Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Opening Scene of 2001 A Space Odyssey

[@Jpmarcellino]

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a book for "All and None" by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche where the prophet Zarathustra proclaims to the world that God is Dead. "Also sprach Zarathustra" is a tone poem by Richard Strauss - the song. What is happening to the "ape" (when human consciousness is first formed and their first act is to make a weapon and kill each other) speaks more to the book. Zarathustra states, "Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Overman." This is our beginning, "we" are in the middle of evolution and the "ubermensch" is the end. from the book: "You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes." "What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going." A Space Odyssey is a Nietzschean film During World War 1 most German soldiers heading to the trenches had a copy of the Bible in one pocket and this book in the other. seeing a lot of Barbie comments - #Fbarbie

[@tenisalot]

The music was inspired by the book! The entire book! The entire Strauss piece is 35 minutes long! And you are wrong absolutely about the German soldiers...the book was little known and gradually became more read, AND NEVER WIDELY!

[@edbramfitt2300]

draw me a sheep 🐏

[@Quwucuqin]

One of the greatest mind Friedrich Nietzsche

[@kullervo2844]

It's almost odd to see this posted by a craftsman of your caliber. Makes sense though since you obviously have the heart of an artist, so it stands to reason that you would have a deep, thoughtful understanding of it's meaning. I often come back to this piece, specifically the performance by the Berlin Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan. It's available on here, though the DVD or Blu-Ray is worth the purchase for the sound quality. Kubrick actually chose this piece for 2001 after hearing Karajan's recording. I find the very end of the tone poem to be so moving because of how delicate and innocent it sounds (to me). Reminds me of Leonard Cohen's lyric of "Dance me to the children who are asking to be born". The very end of Strauss' tone poem makes me think of a soul (consciousness) trying to will itself into being. I'm just an amateur violinist, but I use it as a way to actively engage with and hopefully better understand works like this. To me you're similar to a great luthier, so you have all my respect. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on it, and your work is absolutely breathtaking. Cheers, mate.

[@Jpmarcellino]

@@kullervo2844 I apreciate this comment and your insights especially "of a soul trying to will itself into being" very profound. I'm looking into Karajan. btw I have 2 degrees in philosphy and have studied Nietzsche and others extensivly. lol. Violonist, that's awesome, I play guitar and collect Gibsons, i wish I were a luthier

[@BonBonShrimp]

The scene showing the change from the bone to the spaceship is one of my favorites of all time. Never gets old.

[@jclfreitas]

It's one of those "well, that escalated quickly" moments.

[@LuckyBaldwin777]

Man first discovering tools and instantly starts using them for violence. That's always seemed close to the actual truth to me.

[@carinhall4508]

@@LuckyBaldwin777 , any human invention can and will be weaponized. It's been that way since the dawn of man.

[@thumperpaul155]

@@carinhall4508 Q-tips?

[@alpha-omega2362]

@@thumperpaul155 yeah, they could be dipped in poison and placed on some one's tongue,,,soo.. really anything can be weaponized. In fact wasn't that how people used to "drop acid".......

[@Danimal1177]

Moon-Watcher soon realizes that he is now the master of the world. He is unsure of what to do next, but he will think of something.

[@Anti-FreedomD.P.R.ofSouthKorea]

Is this a local58 reference

[@Danimal1177]

@@Anti-FreedomD.P.R.ofSouthKorea It was a quote taken from the book. I am unfamiliar with Local 58.

[@aakkoin]

Imagine if you got some magical skill to be like Moon-Watcher, and to compose like Strauss

[@eamonnmulhern2332]

We always think of some think

[@eyeprops5422]

Primate man threw a weapon/bone in the air, defying gravity, and thousands of years later, down came a nuclear satellite. Classic sci-fi poetry.

[@KSmith-pu2ge]

Millions of years later.

[@rev.markcarrier1894]

I saw this when it came out. I was a kid. People left the theatre very quietly when it was over. No one had ever seen anything like it and no one was sure what had happened at the end. My father took me to see it and we went with some of his friends. They and my father all worked at NASA.

[@konundrum3678]

Science explains 99.9% of things........but not everything!

[@danielstone9404]

From what I understand via Kubrick's wife in an interview, Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke were extremely pleased with how accurately they anticipated a lot of the technology of the day (when NASA put out promotional films on their equipment & expertise).

