The Inkling Volume 1

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If you were to ask a film journalist: ‘What would you consider to be the most influential film in
and characters all wrapped up in a thrilling tale of good versus evil.
I’m here to disagree.
I love Star Wars. As a kid I watched the franchise constantly, aspiring to be the next Jedi Maste
made the most money, or cast the best actors or produced the best selling merchandise.
I believe that the most influential film is one that has 88 minutes of silence in its 149 minute
recreational drugs and watch the mind-bending visuals. A film that - at it’s time of release had
The film I talk of is 1968’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Many of you may have heard of this film,
watch it. This film is world-renowned to be one of the most confusing movies ever made. The h
failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered.”
So then: why should you watch this film? So far, all I have said is that intoxicated teenagers a
live your life working in that business, then I cannot recommend 2001: A Space Odyssey e
Hollywood mastery as Stanley Kubrick moulded one of the greatest cinema lessons ever made
Let’s start with the actors. Keir Dullea is our main protagonist, playing David Bowman, the ast
by Gary Lockwood) and Heywood R. Floyd (played by William Sylvester). All three are excep
motley crew of three pioneering science gentlemen.
Although, if you want to talk about a star in the film, it is the antagonist robot overlord of HAL
red eye. Trust me, you’ll know it. Douglas Rain took that character to places that Kubrick and C
Now, let’s move onto the story. I can’t say a lot about it, as there is not a lot to say. As I have no
to us.
The film revolves around these mystical obelisks that appear at three pivotal moments in huma
on the moon after humans set up a space colony; and finally an obelisk appears right at the e
to understand). The general consensus is that the obelisks only appear when humanity is rea
what they wrote.
The aforementioned mentioned recreational drug support - also known as the visual effects o
That film set in the Victorian workhouse that won Best Picture at the Oscars. Not the film that h
space.
Seriously: Google some space scenes from 2001: A Space Odyssey and just remember that thi
Although the intoxicated teenagers were not in the cinema to watch realistic space sequence
what-this-is scene where Dullea is transported to the previously mentioned space bedroom. F
mean seriously, I get nauseous when I watch it so I can’t imagine how much fun those teenager
In an attempt not to bore you too much, I’m going to quickly run through everything else..
Director: Stanley Kubrick, with this one picture, has cemented himself as one of the best direc
film today in 2001: A Space Odyssey.