Yes and no. Powerful for time and place, but Kubrick movies are always problematic. When he attempts to dramatize something we have no realistic frame of reference for he typically defaults to bizarre imagery. The result is he took a brilliant Arthur C Clarke story and produced a film most people viewed to enhance their LSD experience. The resulting visual effects mostly drowned out the story itself.
This almost happened with Blade Runner, but there was a lot more going on than glossy visuals. There was more substance to balance it out. Kubrick did the same thing in The Shining with the furry sex creatures or whatever the hell he was trying to give us and he made what should have been one of the best ghost stories ever put on film but instead gave us a large helping of WTF was that?
By contrast, the 1981 film "Ghost Story" relied on a much simpler story but it almost blew The Shining out of the water. The films were only one year apart, Ghost Story was directed by a Hollywood nobody, yet it succeeded in many of the places Kubrick often fails. It is almost a Kubrick trademark that he usually harms his own films with his weirdo visual ideas which is a shame because otherwise he really is brilliant.
Kubrick also tackles things many other directors wouldn't even attempt. The problem is if you make a film and it includes aliens and you don't want to go with the usual flying saucer "grey guys" but wish instead to depict an entirely new idea of what intelligent alien life might actually look like, Kubrick actually tries it but he has a bizarre visual sense.
2001 should have been a perfect film, it had everything it needed to be a perfect film, it actually had several elements of a perfect film but somewhere along the lined Kubrick definitely got lost in the woods. I almost wish the film had been given to Spielberg in the late 90s when he really was hitting his stride. I think he would have held more true to the book and been more successful with the adaptation to film.
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Umm, no. 2001 is the alchemical transformation of man. Both Kubrick and Clarke are Occultists. Failing to understand the message that Hollywood is sending is the root of all WTF moments.
The apes at the beginning are loaded with Masonic symbols and the obelisk dimensions are also a reference to that. The sun appears over the obelisk showing you that the apes are illuminated by it, just as man is illuminated later in the story by Lucifer, the second sun. The whole movie is so occult referenced it isn’t even fun. Right of Might, snakes, skull and bones, sacred geometry.
I’m surprised people don’t understand or know this stuff. I guess the eyes are wide shut…
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BINGO. Well said.
It is a masterpiece that has been and will forever stand the test of time.
And yes context is an issue here.
Consider the year/period it was made - there was nothing even remotely close to it before.
I know for fact that among DP's and 'camera-guys' there is a 'before BR and after BR'. There definitely was a shift of paradigm.
Look closely - EVERY scene is complete. Not a moment wasted, not a single element neglected.
Stylistic it has been copied ad infinum.
And then there is the other thing we must never forget - it is shot ALL 'in camera'.
No CGI, nada.
Jordan Cronenweth was at the top of his game, hands down his masterpiece.
If you do a search you can find some of my previous observations about this movie, having had some close connections with some of the actors etc.
Sometimes it all comes together. This was one of those.
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I can still watch 2001, still blown away by some of the visuals and scenes, still drawn into the movie, still can't believe it was done with models, etc. It's klunky in parts, but holds up incredibly well for late 60s, and it's the true "thinking mans" SF movie that had not been exceeded until BL.
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And there is tons of supporting evidence that The Shining was an apology by Kubrick for faking the moon landing. But just because you can read this stuff into a film doesn't mean it was actually there.
Also more than a few guys at JPL were followers of Crowley. Does that mean the actual moon landing was a illuminati / sacred jewel mission? I actually know more than a little about Crowley, Blavatski and others, I just chose to ignore your referenced to this point rather than legitimize the ideas by discussing them.
We aren't geing duped by Hollywood, most of us see the Easter eggs. It hasn't tricked us into joining his mish / mash of occult ideas wrapped up into the clumsy religion of Thelema.
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