[@Shendue]

@@danielstone9404 Arthur C. Clarke was a bonafide genius in reading scientific and societal trends. He anticipated a lot of stuff. Several sci-fi writers did, but he was particularly impressive, IMHO. It should also be noted that the process works both ways, tho. Several modern technologies were inspired by sci-fi. Cell phones, for example.

[@63IRISH63]

They probably realized they could never do the moon landing as good as Kubrick on NASAs budget at that time.

[@emilgilels]

@@Shendue Arthur C. Clarke came up with the idea of geosynchronous orbits for satellites! 🙂

[@mar10ssj1]

Fancy way of saying "started from the bottom and now we're here."

[@lawsonj39]

Seldom in the history of cinema has there been a more magnificent combination of music and image.

[@apostalote]

Only one film is better...Barry Lyndon-Kubrick at the height of his powers truly

[@raptsullivanstew1919]

I agree 100% - It belongs in the league of concepts that can not be eclipsed.

[@chenlee3240]

yep thats how boring the movie was.

[@PGSH]

If ever.

[@dixi936]

There is equally the final duel of the good the bad the ugly which have a perfect image/music combinaison.

[@u2mister17]

My older brother and his friend took me a 13 year old kid to the first showing at a downtown theater. 70 mm, 3 screens, 3rd row balcony......Magnificent.

[@andrewlabat9963]

More said in a couple of minutes, with no words, than in most movies.. Absolutley Epic is the scope of this scene..

[@JugSouthgate]

This film holds the record of being the "talking picture" with the longest delay between the start and the first spoken words ("Here you are, sir"). 45 minutes IIRC

[@robertphillips2769]

You better believe that when people first saw this, and this particular scene (among others), it blew their minds. Kubrick was a genius, and this is one of my favorite films of all time.

[@robertphillips2769]

@paul w What do you expect from "critics?"

[@robertphillips2769]

@paul w Pretty funny dude. I mean, really funny. This film has been hailed by many as among the most brilliant of all time, and unique among all science fiction films, and your viewpoint is your own. I stand by my original statement. It blew people's mins. No, they didn't understand it. Maybe they still don't. Do you?

[@robertphillips2769]

@Canis Lupus I get it. As a 12 year old kid I was totally dazzled but also totally baffled. After watching it numerous times, and in the context of a lifetime of investigation, it is certainly one of my favorite films.

[@robertphillips2769]

@paul w I understand your point but it came across as quite disparaging. I know a lot about this film and its production ... and more than just that. I said this scene blew people's minds, and I don't think that warranted such a dismissive comment about how people didn't like the movie. Maybe they didn't. The scene blew their fricking minds, HAL blew their minds, the ending blew their minds. I think that's a fair statement, and I'm not shy about "the public domain" particularly in this age of overt "political correctness' about any opinion offered.

[@robertphillips2769]

@Canis Lupus The ending, and the movie in general, deals with the evolution of pre-human to super-human (the fetus at the end is astronaut Dave Bowman, reborn just in time to save the human race ... this is not obvious in the movie). The theme also deals with the evolution from just surviving extinction due to the discovery of tools/weapons, to the modern human world where that distinction remains fuzzy, and the world in spite of its dramatic technological advances is teetering on the brink. The abandonment of human control to machines (HAL the computer) proves disastrous, but you see Dave Bowman unplug that machine, plunge into a world of alien beings and even illusion (the rooms and bedrooms, ever aging old man), perhaps even into the very roots of human creation - with the ever reappearing monolith as a kind of portal, or symbol, connecting humanity with this 'other' race. All very symbolic, and magnificently produced even if still mysterious. The story to some extent could be interpreted as a telling of the ancient Babylonian and Vedic myths, where 'others' enabled early humans or pre-humans to survive instead of perish.

[@udarpavarota396]

That's when man began to think, when he became a thinking creature.

[@AgentQQ8]

One of the most epic "yadda, yadda, yadda" jump cuts of all time.

[@NothingMaster]

An incomparable masterpiece; nothing has come even remotely close before or since.

[@herakleitus]

The dancers like Dan Richter (Moonwatcher in this scene) who acted in the first part of the film don’t get proper credit for the unbelievable job they did. Total respect.

[@Barny5ive]

I just witnessed a similar experience when my brother was showing my parents in their 70's how to use the new computer he bought them for Christmas!!!

[@6brman224]

That's me. (The parent)

[@jeffj2495]

An artist and visionary made this movie - so memorable, they will be watching it in 100 years. This movie set the bar for creativity and story telling.

[@toplaycool21]

After what has been happening to movies lately, it’s nice to look back at a time when movies were not only taken seriously but were art

[@schizoidboy]

I find this amazing that this scene was filmed in a studio in England rather than on location where there is a desert.

