In the book, the alien beings had evolved past physical matter and instead became entities of space.

@GEMSofGOD_com

Жыл бұрын

Merged with fundamental structures, sure. It looks like actual Grays are. 👽. Maybe two circles gravitating to each other. Think rotating planets. All living beings are structured pretty much the same by these same formulas black holes have.

@miguelelgueta5830

Жыл бұрын

Which makes a lot of sense for a species that can travel at almost the speed of light.

@GEMSofGOD_com

Жыл бұрын

@@miguelelgueta5830 In actual fact (well cosmogenized by Egyptians), eggs are some metric of light/gravity (gravitating circles; there are other cosmic eggs, too- light cycles, or biome cycles), so maybe at exactly the speed of light (aliens are light, so to speak)

@alexc.c.4025

Жыл бұрын

Wow someone who actually read the book 😀 Only 2001 or alll 4 of them? The movie 2010 don't get much credit but is a good movie.

@captaindaddy8645

Жыл бұрын

yeah and im pretty sure they exist. have you seen the dmt video about a purple alien girlfriend of one guy...and the guys friend tripped and met her too?

Words cannot describe nor do justice to this legend of a film

@skateboardingjesus4006

Жыл бұрын

It's still my favourite sci-fi film of all time. It was lightyears ahead of everything of it's time.

@kylielebid

Жыл бұрын

@Trace Inate Yeah. I wouldn’t even agree that it’s true what they say about this movie, that you’ll either love it or hate it. I found my experience to be in between. I thought visually it was quite stunning and ahead of its time, but combine that with utter confusion, almost incoherent subliminal messages, dull pacing, the bizarre ending, and how this is practically a silent film spanning nearly 3 hours, it felt a little more style than substance.

@thebigragu9952

Жыл бұрын

@@kylielebid Kubrick wanted people to pay attention to the action rather than the words. If anything it’s more substance in every scene than any other film. It goes leagues to illustrate just how far and long space travel is. It allows us to put our own emotions onto Frank and Dave as they’re tormented by Hal. There is no hate or love with 2001. There’s understanding and misunderstanding. And both are fine.

@kylielebid

Жыл бұрын

@@thebigragu9952 Well I mean, as with every other film, I suppose the like or dislike of it is entirely subjective and depends on personal opinion. It certainly wasn’t my favourite, but I can look back on particular sequences, like HAL’s “daisy” scene, with fondness and admiration - that was a cinematic moment I will not soon forget. From my point of view HAL was the most interesting character, I didn’t care much for Frank or Dave given the lack of any information about them, which I know is intentional it’s just not everyone’s cup of tea. I feel like the primary theme it had was about humanity and time, rather than space. This movie, as I mentioned before, is just an extremely subjective one. It’s not an impartially outstanding film, and it’s made for a specific audience. Then again, every movie is subjective.

@antonydandrea

Жыл бұрын

Its shit

For me, the monoliths suggest these aliens are extra dimensional so we cannot perceive them in a way we understand life to exist

@johnbockelie3899

Жыл бұрын

By not showing the aliens made this movie even better, .....like a unsolved mystery.

@michaeltrumble1070

Жыл бұрын

If I remember correctly, it's been a few years since I read it last, the monolith had two features that did not translate to the screen that well. First was that it did not reflect any radiation. Ambient light, lasers, photographic flashes, nothing. They tried their best to duplicate that in the movie but could not get it perfectly as it was pre CGI. The second, IMHO, should have been part of dialog. "How obvious-how necessary-was that mathematical ratio of its sides, the quadratic sequence 1:4:9! And how naive to have imagined that the series ended at this point, in only three dimensions!"

@doxx4pg3d45

Жыл бұрын

Such an H.P Lovecraft line right there

@lmeza1983

Жыл бұрын

I think all the monolith suggests is that there was some external interference in the human evolution from wild apes to racional beings with no equal on the planet.

@hotmailcompany52

Жыл бұрын

@@michaeltrumble1070 also pre vantablack and other highly absorbent paints. Feel like an obelisk painted with one of them would get very close to that today and would be a cool desk ornament

The monolith is not the aliens. It is an alien artifact.

