't be..

[@snowconesolid]

One of the most well done and important scenes in film history every done especially for its time. True artistic brilliance. This scared the shit out of me the first time I saw it.

[@TheAXXELLALAN]

This film literally put me in an altered state of consciousness.

[@fowreeeeeeeel]

I always cry when i see this scene, it is so unexplainable, the horrifying realisation that humanity is nothing compared to the universe, we are just dust, the realization that the aliens are in control of us. Humanity being created in the image of unknown creatures, hopelessness and fear.

[@nandreas]

The music makes this scene creepy and a little unsettling.

[@terioncase6457]

Ikr

[@cooljackster7390]

Atmospheres by György Ligeti

[@Guitcad1]

Yes, as others have said, it's 'Atmospheres' by György Ligeti, who never gave permission for it to be used, and indeed didn't know it had been used until after the movie came out. I'm not sure if he got anything from it.

[@IronMan-tk8uc]

That's the idea.

[@davebowman314]

This scene is death and rebirth. They say sadness is wall between two gardens. David sits on the wall

[@baeyensraphael3902]

The soundtrack is what makes this scene so unsettling. It was created to illustrate how panicked and confused the astronaut was when penetrating the "star gate"

[@rennerfreire4806]

I've just read the book and this part is so incredible that makes you cry.

[@haz0816]

Me exploring the NSFW parts of fandoms

[@willsherman1049]

I did see it in 1968. London premier. I was a boy of 14 and fell in love with sci-fi and all its dreams. There really was nothing like it.

[@scitsalcoryp]

No one has even come close to making a movie as awesome as this . If this is all You seen...... by all means You need to watch the entire movie ..........

[@John-uw2je]

I usually don't speak like this, as I like to be literal in my wording, but my God this was made in 1968? I legitimately believed for years that this was made In the 90's or even 80's, but 1968. One year before the moon landing, jeez.

[@jamesr.2017]

Sorry, what? What’s your proof? The technology to fake it LITERALLY DIDN’T EXIST YET

[@williamarnold9821]

Anyone who thinks the moon landing was fake is just stupid and not worth the time

[@jamesr.2017]

Also, I know that sounds old, but Star Wars was released only 9 years after this.

[@peekonsandy2773]

The only true science fiction movie that I can think of as well as the greatest. It's not war in space, or romance in space, or chase scenes or comedy in space. It's pure.

[@JuliaJuissi]

I was absolutely terrified when I saw this for the first time. I just wanted this scene to end soon because I was scared as hell. And those paused frames of his face in this are so terrifying.

[@AJ.429]

I never understood the Ending. I had 2 different ending explanation theories but none of them was correct. one of them I have already shared, the other I will share with you. I thought when HAL killed one of his friends, He somehow could "Warp drive" too Jupiter. it turned out he could not, he just entered a Black hole (Which is stupid because no Holes exist near Jupiter and would take him to a different universe, Perhaps Parallel Universe) in it he flew into an E.T Space Station that Looked like a Mansion home of some sort. Inside the E.T'S never had any Physical forms, they could only take on his form or manipulate his mind into believing they were many of him. in this lack of confusion, it seemed he was stuck in the No-Time forever, his ship will eventually run out of FUEL. inside he has become Psychological damaged. The lack of Earth's atmosphere and Oxygen has fried his brain. The aliens was the ones who allowed HAL to have consciousness. as the astronauts seem to turn on "HAL" the aliens are working against the cosmonauts. They killed his friend and now it's his turn to be imprisoned. they allowed him to see only so much of what he was experiencing and perhaps to allow to see the room for "Not how it really looked, but perhaps the way his home looked on earth" it was all to confuse him even more so. in doing so, he was being experimented on (Probably even strapped down) but his mind was elsewhere. it was stuck in the Paradox of illusion. he was already dead at this point, and this only helped to strength his hallucinations. he was truly a lost soul in space. since Heaven and Hell doesn't exist in the movie, you don't get to see it when you die. what you do get to see is something more of a Pantheistic wonder. you get to see not just yourself when you was a baby, when you 6, 9 , 12 simultaneously etc, you start to see the earth, other planets, everything that ever existed doing everything it has done, will done for time immemorial. you have transcended to the Highest Dimension. at one point, he will transform into GOD. (which isn't a man, it's just the state of being everywhere simultaneously) Universal Consciousness etc. and then he will transmute into another body hence reincarnation and be. a Starseed back on earth or as an E.T on another planet. this behind the scope of the movie so it ends here. the sequel moves on to another storyline.