[@davidnunez7916]

De

[@guzzidude7410]

Yes. Tho he did spend pounds and pounds flying set directors and shrubbery from the desert to England only to not be able to use the foliage in the movie. The set designers said they did learn from the experience and made fake trees based off the real thing.

[@DavidPigbody]

Kubrick, greatest director of all time

[@shootybaking]

All time as of currently. Just wait. We stand on the shoulders of giants. Who will be the one who follows him?

[@pascalscherr5206]

I think Michael Bay has him beat in a lot of ways.

[@mechanicpluto2430]

@@pascalscherr5206 Very funny

[@apostalote]

Pascal Scherr tell me you’re joking please

[@SigmaChi04]

Spielberg as well.

[@benchambers1305]

Those cuts from tool being formulated to the ultimate use of the tool in hunting has always been my favorite shot in the whole film just the implications of it all is amazing with one cut.

[@herakleitus]

Then HAL, the greatest tool humanity has ever created, has to be murdered for being too much like humanity. Kubrick’s irony (?).

[@jesserothbeind950]

The word genius gets thrown around pretty loosely but this is truly genius.

[@mridhulml9238]

Okay please explain?? I cant understand what the fuss is about in this scene

[@robware5166]

@@mridhulml9238 This depicts the moment when proto-humans discovered the ability to manipulate the world around them. It's the beginning of tools, technology, and the entire teleology of human history--hence the transition cut from the bone to the space-age technology. For the film, the bone and space tech (specifically HAL9000) are the bookends of human history, the former initiating one mode of existence for humans and the latter ultimately leading the protagonist into the next mode of existence.

[@briansd2772]

@@robware5166 Well said.

[@Truffle-Hearts]

2:40 minutes of infusion between Kubrick, Strauss, and Von Karajan’s Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Well, the rest is history…

[@tctyt]

Vienna Philharmonic not Berlin. 1959 Recording

[@warlockpaladin2261]

​@@tctytSo this track was recorded in 1959?

[@WormHeads]

One of the greatest, if not just *the* greatest scenes in any movie of all time.

[@Mxyzptlksac]

I love how every shot is a beautiful image

[@micahclawrence]

It’s hard to fathom how good this film looks yet somehow came out in the late sixties.

[@MartinHS1996]

Can't believe I'm saying this but thanks Barbie for reminding me of this incredible scene/movie

[@Chrisfeb68]

One of the greatest films, if not, the greatest film ever made. Hard to believe this was made the same year I was born.

[@filmc3887]

Didn't know you were born in 88.

[@cultclassic999]

02:19 Biggest jump cut in movie history.

[@niewidzialnarekarynku]

yes

[@hypn0298]

Are you sure there hasn’t been one that cut from the dinosaur age to modern humans?

[@PercivalBlakeney]

@cultclassic999 It's only three million years. Pin money dear boy. 😊

[@hypn0298]

@@PercivalBlakeney there are definitely movies that had jump cuts from the dinosaur age to the present.

[@PercivalBlakeney]

@@hypn0298 If you haven't already, read the book. It's explained in so much more detail. The significance of the jawbone is that it is the first technological innovation by the human race (moreover, it is also, significantly, a weapon). In the book, Clarke describes how this invention, guided by the monolith, leads to innovation after innovation arriving, down the generations, at the satellite (which, according to Kubrick, is a Space borne nuclear missile station.) Do read the book. It will clarify the narrative of the film and it is quite beautifully written. "When the first faint glow of dawn crept into the cave Moon-Watcher saw that his father had died in the night. He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness." 😉

[@Vicarious_me87]

Stanley Kubrick, was one of the greatest directors of our time. Rip

[@Divine_R]

Agreed, it's one of the best scenes in the film for me

[@markilicious]

Too cheesy the monkey suits. The last scene does it for me.

[@ivana7431]

@@markilicious u wouldn't get it

[@Orion225]

Yeah man. Feels like I'm watching a documentary. 😬😁

[@normbeattie3547]

paul w l

[@9f81rsd00]

The people who first saw this in the cinema on release day, or better yet the first actual public premier or showing… I wonder if any of them realized they were witnessing a key moment of cinematic/cultural history…

[@ulfingvar1]

THAT..is film-making!!!

[@GumballAstronaut7206]

The ultimate “Yeah. This is big Brain Time” theme song

[@timothydavidcurp]

You've come a long way, baby.

