Feel free to disregard the outright snobbishness of my tying everything to Nietzsche. The case could certainly be made that 2001 is above all a dramatization of "Zarathustra" updated for the modern age. Few people find the ending of 2001 to be gloomy, and it is in my opinion, explicitly and unmistakeably Nietzschean. But I just wanted to mention them, if for no other reason than to try to dispel the myth that Nietzsche was ultimately a gloomy philosopher. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission, their ships computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly strange behavior, leading up to a tense. I know these parallels are pretty broad, and almost certainly have been noted elsewhere despite the fact that I have not personally seen it. Bowman's psychedelic sequence at the near-end could be seen as Kubrick's best 1960's-style attempt at depicting the mystical "going under". The sequence ends with a match-cut that mirrors a shot of an ape throwing a bone into the air with a satellite orbiting Earth. The inscrutability of how these transformations occurred, and the suggestion that an external force caused them, is also Nietzschean in "Zarathustra", he makes it pretty clear that he doesn't have a clue how people are going to be able to enact these changes themselves and suggests that we will have to depend on an outsider (Zarathustra) to show us how to "go under". 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The opening sequence of 2001: A Space Odyssey sees a group of apes discovering a monolith, which in turn leads to their discovery of the power of violence. And also, Zarathustra said that "man is a rope tied between beasts and the overman." The structure of the movie fits that description: a brief history of man as beast, until we become truly man by mastering weapons and acquiring reason, then a long sequence about man (the rope, as it were), and then a brief glimpse of the overman. The fact that the song plays during the star child sequence can hardly be coincidence. attempt anything even remotely similar to that opening was There will be Blood which opened with an essential wordless series of. ![]() describes the first incarnation of the overman as a child, transcending both the ascetic, altruistic side of man (the camel always asking to bear more weight) and the rapacious, brutish, will-to-power side of man (the lion). The 2001: A Space Odyssey (Film) Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you. The idea of man's rebirth into a star child an infant form of an indescribably more advanced being, is an explicit part of N.'s "Zarathustra" there is a prominent passage called "On how a camel becomes a lion, and a lion becomes a child", in which N. I'm always surprised, given that the famous title track of 2001 is called "Also sprach Zarathustra", that nobody (nobody I've read, anyway) has noted the parallels between the movie and Nietzsche's famous work, "Also sprach Zarathustra".
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