Watched it as a 12-year-old kid back in the late 1980's. Even then I knew I was watching something epic and great. I can watch this over and over again and find something new in the film. Sign of a greatness.

@DiskTuna

3 ай бұрын

I''m from 68 too and I can relate to your comment .. I can even remember it was on school firm festival .. There was practically no one to start with and during first 10-20 minutes most of those there left .. Like you I knew this was epic and I needed to stay and watch.

LOL! Back in my first diesel shop, where I was an apprentice mechanic, One of my coworkers got a new tool box. It was tall and black. And after he unboxed it, all of my fellow mechanics gathered around it and started running their hands over it. It reminded me of this scene of 2001 so strongly that I physically couldn't stop laughing. I howled with laughter until my vision was blurred with tears. A couple of them asked me what was so funny but they had never seen 2001 so I couldn't explain. LOL

@timsplanet2

11 ай бұрын

A little racist, though

@napalmpudding

11 ай бұрын

​@@timsplanet2shut up

@masonbricke4568

10 ай бұрын

The mysterious, otherworldly toolbox made them better mechanics. ;)

This is my dad's favorite movie. He had me sit down with him a watch it when I was a kid, and I was like "what is going on?". Watching it, now that I'm older, I appreciate it a lot more. It truly is a work of art! ^^!

@LindaMerchant-bq2hp

9 ай бұрын

Cinema space exploration and at time of americams a Russians in space

This is the most epic scene in the history of film.

@MartianCZ

3 жыл бұрын

the ending of Planet of the Apes

@raimundmuench4402

3 жыл бұрын

I sign that.

@brandonmassey6158

2 жыл бұрын

It's about the dawn of man

This movie blew my mind away, back at the end of the 60's. I went to see it with my dad. I will always thank him for taking me to see it.

This is probably my favorite scene from the whole movie and still gives me goosebumps every time I see it. So much is said in this scene within a few minutes. The symbolic meaning of the monolith is so grand, it's something that needs to be felt rather than explained.

One of the most amazing/significant scenes in cinema history. Its amazing to see that when the bone is hurled to the sky it cuts to a scene that pans the equivalent of nearly 5 million years. Genious.

R.I.P. dear Stanley Kubrick, you gave the world an amazing movie and point of view :-)

My grandma reacted similar when i tried teach her how to use a skype.

@kurun1138

3 жыл бұрын

Half the time, I get Skype running OK, but the other half, I either don't have my camera turned on, or my microphone.... So it takes an extra 30 seconds to get the call going. Also, if your Grandma is like me, let her know that you're going to call (text)... because clothing is appropriate.

Very strange. The scene where he uses the femur to attack and kill another primitive man has been removed. That was the whole point.

@sid2112

3 жыл бұрын

@paul w upvote for responding.

@CrimsonNClova

3 жыл бұрын

It was omitted, I suppose, because the clip contains the main science fiction plot point that, after contact with an alien object, man made the sudden creative leap forward in tool use, the imagining of how to bring down prey, and in thinking in an abstract and speculative sense about taming his environment.

@arteallemedie781

3 жыл бұрын

Crimson N. Clova sono d’accordo con te. Sicuramente si uccidevano anche prima di giungere al pensiero astratto...

@azmanabdula

3 жыл бұрын

@@CrimsonNClova Think about it though That first primate to swing something He must have had all the chicks Anyone dare question his authority Gets the first club

@brianarbenz1329

3 жыл бұрын

Dave - it can only be attributable to human error. I recommend we put the missing scene back and let it fail.

The audio is really what does it for me. Some of the most memorable soundwork I’ve ever heard

6:07 I love this scene. It feels almost like all of human achievement originated from that one moment. Kind of funny that the usage of weaponry is that defining moment, though.

@thegameranch5935

2 жыл бұрын

@@StockTricks we found plenty of animals who use tools

@garf0001

2 жыл бұрын

Damn 10 years ago

@tmo4330

2 жыл бұрын

@@StockTricks Humans have a soul.

@elyastoohey6621

2 жыл бұрын

@@tmo4330 Are you saying only humans have a soul? Because either most living things have a soul, or nothing has a soul. Humans don't get some special exclusiveness to a soul.

@tmo4330

2 жыл бұрын

@@elyastoohey6621 Ecclesiastes 3:21.

