2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick · 1968 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

An ape troop meets a black slab and picks up a bone; four million years later a matching slab is dug out of the moon, aimed at Jupiter. Two astronauts and the computer HAL 9000 take a ship out to find what it is signalling to. Science fiction rescaled from adventure to evolution.

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• alludes to ↑ The Odyssey
  Homer · c. 725 BCE · Poem
• adapts ↑ The Sentinel
  Arthur C. Clarke · 1951 CE · Short Story
• ↓ Solaris
  Andrei Tarkovsky · 1972 CE · Film — responds to this

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