@mitchelleroberson

Жыл бұрын

Funny since it’s a black screen like a tablet or phone

@big.gib.4L

Жыл бұрын

​@@mitchelleroberson 💀

@marlobreding7402

Жыл бұрын

Inferring to aliens possible presence.

@Growmetheus

Жыл бұрын

Having never seen the movie, I was always told it was a symbol for God. Hence the joke in Futurama "out of order" but i guess that could apply to alien technology too.

@lovelightstarboy

Жыл бұрын

@@Growmetheus It could be an inference of god, but I never got that from the movie. But honestly, that’s what’s great about space odyssey. There are so many interpretations out there, so many different views, theories, you can make of it whatever you want because Kubrick has never clearly said anything about what it *means* or even any deeper meanings.

The monolith was definitely a better choice of “alien”.

@ConorsMovieList

Жыл бұрын

It’s just iconic

@addictiontransfer3731

Жыл бұрын

its not an alien..

@bonnie-ms7nd

Жыл бұрын

@@addictiontransfer3731 Aliens are anything not from earth that is alive

@addictiontransfer3731

Жыл бұрын

@@bonnie-ms7nd Yeah and nothing in the film suggests the artifact is alive. Its an inanimate object left behind by an alien race. Its even refered to as _an artifact_ .

@t_ylr

Жыл бұрын

Yeah in most alien movies they end up just being more advanced versions of humans like warped Greek Gods, not something truly foreign. The only movie I can think of that really nailed alien characters is Arrival.

I remember reading that Carl Sagan suggested the aliens not be seen.

@GEMSofGOD_com

Жыл бұрын

I'm an actual mega-physicist. Aliens could 100% look like Grays & exist in this form behind Schwatzschild radii using that space as their engines, look this science paper up.

@mryeetproductions

Жыл бұрын

@@GEMSofGOD_com 😂 sure

@GEMSofGOD_com

Жыл бұрын

@@mryeetproductions think gravitating circles (e g Moon gravity). Black holes are all this.

@wedontexist369

Жыл бұрын

@@GEMSofGOD_com “mega-physicist”?

@GEMSofGOD_com

Жыл бұрын

@@wedontexist369 Say, Meta is inspired by my new paradigm through Wolfram. I'm not kidding

In my mind it’s like seeing a texture in a video game that you don’t have downloaded. The obelisk is just what our eyes can understand because we don’t have the right mods installed.

@dietisgreat

Жыл бұрын

Wow you are a nerd, nerd lingo

@Arty298Shorts

Жыл бұрын

what an awesome context in which to interpret stuff! Kudos ^^

@alexoblivion9295

Жыл бұрын

You're an obelisk

@Arty298Shorts

Жыл бұрын

@beefyshmegol1148

@spontaneousbootay

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant metaphor

A person's imagination is always far more powerful than the most epic reveal. Omission is emphasis.

The monolith is brilliant because it's unknown. You see it but you have no idea what it is really. The creatures behind it aren't really something we can comprehend. Having so many unknowns make it way more interesting because your imagination goes wild with speculation.

@lockpickrogue-yc5wc

Жыл бұрын

It’s obviously a metaphor for the black screen you’re looking at.

@kylegonewild

Жыл бұрын

@@lockpickrogue-yc5wc It's multiple things at once. The screen, leaps in evolution, the vast unknown of space, idols of worship, etc..

@webkid4567

Жыл бұрын

​@@lockpickrogue-yc5wc No it isn't lol

@lockpickrogue-yc5wc

Жыл бұрын

@@webkid4567 Wrong. Kubrick said so himself.

@spontaneousbootay

Жыл бұрын

@@lockpickrogue-yc5wc the entire phrase of what you said makes absolutely no sense. So even if he did spout that exact nonsense, it would just be him tarnishing the ingenuity of the idea.

Simple, timeless and effective.

The monolith is a artifact that helps life evolve. I think it even helped Hal evolve in a strange way

@spontaneousbootay

Жыл бұрын

It was never implied to be an artifact. It just is. But yes it was implied that it gives rise to consciousness

@ScoreMagnet

11 ай бұрын

@@spontaneousbootay In the books it is basically said to be some kind of machine to evolve life and is also used to transform jupiter to a sun in 2010.