This makes me feel a dark sort of emptiness. When they are all touching that monolith (God) and the music is at its highest I get all freaky deeky and then it goes so so quiet and I'm speechless.

@whitedragoness23

3 жыл бұрын

@JohnnyAppleseed I thought they were aliens?

This has to be the most memorable moment of cinema that I have ever witnessed in my life, the first time I saw it it brought tears to me eyes.

This movie was truly on to something; that humans evolved because of violence. A recently created simulation of humanity has predicted with ~60% accuracy where complex human civilizations would appear, using information about where violence/wars are most likely to break out and geographic information. This simulation supported the scientists hypothesis that complex human societies arose because of war.

@jamiethedinosaur869

9 жыл бұрын

Well, if you look throughout history, you'll note that technology has usually advanced a lot more quickly during war. Much more incentive to build a better club/sword/gun/bomb before the enemy does.

@israelperez5419

9 жыл бұрын

JJMizro bien.

@kofola9145

7 жыл бұрын

That is incorect. If it were only about violence then we would never evolve. It is about cooperation and violence. You need big enough society to make advance and somebody left over to use that advance. I mean, violence is a trait of live beings so that is a bit obvious. By the way, this is why sociology and so on should not be called science. How can complex human society arises because of war if war requires complex human society?

@KneelB4Bacon

4 жыл бұрын

In the book, the Monolith is deliberately tampering with the ape man's mind and DNA. That's why in the editing, it's switching back and forth between a shot of the monolith and the ape man puzzling over the bones around him. Kubrick is trying to show that connection. Earlier in the movie, we see that there are 2 tribes of ape men, fighting over the same watering hole. In the book, we learn that this is a stalemate that's been going on for a long time. One tribe only gains an advantage after they come into contact with the monolith and learn how to make weapons.

@sid2112

3 жыл бұрын

Competition. It's why capitalism is so effective. It removes the need for violence over competition. If we remove ourselves from nature we don't thrive. The smart play is to use our nature as a positive force. We are competitive, so let's compete in such a way that most people can end up over zero, and tempered with enough generosity to help those who need it.

One of the greatest scenes in movie history from 6:09 on

The Australopithecines had moved away from the jungle and were starving. Like other apes, they were mainly nocturnal, and almost exclusive vegetarian. What the monolith did was turn them into omnivorous, capable of killing other animals. With that, they started using tools (the first ones, bones to hit their prey and kill it). Also, due to that change, they became diurnal, since they moved from prey to predator, and could defend themselves better with their newly-discovered tools.

@MarciCow

10 жыл бұрын

I guess in a subtle way, Clarke is positing that intelligence is a child of violence.

@kwanfong3204

9 жыл бұрын

MarciCow Can you elaborate on what you mean by "intelligence is a child of violence"?

@MarciCow

9 жыл бұрын

The background, in the book, is a confrontation between Moon-Watcher's tribe, and The Others. It's an equilibrated conflict, over one essential resource (water; the land has been in a drought for 10 million years). Moon-Watcher's tribe is trained by the monolith to create tools from stone and bone, but they don't know what to do with them. It's only in three events of conflict, situations of pure violence, that they finally find their use. The first is the killing of the warthogs, who trusted the proto-humans until then, since both species had been mainly herbivorous. But, once they had the tools, and Moon-Watcher had shown their usefulness in hurting other animals, the relationship changed to one of predator-prey. The second is when they strike at the leopard trying to enter their cave. The leopard falls and dies, and they eat him. The tools were not just to procure food, but also to defend their cave. The third, when Moon-Watcher kills the leader of The Others, finally ensuring ownership of the drinking spot for his tribe, and showing the tools good not only to hunt and strike back at predators, but also to win in conflict. It's only through those situations that the proto-humans learn the value of the tools the monolith taught them to create. All situations of violence. The fundamental use of these original tools was to kill.

@tropicaoptica

17 сағат бұрын

Interesting that the monolith looks like a smart phone

This may be one of the finest pieces of art ever conceived by the mind of man.

this is the most awesome film in history, I went to the theater when it came out

beautiful, frightening, and inspiring all at once. thank you, my favorite movie ever.

I don't understand why people think this movie is bad at all. It's one of the most imaginative, well executed, sublime, brilliant, and deeply allegorical films ever made.