[@jamesdrynan]

It's worth noting that not many people knew Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss prior to this film in 1968.

[@middleagedwhitebloke]

Me every morning before coffee.

[@musiclover1960ED]

Survival of the fittest and the strongest. Charles Darwin must have seen this scene in his mind. Stanley Kubrick is a master film maker

[@londoncalling1757]

Watched a documentary about this film, Stanley kubricks wife said he once spent weeks in the garden every morning just throwing sticks up in the air

[@Naptosis]

Life before the internet. 😅

[@me-ib2zb]

A better time 😢​@@Naptosis

[@konstantinoskaragiannis1596]

"2001 a Space Odyssey"(1968) is a science fiction mystery horror movie masterpiece!

[@errwhattheflip]

One of the finest movies ever made for sure. May not be the best, but certainly up there. Brilliant filmmaking

[@doodeldeiflutterby6232]

And so began the age of the Smartphone

[@nongpoknganpameetei1875]

Whose here after biologist team discover this kind of monolith in Utah😂😂

[@capotthomas9719]

What do you mean ?

[@POdilo]

hahah yep!

[@ryorta]

@@capotthomas9719 they just found a monolith in the middle of the Utah desert.

[@dsgaming248]

😂😂😜

[@capotthomas9719]

@@ryorta Ok, I've seen it now. thx

[@jamesdrynan]

Factually, this is not the opening scene. This is when Moonwatcher, the ape, sees the bone as a weapon. The music is heard for the first time over the opening credits. The Utah monolith pales in comparison to the one from 2001.

[@blockmasterscott]

I would say that the club, the bow, and the firearm are the 3 most game breaking weapon inventions in history.

[@GeorgeSlaysTheDragon-ll8op]

EVERYONE RISE FOR THE ANTHEM OF THE UNIVERSE

[@tsm688]

You wouldn't get this in a modern movie. Minutes at at a stretch without sound? Makes the music stand out when it's only used as appropriate

[@AlexH8280]

The implication that human intelligence is/could be alien in its origin is pretty deep for the time.

[@dougdeacon6232]

Not really. Arthur C. Clarke wrote 'The Sentinel", the basis for this scene, twenty years before "2001" was released.

[@Firebrand55]

2.30...one of the greatest editing cuts in cinema history.......period!

[@OroborusFMA]

Actually it's poorly done. A lot of critics have wondered why.

[@omegamanGXE]

@@OroborusFMA please elaborate

[@Euclib]

@Oroborus I don’t think they mean the actual cut as such, but the cut in this particular context. Not the technical qualities that define a cut between two arbitrary frames. More so are they referring to moment just before and after the cut, rather than the cut itself (that’s what I made of it at least- and I agree).

[@errwhattheflip]

@@OroborusFMA How is it poorly done? It jumps millions of years in the future, and the implications it brings up all stay true to the themes of the story, which only get strengthened as the movie progresses. It certainly is an excellent cut

[@frankmeenzen787]

It shows the first thing "we" learned by using a tool: Destroying!

[@mightycrom73]

No, we learned survival.

[@shakesperezen6078]

We learned warfare and murder of kin the moment the weapon was swung with force onto those bones..and then when it crashed down onto the other ape leader's skull..sentient genocide given breath. And slowly we just improved our ancestors aggression methods towards percieved enemies and threats over time to almost enjoyable brutal perfection. And here we are..our species in chaos..enemies to our very selves..our planetary environment burning and poisoned and dying..and..our homeworld fast becoming a bloodied desolate wasteland of mankinds perversion evils and greeds..and our behaviours placed us here. What a beautiful home we have birthed for ourselves and all other earthly life..we should be extremely proud at our accomplishments. Pointless never ending self created death. (/-\)..Proud indeed.😑

[@rogueriderhood1862]

@@shakesperezen6078 Sadly that's all too true.

[@shakesperezen6078]

@@rogueriderhood1862 Yep..oh for a Lightspeed capable craft🚀..I'd be.."Seeya humans!..thanks fer all the horrors..Unhappy travels Cycos!..Exit Stage Left!".."Whoooooooosh..Gone!".. (/-\)..✋😆..

[@capotthomas9719]

You can hear the begining of the Blue Dnaube... He sure chose the right music

[@alpha-omega2362]

Tales of Vienna woods actually. Am I wrong?