@YoutubeISPROPAGANDA

28 күн бұрын

Hal was programmed by humans and his murdering of the crew was the only logical way to preserve what he perceived as a threat to the mission. HAL was perfect but his human programming was flawed

A monolith appears four times in the movie, and I think some people get confused by thinking it's the same one every time. Each of the four monoliths has a different function. The first (Dawn of Man) is a subliminal teaching device, the second (on the Moon) is a beacon, the third (in space near Jupiter) is a stargate and the fourth (in the "room") transforms Bowman into a transcendental being. None of the monoliths are "aliens" - they are alien _devices._

@10rrtyyssx769

4 ай бұрын

Great great insight.

Never once did the thought of the monolith being an alien or of alien origin cross my mind. It was always something beyond comprehension, something close to the hand of God.

@radiocage

Жыл бұрын

well it's not god, it's alien. you missed the point and made it weird

@sneerypigeon9563

Жыл бұрын

@@radiocage he's comparing it to God because God is so far above our level of understanding, how is that weird.

@enriquegarcia2790

Жыл бұрын

​@@sneerypigeon9563 no. This movie is basically Dead Space before Dead Space. The thing is more unholy than holy. So no. Not god. Religious beliefs aren't any factor in the movies. Philosophically as a question maybe but physically everything revolves around science and logical explanations in Kubrick movies.

@sneerypigeon9563

Жыл бұрын

@@enriquegarcia2790 I'm not saying this movie has anything to do with religion. Nor did the op who made the comment, all that he was saying and all that I am saying is we're comparing the level of complexity of the aliens and the monolith to God because of how far beyond us they are.

@soybasedjeremy3653

Жыл бұрын

​@@sneerypigeon9563 Exactly, it's beyond comprehension. So we see God/Gods/Goddesses human like in our imagination.

The writer implies, the reader infers

@tpjnorton

Жыл бұрын

underrated comment

@joshuaduncan8834

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. Thanks for saving me the trouble.

It was actually due to Carl Sagan, Kubrick called Carl and ask for his opinion on what to do for the alien. Carl stated that since you would have no idea of their environment, therefore no idea about their evolutionary history there's no way to tell what they would look like and recommended not showing it

@yyeezyy630

Жыл бұрын

Kubrick said the monolith represents a tv actually

@williamcainevoiceacting

Жыл бұрын

@@yyeezyy630 right, I'm talking about his decision not to visually show alien life forms

The Monolith gave me all kinds of feelings, awe, fear and wonder. I would sometimes dream that I had a hacksaw in my hand and I cut a slice of silver from it and ate it immediately I could fly. Ya I used psychedelics in the 70s/80s. I miss those dreams.

@Untitlednobody

Жыл бұрын

Damn, I can feel those dreamworlds

@Untitlednobody

Жыл бұрын

I do psychs in the 2020s and 30s, I’m sure I’ll miss these dreams as well

Stanley was a genius.

Man, everyone always forgets Arthur. This is both theirs

In the original story by Arthur C. Clarke, the "Monolith" was a glass pyramid.

@stevenlitvintchouk3131

Жыл бұрын

Kubrick tried that. He ordered a huge block of Lucite plastic, but it didn't have the fundamental monumental look that Kubrick was going for. So he went for a black object instead.

@MisterHowzat

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, a monolith works better for the big screen but a pyramid has far reaching implications because of the Great Pyramid of Giza and the mysteries thereof. Perhaps that's why Clarke chose a pyramid.

No, the monolith was always going to be there. The “humanoids” were for the end scene, where Bowman meets them. Kubrick decided not to show them.

I appreciate that in the sequel 2010 they continued to kept the monoliths a mystery and didn't show the alien beings either.

@crucisnh

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, 2010 kept the monoliths as a mysterious and somewhat scary "entities".

everyone gangster until the monolith turns into TARS

@psiphibrandonhare7120

Жыл бұрын

I'm weak 🤣

@cxt7181

11 ай бұрын

LOL

@emanemanrus5835

9 ай бұрын

and doing hip hop dance moves

@MisterHowzat

9 ай бұрын

How many percent sense of humor was that? 😂

@commenceun

5 ай бұрын

TARS feels like a combination of Hal and the monolith.

Ngl, those super tall skinny alien designs are terrifying af.