I just watched this movie again today after having had it listed as my favorite movie of all time for a few years now. It still is, and I notice something new every time I watch it. Like food, for instance. Every chapter has different ways of "humans" eating food. At the beginning all man-apes try and pursue is food, and by the end the human body is done away with as it enjoys it's last meal. I'm not 100% sure what it means, but it's profound nonetheless.

This movie was SO ahead of its time... I can't believe it was made in 1968. Definitely one of the best movies of all-time.

@Shatamx

Жыл бұрын

@@StockTricks Lol you’re high they rival Star Wars which came out ten years later.

I saw this movie when it first came out , Then went back 5 more times. This was one of the best sci-fi movies ever made.

The powerful symbolism of this chapter is fantastic. the view at 4:25 of the obelisk from below with the sun at the top is no mistake. Kubrick knew what he as doing there.

Stanley Kubrick's movie break trough with the initial scene of the dawning of life and the last part the appropriate music of Richard Strauss. Enjoy. Still cant forget the impact of the movie on me the first time I saw it. Walter Futterweit

The entire evolution of mankind in a single scene. Simply amazing. One of the most beautiful movie ever.

@jacobbaird5378

9 жыл бұрын

So basically a primordial soup to space-faring primates and beyond?

@Shatamx

Жыл бұрын

@@StockTricks Its how our ancestors moved from mainly sitting around consuming raw plantation. Fending off predators and "Others". To using tools for hunting and conflicts. Feasting on the meat afterward. (not shown)Then the next jump after the water hole fight would be the use of fire. Eventually learning to create it and keep it burning. Be it cooking and protection. This is when the evolution to human sapiens and Neanderthals(our sister relative) would happen. Our gut gets smaller from eating cooked food. Our brains get larger from absorbing different forms of nutrition. Very fascinating stuff.

@cothinker680

11 ай бұрын

@@StockTricks then what?

The monolith... requiem...there are no words to express this scene

The way that I have always interpreted the movie is that this is the first step in human evolution: the paradigm shift that was the tool. Skip to 100,000 years or more later, human evolution has come to a standstill but our tools continue to evolve. The business with Hal and Dave is a fight to see who deserves to receive the reward that lives within the MONOLITH near Jupiter, humanity or our tools. The killing of Hal with a screwdriver (one of the most basic tools) reinforces our dominance.

La evolución de la humanidad en única escena Es simplemente maravillosa

What a tremendous, complex, BEAUTIFUL film!

FASCINANTE. NO SÉ CUANTAS VECES LA VÍ NI CUÁNTAS VECES MÀS LA VERÉ. HICE QUE MIS AMADOS SOBRINOS LA VIERAN CONMIGO.... Y TANTAS MÁS DE CIENCIA FICCIÓN, MIS FAVORITAS. ABREN LA CABEZA Y HACEN PENSAR.

the last few minutes of this scene always bring me chills. kubrick constructed a kind of modern mithology with 2001. also, from 6:57 to 6:58 = biggest time gap in the history of cinema.

best opening ever.... absolutely epic

まさかの本当に現れたとは...

@countrybright6263

3 жыл бұрын

やっといた日本人

I was high the first time I saw this movie, by far the best experience ever.

*giant black stone from space appears and messes with human evolution* Dead Space, anyone?

@coleciervo8652

9 жыл бұрын

Halcyon Industries This was way before Dead Space.

@kerianhalcyon2769

9 жыл бұрын

Cole Ciervo I know, if anything I was pointing out a likely inspiration for the game.

@poslednisoud

9 жыл бұрын

Halcyon Industries Also Mass Effect.

@cloerenjackson3699

8 жыл бұрын

Halcyon Industries Actually, I thought you were referring to Dead Space the 1991 film, which predates the video game by seventeen years.

How my family reacts when I reboot the internet.

"Coldness, darkness, obstruction, a Solid Without fluctuation, hard as adamant Black as marble of Egypt; impenetrable Bound in the fierce raging Immortal." -William Blake

slow - space is slow... evolution is slow and beyond our comprehension the pace of this movie is exactly right... This movie is genius and executed brilliantly - may I remind most of you that this was released in 1968.

Godzilla brought me here.