[@purpleglitterladette]

Same it's the music and the overwhelming colours

[@Brandonhayhew]

Greatest film ever, made in 1960 without CGI, this film is ahead of its time.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

Released in 1968..so not made in 1960 !

[@Ljordan093]

“My God, it’s full of stars”.

[@Sue474]

How mindblowing it is to realise that the first time I saw this I was 14 years old and couldn't know that I would see it again in 2019 at 65 years old, on a device that hadn't been invented when I was 14.

[@goncaloamaral_5010]

Why can't I feel my legs after watching this?! Seriously, what the hell

[@KevinHuangPhasorQuantaG]

As mindblowing as this must have been for audiences back in 1968, I think I may be even more mindblown now at the end of 2023 because I have no idea how they achieved this without CGI.

[@jasonhunter8560]

When I first watched this on TV back in 2009 (I was 9 at the time) I actually thought the movie came out in 2001. A few years later I was shocked to learn it came out in 1968. This movie was waaaay ahead of its time!

[@Bronco541]

that scene from Twin Peaks season 3 episode 8 is totally a mini tribute to this.

[@Marc-zi4vg]

i have an idea: lets turn this scene into the most pc demanding benchmark ever created, complete with Ray tracing and cpu rendering

[@davidthomas3826]

Kubrick was a genius at telling more than one story using the same narrative. He often used visuals as metaphor to make statements about power, power structures and hidden history. But 2001 takes his story telling to new heights as he invites us to read alternative stories that are explicity spelled out loud to the audience

[@zacguapo7391]

A wormhole to the Star Wars galaxy… That’s why we see Bowman’s EVA pod in Watto’s shop in The Phantom Menace.

[@alanbareiro6806]

"Can I go back in the Kubrick?"

[@silverdrag0n_]

stop

[@blastromlifyedah]

no

[@rowenawesome2156]

yep

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Kubrik: You are in!!!

[@acommonfbiagent6444]

" *HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHHA* "

[@joeclark1621]

This movie changed everything and set the standard way too freaking high for sci-fi film making and this scene is a prime reason for that. The visuals are just stunning.

[@AtticusKiser]

Gives me chills every time. VIOLENT chills.

[@gialinhnguyen2897]

I noticed that when the light shine on Dave's face, it actually mimick the apearrance of a monster, or perhaps a demon of some sort.

[@charlesrae3793]

I remember seeing this in the summer of 1977 in Brighton, on holiday. I walked out into the sunny day stunned by what I had just witnessed. I still consider it one of the most impressive film sequences I have ever seen. The match of the eerie Ligeti music is perfect for this uncanny and unsettling, not to say terrifying spectacle.

[@SuperBargav]

Does anyone see womb at 4:47 and sperm at 5:10 ..? appears clear in HD . this video was not that great quality

[@Hotdogwaters]

Hey, I don’t want to get into too much but i felt this whole movie was metaphor for describing the unknown like what comes before or after life and this sequence felt like justification upon first watch because I too saw that sperm and egg

[@jamesr.2017]

I thought that was a baby’s head.

[@blotterdowney8075]

this scene is so magical. this is the only thing that makes sense of the existential dread i think we all feel. our existence is so terrifying and we are so small. we are so unbelievably small and insignificant. we are here by microscopic chance, every single one of us. and we are doomed to realize our mortality. if there is a greater power out there they have chosen to leave us in the dark. we are so alone and confused and simple. sometimes i wish we never had to exist in this way. i just wish we had more answers.

[@herakleitus]

9:22 yet through the seemingly arbitrary “cosmic horror” (the eye color changes) the higher intelligence brings Bowman back, psychologically shattered but as we see in the following scenes, the hero who has fully risen to meet the “Gods’” challenge.

[@Gar96229]

Even with all the different diverse music and astounding visual effects movies have become today, this scene is still incredibly intense. Imagine watching this in the 60’s, in an era where My Fair Lady And Sound of Music were considered recent Hollywood masterpieces!

[@AHHHHHHHHHHHHl]

This scene always helps me whenever I can't fall asleep