The Obelisk is a phone, change my mind

@michaelschramm1064

9 ай бұрын

Monolith…and it’s more of a “calling card”, per Arthur C. Clarke’s inspirational short story “The Sentinel”.

Stanley was so ahead of his time he invented the Endermen of Minecraft

CARL SAGAN; Sagan disagreed with Kubrick’s idea. He explained: “The number of individually unlikely events in the evolutionary history of Man was so great that nothing like us is ever likely to evolve again anywhere else in the universe. I suggested that any explicit representation of an advanced extraterrestrial being was bound to have at least an element of falseness about it, and that the best solution would be to suggest, rather than explicitly to display, the extraterrestrials.”

This is the struggle I always felt when trying to draw or paint something extraterrestrial or otherwise existentially bewildering. You don’t know something IS that until you physically see it, and since we have seen no such thing, aliens, white holes or what have you, drawing or painting or sculpting/crafting them seems futile for translating their true sense of confusion, dread, or wonder that could come from the actual, real experiences.

In Arthur C Clark’s book the aliens that we are interacting with via the monoliths have moved past existing as physical beings long before. Eons before. The monoliths, are an advanced piece of hardware that they use.

today those monoliths are raising everywhere and people are still wondering like a monkeys

The trick was trying to.imagine the entities behind the monolites, best alien ever designed.

@stevenlitvintchouk3131

Жыл бұрын

A similar trick was used in the earlier movie "Forbidden Planet." You never saw what the aliens (Krell) looked like. All you saw was the doorways they used, and you would try to imagine what sort of creature would use a doorway shaped like that.

I love the film; it’s outstanding in many regards, even to modern audiences like myself. The monoliths aren’t aliens however. The monoliths are a tripwire-like devices, made by the aliens to track the technological milestones of life on Earth.

@mickimicki5576

Жыл бұрын

The first monolith did more than monitor. It put the idea of bacon into the minds of these starving apes.

This matches his movie making philosophy in a more practical way. “Ideas which are valid and truthful are so multi-faceted that they don't yield themselves to frontal assault. The ideas have to be discovered by the audience, and their thrill in making the discovery makes those ideas all the more powerful.” “If you really want to communicate something, even if it’s just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least effective and least enjoyable way is directly. It only goes in about an inch. But if you can get people to the point where they have to think a moment what it is you’re getting at, and then discover it, the thrill of discovery goes right through the heart.” - Stanley Kubrick

And now we carry little monoliths around wherever we go.

@MIKE2111ful

Ай бұрын

They are watching 👁️

The shark in Jaws was scary because you hardly saw it at first, then it was barrels, … then finally SHARK !

Inferring the extraterrestrials was a genius move

It was CARL SAGAN who was consulted and he suggested don't show them

He did... it was the computer. THAT is what is happening right now.

And that, my friends, is why I love cosmic horror. The absolute unknown.

Wow that's going to be my new acquisition is to find sketches and images of these aliens that did not make the cut. It sounds absolutely fascinating

Truth in this video. Find a copy of Clarkes book, "The Lost Worlds of 2001" for more info, straight from the horses mouth, on the development of the movie, from start to finish. I has excerpts of a few of the first drafts of the writings that didn't make it into the movie, and how the aliens were finally decided upon. Very good read.

@majkus

10 ай бұрын

Was just about to say the same. Indispensible piece of film history, and good reading too.

The monolith isn’t a replacement for the alien it’s just the alien artifact. The aliens were cut from the ending of the movie when Dave is in their zoo cage. Originally he was going to come face to face with them.

As someone writing my own alien story, i relate to this so much. I get overwhelmed often, and start to doubt all of my designs and plotlines. 😂😂 maybe this is my sign to restructure and revisit my crazy perpetual story arc. Lol any idea i really love that doesn't seem to fit, i can always transfer over to another story.

One of the best decisions in sci-fi history. The monolith ads pure mystery and shows how the beings are BEYOND being BEINGS. Amazing film.

The aliens were pure energy beings, existing only within the fabric of space-time. Hense they could easily manipulate energy, but matter was more difficult.

@TheRealNormanBates

Жыл бұрын

Well, it depended on what mattered to the aliens as far as what they could manipulate.

@themalaailaanaa1347

Жыл бұрын

So why the radio signal ?