@MondeDeTamriel

10 жыл бұрын

Me too

@TenguBE

10 жыл бұрын

²

@HUNTEROFPRIME

10 жыл бұрын

I bet they use the monolith music in the trailer!

6:55 Bone throwing to spaceship. Boy that escalated quickly.

@terracottapie

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, just 10 million years. Nothing, really

that jump cut is absolutely awesome. if somethings worth doing its worth doing completely over the top.

Love this movie. Probably the deepest I will ever see.

"Brazil Discovering the First Free-to-Play MMO"

New iPhone's arrival hits the Earth.

@liveforeverjr1

9 жыл бұрын

i guess thats how we react when a new iphone comes out :)

@satchvanjohnson41

9 жыл бұрын

OMG. I kid you not, I just had that idea pop into my head at this late hour when I turned my computer on. I went straight to KZread to post this comment about how an awesome internet meme/photo would be this scene but with the Monolith replaced with an iPhone haha. Touche Ma'am, you beat me to it. I guess I'm not that original :(

@DoubleOBond

9 жыл бұрын

Except with the arrival of the iPhone instead of major advancements in thinking and behavior we've gone down the pike of food pics and selfies.

@Jasonificatiation

9 жыл бұрын

That sums up the culture shiftsince 1968 perfectly :)

Saw it when I was 10...When I met him in 1976 and I said i did not understand the 'monolith', Mr. Asimov said the remedy is ,"watch agin and repeat as often as is necessary'. True anecdote. Thanks for this...Gem

Utah USA is about to start dropping new discoveries soon.

@arjunsanal7130

3 жыл бұрын

www.complex.com/life/2020/11/utah-officials-discover-strange-monolith-in-remote-desert?

They used this same sound in the Godzilla Halo Jump scene?

@darkpaladin.

10 жыл бұрын

bingo

@monos70

9 жыл бұрын

To Non-Humans this masterpiece was only created for.

@ActiumFilms

9 жыл бұрын

It's a really eerie classical piece, and two movies this year happened to use it: Godzilla and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

@Pavletic111

9 жыл бұрын

Actium Films Who actually wrote this eerie specific musical piece with all the male and female voices? It wasn't Strauss.

@ActiumFilms

9 жыл бұрын

No, it's Requiem by Ligeti.

I know. The visual impact still amazes. The difference is how calm the effects were. Long, patient takes. When Kubrick made "2001," the sfx were seen as, to coin a phrase, monolithic and revolutionary. Kubrick saw them as the best way to tell his story. No fast, MTV-style cuts. Velocity often diminishes awe. I'm just pointing out that "2001" was a high point in a dynamic decade for movies. Yet mind-boggling wonders continue back through "Metropolis" (1927) to Melies at the turn of the century.

Not all film is action packed and made for the A.D.D. crowd. Personally i find it slow, magical and has scenes (like this one) that has remained important and worthwhile. Also, at the time, the quality of artwork this film shows off was enough to keep people riveted. No one had ever done "space" convincingly. Kubrik effectively started the whole ball rolling with this one.

Way more plausible than "Invisible man created modern humanity in an instant!"

The high order must have thought : "Ok this takes them to long, lets give them a hint" lol

So genial die Szene *o* die ersten 20 Minuten des Films sind einer der besten Minuten der Filmgeschichte :)

Few Thousand hundred years of humanity condensed in a bone thrown in the air...leading to a space ship...simply amazing.

It looks different or alien compared to their surroundings, thus sparking curiosity and imagination. The fact that it did not seem threatening allowed not only curiosity but also gave rise to imagination of the kind not fueled by fear. The human mind tries to fill in gaps in things we don't understand; our ancestors must have started this at some point. The power to imagine new things is what has allowed our species to advance to this point. By adapting to something alien mysteriously planted in their environment they were able to increase their intelligence.

MECCA ANYONE?? AHHAHAHA

@Diakonov29

9 жыл бұрын

Pyramids of Giza...

I saw this as a schoolboy in the cinema in communist Yugoslavia and this film was a revelation for me. Greats now from Serbia.

this is a classic movie. very artsy. Its just very slow moving and it gets alot of credit even though it is slowmoving. I like the ending. It was like an acid trip. this movie was probly mindblowing back when it came out because of the special affects. very revolutionary

First NAACP meeting?

in one of the 2001 books it is revealed that this Monolith would later be found and put on Display.