[@michaelholowka2361]

Yes it was the Blue Danube by Johann Strauss

[@robware5166]

He sure did. And Kubrick actually had a composer create an original score for the movie. "Thus Spake Zarathustra," "Blue Danube," and every other musical piece in the film were just placeholders, the temp score that Kubrick put together for the film's early cut. It worked so well he didn't use the original score and stuck with the temp score--a great choice, it turns out.

[@jonathanfraser321]

I was very small when this film came out-about 3 years old, My mum told me the Blue Danube was the first piece of classical music I Iiked.-2001 must have been a popular film everywhere so I probably heard it because of that film! My intelligence level was probably at the same level as the chimp's! Apart from the lets see if I can kill anything with it!

[@renatonunes2550]

Amazing starting scene of an amazing film. Man learns to be a killer !

[@theintangiblemusic]

Epic triumph! Moonwatcher has friends in *extremely* high places!

[@blakkneit9779]

One of the best cuts ever

[@alexung7207]

Now I can't get the tune out of my head.

[@lucythedog2681]

Monkey: Beats a horse skeleton Accidentally invents war

[@nathanfwaggoner3428]

Knowledge + Action = Power. The future is yet to be written. Knowledge = The truth of how things work and are accomplished.

[@angloaust1575]

Apparently planet of the apes received the prize for make up Because they thought Kubrick Used real apes

[@WarrenWalter-d7u]

I saw this during its initial run. In a theater, it's fabulous.

[@martingonzalezhonorato2521]

Who came from "Barbie"?

[@gkbluestocking]

Me!😊

[@Filthy_Larry]

Are you people gay?

[@SigmaChi04]

And that's the way the news goes...

[@간인-g2x]

An odyssey we will never forget A space odyssey

[@Chino-pr4ni]

Amazing

[@willbrink]

That may be more accurate than most could possible appreciate :)

[@dannyblankenship8154]

Great super theme which would later be memorable as it would become the Nature Boy Ric Flair's theme song and ring entrance WOO! WOO! The man is a star above the space and clouds!

[@cariocamotodenman658]

OMG! Why you cut the fight scene?

[@MoneyHammer]

Who’s here because of the Barbie intro?

[@MrSupercar55]

Fun fact for you. That very scene you're talking about where the little girls are trashing up the baby dolls is actually based off the intro to 2001: A Space Odyssey where the ape trashes up the skeletal remains of a carcass with a thigh bone, as the video shows.

[@adamriggs2698]

@@MrSupercar55wow, you don’t say

[@anchorpoint3631]

ya mama

[@concussion2757]

Best movie ever made

[@jpbroussard1553]

I still can’t believe they trained apes this well in the 60s.

[@jackkenoff420]

Kubrick had an endless supply of perfectionism and bananas

[@paulmaguire2714]

The modern equivalent seems to be going well.

[@johnhancock2914]

THIS MOVIE WAS ABSOLUTELY YEARS AHEAD OF ITS TIME

[@michaelrequenez4565]

All I can say is " Woooooooo " !!!!

[@dannycalley7777]

M.R. ……………..did you just go RIC FLAIRE on us , a year ago ?????????

[@anchorpoint3631]

@@dannycalley7777 no

[@petesquire2954]

Great link in a great Classic.

[@NickHand-c9l]

Think of it: not just the period in which a species started using weapons, but the actual moment - to the second - when an individual member of that species first thinks of the idea. The implications are pretty enormous.

[@chipwickenden2407]

And then Greta Grewig OPENS the Barbie movie with an homage to this iconic piece of film! Genius acknowledging genius.

[@luiseduardogutierrezgarcia7474]

Yes! That's exactly what brought me here, I wanted to watch again the original scene

[@liamkendall7640]

Except Greta Gerwig will never be able to make a movie close to an average Kubrick movie

[@dorian4275]

@@liamkendall7640🤓

[@JacksonHoulihan]

@@liamkendall7640, cool point bro.

[@bl-ot5jg]

​@@liamkendall7640Why make comparisons and instead not enjoy the art both directors have given us?

[@loganw1232]

Who’s here because of Barbie

[@victormanueljara7206]

Pelicula maravillosa e increible !!!!!!! Lo mas grande que se ha hecho en cine !!!!!!!!!! Millones de años de evolucion en dos horas y media !!!!!!!! Obra de arte absoluta !!!!!!!!!!

[@atulimakvana1092]

Wonderful creation

[@mehmetdemir-lf2vm]

the scene depicts that a human ancestor learns to use tools. millions of years after that they managed to build a spacecraft.