@barryf7253

Жыл бұрын

@@themalaailaanaa1347 Not sure. Something to do with activating the Jupiter monolith. Why exactly then? Don't exactly know.

One of the best films ever seen.

In the movie the monoliths are actually supercomputers that communicate to each other, super way ahead of its time. His idea with the new monolith design would be that they would form a computer network like the internet ! And the supercomputer race would help civilizations they encountered, which is why when the monkeys went near the monolith its radiation stepped them up to the next step in evolution and gave them the ability to start using stone tools

And thus the monolith was born on the silver screen.....

You know, I think the Ailen description was unnecessary after all because their technology already overwhelmingly develop and their body does not needed anymore for their endless life. They just combine their soul at one and since their combined spirits are strong, their spirits transact the time and space so they can put monolith on earth when human is ape. Moreover, they basically can control other species mind, so Dave saw the fantasy with familiar thing he saw before and he saw his life and death.

The aliens were depicted as the row of diamond shaped geometrical kaleidoscopic forms during the "trip" sequence-- as if they are from a higher dimension

@alexc.c.4025

Жыл бұрын

They ARE the higher dimension

@mickimicki5576

Жыл бұрын

Good point, I never thought about that. Most of the visuals in the trip were transformed alien landscapes and nebulae but the diamonds were different.

Every time the monolith appeared on screen, accompanied by that creepy as hell soundtrack, I found myself deeply unsettled. I didn’t know what the it was, what it did, or even why I should be afraid of it. It’s just a big slab of metal, but nonetheless, every-time it appeared, I couldn’t help but feel terrified, just knowing that whatever this thing was, it was far, far, FAR greater than anything I could comprehend. In that regard, Kubrick created the perfect alien, the one that we never see, and the one we will never understand.

Wait was the monolith an alien the whole time ?? I thought it was just a ridiculously advanced piece of technology made to advance a species.

@StevenBradford

Жыл бұрын

You are correct.

@yyeezyy630

Жыл бұрын

Yup it’s a tv

Bringing in the guy in a gorilla suit from Trading Places was the really genius move

I saw the thumbnail and thought of the striders from all tomorrows

Bro. Kubrick didn’t make the monolith. That’s literally how it’s described in the original book this movie is based on.

@RT-rk6iw

Жыл бұрын

They’re were created at the same time with Kubrick and Clark working together

@antbanks1261

Жыл бұрын

2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's film version and published after the release of the film. Clarke and Kubrick worked on the book together, but eventually only Clarke ended up as the official author.

@elizabethlobato1044

Жыл бұрын

The movie inspiration that triggered their collaboration was an earlier Clarke short story called The Sentinel.

@TheStockwell

Жыл бұрын

If you're referring to Clark's original short story, "The Sentinel," that's wrong. In the short story, the artifact discovered on the moon was a pyramid.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104

Жыл бұрын

Once they settled on the monolith concept, the next question was what material to make it from. Initially it was going to be clear lucite. Then they switched to the shiny black. Which caused its own problems with the photography.

If you give an “alien” biology, it gives it relatable things like food, need for atmosphere, senses, in other words needs. Making it something inanimate but intelligent , it was makes it truly, alien.

To me the most impressive part of this movie was how ahead of its time it was. In both the cinematography and concept

I'm going to be honest here, I watched this movie. And for years never understood that there were really aliens involved in the story. The ending? I thought Dave went insane, and I loved that idea of an ending. The obelisk? It never occurred to me that it could even be alive.

This is something I wish was done more often in space and alien movies that films like prometheus did *really* well. People discovering the remains of a long dead civilization.

I'm pretty sure that skinny alien is a Giacometti sculpture.

That lanky basically featureless thing looks pretty cool

"My God, it's full of stars" - what if it was a monolith that created the big bang?

I really like how some media approached showing aliens that arent just a human with bits and bobs or the likes, this and evangelion's angels were pretty well, alien to look at (the ones in the original not rebuild)

The monolith is more eldritch than alien

I wish someone told me this was a 2.5 hour classical music video. I fell asleep watching it.

“Kubrick faked the moon landing!” Kubrick: “My god this looks awful, let’s just use a giant grey brick and call it a day.”

In the end, I think he chose the best. It is understood that the monolith is not from Earth or from this time and everything remains very mysterious.

