Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey

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2001 : A Space Odyssey Time is relative, the concept of time in relation to space is a major theme in Stanley Kubrick’s, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick brings the audience to ethereal realm where he is able to play with the concept of human’s relationship with time and space. The opening sequence through “The dawn of man” is Kubrick’s audio visual history of our universe. Through montage, repetition, perspective, color, and the audiovisual contract Kubrick is able to distort the audience’s preconceived notions on time and space. Kubrick uses different audio techniques to move the audience through time at a indefinite pace. 2001 starts with a black screen behind it Atmospheres by Ernest Bour is building slowly without rhythm this anempathetic music lasts nearly three minuets but in a…show more content…
With no image to go along with the music Kubrick is able to play with the audiences anticipation for a visual and drag them through what seems to be an eternity. Time is lost in the chaotic unpredictable overture, which parallels a time, before time and space before the birth of the known universe. Immediately fallowing the MGM logo “Also Sprach Zarathustra” by Richard Strauss cues up the big bang with an empathetically dramatic aligning of the spheres with the songs crescendo. That now famous score is immediately recognized as a song of discovery, enlightenment or epiphany. The audience is no longer in the dark as the “2001: A Space Odyssey appears boldly along with an emerging circular source of light and the aligned spheres in space. Through the five minute opening title sequence

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