Tonight, I'm revisiting "2001: A Space Odyssey" for the first time in at least five years. The first 20-minutes of dialogue-free monkey madness were literally enough to put Michael to sleep, so I thought I'd share some of early Kubrick's most incredible visions. I like to think about how the moviegoers of 1967 must have felt visiting outer space for the very first time, before Jabba the Hut & Co. made sci-fi so fucking ugly. In lieu of a time machine, these will have to do:
The ape throws the bone into the air, resulting in the most famous jump cut of all time...
...and, millions of years later (or 20 minutes of dialogue-free running time spent observing monkeys)...
...we're in space.
Look familiar?
Best WTF in the history of movies:
The monolith returns! Oh, wait, no...that's not a monolith, it's a fetus!
The End.
I love Friday nights.
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