This was a brilliant choice. I really believe that doing this makes this feel like a realistic alien. They made it a literal rectangle, and inferred it. It's unsettling too.

If you read the books, the monoliths are basically abandoned bodies for aliens that had achieved the ability to exist as pure energy. The aliens eventually evolved past the need to use them as well (in the movie 2010, the light creature that escapes the Russian ship on it's approach to Jupiter is one of them). The problem was that they left behind an army of self-replicating A.I. assisted super computers that could alter the state of the universe (to accomplish the goal of evolving other life on a faster time scale than nature dit) and which could encapsulate a creature's soul but were left empty. This was not fully revealed until the fourth book though.

It should also be like : everything everywhere - all at once.

This was a brilliant move as it leaves it up to the imagination of the viewer and this will make it timeless.

That's concrete slab is waay scarier than Geiger's alien 😂

I think the imagery of the monolith was always interesting to me. Whenever you see it, it sticks out from its surroundings, symbolizing how its rectangular shape is thoroughly unnatural yet also of tantalizing interest to humans. Simple yet perfect representation of aliens or any other mysterious force in film

“Idk man every design just feels disappointing” “Sounds like you hit a wall” “THATS IT”

That alien creature he showed looks like the statue Tony stark has next to his staircase in Iron man

Growing up during 60's and 70's I loved classic sci-fi from the news stand sci-fi collections books to Major players and many obscure. My favorite subject was the discovery of ancient civilization/technogies, and I don't remember there being more than a handful of books on that topic. Science fiction usually translate poorly onto the screen because 1) theater 2) props 3) personal interest stories/character development, all of which tends to turn it into soap opera, sit com, run of the mill mind mush. By not introducing aliens Kubric/Clark kept it mysterious, only a trace of some entity beyond words/experiance and their unexplainable technology. You were totally helpless in their world/cosmos.

The little known sequel has a giant obelisk floating in space 😅

“It’s full of stars”😮👽

I loved how its also representative of the Kardeshev Scale and how higher civilizations would abandon all physical forms to live a spectral existence in higher plains of existence than man.

Haven’t ever seen this movie. Watch sometime? Yay!

Seeing this film as a kid, the monolith was entirely terrifying. The music made it so unsettling.

this being the most brilliant films of all time could've been an alien sci-fi movie from the 60s like ET. truly a remarkable work of art 2001 is.

I think it was meant to not “be” an alien, nor to be an “alien artifact” only to be “alien” in and of itself.

The aliens are really pure consciousness, evolved past the limitations of corporeal existence. It was a stroke of genius to arrive at the realization that obliquely representing the alien intelligence as the monolith was far more unnerving than something standing there. The monoliths, the stargate scene, and the bizarre room that David Bowman ends up in, seem like a great intelligence reaching back into the material, temporal realm for purposes not entirely clear.

For some reason this is the only Kubrick movie I’ve tried watching and always get too distracted to finish it. I need to sit down and really watch this one

Hey, giant chocolate bars can be skerry..😳

The pyramids in giza are kinda our irl monolith today

OPEN THE POD BAY DOORS , HAL !!!!

Im afraid i cant let you do that kubrick

something whacky and crazy would've been expected

He did great with the moon landing too

They used the same idea for the markers in dead space! Its a scary idea that someones out there and further along than we are

Lower jaw missing, head attached to the back of His head, obvious tissue deficit (removal), bio luminescent removal, dehydration of unknown origin since they do not consume liquids.

That Giacometti one looks dope though, reminds me of the old 100 chf bill used to scare the shit out of me😂

Anything they tried would be dssiapointing. Light creature from Annihilation:"Am I a joke to you?"

I've seen parodies of this scene, but never new where it came from.

The monolith is just a block of Alien Chocolate ...

The monolith is ingenious. Just like how the sphere in "Sphere" is also ingenious. That's how an advanced would represent itself. Also, its dimensions being 1:4:9, the squares of the first 3 primes (although 1 is strictly not a prime number, but maybe some advanced civilizations consider it a prime?).

Monolith is a device and was that since the inception of the story. The aliens were originally going to be shown at the ending of the movie. How in the world did you managed to mangle this?!

we fear what we can't see more

Tall thin humanoid figures give me the creeps. Ever since I was a kid and saw people in creepy costumes on stilts.