[@alejandroperez-yy9ym]

We are descendants of these creatures it’s why we are so aggressive it’s why it’s in our nature and Kubrick showed us that here

[@Filthy_Larry]

It basically shows the origins on why black people commit crimes.

[@rasmuslernevall6938]

I got chills.

[@thoughtsurferzone5012]

As a techno-progressive, I recognize the interaction of technology and social development as central to our existence. Nothing personifies this notion better than this scene.

[@aakkoin]

I watched this movie with my fiance, and I actually started crying during this scene... it's such a beautiful and epic scene of picture and music, even though it's basically just a monkey banging bones, awesome.

[@Jpmarcellino]

it's sooooo more than that. its not a monkey. it is our ancestor and this is the moment of consciousness. the first evolving idea "technology" soon after that came the "god" idea but technology was the first. that is what this scene is about.

[@aakkoin]

@@Jpmarcellino Sorry about the late response, but yes, absolutely, it's a deeply symbolic and significant scene, but at the surface level, the picture IS just a monkey banging bones, but the music indicates something divine. That dichotomy of primitive and divine is so touching and beautiful.

[@braun3926]

You feel Nietzsche.

[@philg4116]

and a bit of Roddy McDowall, sorry, I'll show myself out now

[@nickstoli]

Better scene and music match, this or the helicopter scene (Ride of the Valkyries) in Apocalypse Now?

[@covert0overt_810]

0:38 the moment humanity changed forever....

[@rogueriderhood1862]

Hmm, never stopped killing since!

[@covert0overt_810]

Kubrick really did "change the form" with this film... there hasn't been anything like it (arguably) since... just to put in perspective... this 2 and half hour film showed the dawn of man... technology evolution relationships.... space travel... a mission to jupiter and beyond... the Marvel comic universe and its countless movies told no such story and i still no idea what its about... just hours of garbage and filler

[@DukeStarscream]

somewhere in the desert of Utah. :-)))

[@danielinthemaiden9039]

The quality looks great for a movie this age.

[@tlatosmd]

a.) It's film. b.) It's 70mm.

[@richardmarquez7106]

Thus Spake Zarathustra

[@danielstone9404]

From what I understand, this scenario is extremely similar to how human beings were given a 'leg up' in their evolutionary progress. From being told about this, I figured that Kubrick was a member of a secret society. Another film that portrays activities within this society is Eyes Wide Shut. Two films (that I know of), what are the odds?

[@michaelkeaton5394]

The longest ellipse in the history of cinema

[@OskarFoll]

Atheists be like: go grandpa!!

[@ICarus-eu3jv]

Theist looks at dirt: is that you Adam?

[@katyungodly]

More like great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great.... (repeat 200x) grandfather!

[@Ensign_Cthulhu]

The movie doesn't convey how long the ape-men actually spend figuring all this shit out and putting it together for themselves, which the book makes clear. What it also omits from the book is the fight between the ape-men and the leopard which follows the blood-spoor from one of their kills into the cave. It's a pivotal moment in the book because it depicts the end of their complete vulnerability to the few creatures that can still prey on them.

[@lowrider81hd]

Oh whatever. The book doesn’t have an epic soundtrack as you read it. Get over it.

[@dragons_red]

Well, different story telling mediums and different story tellers. Not everyhting can be the same.

[@Gloomdrake]

The book and the movie are barely comparable, according to the foreword of 3001: A Space Odyssey

[@nollix]

Doesn't matter. This scene communicates the essence of it without saying it explicitly. That's probably even better.

[@QuadinarosLS]

You do realize the movie is not based on the book, right?

[@kimc3024]

Greatest film ever made! Ive seen it many times and its always amazing! God bless Stanley Kubrick!!

[@zechariahzenith8762]

Now we know where those monoliths come from. "Take those paws off my art"

[@marthamacartain4788]

great film, have to show my boyfriend! wishing you well!!

[@simonbaker6962]

The second greatest achievement in human history. A team in blue winning the league in 2016 being THE greatest moment in human history.

[@mikecimerian6913]

Mankey finds the doodle humming contraption. Grunts musical disapproval, pushes the thing off a cliff in the ocean.

[@Mr54nomore]

The birth of primitive mans intelligence...Thinking makes its appearance here in this great scene. From primate to space in a blink of an eye...Awesome!

[@DelfinoGarza77]

This it the best acting in the whole movie

[@CliffuckingBooth]

And the rest is history...

[@madraven07]

From Richard Strauss to Johann Strauss.

[@dgdfg4222]

Exactly what I was gonna say. Even the music choices in this movie are mind blowing...