This movie made me almost clinically depressed when I watched it as a kid. There are no words to describe how I feel about this movie now.

It's about the evolution of man, and the involvement of machines (artificial intelligence) in our lives, and the next steps in our evolution. I think. But it's all wrapped up in a good show. This movie was state-of-the-art in 1968, and still holds amazingly beautiful for today's standards. I saw it when I was 15 and liked it, but saw it again in my late twenties and loved it. Have a good day!

Quien diría que estoy viendo esto, por cuestiones académicas :)

@mikedaddy666

10 жыл бұрын

me alegra saber que somos no solo yo veo esto por razones académicas.. jaja

@P0NKH0

10 жыл бұрын

Yo merengues

@quirojor

10 жыл бұрын

jajajaj no crei que tendria que ver esto.

@csrglez

9 жыл бұрын

que cosas no ?!!!!

@sandra24241

9 жыл бұрын

jaja y nos seguimos sumando, exactamente por cuestiones academicas....

I watched the movie. I liked this scene very much, the rest of the movie was boring, slow, stupid conversation, i don't understand what all the fuss is about. And I'm a huge movie fan, i am open for everything, but this flick? damn..

@Jh5kRadio

9 жыл бұрын

Jashin Slayer I don't think (s)he was claiming to be intelligent or insightful. I think he was just giving his two-cents on the movie. ...and (s)he doesn't like it.

@TheExiledTexan

9 жыл бұрын

Jashin Slayer Exactly. This is a film for the philosophically minded, not for those looking for cheap and quick amusement.

@EternalHardDrive

9 жыл бұрын

I'm not looking for cheap and quick amusement, I watch every movie with an open mind especially one that people talk about and is well known like this one. But why this is so good? i'll never know

@EternalHardDrive

9 жыл бұрын

Jashin Slayer you sir are a troll..

@EternalHardDrive

9 жыл бұрын

Nelson Robert Willis i was also happy that i watched the movie because i love movies and now i kind of now what the fuss was all about, but i know i'll never watch it a 2nd time :)

This is awesome.

@warringtonjonny - "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss. If you look up "Thus Sprach Zarathustra" and if you can understand it, there is an explanation of the opening scene.

I'll try. I've learned a lot from you. Cheers.

Awesome thanks for posting this classic! One of the best transitions ever done on film. Thanks for having no pre-roll ads also. Maybe you could change the title to: "Ad-Free! 2001 a space odyssey". That will save me and others from clicking on some of the other time wasting channels.

The greatest cut scene in the history of story telling.

The best 7 minutes of film ever.

This movie gets better every time I see it.

I get all of the spore references now!!!

Best man in film EVER! FOREVER, And Ever, and Ever. Remember Shining!!!

Still one of the greatest dramatic scenes ever filmed.

Beautiful

Some times i feel like the monolith from 2001 a Space Odyssey. People around me still manufacturing tools.

Such a fantastic movie.

I wish this was in HD... still, thanks!

I love how old the comments are here. Reading them is like time traveling…

Oh, look. It's my boss showing off his new truck and all the higher-ups reacting in astonishment.

Best movie ever made. Long live Clarke and Kubrick.

That's the definition of good acting.

Greatest sequence in film history.

It's like a door past meets the future

The BEST film EVER!

Scena strepitosa, perfettamente aderente alla musica, o viceversa !

Was watching Charlie In the Cocolate factory, and came to the TV room. When they looked into the TV I thought: Wait a minute....

This was my first thought as well. Eerily appropriate.

i remember i watched this as a kid and it creeped me the hell out lol

watch it while drunk...you see it for what it really is....beautiful.

The monolith always gives me goosebumps

True, but even though I love this film I still can't lose the image of Homer Simpson in the dawn of man...

"people are starting to think for themselves know, this is good."

Love that they used this music in Godzilla 2014

Wow. 14 years old. I think this may be the oldest recommendation is ever got. Good movie too!

The first time I watched this I was high as a kite. It was epic.

This scene alone is worth an Oscar... really unforgettable...

Brilliant.

Originally called "From Jupiter and Beyond," in the movie. The Alan Parson Project called it "Total Eclipse," from their 'I Robot' album.